From W.S.Swierstra at uu.nl Thu Jan 4 03:12:58 2018 From: W.S.Swierstra at uu.nl (Swierstra, W.S. (Wouter)) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 08:12:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 6 Assistant Professor positions in Utrecht Message-ID: We are currently advertising vacancies for 6 talented Assistant Professors in Information and Computing Sciences (Tenure Track 0.8 - 1.0 FTE) # Job description We are searching for motivated, excellent candidates, on the Assistant Professor level. You must have expertise in Computing and Information Sciences, preferably in the areas of Information Science, Games, Artificial Intelligence or Data Science. Excellent candidates with other areas of expertise related to our current research groups and teaching programmes are also invited to apply. You have proven ambition and talent for research. As teaching is an important and satisfying part of our work, we are searching for people with a demonstrable motivation to teach. The department is expanding and provides a dynamic work environment. If you are excited to actively participate in shaping the department, you are very welcome to apply. 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. # Qualifications ## 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 * experience with and enthusiasm for teaching and student supervision; * ability to teach in departmental BSc and MSc programmes; * well-developed didactic skills; * excellent command of the English language; * experience with or willingness to use innovative teaching methods and (e-learning) technologies; * 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. The department finds gender balance specifically and diversity in a broader sense very important. In recent procedures we attracted a significant number of women (three out of five positions). We are very keen on appointing more female scientists and therefore strongly encourage qualified women to apply. # Offer The candidate will be offered a tenure track position, depending on experience (0.8 / 1.0 FTE). Salary depends on qualifications and experience, and ranges between 3,111 and 5,405 euro (scale 10 - 12 Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities) gross per month for a full-time employment. 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, 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. We offer you the possibility to develop towards a Basic Teaching Qualification, supported with educational development programs offered by the University. We also offer candidates the possibility to travel to conferences. # About the organization A better future for everyone. This ambition motivates our scientists in executing their leading research and inspiring teaching. At Utrecht University, colleagues from 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 Computing Science and Information Science. Current research groups are Algorithmic Data Analysis, Algorithms and Complexity, Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Simulation of Complex Systems, Multimedia, Interaction, Geometric Computing, Organization and Information, Software Technology, and Software Technology of Learning and Teaching. Relevant areas of interdisciplinary research include Game Research, 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. # 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/working-at-utrecht-university/terms-of-employment https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university # Additional information Would you like additional information about the vacancy? This can be obtained from Prof M. van Kreveld, (M.J.vanKreveld at uu.nl), Research Director or Marloes Reichardt-Buijs (M.S.Reichardt-Buijs at uu.nl), HR officer for the department. # Apply Please apply through https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs. Please attach a letter of motivation, Curriculum Vitae and (email) addresses of two references. If you prefer a part-time appointment, you are also invited to apply, preferably stating the desired part-time ratio. The application deadline is 01/02/2018 From pangjun at gmail.com Thu Jan 4 04:30:11 2018 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 10:30:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2018 -- 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: TASE 2018 - 2nd 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 ---------------- * Rob van Glabbeek, CSIRO, and University of New South Wales, Australia * Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China ---------- 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 joshuad at cs.queensu.ca Thu Jan 4 17:58:09 2018 From: joshuad at cs.queensu.ca (Joshua Dunfield) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:58:09 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSc/PhD positions at the Queen's School of Computing Message-ID: <3a14eeff8dceb2e3d1a4d8a25d7aaa72@cs.queensu.ca> Interested in doing graduate research on types and programming languages? I am building up a research group at Queen's University, with designated funding for one domestic PhD (Canadian citizen or permanent resident), with possible funding for additional MSc and PhD positions. Current research directions include type systems for scalable incremental computation, gradual intersection and union types, and type refinements. For more information on my research, see http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~joshuad/. Queen's University is located in Kingston, Ontario, which combines scenic Lake Ontario with a reasonable cost of living and transportation amenities including good city bus service, an airport, and convenient train service to Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. For application procedures, see the QSC site: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/applicants/graduate/ Informal inquiries to joshuad at cs.queensu.ca are welcome, and recommended. The application deadline is 15 January 2018, but is flexible for Canadian applicants. Availability of support is subject to applicable regulations and budgetary conditions. From kztk.matsuda at gmail.com Thu Jan 4 23:16:08 2018 From: kztk.matsuda at gmail.com (Kazutaka Matsuda) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 13:16:08 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Final CFP] Bx 2018: 7th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (Deadline: Jan. 19) Message-ID: FINAL 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *NOTE: Deadline (Jan. 19) approaching!* 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 catuscia at lix.polytechnique.fr Thu Jan 4 21:04:05 2018 From: catuscia at lix.polytechnique.fr (Catuscia Palamidessi) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 03:04:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Alonzo Church Award: Call for Nominations Message-ID: <3FED53EB-C2D3-436A-B025-36AE2E34712A@lix.polytechnique.fr> The 2018 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation Call for Nominations Introduction An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt G?del Society (KGS). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules governing this award, see: http://siglog.org/awards/alonzo-church-award/ . The 2017 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Samson Abramsky, Radha Jagadeesan, Pasquale Malacaria, Martin Hyland, Luke Ong, and Hanno Nickau for providing a fully-abstract semantics for higher-order computation through the introduction of game models, see: http://siglog.org/winners-of-the-2017-alonzo-church-award/ . Eligibility and Nominations The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2018 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1993. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the G?del Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. Nominations for the 2018 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter must summarise the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. Nominations should be submitted to catuscia at lix.polytechnique.fr by March 1, 2018. Presentation of the Award The 2018 award will be presented at ICALP 2018, the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. The award will be accompanied by an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared. 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URL: From Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Jan 5 11:30:15 2018 From: Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:30:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLoC 2018 - Final 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/conferences/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 Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Sat Jan 6 02:23:52 2018 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (=?utf-8?B?TmnEjWtvdmnEhyBEZWphbg==?=) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 07:23:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Frontiers in Analog CAD (FAC'18) - Call for Papers Message-ID: 9th International Workshop on Frontiers in Analog CAD FAC'18 May 16-17, 2018 Vienna, Austria http://fac18.ait.ac.at Collocated with ASYNC'18 Actual trends like cyber physical systems, internet of things and autonomous driving push the need for a lot of analog content on integrated circuits to connect to the physical world. Verification and design of these analog parts takes a lot of effort of the overall design process. Additionally, actual standards like ISO 26262 increase the pressure to get the verification formalized and automatized. Using current methodologies, even well-understood analog circuits require nearly as much effort to modify and/or port to a new process as the initial design. Even when an analog circuit can be reused, validating its performance within the new system ? especially if the circuit is controlled through a digital loop ? is often the long pole in the overall flow. The reasons for this situation are both technical and sociological; inherent differences in the behaviors of digital vs. analog systems make analog design and validation much more resistant to automation. Similarly, the cultural distance between the EDA software developers and analog designers is much larger than the distance between them and digital designers. The goal of this workshop is to bring together technologists and researchers from analog design as well as CAD tool development to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas as well as to spur further research into the intersection of these domains. The workshop has a long tradition (since 2005) mainly in the area of formal verification. Scope -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Formal verification of hybrid systems, analog circuits, mixed signal circuits - Verification of continuous models using hybrid system techniques - Circuit optimization, synthesis and design space exploration - PVT variations and reliability - Modeling approaches for analog circuits at varying levels of abstraction - Model checking and theorem proving methods - Fast functional and behavioral simulation of AMS circuits - Test, diagnosis for analog and mixed-signal systems - Coverage for AMS-systems Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We accept contributions of two kinds. The authors wishing to submit the work in progress or ideas for discussion are invited to submit short papers with up to 2 pages in length. The accepted short papers will be selected either for oral or poster presentations and will be presented as part of the workshop program. The authors wishing to publish original, unpublished work are invited to submit full length papers of up to 15 pages in length, not counting references. The papers that are selected for paper presentations will be in addition published in EPTCS. Paper Format: All papers should be submitted in single-column format using the EPTCS template, available at http://style.eptcs.org/. To enable blind review, the author list should be omitted from the papers. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee and must be submitted via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fac18. Important dates: Submission Deadline: February 16, 2018 Acceptance Notification: March 16, 2018 Workshop: May 16-17, 2018 Committees -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs and Organization Committee: - Thomas Ferr?re, IST Austria - Dejan Ni?kovi?, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Program Committee: - Xavier Avon, Altair - Thao Dang, CNRS/Verimag, Grenoble - Thomas Ferr?re, IST Austria - Serge Garcia-Sabiro, Mentor Graphics - Helmut Graeb, TUM Asia - Mark R Greenstreet, University of British Columbia - Christoph Grimm, TU Kaiserslautern - Radu Grosu, TU Vienna - Lars Hedrich, University Frankfurt - Taylor T Johnson, Vanderbilt University - Kevin Jones, Plymouth University - Jaeha Kim, Seoul National University - Scott Little, Maxim Integrated - Oded Maler, CNRS/Verimag, Grenoble - Thang Nguyen, Infineon - Dejan Ni?kovi?, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology - Carna Radojicic, TU Kaiserslautern - Haralampos Stratigopoulos, CNRS/LIP6, Paris - Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University Steering committee: - Mark Greenstreet, University of British Columbia - Christoph Grimm, TU Kaiserslautern - Lars Hedrich, University Frankfurt - Chandramouli Kashyap, Intel - Jaeha Kim, Seoul National University - Xin Li, Duke University - Scott Little, Maxim Integrated - Oded Maler, Verimag - Chris Myers, University of Utah - Dejan Ni?kovi?, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology - Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University Venue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hotel Park Royal Palace Vienna Schlossallee 8 1140 Vienna Austria Contact -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit http://fac18.ait.ac.at for more information. All questions about submissions should be emailed to program chairs: thomas.ferrere at ist.ac.at and dejan.nickovic at ait.ac.at. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dezani at di.unito.it Sun Jan 7 07:18:11 2018 From: dezani at di.unito.it (Mariangiola Dezani) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 13:18:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Special_Issue_in_Memory_of_Corrado_B?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=B6hm?= Message-ID: Logical Methods in Computer Science Special Issue in Memory of Corrado B?hm Call for papers Corrado B?hm, professor emeritus at the University of Rome ?La Sapienza?, left us on October 23 at the age of 94. He has been an exceptionally talented and creative researcher: his results have deeply influenced the development of theoretical computer science. To honour Corrado B?hm?s scientific life and activity a Special Issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science is planned. Papers related to Corrado B?hm?s scientific interests are welcome. The authors should express their interest by sending an abstract by July 31 2018 to all the editors: the deadline for the papers is September 30 2018. The papers will be referred to the usual high standard of Logical Methods in Computer Science. The editors Henk Barendregt (henk at cs.ru.nl) Mariangiola Dezani (dezani at di.unito.it) Benedetto Intrigila (intrigil at mat.uniroma2.it) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Torino c.Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino (Italy) e-mail : dezani at di.unito.it phone: 39-011-6706850 fax : 39-011-751603 mobile: 39-320-4359903 http://www.di.unito.it/~dezani ********************************************************************** Unless unavoidable, no Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments, please. 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URL: From p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk Mon Jan 8 00:10:36 2018 From: p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk (Gardner, Philippa A) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 05:10:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position available, Imperial Message-ID: <731ECA9C-636A-4CA9-A787-A3405BCE24E3@ic.ac.uk> I am looking for a PhD student, start date in October 2018, to join my research group on program analysis and specification (https://psvg.doc.ic.ac.uk), as part of the analysis and verification theme at Imperial (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/research/analysis-and-verification/). My group is involved with a wide range of theoretical and practical projects on the analysis and verification of concurrent and web programs. Possible projects include: * a theoretical project on reasoning about either concurrent algorithms (see MFPS'15 tutorial paper https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pg/publications/daRochaPinto2015Steps.pdf) or distributed systems (a new topic for me since Andrea Cerone became my RA, https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~acerone/); * a more practical project on using our concurrent specification of POSIX file systems for verification and testing (see Ntzik's PhD thesis https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pg/publications/Ntzik2017Reasoning.pdf); * several projects associated with the JaVert verification toolchain (see POPL'18 paper https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jfaustin/javert.pdf); and * several projects associated with test generation from language semantics (see POPL?14 paper https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~pg/publications/Bodin2014Trusted.pdf) or library axiomatic specifications. A successful UK student will probably be funded through the standard Departmental competition for funds. A successful EU/overseas student will probably be funded by a combination of Departmental funding and my funding. The deadlines to apply for a PhD position in the Department are **19 January 2018** and 23 March 2018. The Department advises all students requiring funding to apply by the January deadline, although there may still be some funding available for applications received after January. Further details can be found at the link http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/prospective-students/phd/. Please do note hesitate to contact me directly if interested. Best wishes, Philippa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Mon Jan 8 06:37:13 2018 From: radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 12:37:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL): Call for Papers Message-ID: <3F2590B0-7F9A-467B-B2C1-AD8F941F676B@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (Apologies for multiple copies) First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics, 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 Philippa Gardner (Imperial College London) Josh Berdine (Facebook) James Brotherston (University College London) St?phane Demri (CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) Mihaela Sighireanu (University of Paris Diderot) 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) From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Jan 8 08:17:53 2018 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 13:17:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2018 Final Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts: January 15) Message-ID: <0432A298-6962-4571-9142-ED359B6EC908@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== Updated information on: Corrado B?hm Memorial and Special Guests ================================================================== Third International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'18) Oxford, UK, July 9 - 12, 2018. http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ Part of The Federated Logic Conference, FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 6 - 19, 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,? Corrado B?hm MEMORIAL On July 9 2018, there will be a memorial in honour of ProfessorCorrado B?hm, whose work has been of tremendous inspiration to the FSCD community and deeply influenced the development of theoretical computer science. Check http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/bohm.html for details on the event. We are honoured to announce two special guests for the Corrado B?hm Memorial: - Henk Barendregt (Radboud U., Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - Silvio Micali (MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, US) Check the profiles of the special guests at http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/specialguests.html 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 15, 2018 Submission Deadline: January 22, 2018 Rebuttal: March 22 - 25, 2018 Notification: April 2, 2018 Camera-Ready: May 2, 2018 FSCD Conference: July 9 - 12, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6 - 19, 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?ndez (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. Thiemann (Innsbruck U.). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please circulate.) ======================================================================== Updated information on: Invited Speakers ======================================================================= DCM 2018 12th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/dcm18/ A satellite event of FLoC 2018, Oxford July 8, 2018 ======================================================================== Several new models of computation have emerged in the last years, and many developments of traditional computation models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of users of computer systems and the new capabilities of computation engines. 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. 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. INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce the two invited speakers of DCM'18: * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna) * Delia Kesner (University Paris-Diderot) 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). 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 * 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 asf08r at ecs.soton.ac.uk Mon Jan 8 09:33:22 2018 From: asf08r at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Asieh Salehi) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 14:33:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ABZ 2018, Call for Contributions References: 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) 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 Program Committee See here for the list of program committee For further questions concerning ABZ 2018, please contact us at abz2018 at soton.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Claude.Marche at inria.fr Mon Jan 8 09:56:44 2018 From: Claude.Marche at inria.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Claude_March=c3=a9?=) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 15:56:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc offer: ``A Formally Verified Symbolic Interpreter for the CoLiS Language'' Message-ID: Hello and happy new year to all, I'd like to advertise a postdoc position in Orsay, France. The job is about the design of ``A Formally Verified Symbolic Interpreter for the CoLiS Language'', and is funded by the CoLiS project (http://colis.irif.univ-paris-diderot.fr/) See details at https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-00228 Do not hesitate to forward this email to any appropriate candidates or mailing lists. Best regards, - Claude March? -- Claude March? | tel: +33 1 69 15 66 08 INRIA Saclay - ?le-de-France | Universit? Paris-sud, Bat. 650 | http://www.lri.fr/~marche/ F-91405 ORSAY Cedex | From P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk Tue Jan 9 02:28:04 2018 From: P.B.Levy at cs.bham.ac.uk (Paul Blain Levy) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:28:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DOMAINS XIII CALL FOR ABSTRACTS In-Reply-To: <2c17e550-64c1-5043-2910-4712376b36e4@cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <2c17e550-64c1-5043-2910-4712376b36e4@cs.bham.ac.uk> Message-ID: <890058ed-b438-415c-b9ed-0ef3fc3db6a6@cs.bham.ac.uk> Dear all, We welcome your submissions! Best regards, Paul --- Workshop Domains XIII CALL FOR ABSTRACTS https://andrejbauer.github.io/domains-floc-2018/ Date: 7-8 July 2018 as part of FLoC 2018 - The Federated Logic Colloquium, in Oxford http://www.floc2018.org ?Fifty years of domain theory Fifty years ago, Dana Scott introduced domain theory for the purposes of denotational semantics of programming languages when he was in Oxford, where he worked with Christopher Strachey. This work has had a vast and lasting impact on logic, computer science, and mathematics. As part of the Workshop DOMAINS?2018, which will take place in Oxford on 7?8 July 2018, we will celebrate 50 years of domain theory and Dana Scott?s 85th birthday. The event is affiliated with the Federated Logic Conference 2018 and LICS. We will also commemorate Klaus Keimel, the founder of the workshop Domains series. About the Domains Workshop series The applications of domain theory include programming logics (LCF), design of programming languages, models of the lambda calculus, applications to recursion theory (higher-type computability, Kleene-Kreisel countable functionals), general topology (injective spaces, function spaces, locally compact spaces, Stone duality), topological algebra (Lawson semilattices) and analysis (measure, integration, dynamical systems). Moreover, these applications are related ? for example, Stone duality has given rise to a logic of observable properties of computational processes. The Domains workshop series is aimed at computer scientists and mathematicians alike who share an interest in the mathematical foundations of computation. The workshop series focuses on domains, their applications in mathematics and computer science, and related topics. Previous meetings were held in Darmstadt (1994, 1999, 2004), Braunschweig (1996), Munich (1997), Siegen (1998), Birmingham (2002), Novosibirsk (2007), Brighton (2008), Swansea (2011), Paris (2014), and Cork (2015). Topics of interaction with domain theory for this workshop include, but are not limited to - program semantics - program logics - probabilistic computation - exact computation over the real numbers - lambda calculus - games - models of sequential computation - constructive mathematics - recursion theory - realizability - real analysis and computability - topology, metric spaces and domains - idempotent analysis and domains - locale theory - category theory - topos theory - type theory Invited speakers include - Dana Scott (CMU) Programme Committee - Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana) - Martin Escardo (Birmingham) - Achim Jung (Birmingham) - Paul Levy (Birmingham) - Mike Mislove (Tulane) - Dag Normann (Oslo) Organizers - Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana) - Martin Escardo (Birmingham) We plan a special issue in a journal for post-proceedings. Deadline for submission of Abstracts: 18th March Submission via is via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=domains13. Please keep the abstract to two pages (pdf). Notification of acceptance: 16th April Registration: http://www.floc2018.org/register/ From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Jan 9 02:59:23 2018 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:59:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2018: Call for Papers, Workshops & Tutorials Message-ID: <20180109075923.30820208EC47@mbp-autexier.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme - workshops - tutorials 11th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2018 - August 13-17, 2018 RISC, Hagenberg, Austria http://www.cicm-conference.org/2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their integration. CICM 2018 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to * theorem proving and computer algebra * mathematical knowledge management * digital mathematical libraries CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and invites submissions of very different forms: 1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNAI: * regular papers (up to 15 pages) present novel research results * project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results * system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages) present digital artifacts 2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for presentation based on their relevance for the community. * informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements, position statements, etc. * posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special sessions 3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results receive constructive feedback and mentoring. 4) Workshops allow smaller groups to self-organize focused discussions. 5) Tutorials allow presenting a particular system in depth. * Important Dates * Formal submissions - Abstract deadline: April 15 - Full paper deadline: April 22 - Reviews sent to authors: May 21 - Rebuttals due: May 27 - Notification of acceptance: June 4 - Camera-ready copies due: June 8 - Conference: August 13-17 Informal submissions and doctoral programme Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early travel plans while other authors submit spontaneously. - First round submission deadline: April 22 - Second round submission deadline: July 31 Workshop and Tutorial proposals - Submission deadline: February 26 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2018 From simon.bliudze at epfl.ch Tue Jan 9 09:02:04 2018 From: simon.bliudze at epfl.ch (Simon Bliudze) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:02:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MeTRiD 2018: 2nd CfP (ETAPS workshop) In-Reply-To: <75121db2-1e08-c9a1-e25f-c3859e2552da@inria.fr> References: <5fa86495-27e8-c47f-6f85-92d2d161cf30@epfl.ch> <75121db2-1e08-c9a1-e25f-c3859e2552da@inria.fr> Message-ID: ********************************************************************** ???????????????????????? 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ??????????????????? 1st International Workshop on ???????????? Methods and Tools for Rigorous System Design ???????????????????????????? MeTRiD 2018 ???????????????? Thessaloniki, Greece, 15 April 2018 ???????????????? https://project.inria.fr/metrid2018 (satellite workshop of ETAPS 2018) ********************************************************************** -- ABOUT MeTRiD -- MeTRiD 2018 is a new international workshop focusing on the theoretical foundations, tools and applications of the Rigorous System Design approach. The term "Rigorous System Design" denotes the design approach that is based on a formal, accountable and iterative process for deriving trustworthy and optimised implementations from models of application software, its execution platform and its external environment.? In particular, a system implementation is derived from a set of appropriate high-level models by applying a sequence of semantics- preserving transformations, thereby as much as possible striving for achieving correctness by construction. The goal of the workshop is to promote cross-fertilisation between theoretical research in academia and practical applications in the industry.? On one hand, we hope that, through the publication of research and tool papers, the workshop will contribute to raising awareness of the methods and tools available among the industrial players.? On the other hand, presentation and exchange of realistic case studies should allow academic researchers to better fit their tools to industrial needs, thereby improving the dissemination of results. -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- ?? * Joseph Sifakis (Verimag / CNRS, France) ?? * Thanassis Tsiodras (European Space Agency, The Netherlands) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- ?? * Papers submission:???????? 28 January 2018 23:59 AoE ?? * Decision notification:???? 01 March 2018 ?? * Pre-proceedings version:?? 26 March 2018 ?? * Final camera-ready:??????? 02 June? 2018 -- SCOPE -- The workshop will solicit contributions of three types: ?? * Regular papers, presenting original research ?? * Case study papers, reporting the evaluation of existing ???? modelling, analysis, transformation and code generation ???? formalisms and tools on realistic examples of significant size ?? * Tool papers, describing new tool prototypes supporting the RSD ???? flow and enhancements of existing ones The authors of accepted tool papers will be expected to give a live demonstration at the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: ?? * models and formalisms for specifying user requirements, ???? functional behaviour of application components, coordination and ???? interaction protocols, execution platform architectures, resource ???? utilisation policies etc. ?? * model transformation techniques integrating such models ?? * analysis techniques for establishing correctness properties at ???? all stages of the design process ?? * case studies exemplifying potential applications of the RSD ???? approach ?? * prototype tools supporting various stages of the RSD flow ?? * tool integration experiences -- LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND POLICY -- All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers under a lightweight double-blind policy.? The authors would be expected to invest reasonable effort into concealing their identities.? However, the main goal is to allow for unbiased review: anonymisation should not affect the quality of submissions, nor in any way hamper their evaluation.? In particular, references to technical reports, case study models or tool distributions are acceptable and should be provided where necessary. -- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLISHING? -- Papers of all types will be made available before the workshop on the MeTRiD website and will be published as post-proceedings in the open-access series Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Submitted papers must be in English, presenting original work.? They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions must adhere to the EPTCS formatting style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and are limited to 12 pages (not counting bibliography and appendices), but shorter extended abstracts are welcome. Tool papers should provide the URL of the tool (if available) and illustrate the maturity and robustness of the tool.? They must also comprise an appendix of reasonable length (roughly 6 pages, although minor deviations will be tolerated, if necessary) with the description of the demonstration, including screenshots.? As usual, appendices will be used for evaluation purposes only and will not be included for publication. Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair author interface: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrid2018 Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. -- ORGANIZERS -- Saddek Bensalem (Verimag / Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland / INRIA, France) All queries can be sent to: metrid2018 at easychair.org -- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) Paul Attie (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Saddek Bensalem (Verimag / Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland / INRIA, France) Marius Bozga (Verimag / CNRS, France) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Rayna Dimitrova (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany) Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Mohamad Jaber (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Panagiotis Katsaros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Igor Konnov (TU Wien, Austria) Axel Legay (IRISA, France) Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) Joseph Sifakis (Verimag / CNRS, France) Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University, USA) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden) Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Josef Widder (TU Wien, Austria) -- HOST INSTITUTION -- MeTRiD is a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2018, which will be hosted by the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece. From gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it Tue Jan 9 09:16:34 2018 From: gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it (Gianluigi Zavattaro) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:16:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering - University of Bologna - Italy Message-ID: <82BFEC47-D091-4373-97EB-081C03AF0A87@unibo.it> Dear All, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna has a fellowship for a post-doctoral position on: Formal Methods: Description and Analysis of Distributed Systems The theme of the position is intentionally wide. In fact, the specific research topic will be chosen according to the candidate's expertise. The details are available at https://www.aricweb.unibo.it/BandiPubblicati/zz_Bandi_din.aspx?strid=958 - Contact for inquiries or application: either Prof. Mario Bravetti (mario.bravetti at unibo.it ) or Prof. Cosimo Laneve (cosimo.laneve at unibo.it ) or Prof. Gianluigi Zavattaro (gianluigi.zavattaro at unibo.it ) - Duration: 1 year - Starting date: Spring 2018 - Keywords: concurrent and distributed programming, formal methods, process algebra - Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Bologna - Deadline for applications: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 at 13.30. The gross salary of the research fellowship contract is ? 19.367,00 per annum; while the net salary is ? 17.220,00 per annum and it is exempt of withholding tax and of all statutory social security charges the Research Fellow is subject to. Some additional income can be earned by teaching. The job may start in Spring 2018 and can be renewed for one year. The applicant must have a PhD in computer science with a background on formal methods. Good programming skills would be ideal, but are not necessary. Please forward this email to possible applicants. Best regards, Mario Bravetti Cosimo Laneve Gianluigi Zavattaro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Tue Jan 9 12:26:37 2018 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:26:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: ProWeb 2018 Message-ID: <691d27f3-bbd1-aa2f-5df9-7034cb4451e0@ed.ac.uk> ProWeb 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2018-papers Co-located with the conference April 10, Nice, France 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. ** Call for Papers ** The 2nd International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb18, 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 * 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 should look like We solicit three kinds of submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proweb2018 - 6-page **technical papers** and **experience reports** that, when accepted, will be published in the workshop post-proceedings as part of of the ACM?s Digital Library. - 3-page **position statements** that, when accepted, will be published in the workshop post-proceedings as part of of the ACM?s Digital Library. - 1-page **presentation abstracts** that, when accepted, will be made available on the website. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We welcome submissions that identify new problems, or report on promising ideas in early stages of research. Submissions of the third kind are ideal to further disseminate existing ideas within the community, to demonstrate existing tools, or simply to instigate a discussion. More information: https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2018-papers ** Important dates (AoE) ** - Submission deadline: Mon 15 Jan 2018 - Author notification: Mon 12 Feb 2017 - Camera-ready version: Wed 21 Feb 2017 ** Organizers ** - Coen De Roover, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Tom Van Cutsem, Nokia Bell Labs, Belgium ** Program Committee ** - Nataliia Bielova, Inria, France - Tobias Distler, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany - Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Sam Lindley, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Anders M?ller, Aarhus University, Denmark - Frank Piessens, KU Leuven, Belgium - Michael Pr?del, TU Darmstadt, Germany - Alejandro Russo, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Alan Schmitt, India, France - Christophe Scholliers, Universiteit Gent, Belgium - Manuel Serrano, Inria, France - Mario S?dholt, IMT Atlantique Nantes, France - Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany - Erik Wittern, IBM, United States -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From fioravanti at unich.it Tue Jan 9 15:45:09 2018 From: fioravanti at unich.it (Fabio Fioravanti) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:45:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions on analysis and verification at the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy Message-ID: <84cb5f84-5efb-3565-da7b-7c799cbd5901@unich.it> The University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy offers two fully funded PhD positions in "Formal methods for analysis and verification of networks and software systems". The call is available at https://www.scuolasuperiore.unich.it/bandi/nuovo-bando-di-concorso-posizioni-non-assegnate-dottorato-di-ricerca-xxxiii-ciclo-aa-20172018 The duration of the PhD course is three years. The amount of the scolarship is 16,705.67 (gross) per year and can be increased by 50% for research periods spent abroad. Applications must be submitted online by *January 21, 2018 at 1 PM (CET)*. Candidates can be interviewed via Skype. Please do not hesitate to contact me if interested. Best regards, Fabio Fioravanti From jdc at uwo.ca Tue Jan 9 20:48:48 2018 From: jdc at uwo.ca (Dan Christensen) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:48:48 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] fully funded graduate positions in Math at UWO Message-ID: <871siyiiv3.fsf@uwo.ca> Please distribute to undergraduate and master's students and appropriate counsellors and supervisors. Note that we have several faculty members, postdocs and graduate students with interests involving homotopy theory, homotopy type theory and category theory. ----- Graduate Student Positions Department of Mathematics University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada The Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario solicits applications for its MSc and PhD programs. We have up to 15 fully funded positions available, and applicants from any country are welcome. Our faculty members supervise research in a variety of areas: http://www.math.uwo.ca/graduate/supervisors.html The Department of Mathematics is part of the School of Mathematical Sciences: http://uwo.ca/smss/ More information about our program, including the application procedure, is available at http://www.math.uwo.ca/graduate/ Students normally start in September, in which case applications should be complete (including letters of reference and supplementary material) by February 15. Applications received after this deadline will be reviewed as space permits. We encourage applicants to apply for external scholarships they are eligible for. Please contact math-grad-program at uwo.ca with any questions you may have. From andersmortberg at gmail.com Wed Jan 10 11:14:21 2018 From: andersmortberg at gmail.com (Anders Mortberg) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:14:21 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF'18) Message-ID: ========================================================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF, at FLoC 2018) ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations July 7-8, 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom https://hott-uf.github.io/2018 Co-located with FSCD 2018 and part of FLoC 2018 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ http://www.floc2018.org/ Abstract submission deadline: March 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 and Univalent Foundations: from the study of syntax and semantics of type theory to practical formalization in proof assistants based on univalent type theory. ================== # Invited talks * Mart?n Escard? (University of Birmingham) * Paige North (Ohio State University) * Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge) ================ # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: March 31 * Author notification: mid April Submissions should consist of a title and a 1-2 pages abstract, in pdf format, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf18 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 (University of Birmingham) * Paolo Capriotti (University of Nottingham) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Nicolai Kraus (University of Nottingham) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Assia Mahboubi (Inria Saclay) * Anders M?rtberg (Carnegie Mellon University and University of Gothenburg) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) ================ # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Anders M?rtberg (Carnegie Mellon University and University of Gothenburg) From martin.avanzini at uibk.ac.at Thu Jan 11 05:19:50 2018 From: martin.avanzini at uibk.ac.at (Martin Avanzini) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:19:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE 18: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <9dd83446-7142-744f-effe-28d20b43d1a0@uibk.ac.at> -------------- next part -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, in particular, resource analysis. With the aim to more closely bring together researches from these fields, this year contributions related to program's resource analysis are strongly encouraged. 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. INVITED TALKS Jan Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University) Anupam Das (University of Copenhagen) 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 dezani at di.unito.it Fri Jan 12 04:37:32 2018 From: dezani at di.unito.it (Mariangiola Dezani) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:37:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Oxford_July_9=3A_Memorial_Corrado_B?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=B6hm?= Message-ID: <4F224823-30DB-4679-A242-F1142CB0BC1B@di.unito.it> Inside FLoC 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/) Henk Barendregt and Silvio Micali will recall the research activity of Corrado B?hm: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/bohm.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matthew.hennessy at scss.tcd.ie Fri Jan 12 08:21:10 2018 From: matthew.hennessy at scss.tcd.ie (Matthew.Hennessy) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:21:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Fellowships at Trinity College Dublin Message-ID: <2441CEC5-2950-4E04-8820-942F2CA27E3E@scss.tcd.ie> Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, offer a number of two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie COFUND programme. Six of these positions will be based at Trinity College Dublin, and will be supervised by staff members of the Foundations, Methods & Programming Languages Group: - Prof Matthew Hennessy https://www.scss.tcd.ie/matthew.hennessy/ - Dr Andrew Butterfield https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/ - Dr Vasileios Koutavas https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Vasileios.Koutavas/ Applicants may select their research proposal topic, which can be in any of the areas of - Programming Language semantics, theory and implementation - Concurrency theory and implementation - Formal Verification - Static Analysis and Compilers At first instance, applicants should liaise with potential supervisors to discuss their proposal and gain support for their application. Applications will be submitted and evaluated according to the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie regulations. Further particulars can be found at http://alecs.lero.ie/ . 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Thanks! --Derek] The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2018: "Emerging Trends in Computer Science" http://cmmrs.mpi-sws.org August 7-12, 2018 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 second of this new annual series of week-long schools will focus on emerging trends in computer science, including software-defined networking, practical formal methods, computational economics and machine learning, systems and network algorithmics, security and privacy, and natural language processing. 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, select 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. For full consideration, applications should be received by February 7, 2018. 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 ugo.dallago at unibo.it Fri Jan 12 11:04:17 2018 From: ugo.dallago at unibo.it (Ugo Dal Lago) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:04:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GaLoP 2018 - Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <1515773057514.61951@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 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=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 bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Fri Jan 12 11:08:41 2018 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:08:41 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions at the University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: PENN?S PL CLUB IS LOOKING FOR POSTDOCS The University of Pennsylvania?s PL group is looking to hire multiple postdoctoral researchers to work on projects related to verification, software specification, and security. START DATES: Negotiable 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 one or more 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 here: https://goo.gl/forms/ElgimgzvDh4C2scu1 Contact Steve Zdancewic (stevez at cis.upenn.edu ) or Benjamin Pierce (bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu ) if you have any questions. New applications will be considered starting immediately 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. 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From einarj at ifi.uio.no Fri Jan 12 12:44:44 2018 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:44:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP: FM 2018 Message-ID: <20180112174444.D1DA3229A77@sudur.ifi.uio.no> [Apologies for multiple copies] *********************************************************************** last Call for Papers 22nd International Symposium on Formal Methods FM 2018 Oxford UK, July 15-17 2018 carrier conference of FLoC 2018 http://www.fm2018.org *********************************************************************** 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. 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 The FM 2018 program includes three invited talks 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 Conference 2018. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline 8 January, 2018 Paper submission deadline 22 January, 2018 Notification 9 April, 2018 Camera ready 9 May, 2018 Programme Chairs Bill W. Roscoe, University of Oxford, GB Jan Peleska, University of Bremen, DE Program Committee Bernhard K. Aichernig, 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 Johnson, 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, Amazon, 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, University of Leicester, GB 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 All questions about submissions should be emailed to the programme chairs. From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Sun Jan 14 18:22:36 2018 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:22:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc at Imperial College London on detecting and surviving exploitable compiler bugs Message-ID: Dear all I'd be really grateful if you could spread the word about the following postdoc opportunity related to compiler validation. Many thanks Ally Donaldson Cristian Cadar and I are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher* for a position on a new EPSRC grant about detecting and surviving exploitable compiler bugs (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/R011605/1) - bugs in compilers whose presence can render an otherwise reliable piece of software vulnerable to attack.? The project features collaboration with Codeplay and Altran as partners, and is joint between the Software Reliability Group and the Multicore Programming Group at Imperial. Full details of the vacancy are here: https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoc-comp-18/ Please get in touch with me or Cristian if you are thinking of applying and would like to discuss the position in advance. Best wishes Ally Donaldson *We will also consider oustanding pre-doctoral candidates. From francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it Tue Jan 16 06:11:01 2018 From: francesco.tiezzi at unicam.it (Francesco Tiezzi) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:11:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies] ====================================================================== COORDINATION 2018 20th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages Madrid, Spain, June 18 - 21 2018 http://2018.discotec.org ====================================================================== Publications * Publication of the proceedings in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science of Springer-Verlag * Publication of extended versions of selected works is planned in a special issue of an international journal as in previous editions of COORDINATION * Publication of extended survey papers is planned in a special issue dedicated to the celebration of the 20th edition of COORDINATION ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * February 2, 2018 Submission of abstracts * February 9, 2018 Submission of papers * March 30, 2018 Notification of accepted papers * June 18-20, 2018 Conference in Madrid CONFERENCE GOALS 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; logic; emergent behaviour; types; semantics. * Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles; verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance aspects. * 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. * Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emerging new application domains like IoT, fog- and edge- computing. * Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development and verification of coordinated applications. * Tools, languages and methodologies for secure coordination. * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large; domain-specific software architectures and coordination models; case studies. * Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination. * Industry-led efforts in coordination and case studies. 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 editions of COORDINATION. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before February 2, 2017. Submission of the full paper is due no later than February 9, 2017. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2018 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 via EasyChair. We solicit three 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. * Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references): describing important results and successful stories that originated in the context of COORDINATION. All the accepted papers will be presented in a special session for the celebration of the 20th edition of the conference. The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Co-Chairs * Michele Loreti, Universit? degli Studi di Camerino, Italy * Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland Members * Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States * Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal * Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, United States * Simon Bliudze, INRIA, France * Carlos Canal, University of M?laga, Spain * Vashti Galpin, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom * Jean-Marie Jacquet, University of Namur, Belgium * eva K?hn, TU Wien, Austria * Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark * Maxime Louvel, Bag-Era, France * Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy * Hernan Melgratti, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Italy * Andrea Omicini, Universit? di Bologna, Italy * Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain * Luca Padovani, Universit? di Torino, Italy * Rosario Pugliese, Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy * Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University, Sweden * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, United States * Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy * Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, United Kingdom * Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, 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 * Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies, Italy * 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 * Mieke Massink, ISTI CNR, Italy * Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium * 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 PUBLICITY CHAIR * Francesco Tiezzi, Universit? degli Studi di Camerino, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From patrick.thomas.eugster at usi.ch Wed Jan 17 03:29:29 2018 From: patrick.thomas.eugster at usi.ch (Eugster Patrick Thomas) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:29:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 postdoc positions in distributed systems verification at University of Lugano and TU Darmstadt Message-ID: We are seeking qualified candidates for two researcher positions at the postdoctoral level for a project between the University of Lugano (USI) and TU Darmstadt (TUDA), performed in close collaboration with Purdue University. There is a position available at each USI and TUDA. The LiveSoft project is centered on static verification of dependable distributed systems and is funded by a European Research Council (ERC) grant. Some representative publications can be found at http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/eugstp/LiveSoft/ . The support is for 2 years each. Extensions are possible. Official start is ASAP. Salaries are highly competitive (starting at ~80K CHF yearly gross for USI and ~48K EUR for TUDA). USI: one of the very top CS departments in Switzerland in one of most beautiful locations in the country. With its own domestic airport as well as being 60mins drive from Milano airport, Lugano is very well connected. TUDA: one of the very top CS departments in Germany only 30 minutes by bus directly from Frankfurt international airport, it is easy to reach from abroad, as well as from its famous surroundings, e.g., 30 minutes by train from Heidelberg and Frankfurt, 2.5 hours from Freiburg. The ideal candidate has strong background in programming languages theory and type systems, and knowledge of distributed systems. Background must be demonstrated by a Ph.D. completed (or close to completion) in a relevant area, and publications in top tier venues. In addition applicants must be proficient in spoken and written scientific English, have excellent communication skills, be creative, and possess leadership qualities. Candidates are requested to submit their applications via email to eugstp at usi.ch. Applications must include a 1-page research summary, CV, and the names of 3 references. Screening will start immediately and continue until positions are filled. p@ Patrick Eugster Professor of Computer Science, University of Lugano Adjunct Professor TU Darmstadt and Purdue University http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/eugstp/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch Wed Jan 17 16:13:45 2018 From: caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch (Urban Caterina) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:13:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 25th Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2018) - First Call for Papers Message-ID: <347623D0-6804-4D78-ACA2-CFAD45BBD9C0@inf.ethz.ch> --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2018 25th Static Analysis Symposium Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, August 29th-August 31st, 2018 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 25th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2018, will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Previous symposia were held in New York, 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. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Topics The technical program for SAS 2018 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 15 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices (we may admit additional pages for the final version). Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Submissions are handled online: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas20180 Artifact Evaluation 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 criterion whose sole purpose is to find additional positive arguments for the paper's acceptance. Furthermore, an Artifact Evaluation Committee will assess artifacts and will award an "Artifact Approved" stamps to accepted papers that come with an artifact that allows to reproduce the results presented in the paper. Submissions without artifacts are welcome and will not be penalized. Important Dates - Abstract submission: March 31st, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Full paper submission: April 6th, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Artifact submission: April 20th, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Notification: May 29th, 2018 - Final version due: June 29th, 2018 - Conference: August 29th-August 31st, 2018 Radhia Cousot Young Researcher 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. Invited Speakers TBA Affiliated Events TBA Program Chair - Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) Program Committee - Domagoj Babic (Google Inc., USA) - Marc Brockschmidt (Microsoft Research, UK) - Swarat Chaudhuri (Rice University, USA) - Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - Jerome Feret (INRIA/ENS/CNRS, France) - Ashutosh Gupta (TIFR, India) - Nicolas Halbwachs (Verimag/CNRS, France) - Lukas Holik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) - Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, USA) - Hakjoo Oh (Korea University, South Korea) - Sylvie Putot (?cole Polytechnique, France) - Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, Italy) - Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund University, Germany) - Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) - Harald Sondergaard (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Alexander J. Summers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) - Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS, Germany) - Florian Zuleger (TU Wien, Austria) Artifact Evaluation Chair - Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) Publicity Chair - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Wed Jan 17 17:09:12 2018 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:09:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2018 2nd 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: (Deadline for workshop applications already expired) - 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, L'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 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 * - Silvia Bonomi, L'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 wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Thu Jan 18 10:51:00 2018 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:51:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPar CDT at the University of Edinburgh Message-ID: The CDT in Pervasive Parallelism, at the School of Informatics, still has some fully-funded places available for UK-eligible candidates. The school covers all aspects of parallel computing, including relevant work on programming languages and type systems. If you are an EU national who's worked or studied in the UK the past three years, you, too, may be eligible for this studentship. (More details at: http://pervasiveparallelism.inf.ed.ac.uk/apply/) We are accepting applications (and making offers to competitive candidates) on a rolling basis so interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to secure one of the funded place. See details about the programme below. ------------------------------------------------------- *EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism* (Funded PhD Places) The EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to offer 10 fully funded four-year studentships across all areas relevant to the "pervasive parallelism challenge". Students undertake an initial MSc by Research year, followed by three years of PhD study. Please see the attached brochure, as well as the information below. *Research Topics in Pervasive Parallelism* The computing industry faces its most disruptive challenge for fifty years. For performance and energy reasons, parallelism permeates all layers of the computing infrastructure, from the manycore CPUs and GPGPUs inside smartphones up to supercomputers and globally networked distributed systems. These systems generate fascinating research challenges in many areas of Computer Science, from theory to practice. * How should we design parallel programming languages and compilers? * How should we design and implement parallel architectures and communication networks? * What theories do we need to prove properties of such systems, or to model and reason about their performance? * How can concurrent and distributed systems be made secure? * How can we trade performance for energy in context sensitive ways? * How can we make algorithms and applications robust against the failures inevitable in exascale systems? Students at the CDT in Pervasive Parallelism will address such "pervasive parallelism challenges", undertaking the fundamental research required to transform methods and practices. They will develop not only deep expertise in their own specialism, but crucially, an awareness of its relationships to other facets of the challenge. Our industrial partnership and engagement programme will ensure that our research is informed by real world case-studies and will provide a source of diverse internship opportunities for our students. *Studentships* The Centre is now recruiting its fifth cohort of students, to begin study in September 2018. Funding is predominantly for UK and EU qualified applicants, but a smaller number of excellent international students may also be supported. Applicants must have a good first degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronics, or a similar discipline relevant to the area in which they plan to work. For more information, including application details, see: http://pervasiveparallelism.inf.ed.ac.uk/ Email: ppar-cdt at inf.ed.ac.uk Twitter: @CDT_PPar_Edin *Information Session* Interested in finding out more? The School of Informatics is having an information session on PhD opportunities Informatics-wide. The session is from 2-3pm on Thursday, 8th February at the Informatics Forum (10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh). Dr. Murray Cole will be there to provide details and answer questions about the CDT in Pervasive Parallelism. Space is limited so if you are interested in attending, please let us know of your attendance by e-mailing the CDT PPar Administrator at k.pinto-csaszar at ed.ac.uk *The School of Informatics & Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre* The CDT in Pervasive Parallelism is a collaboration between the School of Informatics and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), both at the University of Edinburgh. The School of Informatics is Europe's largest computing department, highest rated for research and ranked 'excellent' in the UK according to the most recent research assessment exercises. The size and reputation of the School means that it is big enough to provide outstanding facilities for students which in turn attracts some of the brightest minds to study and teach there. The School has an extremely successful track record of generating spin-out activity, with an estimated 44% of all University of Edinburgh spin outs since 2008 emerging from the School of Informatics alone. Recently awarded a Silver Athena SWAN Award, it is also recognised as an institution with a commitment to advancing women's careers. For more information about postgraduate study opportunities at the School of Informatics see: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/ Videos: Introduction to the School of Informatics: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=s9hclQJupZk School of Informatics Student Comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6eOyRZZQwAk Introduction to PhD Study at the School: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6eOyRZZQwAk The EPCC is the UK's largest supercomputing centre. It aims to accelerate the effective exploitation of novel computing throughout industry, academia and commerce. This is achieved through a range of activities spanning undergraduate and advanced training programmes, service provision, industrial affiliation, research and contract work. EPCC houses an exceptional range of supercomputers, with 75 staff committed to the solution of real-world problems. EPCC plays a leading role in PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). 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Name: not available URL: From camarao at dcc.ufmg.br Fri Jan 19 07:08:12 2018 From: camarao at dcc.ufmg.br (camarao at dcc.ufmg.br) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:08:12 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SBLP 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: SBLP 2018: XXII Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages ________________________________________________________________________________ Universidade de S?o Paulo - ICMC/USP S?o Carlos, Brazil, September 20-21, 2018 Conference website http://www.sbc.org.br/cbsoft2018 Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 SBLP 2018 is the 22nd edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. It is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it is part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (http://cbsoft.org/cbsoft2018/). Submission Guidelines ________________________________________________________________________________ Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018. The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references, and appendices): Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column format, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format, can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses. List of Topics (related but not limited to the following) ________________________________________________________________________________ ? Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, and distributed programming ? Program generation and transformation ? Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical ? Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis and abstract interpretation ? Programming language design and implementation, programming language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques Publication ________________________________________________________________________________ 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's special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBLP edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract submission: April 29th 2018 Paper submission: May 6th 2018 Author notification: June 22nd 2018 Camera ready deadline: July 8th 2018 Program Committee ________________________________________________________________________________ Mariza Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Roberto Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Andre R. Du Bois Universidade Federal de Pelotas Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Carlos Camar?o Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (chair) Fernando Castor Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil Joao Ferreira Teesside University Luc?lia Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ismael Figueroa Pontif?cia Universidad Cat?lica de Valparaiso Alex Garcia Instituto Militar de Engenharia Roberto Ierusalimschy Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro Yu David Liu State University of New York at Binghamton Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Heriot-Watt University Marcelo Maia Universidade Federal de Uberl?ndia Andr? M. Maidl Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Paran? Manuel A. Martins Universidade de Aveiro S?rgio Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Victor Miraldo University of Utrecht ?lvaro Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Anamaria M. Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Peter Mosses Swansea University Martin Musicante Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Alberto Pardo Universidad de la Rep?blica Fernando Pereira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Gustavo Pinto Universidade Federal do Par? Louis-Noel Pouchet Ohio State University Zongyan Qiu Peking University Leonardo Reis Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Rodrigo Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Noemi Rodriguez Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro Francisco Sant'Anna Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro Jo?o Saraiva Universidade do Minho Martin Sulzmann Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft (chair) Leopoldo Teixeira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Varmo Vene University of Tartu Invited Speaker ________________________________________________________________________________ Martin Sulzmann, Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Germany Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ All questions about submissions should be emailed to Carlos Camar?o (camarao at dcc.ufmg.br) From luca.vigano at univr.it Sat Jan 20 12:16:59 2018 From: luca.vigano at univr.it (Luca Vigano`) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 17:16:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 6 security positions (lecturer, senior lecturer, chair) at the Department of Informatics of King's College London Message-ID: As part of its strategic development, the Department of informatics of King's College London is seeking to recruit to 18 academic positions, including in particular 6 positions in security: Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity closing date 18 February 2018 Lecturer in Computer Science (Security) closing date18 February 2018 Lecturer in Computer Science (Secure Cities) closing date 18 February 2018 Lecturer in Computer Science (Computational Finance & Security) closing date 4 March 2018 Lecturer in Computer Science (Human Factors & Security) closing date 15 April 2018 Chair in Cybersecurity (Security & Systems) More information is available at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/about/job-opportunities.aspx If you have questions or require further information, feel free to contact me. Kind regards, Luca. --- Luca Vigan? Professor of Computer Science, Department of Informatics Vice Dean (External Relations) of the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences King's College London, UK | Tel: +44 (0)20 78482078 | www.lucavigano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From i.hasuo at acm.org Sun Jan 21 07:05:34 2018 From: i.hasuo at acm.org (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:05:34 +0900 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] [New! Our positions are being filled up, but there still are a few open ones] Dear colleagues, For our 5-year research project (ERATO MMSD, Metamathematics for Systems Design) we are looking for - senior researchers and - postdocs 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 http://group-mmm.org/~ichiro/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk Mon Jan 22 07:09:27 2018 From: m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk (Sammartino, Matteo) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:09:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- FLoC 2018 Workshop Message-ID: Call for Papers: Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- FLoC 2018 Workshop July 13, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Website: https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 24 March 2018 Learning models defining recursive computations, like automata and formal grammars, arey the core of the field called Grammatical Inference (GI). The expressive power of these models and the complexity of the associated computational problems are major research topics within the mathematical logic and computer science communities, spanning the international conferences that the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) brings together. Historically, there has been little interaction between the GI and FLoC communities, though recently some important results started to bridge the gap between both worlds, including applications of learning to formal verification and model checking, and (co-)algebraic formulations of automata and grammar learning algorithms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic who could benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in grammatical inference who could find in logic and verification new fruitful applications for their methods. We invite submissions of recent work, including preliminary research, related to the theme of the workshop. Similarly to how main machine learning conferences and workshops are organized, all accepted abstracts will be part of a poster session held during the workshop. Additionally, the Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to represent it at the workshop. Learnaut18 is also coordinating with the International Conference on Grammatical Inference (ICGI, http://icgi2018.pwr.edu.pl/) which publishes its proceedings in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR: http://proceedings.mlr.press/). Selected LearnAut papers will be offered the possibility to have an extended version published in the proceedings of ICGI. Authors of such papers will be expected to submit the extended version by the ICGI deadline, which will then undergo an additional (light) review process by the ICGI program committee. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research proceedings.mlr.press The Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (formerly JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings) is a series aimed specifically at publishing machine learning ... ICGI 2018 icgi2018.pwr.edu.pl ICGI is a conference on all aspects of grammatical inference, including (but not limited to) theoretical and experimental analysis of different models of grammar ... Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Computational complexity of learning problems involving automata and formal languages. - Algorithms and frameworks for learning models representing language classes inside and outside the Chomsky hierarchy, including tree and graph grammars. - Learning problems involving models with additional structure, including numeric weights, inputs/outputs such as transducers, register automata, timed automata, Markov reward and decision processes, and semi-hidden Markov models. - Logical and relational aspects of learning and grammatical inference. - Theoretical studies of learnable classes of languages/representations. - Relations between automata and recurrent neural networks. - Active learning of finite state machines and formal languages. - Methods for estimating probability distributions over strings, trees, graphs, or any data used as input for symbolic models. - Applications of learning to formal verification and (statistical) model checking. - Metrics and other error measures between automata or formal languages. ** Invited speakers ** Alexander Clark (King's College London) Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh) Doina Precup (McGill University & DeepMind) ** Submission instructions ** Submissions in the form of extended abstracts must be at most 8 single-column pages long (plus at most four for bibliography and possible appendixes) and must be submitted in the JMLR/PMLR format. The LaTeX style file is available from here: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr We do accept submissions of work recently published or currently under review; however such submissions do not qualify for publication in the ICGI Proceedings. - Submission url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learnaut2018 - Submission deadline: 24 March 2018 - Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2018 - Submission deadline for ICGI proceedings: 15 May 2018 - Registration: http://www.floc2018.org/register/ ** Program Committee ** Dana Angluin (Yale University) Borja Balle (Amazon Research Cambridge) Leonor Becerra-Bonache (Universit? de Saint-Etienne) Jorge Castro (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Fran?ois Denis (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University) Falk Howar (TU Clausthal) Kim Larsen (Aalborg University) Ariadna Quattoni (Naver Labs Europe) Bernhard Steffen (TU Dortmund) Alexandra Silva (University College of London) James Worrell (University of Oxford) ** Organizers ** Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University) Guillaume Rabusseau (McGill University) Matteo Sammartino (University College London) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de Mon Jan 22 07:16:07 2018 From: abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Erika Abraham) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:16:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP Gender Equality in Software Engineering In-Reply-To: <558cb59f-c8ce-ecd0-2a9e-7abc87d85552@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <558cb59f-c8ce-ecd0-2a9e-7abc87d85552@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS GE at ICSE2018 First Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering May 28, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden https://sites.google.com/view/ge-icse2018 Satellite event at ICSE 2018 40th International Conference on Software Engineering https://www.icse2018.org =========================================================== === Important dates === Paper submission: February 05, 2018 Paper notification: March 5, 2018 Final version: March 19, 2018 Conference: May 28, 2018 === Objectives and scope === ICT is pervasively influencing all human activities. In this context, more and more people of any age, gender and culture is exposed to such technologies and has to acquire some ability and skill in this context. For reasons that are still being studied, the engagement of genders with ICT is not uniform. This gap is occurring at all levels and it is evident, for instance, in the small percentage of women covering top positions in professional and academic activities in the field. At the same time, the community is realising that diversity, when it does not assume the negative aspects of discrimination, plays a key role to a successful and competitive context for software development and research. Such diversity is not only related to gender aspects but refers also to the combination of culture, religion and geographical distribution. In this context, the purpose of this workshop, which will be held as part of ICSE 2018, is to discuss about the role, difficulties and opportunities concerning people of different gender in the field of software engineering, in research, education and industry. === What to submit === Students, industry professionals, academics, and other leaders in software engineering are invited to submit position papers, collaborate and attend this workshop with the objective of assessing the current gender situation in various contexts and geographic areas, also in combination with any discriminatory factor, and of identifying and discussing possible difficulties and corresponding solutions. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Summaries, challenges, and studies regarding the role of different genders in software engineering education and research. - Studies concerning the role of different genders in software engineering industry. - Specific experiences that can be generalized and shared with the public. Also submissions from other scientific areas with contents that are transferable to software engineering are welcome. All contributions will undergo a peer-review process carried out by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM workshop proceedings. === Submission guidelines === Submissions should have a maximum length of 4 pages and follow the ACM SIGS proceedings format (see https://www.icse2018.org/track/icse-2018-Double-blind-review#Formatting). Submissions should be made using the Easychair site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=geicse2018 . === Invited speakers === Gabriele Abermann (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria) Reyyan Ayfer (Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey) Anna Nilsson-Ehle (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Philip B. Stark (Berkeley Institute for Data Science, USA) === Committees === Program Chairs: Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Program Committee: Alberto Avritzer (Sonatype, Fulton, USA) Steffen Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Antonella Ferrecchia (University College Dublin, Ireland) Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK) Letizia Jaccheri (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Rick Kazman (Carnegie-Mellon University and University of Hawaii, USA) Tiziana Margaria (Lero, Ireland) Marija Mikic (Google, USA) Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia, Canada) Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University, UK and Lero, Ireland) Flavio Oquendo (IRISA / UMR CNRS and University Bretagne-Sud, France) Jennifer Perez Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Rafael Prikladnicki (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Patrizia Scandurra (DIIMM - University of Bergamo, Italy) David Shepherd (ABB, Inc, USA) Sebastian Uchitel (University of Buenos Aires, Argentinia and Imperial College London, UK) Willem Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) === Sponsor === The workshop is sponsored by Chalmers University of Technology http://www.chalmers.se/en/Pages/default.aspx . From chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk Mon Jan 22 17:42:22 2018 From: chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk (Chris Heunen) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:42:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CVQT 2018: Financial support available, 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/ FINANCIAL SUPPORT Financial support to cover accommodation is available for 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. Email chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk to apply. PROGRAMME * Ramon Alonso-Sanz (Madrid): Collective quantum games * Stijn de Baerdemacker (Ghent): ZXZ decompositions of quantum and classical reversible circuits * Niel de Beaudrap (Oxford): Quantum computation in the hall of mirrors * Alejandro Diaz-Caro (Quilmes): Two recent approaches to quantum control * Pau Enrique Moliner (Edinburgh): Tensor topology * Tobias Fritz (Leipzig): Measurement functors * John Harding (New Mexico): Boolean subalgebras of orthoalgebras * Martin Idel (TNG): Sinkhorn's theorem in quantum theory * Martti Karvonen (Edinburgh): Dagger limits * Viv Kendon (Durham): TBA * Mark Lawson (Edinburgh): Non-commutative Stone dualities and etale groupoids * Bert Lindenhovius (Tulane): Posets of commutative C*-subalgebras * Frank Oertel (London): A statistical interpretation of Grothendieck's inequality and its relation to the size of of nonlocality in quantum mechanics * Pedro Resende (Lisbon): Quanta and qualia * Manny Reyes (Bowdoin): Towards a functorial quantum spectrum for noncommutative algebras * David Reutter (Oxford): Quantum combinatorics and the Morita theory of quantum graph isomorphisms * Phil Scott (Ottawa): AF C*-algebras, many-valued logics, and effect algebras * Rui Soares Barbosa (Oxford): Contextuality as a resource * Ekaterina Turilova (Kazan): Choquet order and abelian subalgebras * Benoit Valiron (Paris): From symmetric pattern-matching to quantum control * Jamie Vicary (Birmingham&Oxford): Higher structures and formal proof * Bas Westerbaan (Nijmegen): Effectus theory - an introduction, a reconstruction, and possibilistic equivalences Additionally there will be a wine reception on the Monday, a social excursion on Wednesday afternoon, and a dinner on Wednesday evening. See the website for the full programme and abstract. REGISTRATION There is no registration fee. Tea, coffee, and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please email chris.heunen at ed.ac.uk. 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. 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 leaves plenty of opportunities for discussion. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Jan 23 08:45:53 2018 From: sabel at ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (David Sabel) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:45:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2018: First Call for Papers Message-ID: ====================================================================== ??????????????? PPDP 2018: First Call for Papers ====================================================================== ???????????????? 20th International Symposium on ??????? Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming ???????? Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 3-5 September 2018 ??????? http://ppdp-lopstr-18.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/ppdp18.html ???????????? Frankfurt, Germany, September 4-6, 2018 ???????????? (co-located with LOPSTR 2018 and WFLP 2018) ====================================================================== The PPDP 2018 symposium brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling 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 related to declaractive programming, 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; memory management. -?? Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and 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. The PC chair will be happy to advise on the appropriateness of a topic. PPDP will be co-located with the 28th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2018). 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, but excluding bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). 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 5 pages **including references**. 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. Supplementary material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study any material beyond the respective page limit. Format of a submission ====================== For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the "Current ACM Master Template" which is available at . The most recent version at the time of writing is 1.48. You must use the LaTeX sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers are unable to process final submissions in other formats. In case of problems with the templates, contact [ACM's TeX support team atAptara](mailto:acmtexsupport at aptaracorp.com). Authors should note [ACM's statement on author'srights](http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers. Submitted papers should meet the requirements of [ACM's plagiarism policy](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Requirements for publication ============================ At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present the work at the conference. The pc chair may retract a paper that is not presented. The pc chair may also retract a paper if complaints about the paper's correctness are raised which cannot be resolved by the final paper deadline. Important dates =============== -?? 23.04.2018 paper submission -?? 14.06.2018 rebuttal period (48 hours) -?? 25.06.2018 notification -?? 16.07.2018 final papers -?? 03.09.2018 conference starts From gvidal at dsic.upv.es Wed Jan 24 05:00:23 2018 From: gvidal at dsic.upv.es (German Vidal) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:00:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: HVCS'18 - 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis Message-ID: <989DF62A-E74B-44A4-8897-6269CDABD552@dsic.upv.es> (apologies for multiple copies) Call for Papers 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Affiliated with ICLP at FLoC 2018 July 13, 2018 - Oxford, UK https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs18/ Invited speakers: TBA Submission deadlines: - Paper submission: 15 April 2018 - Paper notification: 15 May 2018 - Camera-ready: 31 May 2018 - Workshop: 13 July 2018 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 four previous meetings: HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden (w/CADE), 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. Program Committee: - Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) - Maria Alpuente (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) - Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) - Fabio Fioravanti (University of Chieti-Pescara) - John Gallagher (Roskilde University) - Pierre-Loic Garoche (ONERA) - Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo) - Temesghen Kahsai (Amazon) -chair - Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt University) - David Monniaux (CNRS/Verimag) - Jorge A. Navas (SRI International) - Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) - Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) - Philipp Rummer (Uppsala University) - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich) - German Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) -chair 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 http://www.eptcs.org/ 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2018 From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Wed Jan 24 02:30:47 2018 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:30:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2018 first call for papers Message-ID: MFPS XXXIV 2018 : Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics First call for papers The 34th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIV) will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from June 6?9, 2018. MFPS 2018 will be co-located with the 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2018, which takes place from June 3?7. 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: 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: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/mfps2018/ ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * April 1: abstract submission * April 6: paper submission * May 11: notification of authors * May 25: final papers ready * June 6?9: conference ### 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 is via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps34). ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will be published in ENTCS after the meeting. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Marc Bagnol, ENS Lyon, France * Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia * Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland * Ale? Bizjak, Aarhus University, Denmark * Valentin Blot, Universit? Paris-Sud, France * Steve Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Pierre Clairambault, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France * Ilias Garnier, Sivienn Inc. and ENS Paris * Sergey Goncharov, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany * Tobias Heindel, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany * Tom Hirschowitz, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, France * Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA * Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK * Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford, UK * Shin-Ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA * Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA * Joel Ouaknine, MPI-SWS, Germany * Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France * Azalea Raad, MPI-SWS, Germany * Sam Staton, University of Oxford, UK (chair) * Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Beno?t Valiron, LRI - CentraleSup?lec, Univ. Paris Saclay, France * Valeria Vignudelli, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France * Noam Zeilberger, University of Birmingham, UK ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Julien Ross * Peter Selinger From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Wed Jan 24 03:07:37 2018 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:07:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAP 2018 - second CFP Message-ID: <97a7f52c-9bc8-61c1-a4b5-22ea7e91ac0f@ensiie.fr> [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) From jaco at cs.sun.ac.za Thu Jan 25 07:05:01 2018 From: jaco at cs.sun.ac.za (Jaco Geldenhuys) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:05:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICTAC 2018: Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing ICTAC 2018 Stellenbosch, South Africa, 16-19 October 2018 https://www.ictac.org.za/ COLOCATED EVENTS * ICTAC tutorials, 12-14 October 2018 * ICTAC workshop(s), 15 October 2018 * 14th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics / 14eme Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique et en Mathematiques Appliquees, CARI 2018, 14-16 October 2018 IMPORTANT DATES * Abstracts 4 May 2018 * Papers 11 May 2018 * Notification 6 July 2018 * Camera-ready 3 August 2018 BACKGROUND 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 researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to present research and exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote research cooperation between developing and industrial countries. SCOPE The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: * Languages and automata * Semantics of programming languages * Logic in computer science * Lambda calculus, type theory and category theory * Domain-specific languages * Theories of concurrency and mobility * Theories of distributed, grid and cloud computing * Models of objects and components * Coordination models * Models of software architectures * Timed, hybrid, embedded and cyber-physical systems * Static analysis * Software verification * Software testing * Program generation and transformation * Model checking and automated theorem proving * Interactive theorem proving * Verified software, formalized programming theory SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS We solicit full-length research papers reporting original research contributions. Submissions must adhere to the LNCS format and must not exceed 18 pages (excluding bibliography of maximum 2 pages). Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration 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 conference. Submission is through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2018 One author of each accepted paper must attend the conference to present it, having paid the regular registration fee. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. BEST PAPER AWARD Springer is sponsoring a best paper award. SPECIAL ISSUE After the conference, authors of the best contributions are invited to submit a revised and extended version to a special issue, to be published in Elsevier's Theoretical Computer Science. GENERAL CHAIR Bernd Fischer (Stellenbosch University, ZA) PROGRAMME CHAIRS Bernd Fischer (Stellenbosch University, ZA) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, IS) PROGRAM COMMITTEE June Andronick (Data61, AU) ?ric Badouel (IRISA, FR) Eduardo Bonelli (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, AR) Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Uli Fahrenberg (LIX, FR) Anna Lisa Ferrara (University of Southampton, UK) Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT) Edward Hermann Haeusler (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, BR) Ross Horne (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Dang Van Hung (VNU University of Engineering and Technology, VN) Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University, JP) Jan Kretinsky (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE) Martin Leucker (Universitaet zu Luebeck, DE) Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, CN) Radu Mardare (Aalborg Universitet, DK) Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE) Maciej Pirog (Wroclaw University, PL) Sanjiva Prasad (IIT Delhi, IN) Camilo Rueda (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, CO) Murali Krishna Ramanathan (Uber, US) Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) Ina Schaefer (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, DE) Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, US) Georg Struth (University of Sheffield, UK) Cong Tian (Xidian University, CN) Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, ZA) ICTAC STEERING COMMITTEE Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Martin Leucker (Universitaet zu Luebeck, DE) Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, CN) Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, DE) Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, US) HOST INSTITUTION AND CITY The conference will be hosted by the Division of Computer Science of Stellenbosch University. The city of Stellenbosch, founded 1685, is the second oldest European settlement in South Africa after Cape Town. It is situated about 50 km to the east of Cape Town. It is the place to admire Cape Dutch architecture and the heart of the Cape Winelands, South Africa's prime wine region. Stellenbosch University is one of the leading universities in Africa. FURTHER INFORMATION Please contact Bernd Fischer, bfischer(at)cs.sun.ac.za. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palmgren at math.su.se Thu Jan 25 11:59:27 2018 From: palmgren at math.su.se (Erik Palmgren) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:59:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematical Logic, Stockholm University In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematical Logic Ref. No. SU FV-0346-18 at the Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University. Closing date: 3 April 2018. The Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University has roughly 40 faculty members, and is divided into two divisions: Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. This postdoctoral position is attached to the former. The Division of Mathematics carries out research in a wide range of subjects in pure mathematics, including algebra, analysis, combinatorics, geometry, logic and topology. The research group in mathematical logic is active in several areas of the field including, constructive mathematics, proof theory, type theory and category-theoretic logic, as well as the philosophical aspects of logic and mathematics. Project description A broad spectrum of different projects within mathematical logic are possible, but with a preference for projects including type theory, in particular homotopy type theory, constructive set theory, category theory and categorical logic, topos theory, point-free topology and locale theory or other constructive aspects of mathematical logic. Main responsibilities The main responsibility is to conduct research. The position also includes some teaching duties (up to 20 %), which may include supervision of students. The successful applicant is expected to participate in activities in the department, in particular by attending and contributing talks in the logic group?s seminar. Qualification requirements Postdoctoral positions are appointed primarily for purposes of research. Applicants are expected to hold a Swedish doctoral degree (by the time of appointment) or an equivalent degree from another country. Assessment criteria Applicants with a PhD degree awarded no more than three years before the deadline for application will be given preference. Parental leave, compulsory military and similar types of service, or longer periods of illness are not counted towards these three years. In the appointment process, special attention will be given to research skills. Emphasis will also be placed on the candidate?s potential to contribute to the proposed research program and to interact with other members of the department. Terms of employment The position involves full-time employment for a maximum of two years, with the possibility of extension under special circumstances. Start date is 2018-09-01 or as per agreement. Contact Further information about the position can be obtained from Professor Erik Palmgren, telephone: +46 8 16 45 32, palmgren at math.su.se, and/or Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, telephone: +46 8 1614 66, p.l.lumsdaine at math.su.se. Applications are to be entered via the Stockholm University's online application system. For instructions see the full advertisement: https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/jobs?rmpage=job&rmjob=4748&rmlang=UK Welcome with your application! Erik Palmgren Professor of Mathematical Logic Department of Mathematics Stockholm University http://staff.math.su.se/palmgren/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "constructivenews" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to constructivenews+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From ayala at unb.br Fri Jan 26 06:11:40 2018 From: ayala at unb.br (Mauricio Ayala-Rincon) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:11:40 -0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] UNIF 2018 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <4911dc69-581f-76e6-b329-7b10dfe21cf5@unb.br> Dear colleagues, Please find below the second 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 --//-- Second 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: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Camera-ready papers: Monday, May 28, 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 -------------- Second 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: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Camera-ready papers: Monday, May 28, 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 From Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Jan 26 19:04:29 2018 From: Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 00:04:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FOPSS Logic and Learning School advertisement Message-ID: FOPSS Logic and Learning School advertisement The Logic & Learning School is an opportunity to learn from, and interact with, the world's experts leading recent progress in understanding the relationships between logic and learning. These experts come from both academia and some of the leading industrial research labs (Amazon Research and DeepMind). In the last few decades, logic has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for understanding complex systems. It has turned out to be instrumental in formal methods such as program verification, reasoning about hardware, reasoning about real-time systems and, more recently, probabilistic systems. Machine learning has recently had spectacular successes in fields such as image recognition, game playing, and many areas that involve the extraction of information from large datasets. The use of statistical approaches yields practical solutions to problems that seemed out of reach just a few years ago. The understanding of why these approaches are so successful has lagged behind the empirical successes. Using logic as the foundation to understand machine learning to obtain the best of both worlds is a major challenge. The programme of the Logic & Learning School consists of ten lectures of three hours each, starting with four introductory courses on computational and statistical learning theory, reinforcement learning and Bayesian inference, and six advanced courses on exciting and recent developments relating logic and learning. The lectures target an audience of logicians and computer scientists broadly construed and do not assume any knowledge on machine learning. Accordingly, the School represents a perfect opportunity to learn for both students and working researchers. The School will take place in St Anne's College in the centre of Oxford, an ideal learning environment with accommodation and lunches provided on site. The lectures will be from Monday 2 July in the morning to Friday 6 July in the afternoon, which is the week before the main activities of FLoC. Complete list of speakers Borja Balle (Amazon Research Cambridge) Spectral algorithms for automata learning Richard Evans (DeepMind) Inductive logic programming and deep learning Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Danemark) Learning and epistemic modal logic Varun Kanade (University of Oxford) Statistical learning theory Guy Katz (Stanford University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Verification of machine learning programs Jan K?et?nsk? (Technical University of Munich) Learning for verification Stephen H. Muggleton (Imperial College London) Inductive logic programming Doina Precup (McGill University and DeepMind) Reinforcement learning Dan Roy (University of Toronto) Bayesian learning James Worrell (University of Oxford) Computational learning theory Registration The summer school is a residential course held at St Anne's College, Oxford. The registration fee includes bed & breakfast accommodation for 6 days (1-6th July 2018), buffet lunches and evening meals. There will be a banquet on 4th July at St John's College. Arrivals are on 30th June 2018 and departures on 6th July. As the number of rooms available at St Anne's is very limited, early registration is strongly advised to avoid disappointment. Registration fees are: Early bird ?750 15 April, 2018 Late ?850 15 May, 2018 The summer school is perfectly aligned for students who want to attend the four-yearly Federated Logic Conference (FLOC) taking place in Oxford after the summer school. FLOC will feature a number of AI-related events, including a public lecture by Stuart Russell at the Sheldonian Theatre (http://www.floc2018.org/speaker/stuart-russell/), a Debate in the Oxford Union Chamber on Ethics for Robots (http://www.floc2018.org/speaker/debate/), and the Summit on Machine Learning Meets Formal Methods (http://www.floc2018.org/summit-on-machine-learning/). Students and postdocs may also be interested in the FLOC Volunteer Programme: http://www.floc2018.org/volunteer/ For registration and further information about the Logic & Learning School (opens early February) see: http://www.floc2018.org/fopss/ Information about FLOC 2018 can be found at: http://www.floc2018.org/ From uni at hoffjan.de Sat Jan 27 12:03:56 2018 From: uni at hoffjan.de (Jan Hoffmann) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:03:56 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LCC 2018: First Call for Contributions Message-ID: =========================================================== First Call for Contributions LCC 2018 19th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity July 13, 2018, Oxford, UK Part of FLoC 2018 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 15, 2018 * notification May 15, 2018 * workshop July 13, 2018 INVITED SPEAKERS: * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw) * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna and INRIA Sophia Antipolis) 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=lcc18 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Erich Gr?del (co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) Jan Hoffmann (co-chiar, Carnegie Mellon University) Albert Atserias (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Antonina Kolokolova (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Damiano Mazza (CNRS - Universit? Paris 13) Wied Pakusa (Univeristy of Oxford) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Ulrich Sch?pp (LMU M?nchen) From akcheung at cs.washington.edu Sun Jan 28 19:52:01 2018 From: akcheung at cs.washington.edu (Alvin Cheung) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:52:01 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages 2018 Message-ID: <5fcdea83-5811-be9f-2de8-d576fe7aab97@cs.washington.edu> ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages (MAPL) http://pldi18.sigplan.org/track/mapl-2018-papers To be held in conjunction with PLDI 2018 in Philadelphia, USA Now in its second edition, MAPL is a forum for researchers to discuss new advances in programming systems and machine learning, and to encourage collaboration and exploration in the areas of mutual benefit. *Call for Papers* The workshop seeks papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning including (and not limited to): - Programming language and compiler support for machine learning applications - Programming language support and implementation of deep learning frameworks - Inductive programming - Probabilistic programming - Application of machine learning to compilation and run-time scheduling - Collaborative human / computer programming - Interoperability between machine learning frameworks and existing code bases - Infrastructure and techniques for mining and analyzing large code bases *Important Dates* Paper submission: Wed Feb 28 2018 Author notification: Mon April 2 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: Fri May 4 2018 (all times are 5pm Pacific Standard Time) If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program chair. On behalf of our organizational committee: Alvin Cheung, University of Washington, USA (Program Chair) Justin Gottschlich, Intel Labs, USA (General Chair) Tatiana Shpeisman, Google, USA (Steering Committee Chair) the following program committee members: Premkumar Devanbu, University of California at Davis, USA Jian-Guang Lou, Microsoft Research Asia, China Abdullah Muzahid, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK Tatiana Shpeisman, Google, USA Rishabh Singh, Microsoft Research, USA Armando Solar-Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Dawn Song, University of California at Berkeley, USA Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh, UK Nesime Tatbul, Intel Labs, USA Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Eran Yahav, Technion, Israel and the following steering committee members: Rajkishore Barik, Intel Labs, USA Stefano Ermon, Stanford University, USA Costin Iancu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, USA From splash.publicity at gmail.com Sun Jan 28 21:27:43 2018 From: splash.publicity at gmail.com (SPLASH Publicity) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:27:43 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2018: 1st Combined Call for Contributions Message-ID: ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2018 November 4-9, 2018 Boston, MA, USA http://2018.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 * PACMPL Issue 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 * Student Volunteers ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2018 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. Submissions are currently being accepted on ?a rolling basis? with 6 out of 15 available slots already filled by the middle of January. The rolling call will close on Sat March 3, 2018. http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Workshops ## PACMPL Issue 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). Submissions due: Mon April 16, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-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: Mon April 23, 2018 https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-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 long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about 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 the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area?software, programming, and programming languages?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: Mon April 23, 2018 https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-Onward-Essays ## 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 of Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Submissions due: Sun July 1, 2018 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-18/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 metaprogramming. 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: Fri June 29, 2018 Submissions due: Fri July 6, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. SLE 2018 solicits high quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri June 29, 2018 Submissions due: Fri July 6, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/sle-2018/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 at any desired level of detail. To further facilitate, we will also host 15-minute demo sessions for interested presenters. The poster session and demo presentations are held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Sat September 22, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-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 July 20, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-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: Fri July 27, 2018 https://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Student-Research-Competition ## Student Volunteers The SPLASH Student Volunteers program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Detailed information on how to apply will be available on the main conference page in March 2018. Estimated deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2018. https://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Student-Volunteers ## Information Contact: publicity at splashcon.org Website: http://2018.splashcon.org Location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, MA USA ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) OOPSLA Program Chair: * Manu Sridharan (Uber) Onward! Papers Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Onward! Essays Chair: * Richard P. Gabriel (Dream Songs, Inc & HPI) DLS Program Chair: * Tim Felgentreff (Oracle Labs, Potsdam) GPCE General Chair: * Matthew Flatt (University of Utah) GPCE Program Chair: * Sebastian Erdweg (TU Delft) SLE General Chair: * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Tanja Mayerhofer (TU Wien) * Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversit?t) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Michael Carbin (MIT) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) OOPLSA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Paley Li (Czech Technical University in Prague) * Konrad Siek (Czech Technical University in Prague) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox) * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Juliana Franco (Imperial College London) * Petr Maj (ReactorLabs) Publications Chair: * Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) * Fabio Niephaus (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Celeste Hollenbeck (Northeastern University) Housing Chair: * Ben Greenman (Northeastern University) Diversity Chair: * Etiene Dalcol (Red Badger) Accessibility Chair: * Justin Slepak (Northeastern University) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Tocker Taft (AdaCore) * Heather Miller (Northeastern University) Video Co-Chairs: * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University) * Leif Andersen (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs: * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University) * Filip Krikava (Czech Technical University) From einarj at ifi.uio.no Tue Jan 30 10:45:02 2018 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:45:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: SEFM 2018 Message-ID: <20180130154502.C6A6A22698C@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 ************************ NEWS ************************ SEFM 2018 will feature two exciting keynotes: *** Mark Harman (Facebook / University College London) *** We Need a Formal Semantics for Testability Transformation; SEFM community to the rescue? *** Andrzej Wasowski (IT University of Copenhagen) *** Hunting Resource Manipulation Bugs in Linux Kernel Code ************************ 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=sefm18 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 martin.avanzini at uibk.ac.at Tue Jan 30 14:22:16 2018 From: martin.avanzini at uibk.ac.at (Martin Avanzini) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:22:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DICE 18: Final Call -- Extended Deadline Message-ID: <62e07733-8887-0252-bb7e-6e0162d8213f@uibk.ac.at> -------------- next part -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, in particular, resource analysis. With the aim to more closely bring together researches from these fields, this year contributions related to program's resource analysis are strongly encouraged. 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. INVITED TALKS Jan Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University) Anupam Das (University of Copenhagen) SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 5 pages by 7 February, 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: 7 February, 2018 (extended) 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 anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 31 10:38:03 2018 From: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk (Anuj Dawar) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:38:03 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?_G=C3=B6del_Prize_2018_-_Call_for_Nomi?= =?utf-8?q?nations?= Message-ID: The G?del Prize 2018 - Call for Nominations Deadline: February 15, 2018 The G?del Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science is sponsored jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT). The award is presented annually, with the presentation taking place alternately at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) and the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC). The 26th G?del Prize will be awarded at the 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming to be held during July 9-13, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic The Prize is named in honor of Kurt G?del in recognition of his major contributions to mathematical logic and of his interest, discovered in a letter he wrote to John von Neumann shortly before von Neumann?s death, in what has become the famous ?P versus NP? question. The Prize includes an award of USD 5,000. Award Committee: The 2018 Award Committee consists of Moses Charikar (Stanford University), Anuj Dawar (Cambridge University), Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University), Orna Kupferman (Chair, Hebrew University), Giuseppe Persiano (Universit? di Salerno), and Omer Reingold (Stanford University). Eligibility: The 2018 Prize rules are given below and they supersede any different interpretation of the generic rule to be found on websites of both SIGACT and EATCS. Any research paper or series of papers by a single author or by a team of authors is deemed eligible if: - The main results were not published (in either preliminary or final form) in a journal or conference proceedings before January 1st, 2005. - The paper was published in a recognized refereed journal no later than December 31, 2017. The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of theoretical computer science. Nominations are encouraged from the broadest spectrum of the theoretical computer science community so as to ensure that potential award winning papers are not overlooked. The Award Committee shall have the ultimate authority to decide whether a particular paper is eligible for the Prize. Nominations: Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to the Award Committee Chair: orna at cs.huji.ac.il. Please make sure that the Subject line of all nominations and related messages begin with ?Goedel Prize 2018.? To be considered, nominations for the 2018 Prize must be received by February 15, 2018. A nomination package should include: 1. A printable copy (or copies) of the journal paper(s) being nominated, together with a complete citation (or citations) thereof. 2. A statement of the date(s) and venue(s) of the first conference or workshop publication(s) of the nominated work(s) or a statement that no such publication has occurred. 3. A brief summary of the technical content of the paper(s) and a brief explanation of its significance. 4. A support letter or letters signed by at least two members of the scientific community. Additional support letters may also be received and are generally useful. The nominated paper(s) may be in any language. However, if a nominated publication is not in English, the nomination package must include an extended summary written in English. Those intending to submit a nomination should contact the Award Committee Chair by email well in advance. The Chair will answer questions about eligibility, encourage coordination among different nominators for the same paper(s), and also accept informal proposals of potential nominees or tentative offers to prepare formal nominations. The committee maintains a database of past nominations for eligible papers, but fresh nominations for the same papers (especially if they highlight new evidence of impact) are always welcome. Selection Process: The Award Committee is free to use any other sources of information in addition to the ones mentioned above. It may split the award among multiple papers, or declare no winner at all. All matters relating to the selection process left unspecified in this document are left to the discretion of the Award Committee. Recent Winners (all winners since 1993 are listed at http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/ and http://eatcs.org/index.php/goedel-prize): 2017: Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim and Adam Smith, Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2016 (preliminary version in Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2006). 2016: Stephen Brookes, A Semantics for Concurrent Separation Logic. Theoretical Computer Science 375(1-3): 227-270 (2007). Peter W. O?Hearn, Resources, Concurrency, and Local Reasoning. Theoretical Computer Science 375(1-3): 271-307 (2007). 2015: Dan Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng, Nearly-linear time algorithms for graph partitioning, graph sparsification, and solving linear systems, Proc. 36th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pp. 81-90, 2004; Spectral sparsification of graphs, SIAM J. Computing 40:981-1025, 2011; A local clustering algorithm for massive graphs and its application to nearly linear time graph partitioning, SIAM J. Computing 42:1-26, 2013; Nearly linear time algorithms for preconditioning and solving symmetric, diagonally dominant linear systems, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 35:835-885, 2014. 2014: Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, and Moni Naor, Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware, Journal of Computer and System Sciences 66(4): 614?656, 2003. 2013: Antoine Joux, A one round protocol for tripartite Diffie-Hellman, J. Cryptology 17(4): 263-276, 2004. Dan Boneh and Matthew K. Franklin, Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil pairing, SIAM J. Comput. 32(3): 586-615, 2003. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Successful applicants will work on interdisciplinary research topics covering (i) computational logic, (ii) databases and artificial intelligence, (iii) computer-aided verification, and (iv) emerging application domains, such as cyber-physical systems, distributed systems, and security & privacy. FACULTY MEMBERS Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer science community. Students are supervised by leading researchers in their fields: M. Baaz E. Bartocci A. Biere R. Bloem A. Ciabattoni G. Gottlob T. Eiter C. Fermueller R. Grosu L. Kovacs M. Maffei M. Ortiz R. Pichler U. Schmid M. Seidl S. Szeider G. Weissenbacher S. Woltran Details are provided on http://logic-cs.at/faculty/ POSITIONS AND FUNDING We are looking for 16 doctoral students, where 30% of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female candidates. The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 4 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (details: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/). Additional positions will be available through other funding. HOW TO APPLY Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS web-page http://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Candidates with comparable achievements (e.g., bachelor of honors) may be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. The positions will be filled on continuous basis till October 2018. The evaluation of applications will start on 1st of March, 2018. STUDYING AND LIVING IN AUSTRIA Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer science community. Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps, are surrounded by beautiful nature. Vienna is constantly ranked the city with the highest quality of life in the world. Austria has an exciting cultural scene, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, varied cuisine, and famous coffee houses. For further information please contact: info at logic-cs.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.bliudze at inria.fr Thu Feb 1 13:30:42 2018 From: simon.bliudze at inria.fr (Simon Bliudze) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 19:30:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS Test of Time Award 2018: Call for nominations Message-ID: <5f760857-279a-106d-6208-55a8692a190a@inria.fr> ETAPS Test of Time Award The ETAPS Test of Time Award recognizes outstanding papers published more than 10 years in the past in one of the constituent conferences of ETAPS. The Award recognises the impact of excellent research results that have been published at ETAPS. See http://www.etaps.org/index.php/about/etaps-test-of-time-award Nominations 2018 Nominations for the 2018 ETAPS Test of Time Award are solicited from the ETAPS community. A nomination should include the title and publication details of the nominated paper, explain the influence it has had since publication, and why it merits the award. It should be phrased in terms that are understandable by the members of the award committee and suitable for use in the award citation, and should be endorsed by at least 2 people other than the person submitting the nomination. Self-nominations are not allowed. Nominations should be sent by ???? Monday 19 February to the chair of the award committee, Don Sannella . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From selinger at mathstat.dal.ca Sat Feb 3 09:02:20 2018 From: selinger at mathstat.dal.ca (Peter Selinger) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 10:02:20 -0400 (AST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: QPL 2018 Message-ID: <20180203140220.BBB811405E3@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2018) June 3-7, 2018 Halifax, Canada https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/qpl2018/ * * * The 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2018) will take place at Dalhousie University June 3-7, 2018. 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. QPL 2018 will be co-located with the 34th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2018), which takes place from June 6?9. IMPORTANT DATES April 1: abstract submission April 6: paper submission May 11: notification of authors May 25: final papers ready June 3?7: conference INVITED SPEAKERS Debbie Leung (Waterloo) Additional invited speakers to be confirmed. INVITED TUTORIALS Teiko Heinosaari (Turku) Ciaran Lee (University College London) SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit one (or more) of the following: - Original contributions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract that 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. - 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. The conference proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. Only "original contributions" are eligible to be published in the proceedings. 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=qpl2018 There will be an award for the best student paper at the discretion of the programme committee. Papers eligible for the award are those where all the authors are students at the time of submission. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giulio Chiribella (co-chair) Peter Selinger (co-chair) Samson Abramsky Richard Blute Anne Broadbent Dan Browne Bob Coecke Ross Duncan Teiko Heinosaari Chris Heunen Matthew Hoban Dominic Horsman Bart Jacobs Kohei Kishida Aleks Kissinger Joachim Kock Ciaran Lee Matt Leifer Martha Lewis Paul-Andr? Melli?s Michael Moortgat Mio Murao Daniel Oi Ognyan Oreshkov Prakash Panangaden Anna Pappa Dusko Pavlovic Simon Perdrix Paolo Perinotti Neil J. Ross Ana Bel?n Sainz Pawel Sobocinski Robert Spekkens Isar Stubbe Beno?t Valiron Jamie Vicary Mingsheng Ying Margherita Zorzi STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke Prakash Panangaden Peter Selinger LOCAL ORGANIZERS Neil J. Ross Peter Selinger * For further information, please contact qpl2018 at easychair.org. From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sat Feb 3 09:43:18 2018 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:43:18 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?25th_WoLLIC_2018_=28Bogot=C3=A1=2C_Col?= =?utf-8?q?ombia=29_-_2nd_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/i nstructions.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 Xavier Caicedo (Univ de Los Andes, Colombia) Jos? Meseguer (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Renata Wassermann (Univ de S?o Paulo, Brazil) (more to be confirmed) 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... 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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. As part of CONFESTA ( http://confesta2018.csp.escience.cn/ ), SETTA 2018 will be co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS and QUEST. *TOPICS* 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 multicore programming - Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Mixed-critical applications and systems - Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing - Safety, 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 *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. 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. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page < https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2018 >. All submissions must be in the PDF format. Papers should be written in English. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract deadline: March 23, 2018 - Submission deadline: March 30, 2018 - Author notification: May 18, 2018 - Camera-ready version: June 8, 2018 - Symposium: September 4-6, 2018 *Invited Speakers* - Moshe Vardi (joint keynote speaker for CONFESTA 2018), Rice University - Tao Xie, UIUC - Hongseok Yang, KAIST *ORGANIZERS* General Chair: - Chaochen Zhou (Inst. of Software, CAS, China) Program Co-chairs: - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Markus M?ller-Olm (University of M?nster, Germany) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) Program Committee: - Farhad Arbib (CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Sanjay Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Lei Bu (Nanjing University, China) - Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) - Yan Cai (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Taolue Chen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Yuan Feng (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Dan Hao (Peking University, China) - Maritta Heisel (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Raymond Hu (Imperial College London, UK) - He Jiang (Dalian Univerisyt of Technology, China) - Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University, China) - Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Guoqiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) - Ting Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Tongping Liu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) - Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HongKong) - Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy and LORIA, France) - Markus M?ller-Olm (University of M?nster, Germany) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Fu Song (ShanghaiTech University, China) - Zhendong Su (University of California, Davis, USA) - Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) - Walid Mohamed Taha (Halmstad University, Sweden) - Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) - Cong Tian (Xidian Univeristy, China) - Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Chao Wang (University of Southern California, USA) - Ji Wang (NUDT, China) - Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Xin Xia (Monash University, Australia) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) - Shin Yoo (KAIST, Korea) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Mon Feb 5 02:33:52 2018 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 23:33:52 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 Message-ID: <5a7808e036c01_2e33fe5a9c53be461476@landin.local.mail> PACMPL Volume 2, 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](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) 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: open access on payment of a fee (**recommended**, and SIGPLAN can cover the cost as described next); copyright transfer to ACM; or retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights. Further information about ACM author rights is available from . * PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal. It will be archived in ACM?s Digital Library, but no membership or fee is required for access. Gold Open Access has been made possible by generous funding through ACM SIGPLAN, which will cover all open access costs in the event authors cannot. Authors who can cover the costs may do so by paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). PACMPL, SIGPLAN, and ACM Headquarters are committed to exploring routes to making Gold Open Access publication both affordable and sustainable. * ACM offers authors a range of copyright options, one of which is Creative Commons CC-BY publication; this is the option recommended by the PACMPL editorial board. A reasoned argument in favour of this option can be found in the article [Why CC-BY?](https://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/) published by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. * We intend that the papers 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. * 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. * The official publication date is the date the papers 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 an Artifact Evaluation Committee, separate from the paper Review 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 papers, 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 papers 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 review 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 Volume 2, 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 matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Mon Feb 5 05:34:39 2018 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei, Matteo) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:34:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Multiple PhD and Postdoc positions, Security and Privacy Group, TU Wien, Austria (ERC, FWF, FFG grants) Message-ID: <8A0B8266-1CE8-49F8-84E0-C738B8E13FCF@tuwien.ac.at> The Security & Privacy group at TU Wien is currently looking for outstanding Ph.D. and postdoc applicants, with a particular focus on - web security - formal methods for security and privacy - cryptocurrencies - applied cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies Outstanding candidates in other disciplines are also encouraged to apply. These positions are supported by - the ERC Consolidator Grant "BROWSEC: Foundations and Tools for Client-Side Web Security"; - the FWF Doctoral Program "LogiCS: Logical Methods in Computer Science"; - the FFG Project "pDLART: Privacy-respecting Distributed Ledger and Regulatory Technologies"; - and internal TU Wien funding. The employment is full-time (40 hrs/week) and the salary is internationally competitive (the entry-level gross salary per year is approx. 39K for PhD students and 52K per postdoc). Interested candidates should send - a motivation letter - transcript of records (for Ph.D. applicants) - a research statement (for postdoc applicants) - a publication list - a curriculum vitae - contact information for two referees to matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at. For more information on the positions, please visit https://secpriv.tuwien.ac.at (thesis and job opportunities). The first application deadline is March 1, 2018: applications received by then will receive full consideration but positions will be filled continuously also later on. Postdoc applicants are expected to have an outstanding publication record, while Ph.D. applicants should have an excellent transcript of records. The working language in the group is English, knowledge of German is not required. TU Wien offers an outstanding research environment and numerous professional development opportunities. The Faculty of Informatics is the largest one in Austria and is consistently ranked among the best in Europe. Ph.D. students have the possibility to join the LogiCS doctoral school. Vienna features a vibrant and excellence-driven research landscape, with several leading research institutes (e.g., IST, AIT, SBA, RIAT) and universities continuously establishing collaborations in various fields, including cybersecurity. Finally, Vienna has been consistently ranked by Mercer over the last years the best city for quality of life worldwide. --- Univ. Prof. Matteo Maffei Security and Privacy Group TU Wien Favoritenstrasse 9-11, Stiege 2, 1. Stock Wien, A-1040 Website: secpriv.tuwien.ac.at Phone: +43(1)58801184860 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gc at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr Mon Feb 5 10:58:02 2018 From: gc at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr (Giuseppe Castagna) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:58:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3 Assoc Profs/Profs positions at University Paris 7 / Paris Diderot Message-ID: <3df3258e-7d08-9a63-6ed9-281961dfd03e@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 has opened three faculty positions: * 1 professor. Priority: Graphs and applications * 1 assistant professor. Priority: software science * 1 assistant professor. Priority: data science the persons recruited will join the Research Institute on the Foundations of Computer Science https://www.irif.fr/ (merger of former LIAFA and PPS laboratories) Knowledge of French is mandatory for these positions. More information: https://www.irif.fr/positions/index Giuseppe Castagna Deputy Director IRIF Research Institute on the Foundations of Computer Science CNRS and Universit? Paris Diderot -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Individual positions are available on foundations, quantification, and assurance aspects for DACs: Foundations: http://www.sgt-inc.com/careers/career-opportunities/? p=job/o8YL6fwH&nl=1 Quantification: http://www.sgt-inc.com/careers/career-opportunities/? p=job/o6RM6fwz&nl=1 Assurance: http://www.sgt-inc.com/careers/career-opportunities/? p=job/oWRM6fwp&nl=1 The foundations postdoc, in particular, is relevant to TYPES as the research focuses on a mathematical characterization of DACs and formal verification of their operational semantics. In addition, developer positions are available for qualified software engineers: http://www.sgt-inc.com/careers/career-opportunities/?p=job%2FoSYL6fwr Please contact me directly if you have any questions, Ewen Denney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chong at seas.harvard.edu Wed Feb 7 10:59:27 2018 From: chong at seas.harvard.edu (Stephen Chong) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 10:59:27 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP SecDev 2018 Message-ID: Hi all, ?IEEE Secure Development (SecDev) is a conference focused on how to "build security in" to computer systems. It may be of interest to those on this list engaged in language-based security and formal methods for security. ?The CFP is available at https://secdev.ieee.org/2018/papers/, with deadline March 5. The conference is Sept 30-Oct 2 in Cambridge, MA. Cheers, Steve. -- We are pleased to announce a call for papers and tutorials for the third IEEE Secure Development Conference (IEEE SecDev) conference on 30 September - 2 October, 2018?in Cambridge, MA, USA. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy , the conference will once again bring together academia, government, and industry to encourage and disseminate ideas for secure system development. IEEE hosted more than 160 participants at each of the first two SecDev conferences to focus on how developers can ?build security in? from the start ? and not simply discover the absence of security later. Expanding on that theme, we invite submissions of papers and tutorials on secure system development and design principles. Developers have valuable experiences and ideas that can inform academic research, and researchers have concepts, studies, and even code and tools that could benefit developers. We appreciate your submissions and sharing with colleagues who might be interested in presenting their ideas, research, and experiences. Authors should submit papers and tutorials by March?5th, 2018 that present a new direction or future vision of how to build security in for new and existing systems. Suggested topics include: * Security engineering processes, from requirements to maintenance * Security-focused system designs (HW/SW/architecture) * Distributed systems design and implementation for security * Human-centered design for systems security * Tools and methodology for secure code development * Programming languages, development tools, and ecosystems supporting security * Risk management and testing strategies to improve security * Static program analysis for software security * Dynamic analysis and runtime approaches for software security * Explorations of formal verification and other high-assurance methods for security * Automation of programming, deployment, and maintenance tasks for security * Code reviews, red teams, and other human-centered assurance * Security assistance for software developers and security analysts *NEW this year*?- Practitioners session abstracts. SecDev provides an integrated forum for researchers and practitioners to share their experiences. We strongly encourage practitioners from the industry and government to submit, to share their security experiences and insights, challenges and obstacles encountered. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a short talk during the practitioners sessions at the conference. The abstracts will be included in the conference?s IEEE proceedings. SecDev Flyer 2018 Call for Papers Download ?More conference details are available at https://secdev.ieee.org , with a registration link coming soon. Opportunities to provide support as an IEEE SecDev 2018 donor also are available. For updates, follow the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative on Twitter at @IEEECybSI ?(follow the hashtag #IEEESecDev), like us on Facebook, and visit cybersecurity.ieee.org . *Research Program Committee* Daphne Yao, Virginia Tech (Co-chair) Stephen Chong, Harvard University (Co-chair) Yasemin Acar, Leibniz University Hannover George Baah, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Nataliia Bielova, INRIA Haipeng Cai, Washington State University Ran Canetti, Boston University and Tel Aviv University Sarah Chmielewski, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University Michael Emmi, SRI International Lori Flynn, Carnegie Mellon University Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel Ronghui Gu, Columbia University Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Bill Harris, Georgia Tech Michael Hicks, University of Maryland Trent Jaeger, Penn State University Christoph Kern, Google Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University Morley Mao, University of Michigan Na Meng, Virginia Tech Toby Murray, University of Melbourne Divya Muthukumaran, Imperial College, London Hamed Okhravi, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Xinming Ou, University of South Florida Frank Piessens, KU Leuven, Belgium Raymond Richards, DARPA Patrick Schaumont, Virginia Tech Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University Kostya Serebryany, Google Sean Smith, Dartmouth College Deian Stefan, University of California, San Diego Sal Stolfo, Columbia University Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Gang Tan, Penn State University Tao Wei, Baidu X-Lab Heng Yin, UC Riverside Danfeng Zhang, Penn State University Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University *Practitioners Session Program Committee* Richard Chow, Intel Labs (Co-chair) Andy Chou, ex-Coverity (Co-chair) Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich Jin-Hee Cho, Army Research Laboratory John Criswell, University of Rochester Bill Horne, Intertrust Technologies James Imanian, PricewaterhouseCoopers Jason Li, Intelligent Automation Zhou Li, RSA Laboratories Francesco Logozzo, Facebook Leigh Metcalf, Carnegie Mellon University Thomas Moyer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nick Multari, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Raj Rajagopalan, Honeywell Kevin Roundy,? 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URL: From bob.atkey at gmail.com Thu Feb 8 05:48:55 2018 From: bob.atkey at gmail.com (Robert Atkey) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:48:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Mathematically Structured Programming 2018 Message-ID: Seventh Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/ ** New this time: additional short paper category ** ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) ** The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming without temporal logic? Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006, affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS 2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016. Important Dates: ================ Abstract deadline: 5th April (Thursday) Paper deadline: 12th April (Thursday) Notification: 17th May (Thursday) Final version: 14th June (Thursday) Workshop: 8th July (Sunday) Invited Speakers: ================= - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK - Second speaker to be confirmed Program Committee: ================== Andreas Abel - Chalmers, Sweden Danel Ahman - INRIA Paris, France Robert Atkey - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair) Jeremy Gibbons - University of Oxford, UK Jennifer Hackett - University of Nottingham, UK Mauro Jaskelioff - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) Clare Martin - Oxford Brookes University, UK Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan Valeria de Paiva - Nuance Communications, US Alexandra Silva - University College London, UK Submission: =========== Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics such as: structured effectful computation structured recursion structured corecursion structured tree and graph operations structured syntax with variable binding structured datatype-genericity structured search structured representations of functions structured quantum computation structure directed optimizations structured types structure derived from programs and data Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if you have any questions about the scope of the workshop. New this time We accept two categories of submission: full papers of no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers. Papers must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. The proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a Creative Commons license. We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018. From thorsten.berger at chalmers.se Thu Feb 8 06:03:37 2018 From: thorsten.berger at chalmers.se (Thorsten Berger) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 12:03:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position at Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden Message-ID: PhD position: Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Highly Configurable Systems (Gothenburg, Sweden) https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=1927 We invite applications for a PhD researcher position (start as soon as possible, apply by *2018-02-15*) in the area of software-engineering of highly configurable software systems supported by formal methods. 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. 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. Applicants should have a Degree of Master (60 credits), or be on their way of obtaining a Degree of Master (120 credits), in computer science, software engineering or a closely related field. Preference will be given to applicants with experiences in the following fields: * Functional Programming * Formal Methods * Software Product Line Engineering * Model-Driven Engineering or Compiler development Excellent references, fluency in English as well as good communication, collaboration, self-organization, and programming skills are also required. Applications are to be written in English and need to contain: * Cover letter expressing the applicant?s motivation, experiences, and relevant qualifications in relation to the announced position * Detailed curriculum vitae including publications (if any) and 2-3 references with their contact details * Copies of postgraduate and undergraduate transcripts * Evidence of English proficiency for non-native English speakers The selection process takes place in competition. We usually get a large number of applications. Therefore, the applicant is recommended to enclose additional information in the application, such as papers or reports authored. Employment: Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, HF 5 kap 7 ? 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 Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. It is a strongly international department with approximately 80 faculty among a total of 260 employees originating from 30 countries. Located in Gothenburg ? Sweden?s second-largest city ? the department is surrounded by a vibrant ecosystem of software-intensive companies, such as Volvo Cars and Volvo AB, Ericsson, ABB, Boeing, and SAAB Aeronautics. The department is connected to three science parks in Gothenburg for industrial collaborations in fields including intelligent vehicles and transport systems, mobile internet, energy, nanotechnology, and life sciences. Alumni and members of the department have also created many startups, including revolutionary ones such as Spotify. The announced PhD position is located at the division of Software Engineering (SE). With 21 faculty members, it is arguably one of the largest software-engineering institutes world-wide, conducting research at the highest international level in topics such as model-driven engineering, testing, software product lines, empirical software engineering, requirements engineering, autonomic computing, and cloud computing. This year, the division organizes two of the most influential software-engineering conferences, ICSE?18 and SPLC?18. For industrial research, the division hosts the Software Center, an associated institute with a network of five universities and ten global companies including Siemens, Axis, and Jeppesen. Please apply online: https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=1927 Closing date: *2018-02-15* (23:59 CET) Contact: Supervisor: Thorsten Berger, Associate Professor, Head of Division: Miroslaw Staron, Professor HR-specialist: Anna Skanse Br?se, -- Thorsten Berger Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bergert Tel.: +46 (0) 31 772 6075 Mob.: +46 (0) 729 746 246 Skype: tberger.work -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 proceeding, 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 Stra?burger (Inria Saclay) From valeria.depaiva at gmail.com Thu Feb 8 16:21:23 2018 From: valeria.depaiva at gmail.com (Valeria de Paiva) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 13:21:23 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 5th Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science NLCS '18 July 7-8, 2018 Message-ID: Fifth Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science NLCS '18 July 7-8, 2018 Oxford, UK http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html A workshop affiliated with Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018 Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics. We are grateful to Jesus College, Oxford, for their support of our workshop. AIMS AND SCOPE Formal tools coming from logic and category theory are important in both natural language semantics and in computational semantics. Moreover, work on these tools borrows heavily from all areas of theoretical computer science. In the other direction, applications having to do with natural language has inspired developments on the formal side. The workshop invites papers on both topics. Specific topics includes, but are not limited to: * logic for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and dialog * continuations in natural language semantics * formal tools in textual inference, such as logics for natural language inference * applications of category theory in semantics * linear logic in semantics * formal approaches to unifying data-driven and declarative approaches to semantics INVITED SPEAKERS Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge Aurelie Herbelot, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ash Asudeh, University of Oxford/Carleton University Simon Charlow, Rutgers University Valeria de Paiva, Nuance.com Thomas Graf, State University of New York, Stony Brook Martha Lewis, University of Oxford Larry Moss, Indiana University, Bloomington Christian Retor?, Universit? de Montpellier Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London Annie Zaenen, Stanford University PAPER SUBMISSIONS Extended abstracts of up to 10 pages may be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlcs18 ORGANIZERS Ash Asdeh University of Oxford/Carleton University Email: ash.asudeh at ling-phil. ox. ac.uk Valeria de Paiva Nuance.com Email: Valeria.dePaiva at nuance .com Larry Moss Indiana University Email: lsm at cs.indiana . edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: May 1, 2018 Notification: May 15, 2018 Electronic versions due: May 31, 2018 -- Valeria de Paiva http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ http://research.nuance.com/author/valeria-de-paiva/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Work on formal techniques and tools and on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. FTfJP is an established workshop which has run annually since 1999 alongside ECOOP, with the goal of bringing together people working in both fields. The workshop has a broad PL theme; the most important criterion is that submissions will generate interesting discussions within this community. Example topics of interest include: * Language design and semantics * Type systems * Concurrency and new application domains * Specification and verification of program properties * Program analysis (static or dynamic) * Security * Pearls (programs or proofs) FTfJP welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers. Just as the number and the feature set of Java-like languages is expanding, the term "Java-like" should be interpreted broadly. Submissions Contributions related to formal techniques for Java-like programs are sought in two categories: Full Papers. In 6 two-column pages, the paper should present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. We welcome both complete and incomplete technical results; ongoing work is particularly welcome, provided it is substantial enough to stimulate interesting discussions. Short Papers. In 2 two-column pages, the paper should advocate a promising research direction, or otherwise present a position likely to stimulate discussion at the workshop. We encourage e.g. established researchers to set out a personal vision, and beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. 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. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library by default, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. The use of ACM's template for the SIGPLAN format is required. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work and participate in the discussions. Important Dates: * Wed 9th May AOE: submission deadline * Thu 14th Jun: acceptance notifications * Sun 17th Jun: early registration deadline (for both main conferences and workshops) Paper submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2018 Program Committee William J. 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As in prior years, papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM Press. >>> Scope, Goals, and Vision <<< HoTSoS draws together researchers, practitioners, and thought leaders from government, industry, and academia. The conference provides a forum for dialogue centered upon the development and advancement of scientific foundations in cybersecurity. The technical emphasis of HoTSoS is on scientific methods, data gathering and analysis, experimental approaches, mathematical models, and the interactions among those approaches to build a foundational science of security. The HoTSoS vision is one of engaging and growing a community?including researchers and skilled practitioners from diverse disciplines?that is focused around the advancement of scientific methods. >>> Topics of Interest <<< We invite submissions on any topic related to science of security that aligns with the conference scope and goals listed above. The 2018 HoTSoS will highlight the following themes: *. Scalability and composability in the construction of secure systems, *. Policy-governed collaboration for handling data across different domains of authority while ensuring security and privacy, *. Security metrics to guide choice-making in security engineering and response, *. Resilient architectures that can deliver service despite compromised components, *. Analysis of human behavior, including modeling users, operators, and adversaries, to support improved design and analysis, *. Foundational research related to privacy that allows for the ability to use (i.e., collect, store, and share) data in accordance with requirements, and *. Foundations for the security of cyber-physical systems, including applications to the Internet of Things. >>> Important Dates <<< Poster Submissions: February 23, 2018 Conference: April 10-11, 2018 >>> Submission Requirements <<< ~~~~~~ Poster submission deadline. Submissions of posters must be made by the deadline of Friday February 23, 2018 (anywhere on Earth) through https://cps-vo.org/hotsos18/poster-cfp. *** Posters. If you are interested in participating in the poster session, please upload a submission of your poster abstract to. Each abstract submission should be at most 1 page following the double-column ACM format ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) including the bibliography. ~~~~~~ Simultaneity. Submissions must not have been published previously, and may not be submitted in parallel to any other journal or conference/workshop with published proceedings. The program chairs reserve the right to consult confidentially with other chairs and responsible parties if a double submission is suspected. HotSoS 2018 General Co-Chairs: Munindar Singh (NCSU), Laurie Williams (NCSU) Program Co-Chairs: Rick Khun (NIST), Tao XIe (UIUC) Organization Committee: https://cps-vo.org/group/hotsos/organization Program Committee: https://cps-vo.org/group/hotsos/program-committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.cheney at gmail.com Fri Feb 9 08:28:08 2018 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:28:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ProvenanceWeek 2018 call for papers Message-ID: Call for Papers, Posters, Demos, and Workshops 3rd ProvenanceWeek 7th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW '18) 10th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '18) July 9-13, 2018, London, UK http://provenanceweek2018.org/ Overview The 3rd ProvenanceWeek will take place in London, UK, during the week of July 9-13, 2018. Following successful ProvenanceWeek events in 2014 and 2016, this year's installment will again co-locate the IPAW and TaPP workshops as well as several satellite events that focus on novel directions for provenance. IPAW and TaPP build on a successful history of provenance workshops that bring together researchers from a wide range of computer science fields including workflows, semantic web, databases, high performance computing, distributed systems, operating systems, programming languages, and software engineering, as well as researchers from other fields, such as biology and physics that have urgent provenance needs. Provenance is increasingly important in data science, cloud computing, workflow systems, and many other areas. By providing a record of the data creation process and of dependencies between data, provenance information is essential for tracing errors in transformed data back to erroneous inputs, access control, auditing, repeatability and reproducibility, evaluating data quality, and establishing ownership of data. Topics The goal of ProvenanceWeek is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are studying, applying, and advancing provenance in scientific and scholarly uses. 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 - Co-located event proposal deadline: February 12, 2018 - Co-located event acceptance notification: March 5, 2018 - Abstract deadline: March 12, 2018 - Paper deadline: March 19, 2018 - Demo / Poster deadline: April 9, 2018 - Author notification: May 14, 2018 - Camera ready due: June 4, 2018 Conference Organizers - Ashish Gehani (SRI, USA) - ProvenanceWeek PC Chair - Khalid Belhajjame (University Paris-Dauphine, France) - IPAW PC Chair - Melanie Herschel (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - TaPP PC Chair - Pinar Alper (University of Luxembourg) - Posters / Demos Chair - Vasa Curcin / Simon Miles (King?s College London, UK) - Local Chairs Submissions Authors can submit papers to either the IPAW or TaPP track of ProvenanceWeek. Submission of the same or closely related work to both tracks is expressly disallowed. ProvenanceWeek also accepts posters and demonstration proposals that will be included in the IPAW Springer proceedings. IPAW Track Research Papers Authors are invited to submit original research work. The IPAW track solicits full research papers (12 pages). The workshop has traditionally been organized around the presentation of selected, peer-reviewed high-quality papers, published by Springer. Papers must be: - not published or under review elsewhere - no longer than 12 pages, including references and appendices - formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ) - submitted as PDF files to the IPAW track at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provenanceweek2018 A proceedings volume will be published after the event in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Springer offers ?Open choice? for authors who wish to provide open access to their papers. IPAW Program Committee Pinar Alper, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center David Archer, Galois Khalid Belhajjame, Universite Paris-Dauphine Vanessa Braganholo, Universidade Federal Fluminense Kevin Butler, University of Florida Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Universit? Paris-Sud Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Vasa Curcin, King?s College London Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Saumen Dey, University of California, Davis Alban Gaignard, CNRS, Nantes Academic Hospital Daniel Garijo, Information Sciences Institute Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs Trung Dong Huynh, University of Southampton Grigoris Karvounarakis, LogicBlox David Koop, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Bertram Lud?scher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tanu Malik, University of Chicago Marta Mattoso, Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Simon Miles, King's College London Paolo Missier, Newcastle University Luc Moreau, King's College London Beth Plale, Indiana University Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University Satya Sahoo, Case Western Reserve University Stian Soiland-Reyes, University of Manchester Jun Zhao, Oxford e-Research Centre TaPP Track Research Papers TaPP 2018 continues the tradition of providing a genuine workshop environment for discussing and developing new ideas and exploring connections between disciplines and between academic research on provenance and practical applications. We invite innovative and creative contributions, including papers outlining new challenges for provenance research, promising formal approaches to provenance, innovative use of provenance, experience-based insights, resourceful experiments, and visionary (and possibly risky) ideas. Proposals for tutorials, panel or group discussions, reports on early stage research, or any other activities that will create a successful workshop are encouraged. Papers must be: - not published or under review elsewhere - no longer than 4 pages; an extra 4 pages of supporting material may be submitted, but the reviewers will not be obliged to read them - formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN two-?column format ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) - submitted as PDF files to the TaPP track at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provenanceweek2018 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 subsequently. TaPP Program Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Pierre Bourhis, CNRS CRIStAL Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University Lucian Carata, University of Cambridge Adriane Chapman, University of Southampton Ang Chen, Rice University Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Universite Paris-Sud Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp Boris Glavic, Illinois Institute of Technology Torsten Grust, Universit?t T?bingen Matteo Interlandi, Microsoft Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin Yuval Moskovitch, Tel Aviv University Thomas Moyer, UNC Charlotte Yingbo Song, BAE Systems Posters ProvenanceWeek encourages the presentation of early work as posters. Proposals for posters should be limited to a 4 page description of the poster content, formatted using the LNCS guidelines. Accepted posters will be presented during a separate session at the workshop. Poster descriptions must be: - no longer than 4 pages - formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ) - submitted as PDF files to the Poster track at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provenanceweek2018 - accompanied by a preliminary version of the poster as a supplementary file Poster descriptions will be included in the Springer proceedings. Demonstrations Demonstration proposals should be no more 4 pages long, formatted using the Springer LNCS guidelines. The proposal must describe the demonstrated system, clearly indicate what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the research contribution, technologies, and/or applications. Demonstration proposals must be: - not published or under review elsewhere - no longer than 4 pages - formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines ) - submitted as PDF files to the Demonstration track at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=provenanceweek2018 Optionally, a video showcasing the demonstrated system may be uploaded. Demonstration descriptions will be included in the Springer proceedings. Co-located Events We are looking for a small number of original and high-quality events, which focus on novel and visionary directions for provenance. Such events should seek to welcome work in progress that is not prime for proper refereed publications. Events that help broaden the community and increase its impact are particularly welcome. Examples of co-located events include tutorials, challenges, and discussions on specific topics. 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URL: From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Fri Feb 9 08:57:59 2018 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:57:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc position in Programming Language Theory / Practice, Computing Science, University of Glasgow Message-ID: <7b2ac22b-de61-c6e0-6e0a-2810e56ec090@glasgow.ac.uk> University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering School of Computing Science Research Assistant / Associate Ref: 020019 Grade 6/7: ?28,098 - ?31,604 / ?34,520 - ?38,833 per annum We have a position for a research assistant / associate in the theory, design and implementation of programming languages. This position is associated with the project "From Data Types to Session Types: a Basis for Concurrency and Distribution", which is a Programme Grant funded by EPSRC for 6 years from 20th May 2013. The position is available for 1 year, from 1st May or a date to be agreed. *Project Description* Just as data types describe the structure of data, session types describe the structure of communication in concurrent and distributed systems. Our project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to realistic case studies. The project is joint between the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, and Imperial College London, and includes collaboration with Amazon, Cognizant, Red Hat, VMware and Estafet. *Principal Duties* The successful candidates will be responsible for conducting research on the theory of session types, for designing programming languages incorporating session types in order to support concurrent and distributed programming, and for evaluating programming language designs and implementations in relation to practical case studies provided by the industrial collaborators. You should have, or be close to completion of, a PhD in a relevant area, or have comparable experience; an awarded PhD or equivalent experience is necessary for appointment at Grade 7. You should have a track record of publication and communication of research results, a strong background in programming languages, including semantics, type systems and implementation, and strong programming and software engineering skills. It is desirable also to have one or more of the following: a combination of theoretical and practical skills; knowledge of the theory or practice of concurrent and distributed systems; knowledge of the theory of session types and linear logic. We seek applicants at an international level of excellence. The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow has an international research reputation, and Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, offers an outstanding range of cultural resources and a high quality of life. 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. For informal enquiries or further information about the project, please contact Professor Simon Gay . Online advert at jobs.ac.uk: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BHP104/research-assistant-associate/ Online application system: https://www22.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_glasgow01.asp?newms=jj&id=94334&aid=14231 Closing date: 12 March 2018 The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401. [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018] From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Fri Feb 9 09:00:01 2018 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 15:00:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2018 (AIRIM'18) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory 2018 (AIRIM'18) https://www.fedcsis.org/2018/airim Poznan, Poland, 9-12 September, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 DATES - Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST - Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 - Authors notification: June 24, 2018 - Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 - Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 PAPER SUBMISSION and PUBLICATIONS The publication rules, status, and the submission page for AIRIM'18 are the same as for AAIA'18 | FedCSIS: https://www.fedcsis.org/2018/airim https://www.fedcsis.org/2018/instructions - Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or 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: https://fedcsis.org/2018/for_authors - Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop - Preprints 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) - Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events Event Chairs - Grabowski, Adam, Institute of Informatics, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland - Ishihara, Hajime, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan - Loukanova, Roussanka, Stockholm University, Sweden - Schwarzweller, Christoph, Institute of Informatics, University of Gdansk, Poland - van den Herik, Jaap, Leiden University, The Netherlands CONTACT INFORMATION Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valeria.depaiva at gmail.com Fri Feb 9 12:31:12 2018 From: valeria.depaiva at gmail.com (Valeria de Paiva) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:31:12 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Joint Linearity & TLLA Workshop, Oxford, UK, 7-8 July 2018 Message-ID: =========================================================================== Call for Papers Joint Linearity & TLLA Workshop Fifth International Workshop on Linearity Second International Workshop on Trends in Linear Logic and Applications Oxford, UK, 7-8 July 2018 Affiliated with FSCD 2018 in FLOC http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLALinearity18/ ========================================================================== Linearity has been a key feature in several lines of research in both theoretical and practical approaches to computer science. On the theoretical side there is much work stemming from linear logic dealing with proof technology, complexity classes and more recently quantum computation. On the practical side there is work on program analysis, expressive operational semantics for programming languages, linear programming languages, program transformation, update analysis and efficient implementation techniques. Linear logic is not only a theoretical tool to analyse the use of resources 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 were originally developed for the study of linear logic's syntax and semantics and are nowadays applied in several other fields. The aim of this Joint Linearity and TLLA workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently working on linear logic and related fields, to foster their interaction and provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. The main goal is to present and discuss new trends in Linear Logic and its applications, by means of tutorials, invited talks, open discussions, and contributed talks. New results that make central use of linearity, ranging from foundational work to applications in any field, are welcome. Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices. Topics of interest include: - theory of programming languages - type systems - verification - models of computation - implicit computational complexity - parallelism and concurrency - games and languages - proof theory - philosophy - categories and algebra - connections with combinatorics - linguistics - functional analysis and operator algebras Important Dates Submission deadline: 1 May 2018 Notification to authors: 15 May 2018 Final versions due: 24 May 2018 Workshop date: 7-8 July 2018 Submission Authors are invited to submit: * an extended abstract (8 pages max) describing original ideas and results not published nor submitted elsewhere, * or a 5-page abstract presenting relevant work that has been or will be published elsewhere, * or a 2-page description of work in progress. Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. Papers should be written in English, and submitted in PDF format using the EPTCS style files. Submission is through the Easychair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linearitytlla2018 Publication After the workshop, authors of extended abstracts will be invited to submit a longer version of their work (typically a 15-pages paper) for publication in EPTCS (TBC). These submissions will undergo a second round of refereeing. Programme Committee Vito Michele Abrusci Thomas Ehrhard (co-chair) Maribel Fernandez (co-chair) Stefano Guerrini Masahito Hasegawa Olivier Laurent Paul-Andre Mellies Valeria de Paiva (co-chair) Elaine Pimentel Simona Ronchi della Rocca Christine Tasson Lorenzo Tortora de Falco (co-chair) Contact Thomas Ehrhard Thomas.Ehrhard at irif.fr Valeria de Paiva valeria.depaiva at gmail.com Maribel Fernandez Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Lorenzo Tortora de Falco tortora at uniroma3.it -- Valeria de Paiva http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ http://research.nuance.com/author/valeria-de-paiva/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pagani at irif.fr Sat Feb 10 06:53:28 2018 From: pagani at irif.fr (Michele Pagani) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:53:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITRS 2018 @ Oxford, UK, 8 July 2018 Message-ID: Call for Papers ITRS 2018 Ninth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems Oxford, UK, 8 July 2018 Affiliated with FSCD 2018 in FLOC https://www.irif.fr/~michele/itrs2018 ============================================ ITRS 2018 will be held on 8 July, 2018, in Oxford, in affiliation with FLOC 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org). ITRS 2018 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. Possible topics for submitted papers include, but are not limited to: - Formal properties of systems with intersection types. - Results for related systems, such as union types, refinement types, or singleton types. - Applications to lambda calculus, pi-calculus and similar systems. - Applications for programming languages, program analysis, and program verification. - Applications for other areas, such as database query languages and program extraction from proofs. - Related approaches using behavioural/intensional types and/or denotational semantics to characterize computational properties. - Quantitative refinements of intersection types. INVITED SPEAKER - Damiano Mazza (CNRS - Universit? Paris 13, France) - Pawel Parys (University of Warsaw, Poland) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 8 April, 2018 Paper submission: 15 April, 2018 Author notification: 15 May, 2018 Final version: 28 May, 2018 Workshop: 8 July, 2018 SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The submission is in two stages. (1) Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 10 pages) in PDF format through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itrs2018). Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in preliminary proceedings. (2) After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full versions, which will be refereed for inclusion in post-proceedings (which we plan to publish in EPTCS). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ugo de' Liguoro (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Boris Duedder (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Joshua Dunfield (Queen's University, Canada) Charles Grellois (Universit? Aix-Marseille, France) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Michele Pagani (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France), chair Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) INFORMATION For further information, please contact Michele Pagan Email: pagani AT irif DOT fr -- Michele Pagani Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7 -------------------------------------- -- Michele Pagani Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7 -------------------------------------- From beniamino.accattoli at inria.fr Sun Feb 11 07:19:17 2018 From: beniamino.accattoli at inria.fr (Beniamino Accattoli) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:19:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: LSFA 2018 Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS LSFA 2018 13th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 26-28 September 2018, Fortaleza, Brazil http://lia.ufc.br/~lsfa2018/ 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. Previous editions took place in Bras?lia (2017, collocated with Tableaux+FroCoS+ITP), Porto (2016), Natal (2015), Bras?lia (2014), S?o Paulo (2013), Rio de Janeiro (2012), Belo Horizonte (2011), Natal (2010), Bras?lia (2009), Salvador (2008), Ouro Preto (2007), and Natal (2006). See http://lsfa.cic.unb.br for more information. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest 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. Beyond full regular papers, we encourage submissions such as proof pearls, rough diamonds, original surveys, or overviews of research projects, where the focus is more on elegance and dissemination than on novelty. Papers belonging to this second category are expected to be short, that is, of a maximum of 6 pages including references, unless they also contain some novel results. For both paper categories, 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. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the generic ENTCS package (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=lsfa2018 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. For the reviewing process, the traditional system will be enriched with the possibility for the reviewers to interact with the authors via an anonymous forum associated to each paper. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission: June 10 * Notification: July 25 * Camera ready version: August 12 * LSFA 2018: September 26-28 After the publication of the ENTCS proceedings, the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised papers 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 * Yiannis Moschovakis, University of California, Los Angeles & University of Athens. * Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse. * Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft University of Technology. * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Beniamino Accattoli, Inria & Ecole Polytechnique, co-chair * Carlos Olarte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, co-chair * Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Mario Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais * Carlos Areces, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia * Eduardo Bonelli, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & Stevens Institute of Technology * Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University * Francicleber Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo * Renata Freitas, Universidade Federal Fluminense * Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY * Erich Gr?del, RWTH Aachen University * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Ugo Dal Lago, Inria & Bologna University * Sonia Marin, IT-University of Copenhagen * Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia * Revantha Ramanayake, Vienna University of Technology * Umberto Rivieccio, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte * Camilo Rueda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana * Matthieu Sozeau, Inria & Universit? Paris Diderot * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International * Alvaro Tasistro, Universidad ORT Uruguay * Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Francicleber Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Carlos Brito, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Paulo T. Guerra, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Viviane Menezes, Universidade Federal do Cear? CONTACT * lsfa2018 at easychair.org From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Mon Feb 12 10:12:42 2018 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:12:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First CFP 3rd International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2018) Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- SETS 2018 *********************************************************************** 3rd International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2018) June 5, 2018, Southampton, UK Affiliated to ABZ 2018 http://www.lirmm.fr/sets2018/ *********************************************************************** AIM Sets and constructs built upon them like relations, functions and sequences are the main modeling ingredients of formalisms such as VDM, Z, B, or Event-B. Sets also occur in the formalization of mathematics, as evidenced by the large library of the Mizar proof system, for example. In addition, still in the domain of verification, there is an increasing interest to automate set theory (which is known to be a difficult problem), with some concrete realizations, such as mp (the "main prover" of Atelier B) or Muscadet (an automated theorem prover for natural deduction, which gives some good performances in set theory). Sets are also the main features of some programming languages like the former SetL language or the more recent {log} language (pronounced as setlog). The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory, especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. We are interested in specialized tools for set theory as well as general-purpose tools where sets coexist with other theories. Contributions by theoreticians working on the mechanical processing of (fragment of) set theory, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are also interested in contributions providing some comparisons between set modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and its variants) for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect contributions in the framework of formal methods, but we are open to, for instance, contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory. TOPICS Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * Proof tools for sets * Constraint solvers for sets * Set-based programming languages * Automated verification in set theory * Encoding of sets in provers * Set theories for SMT solvers * Use of set-based tools in formal methods * Use of set-based tools in mathematics * Using any of the above tools to teach set theory * Comparison of set-based tools * Comparison between set and type theories * Experience reports CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages long, following the Springer LNCS format. These submissions may be: * Research papers providing new concepts and results * Position papers and research perspectives * Experience reports * Tool presentations Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be published as online proceedings in the CEUR workshop proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format using the SETS 2018 EasyChair web site at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2018 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 2, 2018 Submission deadline: April 9, 2018 Paper notification: May 9, 2018 Revised/final paper: May 16, 2018 Workshop: June 5, 2018 PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Maximiliano Cristia (UNR, Argentina) David Delahaye (Universit? de Montpellier, France) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maximiliano Cristia (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) David Deharbe (Clearsy, France) David Delahaye (Universit? de Montpellier, France) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, France) Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) Carmen Gervet (Universit? de Montpellier, France) Olivier Hermant (Mines ParisTech, France) Michael Leuschel (Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany) Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France) Eugenio Omodeo (Universit? degli Studi di Trieste, Italy) Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa, USA) Gianfranco Rossi (Universit? di Parma, Italy) Josef Urban (CIIRC, Czech Republic) Wolfgang Windsteiger (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) -- Catherine DUBOIS, professor ENSIIE, lab. 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Name: not available URL: From eskang at cmu.edu Tue Feb 13 00:27:59 2018 From: eskang at cmu.edu (Eunsuk Kang) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:27:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop on the Future of Alloy Message-ID: ----------------------- Call for Participation: Workshop on the Future of Alloy Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA Date & duration: April 30 & May 1, 2018 Registration & logistics: http://alloy.mit.edu/workshop ----------------------- The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of Alloy, share their perspectives, and formulate short/long-term agendas for improving the language & its tools. Participants from both industry and academia are welcome. We hope to encourage discussions on the following topics (and others, suggested by participants): - Extensions: What?s not so easy to express in Alloy, and what language extensions could we make? What are some alternative backends that we could explore (e.g., SMT)? - Benchmarks: How do we collect and share models built by users over the years? What kind of infrastructure do we need? - Usability: What are some obstacles preventing a wider adoption of Alloy? What usability improvements could we make? - Education: How do we teach Alloy to students and practitioners? What education materials could we develop and share among teachers? Call for presentations: The content of the workshop will be driven largely by participants? ideas about improving Alloy. To stimulate discussion, we are soliciting short 10~15 min talks from attendees. Topics for a talk may include (but not limited to): Your own positive/negative experiences with Alloy, ideas for improvement, a demo of your tool, or calls for community-wide effort. If you are interested in giving a talk, please fill out the relevant items in the registration form, linked from the workshop website: http://alloy.mit.edu/workshop Please share this announcement with other colleagues or students who may also be interested in attending the workshop. Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop! Eunsuk Kang, Sarfraz Khurshid, and Emina Torlak (Program co-chairs) Daniel Jackson (General chair)? From gdp at inf.ed.ac.uk Tue Feb 13 05:31:21 2018 From: gdp at inf.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Plotkin) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:31:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] University of Edinburgh Chancellor's Fellowships Message-ID: Dear All, The university is offering a variety of Chancellor's Fellowships. These are essentially lectureships with an initial fellowship period of five years, see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/human-resources/jobs/chancellors-fellowships Some fellowships may be in Programming Languages as part of the Digital Technologies area, and suitable candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. The deadline is March 12th, please see: https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/about/work-with-us/vacancie s/chancellor-fellowship-digital-technologies for further information. Gordon Plotkin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Important Dates: Submission deadline: 22 April 2018 Notification: 15 May 2018 PreProceedings version: 24 May 2018 Workshop: 7 July 2018 Submissions and Publication: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in pdf format (max. 8 pages in EPTCS style). This may include both original work and tutorials on any of the above mentioned topics; work in progress is also welcome. Submission is through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=termgraph2018 Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit a longer version of their work (typically a 15-pages paper) for publication in EPTCS. These submissions will undergo a second round of refereeing. Programme Committee: Zena Ariola Andrea Corradini Rachid Echahed Maribel Fernandez (co-chair) Reiko Heckel Ian Mackie (co-chair) Detlef Plump Femke van Raamsdonk Contact: Maribel Fernandez Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 13 08:24:42 2018 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:24:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Midlands Graduate School - registration now open! Message-ID: <5DFFC8B6-3E08-4EB0-BBAE-B8A0A5BB3627@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> Dear all, Midlands Graduate School (MGS) registration is now open! Eight courses on dependently typed programming, category theory, lambda calculus, denotational semantics, and more. 9-13 April 2018, Nottingham, UK. Spaces are limited, so early registration is recommended. Please share! http://tinyurl.com/MGS18NOTT Best wishes, Graham Hutton and Henrik Nilsson ========================================================== *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Midlands Graduate School 2018 9-13 April 2018, Nottingham, UK http://tinyurl.com/MGS18NOTT BACKGROUND: The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science provides an intensive course of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. The MGS has been running since 1999, and is aimed at PhD students in their first or second year of study, but the school is open to everyone, and has increasingly seen participation from industry. We welcome participants from all over the world! COURSES: Eight courses will be given. Participants usually take all the introductory courses and choose additional options from the advanced courses depending on their interests. Invited course - Type-Driven Development with Idris, Edwin Brady Introductory courses - Lambda Calculus, Venanzio Capretta - Category Theory, Roy Crole - Domain Theory and Denotational Semantics, Achim Jung Advanced courses - Univalent Foundations, Benedikt Ahrens - Coalgebra, Alexander Kurz - Separation Logic, Georg Struth - Machine Learning, Michel Valstar REGISTRATION: Registration is ?550 for student, academic and independent participants, and ?850 for industry participants. The fee includes 5 nights single en-suite accommodation (Sun-Thu), lunch and coffee breaks, and the conference dinner. The registration deadline is Friday 16th March. Spaces are limited, so please register early to secure your place. SPONSORSHIP: We offer a range of sponsorship opportunities for industry (bronze, silver and gold), each with specific benefits. Please see the website for further details. ========================================================== This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law. From ariola at cs.uoregon.edu Tue Feb 13 14:18:13 2018 From: ariola at cs.uoregon.edu (Zena Matilde Ariola) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:18:13 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OPLSS 2018 Message-ID: <3BC65A89-849A-4DD4-AA79-7EAB47360C7C@cs.uoregon.edu> We are pleased to announce the program for the 17th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held from July 3rd to July 21th, 2018 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The first week, from July 3rd to July 7th, will be an introductory session covering the foundations of programming languages (semantics, types, proof techniques, etc.). The introductory session will help attendees who have not taken a course on this material prepare for the rest of the school. Please contact the organizers if you have questions about whether the introduction session will be helpful given your background. The registration deadline is April 2st, 2018. Registration for the first week is optional. Full information on registration and scholarships can be found here: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool The program is as follows: July 3-7 Foundations of Programming Languages Paul Downen University of Oregon Jan Hoffman Carnegie Mellon University July 9-21 PARALLELISM AND CONCURRENCY Umut Acar - Carnegie Mellon University Parallel Algorithms Arvind - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dataflow: A retrospective. Atomicity in modular design Stephanie Balzer - Carnegie Mellon University Session-Typed Concurrent Programming Andrej Bauer - University of Ljubljana Algebraic Effects and Handlers Guy Blelloch - Carnegie Mellon University Parallel cost semantics and bounded implementations Dan R. Ghica - University of Birmingham Game Semantics Robert Harper - Carnegie Mellon University Computational Type Theory Gabriele Keller - University of New South Wales Purely Functional Array Programming and its Compilation to High-Performance Architectures Keshav Pingali - University of Texas, Austin Parallel program = Operator + Schedule + Parallel Data Structures Vijay Saraswat - Goldman Sachs Resilient X10 We hope you can join us for this excellent program. Zena Ariola, Guy Blelloch, Paul Downen, and Robert Harper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Perez) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:01:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS/SOS 2018 -- First Call for Papers Message-ID: [ Submissions from the TYPES readership, broadly related to concurrency and programming languages, are warmly welcome. ] =========================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Combined 25th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 15th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2018) http://disat.uninsubria.it/~simone.tini/express_sos.html Beijing, China September 3, 2018 (Co-located with CONCUR 2018 and CONFESTA 2018) Submission deadline (full and short papers): Thursday, June 14, 2018 =========================================== == 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. This year marks the 25th edition of EXPRESS and the 15th edition of SOS. Topics of interest for EXPRESS/SOS 2018 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 languages and 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. Contributions bridging the gap between the above topics and emerging and/or neighboring areas (such as, for instance, computer security, multi-agent systems, knowledge representation, reversible computation) are particularly welcome. == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We invite 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). Submission is performed through the EXPRESS/SOS 2018 EasyChair server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2018). The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will register to the workshop and give the talk. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta) == IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 14, 2018 - Notification date: July 16, 2018 - Camera ready version: August 5, 2018 - Workshop: September 3, 2018 == WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) - Simone Tini (Universit? degli Studi dell?Insubria, Italia) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of C?rdoba, Argentina) - Erik de Vink (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit? C?te d'Azur, France) - Ignacio F?bregas (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Simon Gay (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) - Vasileios Koutavas (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Bas Luttik (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Claudio Antares Mezzina (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) - MohammadReza Mousavi (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) - co-chair - Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) - Simone Tini (University of Insubria, Italy) - co-chair - Valeria Vignudelli (CNRS/ENS Lyon, France) -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Math and CS (JBI) University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From alley.stoughton at icloud.com Wed Feb 14 18:24:53 2018 From: alley.stoughton at icloud.com (Alley Stoughton) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:24:53 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] doctoral student funding at Boston University: formal methods for cryptography Message-ID: Research at the intersection of formal methods and cryptography at Boston University: We are developing a research group focusing on applying formal methods and programming language theory to cryptographic problems. We have funding for doctoral students that are interested in pursuing this kind of research. Financial support by Boston University is guaranteed for 5 years. Enrolled students in this project will interact with several faculty and research associates: Alley Stoughton, Mayank Varia, Ran Canetti, and Assaf Kfoury. Please address informal inquiries to Alley Stoughton at stough at bu.edu and Mayank Varia at varia at bu.edu. From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Feb 15 09:35:23 2018 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:35:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position at the University of Birmingham: higher categories, quantum computing, formal proof Message-ID: Dear all, I have a PhD position available in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK, part-funded by the Royal Society. Please forward this to any good candidates you think might be interested. The successful candidate could work on any topic of mutual interest, in areas including higher category theory, quantum computation, and computer proof assistants. More information about my research interests is available on this page: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jamie.vicary/ Potential applicants should contact me directly in the first instance. The start date is flexible, and the position is open until filled. Best wishes, Jamie From rk1424 at hunter.cuny.edu Wed Feb 14 17:21:31 2018 From: rk1424 at hunter.cuny.edu (Raffi T Khatchadourian) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 22:21:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 12th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference & Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) 2018 -- Call for Submissions Message-ID: <1518646890.6575.26.camel@hunter.cuny.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS =============== ESEC/FSE 2018 -- 12th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering November 4-9, Orlando, Florida, United States http://2018.fseconference.org Follow ESEC/FSE on twitter: @fseconf Follow ESEC/FSE on Facebook: http://facebook.com/fseconference Social Media Hashtag: #esecfse The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. Formerly the FSE conference in alternating years and ESEC/FSE in other years, ESEC/FSE is now the new name of this annual conference series. The ESEC/FSE conference brings together experts from academia and industry to exchange the latest research results and trends, as well as their practical application in all areas of software engineering. The conference is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT). Topics of Interest ------------------ We are interested in submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to software engineering. These include, but are not limited to: - Architecture and design - Autonomic computing and (self-)adaptive systems - Big data - Cloud computing - Components, services, and middleware - Computer-supported cooperative work - Configuration management and deployment - Crowdsourcing - Debugging - Dependability, safety, and reliability - Development tools and environments - Distributed, parallel, and concurrent software - Education - Embedded and real-time software - Empirical software engineering - End-user software engineering - Formal methods, including languages, methods, and tools - Green computing - Human and social factors in software engineering - Human-computer interaction - Knowledge-based software engineering - Mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive software - Model-driven software engineering - Patterns and frameworks - Processes and workflows - Program analysis - Program comprehension and visualization - Program synthesis - Refactoring - Requirements engineering - Reverse engineering - Safety-critical systems - Scientific computing - Search-based software engineering - Security and privacy - Software economics and metrics - Software evolution and maintenance - Software modularity - Software product lines - Software reuse - Software services - Testing - Traceability - Web-based software Call for Submissions -------------------- General Chair: Gary T. Leavens ### Research Papers Chairs: Corina Pasareanu, Alessandro Garcia http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-research-papers We invite high-quality submissions describing original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental software engineering research. Contributions should describe innovative and significant original research. Papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will also be considered. Submissions that facilitate reproducibility by using available data sets or making the described tools publicly available are especially encouraged. ESEC/FSE 2018 will employ a lightweight double-blind review process. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. ### Journal-First Chairs: Andrea Zisman, Ingrid Nunes https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Journal-First We invite authors of journal-first papers accepted in the partnering journals (IEEE TSE, ACM TOSEM, and Springer Empirical Software Engineering) to submit their work to be presented at ESEC/FSE 2018. The accepted paper version must have been submitted to a partnering journal no earlier than December 1st 2016. This will allow authors of journal- first papers to present their work to the community. ### New Ideas and Emerging Results Chairs: Claire Le Goues, Gail Kaiser http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-NIER ESEC/FSE-NIER 2018 seeks to challenge the status quo of our discipline by providing a venue for innovative, radical, thought-provoking new ideas, arguments, and research directions in software engineering. The NIER also incorporates the previous FSE-VaR (Visions and Reflections) track, seeking to spark conversation on the state of the field, especially in light of the 50-year anniversary of the 1968 NATO conference on Software Engineering. ### Tool Demonstrations Chairs: Tien Nguyen, Ciera Jaspan http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Demonstration We invite innovative research demonstrations, intended to show early implementations of novel software engineering concepts, as well as mature prototypes. The research demonstrations are intended to highlight underlying scientific contributions. Whereas a regular research paper points out the scientific contribution of a new software engineering approach, a demonstration paper provides the opportunity to show how a scientific contribution has been transferred into a working tool or data set. Authors of regular research papers are thus encouraged to submit an accompanying demonstration paper. ### Industry Chairs: John Penix, Satish Chandra http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Industry ESEC/FSE is widely known for its high-quality research papers in all areas of software engineering. Its industry track focuses on the same topics and values the same rigor as its research track, yet papers featured in the industrial track are distinct. What sets the industrial track apart is that it values impact and realism over novelty. We expect that findings from industrial track publications have the potential to impact practice in the 0-2 year range. ### Workshops Chair: Damian Dechev https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Workshops ESEC/FSE 2018 solicits proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshops aim to provide opportunities for exchanging views, advancing ideas, and discussing preliminary results in various areas of software engineering research and applications. Workshops are not an alternative forum for presenting full research papers. If you would like to bring together a group of researchers on a relevant and exciting topic, please submit a workshop proposal to ESEC/FSE. Workshops will be held in the days before the research track (Nov. 4 and 5). Proposals for workshops after the main track can be considered but are subject to the availability of space. Prospective workshop organizers are encouraged to contact the workshop chairs should any questions arise. ### Artifacts Chairs: Olga Baysal, Tim Menzies https://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Artifacts Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to the ESEC/FSE Artifact Track. In the spirit of ACM?s "Result and Artifact Review and Badging" policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/po licies/artifact-review-badging), the artifacts track exists to review, promote, share and catalog the research artifacts produced by any of the papers accepted to the research track. Apart from repeatability and replicability, cataloging these artifacts also allows reuse by other teams in reproduction or other studies. ### Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Hridesh Rajan, Margaret-Anne Storey http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Doctorial-Symposium Doctoral students whose research is in Software Engineering will have a chance to get mentoring from more experienced researchers and academics. Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their doctoral research with senior researchers in the software engineering community, in a constructive and friendly atmosphere. Attendance will be by invitation only based on a four-page research proposal to provide a quality mentoring experience for pursuing an impactful research program. ### Student Research Competition Chair: Gustavo Soares http://2018.fseconference.org/track/fse-2018-Student-Research-Competiti on The conference will host an ACM Student Research Competition (http://sr c.acm.org; SRC).This competition offers undergraduate and graduate students a unique forum to experience the research world, present their research results to conference attendees, and compete for prizes. The ACM SRC consists of three parts: (1) research abstract submission, (2) poster presentation, and (3) a research talk. The first-place winners of the competition will be invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. Participate in this exciting competition: Submit your work to the ACM Student Research Competition! Submission Guidelines --------------------- At the time of submission, all papers must conform to the ESEC/FSE 2018 Format and Submission Guidelines (https://2018.fseconference.org/attend ing/Submission+Policies), and must not exceed the page limits that are listed in the appropriate call for papers. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions that do not comply with the above instructions will be desk rejected without review. Papers must be submitted electronically through the appropriate ESEC/FSE submission site (as noted in the appropriate call for papers). See conference website for more details about submissions for each track. Important Dates --------------- ### Research Papers - Submission date: **March 9, 2018** - Author response period: May 7-10, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2018 - Camera-ready date: July 31, 2018 - Conference: **November 4-9, 2018** ### Journal-First Papers - Submission date: May 30, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2018 ### New Ideas and Emerging Results - Submission date: June 15, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018 - Camera ready date: September 10, 2018 ### Workshops - Submission date: February 19, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2018 ### Industry Papers - Submission date: June 15, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018 - Camera ready date: September 10, 2018 ### Artifacts - Submission date: June 25, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2018 ### Doctoral Symposiums - Submission date: June 29, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 27, 2018 ### Student Research Competition - Submission date: June 15, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018 From grewe at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Thu Feb 15 17:13:08 2018 From: grewe at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sylvia Grewe) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:13:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Posters: 2018 Message-ID: <1bbb9ccf-c018-a388-9903-0f0e88ec3ba4@st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Mon 9 - Thu 12 April 2018 Nice, France http://2018.programming-conference.org/ ******************************************************** CALL FOR POSTERS ******************************************************** Important dates: - Poster abstract submission: Sunday, March 4th - Notification: Friday, March 9th - Poster Presentation: Tuesday, April 10th Posters are an integral part of . We are soliciting quality contributions for the regular Poster Session of (submissions due March 4th). The Poster Session aims at showcasing very recent or ongoing work, clarifying problem statements, vetting solutions, or identifying evaluation methods in an interactive way. It will offer an excellent opportunity for authors to receive feedback from the community and encourage one-to-one and small group discussions on a technical topic. Students are especially encouraged to submit their ongoing work and to introduce it to peer researchers. Accepted poster abstracts will be?made available on the conference Web site. The Posters track will take place on Tuesday, April 10th and will be organized jointly with the ACM Student Research Competition Poster track, thus fostering interactions between all presenters and attendees. Poster author(s) are required to attend the scheduled poster session, so that they can discuss their work with conference attendees. Poster Submission Guidelines: Posters will be evaluated based on their contribution and relevance to . Poster submissions should be sent toas a 1-2 page extended abstract in PDF format. This document should contain: ?- the poster title; ?- names and affiliations of the authors (one of whom should be named as a contact person); ?- motivation and the addressed problem, proposed solution, and/or novel contributions of the proposal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From david.pichardie at irisa.fr Fri Feb 16 09:36:22 2018 From: david.pichardie at irisa.fr (David Pichardie) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:36:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD and Postdoc positions at IRISA/Inria Rennes Message-ID: <9207FAAD-04A8-4351-BCE6-CEC33E409079@irisa.fr> CELTIQUE is looking for PhD candidates and postdocs! The IRISA/Inria Celtique group in Rennes (France) has several open PhD and post-doctoral position. The positions are funded by David Pichardie's european ERC VESTA project (2018-2023). Postdoc applicants must have a PhD in Computer Science. PhD applicants must have a Master in Computer Science. We seek candidates with a solid theoretical background in Computer Science, in at least one of the following topics: - formal semantics of programming languages - compiler implementation - abstract interpretation - Coq proof assistant Postdoc positions are one year, with the possibility of extension to a second year. All position may start after September 1st 2018. Candidate that are specially interested by compiler verification will also be considered for a postdoc in the national ANR project Discover (http://discover.irisa.fr/), and can negotiate a starting time earlier than September. The working language is English, knowledge of French is not required. The successful candidate will join the Celtique team at IRISA, INRIA Rennes: https://team.inria.fr/celtique/ Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, cover letter and names/contact information of two references to David Pichardie (david.pichardie at ens-rennes.fr). Recommandation letters should be sentto David Pichardie directly. Potential research projects - Verification of static analysis with the Coq proof assistant - Formal verification of abstract interpreters using the Galois connection framework inside Coq - Formal verification of state-of-the-art SSA-based compiler optimisations - Advanced abstract interpretation for software security (Java, C, or assembly programs) - Innovative techniques for extraction of efficient code with Coq From chisvasileandrei at gmail.com Fri Feb 16 11:10:58 2018 From: chisvasileandrei at gmail.com (Andrei Chis) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:10:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018) co-located with SPLASH 2018 November 5-6, 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States https://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2018/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2018), held in conjunction with SPLASH 2018 at Boston, Massachusetts on November 5-6, 2018. --------------------------- Scope --------------------------- With the ubiquity of computers, software has become the dominating intellectual asset of our time. In turn, this software depends on software languages, namely the languages it is written in, the languages used to describe its environment, and the languages driving its development process. Given that everything depends on software and that software depends on software languages, it seems fair to say that for many years to come, everything will depend on software languages. Software language engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. While SLE is certainly driven by its metacircular character (software languages are engineered using software languages), SLE is not self-satisfying: its scope extends to the engineering of languages for all and everything. Like its predecessors, the 11th edition of the SLE conference, SLE 2018, will bring together researchers from different areas united by their common interest in the creation, capture, and tooling of software languages. It overlaps with traditional conferences on the design and implementation of programming languages, model-driven engineering, and compiler construction, and emphasizes the fusion of their communities. To foster the latter, SLE traditionally fills a two-day program with a single track, with the only temporal overlap occurring between co-located events. --------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------- SLE 2018 solicits high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software 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 contributions from the following areas: * Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages * Software 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 * Software 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 --------------------------- Important Dates --------------------------- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * Fri 29 June 2018 - Abstract Submission * Fri 6 July 2018 - Paper Submission * Fri 24 August 2018 - Author Notification * Fri 31 August 2018 - Artifact Submission * Fri 5 October 2018 - Camera Ready Deadline * Wed 10 October 2018 - Artifact Notification * Fri 12 October 2018 - Deadline for Artifact-Related Paper Updates * Sun 4 Nov 2018 - SLE Workshops * Mon 5 Nov - Tue 6 Nov 2018 - SLE Conference --------------------------- 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 excluding bibliography. * 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 excluding bibliography, 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. * 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 excluding bibliography. Workshops: Workshops will be organized by SPLASH. Please inform us and contact the SPLASH organizers if you would like to organize a workshop of interest to the SLE audience. Information on how to submit workshops can be found at the SPLASH 2018 Website: https://conf.researchr.org/track/splash-2018/splash-2018-Workshops. --------------------------- Artifact Evaluation --------------------------- For the third year SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit artifacts. More information will be announced on the Website. --------------------------- Submission --------------------------- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart" ( http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format); please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template ( https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip), and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,screen]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Using the Word template is strongly discouraged. 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 in figures and tables are legible. SLE follows a single-blind review process. Thus, you do not have to blind your submission. All submissions must be in PDF format. Concurrent Submissions: Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN?s Republication Policy ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication). Submitters should also be aware of ACM?s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism ( http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: Submissions will be accepted at https://sle18.hotcrp.com/. --------------------------- Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas / vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. --------------------------- Awards --------------------------- * Distinguished paper: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. * Distinguished reviewer: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs. * 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. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. 