From genaim at gmail.com Thu Jan 2 04:08:34 2020 From: genaim at gmail.com (Samir Genaim) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:08:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WST 2020 Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ========================================================================== WST 2020 - Call for Papers 17th International Workshop on Termination http://costa.fdi.ucm.es/wst2020 July 4-5, 2020, Paris, France co-located with IJCAR and FSCD 2020. ========================================================================== The Workshop on Termination (WST) traditionally brings together, in an informal setting, researchers interested in all aspects of termination, whether this interest be practical or theoretical, primary or derived. The workshop also provides a ground for cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities interested in termination (e.g., working on computational mechanisms, programming languages, software engineering, constraint solving, etc.). The friendly atmosphere enables fruitful exchanges leading to joint research and subsequent publications. The workshop is co-located with IJCAR and FSCD 2020. https://ijcar2020.org/ https://fscd2020.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: * submission deadline: April 12, 2020 * notification: May 10, 2020 * final version due: May 31, 2020 * workshop: July 4-5, 2020 TOPICS: The 17th International Workshop on Termination welcomes contributions on all aspects of termination. In particular, papers investigating applications of termination (for example in complexity analysis, program analysis and transformation, theorem proving, program correctness, modeling computational systems, etc.) are very welcome. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * abstraction methods in termination analysis * certification of termination and complexity proofs * challenging termination problems * comparison and classification of termination methods * complexity analysis in any domain * implementation of termination methods * non-termination analysis and loop detection * normalization and infinitary normalization * operational termination of logic-based systems * ordinal notation and subrecursive hierarchies * SAT, SMT, and constraint solving for (non-)termination analysis * scalability and modularity of termination methods * termination analysis in any domain (lambda calculus, declarative programming, rewriting, transition systems, etc.) * well-founded relations and well-quasi-orders COMPETITION: Since 2003, the catalytic effect of WST to stimulate new research on termination has been enhanced by the celebration of the Termination Competition and its continuously developing problem databases containing thousands of programs as challenges for termination analysis in different categories, see http://termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_Competition In 2020, the Termination Competition will run shortly before WST and the main venues (IJCAR-FSCD), and the results will be presented at IJCAR or FSCD. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Martin Avanzini - INRIA Sophia, Antipolis Florian Frohn - Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Saarbr?cken Carsten Fuhs - Birkbeck, U. of London Samir Genaim (chair) - U. Complutense de Madrid J?rgen Giesl - RWTH Aachen Matthias Heizmann - U. of Freiburg Cynthia Kop - Radboud U. Nijmegen Salvador Lucas - U. Polit?cnica de Val?ncia ?tienne Payet - U. de La R?union Albert Rubio - U. Complutense de Madrid Ren? Thiemann - U. of Innsbruck Johannes Waldmann - HTWK Leipzig INVITED SPEAKERS: tba SUBMISSION: Submissions are short papers/extended abstracts which should not exceed 5 pages. There will be no formal reviewing. In particular, we welcome short versions of recently published articles and papers submitted elsewhere. The program committee checks relevance and provides additional feedback for each submission. The accepted papers will be made available electronically before the workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wst2020 Please, use LaTeX and the LIPIcs style file http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz to prepare your submission. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Thu Jan 2 04:17:20 2020 From: Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Radu Iosif) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:17:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation to the Second Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL 2020) Message-ID: <1FD4778C-FE6B-43CB-85CB-EA3D146BCACF@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Second Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics, New Orleans, USA, January 20th 2020 https://popl20.sigplan.org/home/adsl-2020 The workshop is affiliated with the 47th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2020). Invited speakers: * Robbert Krebbers (Delft University of Technology) : Relational reasoning using concurrent separation logic * Josh Berdine (Facebook) : SLEdge: Bounded Model Checking in Separation Logic * Nadia Polikarpova (University of California, San Diego) : Programs Synthesis with Separation Logic * Thomas Wies (New York University) : Local Reasoning for Global Graph Properties The final program is available here: https://popl20.sigplan.org/home/adsl-2020#program Program committee Josh Berdine (Facebook) James Brotherston (University College London) Stephane Demri (LSV, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) Lukas Holik (Brno Univ. of Technology) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Dominique Larchey-Wendling (CNRS, LORIA) Quang Loc Le (Teeside University) Alekandar Nanevski (IMDEA Software) Peter O'Hearn (Facebook) Nadia Polikarpova (University of California San Diego) David Pym (University College London) Mihaela Sighireanu (IRIF, CNRS, Universite Paris Diderot) Thomas Wies (New York University) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Florian Zuleger (Technical University of Vienna) Organisation Radu Iosif (VERIMAG, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Nikos Gorogiannis (Middlesex University London, Facebook) From luispina at uic.edu Thu Jan 2 13:42:34 2020 From: luispina at uic.edu (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs?= Pina) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 10:42:34 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] (Self-)Nomination forms for the PLDI 2020 Artifact Evaluation Committee Message-ID: <20200102184234.GD3643879@sparky.localdomain> We are looking for motivated students and researchers to be members of the PLDI 2020 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). This year, we are accepting (self-)nominations for the AEC. The artifact evaluation process aims to promote, share and catalog the research artifacts of papers accepted to the PLDI research track. The self-nomination form is available at: https://forms.gle/ri1a8337eMakrygw6 You can also nominate other people (e.g., students, colleagues) at: https://forms.gle/JKuw7cf6vBNJigYc7 The call for artifacts is available here: https://pldi20.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2020-PLDI-Research-Artifacts As a committee member, your primary responsibilities would be to review the artifacts submitted corresponding to the already accepted papers in the main research track. In particular, you may have to run the associated tool, check whether the results in the main paper can be reproduced, and inspect the data. PLDI will use a three-phase artifact evaluation review process. We expect the bulk of the review work to take place between March 3 and March 25. Each artifact will take about 8h to review, and reviewers will be assigned 3 to 4 reviews. Come join us improving the quality of research in our field! From riccardo.treglia at unito.it Fri Jan 3 06:00:04 2020 From: riccardo.treglia at unito.it (Riccardo Treglia) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 12:00:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Types 2020: Final Call for Papers (Due on 10 Jan, 2020) Message-ID: *-------------------------------------Call For Contributions TYPES 2020-------------------------------------====================================================================26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPES FOR PROOFS AND PROGRAMS 2020====================================================================https://types2020.di.unito.it Turin, Italy, 2.-5. March 2020--------------------------------------------------------------------Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2020 .Abstract Submission Deadline: 10.1.2020Notification: 1.2.2020--------------------------------------------------------------------BACKGROUNDThe TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and ongoing work in allaspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalisedand 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 thespirit 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 program is organised under the auspices of EUTypes.INVITED SPEAKERS* Ulrik Buchholtz* Pierre Marie-P?drot * Leonardo de Moura * Sara NegriCONTRIBUTED TALKSWe solicit contributed talks:Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp (not including bibliography) formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site ishttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2020 .Important dates:* abstract submission: 10 January 2020, anywhere on Earth* notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 February 2020* camera-ready version of abstract: 15 February 2020Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution at the workshop.POST-PROCEEDINGSSimilarly to TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2019, a post-proceedings volume is planned in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series (confirmation pending). Submission to that volume will be open to everyone.CONTACTEmail: ugo.deliguoro at unito.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ugo de? Liguoro (University of Turin) (chair) Stefano Berardi (University of Turin) (co-chair) Marino Miculan (University of Udine) Marc Bezem (University of Bergen) Gilles Dowek (INRIA ? ENS Paris-Saclay) Takeshi Tsukada (University of Tokyo) Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho) Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen) Ralph Matthes (IRIT ? CNRS and University of Toulouse) Henning Basold (University of Leiden) Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) Anton Setzer (University of Swansea) Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) ?tienne Miquey (INRIA, University of Nantes) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Montevideo) Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Technology) Organisers:Ugo de'Liguoro (University of Turin, chair)Stefano Berardi (University of Turin, co-chair)Riccardo Treglia (University of Turin)Luca Ciccone (University of Turin)* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From riccardo.treglia at unito.it Fri Jan 3 06:00:09 2020 From: riccardo.treglia at unito.it (Riccardo Treglia) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 12:00:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITRS 2020: FInal Call for Papers (Due on 10 Jan, 2020) Message-ID: ITRS 2020 Call for contributions Tenth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems 6 March 2020, Turin Affiliated with Types 2020 https://types2020.di.unito.it/itrs.html Aims and Scope Intersection types were introduced near the end of the 1970s to overcome the limitations of Curry's type assignment system and to provide a characterization of the strongly normalizing terms of the Lambda Calculus. The key idea is to introduce an intersection type constructor ? such that a term of type t ? s can be used at both type t and s within the same context. This provides a finite polymorphism where various, even unrelated, types of the term are listed explicitly, differently from the more widely used universally quantified types where the polymorphic type is the common schema which stands for its various type instances. As a consequence, more terms (all and only the normalizing terms) can be typed than with universal polymorphism. Although intersection types were initially intended for use in analyzing and/or synthesizing lambda models as well as in analyzing normalization properties, over the last twenty years the scope of the research on intersection types and related systems has broadened in many directions. Restricted (and more manageable) forms have been investigated, such as refinement types. Type systems based on intersection type theory have been extensively studied for practical purposes, such as program analysis and higher-order model checking. The dual notion of union types turned out to be quite useful for programming languages. Finally, the behavioural approach to types, which can give a static specification of computational properties, has become central in the most recent research on type theory. The ITRS 2020 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. ITRS workshops have been held every two years; Information about the previous events is available at the ITRS home page. Paper Submissions Authors are invited to submit an abstract (2 pages bibliography excluded) in PDF format, through EasyChair. Publishing of a full paper is planned in post-proceedings to appear in EPTCS, therefore we recommend using the EPTCS macro package to prepare submissions. Informal proceedings will be made available at the workshop. Invited Speaker Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Important Dates Abstract submission: 10 January, 2020 Author notification: 1 February, 2020 Final version: 15 February, 2020 Workshop: 6 March, 2020 Program Committee Ugo de' Liguoro (University of Turin) Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Andrej Dudenhefner (Saarland University) Antonio Bucciarelli (Universit? Paris Diderot) Daniel de Carvalho (Innopolis University) Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) Organizers Ugo de' Liguoro (University of Turin, Italy) Riccardo Treglia (University of Turin, Italy) Steering Committee Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Turin, Italy) Jakob Rehof (University of Dortmund, Germany) Joe Wells (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Sat Jan 4 09:38:07 2020 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 15:38:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: NLA'20 Special Session at DCAI'20 Message-ID: Special Session on Natural Language and Argumentation 2020 (NLA'20) at DCAI'20 https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/nla20 at: 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence L'Aquila, Italy, 17-19 June 2020 https://www.dcai-conference.net Scope We are in the reality of natural and computational systems of argumentation provided by reasoning, with natural and artificial languages. Intelligent systems of argumentation target advanced methods for exchanging, saving, reasoning, accessing, and updating information in memory. The special session on Natural Language and Argumentation (NLA) covers theories and applications. Formal models of argumentation like the Dung framework assume that natural language arguments have properly been mapped to logical formulas or partial proofs. Argument mining, when mainly working with existing machine learning methods, encounters difficulties to properly analyse arguments and relations between arguments, over general data, and especially when natural language expressions involve logical constructions. On the other side, traditional methods map sentences to logical formulas, which can be available after having been handled by a theorem prover. E.g., categorial analyses yield discourse representation structures, by using a parser (like Boxer, or Grail), and theorem provers (e.g., Coq) handle corresponding logical representations. The first two approaches (the Dung framework, and typical argument mining) suffer from the lack of development of the relations between natural language texts and dialogues, and do not handle the logical structure of meanings, while the third one (the predominant, traditional logical approach) is limited by the lack of sophisticated semantic lexicon for encompassing the logical structure carried by some words, and interconnections with other methods. Topics We welcome submissions on the following topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications, in support of argumentation: - Formal models of argumentations (e.g., Dung's framework) - Logic of preferences - Argument mining - Theorem provers and assistants - Model checkers - Theory of computation - Theory of information - Natural language inference - Beliefs, attitudes, persuasions - theories and applications - Formal languages in support of reasoning and argumentation - Algorithms related to natural language and argumentation - theories, implementations, applications - Mapping NL expressions into logical representations - Syntactic and semantic analyses of natural language - Computational methods to natural language - approaches, theories - Computational syntax, semantics, and/or interfaces between them - NLP argument mining - Ambiguity and underspecification in syntax and semantics - Discourse and context dependency - Reasoning with ambiguity and underspecification - Interactive computation, reasoning, argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog, interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory, relevant for argumentation - Argumentation in AI applications: e.g., to business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences - ... Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 31 January, 2020 Notification of acceptance: 09 March, 2020 Camera-Ready papers due: 30 March, 2020 Conference: 17-19 June, 2020 Paper Submission https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions All papers must be formatted according to the AISC, Springer, template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the DCAI 2020 conference management system: https://www.dcai-conference.net/submission Publication At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be published by the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, AISC, Springer Verlag. Organizing Committee Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Emiliano Lorini, CNRS, IRIT, France Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden; and, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Richard Moot, LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France Christian Retor?, Universit? de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France Contact Roussanka Loukanova (rloukanova the special symbol gmaildotcom) ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gtan at cse.psu.edu Sat Jan 4 12:43:09 2020 From: gtan at cse.psu.edu (Gang (Gary) Tan) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 17:43:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: LangSec 2020, San Francisco, USA, due on Jan 15th, 2020 Message-ID: Call for Papers Sixth Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) Affiliated with 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) May 21st, 2020, San Francisco, CA The Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) workshop solicits contributions of research papers, work-in-progress reports, and panels related to the growing area of language--theoretic security. Submissions from the TYPES community are especially WELCOME! Submission Guidelines: see http://spw20.langsec.org Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langsec2020 Important Dates: Research paper submissions due: January 15 2020, 11:59 PM Pacific Work-in-progress reports and panels submissions due: February 1 2020, 11:59 PM Pacific Notification to authors: February 15 2020 Camera ready: March 5 2020 Topics: LangSec posits that the only path to trustworthy computer software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language, and the respective input-handling routine as a parser for that language. The parsing must be feasible, and the parser must match the language in required computation power and convert the input for the consumption of subsequent computation. The 6th installation of the workshop will focus on methodologies (1) that can infer formal language specifications from samples of electronic data, (2) that can generate secure parsers from formal specifications of electronic data, and (3) that describe the complexity hierarchy of verifying parser implementations. The following is an non-exhaustive list of topics that are of relevance to LangSec: * formalization of vulnerabilities and exploits in terms of language theory * inference of formal language specifications of data from samples * generation of secure parsers from formal language specifications * complexity hierarchy of verifying parser implementations * science of protocol design: layering, fragmentation and re-assembly, extensibility, etc. * architectural constructs for enforcing limits on computational complexity * empirical data on programming language features/programming styles that affect bug introduction rates (e.g., syntactic redundancy) * systems architectures and designs based on LangSec principles * computer languages, file formats, and network protocols built on LangSec principles * re-engineering efforts of existing languages, formats, and protocols to reduce computational power Chairs PC co-chair: Gang Tan (Pennsylvania State University) PC co-chair: Sergey Bratus (Dartmouth College) Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chairs: Gang Tan (gtan at psu.edu) and Sergey Bratus (sergey at cs.dartmouth.edu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are working in this area, please do consider submitting---it would be excellent to get as many people working in this area in a room as possible! ------- ProWeb20: 4th International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web https://2020.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2020-papers Co-located with the 2020 conference March 23rd, Porto, Portugal ================ 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 ProWeb20 workshop 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, as well as experience reports about their usage. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses, metrics, development tools, automated testing, contract systems, type systems, migration from legacy architectures, web service APIs, API conformance checking, ... * Designing for and hosting novel languages on the web: compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, ? * Multi-tier (or tierless) programming: frameworks for isomorphic applications, new languages and runtimes, tier-splitting compilers, type systems, ... * Data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, ... * Security on the new web: security policies, policy enforcement, membranes, vulnerability detection, dynamic patching, ... * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology (e.g., WebAssembly, WebSockets, Web Storage, Service Workers, Meteor, WebRTC, Angular.js, React and React Native, TypeScript, Proxies, ClojureScript, Amber Smalltalk, Scala.js ?) * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web, how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, ? * Position papers on what the future of the web will look like This year, we are accepting two types of submission: * **Full papers and experience reports**: 6-page papers describing novel research, which, when accepted, will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * **Presentation abstracts**: 1-2 page extended abstracts. Presentation abstracts will not be included in the ACM Digital Library, but will be included in an informal pre-proceedings on the website. We very much welcome presentation abstracts about work already published elsewhere, or giving an overview of an existing system, and the format is designed not to preclude future publication. Submissions should be in ACM SIGPLAN two-column format (see https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). Page limits do not include bibliographies. If you have any questions, or wonder whether your submission is in scope, please do not hesitate to contact the PC co-chairs. More information: https://2020.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2020-papers ** Important dates (AoE) ** - Submission deadline: 15th January 2020 - Author notification: 15th February 2020 - Camera-ready version: 1st May 2020 ** Organizers ** - Andrea Stocco, Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland - Simon Fowler, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom ** Program Committee ** - Saba Alimadadi, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Anton Ekblad, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Maurizio Leotta, University of Genova, Italy - Kevin Moran, College of William & Mary, United States - Jens Nicolay, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Cesare Pautasso, Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland - Tomas Petricek, University of Kent, United Kingdom - Gabriel Radanne, University of Freiburg, Germany - Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy - Pascal Weisenburger, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2020 and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de *** The Award The 2020 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2021, the annual conference of the EACSL. 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 * financial support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. *** The Jury The jury consists of: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Michael Benedikt (Oxford University); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay); * Prakash Panangaden (McGill University); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL; * Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative. *** 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 20 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 Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Mon Jan 6 17:22:31 2020 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 23:22:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MSFP 2020 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: Eighth Workshop on MATHEMATICALLY STRUCTURED FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Saturday 25th April 2020, Dublin, Ireland A satellite workshop of ETAPS 2020 https://msfp-workshop.github.io/msfp2020/ ** Deadline: 9th January (abstract), 16th January (paper) ** The eighth 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, as part of ETAPS 2016. The seventh MSFP Workshop was held in July 2018, in Oxford, UK, as part of FLoC 2018. Important Dates: ================ Abstract deadline: 9th January (Thursday) Paper deadline: 16th January (Thursday) Notification: 27th February (Thursday) Final version: 26th March (Thursday) Workshop: 25th April (Saturday) Invited Speakers: ================= Pierre-Marie P?drot - Inria Rennes-Bretagne-Atlantique, France Satnam Singh - Google Research, USA Program Committee: ================== Stephanie Balzer - CMU, USA Kwanghoon Choi - Chonnam, South Korea Ralf Hinze - Kaiserslautern, Germany Marie Kerjean - Inria Nantes, France Sam Lindley - Edinburgh and Imperial, UK (co-chair) Max New - Northeastern, USA (co-chair) Fredrik Nordvall-Forsberg - Strathclyde, UK Alberto Pardo - Montevideo, Uruguay Exequiel Rivas Gadda - Inria Paris, France Claudio Russo - DFINITY, UK Tarmo Uustalu - Reykjavik, Iceland Nicolas Wu - Imperial, UK Maaike Zwart - Oxford, 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 Sam Lindley (Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk) and Max New (maxnew at ccs.neu.edu) if you have any questions about the scope of the workshop. 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 that 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. Submissions 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. A short abstract should be submitted a week in advance of the paper deadline (for both full paper and extended abstract submissions). We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. To submit a paper, use this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msfp2020 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Tue Jan 7 03:31:56 2020 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 09:31:56 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP'20] draft paper deadline open (January 10 2020) Trends in Functional Programming 2020, 13-14 February, Krakow, Poland Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ???????????????????? Final call for papers ??????? 21st Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming ????????????????????????? tfp2020.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you miss the deadline to submit a paper to Trends in Functional Programming http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/tfp/? No worries -- it's not too late! Submission is open until January 10th 2020, for a presentation slot at the event and post-symposium reviewing. 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. * TFP is moving to new winter dates, to provide an FP forum in between the ? annual ICFP events. * TFP offers a supportive reviewing process designed to help less experienced ? authors succeed, with two rounds of review, both before and after the ? symposium itself. Authors have an opportunity to address reviewers' concerns ? before final decisions on publication in the proceedings. * TFP offers two "best paper" awards, the John McCarthy award for best paper, ? and the David Turner award for best student paper. * This year we are particularly excited to co-locate with Lambda Days in ? beautiful Krakow. Lambda Days is a vibrant developer conference with hundreds ? of attendees and a lively programme of talks on functional programming in ? practice. TFP will be held in the same venue, and participants will be able ? to session-hop between the two events. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline for pre-symposium review:?? 15th November, 2019? -- passed -- Submission deadline for draft papers:?????????? 10th January, 2020 Symposium dates:??????????????????????????????? 13-14th February, 2020 Visit tfp2020.org for more information. From peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch Tue Jan 7 02:49:49 2020 From: peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch (Mueller Peter) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 07:49:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Rust Verification Workshop at ETAPS 2020: Call for Talk, Demo, and Challenge Proposals Message-ID: Call for Talk, Demo, and Challenge Proposals 1st Rust Verification Workshop Co-located with ETAPS 2020 Dublin, Ireland Sunday, 26 April, 2020 https://sites.google.com/view/rustverify2020/home Rust is a new programming language for writing performant code with strong type and memory safety guarantees. It is now considered a serious alternative to C and C++ for systems programming, because it provides high-level abstractions but without the cost of garbage collection. Given the growing popularity of Rust, and given that bugs in systems programs can be costly, there is growing interest in the program verification community for building program verifiers for Rust. In this workshop, we aim to bring together language designers, application developers and formal verification tool builders, to exchange ideas and build collaborations around developing verified Rust programs. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and perspectives together to exchange new and exciting ideas concerning the verification of Rust programs and exploring avenues for collaboration. We want the workshop to be as informal and interactive as possible. The program will thus involve a combination of invited talks, contributed talks about work in progress, tool demos, and open-ended discussion sessions. There will be no published proceedings, but participants will be invited to submit working documents, talk slides, etc. to be posted on this website. Call for Talk and Demo Proposals --------------------------------------------- We solicit proposals for contributed talks and tool demos. Proposals should be at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format, and should specify how long a talk/demo the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. We are interested in talks/demos on all topics related to the verification of Rust programs (including, for instance, program specification, deductive verification, model checking, symbolic execution, runtime monitoring, the semantics and formalization of Rust, and tool support). Talks about work in progress as well as proposals for challenge problems in Rust are particularly encouraged. Please submit by email to peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch. 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The 28th G?del Prize will be awarded at the 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming to be held during 8-12 July, 2020 in Beijing. The Prize is named in honour 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 2020 Award Committee consists of Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford), Anuj Dawar (Chair, University of Cambridge), Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University), Robert Krauthgamer (Weizmann Institute), Daniel Spielman (Yale University) and David Zuckerman (University of Texas, Austin). Nominations: Nominations for the award should be submitted by email to the Award Committee Chair: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk. 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The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - formalisms for modelling biological processes - models and their biological applications - frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation of biological systems - methods for synthetic biology and bio-molecular computing - machine learning, model inference from experimental data - model integration from biological databases - multi-scale modelling and analysis methods - collective behaviour - high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing frameworks to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models. Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories: 1) Regular papers 2) Tool papers 3) Posters 4) Tutorials 5) Presentations of already published papers The proceedings of the two first categories of papers of CMSB 2020 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). Publication of extended versions of a selection of the papers in a special issue of a journal is under consideration. ========================================================================= (Confirmed) Invited Speakers Iain Couzin, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour and the Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany ========================================================================= Call for Submissions: ========================================================================= 1) Call for regular papers: Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Important Dates - Abstract presubmission: April 08, 2020 - Paper submission: April 15, 2020 - Paper notification: July 15, 2020 - Camera-ready: July 31, 2020 - Conference: September 23-25, 2020 Replicability and reproducibility: A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work. ========================================================================= 2) Call for tool papers: Tool papers should present new tools, new tool components or novel extensions to existing tools supporting the modelling and analysis of biological systems. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. Papers must be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 6 pages. Appendices will not be counted in the page limit. Papers must include information on methods, tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results. Authors should make their tools and benchmarks available at the time of submission for evaluation by the committee. Each submission must be accompanied by a supplementary PDF file illustrating the usage of the tool (e.g. screenshots, step-by-step guide, short tutorial) and, if applicable, how the tool demo will be conducted during the conference presentation. Presenters of accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a showcase/running demo of the tool in their talk. Important Dates - Abstract presubmission: April 08, 2020 - Paper submission: April 15, 2020 - Paper notification: July 31, 2020 - Camera-ready: August 15, 2020 ========================================================================= 3) Call for posters: CMSB 2020 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modeling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists! Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages. Important Dates - Poster abstract submission: July 15, 2020 - Poster notification: July 31, 2020 ========================================================================= 4) Call for tutorials: CMSB 2020 will host tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2020 at easychair.org) Important Dates - Tutorial submission: April 01, 2020 - Tutorial notification: April 30, 2020 ========================================================================= 5) Call for presentations: Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings. CMSB will host some talks without paper submission. The requirement is that the works to be presented have been already accepted in a journal. The PDF version of the article has to be submitted electronically, so as to help the committee to select the talks to be given at the conference. The committee will not review the article, since it has already been accepted for publication in a journal. Please indicate in the abstract field of the web-form to which journal the article has already been accepted. Important dates - Presentation submission: April 15, 2020 - Presentation notification: July 15, 2020 ========================================================================= PC co-Chairs - Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK) - Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) - Verena Wolf (University of Saarland, Germany) Tool Track Chair - David Safranek (Masaryk University Brno, CZ) Local Organisation Chair - Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) Steering Committee Alessandro Abate - University of Oxford (UK) - guest member Ezio Bartocci ? Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ? guest member Milan ?e?ka ? Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) ? guest member Finn Drablos ? NTNU (Norway) Fran?ois Fages ? INRIA Saclay ?le-de-France (France) J?r?me Feret ? INRIA ? Paris (France) ? guest member David Harel ? Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) Monika Heiner ? Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (Germany) Heinz K?ppl ? Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) ? guest member Pietro Lio? ? University of Cambridge (UK) ? guest member Tommaso Mazza ? IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ? Mendel (Italy) Satoru Miyano ? University of Tokyo (Japan) Nicola Paoletti ? Stony Brook University (USA) ? guest member Tatjana Petrov - University of Konstanz (Germany) - guest member Gordon Plotkin ? University of Edinburgh (UK) Corrado Priami ? CoSBi / Microsoft Research, University of Trento (Italy) David ?afr?nek ? Masaryk University (Czech Republic) ? guest member Carolyn Talcott ? SRI International (USA) Adelinde Uhrmacher ? 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URL: From arnaud.tisserand at univ-ubs.fr Wed Jan 8 04:32:07 2020 From: arnaud.tisserand at univ-ubs.fr (Arnaud Tisserand) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:32:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXTENDED DEADLINE for CFP ARITH-2020, IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, June 7-10, Portland, OR, USA Message-ID: <1393181073.1437375.1578475927735.JavaMail.zimbra@univ-ubs.fr> Our apologies for multiple emails on this CFP. The deadlines have been extended for additional weeks (see dates below). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ARITH-2020 27th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic June 7 - 10, 2020, Portland, OR, USA http://www.arithsymposium.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ === Scope ==== Since 1969, the ARITH symposia have served as the flagship conference for presenting scientific work on the latest research in computer arithmetic. Computer arithmetic is now driving the most important innovations and product directions in our industry, such as artificial intelligence and security. Authors are invited to submit papers describing recent advances on all aspects related to computer arithmetic, its applications or implementations. This includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics: * Foundations of number systems and arithmetic * Arithmetic processor design and implementation * Arithmetic algorithms and their analysis * Floating-point units, algorithms, and numerical analysis * Elementary and special function implementations * Test, validation, and formal verification techniques for arithmetic implementations * Power-efficient or low-energy arithmetic units and processors * Industrial implementation of arithmetic units and processors * Fault/error-tolerance in arithmetic implementations * Arithmetic for FPGAs and reconfigurable logic * Design automation for computer arithmetic implementations * Arithmetic, datapath design and numerics for artificial intelligence, machine/deep learning * Computer arithmetic for approximate computing * Computer arithmetic for security and cryptography * Arithmetic to enhance accuracy or reliability (multiple-precision, interval arithmetic, ...) * Arithmetic challenges in HPC and exascale computing (accuracy, reproducibility, ...) * Arithmetic for specific application domains (big-data analytics, signal processing, computer graphics, multimedia, computer vision, finance, ...) * Computer arithmetic in emerging technologies * Non-conventional computer arithmetic and applications === Specific Sessions === Besides inviting submissions for regular sessions (8 pages maximum papers), ARITH-2020 will also propose specific sessions. All accepted submissions, whether regular full papers, specific topics, short or industry papers or student forum presentations, will have a presentation slot scheduled. -- Short and Industry Papers -- For ARITH-2020, we are also inviting short papers (4 pages maximum) to describe industry applications, work-in-progress ideas, or interim results. -- Specific Topic Sessions -- We are also inviting people to co-organize a few sessions on specific topics. Please identify the targeted session for submissions (e.g. use the anonymous author field). Submissions (4-page and 8-page) must comply to the procedure below and will be reviewed as all other types of sessions. Co-organizers have to contact the PC Chairs before Dec. 30th, 2019 to propose a topic. -- Student Forum -- We invite students at any level to present their work in an informal session without papers in the proceedings. === Procedure for submission for all sessions === An abstract submission deadline has been set to January 22nd (extended deadline). This initial submission must include title, author(s), keywords and abstract. The full paper is due on February 7th (extended deadline). Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arith2020 Papers under review elsewhere are not acceptable for submission to ARITH-2020. A double-blind peer review policy will be enforced. Please, remove authors' names, acknowledgments or any obvious references to the authors before submission. By submitting a paper you implicitly confirm you are solely submitting it to ARITH-2020. The final submissions of accepted regular session papers cannot exceed 8 pages (NO extra pages) using the IEEE Computer Society Conference format (two columns). However, for review, authors may submit a paper with a maximum of 20 pages, 12pt font size, single column and double spacing. The final submissions for short and industry papers cannot exceed 4 pages (NO extra pages) using the IEEE Computer Society Conference format (two columns). For review, the paper may have up to 10 pages, in 12pt font size, single column and double spacing. Formatting instructions: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html === Important Dates ==== Abstract submission (must include title, January 22nd, 2020 authors, keywords, abstract) EXTENDED DEADLINE Final submission with complete paper February 7th, 2020 EXTENDED DEADLINE Paper notification Early April, 2020 Paper camera-ready End April, 2020 Conference June 7-10th, 2020 === Organization === General chair: Marius Cornea, Intel Corporation, USA Program co-chairs: Weiqiang Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China Arnaud Tisserand, CNRS, France Financial chair: Robin C. Gilbert, Intel Corporation, USA Web chair: Alberto Cannav?, Politecnico di Torino, Italy -- Arnaud TISSERAND - Directeur de Recherche CNRS Lab-STICC - Centre de recherche UBS - Lorient tel: (+33) (0)2 97 87 46 49 mailto:arnaud.tisserand at univ-ubs.fr http://www-labsticc.univ-ubs.fr/~tisseran/ From paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it Wed Jan 8 04:42:46 2020 From: paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it (Paolo Pistone) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 09:42:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP: Workshop "Proofs, Computation and Meaning" Message-ID: *Apologies for cross postings* ******************************************************************************* Final CfP: Workshop "Proofs, Computation and Meaning" University of T?bingen (Germany), 20-21 March 2020 http://ls.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/PCM/ ******************************************************************************* SCOPE: Around thirty years after the fall of Hilbert's program, the proofs-as-programs paradigm established the view that a proof should not be identified, as in Hilbert's metamathematics, with a string of symbols in some formal system. Rather, proofs should consist in computational or epistemic objects conveying evidence to mathematical propositions. The relationship between formal derivations and proofs should then be analogous to the one between words and their meanings. This view naturally gives rise to questions such as ?which conditions should a formal arrangement of symbols satisfy to represent a proof?? or ?when do two formal derivations represent the same proof?". These questions underlie past and current research in proof theory both in the theoretical computer science community (e.g. categorical logic, domain theory, linear logic) and in the philosophy community (e.g. proof-theoretic semantics). In spite of these common motivations and historical roots, it seems that today proof theorists in philosophy and in computer science are losing sight of each other. This workshop aims at contributing to a renaissance of the interaction between researchers with different backgrounds by establishing a constructive environment for exchanging views, problems and results. ******************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES: Extended abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2020 Student grant application deadline: 15 January 2020 Notification: 25 January 2020 Workshop: 20-21 March 2020 Warm-up for Master and PhD students: 19 March 2020 ******************************************************************************* INVITED SPEAKERS: In addition to regular invited talks, the workshop includes two tutorials, aimed at introducing recent ideas on the correspondence between proofs, programs and categories as well as to the historical and philosophical aspects of the notions of infinity and predicativity. Tutorials: - Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo) - Noam Zeilberger (University of Birmingham) Regular speakers: - Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) - Federico Aschieri (TU Vienna) - Gilda Ferreira (Universidade Aberta, University of Lisbon) - Dominic Hughes (UC Berkeley) - Alberto Naibo (Paris 1 University) - Gabriel Scherer (INRIA, Saclay) ******************************************************************************* SUBMISSIONS: We invite submissions for contributed talks on topics related to the themes of the meeting. These include, but are not restricted to: - Identity of proofs - Graphical/diagrammatic representations of proofs - Typed vs untyped proof theory - Paradoxes and circular reasoning - Constructivism and (im)predicativity - Duality proofs/refutations - Computational interpretations of classical and non-classical logics - Non-deterministic/probabilistic aspects of computation - Inductive/co-inductive constructions in proof theory and type theory - (Higher-)categorical proof theory - Substructural aspects of logic - Philosophical and historical reflections on any of the above Submissions should consist in a 1-2 pages extended abstract and should be sent to luca.tranchini at gmail.com or paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it by 15 JANUARY 2020. ******************************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND TRAVEL GRANTS: If you wish to attend without giving a talk, please send an e-mail to luca.tranchini at gmail.com or paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it. 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The meeting will be similar to previous ones: * Presentations concerning theory, implementation, and use cases of Agda and other Agda-like languages. * Discussions around issues related to the Agda language. * Plenty of time to work in, on, under or around Agda, in collaboration with other participants. To register for AIM XXXI, please fill out the form below and send it to Wen Kokke > Preliminary information (more appearing later) is available at: https://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=Main.AIMXXXI I hope to see you there! Kind regards, Wen --------------------------------------------------------------- Registration form for Agda Implementors' Meeting XXXI Name: Title and optionally abstract (if you want to give a talk or lead a discussion): Suggestions for code sprints (optional): Additional comments: --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - the theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches); - coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.); - coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming; - 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'20 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, co-located with ETAPS 2020 on 25 - 26 April 2020. Keynote Speaker --------------- Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Invited Speakers ---------------- Nathana?l Fijalkow (CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France) Koko Muroya (RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan) Invited Tutorial Speakers ------------------------- There will be a special session on probabilistic couplings, with invited tutorials by: Marco Gaboardi (University at Buffalo, US) Justin Hsu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) Important dates --------------------------- Abstract regular papers 15 January 2020 Submission regular papers 17 January 2020 Notification regular papers 17 February 2020 Camera-ready copy 28 February 2020 Submission short contributions 4 March 2020 Notification short contributions 11 March 2020 Programme committee ------------------- Henning Basold, Leiden University, the Netherlands Nick Bezhanishvili, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Mai Gehrke, CNRS and Universit? C?te d'Azur, France Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Shin-Ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Bartek Klin, Warsaw University, Poland Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, USA Clemens Kupke, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Alexander Kurz, Chapman University, USA Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris 7, France Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, United Kingdom Damien Pous, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Jurriaan Rot, UCL and Radboud University, The Netherlands Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, Italy Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria David Sprunger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Henning Urbat, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Fabio Zanasi, University College London, United Kingdom Publicity chair --------------- Henning Basold, Leiden University, The Netherlands PC co-chairs -------------- Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris 7, France Jurriaan Rot, UCL and Radboud University, The Netherlands Steering committee ------------------ Filippo Bonchi, University of Pisa, Italy Marcello Bonsangue, 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, Chapman University, USA Marina Lenisa, University of Udine, Italy Stefan Milius (chair), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Larry Moss, Indiana University, USA Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, Australia Lutz Schr?der, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Alexandra Silva, University College London, United Kingdom Submission guidelines --------------------- We solicit two types of contributions: regular papers and short contributions. Regular papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 20 pages in length in Springer LNCS style. Short contributions may describe work in progress, or summarise work submitted to a conference or workshop elsewhere. They should be no more than two pages. Regular papers and short contributions should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2020. The proceedings of CMCS 2020 will include all accepted regular papers and will be published post-conference as a Springer volume in the IFIP-LNCS series. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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QONFEST 2020 will be hosted at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, with the conferences taking place in the main building at Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien, and the workshops in the computer science building at Favoritenstr. 9?11, 1040 Wien. CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be affiliated to QONFEST 2020. Example topics include: concurrency theory and its applications, timed systems, semantics, logics, verification techniques, cross-fertilization between industry and academia and opportunities for young and prospective researchers. Past QONFEST conferences have been accompanied by successful workshops on a variety of topics. You can have an idea of the past workshops by browsing the pages of the previous editions of CONCUR, QEST, FORMATS and FMICS. The purpose of the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application. The workshops take place on Monday August 31, 2020 and Saturday September 5, 2020. Proposals should include: * The name and the preferred date of the proposed workshop (August 31 or September 5, 2020) * A short description of the workshop (500 words max) * If applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, and attendance * The expected number of participants * The name and a link to the website(s) of the organizer(s) * The publication plan (only invited speakers, no published proceedings, pre-/post-proceedings published with EPTCS/ENTCS/...). The QONFEST organization offers: * a link from the QONFEST web site; * setup of meeting space, and related equipment, * coffee-breaks and lunch for the participants on the day of the workshop, * on-line and on-site registration to the workshop, * free workshop registration for an organizer and in case of more than 15 participants a second free workshop registration The main responsibility for organizing the workshop goes to the workshop organizer(s), including: * workshop publicity (possibly including call for papers, submission and review process) * scheduling of workshop activities in collaboration with the QONFEST workshop chair. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals: January 15, 2020 (but we greatly appreciate if you announce your proposal to us as soon as possible). Notification: January 31, 2020 SUBMISSION TO: Florian Zuleger (zuleger at forsyte dot at) For more information, please contact me via email. 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Previous editions of LSFA took place in Natal (2019), Fortaleza (2018), Bras?lia (2017), 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. Previous proceedings were published by EPTCS and ENTCS. Previous LSFA special issues have been published in journals such as Journal of Algorithms, The Logic Journal of the IGPL and Theoretical Computer Science (see http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Specification languages and meta-languages * Formal semantics of languages and logical systems * Logical frameworks * Semantic frameworks * Type theory * Proof theory * Automated deduction * Implementation of logical or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical or semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Process calculi SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers with a maximum of 13 pages excluding references. Beyond full regular papers, we encourage submissions such as system descriptions, proof pearls, rough diamonds (preliminary results and work in progress), 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 excluding references. 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. The 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=lsfa2020 At least one of the authors should register for the workshop. All accepted papers will be available online during the workshop; full papers will be published at ENTCS, and short papers will be collected in an informal volume. For the publication of the proceedings there will be a cost to authors of USD 50 at registration time. IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract deadline: March 16 * Submission deadline: March 23 * Notification to Authors: May 12 * Proceedings version due: Jun 12 * LSFA 2020: August 26-28 INVITED SPEAKERS * Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, University of Bras?lia (joint speaker with WBL 20) * Eduardo Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology * Delia Kesner, IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS * Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Beniamino Accattoli, INRIA (Saclay) * Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Mario Benevides, UFRJ * Ana Bove, Chalmers * Manuela Busaniche, CONICET Santa Fe * Marco Cerami, UFBA * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fernandez, King's College London * Francicleber Ferreira, UFC * Renata de Freitas, UFF * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca, UNAM * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Jo?o Marcos, UFRN * Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano * Daniele Nantes, UnB * Carlos Olarte, UFRN * Revantha Ramanayake,TU Wien * Camilo Rocha, PUJ * Nora Szasz, Universidad ORT * Ivan Varzinczak, Universit? d'Artois * Daniel Ventura, UFG * Renata Wassermann, USP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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March 2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2020. *Abstract Submission Deadline: 20.1.2020 (NEW)* Notification: 1.2.2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND The TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and ongoing 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 program is organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * Ulrik Buchholtz * Pierre Marie-P?drot * Leonardo de Moura * Sara Negri CONTRIBUTED TALKS We solicit contributed talks: Selection of those will be based on extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pp (not including bibliography) formatted with easychair.cls. The submission site is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2020. Important dates: * abstract submission: 20 January 2020 (new), anywhere on Earth * notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 February 2020 * camera-ready version of abstract: 15 February 2020 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 2013-2019, a post-proceedings volume is planned in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series (confirmation pending). Submission to that volume will be open to everyone. CONTACT Email: ugo.deliguoro at unito.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE ????Ugo de? Liguoro (University of Turin) (chair) ????Stefano Berardi (University of Turin) (co-chair) ????Marino Miculan (University of Udine) ????Marc Bezem (University of Bergen) ????Gilles Dowek (INRIA ? ENS Paris-Saclay) ????Takeshi Tsukada (University of Tokyo) ????Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho) ????Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen) ????Ralph Matthes (IRIT ? CNRS and University of Toulouse) ????Henning Basold (University of Leiden) ????Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) ????Anton Setzer (University of Swansea) ????Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) ????Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) ?????tienne Miquey (INRIA, University of Nantes) ????Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) ????Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) ????Alexandre Miquel (University of the Republic, Montevideo) ????Thierry Coquand (Chalmers University of Technology) Organisers: Ugo de'Liguoro (University of Turin, chair) Stefano Berardi (University of Turin, co-chair) Riccardo Treglia (University of Turin) Luca Ciccone (University of Turin) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although intersection types were initially intended for use in analyzing and/or synthesizing lambda models as well as in analyzing normalization properties, over the last twenty years the scope of the research on intersection types and related systems has broadened in many directions. The ITRS 2020 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. ITRS workshops have been held every two years; Information about the previous events is available at the ITRS home page. Paper Submissions Authors are invited to submit an abstract (2 pages bibliography excluded) in PDF format, through EasyChair. Publishing of a full paper is planned in post-proceedings to appear in EPTCS (pending approval), therefore we recommend using the EPTCS macro package to prepare submissions. Informal proceedings will be made available at the workshop. Invited Speaker * Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Important Dates: *Abstract submission: 20 January (new), 2020* Author notification: 1 February, 2020 Final version: 15 February, 2020 Workshop: 6 March, 2020 Program Committee: Ugo de' Liguoro (University of Turin) Jeremy Siek? (Indiana University Bloomington) Andrej Dudenhefner (Saarland University) Antonio Bucciarelli (Universit? 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Salary range is A$99,809 - A$113,165 (roughly, US$ 68K - US$ 77K, or 61K Euros - 70K Euros). Applicants with strong backgrounds in formal methods (SAT/SMT, first-order theorem proving, interactive theorem provers) and programming languages are preferred. Experience with implementation of theorem provers is desirable. Details of the application procedure can be found at: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/en/job/534934/research-fellow For further information please contact Alwen Tiu (alwen.tiu at anu.edu.au). Regards, Alwen Tiu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Eligibility ----------- Eligible for the award is any PhD student whose doctoral dissertation is in the scope of the ETAPS conferences and who completed their doctoral degree at a European academic institution in the period from January 1st, 2019 to December 31st, 2019. Nominations ----------- Award candidates should be nominated by their supervisor. Members of the Award Committee are not allowed to nominate their own PhD students for the award. Nominations consist of a single PDF file (extension .pdf) containing: * name and email address of the candidate * a short curriculum vitae of the candidate * name and email address of the supervisor * an endorsement letter from the supervisor * the final version of the doctoral dissertation * institution and department that has awarded the doctorate * a document certifying that the doctoral degree was successfully completed within the eligibility period * a report from at least one examiner of the dissertation who is not affiliated with the candidate's institution All documents must be written in English. Nominations are welcome regardless of whether results that are part of the dissertation have been published at ETAPS. Nominations should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=etapsdda2020 The deadline for nominations is January 19th, 2020. Award Committee --------------- Caterina Urban (chair) Amal Ahmed (representing ESOP) Dirk Beyer (representing TACAS) Andrew Pitts (representing FoSSaCS) Perdita Stevens (representing FASE) Marieke Huisman From ahadziha at irif.fr Fri Jan 10 08:29:39 2020 From: ahadziha at irif.fr (Amar Hadzihasanovic) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:29:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYCO 7 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <0f1a6c97-1a4a-369f-5d2b-1e2accaf6c9d@irif.fr> ====================================================================== ????????????????????????? CALL FOR PAPERS ??????? SEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 7) ????????????? Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ????????????????????????? 30-31 March 2020 ??????????????? http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/7/ ====================================================================== The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language. Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University, and University of Leicester. We welcome submissions from researchers across computer science, mathematics, physics, philosophy, and beyond, with the aim of fostering friendly discussion, disseminating new ideas, and spreading knowledge between fields. Submission is encouraged for both mature research and work in progress, and by both established academics and junior researchers, including students. While no list of topics could be exhaustive, SYCO welcomes submissions with a compositional focus related to any of the following areas, in particular from the perspective of category theory: - logical methods in computer science, including classical and quantum programming, type theory, concurrency, natural language processing and machine learning; - graphical calculi, including string diagrams, Petri nets and reaction networks; - languages and frameworks, including process algebras, proof nets, type theory and game semantics; - abstract algebra and pure category theory, including monoidal category theory, higher category theory, operads, polygraphs, and relationships to homotopy theory; - quantum algebra, including quantum computation and representation theory; - tools and techniques, including rewriting, formal proofs and proof assistants, and game theory; - industrial applications, including case studies and real-world problem descriptions. IMPORTANT DATES ======== All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth. Submission deadline:?? Monday 10 February 2020 Author notification:?? Monday 17 February 2020 Symposium dates:?????? Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 March 2020 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======== Submission are by EasyChair, via the SYCO 7 submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syco7 Submission is easy, with no format requirements or page restrictions. The meeting does not have proceedings, so work can be submitted even if it has been submitted or published elsewhere. Think creatively--- you could submit a recent paper, or notes on work in progress, or even a recent Masters or PhD thesis. In the event that more good-quality submissions are received than can be accommodated in the timetable, the programme committee may choose to *defer* some submissions to a future meeting, rather than reject them. Deferred submissions can be re-submitted to any future SYCO meeting, where they will not need peer review, and where they will be prioritised for inclusion in the programme. Meetings will be held sufficiently frequently to avoid a backlog of deferred papers. If you have a submission which was deferred from a previous SYCO meeting, it will not automatically be considered for SYCO 7; you still need to submit it again through EasyChair. When submitting, append the words "DEFERRED FROM SYCO X" to the title of your paper, replacing "X" with the appropriate meeting number. There is no need to attach any documents. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ======== Christoph Dorn, University of Oxford Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Brendan Fong, MIT Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Universit? de Paris (PC chair) Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Alex Kavvos, Aarhus University Marie Kerjean, INRIA Bretagne Atlantique, ?quipe Gallinette Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Samuel Mimram, ?cole Polytechnique Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University Jovana Obradovi?, Charles University in Prague Simona Paoli, University of Leicester Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Christina Vasilakopoulou, University of Patras Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham and University of Oxford Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford -- Amar Hadzihasanovic IRIF, Universit? de Paris http://www.irif.fr/~ahadziha/ From antonios at ru.is Fri Jan 10 14:08:13 2020 From: antonios at ru.is (Antonios Achilleos) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:08:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec call for satelite events (extended submission deadline) Message-ID: <1380e65d350c4ebfb8f924b54b8ea255@ru.is> After some requests, we decided to give an extension to the submission deadline for a workshop proposal for DisCoTec 2020. The new submission deadline is January 17. On behalf of the organizers, Antonis ************************************************************************ Call for Satellite Events: Workshops, Tutorials and Tool Tracks 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2020 University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020 https://www.discotec.org/2020/ ************************************************************************ *** About DisCoTec *** DisCoTec is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It gathers conferences, workshops, and tutorials that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects, ranging from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques to systems research issues. Its 15th edition will take place at University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020. *** Main Conferences *** - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination) 22nd IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2020/dais) 20th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2020/forte) 40th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems *** Workshops *** The DisCoTec 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to complement the three main conferences. The workshops should fall in the areas of the DisCoTec conferences. The aim is to provide a vivid and open forum for discussions, presentations of preliminary research results and ongoing work, as well as presentations of research work to a focused audience. Workshops will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective workshop organizers are requested to contact the workshop chairs providing the following information: - contact information of the organizers - name of the satellite event - number of participants (expected) - brief description of the topic of the event (max. 500 words) - any other relevant information (e.g., invited speakers) - duration of the workshop and dates (15-19) in order of preference Important Dates: * January 10, 2020: Deadline for workshop proposals --- CHANGED TO January 10! * January 24, 2020: Notification of accepted workshops * Mid April 2020: Submission of workshop papers (suggested) * Mid May 2020: Notification of accepted workshop papers (suggested) Submission and notification deadlines of the workshops are at the discretion of the individual workshop organizers, however notification must be no later than the early registration deadline for DisCoTec 2020 (to be announced). *** Tutorials *** The DisCoTec 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for tutorials by experts on topics related to those of the three main conferences of DisCoTec. Tutorials will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective speakers should contact the workshop chairs providing the following information: - contact information of the speaker - title of the tutorial - abstract of the tutorial (max. 500 words) - description of the tutorial (max. two A4 pages) - duration of the tutorial and dates (15-19) in order of preference Important Dates: * April 10, 2020: Deadline for tutorial proposals * May 1, 2020: Notification of accepted tutorials *** Tool track *** The DisCoTec 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for tool demonstrations on topics related to those of the three main conferences of DisCoTec. The call is open to anyone, but authors of papers accepted at the conferences of DisCoTec are strongly invited to present the tool accompanying their publication. Demos will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective speakers should contact the workshop chairs providing the following information: - contact information of the speaker - title of the demo and of the tool - brief description of the actual demonstration (max. three A4 pages) Important Dates: * April 24, 2020: Deadline for demo proposals * May 8, 2020: Notification of accepted demos * DisCoTec 2020 workshop chairs * Antonis Achilleos (Reykjavik Univerisity, Iceland) Duncan Attard (University of Malta, Malta) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) *** Further information *** For further information, please contact the workshop chairs at > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From balzers at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jan 10 14:49:41 2020 From: balzers at cs.cmu.edu (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:49:41 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLACES 2020: 2nd CfP Message-ID: # PLACES 2020 - Second Call for Papers The 12th edition of PLACES (Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency- and Communication-cEntric Software) will be co-located with ETAPS 2020 in Dublin, Ireland on 26 April 2020. http://places20.by.di.fc.ul.pt For over a decade, PLACES has been a popular forum for researchers from different fields to exchange new ideas about challenges to modern and future programming, where concurrency and distribution are the norm rather than a marginal concern. Submissions are welcomed in the general area of programming language approaches to concurrency, communication, and distribution and may range from foundational issues to language implementations, applications and case studies. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers, with the aim of allocating at least one expert reviewer. Submissions will be assessed based on their **novelty**, **clarity**, **technical soundness** and their **potential to foster fruitful discussions at the workshop**. Submissions must not be submitted for publication elsewhere and must be formatted in EPTCS format, containing a maximum of 8 pages (with no restriction on bibliography or appendices, which the reviewers need not read). Accepted papers will be published as an issue of EPTCS. After the workshop, there will be an open call for submissions to a **JLAMP special issue** aimed at accommodating extended versions of accepted papers and other contributions on the themes of PLACES 2020. ## Key dates * Submission deadline: 24 January 2020, AOE * Author notification: 28 February 2020, AOE * Camera ready: 13 March 2020, AOE * Workshop: 26 April 2020 * ETAPS: 25-30 April 2020 ## Topics Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Design and implementation of programming languages with first class concurrency and communication * Models, such as process algebra and automata * Behavioural types, including session types * Concurrent data types, objects, and actors * Verification and program analysis methods for concurrent and distributed software * Memory models for concurrent programming on relaxed-memory architectures * Interface and contract languages for communication and distribution * Applications in web services, sensor networks, scientific computing, HPC, and blockchains * Concurrency and communication in event processing and business process management ## Chairs * Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University * Luca Padovani, Universit? di Torino ## Programme Committee * Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University * Massimo Bartoletti, Universit? di Cagliari * Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis M?diterran?e * Silvia Crafa, Universit? di Padova * Cinzia Di Giusto, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis * Hannah Gommerstadt, Vassar College * Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven * Wen Kokke, University of Edinburgh * Hern?n Melgratti, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Andreia Mordido, Universidade de Lisboa * Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research * Jorge A. Perez, University of Groningen ## Organizing Committee * Simon Gay, University of Glasgow * Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Universidade de Lisboa * Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London We hope you will submit and join us for another successful edition of PLACES! From nevrenato at gmail.com Mon Jan 13 06:27:52 2020 From: nevrenato at gmail.com (Renato Neves) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:27:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TTCS 2020 - deadline extended to the 16th of February Message-ID: The Third IFIP International Conference on Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS 2020) http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/ttcs/2020 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) Tehran, Iran, July 1-3, 2020 *** Deadline Extension: February 16, 2020 *** *** NEW - Invited Speakers *** Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland, USA (Track A) Filippo Bonchi, University of Pisa, Italy (Track B) ================================================== ------------------------------ Scope ------------------------------ TTCS is a bi-annual conference series, intending to serve as a forum for novel and high-quality research in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The conference is held in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. TTCS is organized in 2 tracks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Track A: Algorithms and Complexity - algorithms and data structures, - algorithmic coding theory, - algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, - approximation algorithms, - computational complexity, - computational geometry, - computational learning theory, - economics and algorithmic game theory, - fixed-parameter algorithms, - machine learning, - optimization, - parallel and distributed algorithms, - quantum computing, - randomness in computing, - theoretical cryptography. Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory - algebra and coalgebra in computer science, - concurrency theory, - coordination languages, - formal verification and model-based testing, - logic in computer science, - methods, models of computation and reasoning for embedded, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems, - stochastic and probabilistic specification and reasoning, - theoretical aspects of other CS-related research areas, e.g. computational science, databases, information retrieval, and networking, - theory of programming languages, - type theory. ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ - Full Paper Submission: February 16, 2020 - Author notification: April 12, 2020 - Camera-ready paper: May 1, 2020 - Conference: July 1-3, 2020 ------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------ Research papers are solicited in all areas of theoretical computer science. All papers will undergo a rigorous review process and will be judged based on their originality, soundness, significance of the results, and relevance to the theme of the conference. Papers should be written in English. Research papers should not exceed 15 pages in the LNCS style format. All technical details necessary for a proper evaluation of a submission must be included in the submission or in a clearly-labeled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. Multiple and/or concurrent submission to other scientific venues is not allowed and will result in rejection as well as notification to the other venue. Any case of plagiarism (including self-plagiarism from earlier publications) will result in rejection as well as notification to the authors' institutions. TTCS 2020 proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, in accordance to the contract between Springer Nature Switzerland AG and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Papers should be submitted to the appropriate track through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ttcs2020 ------------------------------ Programme Committee ------------------------------ Track A: Algorithms and Complexity Mohammad Ali Abam, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (PC co-chair) Sepehr Assadi, Rutgers University, USA Mohammad Hossein Bateni, GoogleRresearch, USA Salman Beigy, IPM, Iran Hossein Esfandiari, Harvard University, USA Omid Etesami, IPM, Iran Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, Netherlands Mohammad Mahdian, Google Research, USA Mohammad Mahmoody, University of Virginia, USA Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, USA Gunter Rote, FU Berlin, Germany Mohammadreza Salavatipour, University of Alberta, Canada Masoud Seddighin, IPM, Iran Saeed Seddighin, Harvard University, USA Michiel Smid, Carleton Univesity, Canada Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Track B: Logic, Semantics, and Programming Theory Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea Christel Baier, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Luis S. Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal (PC co-chair) Mario Benevides, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Simon Bliduze, INRIA Lille, France Filippo Bonchi, University of Pisa, Italy Marcello Bonsangue, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Flavio Corradini University of Camerino, Italy Fredrik Dahlqvist, UCL, UK Sergey Goncharov, FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Hossein Hojjat, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Mohammad Izadi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran Sung-Shik Jongmans, Open University, The Netherlands Alexander Knapp, University of Augsburg, Germany Jan Kretinsky, Munich University of Technology, Germany Alexandre Madeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mohammad Reza Mousavi, University of Leicester, UK Renato Neves, INESC TEC, Portugal Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada Elaine Pimentel, UFRN, Brazil Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi, India Pawel Sobocinski, Taltech, Estonia Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria Carolyn Talcott, Stanford University, USA Benoit Valiron, LRI, France Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science, China Link to the online cfp: https://easychair.org/cfp/TTCS2020 From gtan at cse.psu.edu Mon Jan 13 22:34:14 2020 From: gtan at cse.psu.edu (Gang (Gary) Tan) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:34:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] (Deadline extended to Jan 25th, 2020) LangSec 2020, San Francisco, USA Message-ID: <6d894cfc-a06a-a888-9cde-e8017e24217b@cse.psu.edu> Due to requests, we are extending the LangSec 2020 deadline to Jan 25th, 2020. Call for Papers Sixth Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) Affiliated with 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) May 21st, 2020, San Francisco, CA The Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) workshop solicits contributions of research papers, work-in-progress reports, and panels related to the growing area of language--theoretic security. Submission Guidelines: see http://spw20.langsec.org/cfp.pdf Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langsec2020 Important Dates: Research paper submissions due: January 25, 2020, AOE Work-in-progress reports and panels submissions due: ? February 1, 2020, AOE Notification to authors: February 22, 2020 Camera ready: March 6, 2020 Topics: LangSec posits that the only path to trustworthy computer software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language, and the respective input-handling routine as a parser for that language. The parsing must be feasible, and the parser must match the language in required computation power and convert the input for the consumption of subsequent computation. The 6th installation of the workshop will focus on methodologies (1) that can infer formal language specifications from samples of electronic data, (2) that can generate secure parsers from formal specifications of electronic data, and (3) that describe the complexity hierarchy of verifying parser implementations. The following is an non-exhaustive list of topics that are of relevance to LangSec: * formalization of vulnerabilities and exploits in terms of language ? theory * inference of formal language specifications of data from samples * generation of secure parsers from formal language specifications * complexity hierarchy of verifying parser implementations * science of protocol design: layering, fragmentation and re-assembly, ? extensibility, etc. * architectural constructs for enforcing limits on computational ? complexity * empirical data on programming language features/programming styles ? that affect bug introduction rates (e.g., syntactic redundancy) * systems architectures and designs based on LangSec principles * computer languages, file formats, and network protocols built on ? LangSec principles * re-engineering efforts of existing languages, formats, and protocols ? to reduce computational power Chairs PC co-chair: Gang Tan (Pennsylvania State University) PC co-chair: Sergey Bratus (Dartmouth College) Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chairs: Gang Tan (gtan at psu.edu) and Sergey Bratus (sergey at cs.dartmouth.edu) -- Gang (Gary) Tan Associate Professor Penn State CSE and ICS W358 Westgate Building http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29 Tel:814-8657364 From j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk Tue Jan 14 05:18:08 2020 From: j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk (Wickerson, John P) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:18:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for contributions to PLDI co-located events Message-ID: <6F2C3DA9-F2EC-40EB-831C-43AD9062C7F1@imperial.ac.uk> PLDI 2020 is going to have some very exciting co-located events this year. Do consider submitting your work and/or attending some of them! ================================================= We've got three terrific co-hosted conferences... ================================================= * HOPL (the 4th History of Programming Languages conference) which produces accurate historical records and descriptions of programming language design, development, and philosophy. (https://hopl4.sigplan.org/) * ISMM (the 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management) is a premier forum for research and solicits full-length submissions covering a wide range of topics related to memory management. (Deadline 28 Feb; https://conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-2020) * LCTES (Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems) provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities. Researchers and developers in these areas are addressing many similar problems but with different backgrounds and approaches. (Deadline 28 Feb; https://conf.researchr.org/home/LCTES-2020) =========================================== ... as well as eight excellent workshops... =========================================== * The Ally Skills workshop teaches simple everyday ways for allies to use their privilege and influence to support groups that are commonly the subject of discrimination or prejudice. All are welcome! (https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/allyskills-PLDI-2020) * The ARRAY workshop invites all to the exchange of ideas between communities involved in the design, implementation, optimization and use of array-oriented languages and libraries for various applications. (Deadline 1 Apr; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/ARRAY-2020) * The BAPL (Build Automation and Programming Languages) workshop brings together build automation experts and programming language designers to explore incremental analysis, building, testing, packaging and deployment of software. (Deadline 15 Mar; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/bapl-2020) * The first edition of the Infer Practitioners Workshop gathers together developers and researchers working with the Infer static analysis platform. We welcome contributed technical talks around a range of Infer-related topics. (Deadline 4 May; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/infer2020) * The MAPL (Machine learning and Programming Languages) workshop seeks papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning. It aims to bring together programming language and machine learning communities to encourage collaboration and exploration in areas of mutual benefit. The workshop will include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and invited events. (Deadline 20 Mar; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/mapl-2020) * The PLMW at PLDI (Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop) brings together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. (Apply for scholarship by 13 Mar; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-PLDI-2020) * The REMS-DeepSpec Workshop provides a forum for researchers interested in foundational specifications and rigorous engineering of mainstream systems and their components. (Deadline 19 Mar; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/rems-deepspec-2020) * SOAP (State Of the Art in Program analysis) is a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest ideas, developments and approaches to techniques, frameworks, and applications for program analysis and related areas. (Deadline 23 Mar; https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/SOAP-2020) ================================= ...and four fabulous tutorials... ================================= * "Declarative Language Definition with Spoofax" (Eelco Visser). This tutorial provides an introduction to declarative language definition with the Spoofax language workbench with a focus on syntax definition with declarative disambiguation and type system specification with scope graph constraints. (https://pldi20.sigplan.org/details/pldi-2020-tutorials/3/Declarative-Language-Definition-with-Spoofax) * "Design Space Exploration" (Matthew Feldman, Artur Souza, Luigi Nardi, Kunle Olukotun). This tutorial provides a hands-on introduction to design space exploration (DSE) using a plug-and-play framework, dubbed HyperMapper, that makes it easy for compiler/hardware designers to explore their search spaces. (https://pldi20.sigplan.org/details/pldi-2020-tutorials/1/Design-Space-Exploration) * "Programming Quantum Computers: A Primer with IBM Q and D-Wave Exercises" (Frank Mueller). This tutorial provides a hands-on introduction to quantum computing with IBM-Q programming experiences featuring architecture, programming, and algorithms for quantum computing. (https://pldi20.sigplan.org/details/pldi-2020-tutorials/2/Programming-Quantum-Computers-A-Primer-with-IBM-Q-and-D-Wave-Exercises) * "Programming for Autonomy" (Amit Chopra, Munindar P. Singh). This tutorial presents novel abstractions for specifying and programming decentralized systems, making connections with programming models for IoT and distributed ledgers and protocol languages such as session types. (https://pldi20.sigplan.org/details/pldi-2020-tutorials/4/Programming-for-Autonomy) Enjoy! The PLDI 2020 Organisers -- Dr John Wickerson Lecturer Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London https://johnwickerson.github.io From kiko.fernandez at it.uu.se Tue Jan 14 06:20:48 2020 From: kiko.fernandez at it.uu.se (Kiko Fernandez Reyes) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:20:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Joint Call for Papers - DisCoTec 2020 Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Joint Call for Papers 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2020 Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020 https://www.discotec.org/2020 ************************************************************************ DisCoTec 2020 is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It gathers conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects, ranging from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques to systems research issues. * Main Conferences * - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination) 22st IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages PC Chairs: Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille ? Nord Europe, France) and Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2020/dais) 20th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems PC Chairs: Anne Remke (University of M?nster, Germany) and Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland) - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2020/forte) 40th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems PC Chairs: Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) and Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) * Important Dates (for all main conferences) * - February 3, 2020: Submission of abstract - February 14, 2020: Submission of papers - April 10, 2020: Notification of accepted papers - April 24, 2020: Camera ready - June 15-19, 2020: Conferences and Workshops * Keynote Speakers * - Holger Hermanns, Saarland University - Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, Redmond - Peter Kriens, OSGi Alliance * Submission Categories * COORDINATION: Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references), Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references), Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references), Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references + 10min demo video). DAIS Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references). Full practical experience reports (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) Work-in-progress (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) FORTE Full papers (page limit: up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) Short papers (page limit: up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) (Rough diamonds, Tool (demonstration) papers, Position papers) ?Journal First? papers (page limit: up to 2 pages, including references) More information is available on the conference website. * Proceedings * The proceedings of DisCoTec 2020 main conferences will be published in Springer's LNCS-IFIP volumes. * Special issue * The individual conferences will organise special issues of extended and selected papers in reputable journal such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. More information is available at the conference website. * Submission Instructions * Authors are invited to submit their contributions 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 3, 2020. Submission of the manuscript is due no later than February 14, 2020. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte20 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, including figures and references, prepared using Springer?s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. DisCoTec conferences welcome contributions in theoretical models and foundations of coordination, concurrency, programming languages, practical and conceptual aspects of distributed computations as well as models and formal specification, testing and verification methods for distributed computing. Detailed information about the topics, the submission categories and the corresponding page limits are available at the conference website. For each accepted paper, one of the authors must register to DisCoTec 2020 and attend the corresponding conference to present the paper. * Organising Committee * Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta - General chair) Davide Basile (ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy - Publicity chair) Kiko Fern?ndez-Reyes (Uppsala University, Sweden - Publicity chair) Antonis Achilleos (Reykjavik University, Iceland - Workshops chair) Duncan Attard (University of Malta, Malta - Workshops chair) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Workshops chair) Lucienne Bugeja (University of Malta, Malta - Logistics) * Steering Committee * Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Pascal Felber ( University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, France ? Chair) Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark - General chair) * Advisory Board * Alain Girault (INRIA Grenoble, France) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy) Jim Dowling (RISE & KTH, Sweden) Marjan Sirjani (University of Malarden, Sweden) Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Farhad Arbab (CWI, The Netherlands) Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) John Derrick (University of Sheffield, UK) To receive live, up to date information, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisCoTecConf N?r du har kontakt med oss p? Uppsala universitet med e-post s? inneb?r det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. F?r att l?sa mer om hur vi g?r det kan du l?sa h?r: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy From catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr Tue Jan 14 08:51:30 2020 From: catherine.dubois at ensiie.fr (Catherine DUBOIS) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:51:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TAP 2020 - Call for Papers - Deadline Extension Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies for duplicates] ===================================================== Deadline Extension) 14th International Conference on Tests And Proofs TAP 2020 Bergen (Norway), June 22-26, 2020 https://tap.sosy-lab.org/2020/ Part of STAF 2020 ===================================================== Important Dates --------------- Abstract: January 26, 2020 (extended!) Paper: February 2, 2020 (extended!) Notification: March 16, 2020 Camera-Ready Version: April 17, 2020 Conference: June 22-26, 2020 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 2020 accepts papers of four 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). - Journal-first extended abstracts, of up to 4 pages, summarizing recently published articles in high-quality journals. The aim of journal-first papers is to further enrich the program of TAP, as well as to provide an more flexible path to dissemination of results in the field. The summarized journal article should have been published (or accepted) by 1 July 2018 or later, and report new results (as opposed as simply extending prior conference work with 'appendix' material, or minor enhancements). Journal-first submissions must be marked as such in the submission?s title, and must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Accepted submissions will be published in Springer's LNCS series. Papers have to adhere to Springer's LNCS format and must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tap2020 Committees ---------- Information about all committees can be found under https://tap.sosy-lab.org/2020 Program Chairs : Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Heike Wehrheim (Paderborn University, Germany) Contact ------- tap2020 at easychair.org -- Catherine Dubois, professor ENSIIE, lab. Samovar, Evry, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions. * TFP is moving to new winter dates, to provide an FP forum in between the ? annual ICFP events. * TFP offers a supportive reviewing process designed to help less experienced ? authors succeed, with two rounds of review, both before and after the ? symposium itself. Authors have an opportunity to address reviewers' concerns ? before final decisions on publication in the proceedings. * TFP offers two "best paper" awards, the John McCarthy award for best paper, ? and the David Turner award for best student paper. * This year we are particularly excited to co-locate with Lambda Days in ? beautiful Krakow. Lambda Days is a vibrant developer conference with hundreds ? of attendees and a lively programme of talks on functional programming in ? practice. TFP will be held in the same venue, and participants will be able ? to session-hop between the two events. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline for pre-symposium review:?? 15th November,??? 2019? -- passed -- Submission deadline for draft papers:?????????? 10th January,???? 2020? -- passed -- Registration (regular):???????????????????????? 2nd February,??? 2020 Registration (late):??????????????????????????? 13th February,??? 2020 Symposium dates:??????????????????????????????? 13-14th February, 2020 Visit tfp2020.org for more information. From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Tue Jan 14 18:37:13 2020 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:37:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 25th Estonian Winter School in CS, last call for applications Message-ID: <20200114233713.150caab9@cs.ioc.ee> [This is the last call for the 25th event in a long-running series of schools on (theoretical) computer science. The application deadline is in 3 days.] [Lecturers: Marco Gaboardi, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Andrew M Pitts, Jir? Sgall, Patric ?sterg?rd. Apply by **17 Jan 2020**.] CALL for APPLICATIONS 25th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science, EWSCS '20 Palmse, Estonia, 1-6 March 2020 http://cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2020/ BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES EWSCS is a series of regional-scope international winter schools held annually in Estonia. EWSCS are organized by Tallinn University of Technology. The main objective of EWSCS is to expose Estonian, Baltic, and Nordic graduate students in computer science (but also interested students from elsewhere) to frontline theoretical computer science research topics usually not covered within the regular curricula. The working language of the schools is English. EWSCS' 20 is the twenty-fifth event of the series. PROGRAMME The schools' scientific programme consists of short courses by renowned specialists and a student session. The courses of EWSCS '20 are: Marco Gaboardi (Boston University, USA): Differential privacy and applications Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen, Germany, and Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands): Foundations of probabilistic programming Andrew M. Pitts (University of Cambridge, UK): Introduction to nominal sets Jiri Sgall (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): Online algorithms Patric ?sterg?rd (Aalto University, Finland): Classification of mathematical structures The purpose of the student session is to give students an opportunity to present their work (typically, thesis work) and get feedback. Registrants are invited to propose short talks (20 min) on topics of theoretical computer science, broadly understood. The selection will be based on abstracts of 150-400 words. The social programme consists of an excursion and a conference dinner. VENUE Palmse is a small settlement 80 kms to the east from Tallinn in the county of L??ne-Viru. It is renowned for a large manor that used to belong to the von Pahlen family, today hosting the visitors' center of the Lahemaa National Park, a museum, and a hotel. The school will organize a bus from Tallinn to Palmse and back. APPLICATION AND COST Application to the school is open, the deadline for application 17 January 2020. All applicants will be notified of admission to the school and acceptance of their talks by 24 January 2020. The number of participants we can admit is limited by the capacity of the premises. Admitted participants will be expected to attend all of the school's program and will be provided access to materials of the courses. Participation includes 5 nights accommodation in twin rooms with full board. Attendance is without fee for PhD and master students (and, possibly, keen talented bachelor students) from TalTech and Univ of Tartu, as well as supervisors and consultants of PhD students. Particants from other institutions in Estonia and abroad will generally need to pay for their costs (above all accommodation and meals), approx 300 EUR. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE / ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Peeter Laud (Cybernetica AS) Monika Perkmann (Tallinn Univ of Technology) (secretary) Pille Pullonen (Cybernetica AS / University of Tartu) Ago-Erik Riet (University of Tartu) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University / Tallinn Univ of Technology) SPONSORS ERDF via TalTech Institutional Development Programme (Doctoral School in ICT) and EXCITE, Excellence in IT in Estonia WEBPAGE http://cs.ioc.ee/ewscs/2020/ EMAIL CONTACT ewscs20(at)cs.ioc.ee From songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn Tue Jan 14 22:37:26 2020 From: songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:37:26 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SETTA 2020 Call for Papers Message-ID: <2020011511372667728913@shanghaitech.edu.cn> ======================================== SETTA 2020: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications Peking University, Beijing, China, July 8-11, 2020 Submission deadline: April 16th, 2020 Conference website: https://www.smart-dependable-sino-europe.institute/setta2020/index.html Colocated with LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020 ======================================== ************************ ABOUT SETTA 2020 ************************ The Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA) 2020 will be held in Beijing, China on July 8-11, 2020. SETTA 2020 will be hosted at Peking University, in co-location with LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020. Formal methods emerged as an important area in computer science and software engineering about half a century ago. An international community is formed researching, developing and teaching formal theories, techniques and tools for software modeling, specification, design and verification. However, the impact of formal methods on the quality improvement of software systems in practice is lagging behind. This is for instance reflected by the challenges in applying formal techniques and tools to engineering large-scale systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), Enterprise Systems, Cloud-Based Systems, and so forth. The purpose of the SETTA symposium is to bring international researchers together to exchange research results and ideas on bridging the gap between formal methods and software engineering. The interaction with the Chinese computer science and software engineering community is a central focus point. The aim is to show research interests and results from different groups so as to initiate interest-driven research collaboration. The SETTA symposium is aiming at academic excellence and its objective is to become a flagship conference on formal software engineering in China. To achieve these goals and contribute to the sustainability of the formal methods research, it is important for the symposium to attract young researchers into the community. Thus, this symposium encourages in particular the participation of young researchers and students. This year, SETTA welcomes submissions to the following two tracks: Journal First Papers and Research Papers. 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 for both tracks must be presented at the conference. ************************ LIST OF 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, run-time verification, 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, probabilistic, 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 - Software tools to assist the construction or analysis of software systems ************************ RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK ************************ Research papers will be published in the SETTA 2020 proceedings as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Abstract & paper submission: April 16, 2020 (AoE) Notification to authors: May 18, 2020 (AoE) Camera-ready versions: May 25, 2020 (AoE) Conference date: July 8-11, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ 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 and applications thereof in software engineering. This is done by either substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating the 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. Regular papers should not exceed 16 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. ------------------------ Special Session ------------------------ This year, we will also organise a special session on Artificial Intelligence Meets Formal Methods (AI+FM), in order to provide a platform for experts of both AI and FM, from both the academia and the industry, to discuss important research problems across these two areas, for example, how to apply AI to improve the performance of FM methods and how to apply FM to improve the robustness, safety and security of AI systems. Extended abstracts of the accepted papers in this session will be published in the conference proceedings (a volume in Springer's LNCS series). Full versions of a few accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special theme of the journal Formal Aspects of Computing (to be confirmed). ************************ JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS TRACK ************************ The journal first papers track of SETTA 2020 is implemented in partnership with the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Accepted papers to this track will be presented and discussed at the conference SETTA 2020. Papers should be submitted electronically through the journal's submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission: March 27, 2020 (AoE) Tentative acceptance decision: May 18, 2020 Acceptance decision: June 30, 2020 Conference date (paper presentations): July 8-11, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ To submit to this track, authors have to make a journal submission to the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and select the type of submission to be for the SETTA 2020 special issue. It is recommended that submitted papers follow the submission guidelines of JCST and do not exceed 15 pages including references. All submissions must be done electronically through JCST's e-submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst, with manuscript type: "Special Section on Software Systems 2020". In the cover letter, please indicate that the submission is intended to the special theme on "Dependable Software Engineering". ************************ COMMITTEES ************************ General Chair: - Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: - Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg - Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Local Organisation Chair: - Meng Sun, Peking University Publicity Chair: - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University Web Chair: - Chengchao Huang, Institute of Intelligent Software Program Committee Members: - TBA ************************ VENUE ************************ The conference will be held in Peking University, China. ************************ CONTACT ************************ All questions about submissions should be emailed to setta2020 at easy*chair.org (remove *). Dr. Fu SONG School of Information Science and Technology,ShanghaiTech University Addr: Room 1A-504C, SIST Building, No.393 Huaxia Middle Road, Pudong Area Shanghai Tel: +86-(0)21-20685397, +86-15921769918 Website:faculty.sist.shanghaitech.edu.cn/faculty/songfu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The volume will be open access and the authors will retain copyright. **************************************************************** Important Dates **************************************************************** * Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2020 * Author notifications: April 8, 2020 * Final paper deadline: April 24, 2020 * Conference: May 22-27, 2020 *************************************************************** Program Committee Chairs **************************************************************** * Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid * Laura Kovacs, TU Wien **************************************************************** Workshop Chair **************************************************************** * Martin Suda, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics **************************************************************** Website **************************************************************** https://easychair.org/smart-program/LPAR23/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bogom.s at gmail.com Wed Jan 15 10:59:12 2020 From: bogom.s at gmail.com (Sergiy Bogomolov) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:59:12 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position in Cyber-Physical Systems, Newcastle University, UK Message-ID: <007301d5cbbc$f95e88b0$ec1b9a10$@gmail.com> At the School of Computing of Newcastle University (UK), I am looking for a postdoc to work on algorithms and techniques to support scalable verification of hybrid systems. Candidates working on adjacent topics, which contribute to the broad goal of ensuring safety of autonomous systems such as synthesis of hybrid systems, are encouraged to apply as well. Interest in investigating links between formal methods and areas of artificial intelligence such as AI planning and verification of machine learning algorithms is welcome. More information is available at the following link:?https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BXW951/research-assistant-associate-cyber-p hysical-system Sharing and forwarding of this note is very much appreciated. Thanks a lot, Sergiy From simon.fowler at ed.ac.uk Wed Jan 15 11:33:49 2020 From: simon.fowler at ed.ac.uk (Simon Fowler) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:33:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ProWeb20 - Deadline Extension to January 22nd Message-ID: <8AA06EA4-C935-4F21-B31B-C3655B964372@getmailspring.com> We have extended the deadline for ProWeb until January 22nd. ProWeb is a forum for Programming Languages and Software Engineering researchers working on web technologies, broadly construed. Note that as well as regular papers, we are soliciting 1-2 page extended abstracts which can summarise existing work or report on work in progress; the format is designed not to preclude future publication. ---- ProWeb20: 4th International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web https://2020.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2020-papers Co-located with the 2020 conference March 23rd, Porto, Portugal ================ Deadline extension: *22nd January 2020, AoE* ================ 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 ProWeb20 workshop 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, as well as experience reports about their usage. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses, metrics, development tools, automated testing, contract systems, type systems, migration from legacy architectures, web service APIs, API conformance checking, ... * Designing for and hosting novel languages on the web: compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, ? * Multi-tier (or tierless) programming: frameworks for isomorphic applications, new languages and runtimes, tier-splitting compilers, type systems, ... * Data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, ... * Security on the new web: security policies, policy enforcement, membranes, vulnerability detection, dynamic patching, ... * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology (e.g., WebAssembly, WebSockets, Web Storage, Service Workers, Meteor, WebRTC, Angular.js, React and React Native, TypeScript, Proxies, ClojureScript, Amber Smalltalk, Scala.js ?) * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web, how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, ? * Position papers on what the future of the web will look like This year, we are accepting two types of submission: * **Full papers and experience reports**: 6-page papers describing novel research, which, when accepted, will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * **Presentation abstracts**: 1-2 page extended abstracts. Presentation abstracts will not be included in the ACM Digital Library, but will be included in an informal pre-proceedings on the website. We very much welcome presentation abstracts about work already published elsewhere, or giving an overview of an existing system, and the format is designed not to preclude future publication. Submissions should be in ACM SIGPLAN two-column format (see https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/). Page limits do not include bibliographies. If you have any questions, or wonder whether your submission is in scope, please do not hesitate to contact the PC co-chairs. More information: https://2020.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2020-papers ** Important dates (AoE) ** - Submission deadline: 22nd January 2020 (extended) - Author notification: 15th February 2020 - Camera-ready version: 1st May 2020 ** Organizers ** - Andrea Stocco, Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland - Simon Fowler, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom ** Program Committee ** - Saba Alimadadi, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Anton Ekblad, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Maurizio Leotta, University of Genova, Italy - Kevin Moran, College of William & Mary, United States - Jens Nicolay, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Cesare Pautasso, Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland - Tomas Petricek, University of Kent, United Kingdom - Gabriel Radanne, University of Freiburg, Germany - Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy - Pascal Weisenburger, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Moreover, data breaches are growing tremendously due to the immense growth of the backbones of commerce and critical infrastructure, and interconnectivity of networks. The skills of adversaries are improving, and the number and severity of attacks are increasing, which make known security countermeasures suffer. While much research focuses on technical, business or compliance aspects, there is an increasing need for new security solutions to protect assists other than traditional approaches. This workshop focuses on new security techniques that use machine learning, data mining and statistics analytical techniques to solve nowadays security challenges. The workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following areas: - Data Mining techniques for Security - Machine Learning for Security - Statistics for Security - Analysis of identified vulnerabilities - Analysis of successful attacks or attack attempts - Diverse aspects of security analytics - Tools for security analytics - Security analytics data *Submission of Papers* Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the DDSW workshop. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (electronically, PDF only) that are no longer than 6 pages for full papers, including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to the conference guidelines found at: http://csconferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-20/#paperSubmissions . Please use the link https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ddsw2020 to submit your paper. *Important Dates* - Submission Deadline: January 22,2020 (Firm) - Notification: February 1, 2020 - Camera Ready: February 10, 2020 *Please send any inquiry on DDSW 2020 to: qmyaseen at just.edu.jo * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Thu Jan 16 10:10:16 2020 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:10:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reversible Computation 2020 2nd CfP Message-ID: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ======================================================================= 12th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2020) July 9th-10th, 2020, Oslo, Norway Abstract Submission: January 31th, 2020 Submission Deadline: February 7th, 2020 https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/ ======================================================================= Reversible computation has a growing number of promising application areas such as low power design, coding/decoding, debugging, testing and verification, database recovery, discrete event simulation, reversible algorithms, reversible specification formalisms, reversible programming languages, process algebras, and the modeling of biochemical systems. Furthermore, reversible logic provides a basis for quantum computation with its applications, for example, in cryptography and in the development of highly efficient algorithms. First reversible circuits and quantum circuits have been implemented 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 program. Contributions on all areas of Reversible Computation are welcome, including---but not limited to---the following topics: * Applications * Architectures * Algorithms * Bidirectional transformations * 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: January 31, 2020 Submission deadline: February 7, 2020 Notification to authors: March 20, 2020 Final version: April 10, 2020 Conference: July 9 - July 10, 2020 ===== Invited speakers ===== Marek Perkowski (Portland State University, US) Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) ===== Special issue ===== After the conference, authors of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue in a relevant journal of the field. The name of the selected journal will be published on the RC website in the next days. ===== Paper submission ===== Interested researchers are invited to submit full research papers (16 pages maximum), tutorials (16 pages maximum), as well as work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum) in Springer LNCS format. 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. Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions not adhering to the specified constraints may be rejected without review. Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the RC 2020 interface of the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rc2020 ===== General Chair ===== Rudolf Schlatte University of Oslo Norway ===== Program Chairs ===== Ivan Lanese University of Bologna/INRIA Italy Mariusz Rawski Warsaw University of Technology Poland ===== Program Committee ===== * Gerhard Dueck (University of New Brunswick, Canada) * Robert Gl?ck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) * Jean Krivine (CNRS, France) * Martin Lukac (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) * Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan) * Claudio Antares Mezzina (Universit? di Urbino, Italy) * Lukasz Mikulski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) * Torben ?gidius Mogensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Claudio Moraga (TU Dortmund University, Germany) * Iain Phillips (Imperial College London, UK) * Krzysztof Podlaski (University Of Lodz, Poland) * Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) * Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) * Mathias Soeken (Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) * Milena Stankovic (University of Nis, Serbia) * Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky, US) * Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) * German Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) * Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) * Tetsuo Yokoyama (Nanzan University, Japan) ===== Contacts ===== rc2020 at easychair.org https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/ From pavlogiannis at cs.au.dk Sat Jan 18 02:13:48 2020 From: pavlogiannis at cs.au.dk (Andreas Pavlogiannis) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:13:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD and PostDoc positions at Aarhus University Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark, offers a considerable number of PhD and PostDoc positions in the areas of Logic, Semantics and Programming Languages. Our research spans a wide spectrum of topics concerning models and logics for programming languages and type theories, language-based security, blockchains, theoretical foundations and practical tools for program analysis, formal verification and model checking. Aarhus University admits PhD students on the basis of a bachelor's degree (for 5 year PhDs) or a master's degree (for 3 year PhDs). If admitted, all tuition is covered, and a generous stipend is provided. Postdoc positions can be for 1 or 2 years, including the possibility of renewal (depending on the individual projects and sources of funding). Interested applicants at all levels are encouraged to contact the respective faculty for details, enclosing a CV and a short description of interests. Logic and Semantics group: http://cs.au.dk/research/logic-and-semantics/ Aslan Askarov (language-based security, web security, type systems, program analysis) Lars Birkedal (higher-order concurrent separation logic, type theory, program verification) Bas Spitters (computer aided proofs in cryptography, homotopy type theory, formal verification of blockchains) Jaco van de Pol (parallel & symbolic model checking, synthesis, graph games) Amin Timany (higher-order concurrent separation logic, proof assistants, type theory, program verification) Programming Languages group: https://cs.au.dk/research/programming-languages/ Magnus Madsen (programming language design, functional and logic programming, type systems) Anders M?ller (static & dynamic program analysis, program analysis and automated testing for web and mobile software) Andreas Pavlogiannis (algorithmic & computational foundations of model checking, quantitative verification, static & dynamic analysis, concurrency) Aarhus University is realizing an ambitious multi-phase digitalization initiative which will help prepare researchers, students and the labour force for the digital transition of the future. 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From anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at Sun Jan 19 08:38:59 2020 From: anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at (Ana Sokolova) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:38:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORTE 2020 @ DisCoTec, June 15-19, Valletta, Malta -- CFP Message-ID: ******************************************************************************************** *FORTE 2020* - 40th International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems June 15-19, 2020, Valletta, Malta FORTE 2020 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2020 , the 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques ****************************************************************************************** *Keynote Speakers at DisCoTec* Holger Hermanns, Saarland University Peter Kriens, OSGi Alliance Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, Redmond *Important dates* February 3, 2020 - abstract submission February 14, 2020 - paper submission April 10, 2020 - notification April 24, 2020 - camera ready *Scope* FORTE 2020 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 technology for distributed systems, with special interest in: - Software quality, reliability, availability, and safety; - Security, privacy, and trust in distributed and/or communicating systems; - Service-oriented, ubiquitous, and cloud computing systems - Component- and model-based design - Object technology, modularity, software adaptation - Self-stabilization and self-healing/organizing - Verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above. Aligned with the above, FORTE covers *models and formal specification*, *testing* and *verification methods* for distributed computing. Application domains are multiple, and 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. 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 very much encouraged. *Main Topics of Interest* Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - *Languages and semantic foundations* New modeling and language concepts for distribution and concurrency; semantics for different types of languages, including programming languages, modeling languages, and domain-specific languages; real-time and probability aspects - *Formal methods and techniques* Design, specification, analysis, verification, validation, testing and runtime verification of various types of distributed systems, including communications and network protocols, service-oriented systems, adaptive distributed systems, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks - *Foundations of security* New principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of distributed systems, including formal models based on probabilistic concepts - *Applications of formal methods* Applying formal methods and techniques for studying quality, reliability, availability, and safety of distributed systems - *Practical experience with formal methods* Industrial applications, case studies and software tools for applying formal methods and description techniques to the development and analysis of real distributed systems. - *Emerging challenges and hot topics in distributed systems* (broadly construed) Formal specification, verification and analysis of emerging systems and applications, such as, for instance, software-defined networks, distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and blockchain technologies. *Submission Guidelines* Contributions must be written in English according to one of the three categories described below. They should report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP codes of conduct , under Links). Submissions must be prepared as a PDF using Springer?s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the specified constraints of their respective category may be rejected without review. *Submission Categories* FORTE accepts contributions in three categories: *full papers*, *short papers*, and *journal-first papers*. These categories and their associated criteria are described in detail below. Notice that *short* and *journal-first* papers must be explicitly marked as such in the submission?s title. *Full papers* (page limit: up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) A full paper submission describes thorough and complete research results in the scope of the conference. *Short papers* (page limit: up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) A short paper submission can be one of the following: - *Rough diamonds*: Extended abstracts presenting innovative and promising ideas, possibly in an early form and without supporting evidence. - *Tool (demonstration) papers*: Extended abstracts describing (or demonstrating) new tools (or tool components) that implement (or build upon) theoretical foundations. - *Position papers* : Extended abstracts describing (i) calls to action, or (ii) substantiated reflections on current and/or future research perspectives related to FORTE. Short paper submissions must be marked as such in the submission?s title. *?Journal First? papers* (page limit: up to 2 pages, including references) This category aims at including published journal papers in the FORTE 2020 program. The objective is to offer FORTE attendees a richer program and further opportunities for interaction. Authors of published papers in high-quality journals can submit a proposal to present their journal paper in FORTE. The journal paper must adhere to the following four criteria: - It should be clearly in the scope of the conference. - It should be recent: only journal papers available after January 1, 2018 (online or paper) can be presented. - It reports new research results that significantly extend prior work. As such, the journal paper does not simply extend prior work with material presented for completeness only (such as omitted proofs, algorithms, minor enhancements, or empirical results). - It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other similar conferences or workshops. A journal-first submission is a concise but compelling summary of the published journal paper, which makes it clear why a related presentation would enrich the program of FORTE. Journal-first submissions must be marked as such in the submission?s title, and must explicitly include pointers to the journal publication (such as a DOI) but also to related conference and workshop papers, as appropriate. They will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering relevance and the potential of enriching and complementing the conference program. *Publication* All accepted papers, except for the journal-first submissions, will be published in the FORTE 2020 formal proceedings, which will appear in Springer?s LNCS-IFIP volume series. *Special Issue* Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of *Logical Methods in Computer Science* . *Submission Link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte20 *Program committee chairs* - Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) *Program committee members* - Marco Bernardo (University of Urbino, Italy) - Nathalie Bertrand (INRIA, France) - Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy) - Cezara Dragoi (INRIA and ENS, France) - Constantin Enea (University Paris Diderot, France) - Javier Esparza (TU Munich, Germany) - Philipp Haller (KTH, Sweden) - Bart Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul University, USA) - Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) - Mohsen Lesani (University of California, Riverside, USA) - Stephan Merz (INRIA, France) - Antoine Min? (Sorbonne Universit?, France) - Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University, Japan) - Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and LIX, France) - Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, Germany) - Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) - Vincent Rahli (University of Birmingham, UK) - Tyler Sorensen (Princeton University and University of California Santa Cruz, USA) - Marielle Stoelinga (TU Twente, The Netherlands) - Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni (CEA LIST, France) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London, UK) - Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany) - Josef Widder (TU Vienna and Interchain, Austria) *Steering committee* - Ahmed Bouajjani (University Paris Diderot, France) - Christel Baier (University Dresden, Germany) - Frank de Boer (CWI, Netherlands) - Lu?s Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) - Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France) - Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London, UK) - Heike Wehrheim (Paderborn University, Germany) *More Information* For additional information, please contact the Program Committee Co-chairs: forte20 at easychair dot org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Jan 20 12:26:26 2020 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:26:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2020 - Third Call for Papers (Abstract: February 6/ Submission: February 9) Message-ID: <6B8672FE-C716-4BE4-8703-40743325D99C@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== Updated information on: Submission guidelines ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2020) June 29 ? July 5, 2020, Paris, France http://fscd2020.org/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract: February 6, 2020 Submission: February 9, 2020 Rebuttal: March 27-29, 2020 Notification: April 13, 2020 Final version: April 27, 2020 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Ren? Thiemann: FSCD-IJCAR joint speaker (http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/thiemann/ ) - John Harrison: FSCD-IJCAR joint speaker (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/ ) - Brigitte Pienta (https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~bpientka/ ) - Andrew Pitts (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~amp12/ ) - Simona Ronchi della Rocca (http://www.di.unito.it/~ronchi/ ) FSCD (http://fscdconference.org/ ) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation, semantics and verification in new challenging areas. The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is: 1. Calculi: Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.); Lambda calculus; Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.); Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.); Type theory and logical frameworks; Homotopy type theory; Quantum calculi. 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems (poly- morphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.); Induction, coinduction; Matching, unification, completion, order- ings; Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.); Tree automata; Model building and model checking; Proof search and theorem proving; Constraint solving and decision procedures. 3. Semantics: Operational semantics and abstract machines; Game Semantics and applications; Domain theory and categorical models; Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, etc.); Quantum computation and emerging models in computation. 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems: Type Inference and type checking; Abstract Interpretation; Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity; Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties; Symbolic computation. 5. Tools and Applications: Programming and proof environments; Verification tools; Proof assistants and interactive theorem provers; Applications in industry; Applications of formal sys- tems in other sciences. 6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas: Certification; Security; Blockchain protocols; Data Bases; Deep learning and machine learning algorithms; Planning. PUBLICATION -------------------- The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------- Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to 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, excluding references. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Proofs and other technical details that do not fit within the page limit can be submitted as an appendix (up to 5 pages). The appendix will be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. Therefore, submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages, excluding references. They must present new software tools, or significantly new versions of such tools, in which FSCD topics play an important role. An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be provided. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site. BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS -------------------------------------- The program committee will select 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). PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR ----------------------- Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon fscd2020 at easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- M. Alpuente, Technical Univ. of Valencia S. Alves, University of Porto A. Bauer, University of Ljubljana M. P. Bonacina, Universit? degli studi di Verona P-L. Curien, CNRS - Univ. of Paris Diderot P. Dybjer, Chalmers Univ. of Technology U. De?Liguoro, University of Torino M. Fern?ndez, King?s College London M. Gaboardi, Boston University D. Ghica, University of Birmingham S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad J. Giesl, RWTH Aachen University S. Guerrini, University of Paris 13 R. Harper, Carnegie Mellon University M. Hasegawa, Kyoto University N. Hirokawa, JAIST P. Johann, Appalachian State University O. Kammar, University of Edinburgh D. Kesner, University of Paris Diderot C. Kop, Radboud University O. Laurent, ENS Lyon D. Licata, Wesleyan University A. Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck J. Mitchell, Stanford University K. Nakata, SAP Postdam M. Pagani, University of Paris Diderot E. Pimentel, Fed. Univ. Rio Grande do Norte F. van Raamsdonk, Vrije University Amsterdam G. Rosu, University of Illinois A. Sabry, Indiana University A. Stump, University of Iowa P. Urzyczyn, University of Warsaw T. Uustalu, Reykjavik University S. Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania CONFERENCE CHAIR ---------------- Stefano Guerrini, University of Paris 13 WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Giulio Manzonetto, University of Paris 13 STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------------------------- J. Vicary, Oxford University PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- S. Alves, University of Porto FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------- S. Alves (University of Porto), M. Ayala-Rinc?n (University of Brasilia) C. Fuhs (Birkbeck, London University) H. Geuvers (Radboud University) D. Kesner (Chair, University of Paris Diderot ) H. Kirchner (Inria) C. Kop (Radboud University) D. Mazza (University of Paris 13) D. Miller (Inria) L. Ong (Oxford University) J. Rehof (TU Dortmund) S. Staton (Oxford University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) section at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) welcomes proposals and applications in all aspects of programming languages and systems, computability and complexity theory. We specifically encourage applications in functional programming language theory, design and implementation technology, type theory, type systems, type-based analysis, inference and synthesis. We research semantic, logical and algorithmic foundations of computing and programming, in particular functional programming; design and implement novel programming and domain-specific languages for emerging and future computer architectures (GPUs, reversible/quantum computing); research and develop secure, private, scalable and verifiable decentralized systems (including blockchain and distributed ledger systems) and smart contract technology; apply to and derive impetus from a number of computer science (e.g. machine learning, probabilistic programming, computational finance, database systems, and logic) and application domains in collaboration with academic and industrial collaborators. Requirements are solid, documented programming language theory foundations, a good command of English, and willingness to live in the world's most livable city. 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URL: From benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Wed Jan 22 17:43:09 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:43:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF'20) Message-ID: Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations July 4-5, 2020, Paris, France (not Ontario) https://hott-uf.github.io/2020 Co-located with FSCD 2020 https://fscd2020.org/ Abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2020 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 * Carlo Angiuli (Carnegie Mellon University) * Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University) * Pierre-Louis Curien (Universit? de Paris) # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2020 * Author notification: mid-April 2020 Submissions should consist of a title and an abstract, in pdf format, of no more than 4 pages, submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf2020 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 (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Nicolai Kraus (University of Birmingham) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Anders M?rtberg (Stockholm University) * Paige Randall North (Ohio State University) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) From anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 23 06:00:19 2020 From: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk (Anuj Dawar) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:00:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP - call for papers Message-ID: Call for Papers - ICALP 2020 July 8-12 2020, Beijing, China Paper submission deadline: February 12, 2020, AoE https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2020 ICALP (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming) is the main European conference in Theoretical Computer Science and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). ICALP 2020 will be hosted at Peking University, in co-location with LICS 2020 (ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science). Invited speakers: Track A: Virginia Vassilevska (MIT), Robert Krauthgamer (Weizmann) Track B: Stefan Kiefer (Oxford) Joint ICALP-LICS: Andrew Yao (Tsinghua), J?r?me Leroux (Bordeaux) Submission Guidelines: see https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2020 Important Dates submission: February 12, 2020, AoE notifications: April 15, 2020 camera ready: April 28, 2020 Topics: ICALP 2020 will have the two traditional tracks A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games - including Algorithmic Game Theory, Distributed Algorithms and Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing) and B (Automata, Logic, Semantics and Theory of Programming). Papers presenting original, unpublished research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical, but not exclusive topics are: Track A -- Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking, Algorithms for Computational Biology, Algorithmic Game Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Combinatorics in Computer Science, Computational Complexity, Computational Geometry, Computational Learning Theory, Cryptography, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Foundations of Machine Learning, Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Network, Network Models for Distributed Computing, Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks, Network Mining and Analysis, Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing, Quantum Computing, Randomness in Computation, Theory of Security in Networks Track B -- Algebraic and Categorical Models, Automata, Games, and Formal Languages, Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation, Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory, Formal and Logical Aspects of Learning, Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking, Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems, Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems, Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages, Program Analysis and Transformation, Specification, Verification and Synthesis, Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi Chairs General chair: Xiaotie Deng (Peking University) PC Track A chair: Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick) PC Track B chair: Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge) Venue The conference will be held at the Peking University, see http://econcs.pku.edu.cn/icalp2020/ Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC Track chairs: Artur Czumaj A.Czumaj at warwick.ac.uk Anuj Dawar Anuj.Dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are especially interested in scholars who will enhance the department?s existing strengths in programming languages and cybersecurity. For detailed information and application instructions, please visit https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15827 The deadline for full consideration is February 15. Best, Zena -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions are welcomed in the general area of programming language approaches to concurrency, communication, and distribution and may range from foundational issues to language implementations, applications and case studies. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three reviewers, with the aim of allocating at least one expert reviewer. Submissions will be assessed based on their **novelty**, **clarity**, **technical soundness** and their **potential to foster fruitful discussions at the workshop**. Submissions must not be submitted for publication elsewhere and must be formatted in EPTCS format, containing a maximum of 8 pages (with no restriction on bibliography or appendices, which the reviewers need not read). Accepted papers will be published as an issue of EPTCS. After the workshop, there will be an open call for submissions to a **JLAMP special issue** aimed at accommodating extended versions of accepted papers and other contributions on the themes of PLACES 2020. ## Key dates * Submission deadline: 2 February 2020, AOE (extended) * Author notification: 28 February 2020, AOE * Camera ready: 13 March 2020, AOE * Workshop: 26 April 2020 * ETAPS: 25-30 April 2020 ## Topics Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Design and implementation of programming languages with first class concurrency and communication * Models, such as process algebra and automata * Behavioural types, including session types * Concurrent data types, objects, and actors * Verification and program analysis methods for concurrent and distributed software * Memory models for concurrent programming on relaxed-memory architectures * Interface and contract languages for communication and distribution * Applications in web services, sensor networks, scientific computing, HPC, and blockchains * Concurrency and communication in event processing and business process management ## Chairs * Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University * Luca Padovani, Universit? di Torino ## Programme Committee * Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University * Massimo Bartoletti, Universit? di Cagliari * Ilaria Castellani, INRIA Sophia Antipolis M?diterran?e * Silvia Crafa, Universit? di Padova * Cinzia Di Giusto, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis * Hannah Gommerstadt, Vassar College * Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven * Wen Kokke, University of Edinburgh * Hern?n Melgratti, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Andreia Mordido, Universidade de Lisboa * Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research * Jorge A. Perez, University of Groningen ## Organizing Committee * Simon Gay, University of Glasgow * Vasco T. Vasconcelos, Universidade de Lisboa * Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London We hope you will submit and join us for another successful edition of PLACES! From gadducci at di.unipi.it Thu Jan 23 18:03:15 2020 From: gadducci at di.unipi.it (Fabio Gadducci) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:03:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 13th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT2020): Call for Paper Message-ID: <29C5C9DF-D39A-4DB7-8C7F-5C5D4918B6C7@di.unipi.it> ======================================================= 13th International Conference on Graph Transformation ICGT 2020 http://icgt2020.di.unipi.it co-located with STAF 2020, June 22-26 Bergen, Norway ======================================================= Aims and Scope ------------------------------------------------------- The use of graphs and graph-like structures as a formalism for specification and modelling is widespread in all areas of computer science as well as in many fields of computational research and engineering. Relevant examples include software architectures, pointer structures, state space graphs, control/data flow graphs, UML and other domain-specific models, network layouts, topologies of cyber-physical environments, and molecular structures. Often, these graphs undergo dynamic change, ranging from reconfiguration and evolution to various kinds of behaviour, all of which may be captured by rule-based graph manipulation. Thus, graphs and graph transformation form a fundamental universal modelling paradigm that serves as a means for formal reasoning and analysis, ranging from the verification of certain properties of interest to the discovery of fundamentally new insights. The International Conference on Graph Transformation aims at fostering exchange and collaboration of researchers from different backgrounds working with graphs and graph transformation, either in contributing to their theoretical foundations or by applying established formalisms to classical or novel areas. The conference not only serves as a well-established scientific publication outlet, but also as a platform to boost inter- and intra-disciplinary research and to leeway for new ideas. The 13th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2020) will be held in Bergen, Norway, as part of STAF 2020 (Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations). The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS and IFIP WG 1.3. Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Topics of Interest ------------------------------------------------------- In order to foster a lively exchange of perspectives on the subject of the conference, the programme committee of ICGT 2020 encourages all kinds of contributions related to graphs and graph transformation, either from a theoretical point of view or a practical one. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following subjects: - General models of graph transformation (e.g. adhesive categories and hyperedge replacement systems) - Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems - Graph theoretical properties of graph languages - Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages - Logical aspects of graph transformation - Computational models based on graphs - Structuring and modularization of graph transformation - Hierarchical graphs and decomposition of graphs - Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation - Term graph and string diagram rewriting - Petri nets and other models of concurrency - Business process models and notations - Bigraphs and bigraphical reactive systems - Graph databases and graph queries - Model-driven development and model transformation - Model checking, program analysis and verification, simulation and animation - Syntax, semantics and implementation of programming languages, including domain-specific and visual languages - Graph transformation languages and tool support - Efficient algorithms (e.g. pattern matching, graph traversal, network analysis) - Applications and case studies in software engineering (e.g. software architectures, refactoring, access control, and service-orientation) - Applications to computing paradigms (e.g. bio-inspired, quantum, ubiquitous, and visual) Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: February 21, 2020 Paper submission: February 28, 2020 Notification: April 10, 2020 Camera-ready: May 01, 2020 Conference: June 22-26, 2020 Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------------------------- Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt2020 using Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs ). For regular and tool demonstration papers, simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. The page limits are strict and include references. Papers are solicited in three categories: - Regular papers (limited to 16 pages in Springer LNCS format) describe innovative contributions and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. We also solicit case studies describing applications of graph transformation in any application domain. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version may be included in a clearly marked appendix. - Tool presentation papers (limited to 8 pages in Springer LNCS format) demonstrate the main features and functionality of graph-based tools. A tool presentation paper may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 4 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings. - New ideas papers (limited to 2 pages in Springer LNCS format) report on relevant contributions to the theory or applications of graph transformation, which may have been published (or accepted for publication) in a peer-reviewed conference other than ICGT, as a book chapter or journal article since 2018. Papers in this category will be selected for presentation at the conference according to their relevance to the graph transformation community, and they will be considered for the special issues. Submissions will consist of a 2-page abstract. In case of extended abstracts of published papers, the submission must refer to the published paper and include the original paper in PDF. Special Issues ------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to confirm two special issues for ICGT2020, devoted to the theoretical and application-oriented sides of the conference, respectively. The former is going to appear in Theoretical Computer Science (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-computer-science ), the latter has been accepted as special issue in Science of Computer Programming (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-computer-programming ). Keynote Speaker ------------------------------------------------------- TBA Program Chairs ------------------------------------------------------- Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa, Italy) Timo Kehrer (Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany) Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------- Paolo Baldan, Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Italy G?bor Bergmann, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy Andrea Corradini, University of Pisa, Italy Juergen Dingel, Queen?s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada Maribel Fernandez, King?s College London, United Kingdom Holger Giese, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Thomas Hildebrandt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Wolfram Kahl, McMaster University, Canada Barbara K?nig, Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, Germany Jean Krivine, IRIF (Institut de recherche en informatique fondamentale, Universit? de Paris), France Leen Lambers, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Yngve Lamo, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Bergen, Norway Juan de Lara, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain Detlef Plump, University of York, United Kingdom Arend Rensink, University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands Leila Ribeiro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Porto Alegre, Brazil Andy Sch?rr, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany Pawel Maria Sobocinski, Taltech Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universit?t Marburg, Germany Matthias Tichy, Universit?t Ulm, Germany Uwe Egbert Wolter, University of Bergen, Norway Steffen Zschaler, King?s College London, United Kingdom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk Fri Jan 24 01:53:06 2020 From: m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk (Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 06:53:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020 Message-ID: Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020 Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information (http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation (https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-beth-foundation). Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2019. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2020. Qualifications: - A dissertation is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2020, if the Ph.D. degree has been awarded in Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st and December 31st, 2019. - There are no restrictions on the nationality, ethnicity, age, gender or employment status of the author of the nominated dissertation, nor on the university, academic department or scientific institution formally conferring the Ph.D. degree, nor on the language in which the dissertation has originally been written. - In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and extend the work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth, nominations are invited of excellent dissertations on current topics in philosophical and mathematical logic, computer science logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, history of logic, history of the philosophy of science and scientific philosophy in general, as well as the current theoretical and foundational developments in information and computation, language and cognition. Dissertations with results more broadly impacting various research areas in their interdisciplinary investigations are especially solicited. - If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language other than English, its dossier should still contain the required 10 page English abstract, see below. If the committee decides that a nominated dissertation in a language other than English requires translation to English for proper evaluation, the committee can transfer its nomination to the competition in 2021. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2021. The committee may recommend the Beth Foundation to consider supporting such nominated dissertations for English translation, upon request by the author of the dissertation. The prize consists of: - a certificate - a donation of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation - an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for publication in FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. Hard copy submissions are not allowed. The following documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier: - The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable). - A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results of each chapter. - A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisely describes the scope and significance of the dissertation, stating when the degree was officially awarded and the members of the Ph.D. committee. Nominations should contain the address, phone and email details of the nominator. - Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree, nor otherwise related to the nominee (e.g. former teachers, supervisors, co-authors, publishers or relatives) or the dissertation. - Self-nominations are not possible. All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via EasyChair by following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdp2020. In case of any problems with the submission one should contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk). The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 32nd ESSLLI summer school in University of Utrecht, August 3-14, 2020. Beth dissertation prize committee 2020: Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Alexander Clark(Kings College London) Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford University) Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Arash Eshghi (Hariot-Watt University) Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai) Davide Grossi (University of Groningen and University of Amsterdam) Chris Haase (University College London) Aurelie Herbelot (University of Trento) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam) Laura Rimmell (Deep Mind) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Matthew Stone (Rutgers) Jouko V??n?nen (University of Helsinki) Noam Zeilberger (Ecole Polytechnique) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Tue Jan 28 03:59:30 2020 From: Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Radu Iosif) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:59:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MOVEP 2020 Summer School Message-ID: ================================================ 14th Summer School on Modelling and Verification of Parallel Processes (MOVEP) Universit? Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France June 22 - 26, 2020 http://projects-verimag.imag.fr/movep2020/ ================================================ MOVEP is a five-day summer school on modelling and verification of infinite state systems. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in the fields of control and verification of concurrent and reactive systems. MOVEP 2020 will consist of ten invited tutorials. In addition, there will be special sessions that allow PhD students to present their on-going research (each talk will last around 20 minutes). Extended abstracts (2-3 pages) of these presentations will be published in informal proceedings. ================== Confirmed Speakers ================== * MIKO?AJ BOJA?CZYK (University of Warsaw, Poland) * DMITRY CHISTIKOV (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) * THAO DANG (Verimag and CNRS) * JAVIER ESPARZA (TU M?nchen) * ANTHONY LIN (TU Kaiserslautern) * DEJAN NICKOVIC (AIT Vienna) * JEAN-FRANCOIS RASKIN (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) * ANDREW REYNOLDS (University of Iowa) * ALEXANDRA SILVA (University College London) * JAMES WORELL (University of Oxford) ========================================= Important Dates (AoE) ========================================= Early registration: March 1st 2020 Submission of abstracts: May 1st 2020 Notification: May 15th 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=movep2020 ============ Committees ============ Organising committee Nicolas Basset (Verimag, University of Grenoble Alpes) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Program committee Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppsala University) Nicolas Basset (Verimag, University of Grenoble Alpes) Marie Duflot-Kremer (LORIA, Nancy, France) Nathana?l Fijalkow (CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux) Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute) Matthias Heizmann (University of Freiburg) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Stefan Kiefer (University of Oxford) Nicola Paoletti (University of London) Pierre-Alain Reynier (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University) Ocan Sankur (CNRS, IRISA, Rennes) Sylvain Schmitz (Universit? de Paris) Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology) Steering committee Nathalie Bertrand (Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France)? Benedikt Bollig (LSV, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay) Giorgio Delzanno (DIBRIS, Universit? di Genova, Italy) Didier Lime (LS2N, ?cole Centrale de Nantes, France) Christof L?ding (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Nicolas Markey (CNRS, Universit? Rennes, France)?? From deligu at di.unito.it Tue Jan 28 04:07:39 2020 From: deligu at di.unito.it (Ugo de Liguoro) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:07:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES and ITRS - Call for participation Message-ID: <96f6c7d0-e486-2db4-a62c-4859e1983b9e@di.unito.it> Apologies for multiple recipiens ============================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Participation to TYPES 2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================== 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPES FOR PROOFS AND PROGRAMS 2020 ================================================== https://types2020.di.unito.it Turin, Italy, TYPES 2-5 March and ITRS 6 March 2020 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 host 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 program is organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * Ulrik Buchholtz * Pierre Marie-P?drot * Leonardo de Moura * Sara Negri The ITRS 2020 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on both the theory and practical applications of systems based on intersection types and related approaches. Topics 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 - Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Registration form: https://types2020.di.unito.it/registration.html Early registration: 12th February CONTACT Ugo de'Liguoro Email: ugo.deliguoro at unito.it -- Ugo de'Liguoro Associate Professor of Computer Science Dipartimento di Informatica Universit? di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy From m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk Tue Jan 28 10:41:06 2020 From: m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk (Roggenbach M.) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:41:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WADT 2020 - Call for Abstracts Message-ID: <3F7A0DCF-A3DD-4A80-8F10-56410CA310E3@swansea.ac.uk> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Abstracts WADT 2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================================== 25th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ALGEBRAIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES 2020 =================================================================================== https://wadt2020.github.io Dublin, Ireland, 25.-26. April 2020 Co-located with ETAPS 2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadt2020 Abstract Submission Deadline: 14.2.2020 Notification: 24.2.2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The algebraic approach to system specification encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. Originally born as a formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, it now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect oriented, agent-oriented, logic and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed and mobile systems). The workshop will provide an opportunity to present recent and ongoing work, to meet colleagues, and to discuss new ideas and future trends. The workshop takes place under the auspices of IFIP WG 1.3. WADT 2020 will have three thematic streams and one general stream: Graph Transformation ? chair: Andrea Corradini, Italy System Modelling ? chair: Alexander Knapp, Germany Deductive Software Verification ? chair: Marieke Huismanm, The Netherlands General Stream - chair: Markus Roggenbach, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRAPH TRANSFORMATION STREAM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The graph transformation stream seeks contributions addressing theoretical, application oriented or tool related aspects of graph transformation, or any combination of them. Here is a non-exclusive list of topics: - Foundations of algebraic and set-based approaches to graph transformation - Relations between graph transformation and other computational models - Analysis, verification, validation and testing of graph transformation systems - Applications to software engineering, including software architectures, refactoring, business processes, access control and service-orientation - Applications to computing paradigms such as bio-inspired, string diagrams, quantum, ubiquitous, and visual computing - Tools based on or supporting the development of graph transformation systems. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEM MODELLING STREAM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The system modelling stream seeks contributions in the (co-)algebraic and model-based tradition of system specification and verification, for which typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: - Systems modelling - System views and consistency - Real-time, Hybrid, and Cyber-physical systems - Modelling languages, like UML, SysML, etc., and their profiles - Model transformations - Model-based testing - Tools for systems specification, testing, and verification ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEDUCTIVE SOFTWARE VERIFICATION STREAM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The deductive software verification stream seeks contributions addressing theoretical or tool-related contributions in the area of deductive software verification. Also experience reports are welcome. Here is a non-exclusive list of topics: - Foundations of deductive software verification and program logics - Advancing deductive software verification techniques to new programming languages, or different programming paradigms - Automating deductive software verification - Combinations of deductive software verification techniques with other formal methods - Applications of deductive software verification on industrial case studies This stream will be scheduled in such a way that there will be no overlap with the VerifyThis workshop at Etaps 2020. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL STREAM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest for the general stream are: - Foundations of algebraic specification - Other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, and cyber-physical systems - Specification languages, methods, and environments - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Integration of formal specification techniques - Formal testing and quality assurance, validation, and verification - Algebraic approaches to cognitive sciences, including computational creativity ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The scientific programme of the workshop will include presentations of recent results and ongoing research. The presentations will be selected by the relevant PC Chair on the basis of submitted abstracts according to originality, significance and general interest. The abstracts must be up to two pages long including references. If a longer version of the contribution is available, it can be made accessible on the web and referenced in the abstract. The abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wadt2020 After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit full papers for the refereed post-proceedings. All submissions will be reviewed by the WADT 2020 PC (TBA); selection will be based on originality, soundness and significance of the presented ideas and results. The proceedings are likely to be published as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. The deadline for submissions will be 19.5.2020 , with notifications of acceptance by 26.6.2020. Camera-ready versions will be required by 17.7.2020. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Ahrendt (Sweden) Andrea Corradini (Italy) [Co-Chair] Claire Dross (France) Francisco Dur?n (Spain) Rachid Echahed (France) Jose Fiadeiro (UK) Reiko Heckel (UK) Marieke Huisman (The Netherlands) [Co-Chair] Alexander Knapp (Germany) [Co-Chair] Leen Lambers (Germany) Stephan Merz (France) Rosemary Monahan (Ireland) Till Mossakowski (Germany) Iulian Ober (France) Peter ?lveczky (Norway) Wytse Oortwijn (Switzerland) Fernando Orejas (Spain) Carlos Pombo (Argentina) Markus Roggenbach (UK) [Co-Chair] Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Belgium) Ionut Tutu (Romania) Mattias Ulbrich (USA) Antonio Vallecillo (Spain) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea Corradini (Italy) Jos? Fiadeiro (UK) Rolf Hennicker (Germany) Alexander Knapp (Germany) Hans-J?rg Kreowski (Germany) Till Mossakowski (Germany) Fernando Orejas (Spain) Leila Ribeiro (Brazil) Markus Roggenbach (UK) [Chair] Grigore Ro?u (United States) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14.2.2020 Abstract Submission 24.2.2020 Notification 3.4.2020 Camera Ready Abstract 25.4.2020 & 26.4.2020 Workshop 19.5.2020 Submission deadline for full papers 26.6.2020 Notification on full papers 17.7.2020 Camera ready final version of the papers From songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn Wed Jan 29 22:42:23 2020 From: songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:42:23 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA 2020) - Beijing, China, July 8-11, 2020 Message-ID: <2020013011422204373535@shanghaitech.edu.cn> We apology for possible cross posting, and appreciate your support and distribution.? ======================================== SETTA 2020: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications Peking University, Beijing, China, July 8-11, 2020 Submission deadline: April 16th, 2020 Conference website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2020/ Colocated with LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020 ======================================== ************************ INVITED SPEAKERS ************************ - Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam - Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University (joint with LICS and ICALP) - Andreas Zeller, Helmholtz Center for Information Security ************************ ABOUT SETTA 2020 ************************ The Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA) 2020 will be held in Beijing, China on July 8-11, 2020. SETTA 2020 will be hosted at Peking University, in co-location with LICS 2020 and ICALP 2020. Formal methods emerged as an important area in computer science and software engineering about half a century ago. An international community is formed researching, developing and teaching formal theories, techniques and tools for software modeling, specification, design and verification. However, the impact of formal methods on the quality improvement of software systems in practice is lagging behind. This is for instance reflected by the challenges in applying formal techniques and tools to engineering large-scale systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), Enterprise Systems, Cloud-Based Systems, and so forth. The purpose of the SETTA symposium is to bring international researchers together to exchange research results and ideas on bridging the gap between formal methods and software engineering. The interaction with the Chinese computer science and software engineering community is a central focus point. The aim is to show research interests and results from different groups so as to initiate interest-driven research collaboration. The SETTA symposium is aiming at academic excellence and its objective is to become a flagship conference on formal software engineering in China. To achieve these goals and contribute to the sustainability of the formal methods research, it is important for the symposium to attract young researchers into the community. Thus, this symposium encourages in particular the participation of young researchers and students. This year, SETTA welcomes submissions to the following two tracks: Journal First Papers and Research Papers. 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 for both tracks must be presented at the conference. ************************ LIST OF 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, run-time verification, 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, probabilistic, 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 - Software tools to assist the construction or analysis of software systems ************************ RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK ************************ Research papers will be published in the SETTA 2020 proceedings as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Abstract & paper submission: April 16, 2020 (AoE) Notification to authors: May 18, 2020 (AoE) Camera-ready versions: May 25, 2020 (AoE) Conference date: July 8-11, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ 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 and applications thereof in software engineering. This is done by either substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating the 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. Regular papers should not exceed 16 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. ------------------------ Special Session ------------------------ This year, we will also organise a special session on Artificial Intelligence Meets Formal Methods (AI+FM), in order to provide a platform for experts of both AI and FM, from both the academia and the industry, to discuss important research problems across these two areas, for example, how to apply AI to improve the performance of FM methods and how to apply FM to improve the robustness, safety and security of AI systems. Extended abstracts of the accepted papers in this session will be published in the conference proceedings (a volume in Springer's LNCS series). Full versions of a few accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special theme of the journal Formal Aspects of Computing (to be confirmed). ************************ JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS TRACK ************************ The journal first papers track of SETTA 2020 is implemented in partnership with the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Accepted papers to this track will be presented and discussed at the conference SETTA 2020. Papers should be submitted electronically through the journal's submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission: March 27, 2020 (AoE) Tentative acceptance decision: May 18, 2020 Acceptance decision: June 30, 2020 Conference date (paper presentations): July 8-11, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ To submit to this track, authors have to make a journal submission to the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and select the type of submission to be for the SETTA 2020 special issue. It is recommended that submitted papers follow the submission guidelines of JCST and do not exceed 15 pages including references. All submissions must be done electronically through JCST's e-submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst, with manuscript type: "Special Section on Software Systems 2020". In the cover letter, please indicate that the submission is intended to the special theme on "Dependable Software Engineering". ************************ COMMITTEES ************************ General Chair: - Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: - Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg - Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Local Organisation Chair: - Meng Sun, Peking University Publicity Chair: - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University Web Chair: - Chengchao Huang, Institute of Intelligent Software Program Committee Members: - Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology - Lei Bu, Nanjing University - Milan Ceska, Brno University of Technology - Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore University of Technology and Design - Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-ICT Irst - Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University - Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology - Hongfei Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology - Nan Guan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Dimitar P. Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool - Nils Jansen, Radboud University - Yu Jiang, Tsinghua University - Sebastian Junges, RWTH Aachen - Zhiming Liu, Southwest University - Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University - Sebastian Moedersheim, Technical University of Denmark - Jean Francois Monin, Universit? Grenoble Alpes - Mohammad Mousavi, University of Leicester - Dave Parker, University of Birmingham - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University - Mickael Randour, FNRS & Universit? de Mons - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin - Jun Sun, Singapore Management University - Meng Sun, Peking University - Cong Tian, Xidian University - Andrea Turrini, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University - Chenyi Zhang, Jinan University ************************ VENUE ************************ The conference will be held in Peking University, China. ************************ CONTACT ************************ All questions about submissions should be emailed to setta2020 at easy*chair.org (remove *). ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From georgiylukjanov at gmail.com Thu Jan 30 09:00:20 2020 From: georgiylukjanov at gmail.com (Georgy Lukyanov) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:00:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Build Automation and Programming Languages workshop (20 June 2020, collocated with PLDI 2020 in London) Message-ID: Build Automation and Programming Languages workshop (20 June 2020, collocated with PLDI 2020 in London) pldi20.sigplan.org/home/bapl-2020 Call for participation ====================== Software building is an unloved but unavoidable part of the software engineering process, which requires reliable and incremental automation to deliver reproducible results rapidly and continuously. Build systems and programming languages have historically been mostly evolving independently of each other; indeed, build systems are often extra-linguistic (a prototypical example being Make), which makes them generally applicable but also unaware of the accurate dependencies induced by programs in a particular language. Language-specific build systems can use the knowledge of syntax and semantics to guarantee reliable builds and are gaining popularity but typically provide only rudimentary support for polyglot programming. The goal of this workshop is to bring together build automation experts and language designers and implementers to explore the interaction of build automation and programming languages in systems for incremental analysis, building, testing, packaging, and deployment of software. It is time for build automation and programming languages to start evolving together, because language design affects the ?buildability? of programs in a significant way and, conversely, build automation can benefit from the (static) semantics of languages to deliver faster and more reliable builds. The scope of the workshop includes: * Interaction between programming language design and build system design * Build systems, both general-purpose and language-specific * IDEs, particularly incremental program analysis * Feedback-directed optimisation, where program building and analysis are interlinked * Incremental computation DSLs, aimed at incrementalising general computation * Computational complexity of build systems * Software package-management systems We solicit the submission of extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages) in the standard ACM SIGPLAN format. 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URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Thu Jan 30 16:11:29 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:11:29 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2020 Message-ID: <5e334681de019_7e7b2afcc21785b01012dd@homer.mail> PACMPL Volume 4, Issue ICFP 2020 Call for Papers accepted papers to be invited for presentation at The 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Jersey City, USA http://icfp20.sigplan.org/ ### Important dates Submissions due: 3 March 2020 (Tuesday) Anywhere on Earth https://icfp20.hotcrp.com Author response: 21 April (Tuesday) - 24 Apri (Friday) 14:00 UTC Notification: 8 May (Friday) Final copy due: 1 July (Wednesday) Conference: 18 August (Sunday) - 23 August (Friday) ### 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 2020 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; macros; pattern matching; type systems; type inference; dependent types; session types; gradual typing; refinement types; interoperability; domain-specific languages; imperative programming; object-oriented programming; logic programming; probabilistic programming; reactive programming; generic programming; bidirectional programming. * Implementation: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and memory management; runtime systems; 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; build systems; program synthesis. * Foundations: formal semantics; lambda calculus; program equivalence; rewriting; type theory; logic; category theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; names and binding; program verification. * 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; graphics and multimedia; GPU 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 2020 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories ? Functional Pearls and Experience Reports ? that must be marked as such when submitted 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 **Tuesday, March 3, 2020**, 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 **25 pages for a full paper or Functional Pearl** and **12 pages for an Experience Report**; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. Supplementary material can and should be **separately** submitted (see below). 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 **Tuesday, April 21, 2020**, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Material**: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should **not** be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a **separate** PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded **at submission time**, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only 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 . ### 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 2020. 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 2020 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 8, 2020**. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After four weeks (June 5, 2020), 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 four 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 2020 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 limit for the final versions of papers will be increased by two pages to help authors respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions: **27 pages plus bibliography for a regular paper or Functional Pearl, 14 pages plus bibliography for an Experience Report**. * 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. * 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. * At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present that 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. In extraordinary circumstances, at the discretion of the principal editor, alternative presentation methods may be approved for specific papers. The canonical example is where all authors are denied visas to the ICFP host country, in which case a nonauthor may be deputized to present, or various electronic substitutes may be considered. We list these options in the interest of transparency, but please keep in mind that, most years, no exceptions are granted. This option is not meant, e.g., to excuse cases where authors find themselves double-booked with other meetings (so, at the time of submitting a paper, please do keep the days of the conference reserved on at least one author?s calendar). ### 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. ### 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 end with the words "(Experience Report)" in parentheses. 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 to submit 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: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Ben Lippmeier (UNSW, Australia) Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Igor Lukanin (Kontur, Russia) Publicity and Web Chair: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Workshops Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland, USA) Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Conference Manager: Annabel Satin (P.C.K.) ### PACMPL Volume 4, Issue ICFP 2020 Principal Editor: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Review Committee: Andreas Abel (Gothenburg University, Sweden) Nada Amin (Harvard University, USA) Edwin Brady (University of St. Andrews, UK) William E. Byrd (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) David Darais (University of Vermont) Richard A. Eisenberg (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Matthew Fluet (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Makoto Hamana (Gunma University, Japan) Fritz Henglein (Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) and Deon Digital, Denmark) Jan Hoffmann (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Robbert Krebbers (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Neel Krishnaswami (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) Geoffrey Mainland (Drexel University, USA) Magnus O. Myreen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku University, Japan) Frank Piessens (KU Leuven, Belgium) Nadia Polikarpova (University of California San Diego, USA) Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research, USA) Jerome Simeon (Clause, France) KC Sivaramakrishnan (IIT Madras, India) External Review Committee: Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Patrick Bahr (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean-Philippe Bernardy (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Sandrine Blazy (Univ Rennes-IRISA, France) Benjamin Canou (OCamlPro, France) Giuseppe Castagna (CNRS - Universit? de Paris, France) Jesper Cockx (TU Delft, Netherlands) Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Leonardo De Moura (Microsoft Research, USA) Sebastian Erdweg (JGU Mainz, Germany) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Troels Henriksen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Gabriele Keller (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Delia Kesner (IRIF, France / University of Paris Diderot, France) Shriram Krishnamurthi (Brown University, United States) Jan Midtgaard (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Andrey Mokhov (Jane Street, USA) J. Garrett Morris (University of Kansas, USA) Stefan Muller (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Rasmus Ejlers M?gelberg (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Cyrus Omar (University of Chicago, USA) Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK) Ivan Perez (NIA / NASA Formal Methods) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Juan Pedro Bol?var Puente (Independent Consultant, Sinusoidal Engineering) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University, USA) Christine Rizkallah (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, USA) Guido Salvaneschi (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany) Tom Schrijvers (KU Leuven, Belgium) Chung-chieh Shan (Indiana University, USA) Vincent St-Amour (Northwestern University, USA) Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa, USA) Nicolas Tabareau (Inria, France) Ross Tate (Cornell University, USA) Dimitrios Vytiniotis (DeepMind, UK) John Wiegley (DFINITY, USA) Beta Ziliani (FAMAF, UNC and CONICET, Argentina) From venanzio at duplavis.com Fri Jan 31 02:07:46 2020 From: venanzio at duplavis.com (Venanzio Capretta) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:07:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 10 PhD studentships in Nottingham for UK/EU applicants Message-ID: <976b4bb1-d869-e0bf-d1d4-17740d8d6059@duplavis.com> Dear all, The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is seeking applications for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships for Home/EU students:https://tinyurl.com/ten-phds-2020 Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming Laboratory (https://tinyurl.com/fp-notts) are strongly encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor as soon as possible (the application deadline is 6th March): Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus. Venanzio Capretta - type theory, mathematical logic, corecursive structures, proof assistants, category theory, epistemic logic. Graham Hutton - not taking on any new students this year, but you may find these notes useful:https://tinyurl.com/scbkxkr Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, domain- specific languages, generalised notions of computation. These positions are only open to Home/EU applicants. An advert for international students was posted earlier and is now closed. Best wishes, Graham +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded International PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK https://tinyurl.com/ten-phds-2020 Applications are invited for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships for Home/EU students in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2020. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School?s research groups: Agents Lab; Computational Optimisation and Learning Lab; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Data Driven Algorithms, Systems and Design and Uncertainty in Data and Decision Making The studentships are for three and a half years and include a stipend of ?15,009 per year and tuition fees. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School prior to submitting their application. Initial contact with supervisors should be made at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. Eligible successful applicants are expected to apply for a EU VC Scholarship. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Kathleen.Fennemore at nottingham.ac.uk. To apply, please submit the following items by email to:Marc.Williams at nottingham.ac.uk: (1) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; (2) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or dissertation; (3) contact details for two academic referees. (4) a research proposal ? max 2 x sides A4 You may also include a covering letter but this is optional. Closing date for applications: Friday 6 March 2020. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- Venanzio Capretta Functional Programming Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://www.duplavis.com/venanzio/ From anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 31 06:26:30 2020 From: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk (Anuj Dawar) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:26:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP 2020 - CfP (update) Message-ID: The ICALP Steering Committee is aware of the current medical situation in China, and related travel advisories. It is monitoring the situation and considering possible options, including re-locating the conference, should this prove necessary. An announcement on this will be made no later than the first week of April. Call for Papers - ICALP 2020 July 8-12 2020, Beijing, China Paper submission deadline: February 12, 2020, AoE https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2020 ICALP (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming) is the main European conference in Theoretical Computer Science and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). ICALP 2020 will be hosted at Peking University, in co-location with LICS 2020 (ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science). Invited speakers: Track A: Virginia Vassilevska (MIT), Robert Krauthgamer (Weizmann) Track B: Stefan Kiefer (Oxford) Joint ICALP-LICS: Andrew Yao (Tsinghua), J?r?me Leroux (Bordeaux) Submission Guidelines: see https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2020 Important Dates submission: February 12, 2020, AoE notifications: April 15, 2020 camera ready: April 28, 2020 Topics: ICALP 2020 will have the two traditional tracks A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games - including Algorithmic Game Theory, Distributed Algorithms and Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing) and B (Automata, Logic, Semantics and Theory of Programming). Papers presenting original, unpublished research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical, but not exclusive topics are: Track A -- Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking, Algorithms for Computational Biology, Algorithmic Game Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Combinatorics in Computer Science, Computational Complexity, Computational Geometry, Computational Learning Theory, Cryptography, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Foundations of Machine Learning, Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Network, Network Models for Distributed Computing, Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks, Network Mining and Analysis, Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing, Quantum Computing, Randomness in Computation, Theory of Security in Networks Track B -- Algebraic and Categorical Models, Automata, Games, and Formal Languages, Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation, Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory, Formal and Logical Aspects of Learning, Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking, Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems, Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems, Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages, Program Analysis and Transformation, Specification, Verification and Synthesis, Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi Chairs General chair: Xiaotie Deng (Peking University) PC Track A chair: Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick) PC Track B chair: Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge) Venue The conference will be held at the Peking University, see http://econcs.pku.edu.cn/icalp2020/ Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC Track chairs: Artur Czumaj A.Czumaj at warwick.ac.uk Anuj Dawar Anuj.Dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 473 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From ayala at unb.br Fri Jan 31 13:41:00 2020 From: ayala at unb.br (Mauricio Ayala-Rincon) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:41:00 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Workshop on Confluence [IWC 2020] - 1st CFPs Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please, consider submitting your work to IWC 2020. Apologies if you receive duplicates of this CFPs. Mauricio Ayala-Rincon --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- ????????????????????????? First Call For Papers ???????????? 9th International Workshop on Confluence ??????????????????? http://iwc2020.cic.unb.br ??????????????????????? June 30, 2020 Collocated with FSCD-IJCAR 2020, June 29 - July 5, 2020 --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- The 9th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2020) aims at promoting further research in confluence and related properties. Confluence provides a general notion of determinism and has always been conceived as one of the central properties of rewriting. Recently there is a renewed interest in confluence research, resulting in new techniques, tool support, certification as well as new applications. The workshop aims at promoting further research in confluence and related properties. Confluence relates to many topics of rewriting (completion, modularity, termination, commutation, etc.) and has been investigated in many formalisms of rewriting such as first-order rewriting, lambda-calculi, higher-order rewriting, constrained rewriting, conditional rewriting, etc. Recently there is a renewed interest in confluence research, resulting in new techniques, tool supports, certification as well as new applications. ## TOPICS - confluence and related properties (unique normal forms, commutation, ground ? confluence) - completion - critical pair criteria - decidability issues - complexity issues - system descriptions - certification - applications of confluence The objective of this workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, and to facilitate feedback on the implementation and application of such techniques and results in practice. IWC 2020 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. IWC 2020 is a satellite workshop of Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'20, co-located with IJCAR). IWC 2020 is part of Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020, a joint event on LOgic and VErification at University Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. Previous editions took place in Dortmund (2019), Oxford (2018 and 2017), Obergurgl (2016), Berlin (2015), Vienna (2014), Eindhoven (2013) and Nagoya (2012). More information about the workshop can be found in the homepage of IWC. ## SUBMISSIONS We solicit short papers or extended abstracts of at most five pages. There will be no formal reviewing. In particular, we welcome short versions of recently published articles and papers submitted elsewhere. The program committee checks relevance and may provide additional feedback. The accepted papers will be made available electronically before the workshop. The page limit for papers is 5 pages in EasyChair style. Short papers or extended abstracts must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwc20200 EasyChair style: http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors ## IMPORTANT DATES - Title and Abstract: ???????? April 17, 2020 - Paper Submission: ?????????? April 22, 2020 - Notification to authors: ??? May?? 22, 2020 - Workshop date: ????????????? June? 30, 2020 ## INVITED SPEAKERS - TBD - TBD ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Beniamino Accattoli (LIX, ?cole Polytechnique) - Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia) - co-chair - Cyrille Chenavier (Centre Inria Lille) - Alejandro D?az-Caro (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC/UBA-CONICET) - Maribel Fern?ndez (King's College London) - Mario Florido (Universidade de Porto) - Makoto Hamana (Gunma University) - Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) - Samuel Mimram (LIX ?cole Polytechnique) - co-chair - Camilo Rocha (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali) - Daniel Lima Ventura (Universidade Federal de Goi?s) - Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University Amsterdam) - Johannes Waldmann (Hochschule f?r Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig) - Sarah Winkler (Universit?t Innsbruck) ## FSCD 2020 ORGANISING COMMITTEE - FSCD/IJCAR Conference Chairs: Stefano Guerrini (University Paris 13) ??????????????????????????????? Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria & Ecole polytechnique, France) - FSCD/IJCAR Workshop Chairs:?? Giulio Manzonetto (Universit? Paris-Nord, France) ??????????????????????????????? Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa, USA) ## CONTACT Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n: ayala(at)unb.br Samuel Mimram:???????? samuel.mimram(at)lix.polytechnique.fr From johannp at appstate.edu Fri Jan 31 16:43:36 2020 From: johannp at appstate.edu (Patricia Johann) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:36 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2nd call for papers - now with speaker info Message-ID: Second CALL FOR PAPERS: MFPS XXXVI https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/ Thirty-sixth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics University of Paris Saclay, France June 2-6, 2020 Co-located with QPL 2020 ====================================================================== March 30, 2020: Abstract Submission April 3, 2020: Paper Submission May 8, 2020: Notification May 22, 2020: Final Papers Deadline All dates AoE ====================================================================== The 36th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2020) takes place at University of Paris Saclay, France, June 2?6, 2020. MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS & SPECIAL SESSIONS: As in previous years, MFPS will have several invited speakers and special session highlighting areas within programming languages semantics. We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers and organizers of special sessions: Gilles Barthe (IMDEA) - plenary speaker Christine Tasson (Paris VII) - plenary speaker Special session on Probabilistic programming languages ----- Dexter Kozen (Cornell) - plenary speaker Fredrik Dahlqvist (London) Ohad Kammar (Edinburgh) Radu Mardare (Strathclyde) Valeria Vignudelli (Lyon) Special session on Quantum programming - joint with QPL ----- Alexandre Miquel (Montevideo) - plenary speaker Pierre Clairambault (Lyon) Claudia Faggian (Paris VII) Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Nancy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros (available from http://www.entcs.org) and should be up to 12 pages long excluding bibliography and appendices. Submissions will be via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS: There will be a preliminary proceedings of the conference papers that will be distributed at the meeting, with a final proceedings published in ENTCS after the meeting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Stephen Brookes (Carnegie Mellon University) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna & INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham) Pierre Hyvernat (Universite Savoie Mount Blanc) Mauro Jaskelioff (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) - Chair Achim Jung (University of Birmingham) Barbara Koenig (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Neel Krishnaswami (Cambridge University) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Mike Mislove (Tulane University) Joel Ouaknine (MPI-SWS) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University) Maciej Pirog (University of Wroclaw) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Alexandra Silva (University College London) Kristina Sojakova (Cornell University) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg) Sam Staton (University of Oxford) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE: The steering committee of the MFPS series consists of Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana), Stephen Brookes (CMU), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Catherine Meadows (NRL), Michael Mislove (Tulane), Joel Ouaknine (Max Planck) and Prakash Panangaden (McGill). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Pablo Arrighi (AMU & INRIA) Shane Mansfield (Sorbonne) Beno?t Valiron (University of Paris Saclay) From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Fri Jan 31 18:25:08 2020 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 00:25:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reversible Computation 2020: deadline extension Message-ID: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ======================================================================= 12th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2020) Deadline extension July 9th-10th, 2020, Oslo, Norway Abstract Submission: Feburary 7th, 2020 (extended) Submission Deadline: February 14th, 2020 (extended) https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/ ======================================================================= Reversible computation has a growing number of promising application areas such as low power design, coding/decoding, debugging, testing and verification, database recovery, discrete event simulation, reversible algorithms, reversible specification formalisms, reversible programming languages, process algebras, and the modeling of biochemical systems. Furthermore, reversible logic provides a basis for quantum computation with its applications, for example, in cryptography and in the development of highly efficient algorithms. First reversible circuits and quantum circuits have been implemented 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 program. Contributions on all areas of Reversible Computation are welcome, including---but not limited to---the following topics: * Applications * Architectures * Algorithms * Bidirectional transformations * 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: February 7, 2020 (extended) Submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (extended) Notification to authors: March 20, 2020 Final version: April 10, 2020 Conference: July 9 - July 10, 2020 ===== Invited speakers ===== Marek Perkowski (Portland State University, US) Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) ===== Special issue ===== After the conference, authors of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue to be published in Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier). ===== Paper submission ===== Interested researchers are invited to submit full research papers (16 pages maximum), tutorials (16 pages maximum), as well as work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum) in Springer LNCS format. 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. Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions not adhering to the specified constraints may be rejected without review. Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the RC 2020 interface of the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rc2020 ===== General Chair ===== Rudolf Schlatte University of Oslo Norway ===== Program Chairs ===== Ivan Lanese University of Bologna/INRIA Italy Mariusz Rawski Warsaw University of Technology Poland ===== Program Committee ===== * Gerhard Dueck (University of New Brunswick, Canada) * Robert Gl?ck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) * Jean Krivine (CNRS, France) * Martin Lukac (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) * Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan) * Claudio Antares Mezzina (Universit? di Urbino, Italy) * Lukasz Mikulski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) * Torben ?gidius Mogensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Claudio Moraga (TU Dortmund University, Germany) * Iain Phillips (Imperial College London, UK) * Krzysztof Podlaski (University Of Lodz, Poland) * Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) * Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University, Canada) * Mathias Soeken (Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) * Milena Stankovic (University of Nis, Serbia) * Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky, US) * Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) * German Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) * Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) * Tetsuo Yokoyama (Nanzan University, Japan) ===== Contacts ===== rc2020 at easychair.org https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/ From tringer at cs.washington.edu Sat Feb 1 20:32:46 2020 From: tringer at cs.washington.edu (Talia Ringer) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 17:32:46 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SIGPLAN Perspectives blog post about POPLmark panel Message-ID: Hi all, If you watched the POPLmark Retrospective Panel at POPL, you might enjoy this blog post I wrote after the panel. 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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods: # Software Development Methods - Formal modeling, specification, and design - Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse # Design Principles - Programming languages - Domain-specific languages - Type theory - Abstraction and refinement # Software Testing, Validation, and Verification - Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures - Testing and runtime verification - Statistical and probabilistic analysis - Synthesis - Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties - Other light-weight and scalable formal methods # Security and Safety - Security, privacy, and trust - Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems - Software certification # Applications and Technology Transfer - Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things - Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems - Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Intelligent systems and machine learning - HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis - Education # Case studies, best practices, and experience reports PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two categories of papers: - Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages, excluding bibliography. - Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages (including bibliography) and should include the URL of the tool. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2020 Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs). PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in the Formal Methods sublime of the Springer's LNCS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special issue. 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We carry out outstanding research and deliver excellent teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level: we ranked 11th in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) for the quality of our research output, and in teaching we are 7th in the UK for graduate prospects (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020), 13th in the UK for course satisfaction (Guardian University Guide 2020) and achieved 90% overall satisfaction from our students (NSS 2019). Over the past six years, we have undertaken an ambitious plan of expansion: fourteen new academic members of staff were appointed, new undergraduate and integrated-masters programmes were created, and six new postgraduate-taught programmes were launched. We are involved in multiple inter/multidisciplinary activities, from electrical engineering to psychology and social sciences. Our research strength in machine learning, information security, and other areas also generates significant interest and collaborative opportunity from universities and third stream partners. We are now recruiting academic members of staff who can complement or strengthen our existing research, which falls broadly within Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Algorithms and Complexity, Distributed and Global Computing, and Software Language Engineering; we also have strong connections with the Information Security Group. We particularly welcome applications from researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Systems and the Internet of Things, Distributed Systems and Security, and Networking, but we welcome exceptional candidates from all disciplines. The successful candidates will help us seek and seize opportunities for research funding and industrial engagement. They will hold a PhD or equivalent, and will have a proven research record in any of those areas, with a solid background in the underlying theory. Experience in attracting funding, engaging with industry, or contributing to outreach activities would also be valuable. The appointees will be expected to contribute across the full range of departmental activities, including undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and the supervision of mainstream projects over a wide range of topics. In particular, duties and responsibilities of these posts include: conducting individual or collaborative research projects; producing high-quality outputs for publication in high-profile journals or conference proceedings; delivering high-quality teaching to all levels of students; supervising research postgraduate students. These are full-time and permanent (tenured) posts, available from August 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. For further details of the Department see royalholloway.ac.uk/computerscience or contact the Head of Department at carlos.matos at rhul.ac.uk -- Nicola Paoletti Lecturer - Department of Computer Science - Royal Holloway, University of London Bedford building 2-25 https://nicolapaoletti.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ahadziha at irif.fr Mon Feb 3 04:19:31 2020 From: ahadziha at irif.fr (Amar Hadzihasanovic) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 10:19:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYCO 7 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <7e820c0f-59ff-0523-7fac-dd9f54092a86@irif.fr> ======== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 7) Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia 30-31 March 2020 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/7/ ======== The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language. Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University, and University of Leicester. We welcome submissions from researchers across computer science, mathematics, physics, philosophy, and beyond, with the aim of fostering friendly discussion, disseminating new ideas, and spreading knowledge between fields. Submission is encouraged for both mature research and work in progress, and by both established academics and junior researchers, including students. While no list of topics could be exhaustive, SYCO welcomes submissions with a compositional focus related to any of the following areas, in particular from the perspective of category theory: - logical methods in computer science, including classical and quantum programming, type theory, concurrency, natural language processing and machine learning; - graphical calculi, including string diagrams, Petri nets and reaction networks; - languages and frameworks, including process algebras, proof nets, type theory and game semantics; - abstract algebra and pure category theory, including monoidal category theory, higher category theory, operads, polygraphs, and relationships to homotopy theory; - quantum algebra, including quantum computation and representation theory; - tools and techniques, including rewriting, formal proofs and proof assistants, and game theory; - industrial applications, including case studies and real-world problem descriptions. INVITED SPEAKERS ======== Bartek Klin, University of Warsaw Christine Tasson, IRIF, Universit? de Paris IMPORTANT DATES ======== All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth. Submission deadline: Monday 10 February 2020 Author notification: Monday 17 February 2020 Symposium dates: Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 March 2020 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======== Submission are by EasyChair, via the SYCO 7 submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syco7 Submission is easy, with no format requirements or page restrictions. The meeting does not have proceedings, so work can be submitted even if it has been submitted or published elsewhere. Think creatively--- you could submit a recent paper, or notes on work in progress, or even a recent Masters or PhD thesis. In the event that more good-quality submissions are received than can be accommodated in the timetable, the programme committee may choose to *defer* some submissions to a future meeting, rather than reject them. Deferred submissions can be re-submitted to any future SYCO meeting, where they will not need peer review, and where they will be prioritised for inclusion in the programme. Meetings will be held sufficiently frequently to avoid a backlog of deferred papers. If you have a submission which was deferred from a previous SYCO meeting, it will not automatically be considered for SYCO 7; you still need to submit it again through EasyChair. When submitting, append the words "DEFERRED FROM SYCO X" to the title of your paper, replacing "X" with the appropriate meeting number. There is no need to attach any documents. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ======== Miriam Backens, University of Birmingham Christoph Dorn, University of Oxford Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Brendan Fong, MIT Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Universit? de Paris (PC chair) Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Alex Kavvos, Aarhus University Marie Kerjean, INRIA Bretagne Atlantique, ?quipe Gallinette Kohei Kishida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Samuel Mimram, ?cole Polytechnique Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University Jovana Obradovi?, Institute of Mathematics CAS Viktoriya Ozornova, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum Simona Paoli, University of Leicester Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Christina Vasilakopoulou, University of Patras Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham and University of Oxford Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford -- Amar Hadzihasanovic IRIF, Universit? de Paris http://www.irif.fr/~ahadziha/ From simon.castellan at inria.fr Mon Feb 3 04:24:55 2020 From: simon.castellan at inria.fr (Simon Castellan) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:24:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: GaLoP 2020 [Deadline extended] Message-ID: <87r1zchvko.fsf@apple> 15th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2020), Dublin, 24-25 April, 2020. 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 XV will be held in Dublin, Ireland on 24-25 April 2020 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational models; * Games-based program analysis and verification; * Logics for games and games for logics; * Algorithmic aspects of game semantics; * Categorical aspects of game semantics; * Programming languages and full abstraction; * Higher-order automata and Petri nets; * Geometry of interaction; * Ludics; * Epistemic game theory; * Logics of dependence and independence; * Computational linguistics; * Games and multi-valued logics. There will be no formal proceedings but the possibility of a special issue in a journal will be considered (the 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014 workshops led to special issues in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic). // Submission Instructions // Please submit an abstract (up to one page, 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=galop2020 // Important Dates // * Submission: ** February 14, 2020 ** * Notification: February 28, 2020 * Workshop: April 24-25, 2020 // Invited talks // * Zhong Shao (Yale University): Certified Abstraction Layers as Games: A Unifying Framework for Composing Heterogeneous Components * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna): Differential Program Semantics // Program Committee // * Simon Castellan (Imperial College, co-chair) * Guy McCusker (University of Bath, co-chair) * Tom Hirschowitz (CNRS & Universit? Savoie) * Guilhem Jaber (Universit? de Nantes) * Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) * Andrzej Murawski (University of Oxford) * Hugo Paquet (University of Oxford) Simon Castellan (Thu. 13:09) () Subject: [gt-lhc] Final Cfp: GaLoP 2020 [Deadline in a week] To: "gt-lhc at gdr-im.fr" , "gt-scalp at gdr-im.fr" Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:09:11 +0100 15th Workshop on Games for Logic and Programming Languages (GaLoP 2020), Dublin, 24-25 April, 2020. 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 XV will be held in Dublin, Ireland on 24-25 April 2020 as a satellite workshop of ETAPS (http://www.etaps.org/). // Important Dates // * Submission: February 7, 2020 * Notification: February 28, 2020 * Workshop: April 24-25, 2020 // Areas of interest // Areas of interest include: * Games and other interaction-based denotational models; * Games-based program analysis and verification; * Logics for games and games for logics; * Algorithmic aspects of game semantics; * Categorical aspects of game semantics; * Programming languages and full abstraction; * Higher-order automata and Petri nets; * Geometry of interaction; * Ludics; * Epistemic game theory; * Logics of dependence and independence; * Computational linguistics; * Games and multi-valued logics. There will be no formal proceedings but the possibility of a special issue in a journal will be considered (the 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2014 workshops led to special issues in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic). // Submission Instructions // Please submit an abstract (up to one page, 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=galop2020 // Invited talks // * Zhong Shao (Yale University): Certified Abstraction Layers as Games: A Unifying Framework for Composing Heterogeneous Components * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna): Differential Program Semantics // Program Committee // * Simon Castellan (Inria & Univ Rennes 1, co-chair) * Guy McCusker (University of Bath, co-chair) * Tom Hirschowitz (CNRS & Universit? Savoie) * Guilhem Jaber (Universit? de Nantes) * Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) * Andrzej Murawski (University of Oxford) * Hugo Paquet (University of Oxford) From pierre.geneves at inria.fr Mon Feb 3 09:30:03 2020 From: pierre.geneves at inria.fr (Pierre Geneves) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 15:30:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenured positions at Inria and UGA Message-ID: <02083a13-7ba3-7152-41c1-321475b1cb0a@inria.fr> We currently have several open/competitive positions in the Tyrex research team which is a joint team between Inria and CNRS and UGA and Grenoble-INP local universities. In the Tyrex team, we investigate data-centric programming techniques to facilitate information and knowledge extraction, from database, programming languages and data analytics perspectives. This includes, but is not limited to, a range of topics, including the design of domain specific programming languages together with their foundations (e.g., type systems, algebras, language design, synthesis of distributed programs), large scale and distributed data management (query optimization, graph management and information extraction from raw data), data science and artificial intelligence and knowledge extraction and inference (machine learning on and with property and knowledge graphs, predictive analytics, combined reasoning and learning from symbolic and numerical data). A variety of positions are available at different levels: * Permanent (tenured) researcher positions at Inria * Faculty positions (tenured): assistant professor (``Maitre de conference??) at local universities (UGA , ENSIMAG and IAE), and one professor (tenured) position at UGA * Post-doc positions * PhD positions * Research engineer positions The Tyrex research team is located at the Inria Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes research center, next to Grenoble, France. Interested applicants are invited to contact Pierre Geneves > for details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From walther.neuper at jku.at Tue Feb 4 05:33:27 2020 From: walther.neuper at jku.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 11:33:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'20 at the Summer of LoVe - cfp Message-ID: Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ************************************************************************** ThEdu'20 Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software 29 June 2020 http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu20 ************************************************************************** at IJCAR 2020 International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning June 29 - July 5, 2020, Paris, France https://ijcar2020.org/ ************************************************************************** ThEdu'20 is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020", a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Universit? Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/summer-of-love-2020/" ************************************************************************** THedu'20 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 Gilles Dowek, ENS Paris-Saclay. Important Dates * Extended Abstracts: 12 April 2020 * Author Notification: 10 May 2020 * Workshop Day: 29 June 2020 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=thedu20 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'20 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration. Program Committee Francisco Botana, University of Vigo at Pontevedra, Spain David Cerna, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Joao Marcos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (co-chair) Filip Maric, University of Belgrade, Serbia Adolfo Neto, Universidade Tecnol?gica Federal do Paran?, Brazil Walther Neuper, Graz University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Pedro Quaresma, University of Coimbra, Portugal (co-chair) Philippe R. Richard, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada Vanda Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria J?rgen Villadsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Proceedings The extended abstracts and system descriptions will be available in ThEdu'20 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). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Haskell Symposium presents original research on Haskell, discusses practical experience and future development of the language, and promotes other forms of declarative programming. Topics of interest include: * Language design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management, as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * Tools, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts; * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work, and to other languages where appropriate. Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementers, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Submission Details ================== Early and Regular Track ----------------------- The Haskell Symposium uses a two-track submission process so that some papers can gain early feedback. Strong papers submitted to the early track are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit to the regular track. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. Formatting ---------- Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Authors should use the `acmart` format, with the `sigplan` sub-format for ACM proceedings. For details, see: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format It is recommended to use the `review` option when submitting a paper; this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews. Functional pearls, experience reports, and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such. Lightweight Double-blind Reviewing ---------------------------------- Haskell Symposium 2020 will use 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 judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. A reviewer will learn the identity of the author(s) of a paper after a review is submitted. Page Limits ----------- The length of submissions should not exceed the following limits: Regular paper: 12 pages Functional pearl: 12 pages Experience report: 6 pages Demo proposal: 2 pages There is no requirement that all pages are used. For example, a functional pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. In all cases, the list of references is not counted against these page limits. Deadlines --------- Early track: Submission deadline: 20 March 2020 (Fri) Notification: 24 April 2020 (Fri) Regular track and demos: Submission deadline: 15 May 2020 (Fri) Notification: 26 June 2020 (Fri) Deadlines are valid anywhere on Earth. Submission ---------- Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/), and authors should be aware of ACM's policies on plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). Program Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but their papers will be held to a higher standard. The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected. Papers should be submitted through HotCRP at: https://haskell20.hotcrp.com/ Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. Supplementary material: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should not be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a separate PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded at submission time, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). 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. Travel Support ============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page (http://pac.sigplan.org). Proceedings =========== Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Their authors will be required to choose one of the following options: - Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission-to-publish license (and, optionally, licenses the work with a Creative Commons license); - Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permssion-to-publish license; - Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM. For more information, please see ACM Copyright Policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and ACM Author Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html). Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website but not formally published in the proceedings. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Artifacts ========= Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make auxiliary material (artifacts like source code, test data, etc.) available with their paper. They can opt to have these artifacts published alongside their paper in the ACM Digital Library (copyright of artifacts remains with the authors). If an accepted paper's artifacts are made permanently available for retrieval in a publicly accessible archival repository like the ACM Digital Library, that paper qualifies for an Artifacts Available badge (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging#available). Applications for such a badge can be made after paper acceptance and will be reviewed by the PC chair. Program Committee ================= Arthur Azevedo de Amorim Carnegie Mellon University Manuel Chakravarty Tweag I/O / IOHK Jan Christiansen Flensburg University of Applied Sciences Youyou Cong Tokyo Institute of Technology Pierre-Evariste Dagand CNRS Anton Ekblad Chalmers University of Technology Jurriaan Hage Universiteit Utrecht Graham Hutton University of Nottingham Jos? Pedro Magalh?es Standard Chartered Clare Martin Oxford Brookes University Andrey Mokhov Jane Street Shin-Cheng Mu Academia Sinica Nikolaos Papaspyrou National Technical University of Athens Simon Peyton Jones Microsoft Research Cambridge Norman Ramsey Tufts University Exequiel Rivas INRIA Tom Schrijvers (chair) KU Leuven Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences If you have questions, please contact the chair at: tom.schrijvers at kuleuven.be ================================================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sltarifa at ifi.uio.no Wed Feb 5 08:10:42 2020 From: sltarifa at ifi.uio.no (Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 13:10:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Research Fellow in Specification and Analysis of Information Privacy - Deadline: February 29, 2020 Message-ID: <490C0C11-3F18-43EE-B6CC-7C3AB6D1B735@ifi.uio.no> ?????????????????????????????????? PhD Research Fellow in Specification and Analysis of Information Privacy. ?????????????????????????????????? Position as PhD Research Fellow in specification and analysis of information privacy using programming language theory is available at the Department of Informatics University of Oslo. Please see the announcement for more details. https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/182259/phd-research-fellow-in-specification-and-analysis-of-information-privacy Job description: ??????? This position is funded by the Department of Informatics and will be part of the collaboration between researches in the area of Formal Methods (FM) and Digital Security (SEC) at the department. The planned PhD research will explore compliances of privacy in data access and data processing (information-flow analysis) at design time, e.g., where private data will be stored and which parts of a system will have access to process such data. To explore and investigate these ideas, the project will use formal methods for distributed systems and programming language theory, aiming to develop new techniques for supporting modelling languages, which are aware of privacy capabilities for data access and data processing. The PhD project aims at demonstrating the results by means of experimental proof of concept. The FM group works on light weight formal methods techniques using formal models applied to various problem domains, including parallel and distributed systems and language-based security. The SEC group works on different topics in the area of information security including cyber threat intelligence, privacy and cryptography, and hosts the UiO Ethical Hacking Team. Both groups have a dynamic and interactive working environment with relatively good gender balance, consisting of full-time professors, researchers, and multiple postdocs and PhD students. How to apply: ?????? The application must include: - Cover letter - statement of research interests indicating why this PhD topic fits their interest/background. - CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work - scientific publications) - Copies of the original Bachelor and Master?s degree diploma, transcripts of records and letters of recommendation - Documentation of English proficiency - List of publications and academic work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee - Names and contact details of 2-3 references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and telephone number Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email and please distribute to interested parties. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Classifying problems/functions with respect to the amount of resources (e.g. time and/or space) needed to solve/compute them turned out to be an extremely difficult question. This has led researchers to develop a remarkable variety of approaches, employing different mathematical methods and theories. The future development of complexity theory will require a subtle understanding of the similarities, differences and limitations of the many current approaches. In fact, even though these study the same phenomenon, they are developed today within disjoint communities, with little or no communication between them (algorithms, logic, programming theory, algebra...). This dispersion is unfortunate since it hinders the development of hybrid methods and more generally the advancement of computational complexity as a whole. The goal (and peculiarity) of the Caleidoscope school is to reunite in a single event as many different takes on computational complexity as can reasonably be fit in one week. It is intended for graduate students as well as established researchers who wish to learn more about neighbouring areas. LECTURES 1. Algorithms and lower bounds. Lecturer: Ryan Williams, MIT. 2. Hardness of Approximation. Lecturer: Luca Trevisan, Bocconi University. 3. Higher-Order Complexity. Lecturer: Bruce Kapron, University of Victoria. 4. Parametrized Complexity. Lecturer: Daniel Marx, Max Planck Institute Saarbrucken. In addition to these broad-ranging themes, there will also be three tutorials on more focussed topics. 5. Quantum Computation and Complexity. Lecturer: Elham Kashefi, CNRS and Sorbonne University. 6. Static Complexity Analysis. Lecturer: Georg Moser, University of Innsbruck. 7. Complexity Theory for Black-Box Optimization Heuristics. Lecturer: Carola Doerr, CNRS and Sorbonne University. REGISTRATION Registration to the school is free but mandatory. This is to help us plan tea/coffee breaks and social activities. https://caleidoscope20.sciencesconf.org/registration/ FINANCIAL SUPPORT There may be opportunities for financial support for participants. We will make relevant information available via the webpage. https://caleidoscope20.sciencesconf.org/ ORGANISERS Damiano Mazza ? CNRS & Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord Sylvain Perifel ? Universit? Paris 7 Thomas Seiller ? CNRS & Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord SPONSORS European Mathematical Society (EMS) DIM RFSI - R?gion ?le-de-France (https://dim-rfsi.fr/) CNRS (https://www.cnrs.fr/en) Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord (https://www.univ-paris13.fr/en/) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord (https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/) Universit? 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: From peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch Thu Feb 6 04:44:56 2020 From: peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch (Mueller Peter) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:44:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Senior Postdoc / Project Coordinator position in Information Security and Program Verification at ETH Zurich Message-ID: Senior Postdoc / Project Coordinator position in Information Security and Program Verification at ETH Zurich The Institute of Information Security (the groups of Prof. Adrian Perrig and Prof. David Basin) and the Programming Methodology Group (Prof. Peter M?ller) at ETH Zurich are hiring a Postdoc in a large research project in the area of digital trust. The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive, formally verified security architecture for communication in the physical and digital world. In particular, the project will develop protocols to transfer physical trust relationships into the digital world and store, manage, and use them. The design will take into account human (mis-)behavior from the outset. A particular emphasis is on the formal verification of the architecture both at the design and implementation level to rule out any undesired behavior. We are looking for enthusiastic and outstanding postdoctoral researchers with a strong background in some of the following topics: * formal modeling and verification, * program verification, * theorem proving, model checking, * cryptographic protocols, * public-key infrastructure, identity management, authentication, * networking and distributed systems, and * design and implementation of security architectures. In addition to research, the responsibilities of the position include project management, in particular, coordination among the involved research groups, lightweight reporting to the funding agency, and outreach to potential industrial users of the developed solutions. All candidates matching the profile above are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. We will process applications until all positions are filled. Successful candidates are expected to start soon after acceptance, but the starting date is negotiable. Applications should include: * a curriculum vitae, * a brief description of research interests, and * letters of recommendation. Applications and inquiries should be sent to Christoph Sprenger and Sandra Schneider at the following email addresses. infsec.positions at inf.ethz.ch, jobs-pm at inf.ethz.ch Postdocs are paid employees of ETH Zurich. Salary and employment conditions are attractive. 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July 5, 2020, Paris, France http://fscd2020.org/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract: February 10, 2020 *** extended Submission: February 13, 2020 *** extended Rebuttal: March 28-29, 2020 Notification: April 13, 2020 Final version: April 27, 2020 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Ren? Thiemann: FSCD-IJCAR joint speaker (http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/thiemann/ ) - John Harrison: FSCD-IJCAR joint speaker (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/ ) - Brigitte Pienta (https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~bpientka/ ) - Andrew Pitts (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~amp12/ ) - Simona Ronchi della Rocca (http://www.di.unito.it/~ronchi/ ) FSCD (http://fscdconference.org/ ) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation, semantics and verification in new challenging areas. The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is: 1. Calculi: Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.); Lambda calculus; Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.); Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.); Type theory and logical frameworks; Homotopy type theory; Quantum calculi. 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: Type systems (poly- morphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.); Induction, coinduction; Matching, unification, completion, order- ings; Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.); Tree automata; Model building and model checking; Proof search and theorem proving; Constraint solving and decision procedures. 3. Semantics: Operational semantics and abstract machines; Game Semantics and applications; Domain theory and categorical models; Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, etc.); Quantum computation and emerging models in computation. 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems: Type Inference and type checking; Abstract Interpretation; Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity; Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties; Symbolic computation. 5. Tools and Applications: Programming and proof environments; Verification tools; Proof assistants and interactive theorem provers; Applications in industry; Applications of formal sys- tems in other sciences. 6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas: Certification; Security; Blockchain protocols; Data Bases; Deep learning and machine learning algorithms; Planning. PUBLICATION -------------------- The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------- Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to 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, excluding references. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Proofs and other technical details that do not fit within the page limit can be submitted as an appendix (up to 5 pages). The appendix will be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. Therefore, submissions must be self-contained within the respective page limit; the additional material should not be necessary to assess the merits of a submission. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages, excluding references. They must present new software tools, or significantly new versions of such tools, in which FSCD topics play an important role. An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be provided. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site. BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS -------------------------------------- The program committee will select 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). PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR ----------------------- Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon fscd2020 at easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- M. Alpuente, Technical Univ. of Valencia S. Alves, University of Porto A. Bauer, University of Ljubljana M. P. Bonacina, Universit? degli studi di Verona P-L. Curien, CNRS - Univ. of Paris Diderot P. Dybjer, Chalmers Univ. of Technology U. De?Liguoro, University of Torino M. Fern?ndez, King?s College London M. Gaboardi, Boston University D. Ghica, University of Birmingham S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad J. Giesl, RWTH Aachen University S. Guerrini, University of Paris 13 R. Harper, Carnegie Mellon University M. Hasegawa, Kyoto University N. Hirokawa, JAIST P. Johann, Appalachian State University O. Kammar, University of Edinburgh D. Kesner, University of Paris Diderot C. Kop, Radboud University O. Laurent, ENS Lyon D. Licata, Wesleyan University A. Middeldorp, University of Innsbruck J. Mitchell, Stanford University K. Nakata, SAP Postdam M. Pagani, University of Paris Diderot E. Pimentel, Fed. Univ. Rio Grande do Norte F. van Raamsdonk, Vrije University Amsterdam G. Rosu, University of Illinois A. Sabry, Indiana University A. Stump, University of Iowa P. Urzyczyn, University of Warsaw T. Uustalu, Reykjavik University S. Zdancewic, University of Pennsylvania CONFERENCE CHAIR ---------------- Stefano Guerrini, University of Paris 13 WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Giulio Manzonetto, University of Paris 13 STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------------------------- J. Vicary, Oxford University PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- S. Alves, University of Porto FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------- S. Alves (University of Porto), M. Ayala-Rinc?n (University of Brasilia) C. Fuhs (Birkbeck, London University) H. Geuvers (Radboud University) D. Kesner (Chair, University of Paris Diderot ) H. Kirchner (Inria) C. Kop (Radboud University) D. Mazza (University of Paris 13) D. Miller (Inria) L. Ong (Oxford University) J. Rehof (TU Dortmund) S. Staton (Oxford University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kutsia at risc.jku.at Thu Feb 6 09:27:45 2020 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:27:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: SCSS 2020 Message-ID: <9fcd6bbe-6adc-26bd-d1c1-d65ef56fb5ca@risc.jku.at> ========================= SCSS 2020 The 9th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science -- In the era of Computational and Artificial Intelligence -- September 10-13, 2020, Gammarth, Tunisia https://scss2020.doodlekit.com/ ========================= Overview -------- Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects etc.). Powerful algorithms have been developed during the past decades for the major subareas of symbolic computation: computer algebra and computational logic. These algorithms and methods are successfully applied in various fields, including software science, which covers a broad range of topics about software construction and analysis. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence methods and machine learning algorithms are widely used nowadays in various domains and, in particular, combined with symbolic computation. Several approaches mix artificial intelligence and symbolic methods and tools deployed over large corpora to create what is known as cognitive systems. Cognitive computing focuses on building systems which interact with humans naturally by reasoning, aiming at learning at scale. The purpose of SCSS 2020 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science, combined with modern artificial?intelligence?techniques. Scope ------ SCSS 2020 solicits submissions on all aspects of symbolic computation and their applications in software science, in combination with artificial intelligence and cognitive computing techniques. The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to the following: - automated reasoning, knowledge reasoning, common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science - algorithm (program) synthesis and/or verification, alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal libraries. - formal methods for the analysis of network and system security - termination analysis and complexity analysis of algorithms (programs) - extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs) - theorem proving methods and techniques, collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving - proof carrying code - generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs) - algorithm (program) transformations - combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods - formalization and computerization of knowledge (maths, medicine, economy, etc.) - methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and science - artificial intelligence, machine learning and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics - formal verification of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, explainable artificial intelligence, symbolic artificial intelligence - cognitive computing, cognitive vision, perception systems and artificial reasoners for robotics - component-based programming - computational origami - query languages (in particular for XML documents) - semantic web and cloud computing Important Dates --------------- Title and abstract due: May 8, 2020 Manuscript due: May 15, 2020 Author notification: July 6, 2020 Early registration: July 31, 2020 Camera ready papers: August 10, 2020 Conference dates: September 10-13, 2020 Invited Speakers ------ Tateaki Sasaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris-Saclay, France) General Chairs ----- Adel Bouhoula (Sup'Com, Carthage University, Tunisia) Tetsuo Ida (Tsukuba University, Japan) Program Chair ----- Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Program Committee --------- Hassan Ait-Kaci (HAK Language Technologies) Changbo Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Grenoble, France) Seyed Hossein Haeri (UC Louvain, Belgium) Mohamed-B?cha Ka?niche (Sup?Com, Carthage University, Tunisia) Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Michael Kohlhase (University of Erlangen?Nuremberg, Germany) Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Chair Zied Lachiri (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University, USA) Yasuhiko Minamide (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Yoshihiro Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan) Julien Narboux (Strasbourg University, France) Micha?l Rusinowitch (INRIA, France) Sofiane Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) Mateu Villaret (University of Girona, Spain) Dongming Wang (CNRS, Paris, France) Local Organization Committee ---------------------------- Mohamed-B?cha Ka?niche (Sup?Com, Carthage University, Tunisia) (Chair) Faouzi Jaidi (ESPRIT University, Tunisia) (Website Admin) Tarek Abbess (Sfax University, Tunisia) Takoua Kefi (Kairouan University, Tunisia) Aida ben Chehida (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) Wejdane Saied (Carthage University, Tunisia) Submission ---------- Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2020 Submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. They should be prepared using the EPTCS LaTeX Class format (http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/eptcsstyle.zip). Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages, with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices. Tool papers must not exceed 6 pages. They should include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed on-line. Each accepted paper should be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. SCSS 2020 Student Abstract and Poster Program --------------------------------------------- SCSS 2020 invites submissions to the student abstract and poster program. The goal of this program is to provide a forum in which students can present and discuss their work during its early stages, meet some of their peers who have related interests, and introduce themselves to more senior members of the field. These papers must not exceed 4 pages in the EPTCS LaTeX Class format (http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/eptcsstyle.zip). Publication ----------- The proceedings of SCSS 2020 will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). A special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) is organized after the symposium. Submitted full-length papers will be refereed according to the usual standards of the journal. From bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca Thu Feb 6 14:14:16 2020 From: bpientka at cs.mcgill.ca (Brigitte Pientka) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 14:14:16 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] JFP paper: POPLMark reloaded: Mechanizing proofs by logical relations Message-ID: Dear all, we would like to announce our recent JFP paper POPLMark reloaded: Mechanizing proofs by logical relations Andreas Abel, Guillame Allais, Aliya Hameer, Alberto Momigliano, Brigitte Pientka, Steven Schaefer, Kathrin Stark, Journal of Functional Programming, 29, E19. doi:10.1017/S0956796819000170 on how to mechanize proofs using logical relations on well-typed terms. It is an expanded version of B. Pientka's invited talk at Certified Proofs and Programs (CPP'19): POPLMark reloaded: Mechanizing proofs by logical relations. Specifically, this paper provides a modern tutorial to proving strong normalization of a simply-typed lambda-calculus with a proof by Kripke-style logical relations. Using this case study, we share some of the lessons learned tackling this problem in different dependently-typed proof environments. In particular, we consider the mechanization in Beluga, a proof environment that supports higher-order abstract syntax encodings and contrast it to the development and strategies used in general purpose proof assistants such as Coq and Agda. The goal of this paper is provide one benchmark to better understand, compare and push the state of the art of proof assistants and to engage the community in discussions on what support in proof environments is needed to provide better support for modelling variable binding, contexts, renamings, substitutions, etc. We hope that other developers of proof assistants, graduate students, researchers, etc. feel inspired to mechanize this challenge problem, so we can better learn about the trade-offs between different systems/mechanization approaches. All solutions to the problem (including solutions in F* and Lean) can be found at https://poplmark-reloaded.github.io/ Best, Andreas Abel, Guillame Allais, Aliya Hameer, Alberto Momigliano, Brigitte Pientka, Steven Sch?fer, Kathrin Stark From kiko.fernandez at it.uu.se Thu Feb 6 15:03:17 2020 From: kiko.fernandez at it.uu.se (Kiko Fernandez Reyes) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 21:03:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DEADLINE EXTENSION - Joint Call for Papers - DisCoTec2020 Message-ID: <15597154-2fe7-1d63-08b4-5392545bf6ef@it.uu.se> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] The abstract submission deadline has been extended to February 17. The paper submission deadline has been extended to February 28. ************************************************************************ Joint Call for Papers 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2020 Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020 https://www.discotec.org/2020 ************************************************************************ DisCoTec 2020 is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It gathers conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects, ranging from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques to systems research issues. * Main Conferences * - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination) 22st IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages PC Chairs: Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille ? Nord Europe, France) and Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2020/dais) 20th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems PC Chairs: Anne Remke (University of M?nster, Germany) and Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland) - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2020/forte) 40th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems PC Chairs: Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) and Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) * Important Dates (for all main conferences) * - February 17, 2020: Submission of abstract -- extended - February 28, 2020: Submission of papers -- extended - April 10, 2020: Notification of accepted papers - April 24, 2020: Camera ready - June 15-19, 2020: Conferences and Workshops * Keynote Speakers * - Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique - Holger Hermanns, Saarland University - Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, Redmond - Peter Kriens, OSGi Alliance * Submission Categories * COORDINATION: Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references), Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references), Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references), Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references + 10min demo video). DAIS Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references). Full practical experience reports (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) Work-in-progress (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) FORTE Full papers (page limit: up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) Short papers (page limit: up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) (Rough diamonds, Tool (demonstration) papers, Position papers) ?Journal First? papers (page limit: up to 2 pages, including references) More information is available on the conference website. * Proceedings * The proceedings of DisCoTec 2020 main conferences will be published in Springer's LNCS-IFIP volumes. * Special issue * The individual conferences will organise special issues of extended and selected papers in reputable journals such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. More information is available at the conference website. * Submission Instructions * Authors are invited to submit their contributions 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 3, 2020. Submission of the manuscript is due no later than February 14, 2020. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte20 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, including figures and references, prepared using Springer?s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. DisCoTec conferences welcome contributions in theoretical models and foundations of coordination, concurrency, programming languages, practical and conceptual aspects of distributed computations as well as models and formal specification, testing and verification methods for distributed computing. Detailed information about the topics, the submission categories and the corresponding page limits are available at the conference website. For each accepted paper, one of the authors must register to DisCoTec 2020 and attend the corresponding conference to present the paper. * Organising Committee * Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta - General chair) Davide Basile (ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy - Publicity chair) Kiko Fern?ndez-Reyes (Uppsala University, Sweden - Publicity chair) Antonis Achilleos (Reykjavik University, Iceland - Workshops chair) Duncan Attard (University of Malta, Malta - Workshops chair) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Workshops chair) Lucienne Bugeja (University of Malta, Malta - Logistics) * Steering Committee * Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Pascal Felber ( University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, France ? Chair) Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark) * Advisory Board * Alain Girault (INRIA Grenoble, France) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy) Jim Dowling (RISE & KTH, Sweden) Marjan Sirjani (University of Malarden, Sweden) Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Farhad Arbab (CWI, The Netherlands) Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) John Derrick (University of Sheffield, UK) To receive live, up to date information, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisCoTecConf N?r du har kontakt med oss p? Uppsala universitet med e-post s? inneb?r det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. F?r att l?sa mer om hur vi g?r det kan du l?sa h?r: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy From u.berger at swansea.ac.uk Thu Feb 6 15:52:29 2020 From: u.berger at swansea.ac.uk (Berger U.) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 20:52:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] BCTCS & AlgoUK 2020 Final announcement and call for contributed talks Message-ID: Final Announcement and call for contributed talks: * * * NOTE: We expect to be able to fund all (UK-based) researchers and PhD students. * * * BCTCS & AlgoUK 2020 BRITISH COLLOQUIUM FOR THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE 6th - 8th April 2020, SWANSEA http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/bctcs2020 The 36th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science will take place in Swansea from the afternoon of Monday 6 April to Wednesday 8 April 2020. The purpose of BCTCS is to provide a forum in which researchers in theoretical computer science can meet, present research findings, and discuss developments in the field. It also aims to provide an environment in which PhD students can gain experience in presenting their work, and benefit from contact with established researchers. The scope of the colloquium includes all aspects of theoretical computer science, including automata theory, algorithms, complexity theory, semantics, formal methods, concurrency, game theory, types, languages and logics. BCTCS 2020 is being held together with the Fourth AlgoUK workshop which includes a session on Verification of Railway Control Systems. There will also be a special evening public forum on Formal Methods in Software Engineering. The list of Invited Speakers includes Simon Chadwick - Siemens Rail Automation UK Robert Constable - Cornell University Edith Elkind - Oxford University Cliff Jones - University of Newcastle Bas Luttik - University of Eindhoven David Manlove - University of Glasgow Jan Peleska - Bremen University MS Ramanujan - Warwick University Patrick Totzke - University of Liverpool Helen Treharne - University of Surrey John Tucker - Swansea University Kristina Vuskovic - University of Leeds SUBMISSION OF PRESENTATIONS Participants wishing to give a 30 minute contributed talk on any topic within the scope of the colloquium are invited to submit a title and abstract via the BCTCS'2020 webpage. Presentations from research students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. The titles and abstracts of all invited and contributed talks will appear in the Bulletin of the EATCS. REGISTRATION AND BURSARIES Registration information is available at the BCTCS'2020 webpage. We have a number of bursaries worth ?200 which can be used to reimburse the travel and accommodation expenses of UK-based researchers and PhD students. We hope to be able to offer these to all participants who provide a talk; but in the case of over-subscription, they will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Hence, do propose a talk early. IMPORTANT DATES (DEADLINES) Talk proposals and Registration: 1 March 2020 Meeting: 6-8 April 2020 SPONSORS BCTCS AlgoUK London Mathematical Society Technocamps Institute of Coding in Wales Sony Technology Centre --- BCTCS & AlgoUK 2020 Organizing Committee: Ulrich Berger, Phillip James, Faron Moller, Liam O'Reilly, Filipos Pantekis, Olga Petrovska, Markus Roggenbach, Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University); and Daniel Paulusma, Iain Stewart (Durham University) Copyright ? 2020 BCTCS, All rights reserved. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.bliudze at inria.fr Fri Feb 7 06:44:33 2020 From: simon.bliudze at inria.fr (Simon Bliudze) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:44:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2020: Extended deadlines Message-ID: <3a18fc21-5c79-2b12-b292-a811d15c1b0d@inria.fr> ****************************************************************** 22nd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages ??? ?? ?? ??? ??? ? ??? COORDINATION 2020 ????????????? *** SUBMISSION DEADLINES EXTENDED *** ??? 15-19th of June, 2020 at the University of Malta, Valletta ?? ?? ? ??? http://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination COORDINATION 2020 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2020 ****************************************************************** HIGHLIGHTS *Extended* Deadlines ? 17/02/2020: abstract submission ? 28/02/2020: paper submission *Updated list* of Keynote Speakers ? Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique ? Holger Hermanns, Saarland University ? Peter Kriens, aQute & OSGi Alliance ? Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, Redmond Submission link ? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020 Types of contribution ? Following the success of previous years, we welcome a range of ? contributions other than regular full papers: survey papers, ? short papers and tool papers Special topics ? We plan to have dedicated sessions in the program on two special ? topics: ? - Microservices (in collaboration with the Microservices Community) ? - Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts 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. MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST 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 and security ? 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. SPECIAL TOPICS COORDINATION 2020 is seeking contributions that enable the cross-fertilisation with other research communities in computer science or in other engineering or scientific disciplines. Depending on the quality of the contributions, we plan to have dedicated sessions in the program, possibly together with a panel discussion. 1. Microservices(in collaboration with the Microservices Community) ?? Microservices are a novel architectural style, taking to an ?? extreme the ideas of service oriented computing. In ?? microservices, applications are composed by loosely coupled ?? entities, the microservices. Beyond that, single microservices ?? should be small enough to be easily managed, modified, and if ?? needed removed and rewritten from scratch. Microservices aim at ?? obtaining high flexibility, reconfigurability and scalability, ?? thanks also to the exploitation of containerization ?? technologies such as Docker. Given that microservice-based ?? applications are composed by many loosely-coupled ?? microservices, techniques allowing one to coordinate their ?? execution in order to obtain the desired behaviour are of ?? paramount importance. ?? Contacts: ?? - Ivan Lanese (ivan.lanese at unibo.it) and ?? - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (albl at dtu.dk) 2. Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts ?? With the rise of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, digital ?? contracts have become popular in the form of smart contracts, ?? which encode a financial transaction between possibly ?? distrusting parties using a distributed consensus protocol. ?? Although smart contracts bear the potential to benefit society ?? quite fundamentally (e.g., equalize access to financial ?? infrastructure, increase fairness), the benefits are shadowed ?? by the existence of severe security vulnerabilities in deployed ?? smart contracts and smart contract languages.? In the 2020 ?? instantiation of COORDINATION, we are soliciting contributions ?? on new programming language paradigms and patterns for ?? expressing digital contract interactions, verification and ?? analysis techniques for checking safety and liveness properties ?? and guaranteeing correctness of digital contracts, as well as ?? compositionality and scalability of digital contract reasoning ?? techniques.? Contacts: Stephanie Balzer (balzers at cs.cmu.edu) ?? and Anastasia Mavridou (anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov) TOOL PAPERS We welcome tool papers that describe experience reports, technological artefacts and innovative prototypes (including engines, APIs, etc.), for coordinating, modelling, analysing, simulating or testing systems, as well as educational tools in the scope of the research topics of COORDINATION.? In addition, we welcome submissions promoting the integration of existing tools relevant to the community. Submissions to the tool track must include an extended abstract and a link to a demo video that previews the potential tool presentation at the conference.? Both the abstract and the video will be decisive criteria in the selection process. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to produce a regular (full) paper to appear in the conference proceedings, which will be subject to a lightweight revision process. Interested authors can contact the tool track chairs (Omar Inverso omar.inverso at gssi.it, Hugo Torres Vieira hugo.torres.vieira at ubi.pt) for details. SUBMISSIONS Important Dates ? 17/02/2020 - abstract submission- *extended* ? 28/02/2020 - paper submission- *extended* ? 10/04/2020 - notification ? 24/04/2020 - camera ready version Publication and Special Issues Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF using a two-phase online submission process.? Registration of the paper information and abstract must be completed according to the DisCoTec submission dates.? Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site: ? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020 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) prepared using Springer?s LNCS style.? Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Submission categories - Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references): describing ? thorough and complete research results and experience reports. ? - Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages 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. - Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references): describing ? technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of ? COORDINATION. The paper must contain a link to a publicly ? downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes length. The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Special Issues Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science and a separate special issue dedicated to tool papers is being planned. Special issues for last year?s edition are under preparation in Logical Methods in Computer Science for selected research papers, and in Science of Computer Programming for selected tool papers (as a collection of Original Software Publications. ? COMMITTEES Program committee chairs Simon Bliudze (INRIA, France) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Tool track chairs Omar Inverso (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Program committee Stephanie Balzer (CMU, USA) Chiara Bodei (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) Marius Bozga (Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) Roberto Bruni (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran) Roberto Guanciale (KTH, Sweden) Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, France) Omar Inverso (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Eva K?hn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark) Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy) Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Claudio Antares Mezzina (Universit? degli studi di Urbino, Italy) Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK) Luca Padovani (Universit? di Torino, Italy) Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Danilo Pianini (University of Bologna, Italy) Rene Rydhof Hansen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Gwen Sala?n (Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) Meng Sun (Peking University, China) Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK ?????? ??? ?????? & Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) ? Steering committee Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies, Italy Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland 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 Michele Loreti, University of Camerino, Italy Mieke Massink, ISTI CNR, Italy Jose Proen?a, University of Minho, Portugal Rosario Pugliese, Universit? di Firenze, Italy Hanne Riis Nielson, DTU, Denmark Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, California, USA Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK ?????? ??? ?????? & Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy (Chair) From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Fri Feb 7 08:47:49 2020 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 13:47:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WiL 2020 - Call for contributions Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at FSCD-IJCAR 2020 in Paris? Please join us at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic ! Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by April 22, 2020 via EasyChair. This will help us provide an interesting program, with only a light-weight selection procedure. More information below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions WiL 2020: 4th Women in Logic Workshop Paris, France 30 June 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Women in Logic 2020 is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020" (https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/summer-of-love-2020/ ), a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Universit? Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Our aim is to: - provide a platform for female researchers to share their work and achievements; - increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty; - establish new connections and collaborations; - foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community. We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers. Previous versions of Women in Logic (Reykjavik, Iceland 2017, Oxford, UK 2018 and Vancouver, Canada 2019) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for recognition of the need for change in the community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 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, games and logic, 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 TBA IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 22, 2020 Notification: May 21, 2020 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors ). The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2020 Easychair page as a PDF file (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2020 ) before the submission deadline of April 22, 2020, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves (Co-chair, University of Porto) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Delia Kesner (Universit? de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) * Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University) * Daniele Nantes (University of Bras?lia) * Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America) * Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) * Sonja Smets (ILLC - University of Amsterdam) * Ana Sokolova (Co-chair, University of Salzburg) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl.stpuu at gmail.com Fri Feb 7 12:18:08 2020 From: rl.stpuu at gmail.com (Roussanka Loukanova) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 18:18:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: NLA'20 Deadline Extended: final Message-ID: Special Session on Natural Language and Argumentation 2020 (NLA'20) https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/nla20 at DCAI 2020: 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence L'Aquila, Italy, 17-19 June 2020 Paper Submission Deadline Extended: **** 17th February, 2020 **** Scope We are in the reality of natural and computational systems of argumentation provided by reasoning, with natural and artificial languages. Intelligent systems of argumentation target advanced methods for exchanging, saving, reasoning, accessing, and updating information in memory. The special session on Natural Language and Argumentation (NLA) covers theories and applications. Formal models of argumentation like the Dung framework assume that natural language arguments have properly been mapped to logical formulas or partial proofs. Argument mining, when mainly working with existing machine learning methods, encounters difficulties to properly analyse arguments and relations between arguments, over general data, and especially when natural language expressions involve logical constructions. On the other side, traditional methods map sentences to logical formulas, which can be available after having been handled by a theorem prover. E.g., categorial analyses yield discourse representation structures, by using a parser (like Boxer, or Grail), and theorem provers (e.g., Coq) handle corresponding logical representations. The first two approaches (the Dung framework, and typical argument mining) suffer from the lack of development of the relations between natural language texts and dialogues, and do not handle the logical structure of meanings, while the third one (the predominant, traditional logical approach) is limited by the lack of sophisticated semantic lexicon for encompassing the logical structure carried by some words, and interconnections with other methods. Topics We welcome submissions on the following topics, without limiting to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications, in support of argumentation: - Formal models of argumentations (e.g., Dung's framework) - Logic of preferences - Argument mining - Theorem provers and assistants - Model checkers - Theory of computation - Theory of information - Natural language inference - Beliefs, attitudes, persuasions - theories and applications - Formal languages in support of reasoning and argumentation - Algorithms related to natural language and argumentation - theories, implementations, applications - Mapping NL expressions into logical representations - Syntactic and semantic analyses of natural language - Computational methods to natural language - approaches, theories - Computational syntax, semantics, and/or interfaces between them - NLP argument mining - Ambiguity and underspecification in syntax and semantics - Discourse and context dependency - Reasoning with ambiguity and underspecification - Interactive computation, reasoning, argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog, interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory, relevant for argumentation - Argumentation in AI applications: e.g., to business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences - ... Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 17th February, 2020 (extended from: 31 January, 2020) Notification of acceptance: 09 March, 2020 Camera-Ready papers due: 30 March, 2020 Conference: 17-19 June, 2020 Paper Submission https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions All papers must be formatted according to the AISC, Springer, template, with a maximum length of 8 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the DCAI 2020 conference management system: https://www.dcai-conference.net/submission Publication For inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings, at least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper. All accepted and presented papers will be published by the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, AISC, Springer Verlag. Organizing Committee Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Emiliano Lorini, CNRS, IRIT, France Roussanka Loukanova, Stockholm University, Sweden; and, IMI, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Richard Moot, LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France Christian Retor?, Universit? de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 7 16:07:24 2020 From: anuj.dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk (Anuj Dawar) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 21:07:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP 2020 - Conference relocation and deadline extension Message-ID: <21d095bc-90ea-9226-e33f-c2d0dd6a14ed@cl.cam.ac.uk> ======= ICALP 2020 - Conference relocation and deadline extension ======== The ICALP and the LICS steering committee have agreed together with the conference chairs in Beijing to relocate the two conferences. ICALP and LICS 2020 will take place in Saarbr?cken, Germany, July 8-11 (with satellite workshops on July 6-7). We are very grateful to our colleagues in Beijing, for the organization so far, to the colleagues from Saarbr?cken, who generously accepted this challenging task, and to all members of the TCS community who offered their help in this difficult situation. The deadline is extended, see below. __________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers - ICALP 2020 July 8-11 2020, Saarbr?cken, Germany (NEW) Paper submission deadline: Tuesday February 18, 2020, 6am GMT (NEW) https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2020 ICALP (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming) is the main European conference in Theoretical Computer Science and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). ICALP 2020 will be hosted on the Saarland Informatics Campus in Saarbr?cken, in co-location with LICS 2020 (ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science). Invited speakers: Track A: Virginia Vassilevska (MIT), Robert Krauthgamer (Weizmann) Track B: Stefan Kiefer (Oxford) Joint ICALP-LICS: Andrew Yao (Tsinghua), J?r?me Leroux (Bordeaux) Submission Guidelines: see https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2020 Important Dates submission: February 18, 2020, 6am GMT notifications: April 15, 2020 camera ready: April 28, 2020 Topics: ICALP 2020 will have the two traditional tracks A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games - including Algorithmic Game Theory, Distributed Algorithms and Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing) and B (Automata, Logic, Semantics and Theory of Programming). Papers presenting original, unpublished research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical, but not exclusive topics are: Track A -- Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking, Algorithms for Computational Biology, Algorithmic Game Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Combinatorics in Computer Science, Computational Complexity, Computational Geometry, Computational Learning Theory, Cryptography, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Foundations of Machine Learning, Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Network, Network Models for Distributed Computing, Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks, Network Mining and Analysis, Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing, Quantum Computing, Randomness in Computation, Theory of Security in Networks Track B -- Algebraic and Categorical Models, Automata, Games, and Formal Languages, Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation, Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory, Formal and Logical Aspects of Learning, Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking, Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems, Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems, Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages, Program Analysis and Transformation, Specification, Verification and Synthesis, Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi PC Track A chair: Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick) PC Track B chair: Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge) Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC Track chairs: Artur Czumaj A.Czumaj at warwick.ac.uk Anuj Dawar Anuj.Dawar at cl.cam.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held at Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima, Peru from August 4th to 7th, 2020. It is scientifically 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), 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 2020 EasyChair website. (Please go to http://wollic.org/wollic2020/instructions.html for instructions.) PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2020, 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 2020 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) Santiago Figueira (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, France) Cl?udia Nalon (UnB - Brazil) Giselle Reis (CMU - Qatar) STUDENT GRANTS ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2020 will permit ASL student members to apply for a limited travel grant (deadline: 90 days before the event starts). Visit https://aslonline.org/meetings/student-travel-awards/ for details. IMPORTANT DATES April 15, 2020: Full paper deadline May 23, 2020: Author notification May 30, 2019: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (Cordoba, Argentina) Arthur Amorim Azevedo (CMU, USA) Paul Brunet (UCL, UK) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Helle Hansen (TU Delft, The Netherlands) Justin Hsu (University of Wisconsin?Madison, USA) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandra Kiefer (Aachen University, Germany) Clemens Kupke (Strathclyde University, Scotland) Konstantinos Mamouras (Rice University, USA) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Larry Moss (Indiana Univ, USA) Claudia Nalon (University of Bras?lia, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research, USA) Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (TU Wien, Austria) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Yamilet Serrano (UTEC, Peru) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Christine Tasson (IRIF, France) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Renata Wassermann (Univ S?o Paulo) (Co-Chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Anuj Dawar, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Lawrence Moss, Luke Ong, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Angus Macintyre, Hiroakira Ono, Jouko V??n?nen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Ernesto Quadro-Vargas (Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima, Peru) (Local chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) 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) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL) SPECIAL SESSION: SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT MATHEMATICIANS It is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death. It is a joint production (still on its course) of The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and George Csicsery (Zala Films): ?Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani?. ?The biographical film is about Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant woman, and Muslim immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. The story of her life will be complemented with sections about Mirzakhani?s mathematical contributions, as explained by colleagues and illustrated with animated sequences. Throughout, we will look for clues about the sources of Mirzakhani?s insights and creativity." (http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/wollic2020/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tobycmurray at googlemail.com Mon Feb 10 07:33:45 2020 From: tobycmurray at googlemail.com (Toby Murray) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:33:45 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position: verified timing-channel security for seL4 Message-ID: Postdoc position: verified timing-channel security for seL4 http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/900474/research-fellow-in-verified-operating-system-security Applications close: February 25, 09:00 AM Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT; GMT +11) Timing channels plague modern systems, undermining their security. Yet no operating system provides provable protection against them. We believe that seL4 can be the first kernel to meet this challenge [1], building on its world-first proof of confidentiality enforcement [2] and its unique mechanisms for implementing time protection [3]. The seL4 project is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to investigate methods for proving that operating system kernels can defend against timing channels. We are seeking somebody with a research background in formal methods and security. You will contribute to the development of methods for reasoning about timing channels in verified operating system kernels, applied to the seL4 kernel. Your work will also investigate how to extend seL4?s existing proofs of information flow security, which primarily cover storage channels, to also encompass timing channels. Further details about the research project are summarised in the following position paper: [1] Gernot Heiser, Gerwin Klein and Toby Murray. "Can We Prove Time Protection?" in Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), pages 23-29, May 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08338 The position is for two years in the first instance, based at the University of Melbourne under Dr Toby Murray (https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/tobym/). You will work with a close-knit team here at University of Melbourne, and collaborate heavily with UNSW and Data61?s Trustworthy Systems group, in Sydney. Candidates should have experience in at least one of the following: - program verification (e.g. Hoare logic) - information flow security (e.g. non-interference) - interactive theorem provers (e.g. Isabelle, Coq, etc.) Applications close on February 25, 09:00 AM Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT; GMT +11) To apply, or fore more information, visit: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/900474/research-fellow-in-verified-operating-system-security Informal enquiries should be directed to Toby Murray toby.murray at unimelb.edu.au https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/tobym/ References [1] Gernot Heiser, Gerwin Klein and Toby Murray. "Can We Prove Time Protection?", HotOS 2019 [2] Toby Murray, et al. "seL4: From General Purpose to a Proof of Information Flow Enforcement", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2013 [3] Qian Ge, Yuval Yarom, Tom Chothia, Gernot Heiser. "Time Protection: The Missing OS Abstraction", EuroSys 2019 From deligu at di.unito.it Mon Feb 10 07:59:34 2020 From: deligu at di.unito.it (Ugo de'Liguoro) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:59:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call For Participation to TYPES-ITRS 2020: early registration expires on 16th February Message-ID: ============================================================== 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TYPES FOR PROOFS AND PROGRAMS 2020 - 2-5 MARCH 10th WORKSHOP ON INTERSECTION TYPES AND RELATED SYSTEMS - 6 MARCH ============================================================== https://types2020.di.unito.it Turin, Italy 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 program is organised under the auspices of EUTypes. INVITED SPEAKERS * Ulrik Buchholtz * Pierre Marie-P?drot * Leonardo de Moura * Sara Negri The ITRS 2020 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. 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To conclude the challenge, we will have a final workshop session at ETAPS along with the VerifyThis program verification competition [1]. For 2020, the challenge system is the new, implementation of the PGP server infrastructure, called HAGRID [2]. The old implementation did not conform to GDPR and was known to be vulnerable against DoS attacks. We invite you to present your results on the verification of this security-relevant challenge system during a special session of the VerifyThis program verification competition, held at ETAPS. ## Submission Authors are invited to submit a presentation proposal (or extended abstract) as a PDF using Springer?s LNCS style, which should be about a page long, but not longer than three pages (excluding bibliography). It should discuss ... * ... the used verification approach and tools * ... how the challenge was adapted to make verification possible (abstractions, reimplementation, different behaviour) * ... what has been achieved (modelled and verified properties) * ... successes and challenges encountered in the course of the case study. ## Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vtltc2020 ## Proceedings There will be an informal pre-proceeding of the accepted presentation proposals. A special issue for this verification challenge is planned and will be discussed on-site. ## Important dates Submission deadline: 1st March 2020 Notifications: 15th March 2020 Workshop: 25-26th April 2020 ## Program Chairs and Organizers Marieke Huisman Raul E. Monti Mattias Ulbrich Alexander Weigl [1] https://www.pm.inf.ethz.ch/research/verifythis.html [2] https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2019/06/14/20190614-hagrid/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joshua.guttman at gmail.com Mon Feb 10 14:41:43 2020 From: joshua.guttman at gmail.com (Joshua Guttman) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:41:43 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HotSpot: Hot Topics in the Principles of Security and Trust Message-ID: [ type-oriented theories have played a big role in the principles of security and trust in the past, and we welcome work in this area to HotSpot! --Joshua ] HotSpot, which we intend as a blend of invited and contributed papers, has now confirmed a list of excellent invited speakers, grouped into three areas: Privacy and quantitative information flow Giovanni Cherubin (EPFL) Pasquale Malacaria (QMUL) Secure Compilation Catalin Hritcu (INRIA) Frank Piessens (KU Leuven) Voting protocols and privacy-type properties Steve Kremer (INRIA) Carsten Sch?rmann (ITU Copenhagen) We're looking for a similar number of contributed talks to fill out the day. They may be on related topics, or range across other aspects of the principles of security and trust. This is shaping up to be a very promising exchange of ideas on security and trust principles. We'd love to have your submission for a talk about the work you're most interested in right now. Talks may cover work published elsewhere, or work to be published elsewhere. Alternately, if you'd like your paper to be published as a HotSpot paper, we can offer slots in the IEEE Xplore digital library area for the IEEE Euro S&P workshops. The deadline for submission is: 28 February All the details are below. See also http://hotspot.compute.dtu.dk Looking forward to the event; please join in! Joshua and Sebastian ================================================================= HotSpot 2020: 6th Workshop on Hot topics in the Principles of Security and Trust Affiliated with Euro S&P 2020, 15th of June 2020 in Genova, Italy http://hotspot.compute.dtu.dk Organized by the Theory of Security working group IFIP WG 1.7. ================================================================= Aim and scope ============= The principles of security and trust remain an area of intense and creative work. This work is focused primarily on defining security and trust goals, developing methods to verify the systems meet those goals, and to synthesize systems that meet those goals by construction. The areas of interest for HotSpot cut across many application areas, including hardware-software connections, distributed and cloud systems, big data, machine learning for (and against) security and privacy, and single-purpose systems such as voting, electronic currency and smart contracts. The areas of interest are unified however by a focus on rigorous models and reasoning, clear semantics, and a balance between proof and empirical methods. Format ====== The one-day workshop will be divided into a sequence of four main sessions. Each session will be devoted to a set of talks on related topics, both with invited talks and submitted papers. The sessions are 1. Privacy and quantitative information flow (C Palamidessi) 2. Voting protocols and privacy-type properties (P Y A Ryan, S M?dersheim) 3. Secure compilation (P Degano) 4. Open session Submissions on all formally-grounded topics related to security, privacy and trust are welcome. They can either be (a) an informal submission, consisting of an abstract or a paper that may appear formally elsewhere. (b) a full submission, to be included in an IEEE Xplore volume accompanying the main IEEE EuroS&P 2020 proceedings. 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URL: From benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Tue Feb 11 18:56:41 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:56:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] School on Univalent Mathematics 2020, Cortona (Italy), July 27-31, 2020 Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the School on Univalent Mathematics 2020, to be held at the Palazzone di Cortona (https://www.sns.it/en/palazzone-cortona), Cortona, Italy, July 27-31, 2020 (https://unimath.github.io/cortona2020/) Overview ======== Homotopy Type Theory is an emerging field of mathematics that studies a fruitful relationship between homotopy theory and (dependent) type theory. This relation plays a crucial role in Voevodsky's program of Univalent Foundations, a new approach to foundations of mathematics based on ideas from homotopy theory, such as the Univalence Principle. The UniMath library is a large repository of computer-checked mathematics, developed from the univalent viewpoint. It is based on the computer proof assistant Coq. In this school and workshop, we aim to introduce newcomers to the ideas of Univalent Foundations and mathematics therein, and to the formalization of mathematics in a computer proof assistant based on Univalent Foundations. Format ======= Participants will receive an introduction to Univalent Foundations and to mathematics in those foundations, by leading experts in the field. In the accompanying problem sessions, they will formalize pieces of univalent mathematics in the UniMath library. More information on the format is given on the website https://unimath.github.io/cortona2020 . Application and funding ======================= For information on how to participate, please visit https://unimath.github.io/cortona2020/. Mentors ====== Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) Joseph Helfer (Stanford University) Tom de Jong (University of Birmingham) Marco Maggesi (University of Florence) Ralph Matthes (CNRS, University Toulouse) Paige Randall North (The Ohio State University) Niccol? Veltri (Tallinn University of Technolog) Niels van der Weide (University of Nijmegen) Best regards, The organizers Benedikt Ahrens and Marco Maggesi From georg.moser at uibk.ac.at Wed Feb 12 04:09:57 2020 From: georg.moser at uibk.ac.at (Georg Moser) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:09:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4-year PhD Position in Theory Message-ID: <4d648f07-59fc-f888-7841-aa9904c13060@uibk.ac.at> 4-year PhD position at the University of Innsbruck ====================================================================== Within the Theoretical Computer Science Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria there is an opening for a 4 year PhD student position. We are looking for a strong candidate interested in one (ideally a combination) of the following areas (i) automation; (ii) logic and type theory; (iii) programming languages; (iv) static program analysis. Kindly see https://tcs-informatik.uibk.ac.at/vacancies/ for further details. Applications (including CV, letter of motivation, three references) may be submitted via the following link https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=11112 no later than March 20, 2020. Informal inquiries may be sent to georg.moser at uibk.ac.at. The city of Innsbruck is superbly located in the beautiful surroundings of the Tyrolean Alps. The combination of the Alpine environment and urban life in this historic town provides a high quality of living. Further information is available from the following links: - Theoretical Computer Science Group https://tcs-informatik.uibk.ac.at/ - Department of Computer Science https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/ - University of Innsbruck https://www.uibk.ac.at/ From paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it Wed Feb 12 05:12:37 2020 From: paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it (Paolo Pistone) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:12:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Participation=3A_Workshop_?= =?utf-8?q?=22Proofs=2C_Computation_and_Meaning=22=2C_20-21_March=2C_T?= =?utf-8?b?w7xiaW5nZW4gKEdlcm1hbnkpLg==?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Apologies for cross postings* ******************************************************************************* Call For Participation: Workshop "Proofs, Computation and Meaning" University of T?bingen (Germany), 20-21 March 2020 http://ls.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/PCM/ ******************************************************************************* SCOPE: Around thirty years after the fall of Hilbert's program, the proofs-as-programs paradigm established the view that a proof should not be identified, as in Hilbert's metamathematics, with a string of symbols in some formal system. Rather, proofs should consist in computational or epistemic objects conveying evidence to mathematical propositions. The relationship between formal derivations and proofs should then be analogous to the one between words and their meanings. This view naturally gives rise to questions such as ?which conditions should a formal arrangement of symbols satisfy to represent a proof?? or ?when do two formal derivations represent the same proof?". These questions underlie past and current research in proof theory both in the theoretical computer science community (e.g. categorical logic, domain theory, linear logic) and in the philosophy community (e.g. proof-theoretic semantics). In spite of these common motivations and historical roots, it seems that today proof theorists in philosophy and in computer science are losing sight of each other. This workshop aims at contributing to a renaissance of the interaction between researchers with different backgrounds by establishing a constructive environment for exchanging views, problems and results. ******************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES: Extended registration deadline: 26 February 2020 Workshop: 20-21 March 2020 Warm-up for Master and PhD students: 19 March 2020 ******************************************************************************* INVITED SPEAKERS: In addition to regular invited talks, the workshop includes two tutorials, aimed at introducing recent ideas on the correspondence between proofs, programs and categories as well as to the historical and philosophical aspects of the notions of infinity and predicativity. Tutorials: - Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo) - Noam Zeilberger (?cole Polytechnique) Regular speakers: - Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) - Federico Aschieri (TU Vienna) - Gilda Ferreira (Universidade Aberta, University of Lisbon) - Dominic Hughes (UC Berkeley) - Alberto Naibo (Paris 1 University) - Gabriel Scherer (INRIA, Saclay) Contributed speakers: - Matteo Acclavio (INRIA Saclay) - David Binder (T?bingen Univerisity) - Patr??cia Engr?cia (Lisbon University) - Herman Geuvers (Nijmegen \& Eindhoven University) - Iris van der Giessen (Utrecht University) - Hidenori Kurokawa (Kanazawa University) - David Pym (University College London) - Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona (Aix-Marseille University) - Peter Schuster (University of Verona) - Lutz Strassburger (INRIA Saclay) ******************************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail to luca.tranchini at gmail.com or paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it by 26 FEBRUARY. A warm-up for master and PhD students introducing the proofs-as-programs correspondence between proof theory and type theory will be organized on 19 March the day before the start of the workshop. (The warm-up will consists in two 2-hours lectures by the organizers). There might be possibility to get ECTS credits for PhD students attending the workshop. ******************************************************************************* REGISTRATION: There will be a small registration fee (20 euros) covering both coffee breaks and the social dinner to be paid on arrival. ******************************************************************************* ORGANIZERS: Luca Tranchini (T?bingen University), luca.tranchini at gmail.com Paolo Pistone (Bologna University), paolo.pistone at uniroma3.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Wed Feb 12 13:24:15 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:24:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP-LICS 2020 Fresh Call for Workshops Message-ID: <7FF07C37-C484-405D-8F43-9762873C494A@cs.ox.ac.uk> The following is a fresh call for workshop proposals for ICALP and LICS 2020, following the change in location. The conferences and workshops will now be held in Saarbr?cken, Germany instead of Beijing. The new deadline for workshop proposals is 26 Feb 2020. -- ICALP 2020 (http://econcs.pku.edu.cn/icalp2020/) and LICS 2020 (https://lics.siglog.org/lics20/) will take place in co-location from 8th till 11th of July 2020 in Saarbr?cken, Germany. The conferences will be preceded by two days of joint workshops, held on July 6th and 7th. We invite proposals of workshops affiliated with ICALP-LICS 2020 on all topics covered by ICALP and LICS, as well as other areas of theoretical computer science. Proposals should be submitted no later than *** February 26 2020 *** by sending an email to frederic.blanqui at inria.fr. Due to limited space of the venue we might not be able to accommodate all the proposed workshops. A workshop proposal submission should consist of: - workshop's name and URL (if already available) - workshop's organizers together with their email addresses and web pages; - short description of the area covered by the workshop and the motivation behind it; - expected number of participants (if available, please include the data of previous years); - planned format of the event; - date preference (July 6th or 7th). As for the format, a standard option is a one-day workshop consisting of invited talks by leading experts and of shorter contributed talks, either directly invited by the organizers or selected among submissions. Deviations from this standard are also warmly welcome, including a shorter or a longer time span than a full day, or other elements of the schedule like open problem sessions, discussion panels, or working sessions. If you plan to have invited speakers, please specify their expected number and, if possible, tentative names. If you plan a call for papers or for contributed talks followed by a selection procedure, the submission date should be scheduled after ICALP 2020 and LICS 2020 notification, while the notification should take place considerably before the early registration deadline. In your submission please include details, in particular the time schedule, of the planned procedure of selecting papers and/or contributed talks. If you plan to have published proceedings of your workshop, please provide the name of the publisher. Please be advised that ICALP-LICS 2020 is not able to provide any financial support for publishing workshop proceedings. We expect the workshops to be financially independent. The expenses related to the participation of invited speakers, production of workshop materials, etc. should be covered from independent sources. On top of standard ICALP/LICS registration fee there will be a moderate registration fee for the workshops that will cover coffee breaks. This workshop fee will be waived for maximum two invited speakers for each workshop. Workshop selection committee: Fr?d?ric Blanqui Naoki Kobayashi Yuqin Kong Micha? Pilipczuk Zhilin Wu Lijun Zhang From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Thu Feb 13 08:52:03 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Mihaela Rozman) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:52:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALL FOR (Self)NOMINATIONS: VCLA International Student Awards 2020 FOR Outstanding Master and Bachelor Theses conferred between 15.11.2018 and 31.12.2019 (inclusive) Message-ID: <04c701d5e274$c58c07f0$50a417d0$@tuwien.ac.at> 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, 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). *Algorithms and Computational Complexity, including design and analysis of discrete algorithms, complexity analysis, algorithmic lower bounds, parameterized and exact algorithms, decomposition methods, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, algorithm engineering, as well as algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, parallel algorithms, graph drawing algorithms, and distributed algorithms. *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. *Formal Methods for Security ad Privacy, covering design and analysis techniques for security and privacy critical systems, such as cryptographic protocols, software, hardware and so on. The category of formal methods is to be meant in a broad sense, including related questions in logic, model checking, static analysis, dynamic monitoring, theorem proving, and artificial intelligence. ----------------------------------In Memory of Helmut Veith--------------- 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. ----------------------------------Awards---------------------------------- *The Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR *The Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award: 800 EUR *The winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony in Vienna. ----------------------------------Eligibility---------------------------- *The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2018 and December 31st, 2019 (inclusive). *Students who obtained their degree at TU Wien are not eligible. ----------------------------------Nomination Requirements---------------- Nominations must include: *A cover page that contains the name and contact details of the nominated person, the title of the work for which the person is being nominated, award category, the date on which the degree was awarded, and the name of the university *An English summary of the thesis of maximum 3 pages, excluding references (A4 or letter page size, 11pt font min). The summary must clearly state the main contribution of the work, its novelty, and its relevance to some of the aforementioned areas of interest *The CV of the nominated person, including publication list (if applicable) *An endorsement letter from a supervisor or another proposing person. The letter must clearly state the independent and novel contribution of the student, and why the proposer believes the student deserves the award. The endorsement letter may be provided after the submission deadline, and emailed directly to award (AT) logic-cs.at. *The full thesis All documents should be in English, with the exception of the thesis. In case the thesis is in a different language, it must be accompanied by a research report in English of at least 10 pages that should be sufficient for the committee to evaluate the merit and quality of the submitted work. ----------------------------------Instructions for submitting nominations-- *Nominations should be submitted electronically using the following link to EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=YM7S3LYB9EcHisWn1s3722# *Submissions consist of two pdf files. The first is a single pdf file containing all documents for the nomination except the full thesis; the documents should appear in the order they are listed above. The second pdf file is the full thesis *The endorsement letter may optionally be sent by email by the endorser and omitted from the Easychair submission. In this case, please email the letter as a pdf file, including the name of the nominated person in the subject, to award (AT) logic-cs DOT at *The submission must be accompanied by a plain text electronic abstract of the thesis of at most 400 words, and three keywords. *The nominated student must be listed as the first and corresponding author in the submission form. ----------------------------------Important dates------------------------- *Submission deadline: March 25, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) *Notification of decision: end of June 2020 *Award ceremony: TBA ----------------------------------Contact--------------------------------- Please send all inquiries to award (AT) logic-cs.at ----------------------------------Website--------------------------------- https://logic-cs.at/vcla-awards-2020 From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Thu Feb 13 12:42:46 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Mihaela Rozman) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:42:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LPAR-23: 23rd International Conference on Logic for Programming: Extended deadlines for abstracts Message-ID: <077801d5e295$0081d1d0$01857570$@tuwien.ac.at> ********************************************************************** LPAR-23: 23rd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Abstract submission: 18 February, 2020 Paper submission: 22 February, 2020 Author notification: 8 April, 2020 Conference dates: 22-27 May, 2020 Location: Alicante, Spain ********************************************************************** The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 23rd LPAR will be held will be held in Alicante, Spain, 22-27 May 2020. The proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publications, in the EPiC Series in Computing. The volume will be open access and the authors will retain copyright. Submission Guidelines ===================== All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: Regular papers describing solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages long in EasyChair style, including figures but excluding references and appendices (that reviewers are not required to read). Where applicable, regular papers are supported by experimental validation. Experimental and tool papers describing implementations of systems, report experiments with implemented systems, or compare implemented systems. Experimental and tool papers should be supported by a link to the artifact/experimental evaluation available to the reviewers. The length of regular papers is limited to 15 pages in the EasyChair style (excluding the blibliography and appendices). The length of experimental and tool papers is limited to 8 pages in the EasyChair style (excluding the bibliography and appendices). Both types of papers must be electronically submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar23 Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. List of Topics ============== New results in the fields of computational logic and applications 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, but are not limited to: Abduction and interpolation methods Answer set programming Automated reasoning Constraint programming Contextual reasoning Decision procedures Description logics Foundations of security Hardware verification Implementations of logic Inconsistency- and exception tolerant reasoning Interactive theorem proving Knowledge representation and reasoning Logic and computational complexity Logic and databases Logic and games Logic and machine learning Logic and the web Logic and types Logic in artificial intelligence Logic of distributed systems Logic of knowledge and belief Logic programming Logical aspects of concurrency Logical foundations of programming Modal and temporal logics Model checking Non-monotonic reasoning Ontologies and large knowledge bases Paraconsistent logics Probabilistic and fuzzy reasoning Program analysis Rewriting Satisfiability checking Satisfiability modulo theories Software verification Specification using logic Unification theory Program Committee Chairs ======================== Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid Laura Kovacs, TU Wien Publication =========== The LPAR-23 proceedings will be published by EasyChair Publication, in the EasyChair EPiC Series in Computing. Contact ======= For more details about the conference, venue and organization, see the conference webpage https://easychair.org/smart-program/LPAR23/index.html ** You received this mail via the description logic mailing list; for more ** ** information, visit the description logic homepage at http://dl.kr.org/. ** ** SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: ** ** https://mailman.zfn.uni-bremen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dl ** From j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk Thu Feb 13 14:12:27 2020 From: j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk (Wickerson, John P) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:12:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: Student Research Competition @ PLDI 2020 Message-ID: <7CB68D5F-E8D4-4392-B457-E3B7EAC81CAE@imperial.ac.uk> PLDI 2020 in London will be running an exciting Student Research Competition. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, it offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research on programming language design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance. The goal is to give students a place to discuss their research with experts in their field and to help them sharpen their research and communication skills. The submission deadline is 13 March 2020. More details can be found here: https://pldi20.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2020-Student-Research-Competition From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Fri Feb 14 04:57:29 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Mihaela Rozman) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:57:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SIGLOG, VCLA and ILLC Travel Awards for WiL 2020 (Women in Logic Workshop) Message-ID: <0d1701d5e31d$2b330ba0$819922e0$@tuwien.ac.at> It is our pleasure to announce the call for the SIGLOG/VCLA/ILLC Travel Awards for attendees of Women in Logic Workshop 2020. Thanks to the generous support of SIGLOG, the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) and the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam (ILLC), applications for awards are invited to facilitate students and postdocs, who are authors of accepted papers to register and travel to the WiL 2020. The awardees of the SIGLOG/VCLA/ILLC Travel Award will be reimbursed for a portion of their travel expenses, and registration costs. There will be at most one award per paper. APPLICATION PROCESS To submit a nomination for the SIGLOG/VCLA/ILLC Travel Awards please submit: 1.Basic information about the applicant 2.Information about her/their accepted WiL 2020 contribution 3.A statement about how attendance at WiL 2020 will impact the applicant 4.Resume/CV of the applicant 5.A nomination consists of a recommendation letter of up to 300 words by the applicant's supervisor/advisor Please submit using the subject ?WiL 2020 ? Travel Awards? to the WiL Program Co-chairs at IMPORTANT DATES -Nominations must arrive no later than May 15, 2020 -The winners will be notified by May 25, 2020 Website: https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2020/home?authuser=0 Contact: WiL2020 wil2020 at easychair.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions WiL 2020: 4th Women in Logic Workshop Paris, France 30 June 2020 sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2020/home?authuser=0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 22, 2020 Notification: May 21, 2020 WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2020/submission?authuser=0 ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves (Co-chair, University of Porto) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Delia Kesner (Universit? de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) * Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University) * Daniele Nantes (University of Bras?lia) * Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America) * Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) * Sonja Smets (ILLC - University of Amsterdam) * Ana Sokolova (Co-chair, University of Salzburg) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Fri Feb 14 11:39:30 2020 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:39:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First Call for Papers: EXPRESS/SOS 2020 Message-ID: =========================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Combined 27th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 17th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2020) https://express-sos2020.cs.ru.nl Vienna (Austria) August 31, 2020, Affiliated with CONCUR 2020 Submission deadline (full and short papers): Friday, June 26, 2020 =========================================== == SCOPE AND TOPICS The EXPRESS/SOS workshop series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and in the expressiveness of computational models. Topics of interest for EXPRESS/SOS 2020 include, but are not limited to: - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between models of computation (process algebras, event structures, Petri nets, rewrite systems) - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between 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); - comparisons between structural operational semantics and other formal semantic approaches; - applications and case studies of structural operational semantics; - software tools that automate, or are based on, structural operational semantics. We especially welcome contributions bridging the gap between the above topics and neighbouring areas, such as, for instance: - computer security - multi-agent systems - programming languages - formal verification - reversible computation - knowledge representation == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We invite two types of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages, excluding references). * Short papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references, not included in the workshop proceedings) All submissions should adhere to the EPTCS format (http://www.eptcs.org). Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is only allowed for short papers; full papers must be unpublished. Submission is performed through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2020 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. == SPECIAL ISSUE There is a long tradition of special issues of reputed international journals devoted to the very best papers presented in prior editions of the workshop. For instance, a special issue of Information and Computation with selected papers from EXPRESS/SOS 2018 is currently in progress. We will consider organizing a special issue for EXPRESS/SOS 2020. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Bas Luttik (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK) == IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 26, 2020 - Notification date: July 31, 2020 - Camera ready version: August 12, 2020 - Workshop: August 31, 2020 == WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK), co-chair Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino, Italy) Rob van Glabbeek (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, U.S.A.) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (Inria and ?cole Polytechnique, France) Marco Peressotti (University of Southern Denmark) Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), co-chair Ivano Salvo (Sapienza, Rome, Italy) == CONTACT Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the co-chairs in case of questions at express-sos20 at easychair.org From serge.autexier at dfki.de Sat Feb 15 02:49:10 2020 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 08:49:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2020, July 26-31: Invited Speakers & Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <20200215074910.A8B56269022E@gigondas.localdomain> 2nd Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 13th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2020 - July 26-31, 2020 Bertinoro, Italy http://www.cicm-conference.org/2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2020 Invited Speakers: Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, London, UK) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, CNRS, Evry, France) Christian Szegedy (Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA) CICM 2020 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2020 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 different forms: 1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS: * regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present novel research results * project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results * system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including references) present digital artifacts * system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template) provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new release of an existent tool 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 with a forum to present early results and receive constructive feedback and mentoring. *** Important Dates *** Formal submissions - Abstract deadline: March 01 - Full paper deadline: March 08 - Reviews sent to authors: April 17 - Rebuttals due: April 21 - Notification of acceptance: April 24 - Camera-ready copies due: May 03 - Conference: July 26-31 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 15 - Notification of acceptance: May 1 - Second round submission deadline: June 15 - Notification of acceptance: July 1 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm13 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2020 proceedings with Springer LNCS. From csg63 at drexel.edu Sat Feb 15 20:33:27 2020 From: csg63 at drexel.edu (Gordon,Colin) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:33:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] (Self-)Nominations for OOPSLA 2020 Artifact Evaluation Committee Message-ID: This year the OOPSLA 2020 Artifact Evaluation Chairs are seeking (self!) nominations for the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). If you are a senior PhD student or post-doc with expertise relevant to the kinds of artifacts submitted to OOPSLA, please read the rest of this message and apply: https://forms.gle/QHS5cn8uuJjzUcaA9 If you are not, but know someone who might be interested, please forward this along to them. Generally, the bar for "senior" PhD student has been authorship on one paper at a SIGPLAN conference or a related conference (e.g., ICSE, FSE, ASE, ISSTA, ECOOP, ESOP, etc.), though this should be interpreted as a rough guideline rather than a hard requirement on where you have published. Prior experience with artifact evaluation (as a submitter or reviewer) is a plus, but also not required. The AEC's work will occur between the phase 1 notifications for OOPSLA (July 1, 2020) and the due date for phase 2 revisions (August 14, 2020). For more information on artifact reviewing, consult the 2020 calls for artifacts: https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Artifacts#Call-for-Artifacts If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact the 2020 AEC chairs (Colin Gordon and Anders M?ller). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ksuenaga at fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Sat Feb 15 23:38:53 2020 From: ksuenaga at fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Kohei SUENAGA) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 21:38:53 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extended to Feb. 23: MT-CPS 2020 Message-ID: ========================================================================== 5th Workshop on Monitoring and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems (MT-CPS 2020) https://sites.google.com/view/mt-cps2020/home Part of CPS-IoT Week 2020 https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cpsiot/cpsweek2020/ April 21, 2020 - Sydney, Australia ========================================================================== UPDATE: Deadline extended to Feb. 23. * Description Cyber-physical systems (CPS) model the integration of computational modules, like decision logic, with physical phenomena in the environment, such as the phenomenon being controlled by the logic. Several CPS applications, such as self-driving cars and other autonomous ground/aerial/underwater vehicles, medical devices, surgical robots, as well as many Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly for Industrial IoT or Industry 4.0, are safety-critical, where human lives can be at stake. CPS exhibit complex and unpredictable behaviors, thus making their correctness and robustness analysis a challenging task. Given the gap between the complexity of such systems and the scalability of current formal methods, exhaustive formal verification remains an elusive goal. However, simulation-based lightweight verification techniques, such as monitoring and testing, achieve both rigor and efficiency by enabling the evaluation of systems according to the properties of their exemplar behaviors. The Workshop on Monitoring and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems (MT-CPS) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the problems of detecting, testing, measuring, and extracting qualitative and quantitative properties from individual behaviors of CPS. * Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Specification languages for monitoring and testing - Runtime verification and monitoring of CPS - Model/Software/Hardware/Processor-in-the-loop (MIL/SIL/HIL/PIL) testing - Testing the integration of heterogeneous components - Monitoring and testing of streaming and/or historical IoT data - Interpretation of multi-dimensional counter-examples - Black-box and white-box testing - Measuring and statistical information gathering for data-driven analyses - Simulation-based verification and parameter synthesis - Fault diagnostics, localization, and recovery - Combination of static and dynamic analysis - Applications and case studies from safety-critical domains * Workshop format MT-CPS is intended to be a forum for exchanging the latest scientific activity and emerging trends between researchers and practitioners. We encourage submission of abstracts that address any of the aforementioned topics of interest and cover recently published or work in progress. In addition to the contributed material, the workshop will include a combination of invited talks from leading researchers and/or practitioners from industry, academia, and government research labs around the world. The workshop is intended to be an informal gathering about latest results and, as such, it will not have formal proceedings. However, we will make accepted abstracts and presentation material publicly available. Abstracts are submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mtcps2020 * Submission instructions Abstracts should be in PDF form, up to 2 pages in length with 1-inch margins and at least 10-point font size, and may contain up to two figures. Abstracts should list the full names, affiliations, and contact information of all authors. If you are interested in demonstrating a technology you are working on at the workshop, please indicate so in your abstract submission. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Those that are selected for oral presentations will be posted on the workshop website, and will be part of the papers distributed to CPS-IoT Week participants. * Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: February 23, 2020 <-- extended! Notification: March 8, 2020 Final version: March 29, 2020 Workshop: April 21, 2020 * Committee - Program Chairs Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics Kohei Suenaga, Kyoto University - Program Committee Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology Thao Dang, Verimag Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California Alexandre Donz?, Decyphir Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics Bardh Hoxha, Souther Illinois University Baekgyu Kim, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Konstantinos Mamouras, Rice University Mohammad Mousavi, University of Leicester Jens Oehlerking, Robert Bosch GmbH Akshay Rajhans, MathWorks Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania - Steering Committee Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Sajed Miremadi, Volvo Cars Dejan Nickovic, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Jens Oehlerking, Bosch -- Kohei Suenaga (????), Ph.D Associate professor (???) Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (??????????) ksuenaga at gmail.com http://www.fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ksuenaga/ From henning at basold.eu Sun Feb 16 05:23:24 2020 From: henning at basold.eu (Henning Basold) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:23:24 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TEASE-LP (co-located with ETAPS 2020): Second call for contributions Message-ID: Call for Contributions Workshop on Trends, Extensions, Applications and Semantics of Logic Programming (TEASE-LP 2020) Dublin, Ireland, 25 April 2020 (co-located with ETAPS 2020) www.coalg.org/tease-lp Logic programming is a framework for expressing programs, propositions and relations as Horn clause theories, with the purpose of performing automatic inference in these theories. Horn clause theories are famous for their well-understood declarative semantics, in which models of logic programs are given inductively or coinductively. At the same time, Horn clauses give rise to efficient inference procedures, usually involving resolution. Logic programming found applications in type inference, verification, and AI. While logic programming was originally conceived for describing simple facts, it was extended to account for much more complex theories. This includes higher-order theories, inductive and coinductive data, and stochastic/probabilistic theories. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that work on extensions of logic programming and inference methods, and to foster an exchange of methods and applications that have emerged in different communities. Invited Speakers --------------------------- * Keynote: Luke Ong, University of Oxford, GBR * Tutorial: Uli Sattler, University of Manchester, GBR Venue and Event --------------------------- TEASE-LP 2020 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, co-located with ETAPS 2020 on 25 April 2020. Important Dates --------------------------- Abstract submission: Wednesday, 04 March 2020 AoE Notification: Wednesday, 25 March 2020 AoE Camera-ready copy: Wednesday, 1 April 2020 AoE Workshop: Saturday, 25 April 2020 Topics --------------------------- The central idea of this workshop is to discuss the theory of logic programming and associated topics that have as well the goal to automatically infer knowledge and proofs. Our intention is to bring together researchers that work on the numerous topics that contribute to automatic proof inference and foster an exchange that may lead to advances in the theory of logic programming. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Proof theory (e.g. focalised and uniform proofs), * Logic programming beyond the classical Horn clause theories (e.g. coinduction, higher-order Horn clauses, probabilities, categorical logic, inductive LP), * Extensions of logic programming (e.g. DataLog, description logic, relational programming), * Advanced implementations (e.g. ?Prolog, ELPI, miniKanren), * Type theory (e.g. polarised ?-calculus, proofs-as-programs, types for logic programming), * Semantics (e.g. classical, categorical, algebraic, coalgebraic), and * Applications. Programme Committee --------------------------- Henning Basold (chair), Leiden University, NLD Nikolaj Bj?rner, Microsoft Research, USA William Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Gopal Gupta, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ekaterina Komendantskaya (chair), Heriot-Watt University, GBR James Lipton, Wesleyan University, USA Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, FRA Gopalan Nadathur, University of Minnesota, USA Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hiroshi Unno, University of Tsukuba, JPN Noam Zeilberger, University of Birmingham, GBR Submission Instructions --------------------------- Since the aim of the workshop is to foster exchange and discussions on trends, extensions, applications and semantics of logic programming, we invite presentations of possibly already published as well as ongoing work. 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You should possess demonstrable experience across some/all of: quantitative and/or probabilistic modelling, verification and synthesis, concurrency/games/multi-agent systems, and symbolic methods, as well as have proven experience of software development in relevant areas, such as verification and symbolic AI (SAT, SMT, etc), statistical inference or statistical model checking, numerical methods, constraint solving and optimisation. Knowledge of neural networks and Bayesian methods is highly desirable. The closing date for applications is 12 noon 4 March 2020. Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 9th March 2020. Enquiries to Professor Marta Kwiatkowska (marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk) are welcome. For further details and to apply please visit: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=145222 Our staff and students come from all over the world and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. 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URL: From j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk Mon Feb 17 02:41:24 2020 From: j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk (Wickerson, John P) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:41:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: PLMW @ PLDI 2020 Message-ID: <1A15B8A9-B0A0-4FBA-8841-13332BBC66EB@imperial.ac.uk> The Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is a workshop designed to broaden the exposure of late-stage undergraduate students and early-stage graduate students to research and career opportunities in programming languages. The workshop program will include technical sessions that cover both the history and current practice of core subfields within programming languages, mentoring sessions that cover effective habits for navigating the research landscape, and social sessions that create opportunities for students to interact with researchers in the field. More details about the workshop are available here: https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-PLDI-2020 We are especially excited to offer scholarship opportunities for students to attend PLMW. These scholarships will cover the cost of registration for PLMW as well as help defray the cost of travel and lodging. As an additional benefit, the workshop is co-located with a top programming languages research conference, Programming Languages Design and Implementation (held from June 17?19), and the scholarship will cover registration for that as well. Applications for attendance and scholarship are due March 13th, 2020, and can be submitted here: https://pldi20.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-PLDI-2020#Scholarships We look forward to seeing your application! Best, PLMW @ PLDI Organizing Committee Milind Kulkarni, Purdue University Stephen Chong, Harvard University Nadia Polikarpova, UC San Diego Adrian Sampson, Cornell University From Dominique.Devriese at vub.be Mon Feb 17 09:32:31 2020 From: Dominique.Devriese at vub.be (Dominique DEVRIESE) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:32:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Call for Papers: JFP Special Issue on Secure Compilation Message-ID: With the deadlines in about two months, we would like to remind everyone about the Journal of Functional Programming Special Issue on Secure Compilation. JFP Special Issue on Secure Compilation DEADLINES Notification of intent to submit (mandatory): 13 April 2020 Submission deadline: 20 April 2020 Expected first round of reviews: 20 August 2020 Expected publication date: May 2021 SCOPE Any topic that could be of interest to secure compilation is in scope. Secure compilation should be interpreted very broadly to include any work in security, programming languages, architecture, systems or their combination that can be leveraged to preserve security properties of programs when they are compiled or to eliminate low-level vulnerabilities. Papers that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. This includes papers on new attack vectors such as microarchitectural side-channels, whose defenses could benefit from compiler techniques. TOPICS Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Attacker models for secure compiler chains. * Secure compiler properties: fully abstract compilation and similar properties, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preservation of safety, information flow and other (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability. * Secure interaction between different programming languages: foreign function interfaces, gradual types, securely combining different memory management strategies. * Enforcement mechanisms and low-level security primitives: static checking, program verification, typed assembly languages, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software-based isolation/hiding techniques (SFI, crypto-based, randomization-based, OS/hypervisor-based), security-oriented architectural features such as Intel?s SGX, MPX and MPK, capability machines, side-channel defenses, object capabilities. * Experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilers. * Proof methods relevant to compilation: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, trace semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters. * Formal verification of secure compilation chains (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing. We invite authors from across the above spectrum. Papers will be reviewed as regular JFP submissions, and acceptance in the special issue will be based on both JFP's quality standards and relevance to the theme. The special issue will also consider high-quality papers on secure compilation which are not traditional "research-result" papers. This may include pearls, surveys, tutorial papers or educational papers, which will be judged by the JFP standards for such submissions. Prospective authors of such papers *must* soundboard their idea with the special editors early on in the process, at least two months before submission. NOTIFICATION OF INTENT Authors must notify the special-issue editors of their intent to submit by the deadline marked above. This will help us to speed up the review process. 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URL: From kutsia at risc.jku.at Wed Feb 19 17:11:53 2020 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:11:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: UNIF 2020 Message-ID: ==================================================== Call for Papers UNIF 2020 The 34th International Workshop on Unification June 29, 2020, Paris, France http://unif2020.org/ ==================================================== UNIF 2020 is the 34th 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. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Admissibility of Inference Rules - Unification in modal, fuzzy, temporal and description logics - Anti-unification/generalization - Semi-unification - Narrowing - Formalization of unification - Matching Problems - Applications - Unification in Special Theories - Higher-Order Unification - Combination problems - Constraint Solving - Disunification - Complexity Issues - Type Checking and reconstruction 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 34th International Workshop on Unification is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020", a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Universit? Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. UNIF 2020 will be a satellite workshop of The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2020). ------------------------------------------ ** Submission Instructions ------------------------------------------- Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style, to be submitted electronically as PDF through the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2020 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 electronic form as a technical report in the RISC-Linz Report Series from the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University. 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: April 13, 2020 Submission of full paper: April 20, 2020 Author notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready papers: June 8, 2020 UNIF 2020: June 29, 2020 ----------------------------- ** Invited Speakers ------------------------------ St?phanie Delaune (CNRS, IRISA) Manfred Schmidt-Schau? (Goethe-University Frankfurt) ----------------------------- ** Program Committee ----------------------------- Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Brasil?a) Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Alexander Baumgartner (University of Chile) Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay) Daniel Dougherty (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Besik Dundua (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) Serdar Erbatur (University of Texas at Dallas) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Pascual Julian-Iranzo (University of Castilla-La Mancha) Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz) co-chair Jordi Levy (IIIA - CSIC) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University) Andrew M. Marshall (University of Mary Washington) co-chair Barbara Morawska (Ahmedabad University) Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (Universidade de Bras?lia) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany--SUNY) Veena Ravishankar (University of Mary Washington) Christophe Ringeissen (INRIA) From Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Wed Feb 19 10:32:09 2020 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (=?utf-8?B?TmnEjWtvdmnEhyBEZWphbg==?=) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:32:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV20 - Call for Papers and Tutorials Message-ID: Call for Papers RV 2020: 20th International Conference on Runtime Verification Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 6-9, 2020 https://rv20.ait.ac.at NEW THIS YEAR: Special track on RV for Autonomy NEW THIS YEAR: Poster and demo session (separate call will follow) 20th BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR: RV will celebrate its 20th birthday in a special way. INVITED SPEAKERS - Raj Rajkumar ? Carnegie Mellon University - Tom Henzinger ? IST Austria - Michael Ernst - Amazon SCOPE Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - specification languages for monitoring - monitor construction techniques - program instrumentation - logging, recording, and replay - combination of static and dynamic analysis - specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces - monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems - runtime checking of privacy and security policies - metrics and statistical information gathering - program/system execution visualization - fault localization, containment, recovery and repair - dynamic type checking and assurance cases - runtime verification for autonomy and runtime assurance Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission critical systems, enterprise and systems software, cloud systems, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. PAPERS There are four categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short, tool demo, and benchmark papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. - Regular Papers (up to 16 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. - Short Papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. - Tool Demonstration Papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission. - Benchmark papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) should describe a benchmark, suite of benchmarks, or benchmark generator useful for evaluating RV tools. Papers should include information as to what the benchmark consists of and its purpose (what is the domain), how to obtain and use the benchmark, an argument for the usefulness of the benchmark to the broader RV community and may include any existing results produced using the benchmark. We are interested in both benchmarks pertaining to real-world scenarios and those containing synthetic data designed to achieve interesting properties. Broader definitions of benchmark e.g. for generating specifications from data or diagnosing faults are within scope. We encourage benchmarks that are tool agnostic, especially if they have been used to evaluate multiple tools. We also welcome benchmarks that contain verdict labels and with rigorous arguments for correctness of these verdicts, and benchmarks that are demonstrably challenging with respect to the state-of-the-art tools. Benchmark papers must be accompanied by an easily accessible and usable benchmark submission. Papers will be evaluated by a separate benchmark evaluation panel who will assess the benchmarks relevance, clarity, and utility as communicated by the submitted paper. - SPECIAL TRACK ON RV FOR AUTONOMY: Runtime Verification is of special importance in systems that have a high degree of autonomy. This includes applications such as self-driving cars, vehicles equipped with automated driver assistance systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic vehicles used in hostile and uncertain environments (e.g. underwater, space, etc.), general-purpose service robots, human-in-the-loop medical devices, etc. This year, we specifically solicit papers that focus on RV for autonomy with the goal of having a special session on autonomy. Papers in this category will be subject to the same review process as other submissions, and can be regular papers, short papers, tool demonstrations papers, or benchmark papers. The Program Committee of RV 2020 will give a Springer-sponsored best paper award to the eligible regular papers. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE: The Program Committee of RV 2020 will invite a selection of accepted papers to submit extended versions to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT). TUTORIAL TRACK Tutorials are two-to-three-hour presentations on a selected topic. Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of up to 20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings. A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and a biography of the presenter. The proposal must not exceed 2 pages. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee. SUBMISSIONS All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv20 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2020 to present. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 18, 2020 Paper submission: May 25, 2020 Author notification: July 24, 2020 Camera-ready version: August 7, 2020 Conference: October 6-9, 2020 PC CHAIRS Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California Dejan Ni?kovi?, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology POSTER AND DEMO CHAIR Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University PC MEMBERS Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology Nicolas Basset, VERIMAG Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Iowa State University Chih-Hong Cheng, Denso Katherine Driggs Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes/INRIA Grenoble Chuchu Fan, MIT Lu Feng, University of Virginia Thomas Ferr?re, Imagination House Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo Dana Fisman, Ben Gurion University Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology Sylvain Hall?, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Chicoutimi Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL Stefan Jak?i?, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Jim Kapinski, Amazon Safraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin Bettina K?nighofer, TU Graz Martin Leucker, University of L?beck Chung-Wei Lin, National Taiwan University David Lo, Singapore Management University Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca Nicolas Markey, INRIA/Irisa Laura Nenzi, University of Trieste Gordon Pace, University of Malta Nicola Paoletti, University of London Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University Giles Reger, University of Manchester Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University C?sar S?nchez, IMDEA Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers University of Technology Julien Signoles, CEA LIST Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania Bernhard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund Stefano Tonetta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Hazem Torfah, University of California at Berkeley Dmitriy Traytel, ETHZ Dogan Ulus, Samsung STEERING COMMITTEE Howard Barringer, University of Manchester Ezio Bartocci, Technical University of Vienna Saddek Bensalem, Verimag and University Grenoble-Alpes Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes/INRIA Grenoble Klaus Havelund, NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Martin Leucker, University of L?beck Giles Reger, University of Manchester Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania Dejan Ni?kovi? 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URL: From Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Wed Feb 19 10:34:52 2020 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Ni=E8kovi=E6_Dejan?=) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:34:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMICS20 - Call for Papers Message-ID: ------------------------- Call for Papers FMICS 2020: 25th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems Vienna, Austria, September 2-3, 2020 https://fmics20.ait.ac.at/ ------------------------- NEW THIS YEAR: special track on "Formal Methods for Security in IoT" and special issue in STTT ------------------------- The aim of the FMICS conference series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. FMICS brings together scientists and engineers who are active in the area of formal methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods. The FMICS conference series also strives to promote research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools for industrial applications. FMICS 25: This is the 25th edition of FMICS, which will be celebrated in a special way. QONFEST 2020: FMICS 2020 is part of the QONFEST umbrella conference comprising also: - CONCUR 2020: 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory - FORMATS 2020: 18th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems - QEST 2020: 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems along with workshops and tutorials. QONFEST takes place from August 31 to September 5, 2020. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 8, 2020 Paper submission: May 15, 2020 Author notification: July 1, 2020 Camera-ready version: July 15, 2020 FMICS conference: September 2-3, 2020 TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new research directions. - Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, descriptions, learning, optimisation and transformation of complex, distributed, real-time, embedded, mobile and autonomous systems. - Verification and validation methods (model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, etc.) that address shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues). - Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs. Application of formal methods in standardisation and industrial forums. SPECIAL TRACK on "Formal Methods for Security in IoT": We invite submissions in topics related to the secure development and security assessment of IoT-based applications using formal methods. For this occasion, the Program Committee has been enlarged with experts from the security domain. Formatting instructions and the review procedure are the same as the ones for regular papers. However, the authors will need to specifically indicate their interest in the special track during the submission. Papers accepted for the special track will be included in a special session at FMICS 2020 along with a panel on this topic, while they will be published in the conference proceedings together with papers accepted for the regular track. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Thomas Henzinger, IST (joint keynote with CONCUR and QEST) - Stefan Resch, Thales - Roderick Bloem, TU Graz (joint keynote with CONCUR and FORMATS) SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Papers must describe authors' original research work and results. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. Submissions should clearly motivate relevance to industrial application. Case study papers should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods) or provide specific motivation for further research and development. Papers should not exceed 15 pages (excluding max. 2 pages of references) formatted according to the LNCS style (Springer). All submissions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee who will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, soundness and applicability of the presented ideas and results. Papers must be written in English and should be submitted as PDF files using the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmics20 The conference proceedings will be published by Springer. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference as a registered participant. BEST PAPER AWARD: A Springer-sponsored award will be presented to the authors of the submission selected by the Program Committee as the FMICS 2020 Best Paper. SPECIAL ISSUE: The Program Committee of FMICS 2020 will invite a selection of accepted papers to submit extended versions to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT). PC CHAIRS - Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR - Dejan Ni?kovi?, AIT PC MEMBERS - Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz - Jiri Barnat, Masaryk University - Davide Basile, University of Florence and ISTI-CNR - Carlos Budde, University of Twente - Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland and NSF - Thao Dang, VERIMAG - Michael Dierkes, Rockwell Collins - Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University - Alessandro Fantechi, University of Florence - Wan Fokkink, VU Amsterdam - Maria Del Mar Gallardo, University of Malaga - Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo - Klaus Havelund, NASA - Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY - Axel Legay, UCLouvain - Gabriele Lenzini, University of Luxembourg - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, TU Denmark - Florian Lorber, Aalborg University - Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero - Radu Mateescu, INRIA - Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR - Stefan Mitsch, CMU - Jos? N. Oliveira, University of Minho and INESC TEC - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University - Adam Rogalewicz, Brno University of Technology - Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University - Matteo Rossi, Polytechnic University of Milan - Stefano Tonetta, FBK - Jan Tretmans, TNO - Andrea Vandin, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - Tim Willemse, TU Eindhoven - Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland - Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences FMICS BOARD - Alessandro Fantechi, University of Florence - Hubert Garavel, INRIA - Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR - Diego Latella, ISTI-CNR - Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero - Radu Mateescu, INRIA - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University (chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.kohlhase at fau.de Fri Feb 21 04:15:28 2020 From: michael.kohlhase at fau.de (Michael Kohlhase) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:15:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] new: MSC 68V (new classes for Types-related topics in MSC2020) Message-ID: <4b2a6e14-8a92-92ae-ecca-caee774fbab3@fau.de> Dear Colleagues, You may know of the Mathematical Subject Classification (MSC; see [1]),? a system of ca 7000 numeric labels for all areas of mathematics. The MSC is reviewed every 10 years, and MSC 2020 is out since mid-January. The single biggest change is the introduction of the mid-level class 68Vxx? for "Computer science support for mathematical research and practice" and its seven subclasses (see [2] for details). With this addition, Types topics have a home in the MSC now. If you are wondering about the specifics of the distribution of subtitles, ... The process for MSC extensions is that there is a call for extensions to the community, which is taken as input to the coordination by committee between zbMATH and Math Reviews (MR) who will then decide. As you can imagine, the addition of a whole new (mid-level) topic is bound to be controversial and every little piece of real estate has to be fought for and will be re-shaped multiple times.? We have to thank Klaus Kiermeier from zbMATH for doing this based on my initial submission. This cannot have been easy. In any case, even though we may have wished for a slightly different parcellization of our discipline, this is a non-trivial recognition of our field by the mathematical community, and we should spread the word about this to popularize it. And in 2030 it will be much simpler to get new topics in (if there is significant updake of 68Vxx Best, Michael [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Subject_Classification [2] https://zbmath.org/classification/?q=68v -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Kohlhase, http://kwarc.info/kohlhase, skype: mibein42 Professur f?r Wissensrepr?sentation & -verarbeitung Informatik, FAU Erlangen N?rnberg, Martensstr. 3, D-91058 Erlangen, Room 11.139, tel/fax: (49) 9131-85-64052/55, michael.kohlhase at fau.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sjr124 at gmail.com Thu Feb 20 09:40:38 2020 From: sjr124 at gmail.com (Steven Ramsay) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:40:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor Position at University of Bristol Message-ID: The University of Bristol are seeking to appoint an assistant/associate professor in Programming Languages. Position: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in Programming Languages Location: University of Bristol, UK Type: Full time, open-ended contract Salary: ?38,017 -- ?59,135 per annum Applications deadline: March 11 Website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingId=65334&nPostingTargetId=182336&id=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&lg=UK The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint a full-time faculty member in Programming Languages at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level; comparable to Assistant / Associate Professorship. You will be expected to both deliver outstanding teaching and undertake internationally leading research in the area of Programming Languages. There is opportunity to play a significant role in shaping and leading a new Programming Languages research group. The Department of Computer Science is an international centre of excellence in the foundations and applications of computing, ranked 4th in the UK for research intensity by the 2014 REF. The Department is already home to expertise in functional programming, program analysis, algorithms and complexity; it benefits from a close association with neighbouring groups in Cryptography and Trustworthy Systems. The University of Bristol is a leading institution among the UK?s Russell Group Universities and is regularly placed among the top-ranking institutions in global league tables. Bristol is a friendly, green, coastal city with a rich and lively cultural scene and has consistently been voted one of the best places to live in the UK. This post is being offered on a full-time, open-ended contract. A recruitment supplement scheme is available up to ?5K. For informal discussion about the post you are welcome to contact: Seth Bullock (Head of Department, seth.bullock at bristol.ac.uk) or Steven Ramsay (Lecturer in Programming Languages, steven.ramsay at bristol.ac.uk). The closing date for all applications is 23:59 on Wednesday 11 March 2020. Interviews are expected to take place shortly after the closing date. -- Steven Ramsay From mihaela.sighireanu at irif.fr Fri Feb 21 08:51:39 2020 From: mihaela.sighireanu at irif.fr (Mihaela Sighireanu) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:51:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 27th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2020 Message-ID: <97e00b6cdc530895a9d749a456ec9427@irif.fr> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2020 27th Static Analysis Symposium Co-located with SLASH 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States, November 18-20, 2020 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract Submission: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - Paper Submission: Friday, April 24, 2020 - Artifact Submission: Thursday, April 30, 2020 - Author Response: Saturday-Tuesday, June 13-16, 2020 - Notification: Friday, June 26, 2020 - Conference: Wednesday-Friday, November 18-20, 2020 All deadline times are AoE. ABOUT Static analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served as the primary venue for the presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. TOPICS The technical program for SAS 2020 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 optimizations and transformations - Program synthesis - Program verification - Security analysis - Tool environments and architectures - Theoretical frameworks - Type checking SUBMISSION Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. - Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. - Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. - They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. - Paper submissions should not exceed 18 pages in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. ARTIFACT SUBMISSION As in previous years, we encourage 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. More information can be found on https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2020/#Call-for-Artifacts. LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING PROCESS SAS 2020 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors? names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors? names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following: - Author names and institutions must be omitted and - References to the authors? own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not ?We build on our previous work ?? but rather ?We build on the work of ??). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Josh Berdine, Facebook - Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder, USA - Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA - Jerome Feret, INRIA Paris, France - Samir Genaim, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada - Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA - Andy King, University of Kent, UK - Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Uber Technologies Inc. - Francesco Logozzo, Facebook - Antoine Min?, Sorbonne University, France - Anders M?ller, Aarhus University, Denmark - Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, Nokia - David Pichardie, ENS Rennes, France (co-chair) - Sylvie Putot, ?cole Polytechnique, France - Francesco Ranzato, University of Padova, Italy - Xavier Rival, INRIA Paris, France - Helmut Seidl, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany - Mihaela Sighireanu, Universit? de Paris, France (co-chair) - Caterina Urban, INRIA Paris, France - Tomas Vojnar,Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic - Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University, Korea - Enea Zaffanella, University of Parma, Italy - Florian Zuleger, TU Vienna, Austria From benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Sat Feb 22 09:29:01 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:29:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EVENT DATE CHANGE Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF'20) on July 5-6, 2020 Message-ID: <50fa6de8-cad9-ba1e-6100-8a44785fca22@gmail.com> FSCD 2020 will feature more satellite workshops than expected and as a result, the dates of HoTT/UF'20 had to be adjusted. Please see below for an updated announcement. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Best wishes, Benedikt Ahrens for the organizers --- Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations July 5-6, 2020, Paris, France (not Ontario) https://hott-uf.github.io/2020 Co-located with FSCD 2020 https://fscd2020.org/ Abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2020 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 * Carlo Angiuli (Carnegie Mellon University) * Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University) * Pierre-Louis Curien (Universit? de Paris) # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2020 * Author notification: mid-April 2020 Submissions should consist of a title and an abstract, in pdf format, of no more than 4 pages, submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf2020 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 (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Nicolai Kraus (University of Birmingham) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Anders M?rtberg (Stockholm University) * Paige Randall North (Ohio State University) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) From heizmann at informatik.uni-freiburg.de Sat Feb 22 23:07:42 2020 From: heizmann at informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Matthias Heizmann) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 05:07:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HCVS 2020: Second Call For Papers Message-ID: <5153034.rdbgypaU67@bionsey> 7th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Co-located with ETAPS 2020 Sunday 26 April 2020 - Dublin, Ireland https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs20/ Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modeled directly using Horn clauses, and many recent advances in the Constraint/Logic Programming, Verification, and Automated Deduction 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 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 six previous meetings: HCVS 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic (ETAPS 2019), HCVS 2018 in Oxford, UK (CAV, ICLP and IJCAR at FLoC 2018), HCVS 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden (CADE), HCVS 2016 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (ETAPS), HCVS 2015 in San Francisco, CA, USA (CAV), and HCVS 2014 in Vienna, Austria (VSL). Aims and Scope -------------- 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. Important dates --------------- - Paper submission: 26th February 2020 - Paper notification: 25th March 2020 - Camera-ready: 1st April 2020 - Workshop: 26th April 2020 Program Committee ----------------- Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Franck Cassez, Macquarie University, Australia Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Sylvain Conchon, LRI, France Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy Grigory Fedyukovich, Florida State University Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Pascal Fontaine, LORIA, France Samir Genaim, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Alberto Griggio, FBK, Italy Dejan Jovanovic, SRI, USA Luke Ong, University of Oxford, UK Albert Rubio, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Philipp R?mmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research, UK Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland Submission ---------- Submission has to be done in one of the following formats: - Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. From ahadziha at irif.fr Mon Feb 24 12:53:07 2020 From: ahadziha at irif.fr (Amar Hadzihasanovic) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:53:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SYCO 7 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <1801cd95-4826-1c0f-50a8-80628c176098@irif.fr> ======== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 7) Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia 30-31 March 2020 http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/7/ ======== The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language. Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham, University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University, and University of Leicester. The next SYCO, to be held at Tallinn University of Technology, will host 2 invited talks and 14 contributed talks. Topics range from logical methods in computer science, to higher category theory, through applications of categories in probability and linguistics. INVITED TALKS ======== * Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw) Monadic monadic second order logic * Christine Tasson (IRIF, Universit? de Paris) The linear-non-linear substitution 2-monad CONTRIBUTED TALKS ======== * Sivert Aasn?ss - Contextuality for circuits * Vikraman Choudhury - Tracking intensional resources using weighted sets and comonads * Elena di Lavore - A proposal for subgame perfection in compositional game theory * Tobias Fritz, Eigil Fjeldgren Rischel - The zero-one laws of Kolmogorov and Hewitt-Savage in categorical probability * Lukas Heidemann - Frames in pretriangulated dg-categories * Nick Hu - External traced monoidal categories * Maxime Lucas - Rewriting strategies as contracting homotopies * Violeta Martins de Freitas - Life in arrows: an introduction to applied category theory * Dylan McDermott, Alan Mycroft - On the relation between call-by-value and call-by-name * Michael Moortgat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Gijs Wijnholds - A Frobenius algebraic analysis for parasitic gaps * Olivier Peltre - Homological algebra for message-passing algorithms * Alex Rice - Coinductive invertibility in higher categories * Julian Salamanca T?llez - Distributive laws over the powerset * Niels van der Weide - Constructing finitary 1-truncated higher inductive types as groupoid quotients REGISTRATION ======== Registration is open until Monday 23 March. Details are available on the conference website: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/7/ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ======== Miriam Backens, University of Birmingham Christoph Dorn, University of Oxford Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Brendan Fong, MIT Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Universit? de Paris (PC chair) Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh Alex Kavvos, Aarhus University Marie Kerjean, INRIA Bretagne Atlantique, ?quipe Gallinette Kohei Kishida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Samuel Mimram, ?cole Polytechnique Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University Jovana Obradovi?, Institute of Mathematics CAS Viktoriya Ozornova, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum Simona Paoli, University of Leicester Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Christina Vasilakopoulou, University of Patras Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham and University of Oxford Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford From paba at itu.dk Mon Feb 24 14:10:57 2020 From: paba at itu.dk (Patrick Bahr) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:10:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TERMGRAPH 2020: Call for papers Message-ID: ======================================================================= Call for Papers TERMGRAPH 2020 Eleventh International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs termgraph.org.uk/2020 Paris, France Co-located with FSCD & IJCAR 2020, June 29 - July 5, 2020 ======================================================================= Graphs and graph transformation systems are used in many areas within Computer Science: to represent data structures and algorithms, to define computation models, as a general modelling tool to study complex systems, etc. Topics of interest for TERMGRAPH encompass all aspects of term and graph rewriting, and applications of graph transformations in programming, automated reasoning and symbolic computation, including: * Theory of first-order and higher-order term and graph rewriting * Graph grammars * Graph-based models of computation * Graph-based programming languages and modelling frameworks * Applications in functional and logic programming * Applications in automated reasoning and symbolic computation * Term/graph rewriting tools: case studies and system descriptions * Implementation issues The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in these different domains and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 15 April 2020 Notification: 15 May 2020 PreProceedings version: 24 May 2020 Submissions and Publication: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in PDF format of max. 8 pages in EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). This may include both original work and tutorials on any of the abovementioned topics; work in progress is also welcome. Submission is through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=termgraph2020 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: Beniamino Accattoli Zena Ariola Patrick Bahr (chair) Clemens Grabmayer Makoto Hamana Wolfram Kahl Fr?d?ric Prost Femke van Raamsdonk David Sabel Contact: Patrick Bahr From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Tue Feb 25 06:54:30 2020 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:54:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (LFMTP 2020), with special session in honour of Frank Pfenning Message-ID: Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2020 Paris, France 29 June 2020 Affiliated with FSCD 2020 and IJCAR 2020 https://lfmtp.org/workshops/2020/ Abstract submission deadline: 5 April 2020 Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2020 SPECIAL SESSION IN HONOUR OF Frank Pfenning To celebrate the 60th birthday of Frank Pfenning and his great many contributions to the topics of LFMTP, one session will be devoted to talks by collaborators and friends of Frank. ABOUT LFMTP 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 2020 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, process calculi and related formally specified systems. * Formalisation of model-theoretic and proof-theoretic semantics of logics. * Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Design and implementation of systems and tools related to meta- languages and logical frameworks IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are established as the end of day (23:59) AoE. * Abstract submission deadline: 5 April 2020 * Submission deadline: 11 April 2020 * Notification to authors: 13 May 2020 * Final version due: 22 May 2020 * Workshop: 29 June 2020 SUBMISSION INFORMATION 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 LaTeX style. 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/my/conference?conf=lfmtp2020 All submissions will be peer-reviewed and the authors of those accepted will be invited to present their papers at the workshop. POST-PROCEEDINGS After the workshop we will publish post-proceedings in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. Accepted regular papers will be published in the post-proceedings. Authors of selected work-in-progress papers will be invited to submit the full versions of their papers for publication in the post- proceedings, subject to another round of review. PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Baelde, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris Fr?d?ric Blanqui, INRIA Alberto Ciaffaglione, University of Udine Dennis M?ller, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-N?rnberg Michael Norrish, Data61 Carlos Olarte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norde Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna (PC Co-Chair) Ulrich Sch?pp, fortiss GmbH Alwen Tiu, Australian National University (PC Co-Chair) Tjark Weber, Uppsala University -- Prof. Claudio Sacerdoti Coen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna From lpulina at uniss.it Wed Feb 26 12:12:10 2020 From: lpulina at uniss.it (Luca Pulina) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:12:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QBFEVAL'20 - Competitive Evaluation of QBF Solvers Message-ID: <2cb386fe-96ff-f3ac-d320-31247a1283ea@uniss.it> [apologies for any cross-posting] ******************************************************************************** QBFEVAL'20 - Competitive Evaluation of QBF Solvers A joint event with the 23rd Int. Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) Alghero, Italy, July 5 - 9 2020 ******************************************************************************** QBFEVAL'20 is the 2020 competitive evaluation of QBF solvers, and the fifteenth event aimed to assess the performance of QBF solvers. QBFEVAL'20 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. For questions, comments and any other issue regarding QBFEVAL'20, please get in touch with the organizers via qbfeval at qbflib.org. Details about solvers and benchmarks submission, tracks, and related rules, are available at http://www.qbflib.org/qbfeval20.php *Important Dates* Registration open: February 26, 2020 Registration deadline: April 19, 2020 Solvers and Benchmarks due: April 26, 2020 First stage results: May 3, 2020 Second stage solvers due: May 17, 2020 Competition Benchmarks available for download: July 1, 2020 Final results: presented at SAT'20 *Organization* Luca Pulina, University of Sassari Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz Ankit Shukla, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz -- -- *Dona il? 5x1000* all'Universit? degli Studi di Sassaricodice fiscale: 00196350904 From a.scalas at aston.ac.uk Wed Feb 26 13:20:46 2020 From: a.scalas at aston.ac.uk (Scalas, Alceste) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:20:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2020) Message-ID: <2ff71a6c-df8e-4e5d-e867-a41b1296e6da@aston.ac.uk> ICE 2020 13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 19-20, 2020, University of Malta, Valletta Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2020 http://www.discotec.org/2020/ice Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2020/Workshop/ICE === HIGHLIGHTS === * Distinctive selection procedure * ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings * ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or preliminary work * Publication in EPTCS (to be confirmed) * Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed) * Invited speakers: - Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit? C?te d?Azur, CNRS, I3S, France) - Karoliina Lehtinen (University of Liverpool, UK) === IMPORTANT DATES === * April 20, 2020: abstract submission * April 22, 2020: paper submission * May 18, 2020: notification * June 19-20, 2020: ICE workshop * July 13, 2020: camera-ready for EPTCS post-proceedings === SCOPE === Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE) 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. ICE adopts a light double-blind reviewing process, detailed below. === SUBMISSION GUIDELINES === Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2020/Workshop/ICE 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. === 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 (to be confirmed). 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. === ICECREAMERS === Julien Lange (University of Kent, UK) - j.s.lange (AT) kent.ac.uk Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - anastasia.mavridou (AT) nasa.gov Larisa Safina (Inria, FR) - larisa.safina (AT) inria.fr Alceste Scalas (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) - a.scalas (AT) aston.ac.uk === PROGRAM COMMITTEE === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Chiara Bodei (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) * Aim?e Borda (Trinity College Dublin, IE) * Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) * Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK) * Simon Fowler (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, NL) * Wen Kokke (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, RU) * Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) * Claudio Antares Mezzina (University of Urbino, IT) * Maurizio Murgia (University of Trento, IT) * Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK) * Kirstin Peters (TU Berlin, DE) * Johannes ?man Pohjola (Data61/CSIRO, AU) * Ivan Prokic (University of Novi Sad, RS) * Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) * Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, NO) * Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Beira Interior, PT) * Laura Voinea (University of Glasgow, UK) === STEERING COMMITTEE === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) * Hugo Torres Vieira (University of Beira Interior, PT) === MORE INFORMATION === For additional information, please contact the ICEcreamers (see email addresses above). -- Alceste Scalas - https://cs.aston.ac.uk/~scalasa Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science Aston University, Birmingham, UK Main building, room MB214D, +44 121 204 4760 From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Wed Feb 26 14:49:53 2020 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:49:53 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2020 - Call for papers Message-ID: ******************************************************************* LSFA 2020 15th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 26-28 August 2020, Salvador, Brazil http://lsfa2020.ufba.br Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. Previous editions of LSFA took place in Natal (2019), Fortaleza (2018), Bras?lia (2017), 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. Previous proceedings were published by EPTCS and ENTCS. Previous LSFA special issues have been published in journals such as Journal of Algorithms, The Logic Journal of the IGPL and Theoretical Computer Science (see http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Specification languages and meta-languages * Formal semantics of languages and logical systems * Logical frameworks * Semantic frameworks * Type theory * Proof theory * Automated deduction * Implementation of logical or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical or semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Process calculi SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers with a maximum of 13 pages excluding references. Beyond full regular papers, we encourage submissions such as system descriptions, proof pearls, rough diamonds (preliminary results and work in progress), 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 excluding references. 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. The 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=lsfa2020 At least one of the authors should register for the workshop. All accepted papers will be available online during the workshop; full papers will be published at ENTCS, and short papers will be collected in an informal volume. For the publication of the proceedings there will be a cost to authors of USD 50 at registration time. IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract deadline: March 16 * Submission deadline: March 23 * Notification to Authors: May 12 * Proceedings version due: Jun 12 * LSFA 2020: August 26-28 INVITED SPEAKERS * Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, University of Bras?lia (joint speaker with WBL 20) * Eduardo Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology * Delia Kesner, IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS * Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Beniamino Accattoli, INRIA (Saclay) * Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Mario Benevides, UFF * Ana Bove, Chalmers * Manuela Busaniche, CONICET-UNL Santa Fe * Marco Cerami, UFBA * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fernandez, King's College London * Francicleber Ferreira, UFC * Renata de Freitas, UFF * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca, UNAM * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Jo?o Marcos, UFRN * Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano * Daniele Nantes, UnB * Carlos Olarte, UFRN * Revantha Ramanayake,TU Wien * Camilo Rocha, PUJ * Nora Szasz, Universidad ORT * Ivan Varzinczak, Universit? d'Artois * Daniel Ventura, UFG * Renata Wassermann, USP From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Wed Feb 26 14:39:03 2020 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:39:03 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2020: Call for Short Contributions Message-ID: <727b0f36-911c-5649-2a57-45c8b6d67d1c@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> Call for Short Contributions The 15th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'20) Dublin, Ireland, 25 - 26 April 2020 (co-located with ETAPS 2020) www.coalg.org/cmcs20 Objectives and scope -------------------- Established in 1998, the CMCS workshops aim to bring together researchers with a common interest in the theory of coalgebras, their logics, and their applications. As the workshop series strives to maintain breadth in its scope, areas of interest include neighbouring fields as well. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - the theory of coalgebras (including set theoretic and categorical approaches); - coalgebras as computational and semantical models (for programming languages, dynamical systems, term rewriting, etc.); - coalgebras in (functional, object-oriented, concurrent, and constraint) programming; - 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'20 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, co-located with ETAPS 2020 on 25 - 26 April 2020. Keynote Speaker --------------- Yde Venema (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Invited Speakers ---------------- Nathana?l Fijalkow (CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France) Koko Muroya (RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan) Invited Tutorial Speakers ------------------------- There will be a special session on probabilistic couplings, with invited tutorials by: Marco Gaboardi (University at Buffalo, US) Justin Hsu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) Important dates --------------------------- Submission short contributions 4 March 2020 Notification short contributions 11 March 2020 Programme committee ------------------- Henning Basold, Leiden University, The Netherlands Nick Bezhanishvili, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Mai Gehrke, CNRS and Universit? C?te d'Azur, France Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Shin-Ya Katsumata, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Bartek Klin, Warsaw University, Poland Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, USA Clemens Kupke, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Alexander Kurz, Chapman University, USA Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris 7, France Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, United Kingdom Damien Pous, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Jurriaan Rot, UCL and Radboud University, The Netherlands Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, Italy Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria David Sprunger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Henning Urbat, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Fabio Zanasi, University College London, United Kingdom Publicity chair --------------- Henning Basold, Leiden University, The Netherlands PC co-chairs -------------- Daniela Petrisan, Universit? Paris 7, France Jurriaan Rot, UCL and Radboud University, The Netherlands Steering committee ------------------ Filippo Bonchi, University of Pisa, Italy Marcello Bonsangue, 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, Chapman University, USA Marina Lenisa, University of Udine, Italy Stefan Milius (chair), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Larry Moss, Indiana University, USA Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University, Australia Lutz Schr?der, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 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. Accepted short contributions will be bundled in a technical report, and are to be presented at the workshop. They do not appear in the LNCS postproceedings (which only contain regular papers). Short contributions should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcs2020. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pEpkey.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 2472 bytes Desc: not available URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Thu Feb 27 13:08:05 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:08:05 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SERPL 2020 CFP Message-ID: Please find below the CFP for the Southeast Regional Programming Languages Seminar a regional workshop in the Southeast US. We have a good amount of student travel funding, and dedicated funding for people who identify as LBGTQ+, woman, other under represented minorities, and undergraduates. So even if you or someone you know is not in the region, we would still love their submission. Please pass this call along to any interested people. Very best, Harley Call For Contributions The Second Annual Southeast Regional Programming Languages Seminar (SERPL) May 8, 2020, Augusta University, Augusta Georgia More Information at: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/SERPL/ =Scope= The Southeast Regional Programming Languages Seminar (SERPL) seeks to bring together researchers in the Southeastern United States working in the design, analysis, and application of programming languages to build new collaborations among students and researchers. We invite contributions in the form of student -- both undergraduate and graduate -- research talks on topics related to programming language research from theory to practice to interdisciplinary applications. SERPL consists of a full day of research talks from undergraduate and graduate students and one keynote speaker. We are extremely excited to announce that the keynote speaker is: *Franklyn A Turbak* *Title: Blocks Programming: A Rich Domain for PL Research* *Associate Professor in Computer Science at Wellesley College* *Abstract*: Blocks programming languages represent program syntax trees as compositions of visual code fragments. They are an increasingly popular way to introduce programming and computational thinking. Tens of millions of people have used blocks environments like Scratch, Snap!, MIT App Inventor, Blockly, Pencil Code, Alice/Looking Glass, AgentSheets/AgentCubes, and Code.org's curricula to learn programming and create computational artifacts for themselves, their families, and their communities. But blocks programming is not just for beginners; environments like GP and domain-specific blocks languages are targeted at hobbyists, scientists, artists, business people, and other casual programmers. Many members of the Programming Languages (PL) research community are either unaware of blocks languages or dismiss them as "just for kids" or "not real programming". As someone who spent many years working in the areas of functional programming, type systems, and semantics before focusing on blocks programming, I will argue that blocks languages are a rich domain for PL research that combines traditional PL topics with other usually underemphasized areas that should be more front-and-center in the PL research community, including usability, learnability, and computer science education. I will give examples of blocks language projects I've worked on with students in my TinkerBlocks research group at Wellesley College and with members of the MIT App Inventor group. =Travel Support= SERPL is graciously supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are accepting applications for student travel support to SERPL. In addition, we have set aside a portion of our student travel awards for funding undergraduate students, women, underrepresented minorities, and LBGTQ+ people. Student travel grant applications can be submitted on the SERPL website (see above). =Important Dates= Talk Abstracts Due: March 20th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: April 3rd, 2020 Student Travel Grant Application Due: April 10th, 2020 Student Travel Grant Notification: April 17th, 2020 Registration closes: April 24th, 2020 Seminar: May 8, 2020 =Submission Instructions= Please submit in the form of a single PDF file a two page talk abstract. All submissions should be prepared using LaTeX using the authors favorite style with a font size of no smaller than 11 points, and a margin of no smaller than one inch. All submission should be submitted via the SERPL website (see above). 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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods: # Software Development Methods - Formal modeling, specification, and design - Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse # Design Principles - Programming languages - Domain-specific languages - Type theory - Abstraction and refinement # Software Testing, Validation, and Verification - Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures - Testing and runtime verification - Statistical and probabilistic analysis - Synthesis - Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties - Other light-weight and scalable formal methods # Security and Safety - Security, privacy, and trust - Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems - Software certification # Applications and Technology Transfer - Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things - Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems - Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Intelligent systems and machine learning - HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis - Education # Case studies, best practices, and experience reports PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two categories of papers: - Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages, excluding bibliography. - Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages (including bibliography) and should include the URL of the tool. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2020 Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs). PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in the Formal Methods sublime of the Springer's LNCS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special issue. 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URL: From shankar at csl.sri.com Wed Feb 26 19:01:52 2020 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:01:52 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques (May 16-22, 2020); First Formal Methods in the Field Bootcamp (May 23-28, 2020) Message-ID: <57684daa-0994-ddbf-c383-bd821df2d8ae@csl.sri.com> Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques , May 16 - May 22, 2020 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT20) ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? and First Formal Methods in the Field (FMiTF) Bootcamp, May 23-28, 2020 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT20/FMiTF.html) Menlo College, Atherton, California 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 tenth 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: * Thomas Reps (University of Wisconsin) ? Algebraic Program Analysis: Automating Abstract Interpretation * Pamela Zave (Princeton University) ? Specification, Implementation, and Verification of Network Properties * J Strother Moore and Warren A. Hunt, Jr. (University of Texas) ? Proving Properties of Algorithms, Hardware, and Software with ACL2 * Jose Meseguer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ? Executable Formal Specification and Verification in Maude The main lectures in the summer school start on Monday May 18 and ?will be preceded by a background course on logic: * Natarajan Shankar (SRI CSL) and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) ? Speaking Logic ============================================================= The summer school will be immediately followed by the First Formal Methods in the Field (FMiTF) Bootcamp May 23-28, 2020 Menlo College, Atherton, CA http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT20/FMiTF.html The first FMitF Bootcamp will cover two themes, "Building Verified JIT Compilers" and "Formally verifying low-level programs in F*". The exercises in the Bootcamp assume that the students have a working knowledge of formal techniques. The main focus of the Bootcamp is on applying this knowledge to some domain-specific challenge problems. Lecturers ?*? Emina Torlak and Xi Wang (University of Washington) ??? Building Verified JIT Compilers ?* Jonathan Protzenko and Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research) ?? Formally verifying low-level programs in F* ============================================================= The summer school also include several distinguished invited talks. 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 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT18 http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT19 Jay Bosamiya of CMU has blogged about the 2018 Summer School at https://www.jaybosamiya.com/blog/2018/05/31/ssft/ ======================================================================= You are welcome to register for one or both of the summer school and the Bootcamp.? The target audience for both events is first/second/third year graduate students in computer science.? We expect to provide support for the travel and accommodation for (a limited number of) students registered at US universities.? We welcome applications from non-US students as well as non-students (who will be admitted only if space permits).? Non-US students will have to cover their own travel and will be charged around US$800 for the summer school and $700 for the Bootcamp covering meals and lodging.? Applications should be submitted at the website http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT20 Applicants are urged to submit their applications before April 30, 2020, 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 sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Feb 28 03:25:29 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:25:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job: Associate Professor in Programming Languages at Oxford Message-ID: <4979AB5A-7869-4986-A91F-CA9541557286@cs.ox.ac.uk> Dear all, At Oxford we're recruiting an Associate Professor in Programming Languages, deadline 30 March 2020 (noon UK time). Oxford is a wonderful place for programming languages research. Sam. Full details: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1788-full.html Current faculty: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.html From franziska.hauffe at informatics-europe.org Fri Feb 28 06:40:15 2020 From: franziska.hauffe at informatics-europe.org (Franziska Hauffe) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:40:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions - 2020 Minerva Informatics Equality Award In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <274b6218-9a9b-6430-d835-a050d531b27d@informatics-europe.org> ********************************************************************* *Minerva Informatics Equality Award* *2020 Edition** **'Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions'* *Presented by Informatics Europe** **Sponsored by Google* *Call for Submissions Now Open* *********************************************************************** Informatics Europe proudly announces the fifth Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted to initiatives seeking to encourage and support the careers of women in Informatics research and education. The fifth of this annual award will be presented in October 2020 and is sponsored by Google. The Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises best practices in Departments or Faculties of European Universities or Research Institutes and Labs that have been demonstrated to have a positive impact for women. On a three-year cycle the award will focus each year on a different stage of the career pipeline: * Developing the careers of female faculty, including retention and promotion; * Supporting the transition for PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions; * Encouraging female students to enrol in Computer Science/Informatics programs and retaining them. The *2020 Award* is devoted to *gender equality initiatives and policies supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions.* The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women within the institution. Such initiatives can serve as exemplars of best practices within the community, with the potential to be widely adopted by other institutions. Submissions will need to demonstrate the impact that has been achieved. *For 2020 examples of impact could include an improved career development and better agreements on career planning for female PhD students and postdocs as recorded in objective surveys of staff experience, and increasing numbers of female faculty.* *The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.* The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for further work on promoting gender equality. To be eligible, institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe , or Israel. Institutions associated with members of the WIRE Working Group and of the Award committee are not eligible. The Award committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between different applications. Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be included as exemplars of best practice in future Informatics Europe publications. * **Proposals should be submitted only at:* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2020 *The proposal should include:* * Contact information of the Head/Director of the applying Department or Faculty and the responsible for the application (who can be the same); * A brief summary or abstract (100 words or less) which can be made public; * Description of the initiative (max 2 pages); * Evidence of its impact (max 2 pages); * An optional reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material); * Optionally, one or two letters of support. The letters of support may come, for example, from female staff members who have benefited from the scheme; * An indication of whether the submission can be considered as a runner up (if it does not win the award) and be included as an exemplar of best practice in future Informatics Europe publications. *Deadlines:* * Full submissions: 1 June 2020 * Notification of winner(s): 1 August 2020 The Award will be presented at the 16th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) , in Sofia, Bulgaria, 26-28 October 2020, where a representative of the winning institution will be invited to give a talk on their achievements. *Award Committee:* * Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology and M?lardalen University, Sweden (Chair) * Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria * Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria * Dympna O'Sullivan, TU Dublin, Ireland * Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. *Further inquiries:* minerva-award at informatics-europe.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The candidate is expected to have expertise in one or more of the following research areas : - Models of programming langages - Program correctness : static analysis, program proof (fataflow, abstract interpretation, separation logic, ...) - Proof assistants and certified programs The candidate is expected to teach in French and must have obtain the qualification (https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/CNU_qualification.htm) Contact : F. Dabrowski, head of the team LMV frederic.dabrowski at univ-orleans.fr LMV : http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/equipes/lmv/ Detailed profile : https://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/pageactualites.php?id=13&lang=fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davide.bresolin at unipd.it Fri Feb 28 09:38:13 2020 From: davide.bresolin at unipd.it (Davide Bresolin) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:38:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GandALF2020: 11th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification In-Reply-To: <36628b15-a8cc-489e-9e6c-4ab62c4be6b3@Spark> References: <3e940690-d38c-4065-9586-68076f2ee870@Spark> <36628b15-a8cc-489e-9e6c-4ab62c4be6b3@Spark> Message-ID: <1602c20a-e7e7-45e2-a6e3-842b2604fa56@Spark> ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2020 ***************************************************************************** The Eleventh International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will be held in Brussels (Belgium) on September 21-23, 2020. This year, GANDALF will be organised together with a workshop on Stochastic Games organised by the GAMENET network (https://gametheorynetwork.com) which will held on September 23-24, 2020. The GAMENET meeting will focus on stochastic games with applications in computer science, economy and mathematics. It will be organised around 6 invited talks of 1 hour by senior researchers of the community and 6 invited talks of 30 minutes by junior researchers of the community. Both events will be hosted by the Universit? libre de Bruxelles, and the two events will share some invited speakers. We encourage the participation to the two events. https://di.ulb.ac.be/verif/gandalf2020/ ***************************************************************************** The aim of GandALF 2020 is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilisation. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: -Automata Theory -Automated Deduction -Computational aspects of Game Theory -Concurrency and Distributed computation -Decision Procedures -Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification -Finite Model Theory -First-order and Higher-order Logics -Formal Languages -Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems -Games and Automata for Verification -Game Semantics -Logical aspects of Computational Complexity -Logics of Programs -Modal and Temporal Logics -Model Checking -Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems -Probabilistic Models (Markov Decision processes) -Program Analysis and Software Verification -Reinforcement Learning -Run-time Verification and Testing -Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems -Synthesis IMPORTANT DATES ****************** ? Abstract submission: June 13, 2020 ? Paper submission: June 15, 2020 ? Notification: July 20, 2020 ? Camera-ready: August 25, 2020 - Conference: September 21-23, 2020 PUBLICATIONS ****************** The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a special issue of Information and Computation. The previous editions of GandALF already led to special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), Information and Computation (GandALF 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017, the latter ones are still in progress), and Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015). SUBMISSIONS ****************** Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided at http://style.eptcs.org), be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2020 INVITED SPEAKERS ****************** TBA PROGRAM CHAIRS for GANDALF ****************** Davide Bresolin, University of Padova (Italy) Jean-Fran?ois Raskin, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) PROGRAM CHAIRS for GAMENET ********************* Galit Ashenazi, University of Tel Aviv (Isra?l) V?ronique Bruy?re, UMons (Belgium) Janos Flesch, U Maastricht (The Netherlands) Jean-Fran?ois Raskin, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ****************** Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford (UK) Galit Ashkenazi-Golan, Tel-Aviv university (Israel) Benedikt Bollig, ENS Cachan, CNRS (France) Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna (Spain) Franck Cassez, Macquarie University (Australia) Silvia Crafa, Universita' di Padova (Italy) R?diger Ehlers, Clausthal University of Technology (Germany) Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Uppsala University (Sweden) J?nos Flesch , Maastricht University (The Netherlands) Jan Kretinsky, Technical University of Munich (Germany) Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel) S?awomir Lasota, Warsaw University (Poland) Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick (UK) J?r?me Leroux, University of Bordeaux (France) Radu Mardare, University of Strathclyde (UK) Angelo Montanari, University of Udine (Italy) Emilio Mu?oz-Velasco, University of Malaga (Spain) Gennaro Parlato, University of Molise (Italy) Mickael Randour, Universit? de Mons (Belgium) Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado (USA) B Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute (India) Martin Zimmermann, University of Liverpool (UK) STEERING COMMITTEE ****************** Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Javier Esparza (University of Munich, Germany) Salvatore La Torre (University of Salerno, Italy) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine, Italy) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno, Italy) Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen University, Germany) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xu at math.lmu.de Fri Feb 28 07:27:10 2020 From: xu at math.lmu.de (Chuangjie Xu) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:27:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 5th autumn school "Proof and Computation" Message-ID: <20200228132710.86707jilyzkbkyla@webmail.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de> [Apologies for for multiple postings.] Autumn school "Proof and Computation" Fischbachau, Germany, 20th to 26th September 2020 http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~schwicht/pc20.php The fifth international autumn school "Proof and Computation" will be held from 20th to 26th September 2020 in Fischbachau near Munich. Its aim is to bring together young researchers in the field of Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science and Philosophy. SCOPE -------------------- - Predicative Foundations - Constructive Mathematics and Type Theory - Computation in Higher Types - Extraction of Programs from Proofs COURSES -------------------- - Steve Awodey: Categorical logic - Marc Bezem: Coherent logic - Hajime Ishihara: Reverse mathematics in constructive set theory - Stefan Neuwirth: The philosophy of dynamic algebra - Frederik Nordvall Forsberg: Universes of data types in constructive type theory - Monika Seisenberger: Extraction of programs from proofs - Chuangjie Xu: Various approaches to compute moduli of continuity WORKING GROUPS -------------------- There will be an opportunity to form ad-hoc groups working on specific projects, but also to discuss in more general terms the vision of constructing correct programs from proofs. APPLICATIONS -------------------- Graduate or PhD students and young postdoctoral researches are invited to apply. Applications (e.g. a self-introduction including research interests and motivation) should be sent to Chuangjie Xu . Students are required to provide also a letter of recommendation, preferably from the thesis adviser. Deadline for applications: **30 May 2020**. Applicants will be notified by 20th June 2020. FINANCIAL SUPPORT -------------------- Successful applicants will be offered **full-board accommodation** for the days of the autumn school. There are NO funds, however, to reimburse travel or further expenses, which successful applicants will have to cover otherwise. The workshop is supported by the Udo Keller Stiftung (Hamburg), the CID (Computing with Infinite Data) programme of the European Commission and a JSPS core-to-core project. Klaus Mainzer Peter Schuster Helmut Schwichtenberg ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From eberinge at cs.princeton.edu Fri Feb 28 12:03:51 2020 From: eberinge at cs.princeton.edu (Lennart Beringer) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:03:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Third DeepSpec Summer School, July 13-24, 2020 Message-ID: <1442629101.15679956.1582909431813.JavaMail.zimbra@cs.princeton.edu> Applications are now invited for participation in the Third DeepSpec Summer School (DSSS'20) New Haven, CT, July 13-24, 2020 https://deepspec.org/event/dsss20 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'20 will consist of two parts with the first week being devoted to introductory topics and the second week covering current research efforts. July 13-15 (Mon-Wed) Coq intensive; CertiKOS design & spec July 16-17 (Thu-Fri) Fundamental proof techniques and project overviews July 20-24 (week 2) Advanced topics in system verification - Week 1 begins with a Coq Intensive, introducing our favorite proof assistant (used in almost all other lectures), with no assumption of formal-methods experience. A mix of lecturers (who will also present research lectures later in the program) will cover this material. - For participants who already know the Coq Intensive material, we will offer a Week 1 parallel track taught by Zhong Shao, on the CertiKOS operating-system framework, focused on the compositional specification and implementation of C modules, setting up to learn how to prove these modules in Week 2. - Week 1 ends with lectures by Andrew Appel, on verified functional algorithms; and Joe Tassarotti, on theory and computer-systems applications of the Iris verification framework for concurrency. - Week 2 includes lectures by Adam Chlipala, on connecting proofs of hardware and software components for embedded systems; Benjamin Pierce, on random testing and an application to web servers; Zhong Shao, on operating-system verification; Matthieu Sozeau, on the MetaCoq framework and (as a representative of the Coq team at Inria) recent improvements in and latest roadmap for Coq; Stephanie Weirich, on verifying functional algorithms written in Haskell; and Steve Zdancewic, on the Interaction Trees formalism and its applications to compilers and testing. - There will be ample opportunity for self-study/homework, student presentations, and other activities. Prerequisites ------------- DSSS'20 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 and DSSS'18 are likely to be admitted for participation in week 2 only. Application and participation ----------------------------- Participation in DSSS'20 is by invitation only, based on an application process that is open to anybody. To apply, please fill this application form https://cvent.me/xqlq0G preferably no later than March 27, 2020. 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 Yale 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 Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Fri Feb 28 13:00:43 2020 From: Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Radu Iosif) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:00:43 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MOVEP2020 (early registration deadline extended) Message-ID: ================================================ 14th Summer School on Modelling and Verification of Parallel Processes (MOVEP) Universit? Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France June 22 - 26, 2020 http://projects-verimag.imag.fr/movep2020/ ================================================ MOVEP is a five-day summer school on modelling and verification of infinite state systems. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in the fields of control and verification of concurrent and reactive systems. MOVEP 2020 will consist of ten invited tutorials. In addition, there will be special sessions that allow PhD students to present their on-going research (each talk will last around 20 minutes). Extended abstracts (2-3 pages) of these presentations will be published in informal proceedings. ================== Confirmed Speakers ================== * MIKO?AJ BOJA?CZYK (University of Warsaw, Poland) Computation Theory with Atoms * DMITRY CHISTIKOV (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Ultimately periodic sets, semi-linear sets, and Presburger arithmetic * THAO DANG (Verimag and CNRS) Set-based computation for hybrid systems verification * JAVIER ESPARZA (TU M?nchen) Proving liveness properties of replicated systems * ANTHONY LIN (TU Kaiserslautern) Algorithmic Verification of String-Manipulating Programs * DEJAN NICKOVIC (AIT Vienna) From real-time temporal logic to timed automata * JEAN-FRANCOIS RASKIN (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) Two-Player Zero Sum Games played on Graphs * ANDREW REYNOLDS (University of Iowa) Solving Verification Conditions using SMT Solvers * ALEXANDRA SILVA (University College London) Programming and Reasoning with Kleene Algebra with Tests * JAMES WORELL (University of Oxford) Decision Problems for Linear Dynamical Systems ========================================= Important Dates (AoE) ========================================= Early registration: March 15th 2020 (** extended **) Submission of abstracts: May 1st 2020 Notification: May 15th 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=movep2020 ============ Committees ============ Organising committee Nicolas Basset (Verimag, University of Grenoble Alpes) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Program committee Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppsala University) Nicolas Basset (Verimag, University of Grenoble Alpes) Marie Duflot-Kremer (LORIA, Nancy, France) Nathana?l Fijalkow (CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux) Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute) Matthias Heizmann (University of Freiburg) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Stefan Kiefer (University of Oxford) Nicola Paoletti (University of London) Pierre-Alain Reynier (Aix-Marseille Universit?) 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A book of all abstracts accepted for presentation to TYPES 2020 is now available from the web page: https://types2020.di.unito.it/ The link is both on the home and on the program page. A similar book is in preparation containing ITRS abstracts, and will be published soon. The organizers, Ugo de'Liguoro and Stefano Berardi -- Ugo de'Liguoro Associate Professor of Computer Science Dipartimento di Informatica Universit? di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy From sajnani.hitesh at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 01:55:11 2020 From: sajnani.hitesh at gmail.com (hitesh sajnani) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 22:55:11 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2020: Combined Call for Contributions Message-ID: /****************************************************************************/ ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'20) Chicago, USA Sun 15 - Fri 20 November 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/ Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN /****************************************************************************/ COMBINED CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OOPSLA Onward! Workshops Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) Static Analysis Symposium (SAS) /****************************************************************************/ 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) * Static Analysis Symposium (SAS) * Rebase * SPLASH-E * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Student Volunteers ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2020 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. The rolling call will close on Wed 1 Apr, 2020. https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-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: Wed 15 Apr, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-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: Thu 23 Apr, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Onward-papers ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be 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: Thu 23 April, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Onward-Essays ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) Dynamic Languages, from Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, 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: Thu 11 Jun, 2020 https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2020 ## 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: Sun 21 Jun, 2020 Submissions due: Sun 28 Jun, 2020 https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2020 ## 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 2020 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: Sun 21 Jun, 2020 Submissions due: Sun 28 Jun, 2020 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2020 ## Static Analysis Symposium 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. Abstracts due: Wed 22 Apr, 2020 Submissions due: Fri 24 Apr, 2020 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2020 ## Rebase Rebase is a series of high-quality talks that highlight the challenges that are on the forefront of both research and practice across the SPLASH community's broad spectrum of domains and techniques. We invite the community to propose speakers (including themselves) through our call for contributions. https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-rebase ## SPLASH-E SPLASH-E is a symposium, started in 2013, for software and languages (SE/PL) researchers with activities and interests around computing education. Some build pedagogically-oriented languages or tools; some think about pedagogic challenges around SE/PL courses; some bring computing to non-CS communities; some pursue human studies and educational research. At SPLASH-E, we share our educational ideas and challenges centred in software/languages, as well as our best ideas for advancing such work. SPLASH-E strives to bring together researchers and those with educational interests that arise from software ideas or concerns. Submissions due: Fri 10 Jul, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-SPLASH-E ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact at any desired level of detail. The poster session is held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Mon 10 Aug, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-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. This year, the John Vlissides Award will be presented to a doctoral student participating in the SPLASH Doctoral Symposium showing significant promise in applied software research. All doctoral candidates participating in the SPLASH Doctoral Symposium are eligible. The award includes a prize of $2,000. Submissions due: Wed, Jul 15, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Doctoral-Symposium ## PL Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) The SPLASH 2020 Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop encourages graduate students (PhD and MSc) and senior undergraduate students to pursue research in programming languages. This workshop will provide mentoring sessions on how to prepare for and thrive in graduate school and in a research career, focusing both on cutting-edge research topics and practical advice, such as a panel of Ph.D. students discussing topics like ?What I wish I had known before attending graduate school.? The workshop brings together leading researchers and junior students in an inclusive environment in order to help welcome newcomers to our field of programming languages research. The workshop will show students the many paths that they might take to enter and contribute to our research community. We will provide travel grants that will fully support student attendance to PLMW. Information on the application process will be available by July 2, 2020 Travel Grant Application due: Fri 7 Aug, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-PLMW#About ## 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. Student Research Competition abstract due: Wed July 15, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-SRC ## 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. Application due: Tue Sep 1, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-Student-Volunteers ## Information Website: https://2020.splashcon.org/ Location: Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, Chicago, USA ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: * David Grove (IBM Research) Onward! Papers Chair: * Stephen Kell (University of Kent) Onward! Essays Chair: * Didier Verna (EPITA/LRDE) DLS Program Chair: * Matthew Flat (University of Utah) GPCE General Chair: * Martin Erwig (Oregon State University) GPCE Program Chair: * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) SLE General Chair: * Ralf L?mmel (Facebook) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Laurence Tratt (King's College London) * Juan de Lara (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid) SLE Publicity Chair: * Loli Burgue?o (Open University of Catalonia & CEA LIST) SLE AEC Co-Chairs: * Lukas Diekmann (King?s College London) * Antonio Garcia-Dominguez (Aston University) SAS Program Co-Chairs: * David Pichardie (Univ Rennes, ENS Rennes, IRISA) * Mihaela Sighireanu (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) SAS AEC Chair: * Jyothi Vedurada (Microsoft Research) Rebase Co-Chairs: * Satish Chandra (Facebook) * Yu David Liu (State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton) PLMW Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Malavika Samak (CSAIL, MIT) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Neville Grech (University of Athens) * Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University) * Mehdi Bagherzadeh (Oakland University) OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Colin S. Gordon (Drexel University) * Anders M?ller (Aarhus University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Christos Dimoulas (Northwestern University) * Murali Krishna Ramanathan(Uber Technologies Inc.) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Yvonne Coady (University of Victoria) * Matthias Hauswirth (Universit? della Svizzera italiana) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Sasa Misailovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Julia Rubin (University of British Columbia) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Robert Dyer (Bowling Green State University) * Samantha Syeda Khairunnesa (Iowa State University) SPLASH-E Co-Chairs: * Elisa Baniassad (University of British Columbia) * Charlie Curtsinger (Grinnell College) Publicity Chair: * Hitesh Sajnani (Microsoft) Publication Chair: * Saba Alimadadi (Simon Fraser University) Local Arrangements Chair: * Ravi Chugh (University of Chicago) Accessibility Chair: * Henrique Rebelo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) Sponsorships Chair: * Ganesha Upadhyaya (Harmony.One) Web Chair: * Rangeet Pan (Iowa State University) /****************************************************************************/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eacsl.ls1 at cs.tu-dortmund.de Mon Mar 2 06:34:22 2020 From: eacsl.ls1 at cs.tu-dortmund.de (EACSL Mail-Account) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 12:34:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACKERMANN AWARD 2020: Final Call for Nominations In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Final Call for Nominations Nominations are now invited for the 2020 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 January 2018 and 31 December 2019 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 1 April 2020. Submission details follow below. *** The Award The 2020 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 21, the annual conference of the EACSL, in Ljubljana, January 25-28, 2021. 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, * an invitation to the winner to publish the thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS, and * financial support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. *** The Jury The jury consists of: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Michael Benedikt (Oxford University); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay); * Prakash Panangaden (McGill University); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL; * Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative. *** 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 chair of the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de The e-mail should have the following subject line and text: * Subject: Ackermann Award 20 Submission * Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments Submissions can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case, please indicate it in the text. From D.R.Ghica at cs.bham.ac.uk Mon Mar 2 06:43:15 2020 From: D.R.Ghica at cs.bham.ac.uk (Dan Ghica) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:43:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] STRING 2020 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Annual Workshop on String Diagrams in Computation, Logic, and Physics (STRINGS 2020) https://compose.ioc.ee/strings2020/ Satellite workshop of STAF 2020 Bergen, Norway, 23 June 2020 ============================================= String diagrams are a powerful tool for reasoning about processes and composition. Originally developed as a convenient notation for the arrows of monoidal and higher categories, they are increasingly used in the formal study of digital circuits, control theory, concurrency, programming languages, quantum and classical computation, natural language, logic and more. String diagrams combine the advantages of formal syntax with intuitive aspects: the graphical nature of terms means that they often reflect the topology of systems under consideration. Moreover, diagrammatic reasoning transforms formal arguments into dynamic, moving images, thus building domain specific intuitions, valuable both for practitioners and pedagogy. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds and specialities to collaborate and share their insights, tools, and techniques. STRINGS 2020 is a satellite event of STAF 2020, colocated with a number of related events, including Diagrammatic and Algebraic Methods for Business (DAMB) and the International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT). This is the fourth edition of the workshop. The first was held in Oxford in 2017, the second as a Shonan workshop in 2018, the third in Birmingham in 2019. Invited Speaker ---------------- Fabio Zanasi, UCL Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: 1 May 2020 Speaker notification: 22 May 2020 Workshop: 23 June 2020 Submission information ---------------------- Prospective speakers are invited to submit a title and short abstract via the Easychair page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=strings2020 We warmly welcome all types of contributions, ranging from rough works-in-progress to talks about mature work published elsewhere. Programme Committee ------------------- Filippo Bonchi (Pisa, IT) Brendan Fong (MIT, US) Dan Ghica (Birmingham, UK) Dominic Horsman (Grenoble, FR) Jean Krivine (IRIF Paris, FR) Dan Marsden (Oxford, UK) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL, UK) Pawel Sobocinski (Taltech, EE) From theo.zimmi at gmail.com Mon Mar 2 10:59:10 2020 From: theo.zimmi at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Th=C3=A9o_Zimmermann?=) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 16:59:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Coq Workshop 2020: Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: *********************************************************************** The Coq Workshop 2020: Call for Talk Proposals---Colocated with the 10th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2020) Paris, France *********************************************************************** Find this call online at: https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/2020 We are pleased to invite you to submit talk proposals for the Coq workshop 2020, which will be held on July 5-6 2020, in Paris, France The Coq workshop is part of IJCAR 2020 (https://ijcar2020.org/). The Coq workshop 2020 is the 11th Coq Workshop. The Coq Workshop series (https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/) brings together Coq (https://coq.inria.fr/) users, developers, and contributors. While conferences usually provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical issues, including the future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. Thus, the workshop will be organized around contributed talks and discussions, supplemented with invited talks, seizing the opportunity of the 35th birthday of the first release of Coq to spread this year's edition over two days. Important dates: - April 13th 2020 (AoE): Deadline for abstract submission - April 29th 2020: Notification to authors - July 5-6th 2020: Workshop Submission Instructions: Authors should submit short proposals through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq2020) in the form of a PDF extended abstract of at most 2 pages, in full-page single-column style (using the EasyChair template available at https://easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip). Relevant subject matter includes but is not limited to: - Theory and implementation of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions - Language or tactic features - Plugins and libraries for Coq - Techniques for formalization programming languages and mathematics - Applications and experience in education and industry - Tools and platforms built on Coq (including interfaces) - Formalization tricks and pearls Program Committee: - Andrew Appel (Princeton University, USA) - Sylvie Boldo (Inria Saclay, Universit? Paris-Saclay, France) - Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, Paris, France) - Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIEE Paris-Evry, France) - Karl Palmskog (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) - Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany) - Laurent Th?ry (Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France) Organizing Committee (co-chairs): - Emilio J. Gallego Arias - Hugo Herbelin - Th?o Zimmermann (Inria Paris, Universit? de Paris, France) [mail: coq2020 at easychair.org] From andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de Mon Mar 2 18:24:35 2020 From: andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de (Andreas Abel) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 00:24:35 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2020 Call For Papers Message-ID: PPDP 2020 Call For Papers ========================= The 22nd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, [PPDP 2020](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abel/ppdp20/), held 8-10 September 2020 at the University of Bologna, Italy. TL;DR Abstract deadline: 11 May; paper deadline: 15 May. Scope ----- The PPDP 2020 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 declarative 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; functional languages; reactive languages; languages with objects; languages for quantum computing; languages inspired by biological and chemical computation; metaprogramming. - Declarative languages in artificial intelligence: logic programming; database languages; knowledge representation languages; probabilistic languages; differentiable languages. - 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 take place 8-10 September 2020 at the University of Bologna, Italy, co-located with the 29th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020) and the International conference on [Microservices 2020](https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/). 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 via a link to an extended version of the submission (recommended), or in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study extended versions or any material beyond the respective page limit. Material beyond the page limit will not be included in the final published version. 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 1.70. 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 at Aptara](mailto:acmtexsupport at aptaracorp.com). Authors should note [ACM's statement on author's rights](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 --------------- -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Title and abstract registration: 11 May 2020 (AoE) Paper submission: 15 May 2020 (AoE) Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2020 (AoE) Author notification: 3 July 2020 Final paper version: 24 July 2020 Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020 -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Organization ------------ ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- Program committee chair: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna Steering committee chair: James Cheney, Edinburgh University ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- -- Andreas Abel <>< Du bist der geliebte Mensch. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden andreas.abel at gu.se http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/ From songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn Mon Mar 2 22:45:12 2020 From: songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:45:12 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CFP (updated VENUE and DATES): Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA 2020) - Guangzhou China, November 24-27, 2020 Message-ID: <202003031145126707569@shanghaitech.edu.cn> ======================================== SETTA 2020: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications Peking University, Guangzhou, China, November 24-27, 2020 Submission deadline: July 4th, 2020 Conference website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2020/ ======================================== ************************ Notice Date: March 2, 2020 ************************ The SETTA steering committee have agreed together with the conference chairs to relocate the conference. SETTA 2020 will take place in Guangzhou, China, November 24-27. We are very grateful to our colleagues in Beijing, for the organization so far, to the colleagues from Guangzhou, who generously accepted this challenging task, and to all members who offered their help in this difficult situation. ************************ INVITED SPEAKERS ************************ - Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam - Andreas Zeller, Helmholtz Center for Information Security ************************ ABOUT SETTA 2020 ************************ The Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA) 2020 will be held in Guangzhou China on November 24-27, 2020. Formal methods emerged as an important area in computer science and software engineering about half a century ago. An international community is formed researching, developing and teaching formal theories, techniques and tools for software modeling, specification, design and verification. However, the impact of formal methods on the quality improvement of software systems in practice is lagging behind. This is for instance reflected by the challenges in applying formal techniques and tools to engineering large-scale systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), Enterprise Systems, Cloud-Based Systems, and so forth. The purpose of the SETTA symposium is to bring international researchers together to exchange research results and ideas on bridging the gap between formal methods and software engineering. The interaction with the Chinese computer science and software engineering community is a central focus point. The aim is to show research interests and results from different groups so as to initiate interest-driven research collaboration. The SETTA symposium is aiming at academic excellence and its objective is to become a flagship conference on formal software engineering in China. To achieve these goals and contribute to the sustainability of the formal methods research, it is important for the symposium to attract young researchers into the community. Thus, this symposium encourages in particular the participation of young researchers and students. This year, SETTA welcomes submissions to the following two tracks: Journal First Papers and Research Papers. 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 for both tracks must be presented at the conference. ************************ LIST OF 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, run-time verification, 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, probabilistic, 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 - Software tools to assist the construction or analysis of software systems ************************ RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK ************************ Research papers will be published in the SETTA 2020 proceedings as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Abstract & paper submission: July 4, 2020 (AoE) Notification to authors: August 29, 2020 (AoE) Camera-ready versions: September 22, 2020 (AoE) Conference date: November 24-27, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ 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 and applications thereof in software engineering. This is done by either substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating the 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. Regular papers should not exceed 16 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. ------------------------ Special Session ------------------------ This year, we will also organise a special session on Artificial Intelligence Meets Formal Methods (AI+FM), in order to provide a platform for experts of both AI and FM, from both the academia and the industry, to discuss important research problems across these two areas, for example, how to apply AI to improve the performance of FM methods and how to apply FM to improve the robustness, safety and security of AI systems. Extended abstracts of the accepted papers in this session will be published in the conference proceedings (a volume in Springer's LNCS series). Full versions of a few accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to a special theme of the journal Formal Aspects of Computing (to be confirmed). ************************ JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS TRACK ************************ The journal first papers track of SETTA 2020 is implemented in partnership with the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Accepted papers to this track will be presented and discussed at the conference SETTA 2020. Papers should be submitted electronically through the journal's submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper submission: March 27, 2020 (AoE) Tentative acceptance decision: May 18, 2020 Acceptance decision: June 30, 2020 Conference date (paper presentations): November 24-27, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ To submit to this track, authors have to make a journal submission to the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and select the type of submission to be for the SETTA 2020 special issue. It is recommended that submitted papers follow the submission guidelines of JCST and do not exceed 15 pages including references. All submissions must be done electronically through JCST's e-submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst, with manuscript type: "Special Section on Software Systems 2020". In the cover letter, please indicate that the submission is intended to the special theme on "Dependable Software Engineering". ************************ COMMITTEES ************************ General Chair: - Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: - Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg - Lijun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Local Organisation Chair and Web Chair: - Chengchao Huang, Institute of Intelligent Software Publicity Chair: - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University Program Committee Members: - Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology - Lei Bu, Nanjing University - Milan Ceska, Brno University of Technology - Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore University of Technology and Design - Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica - Alessandro Cimatti, FBK-ICT Irst - Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University - Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology - Hongfei Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology - Nan Guan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Dimitar P. Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool - Nils Jansen, Radboud University - Yu Jiang, Tsinghua University - Sebastian Junges, RWTH Aachen - Zhiming Liu, Southwest University - Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University - Sebastian Moedersheim, Technical University of Denmark - Jean Francois Monin, Universit? Grenoble Alpes - Mohammad Mousavi, University of Leicester - Dave Parker, University of Birmingham - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University - Mickael Randour, FNRS & Universit? de Mons - Zhiping Shi, Capital Normal University - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin - Jun Sun, Singapore Management University - Meng Sun, Peking University - Cong Tian, Xidian University - Andrea Turrini, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University - Chenyi Zhang, Jinan University ************************ VENUE ************************ The conference will be held in Guangzhou, China. ************************ CONTACT ************************ All questions about submissions should be emailed to setta2020 at easy*chair.org (remove *). 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URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Mar 3 01:19:33 2020 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 07:19:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2020, July 26-31: Call for Papers, extended submission deadline abstracts March 16, 2020/papers March 22, 2020 Message-ID: <20200303061933.201AF2723D07@gigondas.localdomain> Call for Papers (***Deadline Extension***) formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 13th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2020 - July 26-31, 2020 Bertinoro, Italy http://www.cicm-conference.org/2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2020 Invited Speakers: Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, London, UK) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, CNRS, Evry, France) Christian Szegedy (Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA) CICM 2020 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2020 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 different forms: 1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS: * regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present novel research results * project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results * system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including references) present digital artifacts * system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template) provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new release of an existent tool 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 with a forum to present early results and receive constructive feedback and mentoring. *** Important Dates *** Formal submissions (***extended deadlines***) - Abstract deadline: March 16 - Full paper deadline: March 22 - Reviews sent to authors: April 24 - Rebuttals due: April 28 - Notification of acceptance: May 1 - Camera-ready copies due: May 10 - Conference: July 26-31 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 15 - Notification of acceptance: May 1 - Second round submission deadline: June 15 - Notification of acceptance: July 1 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm13 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2020 proceedings with Springer LNCS. From r.iemhoff at uu.nl Tue Mar 3 05:02:26 2020 From: r.iemhoff at uu.nl (Iemhoff, R. (Rosalie)) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 10:02:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in Logic at Utrecht University, the Netherlands Message-ID: PhD position in Logic at Utrecht University, the Netherlands The PhD project is embedded in the research project Optimal Proofs funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research led by Rosalie Iemhoff at Utrecht University. The project in mathematical and philosophical logic is concerned with formalisation in general and proof systems in particular. Its mathematical aim is to develop methods to describe the possible proof systems of a given logic and establish, given various criteria of optimality, what the optimal proof systems of the logic are. Its philosophical aim is to develop general criteria for faithful formalisation in logic and to thereby distinguish good formalisations from bad ones. The mathematical part of the project focuses on, but is not necessarily restricted to, the (non)classical logics that occur in computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, while the philosophical part of the project also takes into account domains where formalisation via logic is rare. The research of the PhD lies mainly within the mathematical part of the project, but can, depending on the interests of the candidate, be extended to the philosophical part of the project as well. The PhD candidate will be part of a research team consisting of two PhD-candidates, two postdoctoral researchers and Rosalie. Besides doing research, the candidate will take part in other activities of the group, such as the organization of workshops, and there will be ample opportunity for the candidate to attend international conferences and visit logic groups abroad. The project is based at the discipline group Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University. The research carried out in the lively group is broad and varied, and part of the humanities as well as the sciences. Utrecht University currently has a Focus Area Artificial Intelligence that the department is involved in. All this provides a stimulating and internationally oriented research environment. Qualifications We are looking for a talented and dedicated student with a master's degree or equivalent degree in mathematics, computer science, or philosophy, specializing in logic or a related area. Additional information For more information on the practical details of the position and the application procedure, please visit https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-position-in-the-research-project-optimal-proofs-10-fte or https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs For more information on the project, please contact Rosalie Iemhoff at r.iemhoff at uu.nl. Deadline for applications: 1 April, 2020. From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 3 05:47:36 2020 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 10:47:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALL FOR PAPERS - Applied Category Theory Conference (ACT2020) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT2020) July 6 ? 10, 2020, MIT, USA http://act2020.mit.edu * * * Applied category theory is a topic of interest for a growing community of researchers interested in studying many different kinds of systems using category-theoretic tools. These systems are found across computer science, mathematics, and physics, as well as in social science, linguistics, cognition, and neuroscience. The background and experience of our members is as varied as the systems being studied. The goal of the Applied Category Theory conference is to bring the majority of researchers in the field together and provide a platform for exposing progress in the area. We seek submissions of both original research papers and extended abstracts of work that's been submitted, accepted, or published elsewhere. Original research papers we accept will be invited for publication in a proceedings volume. Some contributions will be invited to become keynote addresses, and best paper award(s) may also be given. The conference will include a business showcase, and it will be preceded by a tutorial day. This event follows ACT 2018 in Leiden, and ACT 2019 in Oxford. ** IMPORTANT DATES (all in 2020)** Submission of contributed papers: April 26 Acceptance/Rejection notification: May 17 Early bird registration deadline: May 20 Final registration deadline: June 26 Tutorial day: July 5 Main conference: July 6 ? 10 ** SUBMISSIONS ** Two types of submissions are accepted, both of which will be reviewed using the same standards: - Proceedings Track. Original contributions of high-quality work consisting of a 5?12 page extended abstract that provides evidence of results of genuine interest, and with enough detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submission of a work-in-progress is encouraged, but it must be more substantial than a research proposal. - Non-Proceedings Track. Descriptions of high-quality work submitted or published elsewhere will also be considered, provided the work is recent and relevant to the conference. The work may be of any length, but the program committee members may only look at the first 3 pages of the submission, so you should ensure that these pages contain sufficient evidence of the quality and rigor of your work. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. The submission link is available on the ACT2020 web page. ** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ** Mathieu Anel, Carnegie Mellon University John Baez, Centre for Quantum Technologies Richard Blute, University of Ottawa Tai-Danae Bradley, City University of New York Andrea Censi, ETH Zurich Bob Coecke, University of Oxford Valeria de Paiva, Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Eric Finster, University of Birmingham Brendan Fong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tobias Fritz, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Richard Garner, Macquarie University Fabrizio Romano Genovese, Statebox Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Universit? de Paris Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Chris Heunen, The University of Edinburgh Joachim Kock, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona Tom Leinster, The University of Edinburgh Martha Lewis, University of Amsterdam Daniel R. Licata, Wesleyan University David Jaz Myers, Johns Hopkins University Paolo Perrone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vaughan Pratt, Stanford University Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University Michael Shulman, University of San Diego David I. Spivak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (co-chair) Walter Tholen, York University Todd Trimble, Western Connecticut State University Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham (co-chair) Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford ** STEERING COMMITTEE ** John Baez (University of California Riverside) Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) David Spivak (MIT) Christina Vasilakopoulou (University of Patras) From web.alessio.guglielmi at gmail.com Tue Mar 3 09:24:36 2020 From: web.alessio.guglielmi at gmail.com (Alessio Guglielmi) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 14:24:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in proof theory at the University of Bath Message-ID: <4D20E078-456A-48E2-8625-4423E62E3A16@gmail.com> ** PhD position in proof theory at the University of Bath EFFICIENT AND NATURAL PROOFS AND ALGORITHMS Proofs and algorithms are everyday objects in our discipline, but they are still very mysterious. Suffice to say that we are currently unable to decide whether two given proofs or two given algorithms are the same; this is an old problem that dates back to Hilbert. Also, proofs and algorithms are intimately connected in the most famous open problem in mathematics: P vs NP. We make progress by trying to unveil the fundamental structure behind proofs and algorithms, what we call their semantics. In other words, we are interested in the following questions: What is a proof? What is an algorithm? How can we define them so that they have efficient and natural semantics? The questions above are interesting in their own right but answering them will enable technological advances of great impact on society and the economy. For example, it will be possible to build a worldwide, universal tool for developing, validating, communicating and teaching mathematics. Also, quickly producing provably bug-free and secure software will become possible, so solving one of the most complex and important open engineering problems. To understand proofs and algorithms, we create new mathematics starting from proof theory and semantics. The methods we use are mostly discrete, algebraic and combinatorial, but there is a growing geometrical component. The recent advances which our methods are mostly based on are linear logic, game semantics and deep inference. You can find more information at . Our group is very well-financed via several grants. Thanks to our international relations, working with us means having a multicultural experience with all the researchers at the forefront of this worldwide research effort. As a result, all our graduates work and publish at the highest level. For example, one of our recent PhDs, Anupam Das, has won a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2019, worth ?1.5M. The facilities at the University of Bath are outstanding and the city is so beautiful that UNESCO recognises it as a World Heritage Site. ** Supervisors and research team Alessio Guglielmi Willem Heijltjes Informal enquiries are welcomed: ** Application deadline: 29 March 2020. ** Anticipated start date: 28 September 2020. ** Candidate requirements Applicants should hold, or expect to gain, a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours degree in Mathematics or Computer Science, or the equivalent from an overseas university. A master?s level qualification would also be advantageous. ** Funding Notes UK and EU students who have been ordinarily resident in the UK since September 2017 will be considered for an EPSRC DTP studentship. Funding will cover UK/EU tuition fees, maintenance at the UKRI Doctoral Stipend rate (?15,285 per annum, 2020/21 rate) and a training support grant of ?1,000 per annum for 3.5 years. For more information on eligibility: . ** How to apply Formal applications should be made via the University of Bath?s online application form for a PhD in Computer Science: More information about applying for a PhD at Bath may be found at From johannp at appstate.edu Tue Mar 3 08:02:20 2020 From: johannp at appstate.edu (Patricia Johann) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 08:02:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS final call for papers Message-ID: --- Effect of Coronavirus The organizers of MFPS and of QPL are jointly monitoring the evolving coronavirus outbreak, and how to respond. We believe it is too early to make a decision about what steps to take, but we will issue a statement by April 1 about how the virus will affect our joint meetings. While we will consider a number of options, at a minimum we intend to support virtual and / or remote participation by those who are unable or unwilling to attend the meeting in person. --- Final CALL FOR PAPERS: MFPS XXXVI https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/ Thirty-sixth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics University of Paris Saclay, France June 2-6, 2020 Co-located with QPL 2020 ====================================================================== March 30, 2020: Abstract Submission April 3, 2020: Paper Submission May 8, 2020: Notification May 22, 2020: Final Papers Deadline All dates AoE ====================================================================== The 36th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2020) takes place at University of Paris Saclay, France, June 2?6, 2020. MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS & SPECIAL SESSIONS: As in previous years, MFPS will have several invited speakers and special session highlighting areas within programming languages semantics. We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers and organizers of special sessions: Gilles Barthe (IMDEA) - plenary speaker Christine Tasson (Paris VII) - plenary speaker Special session on Probabilistic programming languages ----- Dexter Kozen (Cornell) - plenary speaker Fredrik Dahlqvist (London) Ohad Kammar (Edinburgh) Radu Mardare (Strathclyde) Valeria Vignudelli (Lyon) Special session on Quantum programming - joint with QPL ----- Alexandre Miquel (Montevideo) - plenary speaker Pierre Clairambault (Lyon) Claudia Faggian (Paris VII) Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Nancy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros (available from http://www.entcs.org) and should be up to 12 pages long excluding bibliography and appendices. Submissions will be via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS: There will be a preliminary proceedings of the conference papers that will be distributed at the meeting, with a final proceedings published in ENTCS after the meeting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Stephen Brookes (Carnegie Mellon University) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna & INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham) Pierre Hyvernat (Universite Savoie Mount Blanc) Mauro Jaskelioff (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) - Chair Achim Jung (University of Birmingham) Barbara Koenig (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Neel Krishnaswami (Cambridge University) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Mike Mislove (Tulane University) Joel Ouaknine (MPI-SWS) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University) Maciej Pirog (University of Wroclaw) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Alexandra Silva (University College London) Kristina Sojakova (Cornell University) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg) Sam Staton (University of Oxford) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE: The steering committee of the MFPS series consists of Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana), Stephen Brookes (CMU), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Catherine Meadows (NRL), Michael Mislove (Tulane), Joel Ouaknine (Max Planck) and Prakash Panangaden (McGill). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Pablo Arrighi (AMU & INRIA) Shane Mansfield (Sorbonne) Beno?t Valiron (University of Paris Saclay) From guykatz at cs.huji.ac.il Wed Mar 4 04:56:28 2020 From: guykatz at cs.huji.ac.il (Guy Katz) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 11:56:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 3rd Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (FoMLAS 2020), Los Angeles, 20 July 2020 Message-ID: 3rd Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (FoMLAS 2020) A satellite event of the CAV conference Los Angeles, California, USA July 20, 2020 https://fomlas2020.wixsite.com/fomlas2020 ===================================== SCOPE In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a highly effective way for creating real-world software, and is revolutionizing the way complex systems are being designed all across the board. In particular, this new approach is being applied to autonomous systems (e.g., autonomous cars, aircraft), achieving exciting results that are beyond the reach of manually created software. However, these significant changes have created new challenges when it comes to explainability, predictability and correctness: Can I explain why my drone turned right at that angle? Can I predict what it will do next? Can I know for sure that my autonomous car will never accelerate towards a pedestrian? These are questions with far-reaching consequences for safety, accountability and public adoption of ML-enabled autonomous systems. One promising avenue for tackling these difficulties is by developing formal methods capable of analyzing and verifying these new kinds of systems. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate discussion regarding how formal methods can be used to increase predictability, explainability, and accountability of ML-enabled autonomous systems. The workshop welcomes results ranging from concept formulation (by connecting these concepts with existing research topics in verification, logic and game theory), through algorithms, methods and tools for analyzing ML-enabled systems, to concrete case studies and examples. The workshop will also include a special session and discussion on the VNNLIB initiative, aimed at creating a standard format and a benchmark library for neural network verification. The topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Formal specifications for systems with ML components - SAT-based and SMT-based methods for analyzing systems with deep neural network components - Mixed-integer Linear Programming and optimization-based methods for the verification of systems with deep neural network components - Testing approaches for ML components - Statistical approaches to the verification of systems with ML components - Approaches for enhancing the explainability of ML-based systems - Techniques for analyzing hybrid systems with ML components - Verification of quantized and low-precision neural networks ===================================== IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AOE) Abstract submission April 12, 2020 Full paper submission April 19, 2020 Author notification June 4, 2020 Workshop July 20, 2020 ===================================== COMMITTEE Conference Chairs: Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin?Madison, USA) Guy Katz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Nina Narodytska (VMWare Research, USA) Program Committee: Clark Barrett (Stanford University, USA) Chih-Hong Cheng (Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany) Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) Xiaowei Huang (University of Liverpool, UK) Suman Jana (Columbia University, USA) Jean-Baptiste Jeannin (University of Michigan, USA) Susmit Jha (SRI, USA) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Luca Pulina (University of Sassari, Italy) Gagandeep Singh (ETH, Switzerland) Armando Tacchella (Universit? di Genova, Italy) Aleksandar Zeljic (Stanford University, USA) Zhen Zhang (Utah State University, USA) ===================================== SUBMISSIONS Three categories of submissions are invited: - Original papers: contain original research 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. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that the workshop attendees may be unaware of. - Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. These reports may range in length from very short to full papers, and will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the community. All accepted papers will be posted online as part of informal proceedings on the day of the conference. Papers in all categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted as a single column, standard-conforming PDF, using the LNCS style. The suggested page limit is 10 pages, not counting references. 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Research areas in the scope of this position include: - algorithmic and computational complexity - principles and semantics of programming languages - program analysis and transformation - fundamental computing paradigms Complementary areas and topics include: - design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, - model checking and automated verification - quantitative methods for reliability and safety The position will be embedded in the Fundamental Computing group of the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (https://www.rug.nl/research/bernoulli/). The successful candidate will play a crucial role within the Center ?Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials? (CogniGron). This is a unique research center, where researchers from materials science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence work together to create self-learning materials that will perform the tasks that are now assigned to thousands of transistors and complex algorithms. For further details (job description. qualifications, conditions of employment, application link), see the full vacancy text at https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007KLP Application deadline: April 5, 2020 Informal inquiries can be sent to Jorge A. P?rez (j.a.perez-at-rug.nl). -- Jorge A. P?rez Associate Professor Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl Office: Bernoulliborg 5.58 - +31 50 36 33971 From genaim at gmail.com Thu Mar 5 02:35:23 2020 From: genaim at gmail.com (Samir Genaim) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 08:35:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WST 2020 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ========================================================================== WST 2020 - Call for Papers 17th International Workshop on Termination http://costa.fdi.ucm.es/wst2020 June 29-30, 2020, Paris, France co-located with IJCAR and FSCD 2020. ========================================================================== The Workshop on Termination (WST) traditionally brings together, in an informal setting, researchers interested in all aspects of termination, whether this interest be practical or theoretical, primary or derived. The workshop also provides a ground for cross-fertilization of ideas from the different communities interested in termination (e.g., working on computational mechanisms, programming languages, software engineering, constraint solving, etc.). The friendly atmosphere enables fruitful exchanges leading to joint research and subsequent publications. The workshop is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020", a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Universit? Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/summer-of-love-2020/ IMPORTANT DATES: * submission deadline: April 12, 2020 * notification: May 10, 2020 * final version due: May 31, 2020 * workshop: June 29-30, 2020 TOPICS: The 17th International Workshop on Termination welcomes contributions on all aspects of termination. In particular, papers investigating applications of termination (for example in complexity analysis, program analysis and transformation, theorem proving, program correctness, modeling computational systems, etc.) are very welcome. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * abstraction methods in termination analysis * certification of termination and complexity proofs * challenging termination problems * comparison and classification of termination methods * complexity analysis in any domain * implementation of termination methods * non-termination analysis and loop detection * normalization and infinitary normalization * operational termination of logic-based systems * ordinal notation and subrecursive hierarchies * SAT, SMT, and constraint solving for (non-)termination analysis * scalability and modularity of termination methods * termination analysis in any domain (lambda calculus, declarative programming, rewriting, transition systems, etc.) * well-founded relations and well-quasi-orders COMPETITION: Since 2003, the catalytic effect of WST to stimulate new research on termination has been enhanced by the celebration of the Termination Competition and its continuously developing problem databases containing thousands of programs as challenges for termination analysis in different categories, see http://termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_Competition In 2020, the Termination Competition will run shortly before WST and the main venues (IJCAR-FSCD), and the results will be presented at IJCAR or FSCD. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Martin Avanzini - INRIA Sophia, Antipolis Florian Frohn - Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Saarbr?cken Carsten Fuhs - Birkbeck, U. of London Samir Genaim (chair) - U. Complutense de Madrid J?rgen Giesl - RWTH Aachen Matthias Heizmann - U. of Freiburg Cynthia Kop - Radboud U. Nijmegen Salvador Lucas - U. Polit?cnica de Val?ncia ?tienne Payet - U. de La R?union Albert Rubio - U. Complutense de Madrid Ren? Thiemann - U. of Innsbruck Johannes Waldmann - HTWK Leipzig INVITED SPEAKERS: tba SUBMISSION: Submissions are short papers/extended abstracts which should not exceed 5 pages. There will be no formal reviewing. In particular, we welcome short versions of recently published articles and papers submitted elsewhere. The program committee checks relevance and provides additional feedback for each submission. The accepted papers will be made available electronically before the workshop. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wst2020 Please, use LaTeX and the LIPIcs style file http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz to prepare your submission. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klaus.ostermann at uni-tuebingen.de Thu Mar 5 08:27:18 2020 From: klaus.ostermann at uni-tuebingen.de (Klaus Ostermann) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:27:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Professorship Programming / Didactics Message-ID: <7fefa929-e339-c158-5c65-887ed4d46a2f@uni-tuebingen.de> The University of T?bingen has an open professorship in computer science and didactics. Applicants with a background in programming and types are very welcome. Details can be found here: https://www.academicgates.com/acazena/job/detail/00155d140103-11ea-4e97-f41bf0a6-8693?utm_medium=detail&utm_source=searchlist&utm_campaign=DEU_UNOFTUEB From adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt Fri Mar 6 10:30:48 2020 From: adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt (Adrian Francalanza) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 16:30:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty Position at the Computer Science Department University of Malta In-Reply-To: <676D092E-FFDD-40D9-AE8A-3229633D0A9E@um.edu.mt> References: <676D092E-FFDD-40D9-AE8A-3229633D0A9E@um.edu.mt> Message-ID: We have recently issued a call for a position at the Department of Computer Science here at the University of Malta. https://www.um.edu.mt/hrmd/recruitment/generalrecruitment/residentacademicfulltimepostincomputerscience The call is open, and includes fields of specialisation such as (and in no particular order): * Programming language design and implementation * Computational complexity * Automated reasoning for resource analysis * Multi-agent, concurrent and distributed systems * Program logics, type systems and other formal methods A few ongoing projects within the department that are related to these themes are: * https://www.um.edu.mt/projects/behapi/ * http://icetcs.ru.is/theofomon/ * https://re-search.info * https://locard.eu The deadline for the call is March 18, 2020. Feel free to contact me or anyone else from the department for further information. Best regards, Adrian Francalanza Associate Professor, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta p: +356 2340 2745 a: Room B05, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Msida, Malta e: adrian.francalanza at um.edu.mt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From salvaneschi at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Sat Mar 7 05:25:26 2020 From: salvaneschi at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Guido Salvaneschi) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 11:25:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: ACM Scala Symposium 2020 Message-ID: Eleventh ACM Scala Symposium https://2020.ecoop.org/home/scala-2020 Berlin, Germany July, 2020 Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. The ACM SIGPLAN Scala Symposium is the leading forum for researchers and practitioners related to the Scala programming language. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics and support many submission formats for industry and academia alike. This year?s Scala Symposium is co-located with ECOOP 2020 in Berlin, Germany. # Topics of Interest We seek submissions on all topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): * Language design and implementation ? language extensions, optimization, and performance evaluation. * Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala ? stand-alone Scala libraries, embedded domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming. * Formal techniques for Scala-like programs ? formalizations of the language, type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems. * Concurrent and distributed programming ? libraries, frameworks, language extensions, programming models, performance evaluation, experimental results. * Big data and machine learning libraries and applications using the Scala programming language. * Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. * Interoperability with other languages and runtimes, such as JavaScript, Java 8 (lambdas), Graal and others. * Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. * Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair (namin at seas.harvard.edu) if you are unsure whether a particular topic falls within the scope of Scala 2020. # Important dates Paper submission: April 7, 2020 Paper notification: May 22, 2020 Student talk submission: May 29, 2020 Student talk notification: June 12, 2020 Camera ready: June 5, 2020 Scala Symposium: co-located with ECOOP in July 2020, TBA # Submission Format To accommodate the needs of researchers and practitioners, as well as beginners and experts alike, we seek several kinds of submissions. * Full papers (at most 10 pages, excluding bibliography) * Short papers (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) * Tool papers (at most 4 pages, excluding bibliography) * Student talks (short abstract only, in plain text) * Open-source talks (short abstract only, in plain text) The Scala Symposium uses a lightweight double-blind reviewing process, so we ask that research papers, both full and short, be anonymized. Tools papers and talks proposals need not be anonymized. Authors should omit their names from their submissions, and should avoid revealing their identity through citation. Accepted papers (either full papers, short ones or tool papers, but not talks) will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Detailed information for each kind of submission is given below. Submissions should be in acmart/sigplan style, 10pt font. Formatting requirements are detailed on the SIGPLAN Author Information page. Scala 2019 submissions must conform to the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy. Please note that at least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the symposium and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. # Full and Short Papers Full and short papers should describe novel ideas, experimental results, or projects related to the Scala language. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. Additionally, short papers may present problems and raise research questions interesting for the Scala language community. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community. In general, papers should explain their original contributions, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other languages where appropriate). # Tool Papers Tool papers need not necessarily report original research results; they may describe a tool of interest, report practical experience that will be useful to others, new Scala idioms, or programming pearls. In all cases, such a paper must make a contribution which is of interest to the Scala community, or from which other members of the Scala community can benefit. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to include a link to the tool?s website. For inspiration, you might consider advice in https://conf.researchr.org/track/POPL-2016/pepm-2016-main#Tool-Paper-Advice, which we however treat as non-binding. In case of doubts, please contact the program chair. # Student Talks In addition to regular papers and tool demos, we also solicit short student talks by bachelor/master/PhD students. A student talk is not accompanied by paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Student talks are about 15 minutes long, presenting ongoing or completed research related to Scala. In previous years, each student with an accepted student talk received a grant (donated by our sponsors) covering registration and/or travel costs. # Open-Source Talks We will also accept a limited number of short talks about open-source projects using Scala presented by contributors. An open-source talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Open-source talks are about 15 minutes long and should be about topics relevant to the symposium. They may, for instance, present or announce an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. # Organizing Committee * (General Chair) Guido Salvaneschi - TU Darmstadt, Germany * (PC Chair) Nada Amin - Harvard University, United States * (Publicity Chair) David Richter - TU Darmstadt, Germany # Program Committee * Oliver Bracevac - TU Darmstadt, Germany * Youyou Cong - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Oleg Kiselyov - Tohoku University, Japan * Victor Kuncak - EPFL, Switzerland * Fengyun Liu - EPFL Switzerland * Mikael Mayer - EPFL, Switzerland * Ragnar Mogk - TU Darmstadt, Germany * Adriaan Moors - Lightbend * Jon Pretty - Propensive Ltd * Julien Richard-Foy - Scala Center * Georg Stefan Schmid - EPFL, Switzerland * Ruby Tahboub - Purdue University, United States * Philip Wadler - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom # Submission Website The submission will be managed through HotCRP: https://scala20.hotcrp.com/ For questions and additional clarifications, please contact the conference organizers. -- Guido Salvaneschi Assistant Professor TU Darmstadt - Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria at mpi-sws.org Sun Mar 8 05:54:44 2020 From: maria at mpi-sws.org (Maria Christakis) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 10:54:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VSTTE 2020: Call for papers Message-ID: <005701d5f52f$982dbce0$c88936a0$@mpi-sws.org> CALL FOR PAPERS Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) 2020 July 19-20, 2020, Los Angeles, USA (co-located with CAV 2020 and ISSTA 2020) https://sri-csl.github.io/VSTTE20/ =================================================================== The Verified Software Initiative (VSI), spearheaded by Tony Hoare and Jayadev Misra, is an ambitious research program for making large-scale verified software a practical reality. The Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) is the main forum for advancing the initiative. VSTTE brings together experts spanning the spectrum of software verification in order to foster international collaboration on the critical research challenges. The theoretical work includes semantic foundations and logics for specification and verification, and verification algorithms and methodologies. The tools cover specification and annotation languages, program analyzers, model checkers, interactive verifiers and proof checkers, automated theorem provers and SAT/SMT solvers, and integrated verification environments. The experimental work drives the research agenda for theory and tools by taking on significant specification/verification exercises covering hardware, operating systems, compilers, computer security, parallel computing, and cyber-physical systems. The 2020 edition of VSTTE will be the 12th working conference in the series, and will be co-located with CAV 2020 and ISSTA 2020 in Los Angeles, USA. SCOPE: We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e., software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Education Requirements modeling Specification languages Specification/verification/certification case-studies Formal calculi Software design methods Automatic code generation Refinement methodologies Compositional analysis Verification tools Tool integration Benchmarks Challenge problems Integrated verification environments Work on diverse verification technologies, e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability, is particularly encouraged. SUBMISSIONS: VSTTE 2020 will accept both long (limited to 16 pages, excluding references) and short (limited to 10 pages, excluding references) paper submissions. Short submissions also cover Verification Pearls describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. Papers can be submitted at the VSTTE 2020 conference page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2020 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2020 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) is strongly encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES: April 14, 2020 : Abstract submission April 20, 2020 : Paper submission June 5, 2020: Notification of acceptance July 19-20, 2020: Conference August 28, 2020 : Camera-ready for post-conference proceedings GENERAL CHAIR: Natarajan Shankar (SRI International, USA) PROGRAM CHAIRS: Maria Christakis (MPI-SWS, Germany) Nadia Polikarpova (UCSD, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Christel Baier (TU Dresden, Germany) Nikolaj Bj?rner (Microsoft Research, USA) Supratik Chakraborty (IIT Bombay, India) Eva Darulova (MPI-SWS, Germany) Ankush Desai (UC Berkeley and AWS, USA) Gidon Ernst (LMU Munich, Germany) Grigory Fedyukovich (Florida State University, USA) Pietro Ferrara (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy) Jean-Christophe Filli?tre (CNRS, France) Carlo A. Furia (USI, Switzerland) Patrice Godefroid (Microsoft Research, USA) Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands) Rajeev Joshi (AWS, USA) Dejan Jovanovi? (SRI International, USA) Akash Lal (Microsoft Research, India) Nuno P. Lopes (Microsoft Research, UK) Peter M?ller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Jorge Navas (SRI International, USA) Andrei Paskevich (Paris-Sud University, France) Hila Peleg (UCSD, USA) Chris Poskitt (SMU, Singapore) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah, USA) Philipp R?mmer (Uppsala University, Sweden) Christian Schilling (IST Austria, Austria) Rahul Sharma (Microsoft Research, India) Julien Signoles (CEA LIST, France) Graeme Smith (The University of Queensland, Australia) Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London and AWS, UK) Tachio Terauchi (Waseda University, Japan) Caterina Urban (INRIA, France) Thomas Wies (NYU, USA) Kirsten Winter (The University of Queensland, Australia) Valentin W?stholz (ConsenSys Diligence, Germany) Damien Zufferey (MPI-SWS, Germany) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tatjana.petrov at uni-konstanz.de Mon Mar 9 06:29:13 2020 From: tatjana.petrov at uni-konstanz.de (Tatjana Petrov) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 11:29:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2020 - second call for papers Message-ID: <5798C9BF-49C2-40AC-A997-E06ECE84DDA4@uni-konstanz.de> ========================================================================= [Please feel free to share, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ========================================================================= CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Papers, tools, tutorials, posters, presentations) CMSB 2020: The 18th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology https://cmsb2020.uni-saarland.de 23rd-25th September 2020, University of Konstanz (Germany) ========================================================================= About CMSB 2020 solicits original research articles, posters, tutorials, and tool papers, on the analysis of biological systems, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. The conference brings together computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists interested in a system-level understanding of biological processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - formalisms for modelling biological processes - models and their biological applications - frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis and simulation of biological systems - methods for synthetic biology and bio-molecular computing - machine learning, model inference from experimental data - model integration from biological databases - multi-scale modelling and analysis methods - collective behaviour - high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations In particular, the conference is open to theoretical works with potential applications to modelling and systems biology, as well as applications of existing frameworks to new models or that may provide new insights to existing models. Contributions should be submitted to one of the following categories: 1) Regular papers 2) Tool papers 3) Posters 4) Tutorials 5) Presentations of already published papers The proceedings of the two first categories of papers of CMSB 2020 will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series (LNCS/LNBI). Publication of extended versions of a selection of the papers in a special issue of a journal is under consideration. ========================================================================= Invited Speakers Iain Couzin, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour and the Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany Gr?gory Batt, Inria and Institute Pasteur, France Domitilla Del Vecchio, MIT, USA ========================================================================= Call for Submissions: ========================================================================= 1) Call for regular papers: Regular papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 15 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Each submission will be refereed rigorously by at least three reviewers. The reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. Important Dates - Regular Paper Abstract presubmission: April 08, 2020 - Regular Paper submission: April 15, 2020 - Regular Paper notification: June 15, 2020 - Regular Paper Camera-ready: June 30, 2020 - Conference: September 23-25, 2020 Replicability and reproducibility: A paper may come with benchmarks, software, models, and so on. In order to encourage the development of reproducible results, the authors of accepted papers will be suggested to submit supplementary materials, so that the committee can evaluate the reproducibility of their work. ========================================================================= 2) Call for tool papers: Tool papers should present new tools, new tool components or novel extensions to existing tools supporting the modelling and analysis of biological systems. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. Papers must be written in English and must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 6 pages. Appendices will not be counted in the page limit. Papers must include information on methods, tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results. Authors should make their tools and benchmarks available at the time of submission for evaluation by the committee. Each submission must be accompanied by a supplementary PDF file illustrating the usage of the tool (e.g. screenshots, step-by-step guide, short tutorial) and, if applicable, how the tool demo will be conducted during the conference presentation. Presenters of accepted tool papers will be encouraged to include a showcase/running demo of the tool in their talk. Important Dates - Tool Paper Abstract presubmission: April 08, 2020 - Tool Paper submission: April 15, 2020 - Tool Paper notification: June 30, 2020 - Tool Paper Camera-ready: July 15, 2020 ========================================================================= 3) Call for posters: CMSB 2020 solicits original poster abstracts on the computational modelling and analysis of biological systems, pathways, networks, data, and corresponding application domains. We especially encourage poster submission from experimental biologists! Poster abstracts must conform the LNCS style. They have to be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair. The limit for submissions is 2 pages. Important Dates - Poster abstract submission: June 15, 2020 - Poster notification: June 30, 2020 ========================================================================= 4) Call for tutorials: CMSB 2020 will host tutorials. Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics ranging from thoughts on the past, current, or future development of computational methods in systems biology to presentations and/or demonstrations of new tools and technologies. A slot in the tutorial track will normally be either 1 hour or 1 hour and a half. A short abstract (less than 2 pages) conforming the LNCS style shall be sent directly to the PC chairs (cmsb2020 at easychair.org) Important Dates - Tutorial submission: April 01, 2020 - Tutorial notification: April 30, 2020 ========================================================================= 5) Call for presentations: Not all potential speakers are interested in publications in a proceedings. CMSB will host some talks without paper submission. The requirement is that the works to be presented have been already accepted in a journal. The PDF version of the article has to be submitted electronically, so as to help the committee to select the talks to be given at the conference. The committee will not review the article, since it has already been accepted for publication in a journal. Please indicate in the abstract field of the web-form to which journal the article has already been accepted. Important dates - Presentation submission: April 15, 2020 - Presentation notification: June 15, 2020 ========================================================================= PC co-Chairs - Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK) - Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) - Verena Wolf (University of Saarland, Germany) Tool Track Chair - David Safranek (Masaryk University Brno, CZ) Local Organisation Chair - Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) Steering Committee Alessandro Abate - University of Oxford (UK) - guest member Ezio Bartocci ? Vienna University of Technology (Austria) ? guest member Milan ?e?ka ? Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic) ? guest member Finn Drablos ? NTNU (Norway) Fran?ois Fages ? INRIA Saclay ?le-de-France (France) J?r?me Feret ? INRIA ? Paris (France) ? guest member David Harel ? Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) Monika Heiner ? Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (Germany) Heinz K?ppl ? Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany) ? guest member Pietro Lio? ? University of Cambridge (UK) ? guest member Tommaso Mazza ? IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ? Mendel (Italy) Satoru Miyano ? University of Tokyo (Japan) Nicola Paoletti ? Stony Brook University (USA) ? guest member Tatjana Petrov - University of Konstanz (Germany) - guest member Gordon Plotkin ? University of Edinburgh (UK) Corrado Priami ? CoSBi / Microsoft Research, University of Trento (Italy) David ?afr?nek ? Masaryk University (Czech Republic) ? guest member Carolyn Talcott ? SRI International (USA) Adelinde Uhrmacher ? 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URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Mon Mar 9 12:00:42 2020 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 16:00:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] DisCoTec 2020: 2nd call for satellite events Message-ID: <7413B7A8-9997-4E1F-8E97-63EC90AD88C9@gmail.com> ************************************************************************ Call for Satellite Events: Tutorials and Tool Tracks 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2020 University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020 https://www.discotec.org/2020/ ************************************************************************ *** About DisCoTec *** DisCoTec is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It gathers conferences, workshops, and tutorials that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects, ranging from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques to systems research issues. Its 15th edition will take place at University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020. *** Main Conferences *** - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination ) 22nd IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2020/dais ) 20th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2020/forte ) 40th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems *** Tutorials *** The DisCoTec 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for tutorials by experts on topics related to those of the three main conferences of DisCoTec. Tutorials will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective speakers should contact the workshop chairs providing the following information: - contact information of the speaker - title of the tutorial - abstract of the tutorial (max. 500 words) - description of the tutorial (max. two A4 pages) - duration of the tutorial and dates (15-19) in order of preference Important Dates: * April 10, 2020: Deadline for tutorial proposals * May 1, 2020: Notification of accepted tutorials *** Tool track *** The DisCoTec 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for tool demonstrations on topics related to those of the three main conferences of DisCoTec. The call is open to anyone, but authors of papers accepted at the conferences of DisCoTec are strongly invited to present the tool accompanying their publication. Demos will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective speakers should contact the workshop chairs providing the following information: - contact information of the speaker - title of the demo and of the tool - brief description of the actual demonstration (max. three A4 pages) Important Dates: * April 24, 2020: Deadline for demo proposals * May 8, 2020: Notification of accepted demos * DisCoTec 2020 workshop chairs * Antonis Achilleos > (Reykjavik Univerisity, Iceland) Duncan Attard > (University of Malta, Malta) Ornela Dardha > (University of Glasgow, UK) *** Further information *** For further information, please contact the workshop chairs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ndanner at wesleyan.edu Mon Mar 9 15:05:35 2020 From: ndanner at wesleyan.edu (Norman Danner) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:05:35 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two-year postdoctoral position at Wesleyan University Message-ID: <15103187.cHohUEVtuo@laika> TWO-YEAR POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral position that is renewable for a second year, subject to satisfactory performance. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. degree at the time of appointment and have strong research and teaching records. While the successful applicant will be able to pursue their own research agenda, an interest in current faculty research is a plus. Areas currently represented include networking, algorithms and complexity, programming languages, logic, network science, and privacy and security. The teaching load is three courses per year and includes introductory courses and more advanced courses or electives in the applicant's specialty. We will review applications until the position is filled, but to ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by Friday, 17 April 2020. Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching statement, research statement, and three or four letters of recommendation, with at least one addressing teaching. Applications must be submitted online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16122. Please submit PDF files only (not URLs). Other correspondence regarding this position may be sent by e-mail to cssearch at wesleyan.edu or to Computer Science Search Committee, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459. For more information about the department please visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/mathcs. Wesleyan University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, marital status, ancestry, present or past history of mental disorder, learning disability or physical disability, political belief, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or non-position-related criminal record. We welcome applications from women and historically underrepresented minority groups. Inquiries regarding Title IX, Section 504, or any other nondiscrimination policies should be directed to: Alison P. Williams, Vice President for Equity & Inclusion/Title IX Officer, awilliams at wesleyan.edu. -- Norman Danner - ndanner at wesleyan.edu - http://ndanner.web.wesleyan.edu Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Wesleyan University From martin.avanzini at inria.fr Tue Mar 10 14:15:22 2020 From: martin.avanzini at inria.fr (Martin Avanzini) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:15:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LCC'20 First Call for Contributions Message-ID: -------------- next part -------------- (Apologies for cross posting.) =========================================================== First Call for Contributions LCC 2020 21th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity July 7, 2020, Saarbruecken, Germany Collocated with LICS/ICALP 2020 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 22, 2020 * notification May 13, 2020 * workshop July 7, 2020 SUBMISSION: 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=lcc20 We also 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Martin Avanzini (INRIA Sophia Antipolis M?diterran?e, France, co-chair) Diego Figueira (CNRS Bordeaux, France) Joanna Ochremiak (CNRS Bordeaux, France) Magdalena Ortiz (TU Wien, Austria) Thomas Seiller (CNRS Paris, France) Jakob Grue Simonsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Thomas Zeume (TU Dortmund, Germany, co-chair) CONTACT: To contact the workshop organizers, please send an e-mail to lcc20 at easychair.org From harley.eades at gmail.com Wed Mar 11 11:48:08 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:48:08 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] GraMSec 2020 CFP Message-ID: Hi, everyone. Below you will find the CFP for Graphical Models in Security of which I am one of the cochairs this year. I would like to bring your attention to this years expanded scope. In particular, to the following entries: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. These entries have a large non-empty intersection with topics related to the TYPES community. So submissions from this community will be well-received. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Very best, Harley ---- GraMSec 2020: The Seventh International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Boston, MA, United States of America - June 22, 2020 http://gramsec.uni.lu Co-located with CSF 2020 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. The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security is an established scientific event dedicated to study and exchange of experiences on graphical security and safety modelling. TOPICS This year, we encourage excellent submissions related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 3. Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data and machine learning in security operations 4. Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and transportation) 5. Risk analysis and management: models and graphical methodologies for security and privacy risk management in business and organisational architectures 6. Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry. 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 10. Visual security: modelling and analytics for security visualisations. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. We welcome a broad range of contributions: from theory to tools and experience reports. Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality debate at the Workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 18 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Short papers (up to 10 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. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2020 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2020. PUBLICATION As in previous editions, we plan for the post-proceedings to be made available in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, published by Springer (acceptance pending). This will be published after the workshop, thus permitting the authors to incorporate feedback. IMPORTANT DATES We will have two rounds of submissions with different submission and notification deadlines. First round submissions (priority in program and notifications): - Submissions due: Friday, April 1, 2020 - Notifications: Friday, May 1, 2020 Second round submissions (after CSF notification): - Submissions due: Friday, April 24, 2020 - Notifications: May 18, 2020 - Workshop: Monday, June 22, 2020 - Camera ready versions due: Friday, August 7, 2020 PROGRAM CHAIRS Harley Eades III, Augusta University, United States of America Olga Gadyatskaya, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, United States of America Barbara Fila, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Christian W. 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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. We also hope to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. 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: 24th April 2020 * Author notification: 15th May 2020 * Contribution for Informal Proceedings: 29th May 2020 * Workshop date: 29-30 June 2020 SUBMISSIONS 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=tllalinearity2020 POST-PROCEEDINGS 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 Raphaelle Crubill? http://research.crubille.lautre.net/ Ugo Dal Lago (co-chair) https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/ugo.dallago/en Valeria De Paiva (co-chair) http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ Harley Eades http://metatheorem.org/ Koko Muroya http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kmuroya/ Michele Pagani https://www.irif.fr/~michele/ Elaine Pimentel https://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ Giselle Reis https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/directory/giselle-reis/ Thomas Seiller https://www.seiller.org/ Daniel Ventura http://www.inf.ufg.br/~daniel/ Lionel Vaux https://www.i2m.univ-amu.fr/perso/lionel.vaux/ -- Valeria de Paiva http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The research areas of PKU-SEI cover software engineering, systems engineering, knowledge engineering, programming languages, ubiquitous computing, and many other aspects of computing. The Department of Computer Science at Peking University has recently established an English-based PhD program aiming for non-Chinese citizens, which is called International Elite Ph.D. Program. The program lasts 5 years for applicants with Bachelor's Degree or 4 years with Master's Degree. It involves coursework, independent research, and dissertation. This program enrolls approximately 10-20 overseas students annually. The program offers generous scholarship opportunity for students. The Software Engineering/Programming Languages areas are among the key areas focused by this International Elite Ph.D. Program. For detailed information about the program, such as admission requirements, application process, evaluation process, etc., please visit https://cs.pku.edu.cn/info/1115/2233.htm. 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All the best, Amar on behalf of the steering committee On 24/02/2020 6:53 pm, Amar Hadzihasanovic wrote: > ======== > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > SEVENTH SYMPOSIUM ON COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURES (SYCO 7) > > Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia > 30-31 March 2020 > > http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/7/ > ======== > > The Symposium on Compositional Structures (SYCO) is an > interdisciplinary series of meetings aiming to support the growing > community of researchers interested in the phenomenon of > compositionality, from both applied and abstract perspectives, and in > particular where category theory serves as a unifying common language. > Previous SYCO events have been held at University of Birmingham, > University of Strathclyde, University of Oxford, Chapman University, > and University of Leicester. > > The next SYCO, to be held at Tallinn University of Technology, will > host 2 invited talks and 14 contributed talks. Topics range from > logical methods in computer science, to higher category theory, > through applications of categories in probability and linguistics. > > > INVITED TALKS > ======== > > * Bartek Klin (University of Warsaw) > Monadic monadic second order logic > > * Christine Tasson (IRIF, Universit? de Paris) > The linear-non-linear substitution 2-monad > > > CONTRIBUTED TALKS > ======== > > * Sivert Aasn?ss - Contextuality for circuits > * Vikraman Choudhury - Tracking intensional resources using weighted > sets and comonads > * Elena di Lavore - A proposal for subgame perfection in compositional > game theory > * Tobias Fritz, Eigil Fjeldgren Rischel - The zero-one laws of > Kolmogorov and Hewitt-Savage in categorical probability > * Lukas Heidemann - Frames in pretriangulated dg-categories > * Nick Hu - External traced monoidal categories > * Maxime Lucas - Rewriting strategies as contracting homotopies > * Violeta Martins de Freitas - Life in arrows: an introduction to > applied category theory > * Dylan McDermott, Alan Mycroft - On the relation between > call-by-value and call-by-name > * Michael Moortgat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Gijs Wijnholds - A Frobenius > algebraic analysis for parasitic gaps > * Olivier Peltre - Homological algebra for message-passing algorithms > * Alex Rice - Coinductive invertibility in higher categories > * Julian Salamanca T?llez - Distributive laws over the powerset > * Niels van der Weide - Constructing finitary 1-truncated higher > inductive types as groupoid quotients > > > REGISTRATION > ======== > > Registration is open until Monday 23 March. > > Details are available on the conference website: > http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/syco/7/ > > > PROGRAMME COMMITTEE > ======== > > Miriam Backens, University of Birmingham > Christoph Dorn, University of Oxford > Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde > Brendan Fong, MIT > Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Universit? de Paris (PC chair) > Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh > Alex Kavvos, Aarhus University > Marie Kerjean, INRIA Bretagne Atlantique, ?quipe Gallinette > Kohei Kishida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam > Samuel Mimram, ?cole Polytechnique > Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University > Jovana Obradovi?, Institute of Mathematics CAS > Viktoriya Ozornova, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum > Simona Paoli, University of Leicester > Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London > Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology > Christina Vasilakopoulou, University of Patras > Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham and University of Oxford > Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford From acie at acie.eu Fri Mar 13 11:36:07 2020 From: acie at acie.eu (acie at acie.eu) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:36:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computability in Europe 2020 rescheduling Message-ID: <28bd6d8c48eaa9dc54505431c9ffc619@acie.eu> Due to the current medical situation related to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, the Organizing Committee of CiE2020, in agreement with the CiE Steering Committee, has decided to reschedule the conference. We will be monitoring the situation and give more details on the conference web site https://cie2020.wordpress.com/ We hope that the situation will improve, and we are working to organize the conference wth the highest standard of excellence. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Mon Mar 16 17:07:42 2020 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:07:42 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2020 - deadline extension Message-ID: LSFA 2020 15th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 26-28 August 2020, Salvador, Brazil http://lsfa2020.ufba.br Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. Previous editions of LSFA took place in Natal (2019), Fortaleza (2018), Bras?lia (2017), 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. Previous proceedings were published by EPTCS and ENTCS. Previous LSFA special issues have been published in journals such as Journal of Algorithms, The Logic Journal of the IGPL and Theoretical Computer Science (see http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Specification languages and meta-languages * Formal semantics of languages and logical systems * Logical frameworks * Semantic frameworks * Type theory * Proof theory * Automated deduction * Implementation of logical or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical or semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Process calculi SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers with a maximum of 13 pages excluding references. Beyond full regular papers, we encourage submissions such as system descriptions, proof pearls, rough diamonds (preliminary results and work in progress), 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 excluding references. 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. The 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=lsfa2020 At least one of the authors should register for the workshop. All accepted papers will be available online during the workshop; full papers will be published at ENTCS, and short papers will be collected in an informal volume. For the publication of the proceedings there will be a cost to authors of USD 50 at registration time. IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract deadline: March 30 (extended) * Submission deadline: April 06 (extended) * Notification to Authors: May 15 (extended) * Proceedings version due: Jun 12 * LSFA 2020: August 26-28 INVITED SPEAKERS * Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, University of Bras?lia (joint speaker with WBL 20) * Eduardo Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology * Delia Kesner, IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS * Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Beniamino Accattoli, INRIA (Saclay) * Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Mario Benevides, UFF * Ana Bove, Chalmers * Manuela Busaniche, CONICET-UNL Santa Fe * Marco Cerami, UFBA * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fernandez, King's College London * Francicleber Ferreira, UFC * Renata de Freitas, UFF * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca, UNAM * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Jo?o Marcos, UFRN * Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano * Daniele Nantes, UnB * Carlos Olarte, UFRN * Revantha Ramanayake,TU Wien * Camilo Rocha, PUJ * Nora Szasz, Universidad ORT * Ivan Varzinczak, Universit? d'Artois * Daniel Ventura, UFG * Renata Wassermann, USP From m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 17 06:49:06 2020 From: m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk (Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:49:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020 Message-ID: Second Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020 Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information (http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation (https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-beth-foundation). Nominations are now invited for the best dissertation in these areas resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2019. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2020. Qualifications: - A dissertation is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2020, if the Ph.D. degree has been awarded in Logic, Language, or Information between January 1st and December 31st, 2019. - There are no restrictions on the nationality, ethnicity, age, gender or employment status of the author of the nominated dissertation, nor on the university, academic department or scientific institution formally conferring the Ph.D. degree, nor on the language in which the dissertation has originally been written. - In accordance with the aim of the Beth Foundation to continue and extend the work of the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth, nominations are invited of excellent dissertations on current topics in philosophical and mathematical logic, computer science logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, history of logic, history of the philosophy of science and scientific philosophy in general, as well as the current theoretical and foundational developments in information and computation, language and cognition. Dissertations with results more broadly impacting various research areas in their interdisciplinary investigations are especially solicited. - If a nominated dissertation has originally been written in a language other than English, its dossier should still contain the required 10 page English abstract, see below. If the committee decides that a nominated dissertation in a language other than English requires translation to English for proper evaluation, the committee can transfer its nomination to the competition in 2021. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2021. The committee may recommend the Beth Foundation to consider supporting such nominated dissertations for English translation, upon request by the author of the dissertation. The prize consists of: - a certificate - a donation of 3000 euros, provided by the E.W. Beth Foundation - an invitation to submit the dissertation, possibly after revision, for publication in FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information (Springer). Only digital submissions are accepted, without exception. Hard copy submissions are not allowed. The following documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier: - The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable). - A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results of each chapter. - A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisely describes the scope and significance of the dissertation, stating when the degree was officially awarded and the members of the Ph.D. committee. Nominations should contain the address, phone and email details of the nominator. - Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree, nor otherwise related to the nominee (e.g. former teachers, supervisors, co-authors, publishers or relatives) or the dissertation. - Self-nominations are not possible. All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via EasyChair by following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdp2020. In case of any problems with the submission one should contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk). The prize will be awarded by the chair of the FoLLI board at a ceremony during the 32nd ESSLLI summer school in University of Utrecht, August 3-14, 2020. 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URL: From chriwurm at gmx.de Wed Mar 18 08:15:31 2020 From: chriwurm at gmx.de (Christian Wurm) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:15:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Formal Grammar Deadline Extension Message-ID: <40890f2c-d6c9-8027-c174-73a7c8f0f79b@gmx.de> ?????????????? FG 2020 ????????????? The 25th Conference on Formal Grammar ???????????? Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 8-9, 2020 http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2020/ ??????????? Co-located with the European Summer School ?????????????? in Logic, Language and Information ??????????? *NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 31, 2020* BACKGROUND FG 2020 is the 25th conference on Formal Grammar, to be held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information which, in 2020, will take place at the University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Previous Formal Grammar meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), Saarbr?cken (1998), Utrecht (1999), Helsinki (2001), Trento (2002), Vienna (2003), Nancy (2004), Edinburgh (2005), Malaga (2006), Dublin (2007), Hamburg (2008), Bordeaux (2009), Copenhagen (2010), Ljubljana (2011), Opole (2012), D?sseldorf (2013), T?bingen (2014), Barcelona (2015), Bozen-Bolzano (2016), Toulouse (2017), Sofia (2018), and Riga (2019). AIMS AND SCOPE FG provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, mathematical linguistics and the application of formal and mathematical methods to the study of natural language. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, + formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics ? and pragmatics; + model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; + logical aspects of linguistic structure; + constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; + learnability of formal grammar; + integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar; + foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar ? and linguistics; + mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic ? analysis. Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks. FORMAL GRAMMAR-SEMSPACE JOINT SESSION The program will include a special session on the relevance of formal grammar methods in deep learning and other statistical and vector space approaches to language. Examples of phenomena where these methods come into play include (but of course are not limited to) anaphora resolution, long-range filler-gap dependencies, function-argument relations, locality domains, and syntactic structures in general. This session is organised jointly with the Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences (SemSpace2020 [https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020], organizers: Martha Lewis (ILLC, Amsterdam), Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University)). SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite*electronic*? submissions of original, 16-page papers (including references and possible technical appendices). Authors are encouraged to use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The submission deadline is *March 15, 2020*. Papers must be *anonymous*? and submitted electronically at EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fg2020. Papers should report original work which was not presented in other conferences. However, simultaneous submission is allowed, provided that the authors indicate other conferences to which the work was submitted in a footnote. Note that accepted papers can only be presented in one of the venues.? Please indicate whether your paper should be considered for the Formal Grammar-SemSpace joint session. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES + March 15, 2020: Deadline for paper submission + May 6, 2020: Notification of acceptance + May 19, 2020: Camera ready copies due + August 8-9, 2020: Conference dates PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stepan Kuznetsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia) Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel) Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) Robert Levine (Ohio State University, USA) Annie?? Foret?? (IRISA - Rennes University, France) Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, France) Christian Retor? (LIRMM - Universit? Montpellier 2, France) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UK) Ed Stabler (UCLA, USA) Jesse Tseng (CNRS - CLLE-ERSS, France) Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University, USA) Stefan M?ller (Humboldt Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Manfred Sailer (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Oriol Valent?n (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain) Ryo Yoshinaka (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Jane Chandlee?? (Haverford College) Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany) STANDING COMMITTEE + Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy) + Greg Kobele (University of Leipzig, Germany) + Christian Wurm (University of D?sseldorf, Germany) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eacsl.ls1 at cs.tu-dortmund.de Wed Mar 18 11:08:18 2020 From: eacsl.ls1 at cs.tu-dortmund.de (EACSL Mail-Account) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:08:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACKERMANN AWARD 2020: Deadline for nominations postponed to July 1, 2020 Message-ID: ACKERMANN AWARD 2020 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE *** Due to the current health situation, the submission deadline for nominations has been postponed to July, 1. *** ----------------------------------------------------- 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 January 2018 and 31 December 2019 are eligible for nomination for the award. The new deadline for submission is 1 July 2020. Submission details follow below. *** The Award The 2020 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 21, the annual conference of the EACSL, in Ljubljana, January 25-28, 2021. 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, * an invitation to the winner to publish the thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS, and * financial support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. *** The Jury The jury consists of: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Michael Benedikt (Oxford University); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay); * Prakash Panangaden (McGill University); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL; * Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative. *** 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 chair of the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de The e-mail should have the following subject line and text: * Subject: Ackermann Award 20 Submission * Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments Submissions can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case, please indicate it in the text. From lo at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 20 06:26:14 2020 From: lo at cs.ox.ac.uk (Luke Ong) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:26:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc at Oxford - probabilistic and differentiable programming In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, We are recruiting a postdoc to work on probabilistic and differentiable programming. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 10th April 2020. Oxford is a great place for programming languages research in general, but especially in probabilistic and differentiable programming. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me for further details. Luke Ong lo at cs.ox.ac.uk Full details: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1791-full.html Current faculty: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ariola at cs.uoregon.edu Wed Mar 18 23:36:32 2020 From: ariola at cs.uoregon.edu (Zena Matilde Ariola) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:36:32 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OPLSS2020 cancelation Message-ID: <427585D6-763C-4F93-85E6-B001D8070AE0@cs.uoregon.edu> Due to the unprecedented public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, the organisers of OPLSS2020 have decided to cancel the event. We had planned a very good program, and we want to thank the speakers that already had committed their time and energy to the success of the school. This has been a difficult decision, but we are looking forward to a very successful OPLSS2021. Thank you for your support and interest. 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It will also be possible to collaborate with other groups in the department, such as the Mathematical Logic group (with experts on constructive mathematics and type theory like Per Martin-L?f and Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine) and the Algebra, Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics group. For further information and instructions on how to apply see https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/phd?rmpage=job&rmjob=11944&rmlang=UK The deadline for application is April 23, 2020. Some potential project ideas can be found at https://www.math.su.se/english/education/phd-studies/research-projects/possible-research-projects-in-computational-mathematics-1.430102#m%C3%B6rtberg If you are interested in applying and have any questions feel free to contact me! -- Anders M?rtberg https://staff.math.su.se/anders.mortberg/ From brucker at spamfence.net Fri Mar 20 17:49:41 2020 From: brucker at spamfence.net (Achim D. Brucker) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:49:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Position: Lecturer in Computer Science (Exeter, Deadline 2020-04-08) Message-ID: <20200320214941.sw7ugurq4tgdart2@ananogawa.home.brucker.ch> Open Position: Lecturer in Computer Science (Exeter, Deadline 2020-04-08) As part of the expansion of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter [1], we are recruiting for a Lecturer in Cybersecurity. The lecturer will be part of the newly formed Security and Trust of Advanced Systems Group [2]. We are looking for a candidate with an outstanding research record in any area related to cyber security (information security) such as (but not limited to): - access control - usable security - software/application security - formal methods for security - language-based security/privacy - secure programming - information flow - security protocols - network security - security of distributes systems - human aspects of security - hardware security - security economics - security-by-design - applied cryptography - privacy-enhancing technologies - threat hunting, security analytics - threat modelling - forensics, reverse engineering - trustworthy AI/ML - security/penetration testing You will have a PhD or equivalent in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related area. Please refer to the job description for full details. We understand **security and safety entangled concepts**: in most modern systems one cannot be achieved without the other. Hence, we encourage also candidates working in related domains such as **safety, dependability, resilience, or reliability** to apply. Please apply by 8th of April 2020! See the full announcement and application details at https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=803965SHQd&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA We are happy to do online/remote interviews. Feel free to contact me for informal inquiries about the post. Best, Achim [1] https://www.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/ [2] https://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/cyber-security/ -- Prof. Achim Brucker | https://www.brucker.ch | https://logicalhacking.com/blog *We are hiring:* * Lecturer (Assistant Professor) - Deadline 2020-04-08: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BZH668/lecturer-in-computer-science-education-and-research * Two PhD Studentships (EU/UK Tuition Fees) - Deadline 2020-05-01: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3887 From j.t.jeuring at uu.nl Sat Mar 21 06:12:20 2020 From: j.t.jeuring at uu.nl (Johan Jeuring) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:12:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Functional Programming Message-ID: The Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University invites applications for a PhD position in Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Functional Programming. The candidate will join the Software Technology for Learning and Teaching Group, led by Johan Jeuring. The focus of the position is on designing new technologies to support students working in an intelligent tutoring system for functional programming. We expect to use techniques from dependently typed programming, refinement types, program synthesis, automated theorem proving, and more to analyse student programs, and to help students in taking the next step when developing a program. The candidate will investigate the design and use of multiple technologies for this purpose, add them to Ask-Elle, our intelligent tutoring system, perform experiments with the system, and improve the technologies based on the outcome of the experiments. For more information about our work, see http://ideas.cs.uu.nl/ For further information and instructions on how to apply see: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/5-year-phd-candidate-position-in-intelligent-tutoring-systems-for-functional-programming-10-fte or contact Johan Jeuring: j.t.jeuring at uu.nl http://www.jeuring.net/? The deadline for applications is April 29, 2020. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johannp at appstate.edu Sat Mar 21 07:25:32 2020 From: johannp at appstate.edu (Patricia Johann) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 07:25:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TYPES/announce] update on MFPS 2020 Message-ID: In view of the chaotic situation in many places of the world due to the pandemic, we are sorry to inform you that we definitely will not be able to maintain the physical event of the MFPS and QPL 2020 conferences in Paris or, indeed, anywhere else in the world. We are still working out the details of how to hold a virtual meeting. At a minimum, we plan to offer the opportunity to upload pre-recorded lectures to an online conference platform. More information on the concrete modalities (offline videos, forum, online discussion platform, etc) will be forthcoming. Conference proceedings of the accepted papers will still be published as usual. The final Call for Papers for MFPS is repeated below. Submission deadlines remain unchanged. Best wishes, Patricia Johann, on behalf of the MFPS and QPL PC chairs Final CALL FOR PAPERS: MFPS XXXVI https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/ Thirty-sixth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics University of Paris Saclay, France June 2-6, 2020 Co-located with QPL 2020 ====================================================================== March 30, 2020: Abstract Submission April 3, 2020: Paper Submission May 8, 2020: Notification May 22, 2020: Final Papers Deadline All dates AoE ====================================================================== The 36th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2020) takes place at University of Paris Saclay, France, June 2?6, 2020. MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: bio-computation; concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS & SPECIAL SESSIONS: As in previous years, MFPS will have several invited speakers and special session highlighting areas within programming languages semantics. We are pleased to announce the following invited speakers and organizers of special sessions: Gilles Barthe (IMDEA) - plenary speaker Christine Tasson (Paris VII) - plenary speaker Special session on Probabilistic programming languages ----- Dexter Kozen (Cornell) - plenary speaker Fredrik Dahlqvist (London) Ohad Kammar (Edinburgh) Radu Mardare (Strathclyde) Valeria Vignudelli (Lyon) Special session on Quantum programming - joint with QPL ----- Alexandre Miquel (Montevideo) - plenary speaker Pierre Clairambault (Lyon) Claudia Faggian (Paris VII) Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Nancy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros (available from http://www.entcs.org) and should be up to 12 pages long excluding bibliography and appendices. Submissions will be via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfps20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS: There will be a preliminary proceedings of the conference papers that will be distributed at the meeting, with a final proceedings published in ENTCS after the meeting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana) Andrej Bauer (University of Ljubljana) Stephen Brookes (Carnegie Mellon University) Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna & INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham) Pierre Hyvernat (Universite Savoie Mount Blanc) Mauro Jaskelioff (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) - Chair Achim Jung (University of Birmingham) Barbara Koenig (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University) Neel Krishnaswami (Cambridge University) Catherine Meadows (NRL) Mike Mislove (Tulane University) Joel Ouaknine (MPI-SWS) Prakash Panangaden (McGill University) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University) Maciej Pirog (University of Wroclaw) Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University) Alexandra Silva (University College London) Kristina Sojakova (Cornell University) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg) Sam Staton (University of Oxford) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- STEERING COMMITTEE: The steering committee of the MFPS series consists of Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana), Stephen Brookes (CMU), Achim Jung (Birmingham), Catherine Meadows (NRL), Michael Mislove (Tulane), Joel Ouaknine (Max Planck) and Prakash Panangaden (McGill). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Pablo Arrighi (AMU & INRIA) Shane Mansfield (Sorbonne) Beno?t Valiron (University of Paris Saclay) From c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk Sun Mar 22 11:03:28 2020 From: c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk (Cristian Cadar) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:03:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Program Analysis, Verification or Systems at Imperial College London Message-ID: Applications are invited for a postdoctoral and a PhD position in the Software Reliability Group at Imperial College London, under the direction of Cristian Cadar. The research will be part of the ERC Consolidator Grant Project PASS: Program Analysis for Safe and Secure Software Evolution, and will focus on helping software systems evolve safely and securely. PASS aims to take a holistic approach to the challenges of safe and secure software evolution, by combining offline program analysis to verify or comprehensively test software changes, with runtime mechanisms for keeping the software updated and secure against potentially erroneous changes that make it into the deployed system. For more details about these positions, please see: https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoc-pass-20/ https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/vacancies/phd-pass-20/ The deadline for applications is 3rd May 2020. From igarashi at kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Sun Mar 22 22:17:59 2020 From: igarashi at kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Atsushi Igarashi) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:17:59 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open position: Lecturer in Computer Science (non-tenured, 3--5 yrs, deadline 2020-04-27) Message-ID: Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan has one lecturer position starting from October 1st, 2020. Kyoto University is one of the top universities in Japan. Institution: Kyoto University School: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Department: Department of Communications and Computer Engineering URL of Dept.: http://www.cce.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ Institution type: National university Content of job information: # Job details: * Research and education for the International Courses in the Department * Education for the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, in particular teaching courses on informatics in English (such as Introduction to Algorithms) * Field of Specialization: Foundational Areas in Computer Science * Work Location: Yoshida Campus (Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan) * Starting date: October 1st, 2020 (or before) Research field: Area ? Informatics, Discipline ? Computer Science Job type: Non-tenured Lecturer Employment status: 3-year fixed term contract (an extension to 5 years is possible, depending on performance) Probation period? Six months in accordance with the regulations of Kyoto University Work Location: Yoshida Campus Qualifications: The successful candidate should have the following items:# a Ph.D. degree in informatics or related areas; * an excellent record in his/her research in fundamental areas in Computer Science; * ability to teach courses in English on informatics (such as Introduction to Algorithms, and Introduction to Formal Language Theory) at the undergraduate level in liberal arts education, and to teach some courses in English at the Graduate School of Informatics; * experience in graduate and/or undergraduate education in these areas and strong interest in international education; and * very high-level (native-like) proficiency in English Although it is not mandatory, it is desirable that he or she is fluent in Japanese. Treatment: * Working conditions: Working hours: 38 hours 45 minutes per week under the flexible-hours system. Days off: Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, Year-end and New Year holidays, Foundation Day, and summer vacation. * Salary: Annual salary based on qualifications and experience is determined in accordance with the existing employment regulations of Kyoto University * Allowance: No allowance for commuting expenses, housing expenses, bonuses, etc. is provided. * Social insurance: Eligible for MEXT* mutual aid association membership, employment insurance, and workers? compensation Deadline of Application: April 27, 2020 Application method: Applicants should prepare the following items in PDF: * CV; * publication list; * summary of 3 major publications and copies of these papers; * names, affiliations, and mail addresses of two references; * statement of research and education plans (about three pages), which must include a synopsis of a liberal art course on Introduction to Computer Science. All documents should be archived in a single ZIP file, which should be uploaded via JREC-IN Portal (https://jrecin.jst.go.jp). (Look for the entry with data number D120030926.) [Selection process] * Screening by document review * Candidates may be interviewed. They will be informed in detail about the interview. [Contact details] Prof. Eiji Oki Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. oki at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp [Notes] * Personal information that is provided in an application will not be used for any purpose other than screening for employment. * The selection result will be sent by e-mail. * A successful candidate may not be selected. * The university is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from female and handicapped candidates. -- Atsushi Igarashi Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606-8501,Japan e-mail: igarashi at kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp TEL: +81-75-753-4953 FAX: +81-75-753-4954 From dom.orchard at gmail.com Mon Mar 23 07:22:13 2020 From: dom.orchard at gmail.com (Dominic Orchard) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:22:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doctoral position in linear, dependent, and graded modal types, University of Kent (2 years) Message-ID: Closing date: Friday 8th of May. Expected start: September 2020, but negotiable. I am seeking to appoint a 2-year Research Associate (post doc) at the University of Kent, funded under the project 'Granule: Verifying Resource-like Data Use in Programs via Types'. The broad goal of this research is to build programming language theory and practice for verifying data use internally to a language, leveraging a combination of linear types, dependent types, and centrally the relatively new concept of* graded modal types*. You can find more details about the project, the Granule programming language, the team, and links to publications of preliminary results here: https://granule-project.github.io/ This full time, 24 month position is placed within the internationally renowned Programming Languages and Systems group (PLAS) at the University of Kent?s School of Computing (at Canterbury). Canterbury is a beautiful, historic city (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) situated very close to London (<1 hour by train) and mainland Europe (close to airports and Eurostar). You would be working as part of an energetic team of researchers. More details can be found below and at: https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=STM-146-20 Contact Dominic Orchard (d.a.orchard at kent.ac.uk) if you have any questions. As Research Associate you will: - contribute to the development of the theory of graded modal types, and its interaction with linear and dependent type theories; - contribute to the implementation of the prototype language Granule (written in Haskell) which applies these ideas in a practical setting; - assist in developing case studies of these techniques, including applications to security, privacy, communication protocols, and reasoning about physical resource use such as time and memory. To be successful in this role you will have/be: - PhD (or nearing completion of study for one) or equivalent, in Computer Science, especially with research interests in programming languages; - Strong knowledge and hands on experience with functional programming; - Good grasp of type systems and typed programming language definitions; - Research experience in one of either programming language theory or practice. The School of Computing at Kent is a welcoming and supportive environment that has been recognised with a Bronze Athena SWAN award. We are a well-balanced, inclusive and diverse community that aims to further enhance our achievements and reputation in teaching, research and innovation. Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we are proud of our friendly and inclusive culture. We support colleagues through a number of family-friendly policies, including a core hours policy and the right to apply for flexible working, and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence (for example, maternity leave). We particularly welcome applications from female and black and ethnic minority candidates as they are under-represented at this level in this area. https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=STM-146-20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lo at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Mar 23 08:27:17 2020 From: lo at cs.ox.ac.uk (Luke Ong) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:27:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc at Oxford - probabilistic and differentiable programming In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, We are recruiting a postdoc to work on probabilistic and differentiable programming. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 10th April 2020. Oxford is a great place for programming languages research in general, but especially in probabilistic and differentiable programming. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me for further details. Luke Ong lo at cs.ox.ac.uk Full details: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1791-full.html Current faculty: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob.atkey at gmail.com Tue Mar 24 07:02:49 2020 From: bob.atkey at gmail.com (Robert Atkey) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:02:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Multiple Research Positions (3 Doctoral, 5 Post-doctoral) on AI Verification Message-ID: <24ccb100-cc6f-8042-f638-ca42def7ca74@gmail.com> AI Secure and Explainable by Construction: Multiple Research Positions (3 Doctoral, 5 Post-doctoral) available at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh and Strathclyde Universities, Scotland, UK. Start date: 1 September 2020; End date: 30 August 2023 Postdoctoral Salary Scale: ?31,866 to ?40,322 per annum PhD funding: covering PhD fees and stipend for 3.5 years Closing date for Postdoctoral applications: 1 June 2020 We encourage interested applicants to contact us informally ASAP. The project has sufficient flexibility to mitigate the effect of COVID-19, i.e. by accommodating later start date and remote working. The project spans several subjects: type theory, automated and interactive theorem proving, security, AI and machine learning, autonomous systems, natural language processing and generation, legal aspects of AI. It will cover two main application areas: autonomous cars and chatbots, drawing from expertise and infrastructure provided by industrial partners working in these two areas. The project has a significant international span, with 12 partners from Academia and Industry in Europe (France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway) and the US. Researchers joining this project will have excellent opportunities to travel to international conferences, organise scientific events, spend time with industrial partners, collaborate with academic leaders in the field, develop their own research profiles as well as gain experience in other AI and CS disciplines. For further information, and instructions how to apply, please visit: http://laiv.uk/index.php/vacancies/ Ekaterina Komendantskaya: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ek19/ Robert Atkey: https://bentnib.org/ David Aspinall: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/da/ Burkard Schafer: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafer Verena Rieser: https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/ From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 24 16:34:17 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:34:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job: Associate Professor in Programming Languages at Oxford In-Reply-To: <4979AB5A-7869-4986-A91F-CA9541557286@cs.ox.ac.uk> References: <4979AB5A-7869-4986-A91F-CA9541557286@cs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <2303E5B7-301C-4087-A847-FAE9E4B6667D@cs.ox.ac.uk> Last month I advertised this AP in PL job at Oxford (deadline 30 March noon UK time). I wanted to add that we can do the interviews online, and there are mechanisms for delaying the start date or starting remotely if necessary, so please do apply despite the lockdowns. While I?m writing: there are also other open faculty positions in Oxford that may be of interest to some on the types mailing list: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/vacancies/vacancy-faculty.html With all best wishes at this difficult time, Sam. > On 28 Feb 2020, at 08:25, Sam Staton wrote: > > Dear all, > At Oxford we're recruiting an Associate Professor in Programming Languages, deadline 30 March 2020 (noon UK time). > Oxford is a wonderful place for programming languages research. > Sam. > > Full details: > http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1788-full.html > Current faculty: > http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/faculty.html From barbara.kordy at irisa.fr Wed Mar 25 09:15:07 2020 From: barbara.kordy at irisa.fr (Barbara Fila (Kordy)) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:15:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD in formal methods and security, cotutelle France-Scotland Message-ID: <45450a07-dcea-046b-90b0-d91b5e909797@irisa.fr> We have a fully-funded three-year PhD position in formal methods for information security. This is a joint doctorate (cotutelle) between IRISA (Rennes, France) and Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland). The student will obtain a PhD degree from both universities. For more details, see http://people.irisa.fr/Barbara.Kordy/vacancies.php The deadline for applications is Friday, May 15, 2020, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. For all inquiries please contact Barbara Fila (barbara.fila at irisa.fr) and Sa?a Radomirovi? (sasa.radomirovic at hw.ac.uk) With kind regards, Barbara ---------------------- http://people.irisa.fr/Barbara.Kordy/ From bernardobruno at gmail.com Thu Mar 26 04:55:04 2020 From: bernardobruno at gmail.com (Bruno Bernardo) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:55:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2020 - 1st CFP Message-ID: <36b6c152-fdab-392a-3ec9-e2abea867046@gmail.com> [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ======================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2020 - First Call https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2020 July 19, 2020, Los Angeles, USA Co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020) http://i-cav.org/2020/ ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- Abstract submission: April 21, 2020 Full paper submission: April 28, 2020 Notification: June 9, 2020 Camera-ready: July 7, 2020 Conference: July 19, 2020 -------------------------------- -------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------- Blockchains are decentralized transactional ledgers that rely on cryptographic hash functions for guaranteeing the integrity of the stored data. Participants on the network reach agreement on what valid transactions are through consensus algorithms. Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that are stored in the Blockchain and that run on the network. They can interact with the ledger?s data and update its state. These scripts can express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users of the Blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economic activity of Blockchain participants. With the emergence and increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, it is now of utmost importance to have strong guarantees of the behavior of Blockchain software. These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed, Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science where using Formal Methods techniques and tools are relevant: consensus algorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on the chain, programming languages specifically designed to write Smart Contracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs, used to ensure privacy, etc. This workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practical approaches of formal methods for Blockchain technology. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Formal models of Blockchain applications or concepts * Formal methods for consensus protocols * Formal methods for Blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives or protocols * Design and implementation of Smart Contract languages * Verification of Smart Contracts -------------------------------- -------------------------------- SUBMISSION -------------------------------- Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere) with a maximum of twelve pages (full papers), six pages (short papers), and two pages (extended abstract) describing new and emerging ideas or summarizing existing work). Each paper should include a title and the name and affiliation of each author. Authors of selected extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop as a registered participant. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2020 -------------------------------- -------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------- All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted regular papers (full and short papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER -------------------------------- Grigore Rosu, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Founder of Runtime Verification http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Grigore_Rosu https://runtimeverification.com/ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------- PC CO-CHAIRS * Bruno Bernardo (Nomadic Labs, France) (bruno at nomadic-labs.com) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler at exeter.ac.uk) PC MEMBERS * Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Lacramioara Astefanoei (Nomadic Labs, France) * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) * Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK) * Silvia Crafa (Universita di Padova, Italy) * Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, France) * J?r?mie Decouchant (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) * Ansgar Fehnker (University of Twente, Netherlands) * Georges Gonthier (Inria, France) * Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK) * Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA) * Igor Konnov (Informal, Austria) * Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset, Switzerland) * Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) * Sim?o Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) * Karl Palmskog (KTH, Sweden) * Vincent Rahli (University of Birmingham, UK) * Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity Foundation, Germany) * Claudio Russo (Dfinity Foundation, USA) * C?sar Sanchez (Imdea, Spain) * Clara Schneidewind (TU Wien, Austria) * Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College/NUS, Singapore) * Bas Spitters (Aarhus University/Concordium, Denmark) * Mark Staples (CSIRO Data61, Australia) * Meng Sun (Peking University, China) * Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK) * Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh / IOHK, UK) (Note: Additional PC members may be added in the coming weeks.) From emilio.tuosto at gssi.it Thu Mar 26 12:23:49 2020 From: emilio.tuosto at gssi.it (Emilio Tuosto) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:23:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 7 PhD positions in Computer Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L'Aquila (Italy) Message-ID: The GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute offers seven, four-year PhD fellowships in Computer Science for the academic year 2020/21. The fellowships include a yearly salary of ? 16,159.91 gross, free accommodation at the GSSI facilities and use of the canteen. The official language for all PhD courses is English. Applications must be submitted through the online form available at www.gssi.it/phd/ by Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 5 pm (Italian time zone). ** Computer Science at the GSSI and its PhD programme The Computer Science group at the GSSI carries out high-quality, interdisciplinary research on algorithms, formal methods, and software analysis and development. Further information on the group, its members, activities, current research projects, guests, wide international network and vibrant research environment can be found at https://sites.google.com/gssi.it/csgssi. The PhD program in Computer Science at the GSSI (see https://sites.google.com/gssi.it/csgssi/ph-d-program/program) fosters theoretical and applied research on the above-mentioned fields, and equips young researchers with the knowledge and skills to successfully tackle the future challenges in the digital era. The group of formal methods at GSSI is interested in formal models of concurrent and distributed systems. In this context, a few topics of interest are software quality, software verification, behavioural types, modelling and analysis of social networks and cyber-physical systems. The formal methods group is currently involved in several national and international projects such as BehAPI (https://www.um.edu.mt/projects/behapi/), IT-Matters, SEDUCE, OPEL (http://icetcs.ru.is/opel/) and TheoFoMon (http://icetcs.ru.is/theofomon/). ** About the Gran Sasso Science Institute The GSSI-Gran Sasso Science Institute (https://www.gssi.it/) is an international PhD school and a centre for research and higher education in the areas of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Social Sciences. The GSSI was founded in 2012 in L'Aquila (Italy) as Centre for Advanced Studies of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and was then established in March 2016 as a School of Advanced Studies providing post-graduate education. Through day-to-day collaboration and interaction, researchers and students have the opportunity to build a sound knowledge of research methods and to engage in interdisciplinary research, innovative approaches for scientific investigation and multicultural exchanges. In addressing the complexity of today's world, the GSSI is committed to removing all barriers between its areas of study and research. The dissemination of scientific results towards society and the promotion of cultural events for the generic public are among the goals of the GSSI. https://www.gssi.it/communication/news-events/item/9118-new-call-for-gssi-phd-applications-2020-21-now-open From n.jansen at science.ru.nl Thu Mar 26 15:21:53 2020 From: n.jansen at science.ru.nl (Nils Jansen) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:21:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2020 ** 2nd Call for Papers** Message-ID: ? As you may have heard, FORMATS, together with all conferences joint within QONFEST, will be held as a virtual meeting in light of the current Covid-19 pandemic. More information will follow soon. We have decided to already postpone the abstract and paper submission deadlines by two weeks to give everybody planning certainty and the opportunity to submit their best research papers to FORMATS 2020. ? 2nd Call for Papers FORMATS 2020 September 1st-3rd Vienna, Austria (virtual meeting) co-located with CONCUR, FMICS, and QEST https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/ Invited Speakers: Alessandro Abate, Roderick Bloem, Annabelle McIver - Objective Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains have been treated independently by different communities. Researchers interested in semantics, verification, and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment. Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of events. - 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. This year again, FORMATS aims at being more inclusive with respect to applications, notably real-time systems and emerging directions such as data science. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): ? Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models). ? Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.). ? Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication). - Special Sessions This year, FORMATS additionally encourages submissions in two particular topics. Data-driven methods for timed systems (chaired by Guillermo Alberto Perez). We are interested in all kind of data-driven methods such as machine learning or automata learning that consider timing aspects. Examples are automata learning for timed automata or reinforcement learning with timing constraints. Probabilistic and timed systems (chaired by Arnd Hartmanns). Real-time systems often encompass probabilistic or random behavior. We are interested in all approaches to model or analyze such systems, for instance through probabilistic timed automata, or stochastic timed Petri nets. - Paper Submission FORMATS 2020 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages in length (excluding references, that are therefore not limited), and short papers (for instance describing case studies, or implementations) are limited to 5 pages (again excluding references). Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Papers will be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2020 Publication and best paper award The proceedings of FORMATS 2020 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems. Important dates ? Abstract submission: April 18, 2020 ? Paper submission: April 27, 2020 ? Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2020 ? Final version due: July 08, 2020 ? Conference: September 1-3, 2019 For any questions, feel free to contact the co-chairs Nathalie Bertrand (nathalie.bertrand at inria.fr ) and Nils Jansen (n.jansen at science.ru.nl ) Committees - Program Chairs Nathalie Bertrand (France) Nils Jansen (The Netherlands) - General Chair Ezio Bartocci (Austria) - Steering Committee Rajeev Alur (USA) Eugene Asarin (France) Martin Fr?nzle (chair, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger (Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Denmark) Oded Maler (founding chair, France) (1957-2018) Pavithra Prabhakar (USA) Mari?lle Stoelinga (The Netherlands) Wang Yi (Sweden) - Program Committee Mohamadreza Ahmadi (USA) Nicolas Basset (France) Anne Bouillard (France) Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (France) Milan Ceska (Czech Republic) Aiswarya Cyriac (India) Rayna Dimitrova (UK) Uli Fahrenberg (France) Gilles Geeraerts (Belgium) Arnd Hartmanns (The Netherlands) Fr?d?ric Herbreteau (France) Laura Humphrey (USA) Sebastian Junges (Germany) Gethin Norman (UK) Marco Paolieri (USA) Guillermo Perez (Belgium) Hasan Poonawala (USA) Krishna S (India) Ocan Sankur (France) Ana Sokolova (Austria) Jiri Srba (Denmark) B Srivathsan (India) Ufuk Topcu (USA) Patrick Totzke (UK) Jana Tumova (Sweden) Frits W. 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Imperial College London provides a flexible arrangement to be able to start and work remotely until we re-open the campus (this depends on the nationality and current living address). Please contact with Nobuko Yoshida (n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk), Imperial College London if you would like to apply to the position to have informal discussions. The application deadline is also extendable. ------------------------------------------------------------ The project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to case studies; or developing the links between session types and other areas of theoretical computer science. The research programme includes collaboration with several companies and organisations. Candidates for the post-doc position will need to have expertise in either: 1. programming language design and implementation; or 2. formal semantics, type theory and concurrency theory Different positions will be suitable for different points on the theory/practice spectrum. We are especially interested in candidates with a combination of theoretical and practical skills. For more details, see http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk. The focus of Imperial College London Group is theories and applications of (Multiparty) Session Types (JACM,POPL'08) which include: -- Go (POPL'19,ICSE'18,POPL'17,CC'16), Scala (PLDI'19,ECOOP'17,ECOOP'16), F# (CC'18), Erlang (CC'17), Haskell (CC'20,POPL'16), OCaml (SOC), Java (FASE'16,FASE'17), MPI-C (FPL'16,OOPSLA'15,CC'15) and Python (FOAC,LMCS,FMSD); -- session types theories (ESOP'20,POPL'19,ESOP'19,ESOP'16,CONCUR'15), automata theories (CAV'19,CONCUR'19,FoSSaCs'17,TACAS'16,CONCUR'15,POPL'15), game semantics (POPL'19,FoSSaCs'19), Implicit Complexity (LICS'18) and linear logic (ESOP'18,FoSSaCs'18,CONCUR'15); or -- mechanisation of session types meta-theory (Coq, Isabelle, Agda, etc) (TACAS 20) -- other applications such as blockchains (FSE'19) and robotics (ECOOP'19) The contact person is Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London (n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk) The candidate is welcome to contact her. 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Many key contributions in query languages for object-oriented data, persistent databases, nested relational data, and semistructured data, as well as fundamental ideas in types for query languages, were first announced at DBPL. Today, this creative research area is broadening into a subfield of data-centric computation, currently scattered among a range of venues. DBPL is an established destination for such new ideas and solicits submissions from researchers in databases, programming languages or any other community interested in the design, implementation or foundations of data-centric computation. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include: * Language-Integrated Query Mechanisms * Emerging and Nontraditional Data Models * Compiling Query Languages to Modern Hardware * Data-Centric Programming Abstractions, Comprehensions, Monads * Data Integration, Exchange, and Interoperability * Data Synchronization and Bidirectional Transformations * Declarative Data Centers (e.g., distributed query processing, serverless computing platforms, social computing platforms, etc) * Language-Based Security in Data Management * Managing Uncertain and Imprecise Information * Metaprogramming and Heterogeneous Staged Computation * Programming Language Support for Data-Centric Programming (e.g., databases, web programming, machine learning, etc) * Query Compilation and In-memory Databases * Query Language Design and Implementation * Query Transformation and Optimization * Schema Mapping and Metadata Management * Semantics and Verification of Database Systems * Stream Data Processing and Query Languages * Type and Effect Systems for Data-Centric Programming Submissions We invite submissions in two categories: full and short papers. Submissions in either category must be written in English and submitted, by the submission deadline, as PDF files formatted according to the EPTCS style (http://info.eptcs.org) https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbpl2020 *Full papers* are expected to present original research or development. They should be no more than 12 pages long, excluding references. Each submission should begin with a succinct statement of the problem and the summary of main results. Authors may provide more details to substantiate claims of the paper by including a clearly marked appendix at the end of the submission, which is not included in the page limit and is read at the discretion of the committee. *Short papers* of at most 6 pages may describe work in progress, demos, research challenges or visions. Accepted short papers may be excluded from the formal proceedings at authors' request. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. Review is single-blind, so authors do not need to anonymize their submissions. PC submissions are allowed, except for the co-chairs. Accepted papers will be published by EPTCS (Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science) and will be freely accessible. Important Dates Submission deadline: May 4, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth) Author notification: June 28, 2020 Final version due: July 26, 2020 Symposium: September 4, 2020 *IMPORTANT NOTE*: We, and the VLDB organizers, are continuously monitoring the COVID-19 situation. The symposium is half a year away, and we are hopeful that the COVID-19 emergency will pass over and the symposium will be held in September, as planned. If necessary, alternative solutions such as remote presentations are to be considered. 