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. --------------------------- Program Committee --------------------------- Andrew Black, Portland State University, USA Erwan Bousse, TU Wien, Austria Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Thomas Degueule, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Tom Dinkelaker, Ericsson, Germany Sebastian Erdweg, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Esther Guerra, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Daco Harkes, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany Michael Homer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Ralf L?mmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, China Christoph Reichenbach, Lund University, Sweden Jan Oliver Ringert, University of Leicester, UK Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Emma S?derberg, Google, Denmark Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands Tijs van der Storm, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Vadim Zaytsev, Rain Code, Belgium --------------------------- Contact --------------------------- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the organizers by email: sle2018 at googlegroups.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The suggested submission deadline is 15th April 2018, notifications will be sent out no later than 15th May 2018. Please refer to the individual websites for workshop-specific Calls for Papers, deadlines and information on how to submit. *** 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/ Mentor Workshop 1, 8 July (website coming soon) *** Mid-FLoC workshops (Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 July) Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation: Bridging Two Communities to Solve Real Problems (SC^2 2018), 11 July http://www.sc-square.org/CSA/workshop3.html 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/ CAV Tutorials, 13 July http://cavconference.org/2018/invited-speakers-tutorials/ 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/ 13th International Workshop on User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (UITP 2018), 13 July http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/uitp/uitp2018/ Verification Mentoring Workshop 2, 13 July http://cavconference.org/2018/verification-mentoring-workshop/ Summit on Machine Learning Meets Formal Methods, sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute, 13 July http://www.floc2018.org/summit-on-machine-learning/ 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 http://www.fm2018.org/doctoral-symposium/ *** 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 http://synt2018.seas.ucla.edu 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 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 https://nsv-2018.github.io/nsv2018/ 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 cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Fri Feb 16 16:14:57 2018 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320)) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:14:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NFM 2018 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <68475E12-C16A-430B-9468-33739C253522@nasa.gov> ----------------------------------------- Call for Participation: NFM 2018 ----------------------------------------- Tenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium 30 Years of Formal Methods at NASA April 17-19, Newport News, VA, USA https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ Celebrating 30 years of formal methods research at NASA Langley, the Tenth 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. Keynote speakers: Ricky Butler (NASA, USA) Gilles Dowek (INRIA, CNRS, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris-Saclay, France) The program of symposium is available at: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/program.html Attendance to the symposium is free, but all attendees must register in order to participate. Registrations are open until ** April 1, 2018 ** at: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/registration.html The symposium will be held at Newport News Marriott at City Center 740 Town Center Drive Newport News, VA 23606, USA. Phone: +1 (757) 873-9299. A group rate to attend NFM2018 is available at the Newport News Marriot until ** March 16, 2018 **. Reservations can be made by calling +1 (866) 329-1758, and asking for the group code: NASA, or through web at https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/hotel_reservation.html List of Accepted Papers: * Ansgar Fehnker, Kaylash Chaudhary and Vinay Mehta. An Even Better Approach - Improving the B.A.T.M.A.N. Protocol Through Formal Modelling and Analysis * Massimo Narizzano, Luca Pulina, Armando Tacchella and Simone Vuotto. Consistency of Property Specification Patterns with Boolean and Constrained Numerical Signals * Marcus Gerhold, Arnd Hartmanns and Mari?lle Stoelinga. Model-Based Testing for General Stochastic Time * Ruben Giaquinta, Ruth Hoffmann, Murray Ireland, Alice Miller, and Gethin Norman. Strategy Synthesis for Autonomous Agents using PRISM * Miguel Romero and Camilo Rocha. Symbolic Execution and Reachability Analysis using Rewriting Modulo SMT for Spatial Concurrent Constraint Systems with Extrusion * Lola Masson, J?r?mie Guiochet, Helene Waeselynck, Martin T?rngren, Sofia Cassel and Kalou Cabrera. Tuning permissiveness of active safety monitors for autonomous systems * Radha Nakade, Eric Mercer, Peter Aldous and Jay McCarthy. Model Checking Task Parallel Programs for Data-race * Aymeric Fromherz, Abdelraouf Ouadjaout and Antoine Min?. Static Value Analysis of Python Programs by Abstract Interpretation * Flavio M. de Paula, Arvind Haran and Brad Bingham. An Efficient Rewriting Framework for Trace Coverage of Symmetric Systems * Ansgar Fehnker and Kaylash Chaudhary. Twenty Percent and a Few Days - Optimising a Bitcoin Majority Attack (short paper) * Jeroen Meijer and Jaco van de Pol. Sound Black-Box Checking in the LearnLib * Philipp Koerner and Jens Bendisposto. Distributed Model Checking Using ProB * Saksham Chand and Yanhong A. Liu. Simpler Specifications and Easier Proofs of Distributed Algorithms Using History Variables * Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Thomas Eskridge, Natasha Neogi, Marco Carvalho and Milton Stafford. Formal Assurance for Cooperative Intelligent Autonomous Agents * Yassmeen Elderhalli, Osman Hasan, Waqar Ahmed and Sofi?ne Tahar. Formal Dynamic Fault Trees Analysis using an Integration of Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Sarah Benyagoub, Meriem Ouederni, Yamine Ait Ameur, and Atif Mashkoor. Incremental Construction of Realizable Choreographies * C?sar Augusto Ochoa Escudero, R?mi Delmas, Thomas Bochot, Matthieu David, and Virginie Wiels. Automatic Generation of DO-178 Test Procedures * Andrew Ireland, Maria Teresa Llano and Simon Colton. The Use of Automated Theory Formation in Support of Hazard Analysis (short paper) * Zhuo Chen and Werner Dietl. Don't Miss the End: Preventing Unsafe End-of-File Comparisons (short paper) * Andr?s V?r?s, M?rton B?r, Istv?n R?th, ?kos Horv?th, Zolt?n Micskei, L?szl? Balogh, B?lint Hegyi, Benedek Horv?th, Zsolt M?zl? and D?niel Varr?. MoDeS3: Model-based Demonstrator for Smart and Safe Cyber-Physical Systems (short paper) * Giovanna Broccia, Paolo Milazzo and Peter Csaba ?lveczky. An Executable Formal Framework for Safety-Critical Human Multitasking * Marco Feli? and Mariano Moscato. Towards a Formal Safety Framework for Trajectories (short paper) * Rui Qiu, Sarfraz Khurshid, Corina Pasareanu, Junye Wen and Guowei Yang. Using Test Ranges to Improve Symbolic Execution * Allan Blanchard, Nikolai Kosmatov and Fr?d?ric Loulergue. Ghosts for Lists: A Critical Module of Contiki Verified in Frama-C * Souradeep Dutta, Susmit Jha, Sriram Sankaranarayanan and Ashish Tiwari. Output Range Analysis for Deep Feedforward Neural Networks * Bruno Dutertre, Dejan Jovanovi? and Jorge Navas. Verification of Fault-Tolerant Protocols with Sally (short paper) * Alfons Laarman. Optimal Storage of Combinatorial State Spaces * Alfons Laarman. Stubborn Transaction Reduction * Cumhur Erkan Tuncali, Bardh Hoxha, Guohui Ding, Georgios Fainekos and Sriram Sankaranarayanan. Experience Report: Application of Falsification Methods on the UxAS System (short paper) * Hendrik Maarand and Tarmo Uustalu. Certified Foata Normalization for Generalized Traces * Francesco Marconi, Giovanni Quattrocchi, Luciano Baresi, Marcello M. Bersani and Matteo Rossi. On the Timed Analysis of Big-Data Applications 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 j.a.perez at rug.nl Sat Feb 17 04:59:45 2018 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 10:59:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Fellowships in the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Message-ID: == Organization The University of Groningen is a research university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, City of Talent. Quality has had top priority for four hundred years, and with success: the University is currently in or around the top 100 on several influential global ranking lists. The Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) harbours a kaleidoscope of disciplines and research strengths. Our programmes in research and education range from nanomaterials and biomachinery to astronomy, from mathematics to pharmacy, from neurosciences to computer science, and from molecular and evolutionary biology to marine biology. == The FSE Fellowship programme Our unique FSE fellowship programme offers temporary positions for talented junior researchers who want to further develop both their research and teaching skills. You will have an appointment for four years during which you can do challenging research, have various teaching responsibilities (approximately 30% of the time), and be offered opportunities for training and career orientation. >From day one, you will have a personal Work and Development Plan (WDP) that describes the specific research, teaching and training activities that you will undertake. You will receive didactic training in your first year and have the opportunity to obtain a University Teaching Qualification. In addition to the yearly Result and Development Interviews with your supervisors, you will have a yearly meeting with a career counsellor to discuss your career development and plans. A personal budget of a ?1000 per year is dedicated for additional training and career activities. The programme includes 16 fellow positions in a broad range of scientific fields. ==Job description Within the FSE Fellowship programme, we offer a fellow position in Computer Science. Researchers working on areas such as - Theoretical Computer Science - Programming Languages - Logic - Verification are particularly encouraged to apply. The follow will join the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (JBI) and will teach in the BSc Computing Science (which is fully taught in English). == Qualifications You have ? A PhD, obtained no longer than 3 years ago, preferably from another university than the University of Groningen; ? a promising research record; ? affinity with teaching; individuals with actual teaching experience will be favoured; ? an excellent command of English. == Conditions of employment You will have an initial appointment of one year that will be extended by 3 years if you perform satisfactorily. The fellowship will not be extended after the four years period. The University of Groningen offers a salary dependent on qualifications and work experience of ? 3.111,- gross per month up to a maximum of ? 4.084,- gross per month for a full-time position. The UFO-profile Researcher/Lecturer (scale 10) applies. In addition to the primary salary the University offers 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3%. The University of Groningen provides career services for partners of new faculty members moving to Groningen. The University of Groningen has adopted an active policy to increase the number of female scientists across all disciplines of the university. Therefore, female candidates are especially encouraged to apply. The preferred starting date is before July, 2018. == Applications Interested candidates are invited to submit a complete application including: ? A letter of motivation. ? A Curriculum Vitae, including a list of publications. ? A short description (max 1A4) of your teaching interests (extra attachment 1). ? A short description (max 1A4) of your scientific field of interest (extra attachment 2). You may apply to one of the positions until March 8, 2018 via the website of the University of Groningen: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview Selection interviews will take place in the second half of March 2018. == Information For information on the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (JBI) please visit: https://www.rug.nl/research/jbi/ For information on the degree programmes please visit: https://www.rug.nl/bachelors/faculty-of-science-and-engineering https://www.rug.nl/masters/faculty-of-science-and-engineering For informal inquiries, please contact Dr. Jorge A. P?rez (j.a.perez at rug.nl) For any further questions, don?t hesitate to contact the coordinator of the FSE Fellowship Programme Yvonne Folkers via Y.Folkers at rug.nl -- Jorge A. P?rez Assistant Professor Johann Bernoulli Institute for Math and CS (JBI) University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From henning at basold.eu Sat Feb 17 08:00:42 2018 From: henning at basold.eu (Henning Basold) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:00:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2018: Call for Short Contributions Message-ID: <9db42a5b-9458-12df-29b3-7ff16fc9cb86@basold.eu> Call for Short Contributions 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 ------------------------- 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 --------------- Submission short contributions 28 February 2018 Notification short contributions 12 March 2018 Proceedings ----------- 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 --------------------- 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 long, and should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2018. From laura.titolo at nianet.org Sun Feb 18 09:38:35 2018 From: laura.titolo at nianet.org (Titolo, Laura) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:38:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Position Announcement - Research Scientist Interactive Theorem Proving Message-ID: <80112964-351B-4A72-88F2-B1C24839991C@nianet.org> RESEARCH SCIENTIST POSITION Interactive Theorem Proving National Institute of Aerospace (Hampton, VA, USA) The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), located in Hampton, Virginia, has an opening for the position of Research Scientist to work on research and development of theorem proving technology for the formal verification of autonomous systems. The successful candidate is expected to provide support to researchers who are using the Prototype Verification System (PVS) interactive theorem prover for the formal verification of autonomous aircraft systems. Representative activities may include developing mathematical models, automated strategies, tool interfaces, and, in general, advancing the state-of-the-art of theorem proving technology through the PVS system. Required Skills: ? Master?s degree or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or equivalent. ? Proved experience with higher-order logic. ? Proved experience in functional programming, e.g., Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, ML, Haskell, etc. ? Familiar with Unix environment, e.g., Unix, MacOS, Linux, etc. Desired Skills: ? Experience in interactive theorem proving and proof assistants based on higher-order logic, e.g., PVS, Coq, Isabelle, HOL, ACL2, etc. ? Experience in development of verification tools ? 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URL: From andersmortberg at gmail.com Sun Feb 18 10:07:13 2018 From: andersmortberg at gmail.com (Anders Mortberg) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:07:13 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF'18) Message-ID: ========================================================== 2nd CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF, at FLoC 2018) ========================================================== NEWS: submission deadline changed to April 15 (was March 31) to align with general submission deadline of FLoC workshops. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations July 7-8, 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom https://hott-uf.github.io/2018 Co-located with FSCD 2018 and part of FLoC 2018 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ http://www.floc2018.org/ Abstract submission deadline: April 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 and Univalent Foundations: from the study of syntax and semantics of type theory to practical formalization in proof assistants based on univalent type theory. ================== # Invited talks * Mart?n Escard? (University of Birmingham) * Paige North (Ohio State University) * Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge) ================ # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: April 15 * Author notification: end of April Submissions should consist of a title and a 1-2 pages abstract, in pdf format, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf18 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 (University of Birmingham) * Paolo Capriotti (University of Nottingham) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Nicolai Kraus (University of Nottingham) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Assia Mahboubi (Inria Saclay) * Anders M?rtberg (Carnegie Mellon University and University of Gothenburg) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) ================ # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) * Simon Huber (University of Gothenburg) * Anders M?rtberg (Carnegie Mellon University and University of Gothenburg) From Frederic.Loulergue at nau.edu Sun Feb 18 12:18:26 2018 From: Frederic.Loulergue at nau.edu (Frederic Loulergue) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:18:26 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 4PAD 2018 - 5th International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems Message-ID: Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ============================================================ = CALL FOR PAPERS = = 5th International Symposium on = = Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems = = (4PAD 2018) = = affiliated to the = = 16th International Conference on = = High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018) = = http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ = = Orleans, France, July 17-19, 2018 = ============================================================ http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia---hpcs2018/symp05-4pad SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The aim of 4PAD is to foster interaction between the formal methods communities and systems researchers working on topics in modern parallel, distributed, and network-based processing systems (e.g., autonomous computing systems, cloud computing systems, service-oriented systems and parallel computing architectures). 4PAD topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Rigorous software engineering approaches and their tool support; * Model-based approaches, including model-driven development; * Service- and component-based approaches; * Semantics, types and logics; * Formal specification and verification; * Performance analysis based on formal approaches; * Formal aspects of programming paradigms and languages; * Formal approaches to parallel architectures and weak memory models; * Formal approaches to deployment, run-time analysis, adaptation/evolution, reconfiguration, and monitoring; * Case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches; * Formal stochastic models and analysis; * Formal methods for large-scale distributed systems; * Statistical analysis techniques based on formal approaches. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the symposium paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4pad. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: March 12, 2018 Acceptance Notification: April 11, 2018 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 03, 2018 Conference Dates (HPCS and affiliated events): July 16-20, 2018 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Marco Aldinucci University of Torino, IT Allan Blanchard Inria, FR Simon Bliudze Inria, FR Laura Bocchi University of Kent, UK Jean-Michel Couvreur University of Orleans, FR, chair Kento Emoto Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP Gidon Ernst National Institute of Informatics, JP Joaquin Ezpeleta Universidad de Zaragoza, ES Ylies Falcone Univ. Grenoble APles, Inria, FR Serge Haddad LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Inria, FR Ludovic Henrio CNRS, FR Claude Jard University of Nantes, FR Igor Konnov Vienna University of Technology, AT Sandeep Kulkarni Michigan State University, USA Alberto Lluch Lafuente Technical University of Denmark, DK Frederic Loulergue Northern Arizona University, USA, chair Neeraj Mittal The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Gwen Salaun University of Grenoble Alpes, FR Sven Schewe University of Liverpool, UK Elena Sherman Boise State University, USA Francesco Tiezzi Universita di Camerino, IT Emilio Tuosto University of Leicester, UK -- 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 pangjun at gmail.com Mon Feb 19 07:28:13 2018 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:28:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TASE 2018 -- Last Call for Papers Message-ID: TASE 2018 - 2nd 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 ---------------- * Rob van Glabbeek, CSIRO, and University of New South Wales, Australia * Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research, China * Lu Zhang, Peking University, China ---------- 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 Jianwen Li, Iowa State University, USA 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 jes at math.uminho.pt Mon Feb 19 13:55:38 2018 From: jes at math.uminho.pt (=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=c3=a9_Carlos_Esp=c3=adrito_Santo?=) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:55:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2018: final call for contributions Message-ID: <6b9a9edb-b768-9c96-9b72-341eacbd819e@math.uminho.pt> (Apologies for cross-posting) FINAL 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, a post-proceedings volume will published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open to 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 Didier.Galmiche at loria.fr Mon Feb 19 16:54:18 2018 From: Didier.Galmiche at loria.fr (Didier Galmiche) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:54:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP Workshop on External and Internal Calculi for Non Classical Logics , Oxford, UK, 19 July 2018 Message-ID: <30418390-cf2a-7696-95f6-947baf5f674b@loria.fr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Int. Workshop on External and Internal Calculi for Non Classical Logics (EICNCL 2018) Oxford, UK, 19 July 2018 (affiliated with IJCAR 2018 in FLOC 2018) http://weic2018.loria.fr/ Deadline for submission: 23 April 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- A one day workshop on External and Internal Calculi for Non Classical Logics will be held the 19 July 2018 in conjunction with the IJCAR 2018 Conference during FLOC 2018 in Oxford, UK. The purpose of this workshop would be to discuss recent results on analytic (external or internal) calculi for non-classical logics like intuitionistic, modal, epistemic logics, conditional logics, substructural, resouce logics, and other logical systems. Among some key points we can mention the relationships between internal and external calculi for such logics and also their use for studying proof-search, automated deduction (proof-theory and implementation) and also logical properties like decidability, conservativity, axiomatisations and interpolation. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion between researchers interested in topics? including, but not limited to, the following areas: - External and internal calculi for non-classical logics - Relationships and embeddings (translations) between calculi, ? interactions between syntax and semantics - New calculi for studying problems like decidability, conservativity ? and interpolation - Proof-search and countermodel generation - Methodologies and tools for translations between calculi - Implementations of analytic calculi, proof assistants We envisage a range of perspectives: proof-theoretic foundations, including decidability and complexity; model-theoretic, including semantic foundations (e.g., new semantics), modelling and verification of programs and systems. SUBMISSIONS Researchers interested in presenting their works are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 10 pages)? through Easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eicncl2018 by 23 April 2018. Papers will be reviewed by peers, typically members of the Programme Committee. A Special Issue of a Journal on these topics is expected after the workshop. PROGRAM COMMITTEE J. Brotherston (University College, London, UK) A. Ciabattoni (TU Vienna, Austria - co-chair) D. Galmiche (Lorraine University, CNRS, LORIA, France - co-chair) R. Gor? (Australian National University, Australia) D. Larchey-Wendling (Lorraine University, CNRS, LORIA, France) G. Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) S. Negri? (University of Helsinki, Finland) N. Olivetti (LSIS, Aix-Marseille University, France - co-chair) J. Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) V. de Paiva (Nuance communications, USA) R. Ramanayake (TU? Vienna, Austria - co-chair) K. Sano (Hokkaido University, Japan) L. Santocanale (LIF, Aix-Marseille University, France) S. Smets (ILLC, Amsterdam University, Netherlands) L. Vigano (King's College London, UK) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:? 23 April 2018 Notification to authors: 9 May 2018 Final versions due: 21 May 2018 Workshop date: 19 July 2018 Additional information will be available through WWW address: http://weic2018.loria.fr/ The workshop is co-organized by A. Ciabattoni, R. Ramanayake (TU Vienna), N. Olivetti (LSIS, Aix-marseille University) and D. Galmiche (LORIA - Lorraine University) From einarj at ifi.uio.no Tue Feb 20 03:12:35 2018 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:12:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP: SEFM 2018 Message-ID: <20180220081235.0EEFD21E12C@nordur.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=sefm18 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) ************************ KEYNOTES ************************ SEFM 2018 will feature two exciting keynotes: *** Mark Harman (Facebook / University College London) *** We Need a Formal Semantics for Testability Transformation; SEFM community to the rescue? *** Andrzej Wasowski (IT University of Copenhagen) *** Hunting Resource Manipulation Bugs in Linux Kernel Code More information: Website: https://www.isf.cs.tu-bs.de/cms/events/sefm2018 From julbinb at gmail.com Tue Feb 20 09:05:53 2018 From: julbinb at gmail.com (Julia Belyakova) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:05:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions: Doctoral Symposium at ECOOP/ISSTA 2018 (Amsterdam) Message-ID: ********************************************************* ECOOP and ISSTA Doctoral Symposium 2018 Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands Joint Doctoral Symposium of European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis ********************************************************* Submission deadline: *April 15th, 2018, AOE* DS website: https://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop-issta-2018/ecoop-issta-2018-doctoral-symposium The Doctoral Symposium is a *forum for doctoral students* to present their research topic and receive detailed feedback in a constructive and friendly atmosphere. PhD students at any stage of the research are welcome, although they are expected to already have an identified research topic. Participants will obtain useful guidance that will help them complete their research, prepare their thesis, and begin a research career. The main objectives of the Doctoral Symposium are: * to allow PhD students to practice effective writing and communication of their research; * to receive constructive feedback from the Program Committee, Academic Panel, and other participants; * to offer opportunities to form research collaborations and interact with other researchers at the main conferences. In 2018 the Doctoral Symposium will be a joint event between the ECOOP and ISSTA conferences, so we welcome participation of students who pursue their research in the areas of both *object-oriented programming and software testing and analysis*. The event will take place on *Wednesday, July 18th, 2018*: between the ISSTA and ECOOP conferences ( https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecoop-issta-2018). The Doctoral Symposium takes the form of 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. The program will also include at least one keynote talk on a topic related to PhD studies, research, and life beyond the PhD. ----- SUBMISSIONS ----- We have two distinct submission categories: junior and senior submissions. Junior students may not yet have fully developed a thesis topic, so they will present their research ideas and any progress to date. Senior students are expected to give an outline of their thesis research and will receive feedback to help them successfully complete their thesis and defense/viva. Submissions are due on **April 15th, 2018, AOE**. Submissions website: https://ecoopissta18ds.hotcrp.com/ As participants of the Doctoral Symposium are not expected to submit technical papers, but rather thesis proposals, participants can submit to both the main conferences/workshops _and_ the Doctoral Symposium. Nevertheless, self-plagiarism is not allowed, and related papers (including papers accepted to the main conferences) are to be properly cited. --- 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. --- 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 will 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 6?10 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. --- Participation --- Accepted students will give two presentations: 1. A two-minute presentation stating key issues of the research (the ?elevator pitch?). 2. A 7?15 minute presentation followed by 7?15? of questions, feedback and discussions. Concrete time slots will be determined later with regards to the number of submissions and accepted papers. Prior to the symposium, each student will be assigned submissions of two other students. For each submission the student will prepare a short summary, some feedback, and 2-3 questions on the submission. 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URL: From Coen.De.Roover at vub.be Tue Feb 20 12:11:50 2018 From: Coen.De.Roover at vub.be (Coen DE ROOVER) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:11:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Full-time faculty position in computer science - Vrije Universiteit Brussel Message-ID: <1B043BFE-6FA8-4FDB-A18F-129215D0FC29@vub.be> The computer science department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is offering a full-time position as professor to reinforce its software languages and software engineering branch within the subjet area of "Static security guaranties for programming languages". The position is published under the heading: WE/2018/004 - Senior Academic Staff - 100% ? Faculty of Sciences & Bioengineering Sciences - Computer Sciences on the university's job offers website located at http://vub.talentfinder.be. The planned starting date for this position is October 1st, 2018. Contract duration is 5 academic years, with view on a tenure track position after this period. The deadline for applying is April 27th, 2018. Applications should reach us through the website. The person to contact for further information is: Mieke Gijsemans Director Research & Data Management email: rd.secretariaat at vub.be phone: +32 2 629 21 08 ** Function ** - Research The selected candidate has to reinforce the research of the Software Languages Lab (SOFT - http://soft.vub.ac.be) which focusses on ?software language engineering?. The lab is active in programming language research and software engineering research. We are specifically looking for a candidate who has expertise in the static aspects of programming languages with a focus on security aspects. This includes designing static type systems (e.g., dependently typed languages), using automated proof assistants (e.g., Coq), writing secure compilers, secure virtual machines, etc. - Teaching The teaching assignment may include both general courses on bachelor or master level and more specialized courses on MA level. The exact course list will be negotiated with the candidate and will depend on his/her expertise and language skills. - Other The selected candidate will by preference endorse the tradition of the Software Language Lab to focus on languages for ?software of the next generation? (i.e. concurrent, distributed, ?). Moreover, candidates whose academic track record shows the ability to combine formal research with creating tangible artifacts are preferred over candidates whose expertise is limited to just one of these aspects. The selected candidate will be part of the management structure of the Software Languages Lab and is expected to actively contribute to the operational aspects and to the further development of the lab. This implies the guidance of PhD and master students, but also starting new projects and applying for funding. Appointment as lecturer for 5 years with view on a tenure track position as senior lecturer after this period. ** Profile ** - Ph.D. in Science or Engineering in the domain of Computer Science. - The candidate can present a strong research portfolio that covers the expertise asked in the job description. - The candidate has experience with guiding PhD and/or master students. He/she has a proven track record or demonstrable potential for launching new research and for seeking the funds to support it. - The candidate should be able to teach in English and in Dutch (or willing to learn Dutch in a relatively short period). - The candidate is expected to endorse the educational vision of the university (full text available on the university website). - Female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply. - Every first appointment is dependent upon the successful delivery of a teaching session. ** Additional Information ** - Applications should be submitted through http://vub.talentfinder.be/en/vacature/28329/we-2018-004--zelfstandig-academisch-personeel--100--faculteit-wetenschappen-en-bio--ingenieurswetenschappen--computerwetensch/ From zhang at cse.psu.edu Tue Feb 20 13:04:31 2018 From: zhang at cse.psu.edu (Danfeng Zhang) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:04:31 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Researcher in Programming Languages and Machine Learning Message-ID: <0E0DA478-4413-47EF-BBAF-3D5F5A4479D3@cse.psu.edu> Applications are invited for a 1-2 year full-time postdoctoral research position at the Machine Learning and Programming Languages labs in the Computer Science & Engineering department at Penn State. The position involves developing tools and theories for analyzing source code using programming languages and statistical methods. An applicant should possess a doctoral degree in Computer Science or Statistics and have strong background in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, programming languages, non-parametric statistics, differential privacy. 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 Daniel Kifer and Danfeng Zhang at CMLA at psu.edu . First, applicants should send a resume with at least two names of references. Then, also apply at https://psu.jobs/job/77194 . 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URL: From haowu at cs.nuim.ie Tue Feb 20 15:57:07 2018 From: haowu at cs.nuim.ie (Hao Wu) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:57:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] iFM 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: <65531BDF-C03F-447B-B21C-36C016766ABB@cs.nuim.ie> =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS iFM 2018 14th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods September 5-7, 2018, Maynooth, Ireland https://ifm2018.cs.nuim.ie/ =========================================================== === Important dates === Abstract submission: Monday, 16 April 2018 Paper submission: Friday, 20 April 2018 Notification: Thursday, 14 June 2018 Camera-ready copy: Tuesday, 1 July 2018 Conference: 5-7 September 2018 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: 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 rigourous 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, ENSIIE, 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. From afelty at uottawa.ca Wed Feb 21 09:07:10 2018 From: afelty at uottawa.ca (Amy Felty) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:07:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WiL 2018: Women in Logic Workshop 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <12ECE4B8-F1B1-4ED1-9407-047D086EE3F6@uottawa.ca> Second Call for Papers WiL 2018: Second Women in Logic Workshop Oxford, UK 8 July 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/welcome/ NEW * Two invited speakers! (https://sites.google.com/site/womeninlogic2018/invited-speakers) * New dates including extended submission deadline: 15 April 2018 * New format for paper submissions 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 * Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) * Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, UK) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2018 Author notification: 15 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). Formatting instructions: Papers and abstracts should be prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors). 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 15 April 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 (Co-Chair, Nuance Communications, USA) * Adriana Compagnoni (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) * Amy Felty (Co-Chair, University of Ottawa, Canada) * Anna Ingolfsdottir (Reykjavik University, Iceland) * Sara Kalvala (University of Warwick, UK) * Ursula Martin (University of Oxford, UK) * Valeria Vignudelli (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon, France) From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Wed Feb 21 11:11:15 2018 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:11:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VerifyThis 2018: Call for Problems and First Announcement Message-ID: <20180221161115.GA24566@tikki.lri.fr> ******************************************************************************* VerifyThis Verification Competition 2018 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROBLEMS Competition to be held at ETAPS 2018 http://verifythis.ethz.ch ******************************************************************************** Get involved, even if you cannot participate in the competition: provide a challenge. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 9, 2018 Competition: April 14 and 15, 2018 CALL FOR PROBLEMS To extend the problem pool, we are now soliciting algorithms and data structures which could contribute interesting verification challenges for the VerifyThis program verification competition (itself introduced below). We encourage suggestions at any level of detail, in particular submissions without a fully worked out verification task. - a problem may contain an informal statement of the algorithm to be implemented (optionally with complete or partial pseudocode) and the requirement(s) to be verified - a problem should be suitable for a 60-90 minute time slot - submission of reference solutions is welcome but not mandatory - problems with an inherent language- or tool-specific bias should be clearly identified as such - problems that contain several subproblems or other means of difficulty scaling are especially welcome - the organizers reserve the right (but no obligation) to use the problems in the competition, either as submitted or with modifications - submissions from (potential) competition participants are allowed Problems from previous competitions can be seen at http://verifythis.ethz.ch Submissions are to be sent by email to verifythis at cs.nuim.ie by the date indicated above. PRIZES The most suitable submission for competition will receive a prize. ABOUT VerifyThis 2018 will take place as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2018) on April 14 and 15, 2018. It is the 7th event in the VerifyThis competition series. Information on previous events and participants can be found at http://verifythis.ethz.ch The aims of the competition are: - to bring together those interested in formal verification, and to provide an engaging, hands-on, and fun opportunity for discussion - to evaluate the usability of logic-based program verification tools in a controlled experiment that could be easily repeated by others. The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural language. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the specification. There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have the input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged for correctness, completeness and elegance. ORGANIZERS * Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands * Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland * Peter M?ller, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Andrei Paskevich, Paris-Sud University, France * Gidon Ernst, National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan CONTACT Email: verifythis at cs.nuim.ie Web: http://verifythis.ethz.ch From rayna at mpi-sws.org Wed Feb 21 12:47:45 2018 From: rayna at mpi-sws.org (Rayna Dimitrova) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:47:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SMT 2018: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <03ba8a54-0eb8-2b1c-a4c2-ef4d958ded41@mpi-sws.org> ** ***************************************************************************** * SMT 2018 - Call For Papers ?16th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories July 12 - 13, 2018, Oxford, UK Affiliated with IJCAR 2018, part of FLoC 2018 ????????????????http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2018/ *************************************************************************** Background ========= Determining the satisfiability of first-order formulas modulo background theories, known as the Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) problem, has proven to be an enabling technology for verification, synthesis, test generation, compiler optimization, scheduling, and other areas. The success of SMT techniques depends on the development of both domain-specific decision procedures for each background theory (e.g., linear arithmetic, the theory of arrays, or the theory of bit-vectors) and combination methods that allow one to obtain more versatile SMT tools. These ingredients together make SMT techniques well-suited for use in larger automated reasoning and verification efforts. Aims and Scope ============= The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: * Decision procedures and theories of interest * Combinations of decision procedures * Novel implementation techniques * Applications and case studies * Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies * Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, in particular in the areas of machine learning and statistical reasoning, are especially encouraged. Important dates ============ * Abstract submission deadline: April 8, 2018 * Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2018 * Camera ready versions due: June 15, 2018 * Workshop: July 12-13, 2018 Paper submission and Proceedings ============================ Three categories of submissions are invited: * Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. They will be included in the informal proceedings. * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data available. * Presentation-only papers: describe work recently published or submitted and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. (The 10 pages do not include the references.) To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair SMT page and follow the instructions there. 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URL: From parizek at d3s.mff.cuni.cz Thu Feb 22 06:47:08 2018 From: parizek at d3s.mff.cuni.cz (Pavel Parizek) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:47:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor (tenure track) and Postdoc Positions at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Message-ID: <09f4d820-248b-2d40-46d4-d3bdda149e62@d3s.mff.cuni.cz> ============================================================================================= Open Positions (assistant professor, postdoc) at the Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic ============================================================================================= The Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems, Charles University is opening several positions at the ranks of assistant professor (tenure track) and postdoc to strengthen and complement the research at the department, especially in the frame of the department?s EU projects. Areas of expertise (expertise in at least one is required): - Software architectures, self-adaptation, modeling - IoT/CPS and cloud/edge-cloud environments - Evaluation and guarantees for non-functional properties (performance, latency, security, ...) - Statistical methods for non-functional properties - Performance engineering - Formal methods of software engineering - Software verification, testing, program analysis - Programming languages A PhD in computer science is required. Basic background in methods of big data analysis, machine learning, statistics, networks and hardware architectures is a plus. Candidates for the assistant professor position are expected to have a proven international research record and postdoctoral experience. The candidate is expected to supervise undergraduate and graduate students, take care of day-to-day management of work on current research projects, and actively do research and development in the scope of these projects. Further, in the assistant professor position, the candidate is expected to teach advanced and introductory classes in English (knowledge of the Czech language is not required). The contract duration for the assistant professor position is three years. Potentially, the position is renewable; moreover, successful candidates are encouraged to apply for promotion to the associate professor rank (habilitation) and a permanent position. The contract duration for the postdoc position is one or two years (potentially renewable). A signed application in digital form, accompanied by a motivation letter, curriculum vitae, proof of education, list of publications and citations, description of pedagogical experience, description of coding experience, and a list of references should be sent to: positions at d3s.mff.cuni.cz. Further inquiries can be sent to positions at d3s.mff.cuni.cz. For fullest consideration, apply by March 31st, 2018. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. For the first round of applications for assistant professor (deadline March 31st, 2018), please CC your application (along with all the accompanying documents) to konkurzy at dekanat.mff.cuni.cz and arrange for two letters of recommendation to be e-mailed by their authors to the same address. Charles University was founded in 1348, making it one of the oldest universities in the world. It is also a modern, dynamic, cosmopolitan and prestigious institution of higher education, and the best-rated Czech university according to multiple international rankings. Within the university, the Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems is responsible for research and education in the advanced techniques for building reliable component-based software, especially in the field of distributed and dependable systems. This comprises model-driven development, formal verification techniques, performance measurement and modeling, and other related fields. More details are available at http://d3s.mff.cuni.cz. From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Thu Feb 22 07:30:10 2018 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:30:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop HDRA 2018: Call for Papers Message-ID: ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications (HDRA 2018) ============================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth edition of the workshop on Higher-Dimensional Rewriting and Applications July 7, 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom http://hdra.gforge.inria.fr/ Satellite workshop of FSCD 2018, part of FLOC 2018. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Invited speakers ================ * Paige North (Ohio State University), joint with HoTT/UF * TBA Submission ========== Important dates --------------- * Submission: April 15, 2018 * Notification: May 7, 2018 * Final version: May 21, 2018 * Conference: July 7, 2018 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=hdra2018 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 radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Thu Feb 22 14:22:11 2018 From: radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:22:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL): Call for Papers Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies) First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics, 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 Philippa Gardner (Imperial College London) Josh Berdine (Facebook) James Brotherston (University College London) St?phane Demri (CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) Mihaela Sighireanu (University of Paris Diderot) 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) From albl at dtu.dk Thu Feb 22 14:28:17 2018 From: albl at dtu.dk (Alberto Lluch Lafuente) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:28:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Position in Formal Methods for Security Message-ID: Dear colleagues, There is an open position in Formal Methods for Security in our group at the Technical University of Denmark. Detailed information can be obtained here http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/job?id=fd9cdcd8-a62f-4488-9b39-0ed8c0723980 or by contacting the principal investigator of the project Sebastian M?dersheim (samo at dtu.dk). Best regards, Alberto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mogel at itu.dk Fri Feb 23 03:33:21 2018 From: mogel at itu.dk (=?utf-8?B?UmFzbXVzIEVqbGVycyBNw7hnZWxiZXJn?=) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:33:21 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fully funded PhD scholarship at the IT University of Copenhagen Message-ID: Dear all, As part of the research project Type Theories for Reactive Programming funded by Villum Fonden, I have an opening for a fully funded PhD scholarship at the IT University of Copenhagen starting this year. The aim of the project is to construct a (dependent) type theory for programming and reasoning about reactive systems, using modalities to encode productivity. The design of the type theory will be based on denotational models, so the ideal candidate will have knowledge of category theory and type theory, but this is not a requirement. Further details on the project and how to apply can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y87wnwnq Please feel free also to contact me directly for further details. A more detailed description of the project can be found below. Best wishes, 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 modal type constructors to capture productivity in types, as well as other recent advances in type theory, including homotopy type theory. We will use mathematical modelling when constructing the type theory and reasoning about consistency. The preferred candidate will therefore have knowledge of category theory and denotational semantics, but this is not a requirement. Experience with type theory or proof assistants is also an advantage, but not required. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Brucker) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:06:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'18: Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations Message-ID: <20180223140604.o6yh5petgobsp6ci@kandagawa.home.brucker.ch> (Apologies for duplicates) Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ************************************************************************** ThEdu'18 Theorem proving components for Educational software 18 July 2018 http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu18 ************************************************************************** at FLoC 2018 Federated Logic Conference 2018 6-19 July 2018 Oxford, UK http://www.floc2018.org/ ************************************************************************** THedu'18 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. Invited Talk Julien Narboux, University of Strasbourg, France Important Dates * Extended Abstracts: 15th April 2018 * Author Notification: 15th May 2018 * Workshop Day: 18 July 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 extended abstracts and demonstration proposals presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All accepted extended abstracts and demonstrations will be presented at the workshop. The extended abstracts will be made available online. Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be submitted via easychair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu18 formatted according to http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be approximately 5 pages in length and are to be submitted in PDF format. At least one author of each accepted extended abstract/demonstration proposal is expected to attend THedu'18 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration. Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain Roman Ha?ek, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Pavel Pech, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) Vanda Santos, CISUC, Portugal Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Burkhart Wolff, University Paris-Sud, France Proceedings The extended abstracts and system descriptions will be available in ThEdu'18 Web-page. After presentation at the conference, selected authors will be invited to submit a substantially revised version, extended to 14--20 pages, for publication by the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog @adbrucker | @logicalhacking From eberinge at CS.Princeton.EDU Fri Feb 23 14:56:16 2018 From: eberinge at CS.Princeton.EDU (Lennart Beringer) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:56:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second DeepSpec Summer School, July 16-27, 2018 Message-ID: <1522724021.212843267.1519415776181.JavaMail.zimbra@cs.princeton.edu> Applications are now invited for participation in the Second DeepSpec Summer School (DSSS'18) Princeton, NJ, July 16-27, 2018 https://deepspec.org/event/dsss18 Overview -------- Can critical systems be built according to functionally precise specifications of of their constituent components (processor, operating system, crypto library,..) and development tools (compilers, synthesis tools)? This may seem a pipe dream, but the past decade has seen remarkable advances in the technology required to realize it. The DeepSpec summer school will provide students with knowledge and experience necessary for understanding the state of the art and for contributing to ongoing research efforts, based on the interactive proof assistant Coq. The school is supported by generous funding from the National Science Foundation. DSSS'18 will consist of two parts with the first week being devoted to introductory topics and the second week covering current research efforts. July 16-18 (Mon-Wed) Coq Intensive July 19-20 (Thu-Fri) Fundamental proof techniques and project overviews July 23-27 (week 2) Advanced topics in system verification Lecturers and Topics for week 2 ------------------------------- Andrew Appel and Verifiable C: a logic and toolset for Lennart Beringer proving C programs correct Adam Chlipala Implementing, specifying, verifying, and compiling hardware components with Kami Zach Tatlock Verifying distributed systems Benjamin Pierce Property-based random testing with QuickChick All DeepSpec PIs Towards the specification and verification of a web server Prerequisites ------------- DSSS'18 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 familiar with Coq at the level of Software Foundations (Volume 1) should plan on attending the Coq Intensive. Participants unfamiliar with volumes 2 and 3 may benefit from attending the last 3 days of week 1. Participants of DSSS'17 are likely to be admitted for participation in week 2 only. Application and participation ----------------------------- Participation in DSSS'18 is by invitation only, based on an application process that is open to anybody. To apply, please fill this application form https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=2209458 preferably no later than March 23, 2018. Accepted participants will be notified shortly thereafter, and will be invited to confirm their participation by registering. Thanks to the generosity of NSF, we will be able to provide substantial financial assistance to all participants. We will not charge a registration fee, and will offer free dorm accommodation on the campus of Princeton University. In addition, we expect to subsidize travel expenses for the majority of participants, based on their geographic origin, qualification, and financial needs. To help us allocating these funds, the application form includes the option to enter estimated travel costs etc.. Late applications will be handled on a case-by-case basis. For additional information on the DeepSpec project, please see https://deepspec.org. From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Mon Feb 26 09:26:13 2018 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:26:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers TAP 2018 - Extended deadlines - Message-ID: <7215a423-4fa1-afc5-2348-6c545435c249@ensiie.fr> (Apologies for multiple copies) ===================================================== Extended deadlines - 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: 4 March 2018 (extended deadline) Paper: 11 March 2018 (extended deadline) 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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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=sefm18 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) ************************ KEYNOTES ************************ SEFM 2018 will feature two exciting keynotes: *** Mark Harman (Facebook / University College London) *** We Need a Formal Semantics for Testability Transformation; SEFM community to the rescue? *** Andrzej Wasowski (IT University of Copenhagen) *** Hunting Resource Manipulation Bugs in Linux Kernel Code More information: Website: https://www.isf.cs.tu-bs.de/cms/events/sefm2018 From barrett at cs.stanford.edu Tue Feb 27 01:53:33 2018 From: barrett at cs.stanford.edu (Clark Barrett) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:53:33 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position at Stanford University Message-ID: Formal Methods and Automated Reasoning Department of Computer Science, Stanford University Postdoctoral Position This is a call for interest for postdoctoral research at Stanford University under Professor Clark Barrett. The position will focus on extending and adapting techniques from conventional program analysis to analyze new programming paradigms and system architectures that may include machine-learning components, specifically deep neural networks. The project aims to extend and apply the Reluplex tool (see CAV '17 paper at http://theory.stanford.edu/~barrett/pubs/KBD+17-abstract.html). Applications include safety-critical systems such as self-driving cars and drone aircraft. Qualifications: The ideal applicant must have: * a PhD in Computer Science or a closely related field * strong programming skills, especially in C++ * a strong publication record in programming languages and/or formal methods In addition, in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of SMT solvers is a plus, as is familiarity with linear programming techniques. 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URL: From bahareh1812 at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 10:00:20 2018 From: bahareh1812 at gmail.com (Bahareh Afshari) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:00:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers for: International Workshop on Classical Logic and Computation (CL&C'18) in Oxford - satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 (former TLCA + RTA) Message-ID: CL&C 2018: Classical Logic and Computation 2018 (Seventh of the series CL&C) Oxford, UK, July 7, 2018 Conference website http://www.di.unito.it/~stefano/CL&C/CL&C18.htm Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clc2018 Submission deadline March 19, 2018 This year, CL&C will be held as a satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 (former TLCA + RTA), see: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ . CL&C is focused on the interplay between, on one side, the exploration of the computational content of classical mathematical proofs, and on the other side, the languages and the semantical models proposed in computer science for this task: continuations, game models, denotational models, learning models and so forth. The scientific aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both proof theory and computer science and to exchange ideas. Invited Speaker: we are pleased to announce that Alex Simpson accepted to be the invited speaker. Submission Guidelines There are two kind of submission: original papers not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conferences, and short talk, not intended for publication, for which multiple submissions are welcome. For a short talk, just submit the abstract. The following paper categories are welcome: version of lambda calculi adapted to represent classical logic; design of programming languages inspired by classical logic; cut-elimination for classical systems; proof representation for classical logic; translations of classical to intuitionistic proofs; constructive interpretation of non-constructive principles; witness extraction from classical proofs; constructive semantics for classical logic (e.g. game semantics, classical realization); case studies (for any of the previous points). Proceedings will appear on EPTCS. We have room for informal talks, too. Therefore participants are encouraged to present: work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, and programmatic position papers. All submitted papers will be reviewed to normal standards. The PC recognises two kinds of papers: it will distinguish between accepted (full) papers that contain unpublished results not submitted elsewhere, which we publish on EPTCS, and presentations of (short) papers about work in progress or overview of papers published elsewhere. In order to make a submission: Format your file using the EPTCS guidelines; there is a 15 page limit. Use the submission instructions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clc2018 . Here are the important dates: Paper submission: March, 19 2018 Notification: May, 15 2018 Final version due: May, 30 2018, 2018 Workshop date: July, 7, 2018 Chair: Alexandre Miquel. PC: Bahareh Afshari, Federico Aschieri, Stefan Hetzl, Christophe Raffalli, Helmut Schwichtenberg. Steering committee: Stefano Berardi (term ending in 2018), Steffen Van Bakel Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to stefano berardi: stefano at di.unito.it. From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Tue Feb 27 14:21:13 2018 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:21:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DCM'18 Third Call for Papers Message-ID: <683D9ADD-C605-4AC5-BD93-EA28174D4E57@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ======================================================================== DCM 2018 12th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/dcm18/ A satellite event of FLoC 2018, Oxford July 8, 2018 ======================================================================== Several new models of computation have emerged in the last years, and many developments of traditional computation models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of users of computer systems and the new capabilities of computation engines. 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. 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. INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce the two invited speakers of DCM'18: * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna) * Delia Kesner (University Paris-Diderot) 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 ). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - PC Chair * Sabine Broda, University of Porto * Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology * 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 * 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 cskk08 at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 17:44:08 2018 From: cskk08 at gmail.com (Sheng Chen) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:44:08 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: Special Issue on Type Error Diagnosis and Closely Related Fields Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies) (Feel free to forward this call to anyone you believe might be interested) CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Type Error Diagnosis and Closely Related Fields The papers will be published open access in Open Computer Science ( https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/comp). In the case of this special issue all article processing charges are waived. Type error diagnosis addresses the problem of communicating to the programmers of statically typed languages why a given program is considered to be type incorrect and therefore cannot be compiled. While programming techniques, such as type inference, generative programming, and metaprogramming can improve programming productivity, they bring many challenges to the generation of user-friendly error messages. For example, error messages in functional languages often point to imprecise error locations and express errors in compiler jargon and those in metaprogramming often blame libraries that are well typed and are usually lengthy. Moreover, recent inventions of advanced type system features, such as generalized algebraic data types and dependent types, bring further challenges to type error debugging. Ultimately, the aim of the field is to increase the usability of compiler tools for statically typed languages and thus increase their adoption. Traditionally, the field of type error diagnosis has centered on functional languages. However, we are explicitly looking for papers within the field irrespective of the programming language or programming paradigm, including but not restricted to imperative, object-oriented, functional, logical, and multi-paradigm languages. Papers may be of a fundamental and/or application-oriented nature. For example, they may discuss a general framework for implementing type error diagnosing techniques, study type error diagnosing facilities implemented in compilers, or report on a user study. Submitted papers should make a case why the paper should be of interest to anyone interested in type error diagnosis. Specifically, topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Type error diagnosis for languages using inference, including Haskell, Ocaml, Elm, Rust, etc. * Type error diagnosis for languages using staging, including C++ Templates, Java Generics, Template Haskell, etc. * Type error diagnosis for advanced type system features, including generalized algebraic data types, type families, dependent types, etc. * Type error diagnosis for domain-specific languages. * Usability study and empirical study of type error diagnosis. * Implementation techniques of type error debuggers. * Program benchmarks for evaluating type error diagnosis approaches. If you are in doubt whether your work is on topic for our special issue, please contact one of the editors: Dr. Jurriaan Hage - Dept. of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University (J.Hage at uu.nl) Dr. Sheng Chen - School of Computing and Informatics at University of Louisiana at Lafayette (chen at louisiana.edu) This special issue has a page limit of 30 pages for each paper, but more pages can be granted when necessary. 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URL: From shankar at csl.sri.com Thu Mar 1 12:05:44 2018 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:05:44 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Eighth Summer School on Formal Techniques, Atherton, California, May 19-25, 2018 Message-ID: <5A9832E8.3020003@csl.sri.com> Eighth Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 19 - May 25, 2018 Menlo College Atherton, California http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT18 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 can expect to have a seriously fun time experimenting with the tools and techniques presented in the lectures during laboratory sessions. The lecturers at the school include: * Emina Torlak (University of Washington) Solver-Aided Programming * Mooly Sagiv (Tel Aviv University) Modularity for Decidability: Implementing and Semi-Automatically Verifying Distributed Systems * Nikhil Swamy and Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research) Programming and Proving in F* and Low* * Andreas Abel (Chalmers/Gothenburg University) Introduction to Dependent Types and Agda * Dirk Beyer (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany) Software Model Checking The main lectures in the summer school will be preceded by a two-day background course on logic: * Natarajan Shankar (SRI CSL) and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) Speaking Logic We will also have invited talks by * Nina Narodytska (VMWare Research) Verifying Properties of Binarized Deep Neural Networks * Gordon Plotkin (U. Edinburgh, UK) Some Principles of Differentiable Programming Languages Research Papers * Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley) Plato and the Nerd - The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology 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 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT17 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$800 for meals and lodging. Applications should be submitted at the website http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT18 Applicants are urged to submit their applications before April 30, 2018, 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 kutsia at risc.jku.at Thu Mar 1 12:16:00 2018 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:16:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: ICMS'18 Session on Software for Mathematical Reasoning and Applications Message-ID: ============================================================== CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Software for Mathematical Reasoning and Applications http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/icms2018/ Session at the ICMS 2018 International Congress on Mathematical Software South Bend (USA) Notre Dame, 24-27 July 2018 http://icms-conference.org/2018/ ============================================================== AIM AND SCOPE ------------- In addition to traditional software for numerics and symbolics (in algebra, analysis, combinatorics, etc.), more and more software for automated reasoning based on sophisticated general and special reasoning techniques with nice user interfaces enriches the possibilities of working mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers. For this session we welcome reports on - new versions of automated reasoning software - user interfaces for automated reasoning software - new implementations of general and special reasoning techniques - interaction of automated reasoning software with numerical and algebraic software - applications of automated reasoning in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, engineering, education, ... - the use of automated reasoning in the build-up of formal mathematical knowledge bases - and related subjects. ORGANIZERS ---------- Bruno Buchberger (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Tudor Jebelean (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Temur Kutsia (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Alexander Maletzky (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Wolfgang Windsteiger (session manager) (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Short abstract submission: March 31, 2018 Extended abstract submission: April 21, 2018 Organizers decision: April 30, 2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------- Level 1: Submit a short abstract at latest by March 31, 2018. - It should be about 200 words. - It must be in plain text (without using any mathematical symbols, etc). - It must be submitted as an email attachment to the session manager: wolfgang.windsteiger at risc.jku.at - The organizers will make a decision within a week of submission. - If accepted, then it will appear on the conference web page immediately. - If the short abstract is accepted, you may want to proceed to level 2 (not mandatory). Level 2: Submit an extended abstract at latest by April 21, 2018. - It should be a PDF file at least 4 pages and at most 8 pages submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icms2018 - It should follow the guideline: http://icms-conference.org/2018/ICMS_Extended_Abstract_2018.pdf - It should use the LaTeX template http://icms-conference.org/2018/ICMS_Extended_Abstract_2018.txt and the LNCS LaTeX style: http://icms-conference.org/2018/llncs.cls - The organizers will make a decision at latest by April 30, 2018. - If accepted, then it will appear on the conference web page immediately. - If accepted, you will be asked to submit the LaTeX source files via EasyChair by May 7, 2018. - The paper will then be published in the conference proceedings. They will appear as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Level 3: A special issue in some journal (e.g. the Journal of Symbolic Computation) might be organized after the conference depending on the number and the quality of Level 2 submissions. From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Mar 1 14:56:20 2018 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 19:56:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Associate Professor or Professor of Computer Science / University of Oxford Message-ID: Hello, The following job is open to a broad range of areas of computer science. As you know, Oxford has a strong tradition of programming language research. Sam. JOB: Associate Professor of Computer Science / University of Oxford Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford in association with Keble College, Oxford Salary from ?46,336 p.a. Applications are invited for the post of Associate Professor (or Professor) of Computer Science to be held in the Department of Computer Science with effect from 1 October 2018. The successful candidate will also be appointed as Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science at Keble College; Tutors being responsible for the organisation and teaching of their subject within the College. The salary for this position is offered on a scale from ?46,336 p.a., plus substantial additional benefits including an additional pensionable housing allowance of ?9,645 p.a.; eligibility to a housing equity scheme; an academic allowance of ?1,356 p.a. for support for teaching/research; an entertaining allowance of ?476 p.a.; and a graduate student entertainment allowance is payable. Access to a grants scheme and the College?s private medical scheme is also available. The Department of Computer Science is a vibrant and growing academic department, which has a research profile across the entire spectrum of contemporary computing. In terms of research specialism, we seek to appoint an outstanding candidate with expertise in one of the ten areas of computer science that the department currently focusses on: algorithms & complexity theory; artificial intelligence and machine learning; automated verification; computational biology and health informatics; cyber-physical systems; foundations, structures, and quantum; human-centred computing; information systems; programming languages; and security. You will be a member of both the University and the college community; part of a lively and intellectually stimulating research community with access to the excellent research facilities which Oxford offers. You will have a role to play in the running of the College as a member of the Governing Body and a trustee of the College as a charity. You will hold a doctorate in computer science, or a related subject, 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, and experience of research collaborations at both national and international level. Our staff and students come from all over the world and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diversity groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example maternity leave. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive interview process and will reimburse up to ?250 towards any additional care costs (for a dependent child or adult) incurred as a result of attending an interview for this position. Closing date for applications: 12.00 noon on 21 March 2018. Interviews are expected to be held on 24 April 2018. Vacancy ID: 131217 Further details incl application procedure are available at: http://tinyurl.com/y7ewzaeo From david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Fri Mar 2 07:11:59 2018 From: david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr (David Baelde) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:11:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PARIS workshop @ FLoC 2018 : Programming And Reasoning on Infinite Structures (First CfP) Message-ID: <1ccdbf30-f391-ef99-8ead-34ee9c9feb51@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> Programming And Reasoning on Infinite Structures A workshop affiliated with FSCD at FLOC 2018 July 7&8, 2018 Oxford, UK Developing formal methods to program and reason about infinite data, whether inductive or coinductive, is challenging and subject to numerous recent research efforts. The understanding of the logical and computational principles underlying these notions is reaching a mature stage as illustrated by the numerous advances that have appeared in the recent years. Various examples of this can be viewed in recent works on co-patterns, infinite proof systems for logics with induction and coinduction, circular proofs, guarded recursive type theory, research effort on integrated coinduction in proof assistants, concrete semantics of coinductive computation, recent developments in infinitary rewriting, or the unveiling of the Curry-Howard correspondence between temporal logics and functional reactive programming, to name a few. The workshop aims at gathering researchers working on these topics as well as colleagues interested in understanding the recent results and open problems of this line of research: - For outsiders, the workshop will offer tutorial sessions and survey-like invited talks. - For specialists of the topic, the workshop will permit to gather people working with syntactical or semantical methods, people focusing on proof systems or programming languages, and foster exchanges and discussions benefiting from their various perspectives. We are seeking for short submissions (~3-4 pages long) presenting (i) new completed results (ii) work in progress, or (iii) advertising recently published results. The workshop is affiliated with FSCD 2018, as part of the Federated Logic Conference of 2018 and is funded by French ANR, RAPIDO project. ** Important dates and submission details: Submissions: April 15 Notification: May 15 Final abstract: May 25 Workshop: July 7 and 8 Submission page: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paris18 Website: https://www.irif.fr/~saurin/RAPIDO/PARIS-2018/ ** Program Committee: Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University) David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris; co-chair) Amina Doumane (LIP, ENS Lyon) Martin Lange (University of Kassel) Rasmus M?gelberg (IT University of Copenhagen) Luke Ong (University of Oxford) Andrew Polonsky (Appalachian State University) Colin Riba (LIP, ENS Lyon) Alexis Saurin (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot; co-chair) Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana) ** Invited speakers: A tutorial and two invited talks will be announced shortly. ** Topics: Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for the workshop are: - Proof systems: proof system for logics with least and greatest fixed points, infinitary and cyclic/circular proof systems - Calculi: infinitary rewriting, infinitary ?-calculi, co-patterns - Type systems: infinitary type systems, guarded recursive type theory - Curry-Howard correspondence to linear temporal logic and functional reactive programming - Semantics: denotational and interactive semantics for infinite data and computations - Tools: extensions of programming languages and proof assistants to better treat infinite data, results on extending programming languages with primitives for manipulating infinite data such as streams in a more structured and convenient way, coinductive proof methods in proof assistants - Proof theory and verification: the workshop will welcome works demonstrating how proof-theoretical investigations can be applied to model-checking problems, e.g. as in recent studies of higher-order recursive schemes or infinitary proofs. From bob.atkey at gmail.com Fri Mar 2 07:36:09 2018 From: bob.atkey at gmail.com (Robert Atkey) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 12:36:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Mathematically Structured Functional Programming 2018: Call for Papers Message-ID: <8f9cb5b5-44a7-89cb-7866-0dcdd58724b1@gmail.com> Seventh Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/ ** New this time: additional talk proposal category ** ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) ** The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming without temporal logic? Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006, affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS 2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016. Important Dates: ================ Abstract deadline: 5th April (Thursday) Paper deadline: 12th April (Thursday) Notification: 17th May (Thursday) Final version: 14th June (Thursday) Workshop: 8th July (Sunday) Invited Speakers: ================= - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK - Didier Remy, INRIA, France Program Committee: ================== Andreas Abel - Chalmers, Sweden Danel Ahman - INRIA Paris, France Robert Atkey - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair) Jeremy Gibbons - University of Oxford, UK Jennifer Hackett - University of Nottingham, UK Mauro Jaskelioff - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) Clare Martin - Oxford Brookes University, UK Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan Valeria de Paiva - Nuance Communications, US Alexandra Silva - University College London, UK Submission: =========== Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics such as: structured effectful computation structured recursion structured corecursion structured tree and graph operations structured syntax with variable binding structured datatype-genericity structured search structured representations of functions structured quantum computation structure directed optimizations structured types structure derived from programs and data Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if you have any questions about the scope of the workshop. (New this time) We accept two categories of submission: full papers of no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers. Full papers (not two page talk abstracts) must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers and talks must be presented at the workshop by at least one of the authors. The proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a Creative Commons license. We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018. From alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk Fri Mar 2 12:12:01 2018 From: alastair.donaldson at imperial.ac.uk (Alastair Donaldson) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:12:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Two_postdoc_positions_at_Imperial=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9CSecurity_Analysis_for_Graphics_Drivers=E2=80=9D=2C_and?= =?utf-8?q?_=E2=80=9CProgramming_Language_and_System_Support_for_High-Perf?= =?utf-8?q?ormance_Data_Processing=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: <5b3a346e-7911-a9cf-4d9b-a3c56ccb6f7f@imperial.ac.uk> I'd be really grateful if you could pass this on to folks who might be interested, and apologies for multiple copies! I'm pleased to announce two 2.5 year postdoc openings in my research group at Imperial (closing date for both posts is 30 March 2018): - One is on "Programming Language and System Support for High-Performance Data Processing", and is joint with my colleague Dr Jana Giceva.? We want to investigate novel intermediate representation for flexible yet high-performance data processing on modern accelerators, together with surrounding compiler, runtime and verification support.? The breadth of the project allows for some flexibility in the profile of applicants; e.g. candidates with a background in one of high performance computing, operating systems, compilers, or formal verification / testing could be a good fit for the project. - The other is on "Security Analysis for Graphics Drivers".? It is partly a collaboration with the Google Chrome GPU team, and will focus on using novel testing techniques to find defects in graphics drivers (and the components of web browsers and operating systems that interface with graphics drivers) that may pose a security threat.? I wrote a short blog post about this work (https://medium.com/@afd_icl/security-analysis-of-graphics-drivers-14214a2d3189) and it also relates to some work my group have been doing for a while on automated testing for graphics shader compilers.? This position would be a great fit for someone with a compilers background, or with a testing/verification/security background. Equally, the position would be well-suited to someone with expertise in real-time graphics rendering who is keen to learn about reliability and security issues. Both are postdoc posts, but I'll consider excellent pre-doc candidates too. Links to the adverts are at the top of my group page: http://multicore.doc.ic.ac.uk/ Please get in touch if these interest you and you'd like to chat informally. Thanks Ally Donaldson From akcheung at cs.washington.edu Sat Mar 3 21:48:50 2018 From: akcheung at cs.washington.edu (Alvin Cheung) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:48:50 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages 2018 Message-ID: <66f5e39f-dc0f-8881-4686-df1926cdb285@cs.washington.edu> Due to multiple requests, we are extending the submission deadline extended to March 9, 2018. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages (MAPL) http://pldi18.sigplan.org/track/mapl-2018-papers To be held in conjunction with PLDI 2018 in Philadelphia, USA Now in its second edition, MAPL is a forum for researchers to discuss new advances in programming systems and machine learning, and to encourage collaboration and exploration in the areas of mutual benefit. *Call for Papers* The workshop seeks papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning including (and not limited to): - Programming language and compiler support for machine learning applications - Programming language support and implementation of deep learning frameworks - Inductive programming - Probabilistic programming - Application of machine learning to compilation and run-time scheduling - Collaborative human / computer programming - Interoperability between machine learning frameworks and existing code bases - Infrastructure and techniques for mining and analyzing large code bases *Revised Important Dates* Paper submission: Fri March 9 2018 Author notification: Mon April 9 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: Fri May 4 2018 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program chair. On behalf of our organizational committee: Alvin Cheung, University of Washington, USA (Program Chair) Justin Gottschlich, Intel Labs, USA (General Chair) Tatiana Shpeisman, Google, USA (Steering Committee Chair) the following program committee members: Premkumar Devanbu, University of California at Davis, USA Jian-Guang Lou, Microsoft Research Asia, China Abdullah Muzahid, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK Tatiana Shpeisman, Google, USA Rishabh Singh, Microsoft Research, USA Armando Solar-Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Dawn Song, University of California at Berkeley, USA Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh, UK Nesime Tatbul, Intel Labs, USA Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Eran Yahav, Technion, Israel and the following steering committee members: Rajkishore Barik, Intel Labs, USA Stefano Ermon, Stanford University, USA Costin Iancu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, USA From federico.aschieri at tuwien.ac.at Sun Mar 4 11:59:19 2018 From: federico.aschieri at tuwien.ac.at (Federico Aschieri) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 17:59:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Nominations - VCLA Awards 2018 for Master and Bachelor theses (deadline: 15 March) Message-ID: <9FBD7871-DE7C-4838-9055-EC522CC967B0@tuwien.ac.at> VCLA International Student Awards 2018 in Memory of Helmut Veith The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding theses and scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: ? Outstanding Master Thesis Award ? Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (Bachelor thesis or equivalent, 1st cycle of the Bologna process) The main areas of interest are: * Computational Logic, covering theoretical and mathematical foundations such as proof theory, model theory, algorithmic lower and upper bounds, Boolean satisfiability (SAT), QBF, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability modulo theories, automated deduction (resolution, refutation, theorem proving), non-classical logics (substructural logics, multi-valued logics, deontic logics, modal and temporal logics), computational complexity (complexity analysis, parameterized complexity, decomposition methods). * Databases and Artificial Intelligence, concerned with logical methods for modeling, storing, and drawing inferences from data and knowledge. This includes subjects like query languages based on logical concepts (Datalog, variants of SQL, XML, and SPARQL), novel database-theoretical methods (schema mappings, information extraction and integration), logic programming, knowledge representation and reasoning (ontologies, answer-set programming, belief change, inconsistency handling, argumentation, planning). * Verification, concerned with logical methods and automated tools for reasoning about the behavior and correctness of complex state-based systems such as software and hardware designs as well as hybrid systems. This ranges from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems. The award is dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aims to carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these areas. Award The Outstanding Master Thesis Award is accompanied by a prize of ? 1200, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of ? 800. Additionally, the winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony during the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018 in Oxford. Eligibility The degree must have been awarded between November 15th 2015 and December 31st 2017. Students who obtained the degree at TU Wien are excluded from the nomination. Important dates Submission deadline: March 15, 2018 (anywhere on Earth) Notification of decision: End of May 2018 Award ceremony: July 2018 (during FLoC, details to be announced) Nomination Procedures For nomination instructions, please visit http://logic-cs.at/award-call-2018/ Kindly address all inquiries to award at logic-cs.at VCLA Award Chairs 2018 Robert Ganian (committee co-chair) Magdalena Ortiz (general chair) Revantha Ramanayake (committee co-chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Sun Mar 4 12:44:36 2018 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Mihaela Rozman) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:44:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] JOB 16 PhD Positions on Logical Methods in Computer Science 30 percent for Female Candidates Message-ID: <022801d3b3e0$76c14460$6443cd20$@tuwien.ac.at> TU Wien, TU Graz, and JKU Linz are seeking exceptionally talented and motivated students for their joint doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS). The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 4 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund. http://logic-cs.at/phd/ THE PROGRAM LogiCS focuses on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful applicants will work on interdisciplinary research topics covering (i) computational logic, (ii) databases and artificial intelligence, (iii) computer-aided verification, and (iv) emerging application domains, such as cyber-physical systems, distributed systems, and security & privacy. FACULTY MEMBERS Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer science community. Students are supervised by leading researchers in their fields: E. Bartocci A. Biere R. Bloem A. Ciabattoni G. Gottlob T. Eiter R. Grosu L. Kovacs M. Maffei M. Ortiz U. Schmid M. Seidl S. Szeider G. Weissenbacher S. Woltran Details are provided on http://logic-cs.at/faculty/ POSITIONS AND FUNDING We are looking for 16 doctoral students, where 30% of the positions are reserved for highly qualified female candidates. The doctoral positions are funded for a period of 4 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (details: http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/). Additional positions will be available through other funding. HOW TO APPLY Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS web-page http://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Candidates with comparable achievements (e.g., bachelor of honors) may be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. The positions will be filled on continuous basis till October 2018. The evaluation of applications will start on 1st of March, 2018. STUDYING AND LIVING IN AUSTRIA Austria has a vibrant and highly active and successful logic in computer science community. Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps, are surrounded by beautiful nature. Vienna is constantly ranked the city with the highest quality of life in the world. Austria has an exciting cultural scene, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, varied cuisine, and famous coffee houses. For further information please contact: info at logic-cs.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sun Mar 4 14:24:09 2018 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 16:24:09 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?25th_WoLLIC_2018_=28Bogot=C3=A1=2C_Col?= =?utf-8?q?ombia=29_-_DEADLINE_APPROACHING?= Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] DEADLINE APPROACHING 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/i nstructions.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 Katalin Bimbo (Univ of Alberta, Canada) Xavier Caicedo (Univ de Los Andes, Colombia) Jos? Meseguer (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Guillermo Simari (Univ Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Renata Wassermann (Univ de S?o Paulo, Brazil) SPECIAL SCREENING - A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY AND LEGACY OF RAYMOND SMULLYAN As a tribute to the memory and legacy of the late Raymond Smullyan, who passed away in February 2017, there will be a special session with a screening of the documentary film "This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan" (Dir. Tao Ruspoli, 2006, 30min), as well as short testimonies by experts. 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... 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 528 bytes Desc: not available URL: From bart at unica.it Mon Mar 5 05:13:56 2018 From: bart at unica.it (Massimo Bartoletti) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:13:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 11th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2018) Message-ID: <4c360a0a-1d7d-899a-18b8-af32b90b522a@unica.it> ICE 2018 11th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 20-21, 2018, Madrid, Spain Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2018 === Highlights === - Distinctive selection procedure involving friendly forum interaction - ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings - ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or preliminary work - Submission deadline: April 6 - Invited talks: TBA - Publication in EPTCS - Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed) === Important Dates === April 6, 2018...........................Paper submission April 6-May 11, 2018....................Reviews and PC discussion May 14, 2018............................Notification to authors June 20-21, 2018........................ICE in Madrid July 15, 2018...........................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. Last year we adopted a successful 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. Research papers should be 3-16 pages plus at most 2 pages of references. Short research papers are welcome; for example a 5 page short paper fits this category perfectly. - Oral communications 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 papers of 1-5 pages would be appreciated. For example, a one page summary of previously published work is welcome in 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 ?Oral 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=ice2018). === 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 === TBA === Program Committee === Rab?a Ameur-Boulifa (Telecom-ParisTech, FR) Simon Bliudze (?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, CH) Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, IT) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT) Stefano Calzavara (University Ca? Foscari Venezia, IT) Tzu-Chun Chen (TU Darmstadt, DE) Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, USA) Tiziana Cimoli (University of Cagliari, IT) Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) Michell Guzm?n (Universidad del Valle, CO) Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, DK) Nils Jansen (The University of Texas at Austin, US) Christos Kloukinas (City University London, UK) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) Julien Lange (University of Kent, UK) Michael Lienhardt (University of Bologna, IT) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) Jean Marie Madiot (ENS Lyon, FR) Anastasia Mavridou (Vanderbilt University, US) Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) Claudio Mezzina (IMT Lucca, IT) Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK) Jorge Perez (University of Groningen, NL) Kristin Peters (TU Berlin, DE) Matteo Sammartino (University College of London, UK) Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK) Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT) Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT) Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT) Johannes ?man Pohjola (Chalmers University, SE) === 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 (University of Pisa, IT) 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 ten 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, 2016 in Heraklion, Greece, co-located with DisCoTec?16. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 223) and a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 92). * June 21-22 2017 in Neuch?tel, Switzerland, co-located with DisCoTec?17. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 261) and a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation. -- ======================================================================= Massimo Bartoletti Dip. Matematica e Informatica Phone: +39 070 6758540 University of Cagliari Fax: +39 070 6758504 Via Ospedale, 72 Email: bart at unica.it I-09124 Cagliari - ITALY WWW: blockchain.unica.it ======================================================================= From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Mon Mar 5 09:32:14 2018 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Kordy) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:32:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2018) - Call for Papers Message-ID: The Fifth International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Oxford, UK - July 8, 2018 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2018 In conjunction with FLoC 2018 SCOPE The use of graphical security models to represent and analyse the security of systems has gained an increasing research attention over the last two decades. Formal methods and computer security researchers, as well as security professionals from the industry and government, have proposed various graphical security models, metrics, and measurements. Graphical models are used to capture different security facets and address a range of challenges including security assessment, automated defence, secure services composition, security policy validation, and verification. For example, attack graphs, attack trees, attack?defence trees, and attack countermeasure trees represent possible ways of attacking and defending a system while misuse cases and mal-activity diagrams capture threats and abusive behaviour of users. TOPICS This year, we are particularly keen to encourage excellent submissions related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings: ? Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security ? Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security ? Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data and machine learning in security operations ? Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and transportation) ? Risk analysis and management: models of risk management in business and organizational architectures ? Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry. Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality debate at the Workshop. 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 2018 post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2018 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2018 IMPORTANT DATES ? Submission deadline: Sunday, April 15, 2018 ? Acceptance notification: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 ? Workshop: Sunday, July 8, 2018 INVITED SPEAKER Mike Fisk, Chief Information Officer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA Invited talk: Intrusion Tolerance in Complex Cyber Systems PROGRAM CHAIRS ? George Cybenko, Dartmouth College, NH, USA ? David J. Pym, UCL, UK GENERAL CHAIR ? Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, FR PC MEMBERS Ludovic Apvrille, T?l?com ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, France Stefano Bistarelli, Universit? di Perugia, Italy Tristan Caulfield, University College London, UK Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT Atlantique, France Harley Eades, Augusta University, USA Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Ren? Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Guy McCusker, University of Bath, UK Per H?kon Meland, SINTEF Digital, Norway Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA St?phane Paul, Thales Research and Technology, France Sophie Pinchinat, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, France Sa?a Radomirovic, University of Dundee, UK Mari?lle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, Estonia From stephan.merz at loria.fr Mon Mar 5 12:20:35 2018 From: stephan.merz at loria.fr (Stephan Merz) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:20:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] research engineer (postdoc) position at MSR-Inria Joint Centre Message-ID: Although the TLA+ language is set theoretic, the development of the TLA Proof System relies on concepts from type theory, and the position would therefore be of interest of readers of this list. Research team: Tools for Proofs, MSR-INRIA Joint Centre ======================================================= The Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre is offering a 24-month position for a research engineer to contribute to the design and further development of the TLA+ Proof System (TLAPS, http://msr-inria.com/projects/tools-for-proofs). Research Context ================ TLA+ is a language for specifying and reasoning about systems, including concurrent and distributed systems. It is based on first-order logic, set theory, and temporal logic. TLA+ and its tools have been used in industry for more than a decade. More recently, we have extended TLA+ by a language for writing structured formal proofs and have developed TLAPS, a proof checker that contains an interpreter for the proof language and interfaces with different back-end provers, including SMT solvers, the tableau prover Zenon that supports set-theoretic constructions, and a declarative encoding of TLA+ set theory as an object logic in the logical framework Isabelle. TLAPS is integrated into the TLA+ Toolbox, an IDE for TLA+ (http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html). Although it is still under active development, TLAPS is already quite powerful and has been used for several verification projects, in particular in the realm of distributed algorithms (e.g., http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/byzpaxos.html). The current version of TLAPS handles the "action" part of TLA+: first-order formulas with primed and unprimed variables that represent the values of a variable before and after a transition. It also supports the propositional fragment of temporal logic. This fragment is enough for proving safety properties (invariants and step simulation). We have initiated a complete rewrite of the code base, with the aim of providing support for module instantiation and for the full temporal logic of TLA+, which will allow us to prove liveness and refinement properties. Description of the activity of the research engineer ==================================================== The research engineer (post-doctoral) position is funded for 24 months by the Microsoft Research - Inria Joint Centre. You will work together with the members of the TLA+ project, including Damien Doligez, Leslie Lamport, and Stephan Merz on extending the TLA+ Proof System. Your main objective will be to complete the rewrite of the existing version of TLAPS so that it can be released to users of the prover. You will also be able to work on extensions of existing functionality, including the following items: - Module instantiation. The TLA+ language contains a module system, and modules can have constant and variable parameters in order to make them generic and reusable. When a module is instantiated, parameters can be replaced by constant- and state-level expressions, and these instantiations must be taken into account when generating proof obligations for back-end provers. - Handling temporal logic. Proofs of liveness properties need support for reasoning about first-order temporal logic, such as induction over well-founded orderings. Fairness hypotheses require reasoning over the enabledness of actions. New backend provers need to be set up and integrated into TLAPS for carrying out these proofs. - Improved backend provers. The current backend provers provide decent support for proof obligations mixing first-order logic, elementary set theory, functions, and integer arithmetic. Reasoning about other important data structures such as finite sequences requires low-level user interaction. We are interested in exploiting advances in automatic deduction techniques, such as support for relevant theories in SMT solvers, for enabling a higher degree of automation of such proof steps. - Rigorous validation of soundness. Computing proof obligations involves some subtle transformations, such as distributing the prime operator of TLA+ or handling instantiated ENABLED expressions. We are working on a precise definition of the semantics of the proof language that would help us ensure the soundness of these transformations and give guidelines to the implementation. - Checking SMT proofs. The SMT backend handles most of the proof obligations that occur in practice. The current version of TLAPS assumes the external SMT solver to be correct, but we are interested in reconstructing proofs provided by SMT solvers within Isabelle/TLA+. The Zenon backend already benefits from proof reconstruction. - Performance issues. Proof projects can be large, and TLAPS implements mechanisms, such as fingerprinting proof obligations, that are intended to make the tool scale. Performance bottlenecks should be monitored and avoided, whenever possible. - Case studies and proof libraries. Our work on TLAPS is validated by carrying out case studies, and we provide libraries of lemmas that are useful for many proof projects. We do not expect to be able to address all of these issues within 24 months. The choice of items will be made jointly with the research engineer, also depending on his or her interests and background. Skills and profile of the candidate =================================== You should hold a PhD degree in computer science and have solid knowledge of mathematical logic, as well as implementation skills related to symbolic theorem proving. TLAPS is mainly implemented in OCaml, but some Java programming will be necessary for interfacing TLAPS with the other TLA+ tools. Experience with temporal and modal logics, with interactive theorem provers or with Eclipse could be valuable. Work on TLAPS provides the opportunity to learn about issues of using deductive verification in practice, and there are possibilities to produce publishable research. However, the main focus is on the implementation of components of our tool chain that are missing or need improvement. Given the geographical distribution of the members of the team, we highly value a good balance between the ability to work in a team and the capacity to propose initiatives. Details ======= Location The research engineer can choose between working at the Microsoft Research - Inria Joint Centre in Paris or at the LORIA laboratory in Nancy. Compensation The salary will be between 2900 and 3800 euros, depending on qualifications and experience. Duration The post is for a duration of 2 years, extensible to a 3rd year (depending on funding). Contact ======= Candidates should send a resume and the names and e-mail addresses of two references to Damien Doligez , preferably by March 12, 2018. Please at least let us know by this date if you are interested in the position or if you have any further questions. We intend to hire the research engineer by June, although the exact date is negotiable. From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Tue Mar 6 08:27:20 2018 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:27:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VerifyThis 2018: Call for Participation and Travel Grants Message-ID: <20180306132720.GA23555@tikki.lri.fr> ******************************************************************************** VerifyThis Verification Competition 2018 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- TRAVEL GRANTS Competition to be held at ETAPS 2018 http://verifythis.ethz.ch ******************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Grant application deadline: March 12, 2018 Competition: April 14 and 15, 2018 ABOUT VerifyThis 2018 is a program verification competition taking place as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2018) on April 14-15, 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is the 7th event in the VerifyThis competition series. The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural language and pseudo code. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the specification. There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have the input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged for correctness, completeness, and elegance. PARTICIPATION: Participation is open for anybody interested. Teams of up to two people are allowed. Registration for ETAPS workshops and physical presence on site is required. We particularly encourage participation of: - student teams (this includes PhD students) - non-developer teams using a tool someone else developed - several teams using the same tool TRAVEL GRANTS: The competition has funds for a limited number of travel grants. A grant covers the incurred travel and accommodation costs up to a certain limit. The expected limit is EUR 350 for those coming from Europe and EUR 600 for those coming from outside Europe. To apply for a travel grant, send an email to verifythis at cs.nuim.ie by March 12, 2018. The application should include: - your name - your affiliation - the verification system(s) you plan to use at the competition - the planned composition of your team - a short letter of motivation explaining your involvement with formal verification so far - if you are a student, please state the academic degree you are seeking and have your supervisor send a brief letter of support to verifythis at cs.nuim.ie ORGANIZERS * Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands * Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland * Peter M?ller, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Andrei Paskevich, Paris-Sud University, France * Gidon Ernst, National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan CONTACT Email: verifythis at cs.nuim.ie Web: http://verifythis.ethz.ch From dario.dellamonica at unina.it Wed Mar 7 02:13:40 2018 From: dario.dellamonica at unina.it (Dario Della Monica) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:13:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Logic_Col=C2=ADlo=C2=ADquium_2018_=28L?= =?utf-8?q?C18=29=3A_2nd_call_for_contributions?= Message-ID: 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 grant applications: May 4, 2018 Deadline for early registration: May 23, 2018 Main event: July 23 (9am)- July 28 (1pm) TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: ================== U. Sattler (University of Manchester) K. Tent (WWU M?nster) 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) ??? - Speakers: C. Conley (Carnegie Mellon University) ??? ??? ??? ??? J. Melleray (Universit? Lyon I) ??? ??? ??? ??? T. Tsankov (Universit? Paris Diderot) ??? ??? ??? ??? R. Tucker-Drob (Texas A&M University) * Model theory: ??? - Chairs: ??? E. Casanovas (Universitat de Barcelona) ??? ??? ??? ??? F. Wagner (Universit? Lyon I) ??? - Speakers: A. Deloro (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie) ??? ??? ??? ??? I. Goldbring (UC Irvin) ??? ??? ??? ??? N. Hempel (UCLA) ??? ??? ??? ??? N. Ramsey (UC Berkeley) * Proof theory and constructivism: ??? - Chairs: ??? S. Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) ??? ??? ??? ??? G. Sambin (Universit? degli Studi di Padova) ??? - Speakers: R. Akiyoshi (Waseda University) ??? ??? ??? ??? M. Escard? (University of Birmingham) ??? ??? ??? ??? A. Palmigiano (TU Delft) ??? ??? ??? ??? C. Xu (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) * Temporal and multivalued logics: ??? - Chairs: ??? B. Gerla (Universit? dell'Insubria) ??? ??? ??? ??? M. Lange (Universit?t Kassel) ??? - Speakers:??? A. Kurucz (King's College London) ??? ??? ??? ??? D. Mundici (Universit? degli Studi di Firenze) ??? ??? ??? ??? P. K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; IIT Mumbai) ??? ??? ??? ??? A. Vidal (Czech Academy of Sciences) * Computability theory: ??? - Chairs: ??? P. Shafer (University of Leeds) ??? ??? ??? ??? A. Sorbi (Universit? di Siena 1240) ??? - Speakers: J. Franklin (Hofstra University) ??? ??? ??? ??? T. Kihara (Nagoya University) ??? ??? ??? ??? S. Ng (Nanyang Technological University) ??? ??? ??? ??? L. B. Westrick (University of Connecticut) * Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: ??? - Chairs: ??? J. Kennedy (University of Helsinki) ??? ??? ??? ??? G. Sagi (University of Haifa) ??? - Speakers:??? B. Halimi (Universit? Paris Nanterre) ??? ??? ??? ??? S. Hewitt (University of Leeds) ??? ??? ??? ??? L. Picollo (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen) ??? ??? ??? ??? N. Wyatt (University of Calgary) 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 LaTeX source code, 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). 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. 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 GRANTS: ======================= The ASL, the NSF, and the local organizing committee will make available modest 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 grants and recommendations should be received by 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. The application should follow the instructions on https://lc18.uniud.it/applications Students waiting for the acceptance of a grant application should not register, since the grant may include discounts to the registration fee. After the acceptance, an ad hoc registration form will be available for them. Students whose application is declined will still have time to register before the early registration deadline. ______________________________________________ The event is made possible thanks to the financial support of: * ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) https://www.aslonline.org * NSF (National Science Foundation) https://www.nsf.gov * SILFS (Societ? Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze) http://www.silfs.it * AILA (Associazione Italiana di Logica e sue Applicazioni) http://www.ailalogica.it * Universit? degli Studi di Udine https://www.uniud.it/ * GNSAGA - INdAM http://www.altamatematica.it/gnsaga * Italian Chapter of EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/italian-chapter ______________________________________________ Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL): http://www.aslonline.org ASL newsletters: https://www.aslonline.org/info-newsletter.html -- 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Wed Mar 7 03:15:16 2018 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:15:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP - call for papers Message-ID: ======================================================================= 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/ ======================================================================= Abstract submission deadline: 8 April 2018 Paper submission deadline: 15 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 * Delia Kesner (Universit? Paris Diderot, France) * Kuen-Bang Hou, alias Favonia (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) * Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Sunday April 8th Submission deadline: Sunday April 15th Notification to authors: Tuesday May 15th Final version due: Friday May 25th 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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Hence, the automation of proof search in these logics is a crucial task. AIMS AND SCOPE The ARQNL workshop aims at fostering the development of proof calculi, automated theorem proving systems and model finders for all sorts of quantified non-classical logics. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss recent developments in this area. The contributions may range from theory to system descriptions and implementations. Contributions may also outline relevant applications, describe problem formalizations, example problems, and benchmarks. We welcome contributions from computer scientists, linguists, philosophers, and mathematicians. Topics of the ARQNL workshop will cover all aspects related to the automation of quantified non-classical logics, including but not limited to: * Proof theory, semantics, meta theory, and cut-elimination * Proof search calculi, including sequent calculi, tableau calculi, connection calculi, resolution calculi, and instance-based calculi * Modal logic, conditional logic, intuitionistic logic, description logic, temporal logic, linear logic, multivalued logic, dynamic logic, deontic logic, fuzzy logic, paraconsistent logic, relevance logic, free logic, and natural logic * Techniques, strategies and heuristics to deal with first-order or higher-order quantification * Implementation of theorem provers and experimental evaluations * Problem libraries and benchmarking for theorem provers * Applications, formalizations, and example problems * User interfaces, proof representation, and syntax issues ARQNL 2018 is associated with IJCAR 2018, the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, which is part of FLoC. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions of papers are solicited in two categories: - Full papers (up to 15 pages) - Short papers, talk abstracts, system demonstrations (up to 8 pages) Submission is electronically, through EasyChair (see the ARQNL website for further details). Submissions will be refereed by the programme committee, and evaluated with respect to relevance, originality, and correctness. Proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEURWS) or the EasyChair Proceedings in Computing (EPiC) series. They will also be included on the FLoC USB flash drive distributed to all participants. We will also consider producing a special issue of a recognized journal on the topic of the workshop. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Christoph Benzm?ller (Freie Universit?t Berlin), co-chair Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro (Royal Holloway Univ. of London) Marcelo Finger (University of S?o Paulo) Didier Galmiche (LORIA -- Universit? de Lorraine) Rajeev Gor? (The Australian National University) Andreas Herzig (IRIT-CNRS) Sven Linker (University of Liverpool) Aniello Murano (University of Naples Federico II) Hans De Nivelle (University of Wroc?aw) Jens Otten (University of Oslo), co-chair Valeria De Paiva (Nuance Communications) Xavier Parent (University of Luxembourg) Revantha Ramanayake (Vienna University of Technology) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University) Leila Ribeiro (Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul) Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo (The Australian National University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be Wed Mar 7 08:11:56 2018 From: raoul.strackx at cs.kuleuven.be (Raoul Strackx) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 14:11:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [ESSoS'18] International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (Deadline in 2 days!) Message-ID: +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | 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 P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Wed Mar 7 09:34:55 2018 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:34:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming, 11-13 june 2018, Chalmers Campus Johanneberg, Gothenburg Message-ID: ----------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S ----------------------------- ======== TFP 2018 =========== 19th Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming 11-13 June, 2018 Chalmers Campus Johanneberg, Gothenburg http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~myreen/tfp2018/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 at scope). Please be aware that TFP uses two distinct rounds of submissions (see below at submission details). TFP 2018 will be the main event of a pair of functional programming events. TFP 2018 will be accompanied by the International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE), which will take place on June 14. == 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 2018 program chairs, Micha? Pa?ka and Magnus Myreen. == 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 == We use EasyChair for the refereeing process. The link to the submission page is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp2018 Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium. == Pre-symposium formal review == Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be submitted before an early deadline and receive their reviews and notification of acceptance for both presentation and publication before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected in this process may still be accepted for presentation at the symposium, but will not be considered for the post-symposium formal review. == Post-symposium formal review == Draft papers will receive minimal reviews and notification of acceptance for presentation at the symposium. 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. == Paper categories == Draft papers and papers submitted for formal review are submitted as 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. == Format == Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site. == Important Dates == Submission (pre-symposium review): March 26, 2018 Submission (draft, post-symposium review): April 26, 2018 Notification (pre- and post-symposium review): May 3, 2018 Registration: June 3, 2018 TFP Symposium: June 11-13, 2018 TFPIE Workshop: June 14, 2018 Student papers feedback: June 21, 2018 Submission (post-symposium review): August 14, 2018 Notification (post-symposium review): September 20, 2018 Camera-ready paper (pre- and post-symposium review): November 30, 2018 == Program Committee == Program Co-chairs Micha? Pa?ka, Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Magnus Myreen, Chalmers University of Technology (SE) Program Committee Soichiro Hidaka, Hosei University (JP) Meng Wang, University of Bristol (UK) Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University Bloomington (US) Tiark Rompf, Purdue University (US) Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University (US) Neil Sculthorpe, Nottingham Trent University (UK) Andres L?h, Well-Typed LLP (UK) Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology (EE) Cosmin E. Oancea, University of Copenhagen (DK) Mauro Jaskelioff, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (AR) Peter Achten, Radboud University (NL) Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research (UK) Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Rep?blica (UY) Natalia Chechina, University of Glasgow (UK) Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen (DK) Scott Owens, University of Kent (UK) From jes at math.uminho.pt Wed Mar 7 14:55:24 2018 From: jes at math.uminho.pt (=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=c3=a9_Carlos_Esp=c3=adrito_Santo?=) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 19:55:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Types 2018: Deadline extension Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting) FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -*DEADLINE EXTENSION (12 MARCH)* 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 NEW Important dates: * submission of 2 pp abstract: 12 March 2018 * notification of acceptance/rejection: 20 April 2018 * camera-ready version of abstract: 14 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, a post-proceedings volume will published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open to 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? 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Papers should be written in English and not exceed 12 pages in ACM format for full papers (6 pages for WiP, industry, and tool papers). You can also submit posters, which can be accompanied by a one-page abstract, and are due on August 6, 2018. The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. See the conference homepage for details on paper formats and submission. ============ Organization ============ General Chair: Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Program Chair: Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA Steering Committee: Walter Binder, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Martin Pluemicke, DHBW Stuttgart, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Thomas W?rthinger, Oracle Labs, Switzerland Program Committee: Godmar Back, Virginia Tech, USA Clement Bera, INRIA, France Christoph Bockisch, Philipps Universit?t Marburg, Germany Man Cao, Google, USA Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada Julian Dolby, IBM Research, USA Patrick Eugster, University of Lugano, Switzerland Irene Finocchi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy G?rel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Tony Hosking, Purdue University, USA Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA Eliot Moss, University of Massachusetts, USA Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA Jennifer B. Sartor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium JeremyJan Vitek, Northeastern University, USA Christian Wimmer, Oracle Labs, USA Jianjun Zhao, Kyushu University, Japan ======== Location ======== Linz, the capital of Upper Austria, is both a city of culture and of industry. Located at the Danube it features a historic downtown and a modern university campus just north of the Danube, where the conference will take place. For information on JKU and Linz, also see: http://www.jku.at, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linz and https://www.linz.at/english/ ================= Other Information ================= The 5th Virtual Machine Meetup (VMM) is a collocated event with ManLang '18. It is a venue for discussing the latest research and developments in the area of managed language execution. ManLang'18 is organized in cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGPLAN and ACM ICPS, and is sponsored by the JKU Department of Computer Science, Oracle Labs, and Linz AG. http://ssw.jku.at/manlang18/ https://www.facebook.com/ManLangConf/ https://twitter.com/manlangconf From m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk Thu Mar 8 09:12:05 2018 From: m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk (Matteo Sammartino) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 14:12:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- FLoC 2018 Workshop Message-ID: Call for Papers: Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- FLoC 2018 Workshop July 13, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Website: https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 24 March 2018 Learning models defining recursive computations, like automata and formal grammars, are the core of the field called Grammatical Inference (GI). The expressive power of these models and the complexity of the associated computational problems are major research topics within the mathematical logic and computer science communities, spanning the international conferences that the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) brings together. Historically, there has been little interaction between the GI and FLoC communities, though recently some important results started to bridge the gap between both worlds, including applications of learning to formal verification and model checking, and (co-)algebraic formulations of automata and grammar learning algorithms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic who could benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in grammatical inference who could find in logic and verification new fruitful applications for their methods. We invite submissions of recent work, including preliminary research, related to the theme of the workshop. Similarly to how main machine learning conferences and workshops are organized, all accepted abstracts will be part of a poster session held during the workshop. Additionally, the Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to represent it at the workshop. LearnAut 18 is also coordinating with the International Conference on Grammatical Inference (ICGI, http://icgi2018.pwr.edu.pl/) which publishes its proceedings in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR: http://proceedings.mlr.press/). Selected LearnAut papers will be offered the possibility to have an extended version published in the proceedings of ICGI. Authors of such papers will be expected to submit the extended version by the ICGI deadline, which will then undergo an additional (light) review process by the ICGI program committee. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Computational complexity of learning problems involving automata and formal languages. - Algorithms and frameworks for learning models representing language classes inside and outside the Chomsky hierarchy, including tree and graph grammars. - Learning problems involving models with additional structure, including numeric weights, inputs/outputs such as transducers, register automata, timed automata, Markov reward and decision processes, and semi-hidden Markov models. - Logical and relational aspects of learning and grammatical inference. - Theoretical studies of learnable classes of languages/representations. - Relations between automata and recurrent neural networks. - Active learning of finite state machines and formal languages. - Methods for estimating probability distributions over strings, trees, graphs, or any data used as input for symbolic models. - Applications of learning to formal verification and (statistical) model checking. - Metrics and other error measures between automata or formal languages. ** Invited speakers ** Alexander Clark (King's College London) Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh) Doina Precup (McGill University & DeepMind) ** Submission instructions ** Submissions in the form of extended abstracts must be at most 8 single-column pages long (plus at most four for bibliography and possible appendixes) and must be submitted in the JMLR/PMLR format. The LaTeX style file is available from here: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr We do accept submissions of work recently published or currently under review; however such submissions do not qualify for publication in the ICGI Proceedings. - Submission url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learnaut2018 - Submission deadline: 24 March 2018 - Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2018 - Submission deadline for ICGI proceedings: 15 May 2018 - Registration: http://www.floc2018.org/register/ ** Program Committee ** Dana Angluin (Yale University) Borja Balle (Amazon Research Cambridge) Leonor Becerra-Bonache (Universit? de Saint-Etienne) Jorge Castro (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Fran?ois Denis (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University) Falk Howar (TU Clausthal) Kim Larsen (Aalborg University) Ariadna Quattoni (Naver Labs Europe) Bernhard Steffen (TU Dortmund) Alexandra Silva (University College London) James Worrell (University of Oxford) ** Organizers ** Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University) Guillaume Rabusseau (McGill University) Matteo Sammartino (University College London) From evw at umn.edu Thu Mar 8 11:35:27 2018 From: evw at umn.edu (Eric Van Wyk) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:35:27 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GPCE 2018 Call for Papers: Boston, MA, USA, Nov 5, 6 2018 Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2018) November 5-6, 2018 Boston, MA, USA (co-located with SPLASH 2018) http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 29, 2018 * Submission of papers: July 6, 2018 * Paper notification: August 24, 2018 Submission site: https://gpce18.hotcrp.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. 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 criteria: * 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 CATEGORIES GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. * 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. PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors' own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce18.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair. 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URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Thu Mar 8 15:09:26 2018 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:09:26 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2018 Message-ID: <5aa198766a282_a4e93fdb36057bec23440@landin.local.mail> PACMPL Volume 2, 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](https://pacmpl.acm.org/) 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: open access on payment of a fee (**recommended**, and SIGPLAN can cover the cost as described next); copyright transfer to ACM; or retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights. Further information about ACM author rights is available from . * PACMPL is a Gold Open Access journal. It will be archived in ACM?s Digital Library, but no membership or fee is required for access. Gold Open Access has been made possible by generous funding through ACM SIGPLAN, which will cover all open access costs in the event authors cannot. Authors who can cover the costs may do so by paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). PACMPL, SIGPLAN, and ACM Headquarters are committed to exploring routes to making Gold Open Access publication both affordable and sustainable. * ACM offers authors a range of copyright options, one of which is Creative Commons CC-BY publication; this is the option recommended by the PACMPL editorial board. A reasoned argument in favour of this option can be found in the article [Why CC-BY?](https://oaspa.org/why-cc-by/) published by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. * We intend that the papers 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. * 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. * The official publication date is the date the papers 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 an Artifact Evaluation Committee, separate from the paper Review 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 papers, 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 papers 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 review 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 Volume 2, 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 ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Fri Mar 9 03:28:13 2018 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:28:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ETAPS 2018 - 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Message-ID: <8A142BB3-0290-4159-800C-A8A3AF112956@tuwien.ac.at> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2018 21st European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-20 April 2018 http://www.etaps.org/index.php/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 (14-20 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 Universit?t Dresden, Germany, and Ugo Dal Lago, Universit? di Bologna, Italy) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and Ralf K?sters, University of Stuttgart, Germany) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany, and Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands) TACAS '18 hosts the 7th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) http://sv-comp.sosy-lab.org/2018/ -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speaker: Martin Abadi (Google Brain, USA) Title: On the Theory and Practice of Software that Learns * FASE invited speaker: Pamela Zave (AT&T Labs, USA) Title: When the model really matters: The compositional architecture of the Internet * POST invited speaker: Benjamin C. Pierce (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Title: The Science of Deep Specification * ESOP invited speaker: Derek Dreyer (MPI-SWS, Germany) Title: RustBelt: Logical Foundations for the Future of Safe Systems Programming -- INVITED TUTORIALS Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) Title: Searching, Simplifying, Proving. A Tutorial on Modern SAT Solving Fabio Somenzi (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- See the conference program at: http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2018/program -- SATELLITE EVENTS (14-15 April, 20 April) -- 14 satellite workshops and other events will take place before or after ETAPS 2018. 14-15 April * 14th IFIP WG 1.3 Int. Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS 2018) - Invited speakers: S. Abramsky, C. Kupke, Daniela Petri?an, B. Coecke, A. Kissinger * 9th Int. Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE 2018) - Invited speakers: J. Hoffmann, A. Das * International Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GALOP) - Invited speakers: G. McCusker, M. Mio, U. Sch?pp * VerifyThis Verification Competition 2018 at ETAPS 2018 (VerifyThis2018) * 12th Int. Workshop on Rewriting Logic and its Applications (WRLA 2018) - Invited speakers: S. Escobar, H. Garavel, T. Genet * 5th Int. Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Parameters (SynCoP 2018) + 4th Int. Workshop on Parameterized Verification (PV 2018) - Invited speakers: N. Bertrand, T. Dang, P. Ganty, I. Hasuo, K. Quaas * 6th Workshop on Hot Issues in Security Principles and Trust (HotSpot 2018) * 1st Int. Workshop on Methods and Tools for Rigorous System Design (MeTRiD 2018) - Invited speakers: J. Sifakis, T. Tsiodras 20 April * 3rd Workshop on formal reasoning about Causation, Responsibility, and Explanations in Science and Technology (CREST 2018) * Formal methods for ML-based autonomous systems (FoMLAS) - Invited speakers: J. Rushby, X. Huang, A. Fawzi, M. Castillo-Effen, S. Burton * 2nd Workshop on Learning in Verification (LiVe 2018) - Invited speakers: G. Katz, DJ Dvijotham, P. Kohli * 3rd Workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems (MARS 2018) + 6th Int. Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation (VPT 2018) - Invited speakers: C. Baier, X. Leroy * 4th Int. Workshop on Symbolic and Numerical Methods for Reachability Analysis (SNR 2018) * Workshop on Verification and Synthesis for Software Evolution (VSSE2018) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Friday, 16 March 2018 (23:59 GMT+2). http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2018/registration -- ACCOMMODATION -- The organizers have negotiated special rates from several hotels in Thessaloniki. To benefit from those, follow the instructions on the conference website. -- HOST CITY -- Greece is one of the world's most popular destinations with ancient and modern attractions such as museums of the ancient and Byzantine eras and archaeological sites and cities, all of them with historical monuments which have inspired modern education and culture around the world. Thessaloniki is located in the region of Central Macedonia and as the second largest Greek city it is a significant business hub for Southeast Europe and a remarkable place to visit. Built on the waters of the North Aegean sea, the city and its 1 million inhabitants are renowned for their hospitality and easy going lifestyle. The wider area of Macedonia in Greece was the center of the ancient kingdom of Macedon, where the philosopher Aristotle, the father of formal logic, was born and where he taught Alexander the Great and other important men. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2018 is hosted by the School of of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (http://www.csd.auth.gr/en/ ). The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest university in Greece with about 70.000 students. -- ORGANIZERS Panagiotis Katsaros (General chair), Nick Bassiliades, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou (Workshop chairs), Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angelis, George Rahonis, Lenore Zuck (Tutorials chair), Ezio Bartocci, Simon Bliudze (Publicity chairs) -- SPONSORS - EXHIBITORS Amazon Web Services, Aristotle University Research Committee, Springer, Thessaloniki Convention Bureau, Austrian Airlines -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch Fri Mar 9 10:09:07 2018 From: caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch (Urban Caterina) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:09:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2018: Call for Papers Message-ID: <683B6891-7308-41F2-BF82-543A4C44021E@inf.ethz.ch> --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2018 25th Static Analysis Symposium Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, August 29th-August 31st, 2018 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------- = = = New: Invited Talks, Invited Tutorials, Affiliated Events = = = = = = Submission deadline approaching: April 6th, 2018 = = = 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 25th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2018, will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Previous symposia were held in New York, 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. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Topics The technical program for SAS 2018 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 15 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices (we may admit additional pages for the final version). Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Submissions are handled online: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas20180 Artifact Evaluation 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 criterion whose sole purpose is to find additional positive arguments for the paper's acceptance. Furthermore, an Artifact Evaluation Committee will assess artifacts and will award an "Artifact Approved" stamps to accepted papers that come with an artifact that allows to reproduce the results presented in the paper. Submissions without artifacts are welcome and will not be penalized. Important Dates - Full paper submission: April 6th, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Artifact submission: April 20th, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Notification: June 5th, 2018 - Final version due: July 6th, 2018 - Conference: August 29th-August 31st, 2018 Radhia Cousot Young Researcher 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. Invited Talks - Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Program Fairness through the Lens of Formal Methods - Zak Kincaid (Princeton University, USA) Non-linear Invariant Generation via Recurrence Analysis - Ruzica Piskac (Yale University, USA) Firewall Repair and Verification of Configuration Files - Sharon Shoham (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Verification of Distributed Systems Using First-Order Logic Invited Tutorials - Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma/BUGSENG, Italy) MISRA C and its Role in the Development of Safety- and Security-Critical Embedded Software - Ken McMillan (Microsoft Research, USA), Oded Padon (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Ivy: Safety Verification by Interactive Generalization - Peter O'Hearn (University College London/Facebook, UK) Experiences developing and deploying a concurrency analysis at Facebook Affiliated Events - 9th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology (SASB 2018) Chairs: Tatjana Petrov (IST Austria, Austria) and Ankit Gupta (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - 9th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis (TAPAS 2018) Chair: Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia Srl, Italy) Program Chair - Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) Program Committee - Domagoj Babic (Google Inc., USA) - Sam Blackshear (Facebook, USA) - Marc Brockschmidt (Microsoft Research, UK) - Swarat Chaudhuri (Rice University, USA) - Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - Jerome Feret (INRIA/ENS/CNRS, France) - Ashutosh Gupta (TIFR, India) - Nicolas Halbwachs (Verimag/CNRS, France) - Lukas Holik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) - Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, USA) - Hakjoo Oh (Korea University, South Korea) - Sylvie Putot (?cole Polytechnique, France) - Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, Italy) - Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund University, Germany) - Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) - Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - Harald Sondergaard (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Alexander J. Summers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA) - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) - Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS, Germany) - Florian Zuleger (TU Wien, Austria) Artifact Evaluation Chair - Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) Publicity Chair - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) From pretschn at in.tum.de Sat Mar 10 01:26:17 2018 From: pretschn at in.tum.de (Alexander Pretschner) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:26:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?MARKTOBERDORF_SUMMER_SCHOOL_2018=3A_CA?= =?utf-8?q?LL_FOR_PARTICIPATION?= Message-ID: <5f2-5aa37a80-f3-42507800@49940681> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MARKTOBERDORF INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ENGINEERING SECURE AND DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS July 31st-August 11th, 2018, Marktoberdorf, Germany An Advanced Study Institute of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme https://sites.google.com/site/marktoberdorf2018/home APPLY ONLINE ON OR BEFORE APRIL 15th: https://sites.google.com/site/marktoberdorf2018/participation *** Lecturers *** John Baras, University of Maryland: Formal Methods and Toolsuites for CPS Security, Safety and Verification Patrick Cousot, University of New York: TBA Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo: SAT and SMT Solvers: A Foundational Perspective Sumit Gulwani, Microsoft: Programming by Examples Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo: Algorithmic Logic-based Verification Joseph Halpern, Cornell University: An Epistemic Foundation for Authentication Logics Rupak Majumdar: MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern: Formal Methods for Software Controlling the Physical World Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University: Qualitative and quantitative information flow with applications to security Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Labs: Maude-NPA and Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols With Equational Theories Peter M?ller, ETH Z?rich, co-director: Building Deductive Program Verifiers Marc Pouzet, ENS Paris: Synchronous Programming of Cyber-physical Systems Alexander Pretschner, TU M?nchen, co-director: Accountability *** Objective: *** Almost all modern technical systems rely crucially on software. Communication, transportation, financial services, healthcare, power supply, military defense, and many other aspects of modern societies require software systems that are both safe and secure. Safe software behaves according to its specification and, in particular, avoids hazards for the environment it is used in. Secure software ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, even when a system is attacked by an adversary. Both safety and security violations potentially cause considerable economic, political, and physical damage. So, improving our understanding of safety and security and, thereby, enhancing our ability to construct safe and secure systems is a vital challenge for our society. The lectures in this summer school give an overview of the state of the art in the construction and analysis of safe and secure systems. Starting from the logical and semantic foundations that enable reasoning about classical software systems, they extend to the development and verification of cyber-physical systems, which tightly combine computational and physical components, and have become pervasive in aerospace, automotive, industry automation, and consumer appliances. Safety and security have traditionally been considered separate; however, several lectures in this summer school will emphasize their commonalities and present analysis and construction techniques that apply to both. *** Marktoberdorf Summer School *** As a follow-up to the famous 1968 conference in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Professor F.L. Bauer from the Technical University of Munich co-organized the first Marktoberdorf Summer School in 1970. We are happy to announce the 39th edition of the most prestigious summer school on software engineering in 2018. http://www.fortiss.org/en/home From bahareh1812 at gmail.com Sat Mar 10 14:43:43 2018 From: bahareh1812 at gmail.com (Bahareh Afshari) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 20:43:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Summer School on Proof Theory Message-ID: 1st International Summer School on Proof Theory Ghent, September 2-5, 2018 http://www.proofsociety.org/summer-school-2018/ Workshop on Proof Theory Ghent, September 6-7, 2018 http://www.proofsociety.org/workshop-2018/ The 1st International Summer School for Proof Theory in Ghent is arranged under the auspices of The Proof Society, and is sponsored by the Kurt G?del Society. The Proof Society has recently been formed to support the notion of proof in its broadest sense, through a series of suitable activities; to be therefore inclusive in reaching out to all scientific areas which consider proof as an object in their studies; to enable the community to shape its future by identifying, formulating and communicating its most important goals; to actively promote proof to increase its visibility and representation. The aim of the summer school is to cover basic and advanced topics in proof theory. The focus of the first edition will be on structural proof theory, ordinal analysis, provability logic, automated theorem proving, and philosophical aspects of proof. Other areas like reverse mathematics, proof mining, and proof complexity will be covered at the workshop, and in follow up summer schools. The intended audience is advanced master students, PhD students, postdocs and experienced researchers in mathematics, computer science and philosophy. The summer school is co-located with a workshop on proof theory in Ghent (6-7 September). The workshop will be the inaugural meeting of The Proof Society. Students are invited to apply with an informal abstract (1 page) to the poster session which will be held as part of the workshop. Scientific Programme ==================== The summer school will provide six courses: Cut Elimination by Matthias Baaz (TU Wien) Ordinals and their applications by Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University) Philosophy of Proof Theory by Carlo Nicolai (King's College London) Provability Logic by David Fernandez Duque (Ghent University) Proof Theory in Computer Science by Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester) Programme Extraction by Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) In addition there will be one special evening lecture: Selected topics from the Theory of Truth by Rafal Urbaniak (Ghent University) Registration ============ Information about registration will be available from the website soon. Programme Committee =================== Bahareh Afshari, University of Gothenburg Matthias Baaz, TU Wien Arnold Beckmann, Swansea University (Chair) Lev Beklemishev, Steklov Mathematical Institute Balthasar Grabmayr, Humboldt University Berlin Rosalie Iemhoff, Utrecht University Joost Joosten, University of Barcelona Antonina Kolokolova, Memorial University of Newfoundland Norbert Preining, Accelia Inc. Andreas Weiermann, Ghent University Local organizing committee ========================== Arnold Beckmann, Swansea University David Belanger, Ghent University David Fernandez-Duque, Ghent University Lenny Neyt, Ghent University Rafal Urbaniak, Ghent University Andreas Weiermann, Ghent University (Chair) From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sun Mar 11 10:30:46 2018 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy de Queiroz) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 11:30:46 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?25th_WoLLIC_2018_=28Bogot=C3=A1=2C_Col?= =?utf-8?q?ombia=29_-_DEADLINE_EXTENDED?= Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] DEADLINE EXTENDED 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/i nstructions.html for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by *Mar 18, 2018,* and the full paper by *Mar 25, 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 Katalin Bimbo (Univ of Alberta, Canada) Xavier Caicedo (Univ de Los Andes, Colombia) Jos? Meseguer (Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Univ Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Guillermo Simari (Univ Nacional del Sur, Argentina) Renata Wassermann (Univ de S?o Paulo, Brazil) SPECIAL SCREENING - A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY AND LEGACY OF RAYMOND SMULLYAN As a tribute to the memory and legacy of the late Raymond Smullyan, who passed away in February 2017, there will be a special session with a screening of the documentary film "This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan" (Dir. Tao Ruspoli, 2006, 30min), as well as short testimonies by experts. 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 18, 2018: Paper title and abstract deadline (EXTENDED)* *Mar 25, 2018: Full paper deadline (EXTENDED)* 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 gvidal at dsic.upv.es Mon Mar 12 04:38:10 2018 From: gvidal at dsic.upv.es (German Vidal) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:38:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second call for Papers: HVCS'18 - 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis Message-ID: <3517B91D-F47F-4AE5-B52D-92DC5C3E1023@dsic.upv.es> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (apologies for multiple copies) Call for Papers 5th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Affiliated with ICLP at FLoC 2018 July 13, 2018 - Oxford, UK https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs18/ Invited speakers: Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute) Hiroshi Unno (University of Tsukuba) Submission deadlines: - Paper submission: 15 April 2018 - Paper notification: 15 May 2018 - Camera-ready: 31 May 2018 - Workshop: 13 July 2018 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 four previous meetings: HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden (w/CADE), 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. Program Committee: - Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) - Maria Alpuente (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) - Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) - Giorgio Delzanno (Universita degli Studi di Genova) - Fabio Fioravanti (University of Chieti-Pescara) - John Gallagher (Roskilde University and IMDEA Software Institute) - Pierre-Loic Garoche (ONERA) - Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo) - Temesghen Kahsai (Amazon) -chair - Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt University) - David Monniaux (CNRS/Verimag) - Jorge A. Navas (SRI International) - Carlos Olarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) - Maurizio Proietti (IASI-CNR) - Philipp Rummer (Uppsala University) - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich) - German Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) -chair 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 http://www.eptcs.org/ 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Mar 12 06:43:39 2018 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:43:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Midlands Graduate School 2018 - final call for participation Message-ID: Dear all, There are just a few days left now to register for this years Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in Nottingham: eight fantastic courses on dependently typed programming, categories, lambda calculus, semantics, and more. Registration closes on Friday 16th March. Please share! http://tinyurl.com/MGS18NOTT Best wishes, Graham Hutton and Henrik Nilsson ========================================================== Midlands Graduate School 2018 9-13 April 2018, Nottingham, UK http://tinyurl.com/MGS18NOTT BACKGROUND: The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science provides an intensive course of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. The MGS has been running since 1999, and is aimed at PhD students in their first or second year of study, but the school is open to everyone, and has increasingly seen participation from industry. We welcome participants from all over the world! COURSES: Eight courses will be given. Participants usually take all the introductory courses and choose additional options from the advanced courses depending on their interests. Invited course - Type-Driven Development with Idris, Edwin Brady Introductory courses - Lambda Calculus, Venanzio Capretta - Category Theory, Roy Crole - Domain Theory and Denotational Semantics, Achim Jung Advanced courses - Univalent Foundations, Benedikt Ahrens - Coalgebra, Alexander Kurz - Separation Logic, Georg Struth - Machine Learning, Michel Valstar REGISTRATION: Registration is ?550 for student, academic and independent participants, and ?850 for industry participants. The fee includes 5 nights single en-suite accommodation (Sun-Thu), lunch and coffee breaks, and the conference dinner. The registration deadline is ** Friday 16th March **. Spaces are limited, so please register early to secure your place. SPONSORSHIP: We offer a range of sponsorship opportunities for industry (bronze, silver, gold and platinum), each with specific benefits. Please see the website for further details. ========================================================== This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law. From xinyu.feng at gmail.com Mon Mar 12 11:33:50 2018 From: xinyu.feng at gmail.com (Xinyu Feng) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:33:50 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SETTA 2018 Message-ID: ********************************************************************* SETTA 2018, Call for Papers 4th International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Beijing, China, September 4 - 6, 2018 (Co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS, and QEST as part of CONFESTA) ****************************** *************************************** *ABOUT* SETTA aims 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. As part of CONFESTA ( http://confesta2018.csp.escien ce.cn/ ), SETTA 2018 will be co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS and QUEST. *TOPICS* 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 multicore programming - Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Mixed-critical applications and systems - Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing - Safety, 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 *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. 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. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page < https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2018 >. All submissions must be in the PDF format. Papers should be written in English. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract deadline: March 23, 2018 - Submission deadline: March 30, 2018 - Author notification: May 18, 2018 - Camera-ready version: June 8, 2018 - Symposium: September 4-6, 2018 *Invited Speakers* - Moshe Vardi (joint keynote speaker for CONFESTA 2018), Rice University - Tao Xie, UIUC - Hongseok Yang, KAIST *ORGANIZERS* General Chair: - Chaochen Zhou (Inst. of Software, CAS, China) Program Co-chairs: - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Markus M?ller-Olm (University of M?nster, Germany) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) Program Committee: - Farhad Arbib (CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Sanjay Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Lei Bu (Nanjing University, China) - Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) - Yan Cai (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Taolue Chen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Yuan Feng (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Dan Hao (Peking University, China) - Maritta Heisel (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Raymond Hu (Imperial College London, UK) - He Jiang (Dalian Univerisyt of Technology, China) - Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University, China) - Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Guoqiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) - Ting Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Tongping Liu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) - Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HongKong) - Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy and LORIA, France) - Markus M?ller-Olm (University of M?nster, Germany) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Fu Song (ShanghaiTech University, China) - Zhendong Su (University of California, Davis, USA) - Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) - Walid Mohamed Taha (Halmstad University, Sweden) - Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) - Cong Tian (Xidian Univeristy, China) - Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Chao Wang (University of Southern California, USA) - Ji Wang (NUDT, China) - Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Xin Xia (Monash University, Australia) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) - Shin Yoo (KAIST, Korea) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While the workshop prioritises contributions on the formal modelling and analysis of engineered biosystems, we also encourage submissions where either formal verification is applied to natural biosystems, or techniques complementary to formal methods are used for the study of engineered biosystems, including but not limited to: - DNA computing, DNA robotics, and other forms of natural information processing, sensing, and actuation, - (stochastic) chemical reaction networks, - engineered transcription networks and other synthetic biology applications. Relevant modelling and analysis techniques include: - automated verification, - formal languages and methods, - computer-aided design tools (e.g. automated synthesis), - equivalence and abstraction of systems, - static analysis, - constraints modelling, - other analysis methods (optimisation, dynamical systems, topology, etc) Invited Speakers - Sara-Jane Dunn, Microsoft Research - Andrew J. Turberfield, University of Oxford Format VEMDP 2018 will accept contributions describing novel, in-progress or previously published work. Authors must indicate which of these three categories applies to their submission. We will accept two kinds of contributions: - extended abstracts for oral presentation (3 pages limit, LNCS style), - abstracts for poster presentation (1 page limit, LNCS style). We are currently working towards securing an open special issue in a high-quality journal. Important Dates - Abstract submission: April 15, 2018 - Notification: May 15, 2018 - Camera-ready: May 31, 2018 - Workshop: July 19, 2018 PC co-Chairs - Michael Boemo, University of Oxford - Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research - Frits Dannenberg, Caltech - Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University Program Committee - Claudio Angione, Teesside University - Michael Boemo, University of Oxford - Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research / University of Oxford - Milan ?e?ka, Brno University of Technology - Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research - Frits Dannenberg, California Institute of Technology - David Doty, University of California, Davis - Sara-Jane Dunn, Microsoft Research - Fran?ois Fages, Inria, Universit? Paris-Saclay - Harold Fellermann, Newcastle University - Jerome Feret, INRIA / Ecole Normale sup?rieure - Lila Kari, University of Waterloo - Hillel Kugler, Bar-Ilan University - Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University - Tatjana Petrov, University of Konstanz - Andrew Phillips, Microsoft Research - Amaury Pouly, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems - David ?afr?nek, Masaryk University - Chris Thachuk, California Institute of Technology - Qinsi Wang, Carnegie Mellon University - Erik Winfree, California Institute of Technology - Verena Wolf, Saarland University -- Nicola Paoletti Postdoctoral associate Department of Computer Science - Stony Brook University http://www.nicolapaoletti.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From publicityifl at gmail.com Tue Mar 13 03:48:49 2018 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (Jurriaan Hage) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:48:49 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: IFL 2018 (30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages) Message-ID: Hello, Please, find below the first call for papers for IFL 2018. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL --- ================================================================================ IFL 2018 30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA September 5th-7th, 2018 http://iflconference.org ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2018 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. Topics of interest to IFL 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 ### Submissions and peer-review Differently from previous editions of IFL, IFL 2018 solicits two kinds of submissions: * Regular papers (12 pages including references) * Draft papers for presentations ('weak' limit between 8 and 15 pages) Regular papers will undergo a rigorous review by the program committee, and will be evaluated according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. A set of regular papers will be conditionally accepted for publication. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. Regular papers not accepted for publication will be considered as draft papers, at the request of the author. Draft papers will be screened to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL, and will be accepted for presentation or rejected accordingly. Prior to the symposium: Authors of conditionally accepted papers and accepted presentations will submit a pre-proceedings version of their work that will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. The draft proceedings does not constitute a formal publication. We require that at least one of the authors present the work at IFL 2018. After the symposium: Authors of conditionally accepted papers will submit a revised versions of their paper for the formal post-proceedings. The program committee will assess whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. Our interest is to ultimately accept all conditionally accepted papers. If you are an author of a conditionally accepted paper, please make sure that you address all the concerns of the reviewers. Authors of accepted presentations 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 post-proceedings. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected. ### Publication The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library. 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 ### Important dates Submission of regular papers: May 25, 2018 Submission of draft papers: July 17, 2018 Regular and draft papers notification: July 20, 2018 Deadline for early registration: August 8, 2018 Submission of pre-proceedings version: August 29, 2018 IFL Symposium: September 5-7, 2018 Submission of papers for post-proceedings: November 7, 2018 Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2018 Camera-ready version: February 10, 2019 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Authors submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2018 ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Organization and Program committee Chairs: Jay McCarthy & Matteo Cimini, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Program Committee: * Arthur Chargu??raud, Inria, FR * Ben Delaware, Purdue University, USA * Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University, USA * David Darais, University of Vermont, USA * Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK * Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA * Heather Miller, EPFL & Northeastern University, CH & USA * Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK * Keiko Nakata, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, DE * Laura Castro, University of A Coru??a, ESP * Magnus Myreen, Chalmers University of Technology, SWE * Natalia Chechina, Bournemouth University, UK * Peter Achten, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL * Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA * Richard Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College, USA * Trevor McDonell, University of New South Wales, AUS * Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, JAP ### Venue The 30th IFL will take place at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in Lowell (MA), in association with the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The City of Lowell is located at the heart of the Merrimack Valley just 30 miles northwest of Boston. Lowell can be easily reached by train or taxi. See the website for more information on the venue. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organizers for their work, which is reused here. A part of IFL 2018 format and CFP language that describes conditionally accepted papers has been adapted from call-for-papers of OOPSLA conferences. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nvazou at cs.ucsd.edu Tue Mar 13 06:08:14 2018 From: nvazou at cs.ucsd.edu (Niki Vazou) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:08:14 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: Type-Driven Development 2018 Message-ID: Hello, The first call for contributions for TyDe is out. Forward it to anyone who might be interested. Best, Niki Vazou ============================================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Type 2018: Type-Driven Development https://icfp18.sigplan.org/track/tyde-2018 23-29 Sep, 2018, St. Louis, Missouri (co-located with ICFP) ============================================== *Call for Contributions* 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. *Important Dates* Regular paper deadline: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Extended abstract deadline: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Author notification: Friday, June 29, 2018 Deadline for camera ready version: August 5, 2018 Workshop: Thursday, September 27, 2018 *Program Committee* - Guillaume Allais, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon, USA - David Darais, University of Vermont, USA - Richard Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College, USA (co-chair) - Jennifer Hackett, University of Nottingham, UK - Shin-ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Daan Leijen, Microsoft Research, USA - Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK - Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA - Zoe Paraskevopoulou, Princeton University, USA - Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay - Matthieu Sozeau, University of Paris Diderot, Paris 7, France - Niki Vazou, University of Maryland, USA (co-chair) *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://tyde18.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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr Tue Mar 13 10:35:52 2018 From: Joelle.Despeyroux at inria.fr (Joelle Despeyroux) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:35:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers CMSB 2018 - Computational Methods in Systems Biology In-Reply-To: <96304044-4CE7-4B58-9855-088E2CD2ABD4@fi.muni.cz> References: <96304044-4CE7-4B58-9855-088E2CD2ABD4@fi.muni.cz> Message-ID: <6c92813b-44eb-6976-a3b0-2225c80c7edb@inria.fr> CMSB 2018: 16th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology https://cmsb2018.fi.muni.cz/ 12-14 September 2018, Brno (Czech Republic) Proceedings in Springer's LNCS/LNBI Best papers to be invited for a special section of IEEE/ACM TCBB ===================================================================== The 16th conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB?2018) will take place on the?12th to 14th September 2018?in Brno, Czech Republic. Its aim is to bring together researchers from across biological, mathematical, computational, and physical sciences who are interested in the study, modelling, simulation, advanced analysis, and design of biological systems. CMSB 2018 will be hosted at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. == IMPORTANT DATES == Abstract pre-submission: ??? 20.4.2018 Paper submission: ??? ???? 27.4.2018 Poster abstract submission:??? 27.4.2018 Author notification:??? ???? 8.6.2018 Final version:????? ??? ???? 15.6.2018 == INVITED SPEAKERS == Andrew Tuberfield, University of Oxford, UK Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich, CH Chris J. Myers, University of Utah, US Andrew Phillips, Microsoft Research, UK == TOPICS OF INTEREST == CMSB 2018 solicits original research articles, tool papers, posters, and presentations on the modelling and analysis of biological systems and networks as well as the analysis of biological data. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. It covers the broad field of computational methods and tools in systems and synthetic biology and their applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * formalisms for modelling biological processes * models, methods, tools and their biological applications * frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and simulation of biological systems * high-performance methods for computational systems biology * parameter and model inference from experimental data * automated parameter and model synthesis * model integration and biological databases * multi-scale modelling and analysis methods * design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology * methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices In general, the conference is open to new theoretical results with potential applications to systems and synthetic biology, as well as novel applications and case studies of existing methods, tools, or frameworks. The CMSB 2018 proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar. A selection of best papers will be invited to be extended and submitted to a special section of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. == CALL FOR PAPERS == We solicit high-quality submissions, to be refereed by the Program Committee below, and to be published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS/LNBI) with Springer. Submitted papers will describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. We accept the following two types of paper submissions: * regular papers (max 15 pages excl. references and appendices) * tool papers (max 6 pages incl. references but excl. appendices) == PUBLICATION FORMS and PAPER SUBMISSION == Papers should be written in English and have to be formatted in Springer LNCS style. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus the submissions must be intelligible without them. Papers need to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmsb2018). Tool papers need to be submitted with the tool artefact that will be evaluated by a dedicated committee. Please check the details at the conference website. == CALL FOR OTHER TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS == CMSB 2018 also solicits poster abstracts presenting original unpublished work. The abstracts must be written in English, formatted in Springer LNCS style and should not exceed 2?pages including references. Poster abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair online submission system. PC will select best abstracts for publication in the conference proceedings. In addition to original contributions, CMSB 2018 invites poster abstracts of recent out-standing results already accepted to a recognised journal or a high-quality conference during the last year. Additionally, CMSB 2018 offers the track of oral presentations without full paper or poster submission. We welcome submissions of work that was already published in a journal or that is currently under review or will soon be submitted. For information on all types of contributions and relevant important dates please see the conference website. == PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == Milan Ceska, Brno University of Technology, CZ David Safranek, Masaryk University, CZ == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, AT Nikola Benes, Masaryk University, CZ Luca Bortolussi, Univerity of Trieste, IT Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, UK Milan Ceska, Brno University of Technology, CZ (co-chair) Claudine Chaouiya, Insituto Gulbenkian de Ci?ncia, PT Eugenio Cinquemani, IBIS ? INRIA, Grenoble, FR Thao Dang, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, FR Hidde de Jong, IBIS ? INRIA, Grenoble FR Francois Fages, INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, FR Jerome Feret, INRIA, Paris, FR Christoph Flamm, University of Vienna, AT Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University, US Monika??? Heiner, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE Jane Hillston, The University of Edinburgh, UK Heinz Koeppl, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, DE Jean Krivine, IRIF, Paris Diderot University, FR Oded Maler, VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, FR Tommaso Mazza, RCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ? Mendel, IT Satoru Miyano, The University of Tokyo, JP Andrzej Mizera, LIH Luxembourg Institute of Health, LU Laura Nenzi, Vienna University of Technology, AT Nicola Paoletti, Stony Brook University, USA Loic Pauleve, CNRS/LRI, FR Ion Petre, Abo Akademi Turku, FI Tatjana??? Petrov, Universit?t Konstanz, DE Carla Piazza, University of Udine, IT Ovidiu Radulescu, University of Montpellier 2, FR Olivier Roux, Ecole Centrale Nantes, FR Guido Sanguinetti, The University of Edinburgh, UK Thomas Sauter, University of Luxembourg, LU Heike Siebert, Freie Universit?t Berlin, DE Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, US David Safranek, Masaryk University, CZ Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, US Chris Thachuk, California Institute of Technology, US P.S. Thiagarajan, Harvard University, US Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, DE Verena Wolf, Saarland University, DE Boyan Yordanov, Microsoft Research, UK Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK TOOL EVALUATION COMMITTEE Giulio Caravagna, University of Edinburgh, UK Matej Hajnal, Masaryk University, CZ Juraj Kolcak, LSV, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, FR Luca Laurenti, University of Oxford, UK Jiri Matyas, Brno University of Technology, CZ Samuel Pastva, Masaryk University, CZ (chair) Fedor Shmarov, Newcastle University, UK Max Whitby, University of Oxford, UK == STEERING COMMITTEE == Finn Drablos, NTNU, NO Francois Fages, INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, FR David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL Monika Heiner, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE Tommaso Mazza, RCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ? Mendel, IT Satoru Miyano, The University of Tokyo, JP Gordon Plotkin, The University of Edinburgh, UK Corrado Priami, CoSBi / Microsoft Research, University of Trento, IT Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, US Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock, DE David Safranek and Milan Ceska -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr Tue Mar 13 16:04:57 2018 From: david.baelde at lsv.ens-cachan.fr (David Baelde) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:04:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School : registration opens Message-ID: EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School Second call for papers : ** Registration now open ** ** Additional speakers announced ** ============================================== 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 through four lectures (6h each): ? SMT solvers, by Pascal Fontaine (LORIA) ? Program verification with F*, by C?t?lin Hri?cu (Inria Paris) ? Bounded model-checking, by Gennaro Parlato (Uni. of Southampton) ? Concurrent program logics, by Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI Kaiserslautern) and four research talks (1h each): ? SMT, String and Security, by Philipp R?mmer (Uppsala University) ? Verification of invariants for convergent replicated data types, by Gustavo Petri (Universit? Paris Diderot) ? A talk on Ultimate Automizer, by Matthias Heizmann (University of Freiburg) ? A talk on F* and security, TBA Please find more information, notably regarding the venue and registration, on our website: . Register now, and spread the word! ? The organizers, David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris) Constantin Enea (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot) From mihaela.sighireanu at irif.fr Wed Mar 14 11:04:55 2018 From: mihaela.sighireanu at irif.fr (Mihaela Sighireanu) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:04:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Automated Verification of Critical Systems 2018, AVoCS@FLOC'18 Message-ID: <9630067eb6968425defc4fe70be7138a@irif.fr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVoCS 2018 Call for Papers 18th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems Oxford University, UK, July 18-19, 2018 Website: http://avocs18.irisa.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The aim of the AVoCS workshop series is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. In particular, AVoCS 2018 aims to bring together scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods, develop tools and techniques for the automated verification of critical systems, and are interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods and tools. SCOPE The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion where special discussion sessions will be organised around the research ideas presentations. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Model Checking - Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving - SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification - Abstract Interpretation - Specification and Refinement - Requirements Capture and Analysis - Verification of Software and Hardware - Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems - Dependable Systems - Verified System Development - Industrial Applications INVITED SPEAKERS We are please to announce the following invited talks: - Michael Emmi, SRI International, USA - Antoine Min?, Sorbonne Universit?, LIP6, France VENUE The event will at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. AVoCS is an affiliated event of FM 2018 and it will be hosted within FLoC 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org). FLoC is a federated conference of several international conferences related with mathematical logics and computer science, for example CAV, FSCD, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP and SAT. SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions are handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2018 The papers must be written in English and should not exceed 15 pages, not counting references and appendices, in Springer LNCS format. AVoCS also encourages the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the Springer LNCS format. The presentation of these ideas will be organised around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of questions in which the audience will discuss. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 10th, 2018 Paper submission: April 15th, 2018 Notification: May 15th, 2018 Final version of papers due: May 31st, 2018 AVoCS Conference: July 18-19th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6-19th, 2018 PROCEEDINGS At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a FLoC 2018 pre-proceedings; this report will also include the research ideas. After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal. SPECIAL SCP JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Gregor Goessler, INRIA, France Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France Michael Leuschel, University of D?sseldorf, Germany Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy/LORIA, France David Pichardie (co-chair), IRISA/ENS Rennes/Inria, France Andrew Reynolds, University of Iowa, USA Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK Mihaela Sighireanu (co-chair), University Paris Diderot, France Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Maurice Ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Caterina Urban, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Florian Zuleger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria STEERING COMMITTEE Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK CONTACT All questions about submissions should be emailed to AVOCS'18 chairs. From grewe at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Wed Mar 14 13:32:45 2018 From: grewe at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Sylvia Grewe) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:32:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: 2018 in Nice Message-ID: <512e1c7e-0bab-64ec-7327-d7be0bc5c66e@st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ? 2018 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming ?? April 9-12, 2018, Nice, France https://2018.programming-conference.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are excited to welcome you to 2018, the second edition of a young conference on everything to do with programming. It takes place at the Boscolo B4 Plaza in Nice, France on April 9-12. The conference is closely associated with the open-access journal "The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming". The journal's first two issues are freely accessible at http://programming-journal.org/ and form part of the conference's research track.? Along with the research track, 2018 features a program with two main keynotes, several workshops, a coding dojo, and a student research competition. *********************************************************************** ?Program highlights *********************************************************************** Main conference: ?- Keynote: "The Recurring Rainfall Problem" by Shriram Krishnamurthi ?- Keynote: "Static Analysis of Android Applications for Finding Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities" by Sukyoung Ryu Co-located events: - Bx 2018: Seventh International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations, with 12 talks - MoreVMs 2018: Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs, with 9 talks - PASS 2018: Programming Across the System Stack, with 3 paper talks and two invited talks by Christa Lopes and Ludovic Henrio - PX/18: 4th Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop - ProWeb 2018: Programming Technology for the Future Web, with 4 paper talks and one invited talk by Manuel Serrano - Salon des Refus?s 2018 workshop - CoCoDo 2018, Compiler Coding Dojo Social events: ?- Banquet at Restaurant of the Plage Beau Rivage (April 11) *********************************************************************** ?Registration, attendance and accommodation *********************************************************************** ?- You can register for 2018 at: https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/registration ?- Early registration ends soon! Please register before March 16th to obtain the early-bird discount. ?- More information on attending the conference is available at: https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/reaching-the-conference ?- More information on accommodation is available at: https://2018.programming-conference.org/attending/accommodation *********************************************************************** ?About Nice *********************************************************************** Nice, Capital of the French Riviera, is a charming city between sea and mountains, which has a strong cultural heritage. You will discover the French gastronomy and specialities from Nice, the numerous museums (Mus?e Matisse, Mus?e des Arts Asiatiques, Mus?e des Beaux Arts, Mus?e d?Art Moderne et d?Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Mus?e Chagall?) and of course various places like ?la promenade des Anglais? or ?le Vieux Nice?. In ?La Promenade des Anglais?, you may practice sports like running, roller skating or cycling, enjoy the beauty of the Meditterean Sea and spend some time on the beach. You can also walk downtown to do some shopping or just discover the city by using the Tramway which allows you to go about everywhere in Nice. There are many places to go out to enjoy your evenings in the Vieux Nice, around the harbor or downtown. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information, please visit https://2018.programming-conference.org/ You can also find us on Twitter (twitter.com/programmingconf ) and Facebook (facebook.com/programmingconf ) Looking forward to seeing you in Nice, Manuel Serrano (General chair), Tamara Rezk (Organizing chair), Guido Salvaneschi (Program chair), Sylvia Grewe, Philipp Haller, Etienne Lozes, Stefan Marr, Minh Ngo, Tobias Pape, Yves Roudier, and Jennifer B. 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Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Formal systems of classical and non-classical logic; - Category theory; - Proof theory; - Lambda calculus; - Set theory; - 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 organised. Co-located event FORMALS 2018 http://formals.ufzg.hr/ LAP is a series of conferences held at IUC - Inter University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia. 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 ) LAP 2016, September 18-22, 2017 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2017 ) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: June 1, 2018 Author Notification: June 26, 2018 Final version: July 6, 2018 SUBMISSION Authors should submit an abstract in LaTeX format, not exceeding three pages, to vlp at mi.sanu.ac.rs (with the subject "LAP 2018"). 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 stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr Thu Mar 15 09:31:39 2018 From: stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr (Stefano Guerrini) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:31:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers : HOR 18 - 9th Workshop on Higher Order Rewriting, Oxford, 7 July, 2018 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** HOR 18 ** 9th Workshop on Higher-Order Rewriting ** ** http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/HOR18 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** International Workshop affiliated with FSCD at FLOC 2018 ** http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018 ** http://floc2018.org ** ** Oxford, 7 July, 2018 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ** **** Call for Submissions **** ** http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/HOR18/call-for-submissions.txt ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Overview HOR is a forum to present work concerning all aspects of higher-order rewriting. HOR aims to provide an informal and friendly setting to discuss recent work and work in progress concerning higher-order rewriting, broadly construed. This includes rewriting systems that have functional variables or bound variables, the lambda-calculus and combinatory logic being paradigmatic examples. * Topics The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop: - Applications: proof checking, theorem proving, generic programming, declarative programming, program transformation. - Foundations: pattern matching, unification, strategies, narrowing, termination, syntactic properties, type theory. - Frameworks: term rewriting, conditional rewriting, graph rewriting, net rewriting, comparisons of different frameworks. - Implementation: graphs, nets, abstract machines, explicit substitution, rewriting tools, compilation techniques. - Semantics: operational semantics, denotational semantics, separability, higher-order abstract syntax. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To give a presentation at the workshop, submit an extended asbtract (between 2 to 5 pages} via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hor18 HOR is a platform for discussing open questions, ongoing research, and new perspectives, as well as new results. Extended abstracts describing work in progress, preliminary results, reserch projects, or problems in higher-order rewriting are very welcome. The workshop has informal, electronic proceedings that will be included in the FLoC 2018 electronic proceedings. Submission is via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hor18 For questions regarding submission, please contact the PC chair Stefano Guerrini (mailto:stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: 15 April, 2017 * Notification: 22 May, 2017 * Final version: 28 May, 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Committees ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sandra Alves (University of Porto, Portugal) * Zena Ariola (University of Oregon, Oregon, USA) * Eduardo Bonelli (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA) * J?rg Endrullis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Stefano Guerrini, chair (Paris 13 University, France) * Benedetto Intrigila (Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy) * Paula Severi (University of Leicester, UK) * Femke Van Raamsdonk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ** Steering Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Delia Kesner (IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot) * Femke Van Raamsdonk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Invited Speakers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * TBA * TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Contact ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to Stefano Guerrini (mailto:stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Supporting Organisations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Universit? Paris 13, 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 harley.eades at gmail.com Thu Mar 15 09:41:44 2018 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:41:44 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Visiting PhD Student Message-ID: <7859F685-E9AA-4C4E-90A6-F56A187B1393@gmail.com> Are you or do you know a PhD student looking for an exciting new funded research project to join this summer or fall? You are in luck! I am looking for a visiting PhD student for summer or fall 2018 to collaborate with me on a funded NSF project working in the intersection of graphical models of security, functional programming using category theory, linear logic, and dependent types for substructrual logics. This opporunity comes with a $5,000 stipend to cover food and lodging during the visit. I have additional money to pay for your travel. There are two ongoing projects the student can join depending on their interests. Both of these projects have lots of exciting problems to solve. =Project 1= CRII: SHF: A New Foundation for Attack Trees Based on Monoidal Categories In short, the project aims to give a new mathematical foundation of attack trees using monoidal categories, and then by capitalizing on the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence, defining a new domain-specific functional programming language based in linear logic where types will correspond to attack trees, and programs to semantically valid transformations on attack trees called Lina for Linear Threat Analysis. More information on the project including the complete proposal can be found here: https://github.com/MonoidalAttackTrees The Lina language is under active developement, you can find the language here: https://github.com/MonoidalAttackTrees/Lina =Project 2= In collaboration with Dominc Orchard (https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dao7/), and his student Vilem Liepelt, at the University of Kent, we are working on a new linear dependent type theory based on graded modal type theory. Using graded coeffects our language allows the programmer to control various structural rules with minimal annotations, thus, producing a very elegant and general framework with full dependency for various substructural logics. This project can also be seen as a generalization of the Granule language, please find more info here: https://github.com/dorchard/granule We are just getting started, but we do have some initial results. The interested student would help with the specification of our new type theory, as well as, exploring categorical models, and/or even implementation of the language prototype. =Who I am looking for?= I am looking for an energetic and passionate student to work closely with me on one of the above projects during the summer or fall of 2018. The visit will be three months in total, but specific dates will be discussed with each candidate. The hope is for the student and I to work towards some results that can be published during the following academic year. The student should have an interest, but does not have to be experienced, in some of the following topics: - Models of security, - Categorical logic, - Intuitionistic linear logic, - Dependent type theory, or - The design and anlysis of statically-typed functional programming languages. Experience in category theory is a plus, but not strictly required as long as the student is willing to learn. =Who am I?= I am an assistant professor in computer science at Augusta University in the wonderful Augusta Georgia. More about me here: http://metatheorem.org/ Augusta is perfectly positioned on the border of Georiga and South Carolina only two and a half hours from Savannah, GA and the beach at Tybee Island. In addition, we are only three hours away from the Great Smokey Mountains for those who enjoy the great outdoors. =How to apply?= Simply send me an email with your CV and a brief summary of your research interests. I will be considering applications until April 20th. I welcome emails from anyone who is interested! This is an equal opportunity for all! All interested applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Very best, Harley Eades From giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk Thu Mar 15 10:44:48 2018 From: giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk (Giles Reger) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:44:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAT/SMT/AR Summer School 2018 Message-ID: <18BE0404-73BC-48A8-936B-8E2047E0FC74@manchester.ac.uk> [Apologise for cross-posting. Please forward to anybody you think may be interested] ======================================== SAT/SMT/AR Summer School 2018 University of Manchester, 3-6th July http://ssa-school-2018.cs.manchester.ac.uk ======================================== We are pleased to announce that the next edition of the SAT/SMT/AR Summer School will take place in Manchester, UK on 3-6th July 2018. Satisfiability (SAT), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), and Automated Reasoning (AR) continue to make rapid advances and find novel uses in a wide variety of applications, both in computer science and beyond. The SAT/SMT/AR Summer School aims to bring a select group of students up to speed quickly in this exciting research area. The school continues the successful line of Summer Schools that ran from 2011 to 2015 as SAT/SMT Summer Schools and added AR in 2016. There will also be a special session on computer algebra to continue the activity of the SC2 summer school in 2017. Lecturers for this year's summer school have been announced on the school's website and detailed programme of topics will appear soon. http://ssa-school-2018.cs.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/speakers/ Applications can be made via the following form https://goo.gl/forms/e2hgn5GbnPROMTEK2 Registration is ?100 for applicants before 1st April and may raise to ?200 after this date (subject to level of interest). Grants for registration fee reduction and to (partially) cover accommodation costs are available and should be applied for with the above form. Grants will be awarded based on need but those applying earlier (in particular, before the 1st April) will be prioritised. Note that we have separate application and registration phases and these dates apply to application rather than registration. Important Dates ============= Early Registration 1st April Registration Closes 1st May Summer School 3-6th July Organisers ============= Giles Reger, University of Manchester Konstantin Korovin, University of Manchester Andrew Reynolds, University of Iowa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvie.boldo at inria.fr Thu Mar 15 11:41:54 2018 From: sylvie.boldo at inria.fr (Sylvie Boldo) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:41:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Orsay, France Message-ID: Hello, I would like to advertise a postdoc position available in Orsay, France. The goal is to develop formal proofs about the floating-point evaluation of polynomials and is within the FastRelax project http://fastrelax.gforge.inria.fr/ To see details and to apply, please go to https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2018-00418 Do not hesitate to forward this email to any appropriate candidate or mailing list. Best regards, Sylvie Boldo -- Sylvie Boldo, Toccata project, Inria Saclay - ?le-de-France PCRI, B?t. 650 - Universit? Paris-Sud - 91405 ORSAY Cedex From Frederic.Loulergue at nau.edu Thu Mar 15 12:38:04 2018 From: Frederic.Loulergue at nau.edu (Frederic Loulergue) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:38:04 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4PAD 2018 (deadline extension): 5th International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems Message-ID: *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies. *** *** Please forward to interested colleagues.? *** Extended deadline : April 8th, 2018 ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ============================================================ =??????????????????? CALL FOR PAPERS?????????????????????? = =???????????? 5th International Symposium on?????????????? = =?? Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems? = =????????????????????? (4PAD 2018)???????????????????????? = =????????????????? affiliated to the?????????????????????? = =????????? 16th International Conference on??????????????? = =? High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018)???? = = http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ = =???????????? Orleans, France, July 17-19, 2018??????????? = ============================================================ http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia---hpcs2018/symp05-4pad SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The aim of 4PAD is to foster interaction between the formal methods communities and systems researchers working on topics in modern parallel, distributed, and network-based processing systems (e.g., autonomous computing systems, cloud computing systems, service-oriented systems and parallel computing architectures). 4PAD topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Rigorous software engineering approaches and their tool support; * Model-based approaches, including model-driven development; * Service- and component-based approaches; * Semantics, types and logics; * Formal specification and verification; * Performance analysis based on formal approaches; * Formal aspects of programming paradigms and languages; * Formal approaches to parallel architectures and weak memory models; * Formal approaches to deployment, run-time analysis, ? adaptation/evolution, reconfiguration, and monitoring; * Case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches; * Formal stochastic models and analysis; * Formal methods for large-scale distributed systems; * Statistical analysis techniques based on formal approaches. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems.? Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have.? Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the symposium paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4pad. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: April 8, 2018 (extended, firm) Acceptance Notification: April 26, 2018 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 11, 2018 Conference Dates (HPCS and affiliated events): July 16-20, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submitted extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gul Agha??? ??? University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Marco Aldinucci??? ??? University of Torino, IT Allan Blanchard??? ??? Inria, FR Simon Bliudze??? ??? Inria, FR Laura Bocchi??? ??? University of Kent, UK Jean-Michel Couvreur ??? University of Orleans, FR, chair Kento Emoto??? ??? Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP Gidon Ernst??? ??? National Institute of Informatics, JP Joaquin Ezpeleta??? Universidad de Zaragoza, ES Ylies Falcone??? ??? Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, FR Serge Haddad??? ??? LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Inria, FR Ludovic Henrio??? ??? CNRS, FR Claude Jard??? ??? University of Nantes, FR Igor Konnov??? ??? Vienna University of Technology, AT Sandeep Kulkarni??? Michigan State University, USA Alberto Lluch Lafuente??? Technical University of Denmark, DK Frederic Loulergue ??? Northern Arizona University, USA, chair Neeraj Mittal??? ??? The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Gwen Salaun??? ??? University of Grenoble Alpes, FR Sven Schewe??? ??? University of Liverpool, UK Elena Sherman??? ??? Boise State University,??? USA Francesco Tiezzi??? Universita di Camerino, IT Enrico??? Tronci??? ??? Sapienza University of Rome, IT Emilio Tuosto??? ??? University of Leicester, UK From eberinge at CS.Princeton.EDU Thu Mar 15 15:39:31 2018 From: eberinge at CS.Princeton.EDU (Lennart Beringer) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:39:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Announcement: Second DeepSpec Summer School Message-ID: <949575560.220546570.1521142771918.JavaMail.zimbra@cs.princeton.edu> [Application deadline: March 23rd] Second DeepSpec Summer School (DSSS'18) Princeton, NJ, July 16-27, 2018 https://deepspec.org/event/dsss18 Overview -------- Can critical systems be built according to functionally precise specifications of of their constituent components (processor, operating system, crypto library,..) and development tools (compilers, synthesis tools)? This may seem a pipe dream, but the past decade has seen remarkable advances in the technology required to realize it. The DeepSpec summer school will provide students with knowledge and experience necessary for understanding the state of the art and for contributing to ongoing research efforts, based on the interactive proof assistant Coq. The school is supported by generous funding from the National Science Foundation. DSSS'18 will consist of two parts with the first week being devoted to introductory topics and the second week covering current research efforts. July 16-18 (Mon-Wed) Coq Intensive July 19-20 (Thu-Fri) Fundamental proof techniques and project overviews July 23-27 (week 2) Advanced topics in system verification Lecturers and Topics for week 2 ------------------------------- Andrew Appel and Verifiable C: a logic and toolset for Lennart Beringer proving C programs correct Adam Chlipala Implementing, specifying, verifying, and compiling hardware components with Kami Zach Tatlock Verifying distributed systems Benjamin Pierce Property-based random testing with QuickChick All DeepSpec PIs Towards the specification and verification of a web server Prerequisites ------------- DSSS'18 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 familiar with Coq at the level of Software Foundations (Volume 1) should plan on attending the Coq Intensive. Participants unfamiliar with volumes 2 and 3 may benefit from attending the last 3 days of week 1. Participants of DSSS'17 are likely to be admitted for participation in week 2 only. Application and participation ----------------------------- Participation in DSSS'18 is by invitation only, based on an application process that is open to anybody. To apply, please fill this application form https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=2209458 preferably no later than March 23, 2018. Accepted participants will be notified shortly thereafter, and will be invited to confirm their participation by registering. Thanks to the generosity of NSF, we will be able to provide substantial financial assistance to all participants. We will not charge a registration fee, and will offer free dorm accommodation on the campus of Princeton University. In addition, we expect to subsidize travel expenses for the majority of participants, based on their geographic origin, qualification, and financial needs. To help us allocating these funds, the application form includes the option to enter estimated travel costs etc.. Late applications will be handled on a case-by-case basis. For additional information on the DeepSpec project, please see https://deepspec.org. From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Mar 16 06:27:00 2018 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:27:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2018: Update on Invited Speakers, Workshops and 2nd CfP Message-ID: <20180316102700.DF6E6282FC25@gigondas-5.local> Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 11th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2018 - August 13-17, 2018 RISC, Hagenberg, Austria http://www.cicm-conference.org/2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their integration. CICM 2018 will feature 3 invited speakers * Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, University of Tokyo * Bruno Buchberger, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University * Adri Olde Daalhuis, University of Edinburgh and 4 affiliated workshops * Computer Algebra in the age of Types * Formal Mathematics for Mathematicians * Formal Verification of Physical Systems * Mathematical Models and Mathematical Software as Research Data We invite submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to * theorem proving and computer algebra * mathematical knowledge management * digital mathematical libraries CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and invites submissions of very different forms: 1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNAI: * regular papers (up to 15 pages) present novel research results * project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results * system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages) present digital artifacts 2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for presentation based on their relevance for the community. * informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements, position statements, etc. * posters and system demos will be presented in special sessions 3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students a forum to present early results receive constructive feedback and mentoring. * Important Dates * Formal submissions - Abstract deadline: April 15 - Full paper deadline: April 22 - Reviews sent to authors: May 21 - Rebuttals due: May 27 - Notification of acceptance: June 4 - Camera-ready copies due: June 8 - Conference: August 13-17 Informal submissions and doctoral programme Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early travel plans while others submit spontaneously. - First round submission deadline: April 22 - Second round submission deadline: July 31 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2018 From eskang at csail.mit.edu Fri Mar 16 13:13:27 2018 From: eskang at csail.mit.edu (Eunsuk Kang) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:27 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Formal methods internship at Toyota ITC Message-ID: <20180316131327.Horde.CtsUEFo7Pao8D5r4dsVahQ1@webmail.csail.mit.edu> Hello, Please forward this e-mail to PhD/Masters students who may be interested in doing a summer internship applying formal methods to intelligent cars. Regards, Eunsuk ============================================== Summer Intern, Formal Methods for Connected Cars Application link: https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/toyotaitc/jobs/summer-intern-formal-methods-for-connected-cars-b-YkXAcTyr6lG5dG1ZS6tF JOB SUMMARY Communication between cars, edge, and cloud computing is expected to have a great impact on the next generation architecture of car systems that opens a new era of mobility. In other words, connected cars are emerging as a new foundation of evolution in the automotive industry. This internship position, Formal Methods for Connected Cars, involves performing research and development tasks on methodologies for designing safe connected vehicles using formal system modeling and verification techniques. In particular, intern will survey and develop tools and methods for specifying end-to-end vehicle requirements, decomposing high-level requirements into component specifications, and automatically verifying that a component satisfies its specification. Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Systems and Software Research Team is looking for highly self-motivated PhD/Master students in Computer Science or related fields to join us in this project. OBJECTIVES This project will provide the intern with unique opportunities to perform one or more of the following: Develop a specification language for expressing various types of requirements for connected cars, including security, safety, and performance, Develop an automated, scalable verification technique to analyze the behavior of software systems for connected cars, Develop research prototypes and apply them to realistic scenarios in connected vehicle interactions, Collaborate with researchers on publications at top conferences/journals, if time permits QUALIFICATIONS Currently pursuing a PhD program in computer science or electrical engineering, Experience in formal methods, including formal modeling languages and verification techniques (e.g., model checking, constraint solving, theorem proving) Strong background in formal logic and mathematics. Excellent programming skills (C++, C#, Java), and ability to build rapid prototypes. Familiarity with cyber-security, computer networks, software architecture, and cloud computing a plus. Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as within a highly motivated team environment. Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to deliver on challenging software development tasks. ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS 1. Part-time (up to 6 months) or full-time (up to 3 months) internship in the summer of 2018 at Toyota ITC's Mountain View, CA office. 2. Applicants *must* already have the ability/authorization to work in the USA (Toyota ITC will NOT provide VISA support). To apply for an intern position, please submit your application along with the following materials: CV/Resume Cover letter explaining your interest in the job and desired time frame for the internship. ABOUT US 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 on the globe. ITC?s current areas of interest include future vehicular network, in-vehicle software and system architecture, vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology, intelligent computing technology including artificial intelligence and machine learning. From M.F.Berger at sussex.ac.uk Fri Mar 16 14:50:20 2018 From: M.F.Berger at sussex.ac.uk (Martin Berger) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 18:50:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] S-REPLS 9: Call for talks Message-ID: <20180316185020.GQ1483@m011319.inf.susx.ac.uk> ============================================================================ S-REPLS 9 (#srepls) South of England Regional Programming Language Seminar series Friday 25 May 2018, 10:00 - 19:00 University of Sussex, Brighton, Fulton building, Room A (FUL-A) http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~mfb21/srepls9 Call for talks ============================================================================ Overview S-REPLS is a regular, informal and friendly 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, and related areas. Attendance is free! Lunch and refreshments will be provided. 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 9 at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Submissions from industrial professionals and junior researchers (postdocs and students), as well as descriptions of work in progress, are especially welcome. Please email with the title "S-REPLS 9 talk suggestion", a draft title, and an abstract by 17:00 on April 25th 2018. From Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 16 20:01:17 2018 From: Andrzej.Murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:01:17 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FoPPS Logic and Learning School (Oxford, July 1-6) Message-ID: LOGIC & LEARNING SCHOOL July 1-6, 2018 (immediately before FLoC 2018) Oxford, UK **The early bird registration deadline is April 15.** School website: https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~fopss18/ FLoC website: http://www.floc2018.org/ The Logic & Learning School is an opportunity to learn from, and interact with, the world's experts leading recent progress in understanding the relationships between logic and learning. These experts come from both academia and some of the leading industrial research labs (Amazon Research and DeepMind). In the last few decades, logic has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for understanding complex systems. It has turned out to be instrumental in formal methods such as program verification, reasoning about hardware, reasoning about real-time systems and, more recently, probabilistic systems. Machine learning has recently had spectacular successes in fields such as image recognition, game playing, and many areas that involve the extraction of information from large datasets. The use of statistical approaches yields practical solutions to problems that seemed out of reach just a few years ago. The understanding of why these approaches are so successful has lagged behind the empirical successes. Using logic as the foundation to understand machine learning to obtain the best of both worlds is a major challenge. The programme of the Logic & Learning School consists of eleven lectures of three hours each, starting with five introductory courses on computational and statistical learning theory, reinforcement learning, Bayesian inference, and automata learning and six advanced courses on exciting and recent developments relating logic and learning. The lectures target an audience of logicians and computer scientists broadly construed and do not assume any knowledge on machine learning. Accordingly, the School represents a perfect opportunity to learn for both students and working researchers. The School will take place in St Anne's College in the centre of Oxford, an ideal learning environment with accommodation and lunches provided on site. The lectures will be from Sunday 1 July in the morning to Friday 6 July in the afternoon, which is the week before the main activities of FLoC. The Summer School on Foundations of Programming and Software Systems (FoPSS) was jointly created by ETAPS, SIGLOG, SIGPLAN and EATCS. It is additionally sponsored by the Department of Computer Science at Oxford. Complete list of speakers Borja Balle (Amazon Research Cambridge) Spectral algorithms for automata learning Richard Evans (DeepMind) Inductive logic programming and deep learning Hado van Hasslet (DeepMind) Reinforcement learning Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Danemark) Learning and epistemic modal logic Varun Kanade (University of Oxford) Statistical learning theory Guy Katz (Stanford University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Verification of machine learning programs Jan K?et?nsk? (Technical University of Munich) Learning for verification Stephen H. Muggleton (Imperial College London) Inductive logic programming Doina Precup (McGill University and DeepMind) Reinforcement learning Dan Roy (University of Toronto) Bayesian learning James Worrell (University of Oxford) Computational learning theory Registration The summer school is a residential course held at St Anne's College, Oxford. The registration fee includes bed & breakfast accommodation for 6 days (1-6th July 2018), buffet lunches and evening meals. There will be a banquet on 4th July at St Johns College. Arrivals are on 30th June 2018 and departures on 6th July. As the number of rooms available at St Anne's is very limited, early registration is strongly advised to avoid disappointment. Registration fees are: Early bird ?750 15 April, 2018 Late ?850 15 May, 2018 The summer school is perfectly aligned for students who want to attend the four-yearly Federated Logic Conference (FLOC) taking place in Oxford after the summer school. FLOC will feature a number of AI-related events, including a public lecture by Stuart Russell at the Sheldonian Theatre (http://www.floc2018.org/speaker/stuart-russell/ ), a Debate in the Oxford Union Chamber on Ethics for Robots (http://www.floc2018.org/speaker/debate/ ), and the Summit on Machine Learning Meets Formal Methods (http://www.floc2018.org/summit-on-machine-learning/ ). Students and postdocs may also be interested in the FLOC Volunteer Programme: http://www.floc2018.org/volunteer/ For registration and further information about the Logic & Learning School (opens early February) see: http://www.floc2018.org/fopss/ Information about FLOC 2018 can be found at: http://www.floc2018.org/ [image: beacon] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Gerwin.Klein at data61.csiro.au Sat Mar 17 04:15:52 2018 From: Gerwin.Klein at data61.csiro.au (Gerwin.Klein at data61.csiro.au) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 08:15:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Data61 seeking proof engineers Message-ID: <4E1A9CDD-5618-4C14-8CFC-6F6A34EE0076@data61.csiro.au> Data61 Seeking Proof Engineers ============================== We are are hiring again! If only there were a place where I could prove theorems for money, change the world, and have fun while doing it... Sounds too good to exist? In the Trustworthy Systems team at Data61 that's what we do for a living. We are the creators of seL4, the world's first fully formally verified operating system kernel with extreme performance and strong security & correctness proofs. 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 3 motivated proof engineers who want to join our team in Sydney, 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 - because awesome To make these projects successful, we need to scale formal verification. You would - work on industrial-scale formal proofs in Isabelle/HOL - 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 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: 80-91K - Senior: 95-103K depending on experience and qualifications. Apply online at the following links: - https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney%2C-NSW-Proof-Engineer/464792900/ - https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Sydney%2C-NSW-Senior-Proof-Engineer/464792300/ 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 are open source. Check them out at https://seL4.systems 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 radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Sat Mar 17 06:51:49 2018 From: radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (radu.iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 11:51:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 1st Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL): Call for Papers Message-ID: <299421AD-1956-48CB-B055-C4F8A6E04E23@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> (Apologies for multiple copies) First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics, 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 Philippa Gardner (Imperial College London) Josh Berdine (Facebook) James Brotherston (University College London) St?phane Demri (CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) Mihaela Sighireanu (University of Paris Diderot) 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) From dnjansen at ios.ac.cn Sat Mar 17 19:10:43 2018 From: dnjansen at ios.ac.cn (David N. Jansen) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:10:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2018 **Second Call for Papers*** Message-ID: <93C965ED-6B57-48C0-BD40-6F98B4D5B56A@ios.ac.cn> **Second Call for Papers**: We invite you to submit original research articles to FORMATS 2018 16th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems Beijing, China, September 4?6, 2018 Conference website: Submission website: Conference email: formats2018 at easychair.org Abstract registration deadline: 23 March 2018 Submission deadline: 30 March 2018 (Good Friday) Invited speakers: Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Univ. Southern California Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley **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 for 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 verification, synthesis, learning, online monitoring and runtime verification of timed or hybrid systems and for resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimisation, model checking, testing, constraint solving). * Applications: Adaptation and specialisation of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, embedded control, hardware circuits, biological systems, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications). The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS . FORMATS 2018 is part of CONFESTA 2018 , which also includes CONCUR, QEST and SETTA. **Programme Committee** Sergiy Bogomolov (Australian National Univ., Australia) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Iowa State Univ., USA) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, Univ. Paris Saclay, France) Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG, France) Martin Fr?nzle (Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg, Germany) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Boudewijn Haverkort (Univ. of Twente, Netherlands) Holger Hermanns (Saarland Univ., Germany) David N. Jansen (co-chair, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Jan K?et?nsk? (Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany) Martin Leucker (Univ. of L?beck, Germany) Miroslav Pajic (Duke Univ., NC, USA) David Parker (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) Pavithra Prabhakar (co-chair, Kansas State University, USA) Krishna S. (IIT Bombay, India) C?sar S?nchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Ocan Sankur (Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France) Zhikun She (School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beihang Univ., Beijing, China) Ji?? Srba (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Meng Sun (Peking Univ., China) Cong Tian (Xidian Univ., China) Ashutosh Trivedi (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Frits Vaandrager (Radboud Univ., Netherlands) Mahesh Viswanathan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Kind regards, Pavithra Prabhakar and David N. Jansen (FORMATS 2018 Co-Chairs) From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Sun Mar 18 00:08:14 2018 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Lindsey Kuper) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 21:08:14 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Tutorial Proposals: ICFP 2018 Message-ID: <5aade62ee5e98_d12c3ffd2e057bf09714f@landin.local.mail> CALL FOR TUTORIAL 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 tutorials to be presented during ICFP and its co-located workshops and other events. These tutorials are the successor to the CUFP tutorials from previous years, but we also welcome tutorials whose primary audience is researchers rather than practitioners. Tutorials may focus either on a concrete technology or on a theoretical or mathematical tool. Ideally, tutorials will have a concrete result, such as "Learn to do X with Y" rather than "Learn language Y". Tutorials may occur in parallel to both ICFP and its co-located workshops, from September 23 through September 29. Additionally, ICFP is co-located with Strange Loop this year, and this will be taken into account when scheduling tutorials. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: April 9, 2018 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2018 Prospective organizers of tutorials are invited to submit a completed tutorial proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2018 workshop co-chairs (Christophe Scholliers and David Christiansen), via email to icfp-workshops-2018 at googlegroups.com by April 9, 2018. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by April 16, 2018. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2018-files/icfp18-tutorials-form.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2018 organizing committee. Workshop Co-Chair: Christophe Scholliers (University of Ghent) Workshop Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Galois, Inc.) 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 shiloviis at mail.ru Sun Mar 18 05:05:25 2018 From: shiloviis at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?U2hpbG92IE5pa29sYXk=?=) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:05:25 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_papers=3A_Fun_With_Formal_Met?= =?utf-8?q?hods_workshop_=28affiliated_with_FLOC-2018=29?= Message-ID: <1521363925.452250306@f494.i.mail.ru> Call for Papers: Third Workshop on Fun With Formal Methods (FWFM-2018, July 19, 2018, http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/FWFM2018) Past FWFM Workshops: * FWFM-2013 (http://www.iis.nsk.su/fwfm2013?_ga=2.242468418.1943006584.1521356323-687493938.1476117474), * FWFM-2014 (http://www.easychair.org/smart-program/VSL2014/FWFM-cfp.html). The workshop will be held in University of Oxford as a part of Federated Logic Conference FLOC-2018 (http://www.floc2018.org/) in affiliation with 30th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (http://cavconference.org/2018/) The primary purpose of the workshop series on Fun With Formal Methods (FWFM) is to popularize and disseminate the best practice of popularization of Formal Methods. Not an exhaustive list of topics of FWFM follows: * fascinating examples of use of FM in SE; * simple but interesting educational examples of FM; * FM for puzzles, games and entertainment; * FM and programming contests; * FM elsewhere (outside software and hardware); * everything and anything related to popularization of FM. Scheduling: * Publication call for papers announced 15 March 2018 * Paper submission deadline 20 April 2018 * Paper notification deadline 15 May 2018 * Workshop program on-line 15 May 2018 * Final version of accepted papers before 30 May 2018 Program Committee: * Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, GB, to be confirmed) * John Rushby (SRI International Computer Science Laboratory, USA, to be confirmed) * Nikolay V. Shilov (Innopolis University, Russia) - chair (contact by e-mail shilovii(at)mail.ru) * Martin Schaf (Amazon, USA, to be confirmed) Invited Speakers: TBD Paper Submission and Publication Plans: Extended abstracts and papers on topics related to FWFM are solicited. There is no any strict limit for page number or style, but it is recommended to be in range 2-4 pages for extended abstracts and 4-16 pages for papers. (Single column, single interval, font not less than 12 for review convenience.) All submitted paper will be reviewed by 2 members of Program Committee (or their sub-reviewers) and selection of accepted papers will based on relevance, quality and (partly) originality of the submitted papers. Papers already published somewhere are also welcome but must make it explicit their publication status (for including to proceedings). Please submit your extended abstracts and papers via Easychair page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fwfm2018. We plan to publish informal proceedings before the workshop and disseminate them among participants at the workshop on USB-sticks. Post-proceedings publication is subject to decide on base of quality and number of original submissions. (Recall that we we welcome papers already published somewhere.) Sponsorship: Information and web-hosting - A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems (http://www.iis.nsk.su/en?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ayala at unb.br Sun Mar 18 10:20:41 2018 From: ayala at unb.br (Mauricio Ayala-Rincon) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:20:41 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] UNIF 2018 - Third Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <4911dc69-581f-76e6-b329-7b10dfe21cf5@unb.br> References: <4911dc69-581f-76e6-b329-7b10dfe21cf5@unb.br> Message-ID: <505de945-d1ad-25b7-53e4-f679d24a7c03@unb.br> Dear colleagues, Please find below the third call for papers for UNIF 2018, the 32nd International Workshop on Unification, affiliated to FSCD/FLOC. 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 --//-- Third 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 organise 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: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Camera-ready papers: Monday, May 28, 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 -------------- Third 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 organise 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: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Camera-ready papers: Monday, May 28, 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 From a.g.setzer at swansea.ac.uk Sun Mar 18 17:32:32 2018 From: a.g.setzer at swansea.ac.uk (Setzer A.G.) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:32:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4 posts in security at Swanea University (deadline Fri 22 March) Message-ID: <93C88F3B5A59424B85B9E392D781F7C6025BCDAE36@ISS-MBX04.tawe.swan.ac.uk> Dear all, the department of Computer Science in Swansea has a strong type theoretic group, and is exploring research in the area of security. Therefore the following advertisement might be of particular interest to type theoretist with an interest in security (note the deadine is Fri 22 March): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four permanent academic posts in Computer Science aligned to Cyber Security at Swansea University, UK (deadline 22 March 2018) Computer Science at Swansea University has embarked on a ?31M programme of work ? the Computational Foundry (http://www.swansea.ac.uk/science/computationalfoundry/) ? 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. This call for 4 permanent academic positions in the area of Cyber Security is part of this expansion programme. Computer Science at Swansea University has a growing group on Cyber Security, where scientists have made contributions, e.g., in the digital economy, on crypto currencies, on security and privacy of personal data, on cyberterrorism and cyber crime, on mobile security, to name but a few. In this, Swansea Computer Science takes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together expertise in fields as diverse as formal modelling, data mining, visual analytics and information security management, and reaching out, e.g., to Swansea's Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. 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 Guardian University Guide 2018 placed it 5th in the UK and 1st in Wales, and top in the UK for careers (employment after 6 months, with 97%); the Times Good University Guide 2018 placed it 13th in the UK and 1st in Wales; the National Student Survey 2017 ranked it as 5th in the UK with 94% 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. Currently, our Technocamps Unit is a driving force for educational reform in computing in Wales. We provide industrial education. The Department has recently been selected as the home for one of the UK?s Digital Economy Centres. More information on these positions can be found following the links. 1 Associate Professor (Research) in Cyber Security https://tinyurl.com/SU-APsecurity2018 1 Lecturer in Computer Science (Research) aligned to Cyber Security https://tinyurl.com/SU-CSsecurity2018 1 Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (Research) aligned to Cyber Security https://tinyurl.com/SU-HCIsecurity2018 1 Lecturer in Computer Science (Teaching) aligned to Cyber Security https://tinyurl.com/SU-CSsecurityTeaching2018 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bahareh1812 at gmail.com Mon Mar 19 04:12:20 2018 From: bahareh1812 at gmail.com (Bahareh Afshari) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:12:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenth Scandinavian Logic Symposium 2018, 11-13 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden Message-ID: Tenth Scandinavian Logic Symposium 2018: * Second Announcement * Update on invited speakers * Lindstr?m Lectures 2018 * Call for Registration June 11-13, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden http://scandinavianlogic.org/sls2018 ----------------- The Tenth Scandinavian Logic Symposium (SLS 2018) will be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden during June 11-13, 2018, under the auspices of the Scandinavian Logic Society. The previous two meetings of the SLS were held in Tampere, Finland (2014) and Roskilde, Denmark (2012). The primary aim of the Symposium is to promote research in the field of logic (broadly conceived) carried out in research communities in Scandinavia. Moreover, it warmly invites participation of logicians from all over the world. The meeting will include invited lectures and a forum for participants to present contributed talks. The scope of this event covers mathematical, computational, and philosophical logic. The major topics include (but are not limited to) the areas of Proof Theory, Constructivism, Model Theory, Set Theory, Computability Theory, Algebra and Logic, Categorical Logic, Logic and Computer Science, Logic and Linguistics, Logic in AI and Multi-Agent Systems, Logics of Games, Modal and other non-classical Logics, Axiomatic Theories of Truth, and Philosophical Logic. We are proud to announce that the 2018 Lindstr?m Lectures will be a part of SLS 2018 and delivered by Michael Rathjen. For more information see https://flov.gu.se/english/research/research-areas/logic/lindstrom-lectures IMPORTANT DATES ----------------- New abstract deadline: April 8, 2018 Notification: April 20, 2018 Early registration deadline: May 1, 2018 Main event: June 11-13, 2018 INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------- - Joel Hamkins (CUNY) - Luke Ong (Oxford) - Michael Rathjen (Leeds) - Katrin Tent (M?nster) SUBMISSIONS OF CONTRIBUTED TALKS ----------------- Abstracts of contributed talks must be submitted as pdf files via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sls2018 The abstracts should be prepared according to the ASL abstract guidelines: http://www.aslonline.org/rules_abstracts.html Upon notification of acceptance, authors will be requested to submit the LaTeX source files. REGISTRATION ----------------- Registration is now open. See the conference website for details. PROGRAMME AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE ----------------- - Bahareh Afshari (co-chair) - Rasmus Blanck - Ali Enayat (co-chair) - Fredrik Engstr?m - Martin Kas? - Graham Leigh ENQUIRIES ----------------- For enquiries please email: sls2018 at flov.gu.se SPONSORS ----------------- * Association for Symbolic Logic * Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (University of Gothenburg) * Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation * Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shiloviis at mail.ru Mon Mar 19 04:50:21 2018 From: shiloviis at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?U2hpbG92IE5pa29sYXk=?=) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:50:21 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_Workshop_on_Program_Semantics?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_Specification_and_Verification_=28PSSV_2018=2C_June_21-22?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_2018=2C_Yaroslavl=2C_Russia=29?= Message-ID: <1521449421.15110981@f511.i.mail.ru> Ninth Workshop on Program Semantics, Specification and Verification: Theory and Applications (PSSV 2018, June 21-22, 2018, P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University ( https://www.uniyar.ac.ru/en/ ) in Yaroslavl, Russia) Wab-pages and history: * Workshop web-page (PSSV-2018): http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2018 * The previous workshop page (PSSV-2017): http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2017 * Past Workshop pages (PSSV-2010 - PSSV-2016): http://pssv-conf.ru Important dates * Paper (extended abstract) submission: May 1, 2018 * Notification: May 20, 2018 * Final versions of accepted extended abstracts for pre-workshop publication: May 28, 2018 * Registration: TBD * Workshop: June 21-22, 2018 * Revised selected papers submission for post-workshop publication: eventually in September 2018 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. Program Committee: * Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK, to be confirmed), * Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK, to be confirmed), * Nina Evtushenko (Tomsk State University, Russia, to be confirmed), * Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia, to be confirmed), * Igor Konnov (Institute of Information Systems, TU Wien, Austria, to be confirmed), * Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia, to be confirmed), * Egor Kuzmin (Yaroslavl State University, Russia, to be confirmed), * Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK, to be confirmed), * Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia), * Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia), * Alexander Okhotin ( St. Petersburg State University, Russia), * Aleksey Promsky (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia), * Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Russia). Program Co-Chairs * Nikolay Shilov (Innopolis University, Russia, shiloviis(at)mail.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) Organizing Committee * Egor Kuzmin (Yaroslavl State University, Russia, kuzmin(at)uniyar.ac.ru) * Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, valery-sokolov(at)yandex.ru) Invited Speakers: TBD Memorial Session We plan to organize a special session in memory of Boris (Boaz) Trakhtenbrot (19.02.1921 ? 19.09.2016, https://cacm.acm.org/news/207650-in-memoriam-boris-trakhtenbrot-1921-2016/fulltext ) and recently passed his former Ph.D. students - Mars Valiev (passed 31.01.2017, https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=LM1vlLUAAAAJ ) and Michael Dekhtyar (passed 17.03.2017, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1HYyPUMAAAAJJ ). Submissions and Publication Program Committee invites research submissions (on topics of program semantics, specification and verification) 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. Program Committee also invites short (up to 4 pages) memorial contributions devoted to science and research legacy of Boris Trakhtenbrot, Mars Valiev, Michael Dekhtyar, and their former disciples, fellows, and colleagues. All submissions (research and memorial) should be via EasyChair conference system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2018 ). All accepted papers will be published in the preliminary proceedings before the workshop (by Yaroslavl State University). Selected papers will be published after the workshop in Russian peer-review journal Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems ( http://mais-journal.ru/jour ) and then translated and published in Automatic Control and Computer Sciences ( http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11950 ) (indexed by WoS and Scopus). At least one author of every accepted paper should present a talk in the workshop. Registration and Visa Issues: * Registration dates and fees: TBD * Accommodation: Park Inn by Radisson may be recommended as the first instance, other options will be available later. * Visa issues: Please contact organizing committee - Egor Kuzmin and Valery Sokolov. Sponsorship * Host and publication: P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University ( https://www.uniyar.ac.ru/en/ ) * Information: A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems of Russian Academy of Sciences ( http://www.iis.nsk.su/en ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samth at cs.indiana.edu Mon Mar 19 14:13:00 2018 From: samth at cs.indiana.edu (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:13:00 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Racket School 2018: Create your own language Message-ID: The Racket School 2018: Create your own language 9?13 July ? Salt Lake City The Racket team has spent over thirty years developing and refining a coherent intellectual tradition for studying and building programming languages. This year?s school will introduce participants to Racket?s framework for language-oriented programming, which the summer school faculty recently spelled out in a a cover article in the Communications of the ACM. [https://tinyurl.com/RacketCACM] Concretely, the 2018 Racket Summer School will cover the following topics: ? the spectrum of programming languages; ? modules and syntax, or languages as libraries; ? DrRacket?s support for language-oriented programming; ? a domain-specific language for adding types to languages; ? tools and techniques for implementing notational conveniences; and ? research challenges in language-oriented programming. If these topics intrigue you, attend the Racket Summer School: http://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2018/ 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. We will send you your first problem set in June, a month before the summer school to whet your appetite. From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Mon Mar 19 21:57:43 2018 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:57:43 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: LACompLing2018 - Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2018, Stockholm Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2018 (LACompLing2018) Stockholm, 28-31 August 2018 Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University http://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing2018-web/ ================================================ 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 LACompLing2018 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, regular papers: 15 May 2018 (Anywhere on Earth / AoE) Submission deadline, abstracts: 31 May 2018 (AoE) Notifications: 15 June 2018 Final submissions: TBA LACompLing2018: between 28-31 Aug 2018 (few days, depending on the program) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS == We invite original, regular papers that are not submitted concurrently to another conference or for publication elsewhere. Abstracts of presentations can be on work submitted or published elsewhere. - Regular papers: maximum 10 pages, including figures and references - Abstracts of contributed presentations: not more than 2 pages - The submissions of proposed papers and abstracts have to be in pdf - The camera-ready submissions require the pdf and their sources Authors are required to use Springer LNCS style files. Styles and templates can be downloaded from Springer, for LaTeX and Microsoft: http://www.springer.com/jp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines The submissions are via the EasyChair management system of LACompLing2018: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacompling2018 PUBLICATIONS == - The proceedings of LACompLing2018 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 LACompLing2018, will be published in a special issue of a journal after the workshop. ORGANIZERS == Krasimir Angelov, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Kristina Liefke, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden (chair) Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Satoshi Tojo, School of Information Science, JAIST, Japan CONTACT == Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova at gmail.com) Kristina Liefke (Liefke at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de) -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noam.zeilberger at gmail.com Tue Mar 20 09:08:14 2018 From: noam.zeilberger at gmail.com (Noam Zeilberger) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:08:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Workshop: Computational Logic and Applications In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 11th Workshop on Computational Logic and Applications 24--25 May 2018, Paris, France, https://cla.tcs.uj.edu.pl/ ================================= IMPORTANT DATES Submission of talk proposals : 3 May 2018 Notification of acceptance : 5 May 2018 Registration deadline : 17 May 2018 ================================= It is our pleasure to announce that the tenth workshop Computational Logic and Applications (CLA 2018) will be held on 24-25 May 2018 in Paris, France. The workshop gathers researchers interested in quantitative aspects of mathematical logic and programming, including, but not limited to, topics such as: - combinatorics of lambda calculus and related formalisms, - asymptotic enumeration and analytic methods in computational logic, - quantitative aspects of program evaluation and normalization, - enumeration and random generation of formulae, terms and programs, - asymptotic analysis and random sampling of concurrency processes and beyond, - random software testing and counterexample generation including Monte Carlo techniques. All interested researchers are cordially invited to attend. TALK PROPOSALS We invite the participants to give talks of 45 minutes on topics relevant to the theme of the workshop. Please indicate your interest in giving a talk by submitting its title and an abstract of about 200 words when registering. Depending on the number of submitted talks we may perform selection considering their relevance and diversity. Talk proposals should be submitted through the mail: cla at lip6.fr CONTACT - Maciej Bendkowski: bendkowski at tcs.uj.edu.pl - Olivier Bodini: olivier.bodini at lipn.univ-paris13.fr - Antoine Genitrini: antoine.genitrini at lip6.fr WORKSHOP COMMITTEE - Maciej Bendkowski (Jagiellonian University, Krak?w, Poland) - Olivier Bodini (Paris-Nord University, France) - Daniele Gardy (Versailles University, France) - Antoine Genitrini (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France) - Alain Giorgetti (Franche-Comt? University, Besan?on, France) - Bernhard Gittenberger (TU Wien, Austria) - Zbigniew Go??biewski (Wroc?aw University, Poland) - Katarzyna Grygiel (Jagiellonian University, Krak?w, Poland) - Pierre Lescanne (?cole normale sup?rieure de Lyon, France) - Micha? Pa?ka (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden) - Paul Tarau (University of North Texas, USA) - Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, Arkansas, USA) - Marek Zaionc (Jagiellonian University, Krak?w, Poland) - Noam Zeilberger (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gabriel.scherer at gmail.com Wed Mar 21 02:10:10 2018 From: gabriel.scherer at gmail.com (Gabriel Scherer) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:10:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Assistant Professor in Logic of Programs, Stockholm University (Closing date: April 3) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear list, Erik Palmgren sends the following announcement to the list: # Tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Computer Science directed towards Logic of Programs, at the Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University. Closing date for application April 3. The last century of research has led the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University to acquire a prominent place in Scandinavian mathematics. The department consists of two divisions: mathematics and mathematical statistics. The research thrusts in the division of mathematics include algebra, geometry and combinatorics, analysis and logic. During the last decade the division has almost doubled the number of students. The research thrusts in mathematical statistics include probability theory and statistical inference theory, with applications in biostatistics, climatology, econometrics, finance and insurance. A newly formed and growing direction of research and education in the department is Computer Science and Scientific Computing focuses on computational biology, bioinformatics, stochastic modelling and scientific computing for climatology, and logic of programs. As of 2018 the department is responsible for the BSc Programme in Computer Science. We implement an active policy to develop and modernize the educational process. Both our Bachelors and Masters programs in mathematics received the highest ranking in the latest university evaluation. ## Subject description The subject of the position includes program verification, implementation of proof systems, and applications of proof theory in programming, functional programming, and semantics of programming languages. ## Main responsibilities Research and in addition some teaching and supervision. ## Further information - Possibilities to work with the wellknown logic/type theory group* - The teaching load is at most 30 % for the first 4 years. - Proficiency in Swedish is not a requirement at the time of appointment, but the candidate should be prepared to carry out teaching and administrative duties that require proficiency in Swedish within two years of employment. ## Full announcement: https://www.researchgate.net/job/906901_Assistant_Professor_in_Computer_Science_directed_towards_Logic_of_Programs?source=jml&viewIds%5B0%5D=Ehy4AzSnzrQZHF80a9Lo1VhP Erik Palmgren Professor of Mathematical Logic *) https://www.math.su.se/english/research/research-groups/research-group-in-mathematical-logic-1.330078 From stefano at di.unito.it Wed Mar 21 09:45:08 2018 From: stefano at di.unito.it (Berardi Stefano) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:45:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended deadline for CL&C 2018: April 10, 2018 Message-ID: Extended deadline for CL&C 2018: Classical Logic and Computation 2018 (Seventh of the series CL&C) Oxford, UK, July 7, 2018 Conference websitehttp://www.di.unito.it/~stefano/CL&C/CL&C18.htm Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clc2018 Extended Submission deadline ??? April 10, 2018 This year, CL&C will be held as a satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 (former TLCA + RTA), see:http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ . CL&C is focused on the interplay between, on one side, the exploration of the computational content of classical mathematical proofs, and on the other side, the languages and the semantical models proposed in computer science for this task: continuations, game models, denotational models, learning models and so forth. The scientific aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both proof theory and computer science and to exchange ideas. Invited Speaker: we are pleased to announce that Alex Simpson accepted to be the invited speaker. Submission Guidelines There are two kind of submission: original papers not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conferences, and short talk, not intended for publication, for which multiple submissions are welcome. For a short talk, just submit the abstract. The following paper categories are welcome: ??? version of lambda calculi adapted to represent classical logic; ??? design of programming languages inspired by classical logic; ??? cut-elimination for classical systems; ??? proof representation for classical logic; ??? translations of classical to intuitionistic proofs; ??? constructive interpretation of non-constructive principles; ??? witness extraction from classical proofs; ??? constructive semantics for classical logic (e.g. game semantics, classical realization); ??? case studies (for any of the previous points). Proceedings will appear on EPTCS. We have room for informal talks, too. Therefore participants are encouraged to present: work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, and programmatic position papers. All submitted papers will be reviewed to normal standards. The PC recognises two kinds of papers: it will distinguish between accepted (full) papers that contain unpublished results not submitted elsewhere, which we publish on EPTCS, and presentations of (short) papers about work in progress or overview of papers published elsewhere. In order to make a submission: ??? Format your file using the EPTCS guidelines; there is a 15 page limit. ??? Use the submission instructions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clc2018 . Here are the important dates: Extended Paper submission: April, 10 2018 Notification: May, 15 2018 Final version due: May, 30 2018, 2018 Workshop date: July, 7, 2018 Chair: Alexandre Miquel. PC: Bahareh Afshari, Federico Aschieri, Stefan Hetzl, Christophe Raffalli, Helmut Schwichtenberg. 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URL: From elaine at mat.ufmg.br Wed Mar 21 13:10:42 2018 From: elaine at mat.ufmg.br (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:10:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VCLA International Student Awards -- deadline approaching Message-ID: The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding theses and scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: ? Outstanding Master Thesis Award ? Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (Bachelor thesis or equivalent, 1st cycle of the Bologna process) The main areas of interest are: ? Computational Logic, covering theoretical and mathematical foundations such as proof theory, model theory, computability theory, algorithmic lower and upper bounds, Boolean satisfiability (SAT), QBF, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability modulo theories, automated deduction (resolution, refutation, theorem proving), non-classical logics (substructural logics, multi-valued logics, deontic logics, modal and temporal logics), computational complexity and algorithms (complexity analysis, parameterized and exact algorithms, decomposition methods). ? Databases and Artificial Intelligence, concerned with logical methods for modeling, storing, and drawing inferences from data and knowledge. This includes subjects like query languages based on logical concepts (Datalog, variants of SQL, XML, and SPARQL), novel database-theoretical methods (schema mappings, information extraction and integration), logic programming, knowledge representation and reasoning (ontologies, answer-set programming, belief change, inconsistency handling, argumentation, planning). ? Verification, concerned with logical methods and automated tools for reasoning about the behavior and correctness of complex state-based systems such as software and hardware designs as well as hybrid systems. This ranges from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems. The award is dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aims to carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these areas. Award The Outstanding Master Thesis Award is accompanied by a prize of ? 1200, and the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award by a prize of ? 800. Additionally, the winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony during the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2018 in Oxford. Eligibility The degree must have been awarded between November 15th 2015 and December 31st 2017. Students who obtained the degree at TU Wien are excluded from the nomination. Important dates Submission deadline (extended): March 25, 2018 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of decision: End of May 2018 Award ceremony: July 2018 (during FLoC 2018, details to be announced) Nomination Procedures For nomination instructions, please visit http://logic-cs.at/award-call- 2018/ Kindly address all inquiries to award at logic-cs.at VCLA Award Committee Federico Aschieri Paolo Baldi Ezio Bartocci Johannes Fichte Ekaterina Fokina Robert Ganian (committee co-chair) Yazmin A. Ibanez-Garcia Roman Kuznets Bjoern Lellmann Nysret Musliu Michael Morak Martin N?llenburg Sebastian Ordyniak Magdalena Ortiz (general chair) Revantha Ramanayake (committee co-chair) Martin Suda Friedrich Slivovsky -- 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 eacsl at kahle.ch Wed Mar 21 13:39:23 2018 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (European Association of Computer Science Logic) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:39:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ackermann Award 2018 Message-ID: ACKERMANN AWARD 2018 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2018 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 1.1.2016 and 31.12.2017 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 4 April 2018. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2018 and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de The Award The 2018 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at the annual conference of the EACSL, 4-7 September 2018, in Birmingham (UK). The award consists of * a certificate, * an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, * the publication of the laudatio in the CSL 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: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge); * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University); * Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), ACM SigLog representative; * Luke Ong (University of Oxford); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund), the president of EACSL. How to submit The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit 1. the thesis (ps or pdf file); 2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file); 3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters by other senior researchers (in English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick (thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de); 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, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de With the following subject line and text: * Subject: Ackermann Award 2018 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. From m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk Thu Mar 22 04:57:17 2018 From: m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk (Sammartino, Matteo) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:57:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentship on Automated Black-box Verification of Networking Systems at University College London Message-ID: Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at University College London, under the supervision of Prof. Alexandra Silva and Dr. Matteo Sammartino. The start date is flexible and can be negotiated. It should be in September 2018 at the latest. The studentship is funded by the UK Research Institute in Verified Trustworthy Software Systems, and will be conducted within the Programming Principles, Logic and Verification (PPLV) group (http://pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk/). Computer Science at UCL was ranked among the top 20 in the world and fifth in the UK. The PPLV group provides an exciting research environment, with outstanding connections with cutting-edge industry. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Prof. Silva (alexandra.silva at ucl.ac.uk) and Dr. Sammartino (m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk) for further information and expressions of interest. Applications should be made via the UCL evision website: https://evision.ucl.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_app&code1=RRDCOMSING01&code2=0025 Here is a short description of the project. Title: Automated Black-box Verification of Networking Systems Our society is increasingly reliant on complex networking systems, consisting of several components that operate in a distributed/concurrent fashion, exchange data that may be highly sensitive, and are implemented with a mix of open and closed-source code. Examples are Software Defined Networks, cloud computing systems, Internet of Things and others. As the complexity of these systems increases, there is a pressing need of methods and tools to automatically verify security and privacy properties. High quality models ? able to express all the behaviours of interest ? are of paramount importance to this aim. However, it is often the case that the task of building a model is performed by humans and in a short span of time ? if it is performed at all ? and as such can be error-prone and inaccurate. The goal of the proposed PhD project is to develop techniques and tools to automate the modelling and verification of networking software systems. The novel idea is to rely on the model learning paradigm, originally proposed in artificial intelligence, to automatically build an automaton model of a running system in a black-box fashion -- purely via interactions with the running system. From m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk Thu Mar 22 05:21:40 2018 From: m.sammartino at ucl.ac.uk (Matteo Sammartino) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:21:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- FLoC 2018 Workshop Message-ID: ******************************************* EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 March 2018 ******************************************* Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- FLoC 2018 Workshop July 13, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Website: https://learnaut2018.wordpress.com/ Learning models defining recursive computations, like automata and formal grammars, are the core of the field called Grammatical Inference (GI). The expressive power of these models and the complexity of the associated computational problems are major research topics within the mathematical logic and computer science communities, spanning the international conferences that the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) brings together. Historically, there has been little interaction between the GI and FLoC communities, though recently some important results started to bridge the gap between both worlds, including applications of learning to formal verification and model checking, and (co-)algebraic formulations of automata and grammar learning algorithms. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic who could benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in grammatical inference who could find in logic and verification new fruitful applications for their methods. We invite submissions of recent work, including preliminary research, related to the theme of the workshop. Similarly to how main machine learning conferences and workshops are organized, all accepted abstracts will be part of a poster session held during the workshop. Additionally, the Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to represent it at the workshop. LearnAut 18 is also coordinating with the International Conference on Grammatical Inference (ICGI, http://icgi2018.pwr.edu.pl/) which publishes its proceedings in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR: http://proceedings.mlr.press/). Selected LearnAut papers will be offered the possibility to have an extended version published in the proceedings of ICGI. Authors of such papers will be expected to submit the extended version by the ICGI deadline, which will then undergo an additional (light) review process by the ICGI program committee. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Computational complexity of learning problems involving automata and formal languages. - Algorithms and frameworks for learning models representing language classes inside and outside the Chomsky hierarchy, including tree and graph grammars. - Learning problems involving models with additional structure, including numeric weights, inputs/outputs such as transducers, register automata, timed automata, Markov reward and decision processes, and semi-hidden Markov models. - Logical and relational aspects of learning and grammatical inference. - Theoretical studies of learnable classes of languages/representations. - Relations between automata and recurrent neural networks. - Active learning of finite state machines and formal languages. - Methods for estimating probability distributions over strings, trees, graphs, or any data used as input for symbolic models. - Applications of learning to formal verification and (statistical) model checking. - Metrics and other error measures between automata or formal languages. ** Invited speakers ** Alexander Clark (King's College London) Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh) Doina Precup (McGill University & DeepMind) ** Submission instructions ** Submissions in the form of extended abstracts must be at most 8 single-column pages long (plus at most four for bibliography and possible appendixes) and must be submitted in the JMLR/PMLR format. The LaTeX style file is available from here: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr We do accept submissions of work recently published or currently under review; however such submissions do not qualify for publication in the ICGI Proceedings. - Submission url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learnaut2018 - Submission deadline: 31 March 2018 - Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2018 - Submission deadline for ICGI proceedings: 15 May 2018 - Registration: http://www.floc2018.org/register/ ** Program Committee ** Dana Angluin (Yale University) Borja Balle (Amazon Research Cambridge) Leonor Becerra-Bonache (Universit? de Saint-Etienne) Jorge Castro (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Fran?ois Denis (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University) Falk Howar (TU Clausthal) Kim Larsen (Aalborg University) Ariadna Quattoni (Naver Labs Europe) Bernhard Steffen (TU Dortmund) Alexandra Silva (University College London) James Worrell (University of Oxford) ** Organizers ** Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University) Guillaume Rabusseau (McGill University) Matteo Sammartino (University College London) From birkedal at cs.au.dk Thu Mar 22 10:24:39 2018 From: birkedal at cs.au.dk (Lars Birkedal) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:24:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Full Professor Position in Aarhus, Denmark Message-ID: Dear All, The Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark, has announced a call for a full professor position in computer science. We are looking for candidates in all areas and would welcome applicants from the types list. Application deadline is May 3, 2018. 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URL: From matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Thu Mar 22 10:30:30 2018 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei, Matteo) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:30:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators (Tenure-Track Professorship at TU Wien + 1.6M funding for 6-8 years) Message-ID: <1FEAC13D-E824-4290-93B6-8ED6F38B430C@tuwien.ac.at> The Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology is looking for outstanding young researchers from abroad to set up and manage an independent research group as part of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund?s (WWTF) Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators (VRG) Call 2018 - ?Information and Communication Technologies". Expressions of interest are sought from researchers who have recently completed their PhD (2 ? 8 years ago) with an excellent research track record. Selected candidates will, together with an experienced researcher of the Faculty of Informatics as a proponent, prepare a proposal to be submitted to the WWTF. Should this proposal be successful, the proposed project will be funded to the amount of 1.6 million euro by the WWTF for a period of 6 ? 8 years. The Vienna University of Technology will also contribute to the funding of the project: during this time the successful candidate(s) will set up and manage his or her own research group as a group leader, and she or he will receive a tenure-track position (assistant professor), which will be later transformed into a tenured position (associate professor) subject to a positive overall assessment, with subsequent possibility of promotion to full professor. Expressions of interest from researchers working in any area of Security and Privacy are welcome. These should be sent in digital format (a single pdf file) to Univ. Prof. Matteo Maffei (matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at) by May 1st, 2018. The expression of interest should include - CV - List of publications - Short abstract of the envisioned research project (about 1 page) Important Dates: - May 1st, 2018: deadline for expressions of interest - Mid of May: notification of the first screening phase - July 12th, 2018: deadline for the final proposal Further information on the call is available at: https://www.wwtf.at/programmes/vienna_research_groups/#VRG18 Contact for informal inquiries in the area of Security and Privacy: Univ. Prof. Matteo Maffei (matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at) --- Univ. Prof. Matteo Maffei Security and Privacy Group TU Wien Favoritenstrasse 9-11, Stiege 2, 1. Stock Wien, A-1040 Website: secpriv.tuwien.ac.at Phone: +43(1)58801184860 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.bliudze at inria.fr Thu Mar 22 13:03:27 2018 From: simon.bliudze at inria.fr (Simon Bliudze) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:03:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2019 - 2nd Call for Satellite Events Message-ID: <92666931-25e6-d704-6185-18a99419b29b@inria.fr> 22st European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ?????????????????????????? ETAPS 2019 ??????????? Prague, Czech Republic, April 6-12, 2019 https://conf.researchr.org/home/etaps-2019 ??????????????? Second Call for Satellite Events ******************************************************************* *??????????????? Application deadline extension?????????????????? * ******************************************************************* Satellite event proposals deadline: May 4, 2018 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2018 -- 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-second edition, ETAPS 2019, will take place April 6-12, 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. ETAPS 2019 main conferences, scheduled for April 8-12, 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 2019 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. The committee especially encourages workshops on program synthesis and on the development of approximate systems. Satellite events provide an opportunity to discuss and report on emerging research approaches and practical experience relevant to theory and practice of software. ETAPS 2019 satellite events will be held immediately before the main conferences, on April 6-7. -- ARRANGEMENTS FOR SATELLITE EVENTS -- The organizers of an ETAPS 2019 satellite are expected to: * create and maintain a website for the event, as a part of the main ? ETAPS web page https://conf.researchr.org/home/etaps-2019 * 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 2019 organizing committee, * prepare and organize the publication of a formal (post)proceedings ?(if desired). The ETAPS 2019 organizing committee will: * promote the event on the website and in the publicity material of ? ETAPS 2019, * 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 2019 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 via the following online form (the preferred option): http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/ETAPS/ or via an email to the workshop co-chairs: Milan Ceska (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) ceskam at fit.vutbr.cz Ryan Culpepper (Czech Technical University in Prague) ryanc at ccs.neu.edu The following information is requested: * the name and acronym of the satellite event * the names and contact information of the organizers * the duration of the event: one or two days * the preferred period: April 6, April 7, April 6 - 7 * the expected number of participants * a brief description (120 words approximately) of the event topic for ? the website and publicity material of ETAPS 2019 * 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 2019 organizing committee will need the final files by ? the end of Feb. 2019) * 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 2019 organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of ETAPS 2019. Prospective organizers may wish to consult the web pages of previous satellite events as examples: ETAPS 2018: http://www.etaps.org/2018/workshops 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: May 4, 2018 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2018 -- HOST CITY -- Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people. Prague has been a political, cultural and economic centre of central Europe complete with a rich history. Founded during the Romanesque and flourishing by the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque eras, Prague was the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia and the main residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably of Charles IV. It was an important city to the Habsburg Monarchy and its Austro-Hungarian Empire. Prague is home to a number of famous cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of 20th-century Europe. Main attractions include the Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge, Old Town Square with the Prague astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petrin hill and Vysehrad. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. 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URL: From kutsia at risc.jku.at Thu Mar 22 11:39:23 2018 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:39:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension: ICMS'18 Session on Software for Mathematical Reasoning and Applications Message-ID: ============================================================== CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Software for Mathematical Reasoning and Applications http://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/icms2018/ Session at the ICMS 2018 International Congress on Mathematical Software South Bend (USA) Notre Dame, 24-27 July 2018 http://icms-conference.org/2018/ ============================================================== IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Short abstract submission: April 14, 2018 (extended) Extended abstract submission: April 21, 2018 Organizers decision: April 30, 2018 AIM AND SCOPE ------------- In addition to traditional software for numerics and symbolics (in algebra, analysis, combinatorics, etc.), more and more software for automated reasoning based on sophisticated general and special reasoning techniques with nice user interfaces enriches the possibilities of working mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers. For this session we welcome reports on - new versions of automated reasoning software - user interfaces for automated reasoning software - new implementations of general and special reasoning techniques - interaction of automated reasoning software with numerical and algebraic software - applications of automated reasoning in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, engineering, education, ... - the use of automated reasoning in the build-up of formal mathematical knowledge bases - and related subjects. ORGANIZERS ---------- Bruno Buchberger (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Tudor Jebelean (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Temur Kutsia (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Alexander Maletzky (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) Wolfgang Windsteiger (session manager) (RISC, JKU Linz, Austria) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------- Level 1: Submit a short abstract at latest by April 14, 2018. - It should be about 200 words. - It must be in plain text (without using any mathematical symbols, etc). - It must be submitted as an email attachment to the session manager: wolfgang.windsteiger at risc.jku.at - The organizers will make a decision within a week of submission. - If accepted, then it will appear on the conference web page immediately. - If the short abstract is accepted, you may want to proceed to level 2 (not mandatory). Level 2: Submit an extended abstract at latest by April 21, 2018. - It should be a PDF file at least 4 pages and at most 8 pages submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icms2018 - It should follow the guideline: http://icms-conference.org/2018/ICMS_Extended_Abstract_2018.pdf - It should use the LaTeX template http://icms-conference.org/2018/ICMS_Extended_Abstract_2018.txt and the LNCS LaTeX style: http://icms-conference.org/2018/llncs.cls - The organizers will make a decision at latest by April 30, 2018. - If accepted, then it will appear on the conference web page immediately. - If accepted, you will be asked to submit the LaTeX source files via EasyChair by May 7, 2018. - The paper will then be published in the conference proceedings. They will appear as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Level 3: A special issue in some journal (e.g. the Journal of Symbolic Computation) might be organized after the conference depending on the number and the quality of Level 2 submissions. From dnjansen at ios.ac.cn Thu Mar 22 22:03:55 2018 From: dnjansen at ios.ac.cn (David N. Jansen) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 02:03:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2018 **Last Call for Papers and Deadline Extension** Message-ID: **Last Call for Papers**: We invite you to submit original research articles to FORMATS 2018 16th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems Beijing, China, September 4?6, 2018 Conference website: Submission website: Conference email: formats2018 at easychair.org Abstract registration deadline: April 6, 2018 (extended) Submission deadline: April 11, 2018 (extended) Invited speakers: Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Univ. Southern California Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley **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 for 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 verification, synthesis, learning, online monitoring and runtime verification of timed or hybrid systems and for resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimisation, model checking, testing, constraint solving). * Applications: Adaptation and specialisation of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, embedded control, hardware circuits, biological systems, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications). The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS . FORMATS 2018 is part of CONFESTA 2018 , which also includes CONCUR, QEST and SETTA. **Programme Committee** Sergiy Bogomolov (Australian National Univ., Australia) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Iowa State Univ., USA) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, Univ. Paris Saclay, France) Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG, France) Martin Fr?nzle (Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg, Germany) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Boudewijn Haverkort (Univ. of Twente, Netherlands) Holger Hermanns (Saarland Univ., Germany) David N. Jansen (co-chair, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Jan K?et?nsk? (Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany) Martin Leucker (Univ. of L?beck, Germany) Miroslav Pajic (Duke Univ., NC, USA) David Parker (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) Pavithra Prabhakar (co-chair, Kansas State University, USA) Krishna S. (IIT Bombay, India) C?sar S?nchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Ocan Sankur (Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France) Zhikun She (School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beihang Univ., Beijing, China) Ji?? Srba (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Meng Sun (Peking Univ., China) Cong Tian (Xidian Univ., China) Ashutosh Trivedi (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Frits Vaandrager (Radboud Univ., Netherlands) Mahesh Viswanathan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Kind regards, Pavithra Prabhakar and David N. Jansen (FORMATS 2018 Co-Chairs) From birkedal at cs.au.dk Fri Mar 23 06:18:50 2018 From: birkedal at cs.au.dk (Lars Birkedal) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:18:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Full Professor Position in Aarhus, Denmark In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <25D03D28-DD03-4FBE-AB6A-E93406A4FB11@cs.au.dk> Apologies, the link below was broken. The correct link is http://www.au.dk/en/about/vacant-positions/scientific-positions/stillinger/Vacancy/show/965870/5283/ Best, Lars. On 22 Mar 2018, at 15:24, Lars Birkedal > wrote: Dear All, The Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark, has announced a call for a full professor position in computer science. We are looking for candidates in all areas and would welcome applicants from the types list. Application deadline is May 3, 2018. See http://www.au.dk/en/about/vacant-positions/scientificpositions/stillinger/Vacancy/show/965870/5283/ for the official call text. You are welcome to contact me at birkedal at cs.au.dk if you have any questions about the position. Best wishes, Lars -- Lars Birkedal Professor www.cs.au.dk/~birke birkedal at cs.au.dk ? Lars Birkedal Professor Dept. of Computer Science Aarhus University Aabogade 34 8200 Aarhus N Denmark birkedal at cs.au.dk www.cs.au.dk/~birke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 23 08:03:29 2018 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:03:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2018 final call for papers Message-ID: MFPS XXXIV 2018 : Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics Call for papers The 34th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIV) will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from June 6?9, 2018. MFPS 2018 will be co-located with the 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2018, which takes place from June 3?7. 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: 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: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/mfps2018/ ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: * April 1: abstract submission * April 6: paper submission * May 11: notification of authors * May 25: final papers ready * June 6?9: conference ### Submitting Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros (http://www.entcs.org/) and should be up to 12 pages long excluding bibliography and appendices. Submissions is via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps34). NB * The original call for papers, in reference to an older style file, suggested up to 15 pages. Authors may still submit up to 15 pages using the old style file. But they are encouraged to use the latest ENTCS style file, dated 6 March 2018, and up to 12 pages, which is actually more generous because of font and margin differences. * Although QPL and MFPS are co-located, they have different submission sites and programme committees. ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will be published in ENTCS after the meeting. ENTCS is open access. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Marc Bagnol, ENS Lyon, France * Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia * Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland * Ale? Bizjak, Aarhus University, Denmark * Valentin Blot, Universit? Paris-Sud, France * Steve Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Pierre Clairambault, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France * Ilias Garnier, Sivienn Inc. and ENS Paris * Sergey Goncharov, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany * Tobias Heindel, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany * Tom Hirschowitz, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, France * Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA * Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK * Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford, UK * Shin-Ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA * Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA * Joel Ouaknine, MPI-SWS, Germany * Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France * Azalea Raad, MPI-SWS, Germany * Sam Staton, University of Oxford, UK (chair) * Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Beno?t Valiron, LRI - CentraleSup?lec, Univ. Paris Saclay, France * Valeria Vignudelli, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France * Noam Zeilberger, University of Birmingham, UK ## INVITED SPEAKERS and SPECIAL SESSIONS * Ron Garcia, British Columbia * Frank Pfenning, CMU * Gordon Plotkin, Edinburgh / Google * Neil J. Ross, Dalhousie Our plan is to organize a series of special sessions, on the following topics: gradual typing, session types, differentiable programs, and quantum programming languages (joint with QPL). Special session speakers will be announced in due course. ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Neil J. Ross * Peter Selinger From joachim.niehren at inria.fr Fri Mar 23 12:18:29 2018 From: joachim.niehren at inria.fr (Joachim Niehren) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:18:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WPTE 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: <2ede99a2-1126-0c54-5129-0e866b564041@inria.fr> *WPTE 2018 **CALL FOR PAPERS** * *5th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation* Affiliated with FLoC 2018 and FSCD 2018 in Oxford, July 8. http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/niehren/WPTE-2018/main.html About WPTE 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. Topics of Interest * 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 arguing 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. Steering Committee * Yuki Chiba , JAIST * Horatiu Cirstea , LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine, France * Santiago Escobar , Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Naoki Nishida , Nagoya University * David Sabel , Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main * Manfred Schmidt-Schau? , Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main Previous Editions WPTE 2017 in Oxford was affiliated with FSCD 2017 , WPTE 2016 in Porto was affiliated with FSCD 2016 , WPTE 2015 in Warsaw was affiliated with RDP 2015 , and WPTE 2014 in Vienna was affiliated with RTA/TLCA 2014 . Program Committee * Joachim Niehren (Chair), Inria, Lille. * David Sabel (Co-chair), Goethe University, Frankfurt. * Noaki Nishida , Nagoya University. * Joachim Breitner , University of Pennsylvania. * Giulio Guerrieri , Oxford University. * Manfred Schmidt-Schau? , Goethe-University, Frankfurt. * Vivek Nigam , Universidade Federal da Para?ba. * Adam Barwell , University of St Andrews. * Maribel Fernandez , King's College London. Paper Selection and Proceedings Contributions to WPTE'2018 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. 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/). Extended abstract submission to WPTE'2018 is handled by easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2018. Formal Proceedings As in previous years, we intend to publish WPTE post-proceedings of selected papers by the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). 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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. As part of CONFESTA ( http://confesta2018.csp.escien ce.cn/ ), SETTA 2018 will be co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS and QUEST. *TOPICS* 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 multicore programming - Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Mixed-critical applications and systems - Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing - Safety, 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 *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. 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. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page < https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2018 >. All submissions must be in the PDF format. Papers should be written in English. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract deadline: April 23, 2018 (extended) - Submission deadline: April 30, 2018 - Author notification: June 14, 2018 - Camera-ready version: June 28, 2018 - Symposium: September 4-6, 2018 *Invited Speakers* - Moshe Vardi (joint keynote speaker for CONFESTA 2018), Rice University - Tao Xie, UIUC - Hongseok Yang, KAIST *ORGANIZERS* General Chair: - Chaochen Zhou (Inst. of Software, CAS, China) Program Co-chairs: - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Markus M?ller-Olm (University of M?nster, Germany) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) Program Committee: - Farhad Arbib (CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Sanjay Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Lei Bu (Nanjing University, China) - Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) - Yan Cai (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Taolue Chen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Yuan Feng (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Dan Hao (Peking University, China) - Maritta Heisel (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Raymond Hu (Imperial College London, UK) - He Jiang (Dalian Univerisyt of Technology, China) - Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University, China) - Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Guoqiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) - Ting Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Tongping Liu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) - Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HongKong) - Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy and LORIA, France) - Markus M?ller-Olm (University of M?nster, Germany) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Fu Song (ShanghaiTech University, China) - Zhendong Su (University of California, Davis, USA) - Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) - Walid Mohamed Taha (Halmstad University, Sweden) - Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) - Cong Tian (Xidian Univeristy, China) - Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Chao Wang (University of Southern California, USA) - Ji Wang (NUDT, China) - Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Xin Xia (Monash University, Australia) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) - Shin Yoo (KAIST, Korea) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From selinger at mathstat.dal.ca Sun Mar 25 09:37:16 2018 From: selinger at mathstat.dal.ca (Peter Selinger) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:37:16 -0300 (ADT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] QPL 2018 submission deadline approaching Message-ID: <20180325133716.A814314075F@chase.mathstat.dal.ca> Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is a week from now! * SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2018) June 3-7, 2018 Halifax, Canada https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/qpl2018/ * * * The 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2018) will take place at Dalhousie University June 3-7, 2018. 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. QPL 2018 will be co-located with the 34th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2018), which takes place from June 6-9. IMPORTANT DATES April 1: abstract submission April 6: paper submission May 11: notification of authors May 25: final papers ready June 3-7: conference INVITED SPEAKERS Dominic Horsman (University of Grenoble) Debbie Leung (University of Waterloo) Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University) Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) TUTORIALS Teiko Heinosaari (University of Turku): "Compatibility of Quantum Measurements and Channels" Ciaran Lee (University College London): "Computation in General Probabilistic Theories" SUBMISSIONS Prospective speakers are invited to submit one (or more) of the following: - Original contributions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract that 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. - 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. The conference proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. Only "original contributions" are eligible to be published in the proceedings. 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=qpl2018 There will be an award for the best student paper at the discretion of the programme committee. Papers eligible for the award are those where all the authors are students at the time of submission. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giulio Chiribella (University of Oxford, co-chair) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, co-chair) Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Antonio Acin (Institute of Photonic Sciences) Richard Blute (University of Ottawa) Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa) Dan Browne (University College London) Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Lidia del Rio (ETH Zurich) Ross Duncan (University of Strathclyde) Teiko Heinosaari (University of Turku) Chris Heunen (University of Edinburgh) Matthew Hoban (University of Oxford) Dominic Horsman (University of Durham) Bart Jacobs (Radboud University) Kohei Kishida (Dalhousie University) Aleks Kissinger (Radboud University) Joachim Kock (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona) Ciaran Lee (University College London) Matt Leifer (Chapman University) Martha Lewis (University of Amsterdam) Paul-Andre Mellies (CNRS, Universite Paris Diderot) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University) Mio Murao (University of Tokyo) Daniel Oi (University of Strathclyde) Ognyan Oreshkov (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Anna Pappa (University of Edinburgh) Dusko Pavlovic (University of Hawaii) Simon Perdrix (CNRS, University of Grenoble) Paolo Perinotti (Universita di Pavia) Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University) Ana Belen Sainz (Perimeter Institute) Pawel Sobocinski (University of Southampton) Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute) Isar Stubbe (Universite du Littoral) Benoit Valiron (Universite Paris-Saclay) Jamie Vicary (University of Oxford) Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology Sydney) Margherita Zorzi (Universita di Verona) STEERING COMMITTEE Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) LOCAL ORGANIZERS Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) * For further information, please contact qpl2018 at easychair.org. From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Sun Mar 25 16:47:20 2018 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:47:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] RC 2018: Second call for papers Message-ID: ======================================================================= ? Call for Papers 10th International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2018) ? September 13-14, 2018, Leicester, UK Abstract Submission: April 10, 2018 Submission Deadline: April 17, 2018 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, coding/decoding, testing and verification, database recovery, discrete event simulation, reversible specification formalisms, reversible programming languages, process algebras, quantum computation, etc. First reversible circuits and quantum circuits have been implemented and are seen as promising alternatives to conventional CMOS technology. ? The conference will bring together researchers from computer science, mathematics, and physics to discuss new developments and directions for future research in Reversible Computation. This includes applications of reversibility in quantum computation. Research papers, tutorials, tool demonstrations, and work-in-progress reports are within the scope of the conference. Invited talks by leading international experts will complete the programme. ? Contributions on all areas of Reversible Computation are welcome, including - but not limited to - the following topics: ? * Applications * Architectures * Algorithms * Circuit Design * Debugging * Fault Tolerance and Error Correction * Hardware * Information Theory * Physical Realizations * Programming Languages * Quantum Computation * Software * Synthesis * Theoretical Results * Testing * Verification ? ===== Important Dates ===== ? - Abstract Submission: Tuesday April 10th, 2018 - Submission Deadline: Tuesday April 17th, 2018 - Notification to Authors: Tuesday May 29th, 2018 - Final Version: Tuesday June 12th, 2018 - Conference: September 13th and 14th, 2018 ? ===== Invited speakers ===== ? * Michael P Frank (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy) * Norman Margolus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) * Nicolas Ollinger (University of Orleans, France) ? ===== Paper submission ===== ? Interested researchers are invited to submit full research papers (16 pages maximum), as well as work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum) in Springer LNCS format. Some of the submissions can be accepted for poster presentation as well, and will appear in the proceedings with 4 pages maximum. Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Reviewers are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. 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 (LNCS) volume. ? Authors are invited to submit their papers via the EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rc2018 At least an abstract of the work needs to be pre-submitted by the abstract submission deadline. ? ===== Programme Chairs ===== ? Irek Ulidowski? (University of Leicester, UK) Jarkko Kari? (University of Turku, Finland) ? ===== Programme Committee ===== ? * Gerhard Dueck? (University of New Brunswick, Canada) * Carla Ferreira (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) * Michael P Frank (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) * Anahi Gajardo (Universidad de Concepci?n, Chile) * Robert Gl?ck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Mozammel Huq Azad Khan (East West University, Bangladesh) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy) * Claudio Antares Mezzina (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) * Claudio Moraga (TU Dortmund University, Germany) * Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) * Iain Phillips (Imperial College London, UK) * Krzysztof Podlaski (University of Lodz, Poland) * Mariusz Rawski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) * Ville Salo (University of Turku, Finland) * Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) * Mathias Soeken (EPFL, Switzerland) * Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Germ?n Vidal (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain) * Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) * Shigeru Yamashita (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) * Tetsuo Yokoyama (Nanzan University, Japan) ? ===== Conference Organizer ===== ? Irek Ulidowski? (University of Leicester, UK) iu3 at leicester.ac.uk ? info at reversible-computation.org http://www.reversible-computation.org ? ? From martin.sulzmann at gmail.com Mon Mar 26 06:32:29 2018 From: martin.sulzmann at gmail.com (Martin Sulzmann) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:32:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS2018: Call For Participation Message-ID: ======================= Call For Participation ======================= FLOPS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming In-Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN =============================== 9-11 May, 2018, Nagoya, Japan Registration is now open for FLOPS 2018. http://www.sqlab.jp/FLOPS2018/#registration Deadline for early registration is 20 April, 2018. 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. The list of accepted papers is at http://www.sqlab.jp/FLOPS2018/accepted.html Invited Speakers William E. Byrd (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, SOKENDAI, Japan) C?dric Fournet (Microsoft) 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... 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Possible topics for submitted papers include, but are not limited to: - Formal properties of systems with intersection types. - Results for related systems, such as union types, refinement types, or singleton types. - Applications to lambda calculus, pi-calculus and similar systems. - Applications for programming languages, program analysis, and program verification. - Applications for other areas, such as database query languages and program extraction from proofs. - Related approaches using behavioural/intensional types and/or denotational semantics to characterize computational properties. - Quantitative refinements of intersection types. INVITED SPEAKERS - Damiano Mazza (CNRS - Universit? Paris 13, France) - Pawel Parys (University of Warsaw, Poland) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 8 April, 2018 Paper submission: 15 April, 2018 Author notification: 15 May, 2018 Final version: 28 May, 2018 Workshop: 8 July, 2018 SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The submission is in two stages. (1) Before the workshop, authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 10 pages) in PDF format through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itrs2018). Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in preliminary proceedings. (2) After the workshop, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full versions, which will be refereed for inclusion in post-proceedings (which we plan to publish in EPTCS). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ugo de' Liguoro (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Boris Duedder (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Joshua Dunfield (Queen's University, Canada) Charles Grellois (Universit? Aix-Marseille, France) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Michele Pagani (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France), chair Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) INFORMATION For further information, please contact Michele Pagan Email: pagani AT irif DOT fr -- Michele Pagani Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7 -------------------------------------- From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Mar 26 10:24:34 2018 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:24:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DCM'18 Final Call-for-papers (deadline 8 April 2018) Message-ID: <71F40540-CB75-4C96-B0E1-C3C530D0E46B@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ======================================================================== DCM 2018 12th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/dcm18/ A satellite event of FLoC 2018, Oxford July 8, 2018 ======================================================================== Several new models of computation have emerged in the last years, and many developments of traditional computation models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of users of computer systems and the new capabilities of computation engines. 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. 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. INVITED SPEAKERS We are pleased to announce the two invited speakers of DCM'18: * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna) * Delia Kesner (University Paris-Diderot) 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 ). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves, University of Porto - PC Chair * Sabine Broda, University of Porto * Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology * 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 * 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 dirk.pattinson at anu.edu.au Wed Mar 28 02:33:20 2018 From: dirk.pattinson at anu.edu.au (Dirk Pattinson) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:33:20 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Scholarships in Logic and Verification at the Australian National University Message-ID: <866C6AA2-2A02-476A-8554-756EDCE0AE40@anu.edu.au> The Logic and Computation Group at the Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National University has a number of PhD scholarship available for bright, enthusiastic doctoral students in the following fields: - Logic and Linguistics (Ekaterina Lebedeva) - Logic in Computer Science (Rajeev Gore, Dirk Pattinson, Alwen Tiu) - Non-Classical Logics (Rajeev Gore, John Slaney, Dirk Pattinson) - Proof Theory (Rajeev Gore, Dirk Pattinson, Alwen Tiu) - Automated Reasoning (Peter Baumgartner, Rajeev Gore) - Computer Aided Verification (Sergiy Bogomolov, Michael Norrish, Dirk Pattinson) - Interactive Theorem Proving (Michael Norrish, Dirk Pattinson) - Verification of Computational Complexity (Abdallah Saffidine) - Computer Security Foundations (Alwen Tiu) - Electronic Voting and Social Choice Theory (Rajeev Gore, Dirk Pattinson) Potential applicants are encouraged to consult the group?s web pages at https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/theory/logic/ and make direct contact with potential supervisors. Students will be based at the Research School of Computer Science within the Australian National University. The studentship is a tax-free allowance of A$ 27,082 (2018 rate) per year, tenable for a maximum of 3.5 years. Applications are to be submitted electronically at http://applyonline.anu.edu.au/ before the closing date, April 20, 2018. Further information about graduate research within Computer Science at ANU, please see https://cs.anu.edu.au/study/graduate-research . The scholarships are open to individuals of any nationality. We are based in Canberra, Australia, the top-ranking region of the 2014 OECD quality of life survey (http://www.canberra.com.au/canberra-the-worlds-most-liveable-city/). The ANU actively seeks to promote diversity in the workplace. From stefan.ciobaca at gmail.com Wed Mar 28 07:16:45 2018 From: stefan.ciobaca at gmail.com (Stefan Ciobaca) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:16:45 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FROM 2018 - Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2018 - First Call for Papers WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (FROM) http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ 18 - 20 June 2018 Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania Deadline for extended abstract submissions: 29 April 2018 Invited speakers who confirmed: see the web page of the event: http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ Aims and Scope Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2018 is organized by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest. FROM 2018 is the second event in a a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest (see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017) and it included sixteen invited talks, delivered by top researchers in field, and seven contributed talks. Starting with the current edition, the goal is to increase the weight of the contributed talks. The Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation might be available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Logical frameworks - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages - Type systems Methods of interest include: - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Certified programs - Data-flow and control-flow analysis - Deductive verification - Mechanized proofs - Model checking - Proof mining - Symbolic computation - Term rewriting Applications of interest include: - Computational logic - Computer mathematics - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of maximum 4 pages, except references, formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The extended abstracts should be submitted before 29 April 2018, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2018 The notification of acceptance will be received by 21 May 2018. 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Papers are solicited on topics such as - Semantics, logics, foundational theory7 - 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 GUIDELINES ------------------------------------- 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 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 ------------------------------------- APLAS 2018 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. INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------- Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University, USA) Isil Dillig (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) ORGANIZERS ------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ) Jens Dietrich (Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ) Program Chair: Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, Korea) Program Committee: Sam Blackshear (Facebook, UK) Bernd Burgstaller (Yonsei University, Korea) Cristina David (University of Cambridge, UK) Huimin Cui (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China) Benjamin Delaware (Purdue University, USA) Julian Dolby (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) Yuxi Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Aquinas Hobor (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Tony Hosking (Australian National University / Data61, Australia) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University, Korea) Atsushi Igarashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Joxan Jaffar (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Alexander Jordan (Oracle Labs., Australia) Hakjoo Oh (Korea University, Korea) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Xiaokang Qiu (Purdue University, USA) Tamara Rezk (INRIA, France) Xavier Rival (CNRS / ENS / INRIA, France) Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Manuel Serrano (INRIA, France) Xipeng Shen (North Carolina State University, USA) Guy L. Steele Jr. (Oracle Labs., USA) Alex Summers (ETH, Switzerland) Tachio Terauchi (Waseda University, Japan) Peter Thiemann (Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) Ashutosh Trivedi (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Jingling Xue (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) Danfeng Zhang (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Xin Zhang (MIT, USA) From eacsl at kahle.ch Thu Mar 29 06:30:47 2018 From: eacsl at kahle.ch (EACSL) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:30:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2018: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <4e865b13-28cc-7a15-11ab-d34fa3c0a6b6@kahle.ch> Final 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) * Author 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. # Proceedings Proceedings will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). After the conference, selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the online open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science. # Submission Submission will be through EasyChair. Papers should be no more than 15 pages (excluding references) in LIPIcs style and may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. For further details please see # Invited Speakers * Bob Coecke University of Oxford * Emmanuel Filiot Universit? Libre de Bruxelles * Catuscia Palamidessi ?cole Polytechnique * Christine Tasson Universit? Paris Diderot * Szymon Toru?czyk, Uniwersytet Warszawksi # 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, University of Warsaw * Alexandra Silva, University College London From nasrine.damouche at univ-perp.fr Thu Mar 29 08:22:10 2018 From: nasrine.damouche at univ-perp.fr (Nasrine DAMOUCHE) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:22:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second call for papers NSV 2018 Message-ID: <20180329142210.Horde.koqTXZXT7Zk7SSkPgxVxJl2@webmailup.univ-perp.fr> *** Please forward to interested colleagues.? *** *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies. *** ? =================== CALL FOR PAPERS ==================== ????????? 11TH ?INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL SOFTWARE VERIFICATION ????????????????????????????????? ? ? ? ?? ? JULY 18-19, 2018 ? ?????????????????????????? FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLOC) ?2018 ??????????????????????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ?? OXFORD, UK ???????? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?? WEB PAGE: https://nsv-2018.github.io/nsv2018/ ======================================================= We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 11th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV 2018). IMPORTANT DATES ============= Submissions deadline: April 15, 2018 Notification: May 15, 2018 Final version: June 15, 2018 Workshop: July 19, 2018 DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP ====================== Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: supervision, prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical calculus to achieve desired goals. ?Design and verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of approximation because of the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers that usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. Finally, the development and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS) which involve the interacting continuous and discrete components pose a further challenge. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques for the reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the development of such techniques. TOPICS ====== The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: - Quantitative and qualitative analysis of hybrid systems - Models and abstraction techniques - Optimal control of dynamical systems - Parameter identification for hybrid systems - Numerical optimization methods - Hybrid systems verification - Applications of hybrid systems to systems biology - Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models - Specifications of correctness for numerical programs - Formal specification and verification of numerical programs - Quality of finite precision implementations - Numerical properties of control software - Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications - Validation for scientific computing programs SUBMISSION INFORMATION ================= We solicit regular and short papers.Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system: [http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsv2018] Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS style, including bibliography and well-marked appendices: http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Short papers are also welcome, they should present tools, benchmarks, case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages. Furthermore, in order to foster the exchange of ideas, we encourage authors to also submit short papers describing ideas which have already been reported in other venues. All accepted papers (except short papers based on ideas published elsewhere) will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science series (ENTCS). CHAIRS ====== Alexandre Chapoutot (ENSTA ParisTech) Nasrine Damouche (Universite? de Perpignan, France) Alessandro Pinto (United Technologies Research Center) PROGRAM COMMITTEE =============== Franz Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University) Susmit Jha (SRI International) Akshay Rajhans ?(The Mathworks) Ramesh S (General Motors) Timothy Wang (United Technologies Research Center) Temesghen Kahsai (Amazon) Tze Meng Low (Carnegie Mellon University) Daisuke Ishii (University of Fukui, Japan) Remi Delmas (ONERA, France) Olivier Mullier (ENSTA ParisTech, France) Stefan Ratschan (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Adam Duracz (Rice University, USA) Antti Hyva?rinen (USI, Switzerland) Olivier Bouissou (The Mathworks, France) Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh (University of Southern California) Laura Titolo (Postdoc NASA) Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, DE) Yassamine Seladji (Professor assistant, University of Tlemcen, ?Algeria) Junkil Park (Phd, University of Pennsylvania) Guillaume Melquion (INRIA, France) Matthieu Martel (Professor, Universite? de Perpignan) Arnault Ioualalen (Numalis, industry) ? ? STEERING COMMITTEE ================ ? Sergiy Bogomolov (ANU, Australia) Radu Grosu (TU Vienna, Austria) Matthieu Martel (Universit? de Perpignan, France) Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University, USA) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (UC Boulder, USA) ? ? Best regards NSV 2018 Chairs Nasrine DAMOUCHE Docteur en Informatique au laboratoire LAMPS ATER(Attach? Temporaire d'Enseignement et de la Recherche)? Universit? de Perpignan Via Domitia 52 Avenue Paul Alduy B?timent B - 2?me ?tage 66860 Perpignan Cedex Tel +33 (0)4-68-66-22-38 http://perso.univ-perp.fr/nasrine.damouche/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camarao at dcc.ufmg.br Thu Mar 29 11:19:38 2018 From: camarao at dcc.ufmg.br (camarao at dcc.ufmg.br) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:19:38 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SBLP 2018 Call for Papers Message-ID: <99446976a4b0aa5cf260a6b68ff601bc@dcc.ufmg.br> SBLP 2018 second call for papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Universidade de S?o Paulo - ICMC/USP S?o Carlos, Brazil, September 20-21, 2018 Conference website http://www.sbc.org.br/cbsoft2018 Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 SBLP 2018 is the 22nd edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. It is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it is part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (http://cbsoft.org/cbsoft2018/). Submission Guidelines ________________________________________________________________________________ Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references and appendices): Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference format, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format, can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses. List of Topics (related but not limited to the following) ________________________________________________________________________________ ? Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, and distributed programming ? Program generation and transformation ? Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical ? Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis and abstract interpretation ? Programming language design and implementation, programming language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques Publication ________________________________________________________________________________ SBLP proceedings will be published in ACM's digital library. 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's special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBLP edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract submission: April 29th 2018 Paper submission: May 6th 2018 Author notification: June 22nd 2018 Camera ready deadline: July 8th 2018 Program Committee ________________________________________________________________________________ Mariza Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Roberto Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Andre R. Du Bois Universidade Federal de Pelotas Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Carlos Camar?o Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (chair) Fernando Castor Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil Jo?o Fernandes Universidade de Coimbra Jo?o Ferreira Teesside University Luc?lia Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ismael Figueroa Pontif?cia Universidad Cat?lica de Valparaiso Alex Garcia Instituto Militar de Engenharia Francisco Heron Universidade Federal do Cear? Roberto Ierusalimschy Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro Yu David Liu State University of New York at Binghamton Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Heriot-Watt University Marcelo Maia Universidade Federal de Uberl?ndia Andr? M. Maidl Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Paran? Manuel A. Martins Universidade de Aveiro F?bio Mascarenhas Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro S?rgio Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Victor Miraldo University of Utrecht ?lvaro Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Anamaria M. Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Peter Mosses Swansea University Martin Musicante Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Alberto Pardo Universidad de la Rep?blica Fernando Pereira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Gustavo Pinto Universidade Federal do Par? Louis-Noel Pouchet Ohio State University Zongyan Qiu Peking University Henrique R?belo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Leonardo Reis Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Rodrigo Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Noemi Rodriguez Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro Francisco Sant'Anna Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro Jo?o Saraiva Universidade do Minho Martin Sulzmann Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft (chair) Leopoldo Teixeira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Simon Thompson University of Kent Cristiano Vasconcellos Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina Varmo Vene University of Tartu Invited Speaker ________________________________________________________________________________ Martin Sulzmann, Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Germany Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ All questions about submissions should be emailed to Carlos Camar?o (camarao at dcc.ufmg.br) From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Thu Mar 29 14:18:34 2018 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (dubois) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:18:34 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP 3rd International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2018) Message-ID: <18aba3fb-ee55-3d9b-072c-c88049f79c81@ensiie.fr> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- SETS 2018 *********************************************************************** 3rd International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2018) June 5, 2018, Southampton, UK Affiliated to ABZ 2018 http://www.lirmm.fr/sets2018/ *********************************************************************** AIM Sets and constructs built upon them like relations, functions and sequences are the main modeling ingredients of formalisms such as VDM, Z, B, or Event-B. Sets also occur in the formalization of mathematics, as evidenced by the large library of the Mizar proof system, for example. In addition, still in the domain of verification, there is an increasing interest to automate set theory (which is known to be a difficult problem), with some concrete realizations, such as mp (the "main prover" of Atelier B) or Muscadet (an automated theorem prover for natural deduction, which gives some good performances in set theory). Sets are also the main features of some programming languages like the former SetL language or the more recent {log} language (pronounced as setlog). The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory, especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. We are interested in specialized tools for set theory as well as general-purpose tools where sets coexist with other theories. Contributions by theoreticians working on the mechanical processing of (fragment of) set theory, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are also interested in contributions providing some comparisons between set modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and its variants) for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect contributions in the framework of formal methods, but we are open to, for instance, contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory. TOPICS Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * Proof tools for sets * Constraint solvers for sets * Set-based programming languages * Automated verification in set theory * Encoding of sets in provers * Set theories for SMT solvers * Use of set-based tools in formal methods * Use of set-based tools in mathematics * Using any of the above tools to teach set theory * Comparison of set-based tools * Comparison between set and type theories * Experience reports CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages long, following the Springer LNCS format. These submissions may be: * Research papers providing new concepts and results * Position papers and research perspectives * Experience reports * Tool presentations Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be published as online proceedings in the CEUR workshop proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format using the SETS 2018 EasyChair web site at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2018 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 2, 2018 Submission deadline: April 9, 2018 Paper notification: May 9, 2018 Revised/final paper: May 16, 2018 Workshop: June 5, 2018 PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Maximiliano Cristia (UNR, Argentina) David Delahaye (Universit? de Montpellier, France) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Maximiliano Cristia (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) David Deharbe (Clearsy, France) David Delahaye (Universit? de Montpellier, France) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, France) Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) Carmen Gervet (Universit? de Montpellier, France) Olivier Hermant (Mines ParisTech, France) Michael Leuschel (Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany) Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France) Eugenio Omodeo (Universit? degli Studi di Trieste, Italy) Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa, USA) Gianfranco Rossi (Universit? di Parma, Italy) Josef Urban (CIIRC, Czech Republic) Wolfgang Windsteiger (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) -- Catherine DUBOIS, professor ENSIIE, lab. Samovar (UMR 5157) From herman at cs.ru.nl Thu Mar 29 18:08:56 2018 From: herman at cs.ru.nl (Herman Geuvers) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:08:56 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Vacancy Full Professor Software Science (Radboud University Nijmegen NL) Message-ID: <967a9fee-274a-518d-400c-6385ff3cab81@cs.ru.nl> Dear all, At Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, we have a vacancy for Full Professor of Software Science (0,8 - 1,0 fte) See http://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=600979 Closing date: May 1 2018 Herman Geuvers ====================================================================== Full Professor of Software Science (0.8 - 1.0 FTE) Faculty of Science Maximum salary: ? 7,766 gross/month Vacancy number: 62.33.18 Application deadline: 1 May 2018 Responsibilities ---------------- As a full professor you will lead the research in the area of software science as outlined below. You will further develop your own research and your research group. You will teach and contribute to a supportive, collaborative work environment. You will broaden and enrich the expertise of our institute, notably within the section Software Science. You are eager to extend and deepen the relationship between the section Software Science and the other sections of iCIS (Data Science and Digital Security), as well as with other research institutes within the Faculty of Science. You are expected to acquire funding for research, in particular by bringing in new PhD candidates, developing new research collaborations and new application areas. You will contribute to the teaching and management of the master track on Software Science, but also in general to teaching within the bachelors Computing Science and Artificial Intelligence. All scientific staff is expected to teach at undergraduate level as well. Work environment Software Science is a core field of research within Computing Science. It addresses the specification, design, development and evolution of software. It designs programming and language formalisms and methodologies, constructs tools to support these, and develops techniques for program analysis, software generation and software engineering, where empirical validation on realistic use cases is an integral part of the research. Developments in the field of Software Science are guided to a large extent by emerging technologies and information needs in society, which require that high quality software be developed quickly and effectively. You will be appointed in the section Software Science of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) of the Faculty of Science. Our Software Science section is responsible for several courses at both the Bachelor?s and Master?s level of the Computing Science programme, particularly in the Master?s specialisation in Software Science. Research at iCIS focuses on software science, digital security and data science. During a recent evaluation of Dutch Computing Science research, iCIS received the highest ranking of all computing science departments in the Netherlands (together with Twente). Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Radboud University is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and as such encourages applications from women and minorities. The university offers customised facilities to better align work and private life. Parents are entitled to partly paid parental leave and Radboud University employees enjoy flexibility in the way they structure their work. The university highly values the career development of its staff, which is facilitated by a variety of programmes. What we expect from you * track record of publications in leading international conferences and journals; * experience with supervision of PhD projects; * experience with acquiring external research funds; * an established researcher in your field of expertise, active in the international scientific community; * a vision on future directions of research in software science and in computer science as a whole; * a vision on possible cooperations within the section Software Science and with other research disciplines within iCIS, the Faculty of Science and Radboud University; * well-developed didactic skills and qualifications, and an enthusiastic teacher and student supervisor; * ability to teach in bachelor and master programmes; an appealing vision on the role of programming and software engineering in the computer science urricula; * experience with and aspiration for further development of courses and curricula. What we have to offer --------------------- * employment: 0.8 - 1.0 FTE; * a maximum gross monthly salary of ? 7,766 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale H2); * in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus; * the appointment is for an initial period of 5 years, after which you may be granted tenure following a positive review; * you will be classified as a Full Professor in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO); * you will be able to make use of our Dual Career Service where our Dual Career Officer will assist with family related support, such as child care, and help your partner prepare for the local labour market and with finding an occupation. Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions? Would you like to know more? Further information on: Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) For more information about this vacancy, please contact: Prof. Dr H. Geuvers Telephone: +31 24 3652603 E-mail: Research-Director-ICIS at cs.ru.nl Are you interested? ------------------- You should upload your application (attn. of Ms. W. van der Pluijm) exclusively using the button 'Apply' on http://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=600979 Your application should include (and be limited to) the following attachment(s): * letter of motivation * CV including the (e-mail) adresses of two referees * research and teaching statement For more information on your application: +31 24 3652131. From lpulina at uniss.it Fri Mar 30 03:23:32 2018 From: lpulina at uniss.it (Luca Pulina) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:23:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QBFEVAL'18 -- Registration closes in 1 week Message-ID: <04fc3f34-6c3f-1567-33d9-ed5dcc25e3a2@uniss.it> ****************************************************************************************** QBFEVAL'18 - Competitive Evaluation of QBF Solvers A joint event with the 21st Int. Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) (affiliated with FLoC 2018) Oxford, UK, July 9 - July 12 2018 ****************************************************************************************** QBFEVAL'18 is the 2018 competitive evaluation of QBF solvers, and the thirteenth evaluation of QBF solvers and instances ever. QBFEVAL'18 awards solvers that stand out as being particularly effective on specific categories of QBF instances. We warmly encourage developers of QBF solvers to submit their work, even at early stages of development, as long as it fulfills some very simple requirements. We also welcome the submission of QBF formulas to be used for the evaluation. Researchers thinking about using QBF-based techniques in their area (e.g., formal verification, planning, knowledge representation & reasoning) are invited to contribute to the evaluation by submitting QBF instances of their research problems (see the requirements for instances). The results of the evaluation will be a good indicator of the current feasibility of QBF-based approaches and a stimulus for people working on QBF solvers to further enhance their tools. Details about solvers and benchmarks submission, tracks, and related rules, are available at http://www.qbflib.org/qbfeval18.php For questions, comments and any other issue regarding QBFEVAL'18, please get in touch with the organizers via qbf18 at qbflib.org. ** Important Dates ** -??? Registration open: March 14 (for all tracks) -??? Registration close: April 7 -??? Solvers and Benchmarks due: April 14 (for all tracks except Hard-Instances Track) -??? First stage results: April 30 -??? Second stage solvers due: May 10 (for all tracks except Hard-Instances Track) -??? Hard instances solver due: June 1 -??? Competition Benchmarks available for download: June 14 -??? Final results: presented at SAT'18 ** Organizing committee ** * Organization * Luca Pulina, University of Sassari Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz * Judges * Olaf Beyersdorff, University of Leeds Christoph Wintersteiger, Microsoft Research Limited -- Luca Pulina, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Sassari Tel. +39 079 228987 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The success of SMT techniques depends on the development of both domain-specific decision procedures for each background theory (e.g., linear arithmetic, the theory of arrays, or the theory of bit-vectors) and combination methods that allow one to obtain more versatile SMT tools. These ingredients together make SMT techniques well-suited for use in larger automated reasoning and verification efforts. Aims and Scope ============= The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: * Decision procedures and theories of interest * Combinations of decision procedures * Novel implementation techniques * Applications and case studies * Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies * Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, in particular in the areas of machine learning and statistical reasoning, are especially encouraged. Important dates ============ * Abstract submission deadline: April 8, 2018 * Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2018 * Camera ready versions due: June 15, 2018 * Workshop: July 12-13, 2018 Paper submission and Proceedings ============================ Three categories of submissions are invited: * Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. They will be included in the informal proceedings. * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data available. * Presentation-only papers: describe work recently published or submitted and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. (The 10 pages do not include the references.) To submit a paper, go to the EasyChair SMT page and follow the instructions there. Program Committee ================ * Erika ?brah?m (RWTH Aachen) * Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) * Leonardo Alt (IBM) * Maria Paola Bonacina (Universit? degli Studi di Verona) * Bruno Dutertre (SRI International) * Liana Hadarean (Synopsys) * Guy Katz (Stanford University) * Zachary Kincaid (Princeton University) * Tim King (Google) * Ruben Martins (Carnegie Mellon University) * David Monniaux (VERIMAG) * Alexander Nadel (Intel) * Aina Niemetz (Stanford University) * Marie Pelleau (Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis) * Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa) * Philipp R?mmer (Uppsala University) * Thomas Sturm (CNRS) * Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research) Program Chairs ============= Rayna Dimitrova (University of Leicester) Vijay D'Silva (Google Inc.) * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sokolsky at cis.upenn.edu Fri Mar 30 23:10:09 2018 From: sokolsky at cis.upenn.edu (Oleg Sokolsky) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:10:09 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4th International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Message-ID: <6a0af2ba-4c5b-2615-ea41-63eafe9c73d0@cis.upenn.edu> ********************************************************************* Extended deadlines: April 23 for abstract, April 30 for paper ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* SETTA 2018, Call for Papers 4th International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: ??????? Theories, Tools and Applications Beijing, China, September 4 - 6, 2018 (Co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS, and QEST as part of CONFESTA) ********************************************************************* *ABOUT* SETTA aims 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. As part of CONFESTA ( http://confesta2018.csp.escience.cn/ ), SETTA 2018 will be co-located with CONCUR, FORMATS and QUEST. *TOPICS* 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 multicore programming - Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Mixed-critical applications and systems - Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing - Safety, 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 *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. 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. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page < https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2018 >. All submissions must be in the PDF format. Papers should be written in English. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract deadline:??? April 23, 2018 (extended) - Submission deadline:? April 30, 2018 - Author notification:? June 14, 2018 - Camera-ready version: June 28, 2018 - Symposium:??????????? September 4-6, 2018 *Invited Speakers* - Moshe Vardi (joint keynote speaker for CONFESTA 2018), Rice University - Tao Xie, UIUC - Hongseok Yang, KAIST *ORGANIZERS* General Chair: - Chaochen Zhou (Inst. of Software, CAS, China) Program Co-chairs: - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Markus M??ller-Olm (University of M??nster, Germany) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) Program Committee: - Farhad Arbab (CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Sanjay Baruah (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) - Lei Bu (Nanjing University, China) - Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK) - Yan Cai (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Taolue Chen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) - Xinyu Feng (Nanjing University, China) - Yuan Feng (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - Ernst Moritz Hahn (Institute of Software, CAS, China) - Dan Hao (Peking University, China) - Maritta Heisel (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Raymond Hu (Imperial College London, UK) - He Jiang (Dalian Univerisyt of Technology, China) - Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University, China) - Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Guoqiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) - Ting Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) - Tongping Liu (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) - Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HongKong) - Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy and LORIA, France) - Markus M??ller-Olm (University of M??nster, Germany) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy) - Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Fu Song (ShanghaiTech University, China) - Zhendong Su (University of California, Davis, USA) - Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) - Walid Mohamed Taha (Halmstad University, Sweden) - Sofiene Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) - Cong Tian (Xidian Univeristy, China) - Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) - Chao Wang (University of Southern California, USA) - Ji Wang (NUDT, China) - Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany) - Xin Xia (Monash University, Australia) - Zijiang Yang (Western Michigan University, USA) - Shin Yoo (KAIST, Korea) From beniamino.accattoli at inria.fr Sat Mar 31 09:57:42 2018 From: beniamino.accattoli at inria.fr (Beniamino Accattoli) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:57:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2018, 2nd CfP Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS LSFA 2018 13th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 26-28 September 2018, Fortaleza, Brazil http://lia.ufc.br/~lsfa2018/ https://easychair.org/cfp/LSFA2018 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. Previous editions took place in Bras?lia (2017, collocated with Tableaux+FroCoS+ITP), Porto (2016), Natal (2015), Bras?lia (2014), S?o Paulo (2013), Rio de Janeiro (2012), Belo Horizonte (2011), Natal (2010), Bras?lia (2009), Salvador (2008), Ouro Preto (2007), and Natal (2006). See http://lsfa.cic.unb.br for more information. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest 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 13 pages (including references) in the new ENTCS format (http://www.entcs.org/generic.zip). Beyond full regular papers, we encourage submissions such as proof pearls, rough diamonds, original surveys, or overviews of research projects, where the focus is more on elegance and dissemination than on novelty. Papers belonging to this second category are expected to be short, that is, of a maximum of 6 pages including references, unless they also contain some novel results. For both paper categories, 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. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the generic ENTCS package (http://www.entcs.org/generic.zip). The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2018 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. For the reviewing process, the traditional system will be enriched with the possibility for the reviewers to interact with the authors via an anonymous forum associated to each paper. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission: June 10 * Notification: July 25 * Camera ready version: August 12 * LSFA 2018: September 26-28 After the publication of the ENTCS proceedings, the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit revised papers 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 * Yiannis Moschovakis, University of California, Los Angeles & University of Athens. * Andreas Herzig, CNRS, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse. * Alessandra Palmigiano, Delft University of Technology. * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Beniamino Accattoli, Inria & Ecole Polytechnique, co-chair * Carlos Olarte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, co-chair * Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Mario Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais * Carlos Areces, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba * Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia * Eduardo Bonelli, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & Stevens Institute of Technology * Iliano Cervesato, Carnegie Mellon University * Francicleber Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Marcelo Finger, Universidade de S?o Paulo * Renata Freitas, Universidade Federal Fluminense * Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY * Erich Gr?del, RWTH Aachen University * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Ugo Dal Lago, Inria & Bologna University * Sonia Marin, IT-University of Copenhagen * Claudia Nalon, Universidade de Brasilia * Revantha Ramanayake, Vienna University of Technology * Umberto Rivieccio, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte * Camilo Rueda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana * Matthieu Sozeau, Inria & Universit? Paris Diderot * Carolyn Talcott, SRI International * Alvaro Tasistro, Universidad ORT Uruguay * Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia * Renata Wassermann, University of S?o Paulo ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Francicleber Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Carlos Brito, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Paulo T. Guerra, Universidade Federal do Cear? * Viviane Menezes, Universidade Federal do Cear? CONTACT * lsfa2018 at easychair.org From ohad.kammar at cs.ox.ac.uk Sat Mar 31 13:00:57 2018 From: ohad.kammar at cs.ox.ac.uk (Ohad Kammar) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:00:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOLA 2018: Second 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 caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch Sat Mar 31 13:15:27 2018 From: caterina.urban at inf.ethz.ch (Urban Caterina) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:15:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Upcoming Deadline for SAS 2018: April 13th Message-ID: <915F7389-B33F-4A3F-93FE-6F42A477357C@inf.ethz.ch> --------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2018 25th Static Analysis Symposium Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, August 29th-August 31st, 2018 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------- = = = The submission deadline has been moved to April 13th, 2018 = = = 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 25th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2018, will be held in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Previous symposia were held in New York, 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. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Topics The technical program for SAS 2018 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 15 pages in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices (we may admit additional pages for the final version). Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Submissions are handled online: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas20180 Artifact Evaluation 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 criterion whose sole purpose is to find additional positive arguments for the paper's acceptance. Furthermore, an Artifact Evaluation Committee will assess artifacts and will award an "Artifact Approved" stamps to accepted papers that come with an artifact that allows to reproduce the results presented in the paper. Submissions without artifacts are welcome and will not be penalized. Important Dates - Full paper submission: April 13th, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Artifact submission: April 20th, 2018 (anywhere on earth) - Notification: June 5th, 2018 - Final version due: July 6th, 2018 - Conference: August 29th-August 31st, 2018 Radhia Cousot Young Researcher 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. Invited Talks - Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Program Fairness through the Lens of Formal Methods - Zak Kincaid (Princeton University, USA) Non-linear Invariant Generation via Recurrence Analysis - Ruzica Piskac (Yale University, USA) Firewall Repair and Verification of Configuration Files - Sharon Shoham (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Verification of Distributed Systems Using First-Order Logic Invited Tutorials - Roberto Bagnara (University of Parma/BUGSENG, Italy) MISRA C and its Role in the Development of Safety- and Security-Critical Embedded Software - Ken McMillan (Microsoft Research, USA), Oded Padon (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Ivy: Safety Verification by Interactive Generalization - Peter O'Hearn (University College London/Facebook, UK) Experiences developing and deploying a concurrency analysis at Facebook Affiliated Events - 9th Workshop on Static Analysis and Systems Biology (SASB 2018) Chairs: Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) and Ankit Gupta (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - 9th Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis (TAPAS 2018) Chair: Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia Srl, Italy) Program Chair - Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) Program Committee - Domagoj Babic (Google Inc., USA) - Sam Blackshear (Facebook, USA) - Marc Brockschmidt (Microsoft Research, UK) - Swarat Chaudhuri (Rice University, USA) - Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - Jerome Feret (INRIA/ENS/CNRS, France) - Ashutosh Gupta (TIFR, India) - Nicolas Halbwachs (Verimag/CNRS, France) - Lukas Holik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) - Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Boris Koepf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, USA) - Hakjoo Oh (Korea University, South Korea) - Sylvie Putot (?cole Polytechnique, France) - Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, Italy) - Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund University, Germany) - Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) - Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - Harald Sondergaard (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Alexander J. Summers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Ashish Tiwari (SRI International, USA) - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) - Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS, Germany) - Florian Zuleger (TU Wien, Austria) Artifact Evaluation Chair - Xavier Rival (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) Artifact Evaluation Committee - Ahmad Salim Al Sibahi (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Frederic Besson (Inria/Univ Rennes/CNRS/IRISA, France) - Liqian Chen (NUDT, China) - Gidon Ernst (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) - George Fourtounis (University of Athens, Greece) - Kihong Heo (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Huisong Li (CNRS/ENS/INRIA, France) - Sergio Mover (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) - Hakjoo Oh (Korea University, South Korea) - Oded Padon (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - Jihyeok Park (KAIST, South Korea) - Marie Pelleau (University Nice/Sophia Antipolis, France) - Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) - Fausto Spoto (University of Verona/Julia Srl, Italy) - David Sprunger (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Jules Villard (Facebook) Publicity Chair - Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) From graham.leigh at gu.se Sat Mar 31 13:58:17 2018 From: graham.leigh at gu.se (Graham Leigh) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:58:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Logic, Gothenburg (Sweden), Deadline: 31st May 2018 Message-ID: POSTDOC POSITION IN LOGIC, GOTHENBURG (SWEDEN) * University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Duration: 2 years, starting Autumn 2018 * Deadline for applications is 31st May 2018 * The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at University of Gothenburg is inviting applications for a Postdoc position in Logic. Topics of interest include proof-theoretic studies of reflection and induction, axiomatic theories of truth, type-theoretic foundations, and fixed-point calculi such as the modal mu-calculus. * For full details see http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=1637 From bob.atkey at gmail.com Sat Mar 31 17:33:30 2018 From: bob.atkey at gmail.com (Robert Atkey) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 22:33:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Mathematically Structured Functional Programming 2018: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: Seventh Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Sunday 8th July 2018, Oxford, UK A satellite workshop of FSCD 2018 http://msfp2018.bentnib.org/ ** New this time: additional talk proposal category ** ** Deadline: 5th April (abstract), 12th April (paper) ** The seventh workshop on Mathematically Structured Functional Programming is devoted to the derivation of functionality from structure. It is a celebration of the direct impact of Theoretical Computer Science on programs as we write them today. Modern programming languages, and in particular functional languages, support the direct expression of mathematical structures, equipping programmers with tools of remarkable power and abstraction. Where would Haskell be without monads? Functional reactive programming without temporal logic? Call-by-push-value without adjunctions? The list goes on. This workshop is a forum for researchers who seek to reflect mathematical phenomena in data and control. The first MSFP workshop was held in Kuressaare, Estonia, in July 2006, affiliated with MPC 2006 and AMAST 2006. The second MSFP workshop was held in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of ICALP 2008. The third MSFP workshop was held in Baltimore, USA, as part of ICFP 2010. The fourth workshop was held in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of ETAPS 2012. The fifth workshop was held in Grenoble, France, as part of ETAPS 2014. The sixth MSFP Workshop was held in April 2016, in Eindhoven, Netherlands, just after ETAPS 2016. Important Dates: ================ Abstract deadline: 5th April (Thursday) Paper deadline: 12th April (Thursday) Notification: 17th May (Thursday) Final version: 14th June (Thursday) Workshop: 8th July (Sunday) Invited Speakers: ================= - Tamara von Glehn, University of Cambridge, UK - Didier Remy, INRIA, France Program Committee: ================== Andreas Abel - Chalmers, Sweden Danel Ahman - INRIA Paris, France Robert Atkey - University of Strathclyde, UK (co-chair) Jeremy Gibbons - University of Oxford, UK Jennifer Hackett - University of Nottingham, UK Mauro Jaskelioff - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Shin-ya Katsumata - National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley - University of Edinburgh, UK (co-chair) Clare Martin - Oxford Brookes University, UK Shin-Cheng Mu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan Valeria de Paiva - Nuance Communications, US Alexandra Silva - University College London, UK Submission: =========== Submissions are welcomed on, but by no means restricted to, topics such as: structured effectful computation structured recursion structured corecursion structured tree and graph operations structured syntax with variable binding structured datatype-genericity structured search structured representations of functions structured quantum computation structure directed optimizations structured types structure derived from programs and data Please contact the programme chairs Robert Atkey and Sam Lindley if you have any questions about the scope of the workshop. (New this time) We accept two categories of submission: full papers of no more than 15 pages that will appear in the proceedings, and extended abstracts of no more than 2 pages which we will post on the website, but which do not constitute formal publications and will not appear in the proceedings. References and appendices are not included in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers. Full papers (not two page talk abstracts) must report previously unpublished work and not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. Accepted papers and talks must be presented at the workshop by at least one of the authors. The proceedings will be published under the auspices of EPTCS with a Creative Commons license. We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2018. From ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr Mon Apr 2 04:44:03 2018 From: ulrich.fahrenberg at irisa.fr (Uli Fahrenberg) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:44:03 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems (DHS 2018) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <177f44da-c9b5-9652-d0b6-2029a1ce6fdd@irisa.fr> (The types community has a nonempty overlap with the concurrency and the distributed-systems communities; hence I thought this might be interesting for the types list:) Apologies for multiple copies of this email; please distribute as you see fit. CALL FOR PAPERS DHS 2018 International Workshop on Methods and Tools for Distributed Hybrid Systems Ecole polytechnique, Paris, France 4 July 2018 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. 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 second 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. We are calling for presentations of work which can highlight how the research topics of DHS may interact in order to advance the subject of distributed hybrid systems. Note that DHS 2018 will have no formal proceedings. INVITED SPEAKERS Luc Jaulin, ENSTA Bretagne, Brest, France Dmitry Kozlov, University of Bremen, Germany (TBC) Thao Dang, Verimag, Grenoble, France Lisbeth Fajstrup, Aalborg University, Denmark Emmanuel Ledinot, Dassault Aviation, France Eric Goubault, Ecole polytechnique, France IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 31 May 2018 Notification: 15 June 2018 Workshop: 4 July For more information, see: http://dhs.gforge.inria.fr/ From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Apr 2 16:22:39 2018 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 20:22:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2018 abstracts/papers Message-ID: For various reasons we have decided to postpone the abstract deadline and continue to welcome full submissions up until the actual deadline (6 April). Many thanks to all those who have submitted abstracts/papers so far. Sam. -- MFPS XXXIV 2018 : Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics Call for papers The 34th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS XXXIV) will take place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from June 6?9, 2018. MFPS 2018 will be co-located with the 15th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2018, which takes place from June 3?7. 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: 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: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/mfps2018/ ## SUBMISSION ### Important dates: (* April 1: abstract submission) * April 6: paper submission * May 11: notification of authors * May 25: final papers ready * June 6?9: conference ### Submitting Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros (http://www.entcs.org/) and should be up to 12 pages long excluding bibliography and appendices. Submissions is via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps34). NB * The original call for papers, in reference to an older style file, suggested up to 15 pages. Authors may still submit up to 15 pages using the old style file. But they are encouraged to use the latest ENTCS style file, dated 6 March 2018, and up to 12 pages, which is actually more generous because of font and margin differences. * Although QPL and MFPS are co-located, they have different submission sites and programme committees. ### Proceedings A preliminary version will be distributed at the meeting. Final proceedings will be published in ENTCS after the meeting. ENTCS is open access. ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Marc Bagnol, ENS Lyon, France * Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia * Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland * Ale? Bizjak, Aarhus University, Denmark * Valentin Blot, Universit? Paris-Sud, France * Steve Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Pierre Clairambault, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France * Ilias Garnier, Sivienn Inc. and ENS Paris * Sergey Goncharov, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany * Tobias Heindel, Universit?t Leipzig, Germany * Tom Hirschowitz, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, France * Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA * Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK * Ohad Kammar, University of Oxford, UK * Shin-Ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA * Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA * Joel Ouaknine, MPI-SWS, Germany * Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France * Azalea Raad, MPI-SWS, Germany * Sam Staton, University of Oxford, UK (chair) * Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Iceland * Beno?t Valiron, LRI - CentraleSup?lec, Univ. Paris Saclay, France * Valeria Vignudelli, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France * Noam Zeilberger, University of Birmingham, UK ## INVITED SPEAKERS and SPECIAL SESSIONS * Ron Garcia, British Columbia * Frank Pfenning, CMU * Gordon Plotkin, Edinburgh / Google * Neil J. Ross, Dalhousie Our plan is to organize a series of special sessions, on the following topics: gradual typing, session types, differentiable programs, and quantum programming languages (joint with QPL). Special session speakers will be announced in due course. ## LOCAL ORGANISERS: * Neil J. Ross * Peter Selinger From publicityifl at gmail.com Tue Apr 3 03:11:11 2018 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (Jurriaan Hage) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:11:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: IFL 2018 (30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages) Message-ID: Hello, Please, find below the second call for papers for IFL 2018. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL --- ================================================================================ IFL 2018 30th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA September 5th-7th, 2018 http://iflconference.org ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2018 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. Topics of interest to IFL 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 ### Keynote Speakers * Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL * Arjun Guha, University of Massachusetts Amherst ### Submissions and peer-review Differently from previous editions of IFL, IFL 2018 solicits two kinds of submissions: * Regular papers (12 pages including references) * Draft papers for presentations ('weak' limit between 8 and 15 pages) Regular papers will undergo a rigorous review by the program committee, and will be evaluated according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity. A set of regular papers will be conditionally accepted for publication. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. Regular papers not accepted for publication will be considered as draft papers, at the request of the author. Draft papers will be screened to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL, and will be accepted for presentation or rejected accordingly. Prior to the symposium: Authors of conditionally accepted papers and accepted presentations will submit a pre-proceedings version of their work that will appear in the draft proceedings distributed at the symposium. The draft proceedings does not constitute a formal publication. We require that at least one of the authors present the work at IFL 2018. After the symposium: Authors of conditionally accepted papers will submit a revised versions of their paper for the formal post-proceedings. The program committee will assess whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. Our interest is to ultimately accept all conditionally accepted papers. If you are an author of a conditionally accepted paper, please make sure that you address all the concerns of the reviewers. Authors of accepted presentations 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 post-proceedings. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected. ### Publication The formal proceedings will appear in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library. 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 ### Important dates Submission of regular papers: May 25, 2018 Submission of draft papers: July 17, 2018 Regular and draft papers notification: July 20, 2018 Deadline for early registration: August 8, 2018 Submission of pre-proceedings version: August 29, 2018 IFL Symposium: September 5-7, 2018 Submission of papers for post-proceedings: November 7, 2018 Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2018 Camera-ready version: February 10, 2019 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Authors submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifl2018 ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honored article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Organization and Program committee Chairs: Jay McCarthy & Matteo Cimini, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Program Committee: * Arthur Chargueraud, Inria, FR * Ben Delaware, Purdue University, USA * Christos Dimoulas, Northwestern University, USA * David Darais, University of Vermont, USA * Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK * Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Garrett Morris, University of Kansas, USA * Heather Miller, EPFL & Northeastern University, CH & USA * Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK * Keiko Nakata, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, DE * Laura Castro, University of A Coruna, ESP * Magnus Myreen, Chalmers University of Technology, SWE * Natalia Chechina, Bournemouth University, UK * Peter Achten, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL * Peter-Michael Osera, Grinnell College, USA * Richard Eisenberg, Bryn Mawr College, USA * Trevor McDonell, University of New South Wales, AUS * Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, JAP ### Venue The 30th IFL is organized by the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The City of Lowell is located at the heart of the Merrimack Valley just 30 miles northwest of Boston. Lowell can be easily reached by train or taxi. See the website for more information on the venue. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organizers for their work, which is reused here. A part of IFL 2018 format and CFP language that describes conditionally accepted papers has been adapted from call-for-papers of OOPSLA conferences. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Tue Apr 3 04:09:31 2018 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:09:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP'18: Logical Frameworks and Meta Languages: Theory and Practice - Last call for papers Message-ID: ======================================================================= 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/ ======================================================================= Abstract submission deadline: 8 April 2018 Paper submission deadline: 15 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 tech