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URL: From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 27 18:29:49 2020 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:29:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Announcing the Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics (OWLS) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ** ONLINE WORLDWIDE SEMINAR ON LOGIC AND SEMANTICS (OWLS) ** ** https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vicaryjo/owls/ ** The Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics is a new online-only series of fortnightly research talks, highlighting the most exciting recent work in the international computer science logic community. In this time of restricted international travel, a key aim of this series is to provide a forum for informal discussion and social interaction that is so important for the progress of science. To facilitate this, the seminar incorporates in virtual form a number of features more normally associated with physical meetings, including virtual "coffee breaks" before and after the seminar, allowing participants to chat in small groups. (Don't forget to bring your own coffee.) We are delighted to announce our initial programme of talks, all of which take place on Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC+1. All members of the computer science logic community are welcome, from students to professors. - April 1. Kevin Buzzard, Imperial College London. "Is HoTT the way to do mathematics?" - April 15. Joost-Pieter Katoen, Aachen University. "Termination of probabilistic programs" - April 29. Daniela Petrisan, University of Paris. "Combining probabilistic and non-deterministic choice via weak distributive laws" - May 13. Bartek Klin, Warsaw University: "Monadic monadic second order logic" - May 27. Dexter Kozen, Cornell University: "Brzozowski derivatives as distributive laws" Talks are fully interactive, with audience members able to see the speaker's face at the same time as the slides, and able to ask questions with full audio and video, just as they would in a physical seminar, allowing the nuanced communication that is so critical for modern science. The seminar series is based on the Zoom technology platform, which is capable of handing large meetings with ease. Visit the OWLS webpage given at the top of this email for more information about the seminar, and to sign up for our reminder email list. Best wishes, the organizers: - Alexandra Silva, University College London - Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology - Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham From marcin at amu.edu.pl Fri Mar 27 18:37:02 2020 From: marcin at amu.edu.pl (Marcin Paprzycki) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:37:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers -- Information Systems and Technologies In-Reply-To: <24db3725-94fd-e9d4-52e3-e594c7e0c758@ibspan.waw.pl> References: <24db3725-94fd-e9d4-52e3-e594c7e0c758@ibspan.waw.pl> Message-ID: <7bc3162b-e360-e983-8b27-24939ebdf652@amu.edu.pl> CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* Track 4: Information Systems and Technologies within FedCSIS 2020 https://fedcsis.org/2020/ist Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 06-09 September 2020 ******************************************************************************* IST is a FedCSIS conference track aiming at integrating and creating synergy between disciplines of information technology, information systems, and social sciences. The track addresses the issues relevant to information technology and necessary for practical, everyday needs of business, other organizations and society at large. This track takes a socio-technical view on information systems and, at the same time, relates to ethical, social and political issues raised by information systems. IST provides a forum for academics and professionals to share the latest developments and advances in the knowledge and practice of these fields. It seeks new studies in many disciplines to foster a growing body of conceptual, theoretical, experimental, and applied research that could inform design, deployment and usage choices for information systems and technology within business and public organizations as well as households. We call for papers to the track's Technical Sessions covering a broad spectrum of topics which bring together sciences of information technology and information systems and social sciences, i.e. economics, management, business, finance, and education. The track bridges the diversity of approaches that contributors bring to the conference. Extended versions of high-marked papers presented at technical sessions of IST 2015-2019 have been published with Springer in volumes of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: LNBIP 243, LNBIP 277, LNBIP 311, LNBIP 346, and LNBIP 380. Our track includes the following four technical sessions: *** Advances in Information Systems and Technologies AIST???2020 https://fedcsis.org/aist AIST???2020 constitutes a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the recent research on information systems and technologies for business, governments, and society. AIST invites papers covering the most recent innovations, current trends, professional experiences and new challenges in the several perspectives of information systems and technologies, i.e. design, implementation, stabilization, continuous improvement, and transformation. It seeks new works from researchers and practitioners in business intelligence, big data, data mining, machine learning, cloud computing, mobile applications, social networks, internet of thing, sustainable technologies and systems, blockchain, etc. The main topics covered are: Advanced information systems and technologies for business; Advanced information systems and technologies for governments; Advanced information systems and technologies for education; Advanced information systems and technologies for healthcare; Advanced information systems and technologies for smart cities; and Advanced information systems and technologies for sustainable development. *** 15th Conference on Information Systems Management (ISM'20) https://fedcsis.org/ism ISM???2020 constitutes a forum for the exchange of ideas for practitioners and theorists working in the broad area of information systems management in organizations. This session invites papers coming from two complimentary directions: management of information systems in an organization, and uses of information systems to empower managers. It is interested in all aspects of planning, organizing, resourcing, coordinating, controlling and leading the management function to ensure a smooth operation of information systems in an organization. Moreover, the papers that discuss the uses of information systems and information technology to automate or otherwise facilitate the management function are specifically welcome. The main topics covered are: Management of Information Systems in an Organization; Uses of Information Systems to Empower Managers; and Information Systems for Sustainability. *** 2nd Special Session on Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce DSH'2020 https://fedcsis.org/2020/dsh DSH'2020 is a forum on all forms of data analysis, data economics, information systems and data based research, focusing on the interaction of those four fields. It embraces a rich array of issues on data science and offer a platform for research from diverse methodological directions, including quantitative empirical research as well as qualitative contributions. We welcome research from a medical, technological, economic, political and societal perspective. The main topics covered are: Data analysis in health, ecology and commerce; (Health) Data management; Health economics; Data economics and data integration; Semantic and AI based data analysis; Data based health service research; Smart service engineering; Integrating data in integrated care and AI in integrated care; Spatial health economics; Risk adjustment and predictive modelling; and Privacy in data science. *** 26th Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management KAM???2020 https://fedcsis.org/2020/kam KAM???2020 aims to to create possibility of presenting and discussing approaches, techniques and tools in the knowledge acquisition and other knowledge management areas with focus on contribution of artificial intelligence for improvement of human-machine intelligence and face the challenges of this century. We expect that the conference&workshop will enable exchange of information and experiences, and delve into current trends of methodological, technological and implementation aspects of knowledge management processes The main topics covered are: Knowledge creation, validation, discovery, and acquisition; Knowledge dynamics and machine learning; Distance learning and knowledge sharing; Knowledge representation models; Knowledge managers and workers; Knowledge coaching and diffusion; Knowledge engineering and software engineering; Knowledge grid and social networks; Knowledge management for design, innovation and eco-innovation process; Business Intelligence environment for supporting knowledge management; Knowledge management in virtual advisors and training; and Human-machine interfaces and knowledge visualization. *** Paper submission, publication and indexation: # Papers acceptance and publication category (regular, position, short) will be judged based on their relevance to the conference theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. # Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus and other indexing services. # Papers presented during the conference will be submitted for inclusion by IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings (ISBN and IEEE Catalog number) under a nonexclusive copyright, thus further publication of extended papers are possible. Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation to BazEkon, Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. # Extended versions of high-marked papers presented at ISM?2015, ISM?2016, ISM?2017, ISM?2018, and ISM?2019 have been published with Springer in volumes of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: LNBIP 243, LNBIP 277, and LNBIP 311, LNBIP 346, and LNBIP 380 (in print). # Extended and revised versions of high-marked papers presented at Track4: IST?2020 will be fast tracked for publication in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series (Springer). *** Important Dates/Deadlines: * Submission Deadline of complete papers: May 15, 2020 (There will be no extension of deadline. Downward clock has been placed on the conference WWW site. It will expire on May 15, 2020 at midnight Hawaii time) * Position paper submission: June 09, 2020 * Acceptance decision: June 30, 2020 * Final version of paper submission: July 15, 2020 * Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2020 Track 4 Chairs: Ziemba, Ewa, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland Cao, Guangming, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates Raban, Daphne, University of Haifa, Israel -- Ta wiadomo?? e-mail zosta?a sprawdzona pod k?tem wirus?w przez oprogramowanie AVG. http://www.avg.com From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Sat Mar 28 03:47:32 2020 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:47:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research position / programming languages / University of Glasgow Message-ID: <29f8fbff-002d-c08c-7c1f-acb3adbecfaf@glasgow.ac.uk> [ This position might be of interest to list subscribers. ] University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering School of Computing Science Research Assistant / Associate Ref: 037408 Grade 6/7: ?29,176 - ?32,817 / ?35,845 - ?40,322 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 EPSRC-funded project "STARDUST: Session Types for Reliable Distributed Systems". The position is available for four years from 1st September 2020 or a date to be agreed. *Project Description* Distributed software systems are an essential part of the infrastructure of modern society. Such systems typically comprise diverse software components deployed across networks of hosts. Ensuring their reliability is challenging, as software components must correctly communicate and synchronise with each other, and any of the hardware or software components may fail. Failure and service "outage" is extremely costly, with worldwide financial losses due to software failures in 2017 estimated at US$1.7tn, up from US$1.1tn in 2016. Failures can occur at all levels of the system stack: hardware, operating systems, networks, software, and users. Here we focus on using advanced programming language technologies to enable the software level to handle failures that arise from any level of the stack. Our aim is to provide software-level reliability for distributed systems by combining fault prevention with fault tolerance. The key objective is to combine the communication-structuring mechanism of session types with the scalability and fault-tolerance of actor-based software architectures. The result will be a well-founded theory of reliable actor programming, supported by a collection of libraries and tools, and validated on a range of case studies. Key aims are to deliver tools that provide lightweight support for developers ? e.g. warning of potential issues ? and to allow developers to continue to use established idioms. By doing so we aim to deliver a step change in the engineering of reliable distributed software systems. The project is a collaboration between the University of Glasgow (Professor Simon Gay and Professor Phil Trinder), Imperial College London (Professor Nobuko Yoshida) and the University of Kent (Professor Simon Thompson and Dr Laura Bocchi). The industrial partners are Actyx AG, Erlang Solutions Ltd, Lightbend, Quviq AB and Tata Consultancy Services. *Principal Duties* The successful candidates will be responsible for conducting research into the theory and practice of session types for actor languages, and for evaluating programming language designs and implementations in relation to realistic 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, strong programming and software engineering skills, and a strong background in programming languages, including type systems and implementation. 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 or practice of actor-based languages; knowledge of the theory of session types. 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. *Coronavirus / COVID-19* Considering the current travel restrictions, interviews will be held remotely if necessary. We will also be flexible about the starting date and working practices. *Further information* For informal enquiries or further information about the project, please contact Professor Simon Gay or Professor Phil Trinder . *Application details* Online advert at jobs.ac.uk: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BZP526/research-assistant-associate Glasgow University online application system: https://www.gla.ac.uk/it/iframe/jobs/ (enter reference 037408) Closing date: 27th April 2020 The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401. From maribel.fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Sat Mar 28 07:06:51 2020 From: maribel.fernandez at kcl.ac.uk (Fernandez, Maria Isabel) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:06:51 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: LOPSTR 2020 Message-ID: ====================================================================== LOPSTR 2020: Fist Call for Papers ====================================================================== 30th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2020 https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez/LOPSTR2020/ Bologna, 7-9 September 2020 Abstract Deadline: 5 June 2020 Paper Deadline: 12 June 2020 SCOPE The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR 2020 will be co-located with PPDP, WFLP and Microservices. TOPICS Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development (including in domain-specific languages), all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, including: * synthesis; transformation; specialisation; composition; optimisation * specification; analysis and verification; testing and certification * program and model manipulation; inversion * machine learning for program development * transformational techniques in SE; applications and tools Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in all these areas are especially welcome. Survey papers and papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission: 5 June 2020 (AoE) Paper/Extended abstract submission: 12 June 2020 (AoE) Notification: 12 July 2020 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): 12 August 2020 Symposium: 7-9 September 2020 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers (and, if possible, line numbers) should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages excluding references. Additional pages may be used for appendices (not intended for publication). Reviewers are not required to read appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2020. PROCEEDINGS Post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, as in previous editions. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Authors should consult Springer?s authors? guidelines and use their proceedings templates, available also in Overleaf, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. BEST PAPER AWARDS Thanks to Springer's sponsorship, two awards (including a 500EUR prize each) will be given at LOPSTR 2020, based on relevance, originality and technical quality of papers. The PC may split the awards among several papers. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Mar?a Alpuente, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, University of Brasilia, Brazil Clara Bertolissi, University Aix-Marseilles, France Emanuele De Angelis, CNR Inst. for Systems Analysis and Computer Science, Italy Maribel Fern?ndez, King's College London, UK (chair) Mario Florido, University of Porto, Portugal Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy Robert Gl?ck, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, US Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany Delia Kesner, Universit? de Paris, France Andy King, University of Kent, UK Temur Kutsia, RISC J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria Giselle Reis, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Masahito Sakai, Nagoya University, Japan Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Germ?n Vidal, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain LOCAL ORGANISATION Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna CONTACT For more information please contact the PC Chair: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Sun Mar 29 03:21:54 2020 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:21:54 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2020 - Deadline extended Message-ID: LSFA 2020 15th Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications 26-28 August 2020, Salvador, Brazil http://lsfa2020.ufba.br Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. Previous editions of LSFA took place in Natal (2019), Fortaleza (2018), Bras?lia (2017), 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. Previous proceedings were published by EPTCS and ENTCS. Previous LSFA special issues have been published in journals such as Journal of Algorithms, The Logic Journal of the IGPL and Theoretical Computer Science (see http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Specification languages and meta-languages * Formal semantics of languages and logical systems * Logical frameworks * Semantic frameworks * Type theory * Proof theory * Automated deduction * Implementation of logical or semantic frameworks * Applications of logical or semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Process calculi SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Contributions should be written in English and submitted in the form of full papers with a maximum of 13 pages excluding references. Beyond full regular papers, we encourage submissions such as system descriptions, proof pearls, rough diamonds (preliminary results and work in progress), 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 excluding references. 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. The 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=lsfa2020 At least one of the authors should register for the workshop. All accepted papers will be available online during the workshop; full papers will be published at ENTCS, and short papers will be collected in an informal volume. For the publication of the proceedings there will be a cost to authors of USD 50 at registration time. IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract deadline: April 06 (extended) * Submission deadline: April 13 (extended) * Notification to Authors: May 22 (extended) * Proceedings version due: Jun 21 (extended) * LSFA 2020: August 26-28 NOTE ABOUT COVID-19 The Program Committee and the local organisation of LSFA have been following closely the information regarding the spread and incidence of the coronavirus in Brazil, as given by local authorities and the World Health Organisation. Most of the states in Brazil are subjecting to international guidelines and promoting measures of isolation and testing. However, it is uncertain at the moment how long these measures need to be in place. We are ready to make the workshop a fully online meeting (if needed), but we believe that it would be a shame to miss the interaction and the informal discussions that are an integral part of workshops such as LSFA. In light of this, we have decided to wait until making a final call. If the situation improves and we go back to a normal life again, we will keep LSFA as a physical meeting in Salvador. Otherwise, we will move to an online meeting happening on the same dates. LSFA will not be postponed, unless under exceptional circumstances. A final decision will be made before registrations start at the end of May. If you have questions or want to discuss anything related to those matters, please feel free to contact the PC Chairs. INVITED SPEAKERS * Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, University of Bras?lia (joint speaker with WBL 20) * Eduardo Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology * Delia Kesner, IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS * Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia * Giselle Reis, CMU-Qatar PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Beniamino Accattoli, INRIA (Saclay) * Sandra Alves, University of Porto * Mario Benevides, UFF * Ana Bove, Chalmers * Manuela Busaniche, CONICET-UNL Santa Fe * Marco Cerami, UFBA * Amy Felty, University of Ottawa * Maribel Fernandez, King's College London * Francicleber Ferreira, UFC * Renata de Freitas, UFF * Edward Hermann Haeusler, PUC-Rio * Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca, UNAM * Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University * Jo?o Marcos, UFRN * Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano * Daniele Nantes, UnB * Carlos Olarte, UFRN * Revantha Ramanayake,TU Wien * Camilo Rocha, PUJ * Nora Szasz, Universidad ORT * Ivan Varzinczak, Universit? d'Artois * Daniel Ventura, UFG * Renata Wassermann, USP From schmiste at gmail.com Mon Mar 30 09:44:51 2020 From: schmiste at gmail.com (Stefan Schmid) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:44:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] open PhD position in Vienna: formal methods for reliable networks Message-ID: Dear all, We are looking for a motivated student interested in pursuing a PhD on developing the foundations of a next generation of reliable networks: networks which are highly automated, and verify and correct themselves autonomously, relying on formal methods. Communication networks have become a critical infrastructure of our society and hence come with stringent requirements on dependability. We believe that automation can improve reliability: many network outages these days are due to human errors. The research position is at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna and is fully funded. The candidate also has the opportunity to collaborate with Aalborg University, Denmark, and engage into longer visits, if she/he is interested: Aalborg University is a project partner. The candidate should have a strong background in formal methods, model checking and algorithms, and be knowledgeable about communication networks, with a strong interest in this application domain. We offer a productive research environment and excellent contacts to other universities as well as industry interested in this application domain. While our goal is to lay the theoretical foundations of such networks, we also plan to prototype our ideas and ideally make a practical contribution. For an idea on the kind of research we are doing in this area, please see the sample publications attached below. To apply, please send your CV, motivation letter and reference letters to me by email, or use the online portal at (1) (see link below). Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information, And please do distribute this email to colleagues and students who may be interested. Thank you, Stefan Schmid (in collaboration with Kim G. Larsen and Jiri Srba at Aalborg University) PS: More information about our research group at: https://ct.cs.univie.ac.at/ Link to application system: (1) https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_c2189F644-F04A-4D4B-9049-98690574F28F_k73316D65-6269-9538-7EA6-ED3A918B2D68&tid=78403.28 Some related papers: P-Rex: Fast Verification of MPLS Networks with Multiple Link Failures Jesper Stenbjerg Jensen, Troels Beck Krogh, Jonas Sand Madsen, Stefan Schmid, Jiri Srba, and Marc Tom Thorgersen. 14th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Heraklion/Crete, Greece, December 2018. https://www.univie.ac.at/ct/stefan/conext18.pdf Polynomial-Time What-If Analysis for Prefix-Manipulating MPLS Networks Stefan Schmid and Jiri Srba. 37th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2018. https://www.univie.ac.at/ct/stefan/infocom18prefixnet.pdf Virus-free. www.avast.com <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We do plan to integrate corrections from the errata at some point for later versions. Stay healthy and enjoy the read! Thanks again to everyone who gave us feedback while we were working on the original version, and to everyone who has given us feedback for our errata! Talia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Tue Mar 31 08:10:38 2020 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:10:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Teaching PhD Position in Quantitative Systems and Reasoning Methods Message-ID: <25042b79-4fa8-870e-1621-f314169ba247@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> I have a fully funded PhD position at the Leiden University available with a rather free choice of approaching reasoning methods for quantitative systems. The approach can be purely in terms of category theory, type theory, formal logic, or a combination of those. 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Full CfP https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2021-research-papers#POPL-2021-Call-for-Papers # ??Scope The annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is a ??forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and ??programming systems. Both theoretical and experimental papers are ??welcome, on topics ranging from formal frameworks to experience ??reports. We seek submissions that make principled, enduring ??contributions to the theory, design, understanding, implementation or ??application of programming languages. The symposium is sponsored by ??ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGACT and ACM SIGLOG. # ??Evaluation criteria The Program Committee will evaluate the technical contribution of ??each submission as well as its accessibility to both experts and the ??general POPL audience. All papers will be judged on significance, ??originality, relevance, correctness, and clarity. Each paper must ??explain its scientific contribution in both general and technical ??terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is ??significant, and comparing it with previous work. Advice on writing ??technical papers can be found on the SIGPLAN author information page. # ??Evaluation process Authors will have a multi-day period to respond to reviews, as indicated in the Important Dates table. Responses are optional. A response must be concise, addressing specific points raised in review; in particular, it must not introduce new technical results. Reviewers will write a short reaction to these author responses. The program committee will discuss papers entirely electronically rather than at a physical programming committee meeting. This will avoid the time, cost and environmental impact of transporting an increasingly large committee to one point on the globe. There is no formal External Review Committee, though experts outside the committee will be consulted. Reviews will be accompanied by a short summary of the reasons behind the committee?s decision with the goal of clarifying the reasons behind the decision. ?? For additional information about the reviewing process, see: - ?Principles of POPL: a presentation of the underlying organizational and reviewing policies for POPL http://popl.mpi-sws.org/PrinciplesofPOPL.pdf - ??Frequently asked questions about the reviewing and submission process, especially double-blind reviewing. https://popl19.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2019-Research-Papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ # Submission guidelines The following two points are easy to overlook: - ??Conflicts: Each author of a submission has to log into the submission system and properly declare all potential conflicts of interest in the author profile form. A conflict caught late in the reviewing process leads to a voided review which may be infeasible to replace. - ??Anonymity: POPL 2021 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Make sure that your submitted paper is fully anonymized. ? Prior to the paper submission deadline, the authors will upload their full anonymized paper. Each paper should have no more than 25 pages of text, excluding bibliography, using the new ACM Proceedings format. See the full CfP for more detail. https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2021-research-papers#POPL-2021-Call-for-Papers ?? # ??Artifact Evaluation ?? Authors of accepted papers will be invited to formally submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. Artifact Evaluation is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as ?source materials? in the ACM Digital Library. ?? # ??PACMPL and Copyright All papers accepted to POPL 2021 will be published as part of the new ACM journal Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL). To conform with ACM requirements for journal publication, all POPL papers will be conditionally accepted; authors will be required to submit a short description of the changes made to the final version of the paper, including how the changes address any requirements imposed by the program committee. That the changes are sufficient will be confirmed by the original reviewers prior to acceptance to POPL. Authors of conditionally accepted papers must submit a satisfactory revision to the program committee by the requested deadline or risk rejection. See the full CfP for more detail https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2021-research-papers#POPL-2021-Call-for-Papers # Publication and Presentation ?? Papers may not be presented at the conference if they have not been published by ACM under one of the allowed copyright options. All papers will be archived by the ACM Digital Library. Authors will have the option of including supplementary material with their paper. ?? 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. ?? ??Authors of accepted papers are required to give a short talk (roughly 25 minutes long) at the conference, according to the conference schedule. ?? # ??Distinguished Paper Awards ?? At most 10% of the accepted papers of POPL 2021 will be designated as Distinguished Papers. This award highlights papers that the POPL program committee thinks should be read by a broad audience due to their relevance, originality, significance and clarity. The selection of the distinguished papers will be made based on the final version of the paper and through a second review process. ?? From dale.miller at inria.fr Wed Apr 1 10:53:36 2020 From: dale.miller at inria.fr (Dale Miller) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 16:53:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ph.D. position in formal proof and trust at Inria Saclay Message-ID: The W3Proof project at Inria Saclay proposes to build the foundations for a distributed Web-like platform for developing, sharing, and certifying formal proofs, independent of any particular proof assistant. We are looking for a Ph.D. candidate to work on this project. Candidates should know the basics of proof theory, lambda-calculus, and distributed systems technology (including cryptographic constructions for signing and tracking of provenance, content-based naming, etc.). This Ph.D. student position is offered by Inria and the work will be done within the Partout team at the LIX laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique. If you are interested in this Ph.D. position, submit - cover letter with your CV, - pdf files (or links) of some material you have written, and - names of 2-3 people willing to write a recommendation letter for you. All inquiries and application material should be sent to Dale Miller (dale.miller at inria.fr) or to Kaustuv Chaudhuri (kaustuv.chaudhuri at inria.fr). We expect the position to start in October 2020, but there is some flexibility with the exact start dates. We hope to make decisions on this position by at least 10 May 2020. 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Paris Saclay, France - Contact: S?bastien Bardin (sebastien.bardin at cea.fr) Keywords: software security, binary code, program analysis, formal methods, vulnerabilities, adversarial codes Several PhD positions are available in the BINSEC research group, Software Security Lab, CEA LIST, in the area of binary-level software security analysis, to begin as soon as possible at Paris-Saclay, France. Positions are three-year long. * Topics: Our general objective is to leverage recent advances in software verification, security analysis and machine learning in order to propose advanced methods and tools for supporting low-level security investigations, such as (but not limited to) vulnerability analysis, code protection, reverse engineering or malware analysis. In that context, we propose 3 funded PhD positions on the following problems: . code-level attacker model in program analysis (in collaboration with Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France); . combining formal methods and machine learning for adversarial code analysis (in collaboration with Universit? de Lorraine, France); . scalable binary-level static analysis for security. The candidates are expected to solve challenging research problems, implement their results in working prototypes, publish at top conferences or journals, and broadly participate to the scientific life of the group. All positions comprise theoretical work as well as prototyping (preferably in OCaml) and experimental evaluation. * Our team: The BINSEC research group is a dynamic team of 8 junior and 2 senior researchers, with extensive expertise in program analysis, including binary-level formal methods, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, SMT solving and fuzzing. The group has frequent publications in top-tier Security, Formal Methods and Software Engineering conferences. We work in close collaboration with other French or international research teams, industrial partners (e.g., Thales, EDF, Airbus) and national agencies (ANSSI, DGA). The team is part of CEA, one of the best ranked research institution in the world (https://www.reuters.com/innovation/most-innovative-institutions-2019), with an annual budget of ?4.7 billion and about 16K staff members across France. Additional information can be found on http://sebastien.bardin.free.fr/ https://binsec.github.io/ * Requirements: We welcome curious, dedicated and enthusiastic students with a strong background in Computer Science, both theoretical and practical. We are mainly looking for applicants with knowledge in at least one of the following areas: program analysis, formal methods, software security, compilers, system or machine learning. Experience in functional programming (OCaml) is appreciated. * Application: Interested applicants should send their CV to S?bastien Bardin (sebastien.bardin at cea.fr) as soon as possible, and before June 2020. Applications will be reviewed immediately as they arrive (first come first served). Positions will have a duration of 3 years and will start in October 2020. ====================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kostiantyn.potomkin at anu.edu.au Thu Apr 2 05:59:38 2020 From: kostiantyn.potomkin at anu.edu.au (Kostiantyn Potomkin) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 09:59:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions - 7th Int. Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems Message-ID: 7th Int. Workshop on Applied Verification for Continuous and Hybrid Systems Part of IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2020 The workshop on applied verification for continuous and hybrid systems (ARCH) brings together researchers and practitioners to establish a curated set of benchmarks and test them in a friendly competition. Call for Submissions Verification of continuous and hybrid systems is increasing in importance due to new cyber-physical systems that are safety- or operation-critical. This workshop addresses verification techniques for continuous and hybrid systems with a special focus on the transfer from theory to practice. Topics include, but are not limited to * Proposals for new benchmark problems (not necessarily yet solvable) * Tool presentations * Tool executions and evaluations based on ARCH benchmarks * Experience reports including open issues for industrial success * Reports on results of our friendly competition (separate call) Researchers are welcome to submit examples, tools and benchmarks that have already appeared in brief form, but whose details were omitted. The online benchmark repository allows researchers to include modeling details, parameters, simulation results, etc. Submissions are encouraged, but not required, to include executable data (models, configuration files, code etc.). It is not required to show that the benchmark has a solution; it suffices that the problem is described in enough detail that somebody else can try to solve it. Prize The paper with the most promising benchmark results receives a prize of 500 Euros. The winner is preselected by the program committee and determined by an audience voting. General Submission Guidelines Submissions consist of papers (ideally 3-8 pages) and optional files (e.g. models or traces) submitted through the ARCH'20 EasyChair web site. ARCH20 will provide proceedings in the EasyChair EPiC series, indexed by DBLP. Detailed submission guidelines can be found here: submission instructions. Submissions receive at least 3 anonymous reviews, including one from industry and one from academia. Benchmark papers: A zip archive with additional data (description details, model files, sample traces, code, known results, etc.) is to be submitted together with the extended abstract. Benchmarks can be academic or industrial, of small size or extensive case studies. Evaluation Criteria for Benchmarks While the review criteria for tool presentations, benchmark results, and experience reports are more general, benchmark proposals should address the following criteria: * Relevance: How typical is the benchmark for its application domain or academic topic? How important (scientifically or practically) are the phenomena it exhibits? Does the benchmark correspond to an existing real-world system? * Clarity: How easy is it to create a working model from the description? How clear is the specification of the properties to be verified? * Verification advantages: Can verification show properties of the benchmark that are difficult to obtain using other approaches (stochastic simulation etc.)? Important Dates Submission deadline May 18, 2020 Notification of acceptance June 08, 2020 Final version June 29, 2020 Workshop July 12, 2020 PDF-Version of the Call There is a pdf of the call (reduced content to make it fit on a single page). 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URL: From paba at itu.dk Fri Apr 3 02:38:53 2020 From: paba at itu.dk (Patrick Bahr) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 06:38:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TERMGRAPH 2020: 2nd Call for papers Message-ID: <2D53A984-8555-483C-881D-C95382012D8C@itu.dk> ======================================================================= Second Call for Papers TERMGRAPH 2020 Eleventh International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs 5 July, 2020 termgraph.org.uk/2020 An FSCD 2020 Workshop ======================================================================= Graphs and graph transformation systems are used in many areas within Computer Science: to represent data structures and algorithms, to define computation models, as a general modelling tool to study complex systems, etc. Topics of interest for TERMGRAPH encompass all aspects of term and graph rewriting, and applications of graph transformations in programming, automated reasoning and symbolic computation, including: * Theory of first-order and higher-order term and graph rewriting * Graph grammars * Graph-based models of computation * Graph-based programming languages and modelling frameworks * Applications in functional and logic programming * Applications in automated reasoning and symbolic computation * Term/graph rewriting tools: case studies and system descriptions * Implementation issues The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in these different domains and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 15 April 2020 Notification: 15 May 2020 PreProceedings version: 24 May 2020 Online Workshop: 5 July 2020 (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop will be held online.) Submissions and Publication: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in PDF format of max. 8 pages in EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). This may include both original work and tutorials on any of the abovementioned topics; work in progress is also welcome. Submission is through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=termgraph2020 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: Beniamino Accattoli Zena Ariola Patrick Bahr (chair) Clemens Grabmayer Makoto Hamana Wolfram Kahl Fr?d?ric Prost Femke van Raamsdonk David Sabel Contact: Patrick Bahr From dominique.devriese at vub.be Fri Apr 3 05:58:52 2020 From: dominique.devriese at vub.be (Dominique Devriese) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 11:58:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers [Extended]: JFP Special Issue on Secure Compilation Message-ID: We invite submissions to the Journal of Functional Programming Special Issue on Secure Compilation. Submission deadlines have been extended because of the Corona pandemic. If authors have been heavily disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, we are willing to consider an additional exceptional deadline extension. Please contact the special issue editors directly if you are in this situation. JFP Special Issue on Secure Compilation DEADLINES Submission deadline (extended): 1 September 2020 Expected first round of reviews (extended): 10 January 2021 Expected publication date (extended): October 2021 SCOPE Any topic that could be of interest to secure compilation is in scope. Secure compilation should be interpreted very broadly to include any work in security, programming languages, architecture, systems or their combination that can be leveraged to preserve security properties of programs when they are compiled or to eliminate low-level vulnerabilities. Papers that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. This includes papers on new attack vectors such as microarchitectural side-channels, whose defenses could benefit from compiler techniques. TOPICS Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Attacker models for secure compiler chains. * Secure compiler properties: fully abstract compilation and similar properties, memory safety, control-flow integrity, preservation of safety, information flow and other (hyper-)properties against adversarial contexts, secure multi-language interoperability. * Secure interaction between different programming languages: foreign function interfaces, gradual types, securely combining different memory management strategies. * Enforcement mechanisms and low-level security primitives: static checking, program verification, typed assembly languages, reference monitoring, program rewriting, software-based isolation/hiding techniques (SFI, crypto-based, randomization-based, OS/hypervisor-based), security-oriented architectural features such as Intel?s SGX, MPX and MPK, capability machines, side-channel defenses, object capabilities. * Experimental evaluation and applications of secure compilers. * Proof methods relevant to compilation: (bi)simulation, logical relations, game semantics, trace semantics, multi-language semantics, embedded interpreters. * Formal verification of secure compilation chains (protection mechanisms, compilers, linkers, loaders), machine-checked proofs, translation validation, property-based testing. We invite authors from across the above spectrum. Papers will be reviewed as regular JFP submissions, and acceptance in the special issue will be based on both JFP's quality standards and relevance to the theme. The special issue will also consider high-quality papers on secure compilation which are not traditional "research-result" papers. This may include pearls, surveys, tutorial papers or educational papers, which will be judged by the JFP standards for such submissions. Prospective authors of such papers *must* soundboard their idea with the special editors early on in the process, at least two months before submission. NOTIFICATION OF INTENT Authors must notify the special-issue editors of their intent to submit by the deadline marked above. This will help us to speed up the review process. The notification of intent should be submitted by filling out the following web form which asks for data needed to identify suitable reviewers: https://forms.gle/F8AG4D9cQBKpVB6f9 If you miss the notification of intent deadline, but still want to submit, please contact the special issue editors. SUBMISSIONS Full-length, archival-quality submissions are solicited on all aspects of secure compilation. Submissions should be sent through the JFP Manuscript Central system. Choose ?Secure Compilation? as the paper type, so that it gets assigned to the special issue. Submissions that are based on previously-published conference or workshop papers must clearly describe the relationship with the initial publication, and must differ sufficiently that the author can assign copyright to Cambridge University Press. Prospective authors are welcome to discuss such submissions with the editors to ensure compliance with this policy. For detailed instructions regarding layout and submission, please see the JFP advice to authors and instructions for contributors. SPECIAL-ISSUE EDITORS Dominique Devriese (dominique.devriese at vub.be) Gilles Barthe (gjbarthe at gmail.com) You can contact both editors at seccompjfp20 at gmail.com. Link to CFP: https://www.cambridge.org/core/news/jfp-special-issue-on-secure-compilation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ross.horne at uni.lu Fri Apr 3 11:45:33 2020 From: ross.horne at uni.lu (Ross James HORNE) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 15:45:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentship in Security, Privacy and Trust, in Luxembourg Message-ID: <21cda6888f3b47aa89d29846a1ccfe27@uni.lu> Dear colleague, University of Luxembourg is seeking candidates to fill a PhD studentship broadly in the research area of security, privacy and trust. Candidates should hold a master degree in computer science or mathematics. Candidates with expertise in type systems and proof systems are encouraged to apply. Start date: From 15 June 2020, negotiable Terms: full time and fully funded for duration of study Apply here (CV + research statement required): http://emea3.mrted.ly/2g9oy This studentship will be conducted in the Security and Trust of Software Systems (SaToSS) group, led by Prof Sjouke Mauw, with co-supervision from an experienced researcher within the research group. The SaToSS group has a track record in producing outstanding researchers, for example the most recent PhD graduate, Jorge Toro-Pozo, received the award for the best thesis of the year in computer science at University of Luxembourg and is now a researcher at ETH Zurich. More info on SaToSS: https://satoss.uni.lu/members/ PhD thesis topics are not limited to: 1. Privacy in: social networks, ePassports, ePayments, eVoting, blockchains, location-aware services, etc. 2. Security of: multiparty protocols, distance bounding protocols (preventing relay attacks), fair exchange protocols (agreeing on terms of transactions), threat and trust models, Android security, GNSS security, adversarial examples and bias in neural networks and language, hardware-isolation using virtualization, etc. 3. Cyber security risk assessment: using attack trees, of cyber-physical and socio-technical systems, of New Space architectures (e.g., satellite constellations), etc. The methodology typically applied in the group is to harness (formal) methods and tools to analyse topical security and trust problems such as the above. Methods employed are not limited to various strands of symbolic analysis, concurrency theory, logic, graph theory, and game theory. A master degree in computer science with an security element helps; however a student comfortable proving theorems can generally convert to such topics, if research in security is a new. Specific topics can be provided on request, and can be matched to a strong student's background and interests. The University of Luxembourg offers highly competitive salaries and is an equal opportunity employer. For further information, and to discuss the suitability of topics and potential supervisors, please contact Dr. Ross Horne, at ross.horne at uni.lu, or Prof. Dr. Sjouke Mauw, at sjouke.mauw at uni.lu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.a.perez at rug.nl Fri Apr 3 15:54:37 2020 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 21:54:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant, Associate or Full Professor on Theory of Computation - University of Groningen Message-ID: [ Given the current circumstances, the application deadline for this vacancy has been extended to May, 5, 2020. Please advertise widely! ] The University of Groningen (The Netherlands) has one vacancy in "Theory of Computation" at the level of assistant (tenure-track), associate, or full professor. We seek an outward looking researcher in Computer Science who will perform research on theory of computation, broadly construed. Research areas in the scope of this position include (in no particular order): - algorithmic and computational complexity - principles and semantics of programming languages - program analysis and transformation - fundamental computing paradigms Complementary areas and topics include: - design and analysis of algorithms and data structures - model checking and automated verification - quantitative methods for reliability and safety The position will be embedded in the Fundamental Computing group of the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (see https://www.rug.nl/research/bernoulli/ and http://www.cs.rug.nl/fc/). The successful candidate will play a crucial role within the Center ?Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials? (CogniGron). This is a unique research center, where researchers from materials science, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence work together to create self-learning materials that will perform the tasks that are now assigned to thousands of transistors and complex algorithms. For further details (job description. qualifications, conditions of employment, application link), see the full vacancy text at https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007KLP Application deadline (extended): May 5, 2020 Informal inquiries can be sent to Jorge A. P?rez (j.a.perez-at-rug.nl). -- Jorge A. P?rez Associate Professor Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl Office: Bernoulliborg 5.58 - +31 50 36 33971 From leo at lpw25.net Sat Apr 4 06:10:14 2020 From: leo at lpw25.net (Leo White) Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2020 11:10:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ML Family Workshop 2020: Call for presentations Message-ID: <948d413b-8b36-49c8-828f-3e96b88f6341@www.fastmail.com> We are happy to invite submissions to the ML Family Workshop 2020, to be held during the ICFP conference week on Thursday, August 27th. The ML family workshop warmly welcomes submission touching on the programming languages traditionally seen as part of the "ML family" (Standard ML, OCaml, F#, CakeML, SML#, Manticore, MetaOCaml, etc.). The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of the members of the ML family. We also encourage presentations from related languages (such as Haskell, Scala, Rust, Nemerle, Links, Koka, F*, Eff, ATS, etc), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. Currently, the workshop is still scheduled to go ahead as planned in Jersey City, however it is likely that the ML workshop will end up being a virtual workshop this year. Either way provisions will be made to allow speakers to present their work remotely. See our detailed CFP online on the ICFP website: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/home/mlfamilyworkshop-2020 Important dates --------------- - Friday 15th May (any time zone): Abstract submission deadline - Friday 26th June: Author notification - Thursday 27th August: ML Family Workshop Program committee ----------------- - Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - Gowtham Kaki (Purdue University) - Neel Krishnaswami (University of Cambridge) - Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research) - Koko Muroya (Kyoto University) - Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku University) - Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research) - Gabriel Radanne (INRIA) - Claudio Russo (Dfinity) - Leo White (Jane Street) (Chair) - Jeremy Yallop (University of Cambridge) Submission details ------------------ See the online CFP for the details on the expected submission format. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website https://ml2020.hotcrp.com/ before the submission deadline. From andrzej.murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Sun Apr 5 06:33:54 2020 From: andrzej.murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 11:33:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4th Workshop on Program Equivalence and Relational Reasoning (PERR 2020) Message-ID: PERR 2020: 4TH WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM EQUIVALENCE AND RELATIONAL REASONING Associated with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020) Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 19, 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=perr2020 Submission deadline: April 24, 2020 Given the rapidly evolving situation regarding COVID-19, the date of the workshop may change. Please follow the CAV webpage for details. WORKSHOP PERR is an annual international workshop dedicated to the formal verification of program equivalence and related relational problems. It is the 4th in a series of meetings that bring together researchers from different areas interested in equivalence and related questions. Last year's PERR was held as a satellite workshop of ETAPS. PERR 2020 is affiliated with CAV. Program equivalence is arguably one of the most interesting and at the same time important problems in formal verification. It is a cross-cutting topic that has attracted the interest of several research communities: denotational semantics, deductive software verification, bounded model checking, specification inference, software evolution and regression testing, etc. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate an exchange of ideas to forge a community working on Program Equivalence and Relational Reasoning (PERR). The workshop welcomes contributions on the topics mentioned below but is also open to new questions regarding program equivalence. This includes related research areas of relational reasoning like program refinement or the verification of hyperproperties, in particular of secure information flow. AREAS OF INTEREST - regression verification - program equivalence - equivalence of higher order programs - product programs, relational calculi - verification of hyperproperties - program refinement, refinement calculus - specification of differences between programs - inferring semantic differences between programs - transformation validation - correct compiler transformations - automata bisimulation - code equivalence checking in teaching and marking This is an informal workshop that welcomes work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, programmatic or position papers and tool presentations. The workshop will have informal online proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please submit a short abstract (1-2 pages) of your proposed talk via EasyChair. - Submission deadline: Friday 24th April 2020 - Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=perr20 PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Vincent Cheval (INRIA Nancy) - Constantin Enea (Universit? de Paris, co-chair) - Guilhem Jaber (Universit? de Nantes) - Nuno Lopes (Microsoft Research Cambridge) - Andrzej Murawski (University of Oxford, co-chair) - Damien Pous (CNRS & ENS Lyon) - Ofer Strichman (Technion) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London) - Mattias Ulbrich (KIT) From Peressotti at imada.sdu.dk Mon Apr 6 04:24:43 2020 From: Peressotti at imada.sdu.dk (Marco Peressotti) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 08:24:43 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP - 3rd International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2020) Message-ID: <1912030d2b7543c7a0ab535606ef0aab@imada.sdu.dk> International Conference on Microservices: Call for Papers ========================================================== Third International Conference on Microservices September 8th-10th 2020, Bologna, Italy https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/ Important dates --------------- - Submission deadline: May 15th, 2020 (AoE) - Notification to authors: June 26th, 2020 (AoE) - Camera-ready due: August 7th, 2020 (AoE) - Early bird registration until: August 7th, 2020 Theme and Topics ---------------- The theme of this edition is the interplay between microservices and the cyber security. - On the one hand, the adoption of microservices is fostering the adoption of new architectural patterns and software construction practices; understanding the security properties (or the emerging vulnerabilities) of the resulting constructs calls for the development of a fresh mindset in analysts, designers and testers alike. In addition, the additional middleware and infrastructure typically proposed for the management of microservice-based architectures could expand the attack surface of the systems. - On the other hand, the same frameworks could instead prove valuable allies to collect security-relevant information and to coordinate defenses. The above considerations concern the intrinsic interplay between the fields of microservices and security. The broader application context is peculiarly sensitive to them: microservices are often adopted as an accelerator of digital transformations as the successful past edition(s) of the conference have shown. In this light, security issues should be a primary concern for microservices researchers and practitioners, as they provide an opportunity to integrate security-by-design into the recent advances in software development - triggered and amplified by microservices principles, patterns, and technologies. Topics of interest are not limited to our cyber security theme. We are interested in all aspects and phases of the design and implementation of microservice architectures: - Software engineering methods for microservices, specifically (but not limited to) agile service design practices, behavior- and domain-driven design - Identification, specification, and realization of candidate services - Patterns for IDEAL cloud-native application architectures; service API design and management - Microservices infrastructure components: API gateways, side cars, and service meshes; reactive messaging brokers; service registries; service containers and cluster managers; infrastructure as code - Function-as-a-service and serverless cloud offerings; service-based event sourcing and data streaming architectures - Security and other service quality concerns (consistency, availability, recoverability) in microservices; dealing with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and other data privacy requirements - Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development - Formal models for microservices - Verification (both static and runtime) of microservice systems - DevOps for microservices, in particular (but not limited to) continuous deployment and distributed monitoring - Microservice management: fault, configuration, accounting, performance, security - Discovery/recovery and reverse engineering of microservices solutions - Microservice evolution - Programming languages, notations, and techniques for microservices - Empirical studies of microservices adoption We solicit contributed talks based work in progress, scientific work published or submitted for publication, or practical experience reports. Authors wishing to present their work are invited to submit extended abstracts following the submission guidelines. Abstracts and presentations must be in English. Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- A submission should describe a talk to be given at the conference in the form of extended abstracts with a maximum of two pages. Submissions can be based on work in progress, scientific work published or submitted for publication, practical experience reports, or practical tool demonstrations. They must further be prepared using the EasyChair template (LaTeX, MS Word), be in PDF format, printable in black and white on A4 paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. Submissions must be in English. Contributions will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee. Extended abstracts of accepted contributions will be available electronically before the conference. Organisation ------------ General Chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna (IT) Program Chairs: Marco Prandini, University of Bologna (IT) Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna (IT) Olaf Zimmermann, University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Rapperswil (HSR OST) (CH) Industrial Liaison Chair: Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware (IT) Publicity Chair: Marco Peressotti, University of Southern Denmark (DK) Local Chairs: Davide Berardi, University of Bologna (IT) Andrea Melis, University of Bologna (IT) Program Committee ----------------- TBA Note about COVID-19 ------------------- We are continuously monitoring the COVID-19 situation from local authorities and the World Health Organization. Microservices 2020 is half a year away, and we are hopeful that COVID-19 emergency will pass over and the conference will be held in September, as planned. And, if necessary, alternative solutions, such as postponement, remote presentations, etc will be looked into and identified. Contact Information ------------------- Please contact us if you have questions: https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/contact/ From a.g.setzer at swansea.ac.uk Mon Apr 6 09:09:52 2020 From: a.g.setzer at swansea.ac.uk (Setzer A.G.) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:09:52 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Example of running a conference online BCTCS starting now In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear type theoretits, if you want to see a conference in theoretical computer science which is running fully online, you can just have a look at it, it is free via Zoom http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/bctcs2020/ you might enjoy some talks or just check out how this works out. Best wishes, Anton Setzer ________________________________ From: Types-announce on behalf of Andrzej Murawski Sent: 05 April 2020 11:33 To: types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4th Workshop on Program Equivalence and Relational Reasoning (PERR 2020) [ The Types Forum (announcements only), https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.seas.upenn.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Ftypes-announce&data=02%7C01%7CA.G.Setzer%40Swansea.ac.uk%7C404bc4758a274f94557108d7d9841280%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C1%7C637217033576540851&sdata=0WZWSQNbFL2f6VX1aPJUW5e2kP7SWfwISZ%2B%2Bad46mDY%3D&reserved=0 ] PERR 2020: 4TH WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM EQUIVALENCE AND RELATIONAL REASONING Associated with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020) Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 19, 2020 Submission link: https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dperr2020&data=02%7C01%7CA.G.Setzer%40Swansea.ac.uk%7C404bc4758a274f94557108d7d9841280%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C1%7C637217033576540851&sdata=v0GgYJ%2FNvCo0aPPITGFF7AbgccvNo%2BUSihPHYXKhaFA%3D&reserved=0 Submission deadline: April 24, 2020 Given the rapidly evolving situation regarding COVID-19, the date of the workshop may change. Please follow the CAV webpage for details. WORKSHOP PERR is an annual international workshop dedicated to the formal verification of program equivalence and related relational problems. It is the 4th in a series of meetings that bring together researchers from different areas interested in equivalence and related questions. Last year's PERR was held as a satellite workshop of ETAPS. PERR 2020 is affiliated with CAV. Program equivalence is arguably one of the most interesting and at the same time important problems in formal verification. It is a cross-cutting topic that has attracted the interest of several research communities: denotational semantics, deductive software verification, bounded model checking, specification inference, software evolution and regression testing, etc. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate an exchange of ideas to forge a community working on Program Equivalence and Relational Reasoning (PERR). The workshop welcomes contributions on the topics mentioned below but is also open to new questions regarding program equivalence. This includes related research areas of relational reasoning like program refinement or the verification of hyperproperties, in particular of secure information flow. AREAS OF INTEREST - regression verification - program equivalence - equivalence of higher order programs - product programs, relational calculi - verification of hyperproperties - program refinement, refinement calculus - specification of differences between programs - inferring semantic differences between programs - transformation validation - correct compiler transformations - automata bisimulation - code equivalence checking in teaching and marking This is an informal workshop that welcomes work in progress, overviews of more extensive work, programmatic or position papers and tool presentations. The workshop will have informal online proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please submit a short abstract (1-2 pages) of your proposed talk via EasyChair. - Submission deadline: Friday 24th April 2020 - Submission link: https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dperr20&data=02%7C01%7CA.G.Setzer%40Swansea.ac.uk%7C404bc4758a274f94557108d7d9841280%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C1%7C637217033576540851&sdata=8gvLlAa%2BOE%2FnV1wymQF4j%2FN9FopG5IW%2BLoUhN22WrRk%3D&reserved=0 PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Vincent Cheval (INRIA Nancy) - Constantin Enea (Universit? de Paris, co-chair) - Guilhem Jaber (Universit? de Nantes) - Nuno Lopes (Microsoft Research Cambridge) - Andrzej Murawski (University of Oxford, co-chair) - Damien Pous (CNRS & ENS Lyon) - Ofer Strichman (Technion) - Nikos Tzevelekos (Queen Mary University of London) - Mattias Ulbrich (KIT) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From julien.signoles at cea.fr Mon Apr 6 12:20:32 2020 From: julien.signoles at cea.fr (Julien Signoles) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 18:20:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 new postdoc positions on Frama-C at CEA Paris Saclay Message-ID: <6e8526ae-0ca4-0262-44f4-feb45a87294c@cea.fr> Hello, The Software Security and Reliability Lab (LSL) at CEA Paris Saclay (France) is hiring 2 postdoc researchers who will work on Frama-C, its code analysis framework for C programs, in the context on the recently accepted H2020 European project Ensuresec. The research topics are: - Advanced Runtime Assertion Checking of C Programs: http://julien.signoles.free.fr/positions/postdoc-ensuresec-eacsl.pdf - Extensive Code Security Analyses for Frama-C: http://julien.signoles.free.fr/positions/postdoc-ensuresec-security.pdf Best regards, Julien Signoles -- Researcher-engineer | Scientific advisor CEA LIST, Software Reliability and Security Lab | Department of Software and System Engineering tel:(+33)1.69.08.00.18 Julien.Signoles at cea.fr From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Apr 6 12:26:04 2020 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 17:26:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Applied Category Theory 2020 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT2020) July 6 ? 10, 2020 http://act2020.mit.edu * * * Applied category theory is a topic of interest for a growing community of researchers interested in studying many different kinds of systems using category-theoretic tools. These systems are found across computer science, mathematics, and physics, as well as in social science, linguistics, cognition, and neuroscience. The background and experience of our members is as varied as the systems being studied. The goal of the Applied Category Theory conference is to provide a platform for researchers in the area to discuss recent progress. We seek submissions of both original research papers and extended abstracts of work that's been submitted, accepted, or published elsewhere. Original research papers we accept will be invited for publication in a proceedings volume. Some contributions will be invited to become keynote addresses, and best paper award(s) may also be given. ACT2020 will be held entirely online, with all the attendant advantages: no registration fee, no need to travel, etc. It will consist of three 2-hour sessions per day, spaced the clock to accommodate the different time zones of our speakers. All the talks will be both live streamed and recorded on YouTube. Our goal is a conference that provides high quality, interactive talk sessions; generative, high bitrate discussions; and serendipitous interactions with new people. The conference will include a business showcase, and it will be preceded by a tutorial day. This event follows ACT2018 in Leiden, and ACT2019 in Oxford. ** IMPORTANT DATES (all in 2020)** Submission of contributed papers: Sunday May 10 Success notification: Sunday June 7 Tutorial day: July 5 Main conference: July 6 ? 10 ** SUBMISSIONS ** Two types of submissions are accepted, both of which will be reviewed using the same standards: - Proceedings Track. Original contributions of high-quality work consisting of a 5 ? 12 page extended abstract that provides evidence of results of genuine interest, and with enough detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submission of a work-in-progress is encouraged, but it must be more substantial than a research proposal. - Non-Proceedings Track. Descriptions of high-quality work submitted or published elsewhere will also be considered, provided the work is recent and relevant to the conference. The work may be of any length, but the program committee members may only look at the first 3 pages of the submission, so you should ensure that these pages contain sufficient evidence of the quality and rigor of your work. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. The submission link is available on the ACT2020 web page. ** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ** Mathieu Anel, Carnegie Mellon University Miriam Backens, University of Birmingham John Baez, Centre for Quantum Technologies Richard Blute, University of Ottawa Tai-Danae Bradley, City University of New York Andrea Censi, ETH Zurich Corina Cirstea, ETC Zurich Bob Coecke, University of Oxford Valeria de Paiva, Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham Ross Duncan, University of Strathclyde Eric Finster, University of Birmingham Brendan Fong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tobias Fritz, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Richard Garner, Macquarie University Fabrizio Romano Genovese, Statebox Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford Amar Hadzihasanovic, IRIF, Universit? de Paris Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne Chris Heunen, The University of Edinburgh Alex Hoffnung, Bridgewater Joachim Kock, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona Alexander Kurz, Chapman University Tom Leinster, The University of Edinburgh Martha Lewis, University of Amsterdam Daniel R. Licata, Wesleyan University David Jaz Myers, Johns Hopkins University Paolo Perrone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniela Petrisan, University of Paris, IRIF Vaughan Pratt, Stanford University Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University Michael Shulman, University of San Diego David I. Spivak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (co-chair) John Terilla, Tunnel Technologies Walter Tholen, York University Todd Trimble, Western Connecticut State University Christina Vasilakopoulou, University of Patras Jamie Vicary, University of Birmingham (co-chair) Maaike Zwart, University of Oxford From benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Mon Apr 6 19:09:43 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 19:09:43 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Update on Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF'20) on July 5-6, 2020 Message-ID: <8121e0bd-3763-2d17-149b-8c6e2d11cdbf@gmail.com> UPDATE: - HoTT/UF 2020 will take place online - Submission deadline: May 20, 2020 Details below. Best, Benedikt * Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations July 5-6, 2020, The Internet https://hott-uf.github.io/2020 Abstract submission deadline: May 20, 2020 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 * Carlo Angiuli (Carnegie Mellon University) * Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University) * Pierre-Louis Curien (Universit? de Paris) # Submissions * Abstract submission deadline: May 20, 2020 * Author notification: June 05, 2020 Submissions should consist of a title and an abstract, in pdf format, of no more than 2 pages, submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottuf2020 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 (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) * Nicolai Kraus (University of Birmingham) * Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) * Anders M?rtberg (Stockholm University) * Paige Randall North (Ohio State University) * Nicolas Tabareau (Inria Nantes) # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Tue Apr 7 05:14:04 2020 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 11:14:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Workshop on Confluence [IWC 2020] - 2nd CFP Message-ID: --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- Second Call For Papers 9th International Workshop on Confluence http://iwc2020.cic.unb.br June 30, 2020 Collocated with FSCD-IJCAR 2020, June 29 - July 5, 2020 --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- The 9th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2020) aims at promoting further research in confluence and related properties. Confluence provides a general notion of determinism and has always been conceived as one of the central properties of rewriting. Recently there is a renewed interest in confluence research, resulting in new techniques, tool support, certification as well as new applications. The workshop aims at promoting further research in confluence and related properties. Confluence relates to many topics of rewriting (completion, modularity, termination, commutation, etc.) and has been investigated in many formalisms of rewriting such as first-order rewriting, lambda-calculi, higher-order rewriting, constrained rewriting, conditional rewriting, etc. Recently there is a renewed interest in confluence research, resulting in new techniques, tool supports, certification as well as new applications. ## IMPORTANT INFORMATION Due to current travel restrictions in various countries, the meeting will be held **virtually** this year. The technical details will be given in due time. ## TOPICS - confluence and related properties (unique normal forms, commutation, ground confluence) - completion - critical pair criteria - decidability issues - complexity issues - system descriptions - certification - applications of confluence The objective of this workshop is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, and to facilitate feedback on the implementation and application of such techniques and results in practice. IWC 2020 also aims to be a forum for presenting and discussing work in progress, and therefore to provide feedback to authors on their preliminary research. IWC 2020 is a satellite workshop of Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD'20, co-located with IJCAR). IWC 2020 is part of Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020, a joint event on LOgic and VErification at University Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. Previous editions took place in Dortmund (2019), Oxford (2018 and 2017), Obergurgl (2016), Berlin (2015), Vienna (2014), Eindhoven (2013) and Nagoya (2012). More information about the workshop can be found in the homepage of IWC. ## SUBMISSIONS We solicit short papers or extended abstracts of at most five pages. There will be no formal reviewing. In particular, we welcome short versions of recently published articles and papers submitted elsewhere. The program committee checks relevance and may provide additional feedback. The accepted papers will be made available electronically before the workshop. The page limit for papers is 5 pages in EasyChair style. Short papers or extended abstracts must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwc20200 EasyChair style: http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors ## IMPORTANT DATES - Title and Abstract: ? April 17, 2020 - Paper Submission: ? April 22, 2020 - Notification to authors: ? May 22, 2020 - Workshop date: ? June 30, 2020 ## INVITED SPEAKERS - TBD - TBD ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Beniamino Accattoli (Inria & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique) - Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia) - co-chair - Cyrille Chenavier (Centre Inria Lille) - Alejandro D?az-Caro (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC/UBA-CONICET) - Maribel Fern?ndez (King's College London) - Mario Florido (Universidade de Porto) - Makoto Hamana (Gunma University) - Philippe Malbos (Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1) - Samuel Mimram (LIX ?cole Polytechnique) - co-chair - Camilo Rocha (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali) - Daniel Lima Ventura (Universidade Federal de Goi?s) - Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University Amsterdam) - Johannes Waldmann (Hochschule f?r Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig) - Sarah Winkler (Universit?t Innsbruck) ## FSCD 2020 ORGANISING COMMITTEE - FSCD/IJCAR Conference Chairs: Stefano Guerrini (University Paris 13) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria & Ecole polytechnique, France) - FSCD/IJCAR Workshop Chairs: Giulio Manzonetto (Universit? Paris-Nord, France) Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa, USA) ## CONTACT Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n: ayala(at)unb.br Samuel Mimram: samuel.mimram(at)lix.polytechnique.fr From w.s.swierstra at uu.nl Mon Apr 6 05:36:07 2020 From: w.s.swierstra at uu.nl (Wouter Swierstra) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 11:36:07 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in Utrecht Message-ID: <20200406093607.GY22409@x1> ============================================================== Two PhD positions in functional programming ============================================================== The Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University is currently advertising two PhD positions in Functional Programming. The candidates will join the Intelligent Systems group, working with Johan Jeuring, Gabriele Keller, and Wouter Swierstra. Besides research, the successful candidate will be expected to help supervise MSc students and assist in the teaching of courses. The positions should be filled by September 2020, although the exact starting date is negotiable. --------------------------------- Research topics --------------------------------- These two positions are tied to two specific topics. * Programming tutors for Functional Languages (Johan Jeuring) The focus of the position is on designing new technologies to support students working in an intelligent tutoring system for functional programming. We expect to use techniques from dependently typed programming, refinement types, program synthesis, automated theorem proving, and more to analyse student programs, and to help students in taking the next step when developing a program. The candidate will investigate the design and use of multiple technologies for this purpose, add them to Ask-Elle, our intelligent tutoring system, perform experiments with the system, and improve the technologies based on the outcome of the experiments. * Compiler verification for a smart contract language (Wouter Swierstra & Gabriele Keller) This project aims to develop a certifying compiler for Plutus Tx, a subset of the purely functional language Haskell that is used to implement smart contracts for the Cardano blockchain. The Plutus smart contract framework is being developed by IOHK for Cardano and the present project is a joint effort of IOHK and Utrecht University. The Plutus Tx compiler is based on the GHC Haskell compiler and adds a translation step from GHC Core to a minimal lambda calculus. Programs in this lambda calculus are executed during transaction validation in a sandboxed execution environment in a manner that is crucial to the security of the blockchain. This project aims to formalise the semantics of the languages involved, to reason about the transformation and optimisation steps that the compiler performs, and finally, to generate a proof object certifying the correctness of the generated code together with that code. --------------------------------- What we are looking for --------------------------------- The ideal candidates should have a degree in Computer Science, be highly motivated, speak and write English well, and be proficient in producing scientific reports. Furthermore, candidates should be able to demonstrate experience with functional programming languages, such as Haskell, OCaml, ML, Agda, Idris, or Coq. --------------------------------- What we offer --------------------------------- The candidates are offered a full-time position for four or five years, depending on the teaching load. The gross salary ranges between ?2,325 in the first year and ?2,972 in the fourth year per month for full-time employment. A part-time position of at least 0.8 fte may also be possible. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% per year. The position also includes a generous allocation of fully-paid vacation days. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The research group will provide the candidate with necessary support on all aspects of the project. More information is available on the website: Terms and employment: http://bit.ly/1elqpM7 Utrecht is consistently ranked as one of the best places in the world to live. --------------------------------- How to apply --------------------------------- To apply please attach a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, and (email) addresses of two referees. Make sure to also include a transcript of the courses you have followed (at bachelor and master level), with the grades you obtained, and to include a sample of your scientific writing, such as your master thesis. It is possible to apply for this position if you are close to obtaining your Master's. In that case include a letter of your supervisor with an estimate of your progress, and do not forget to include at least a sample of your technical writing skills. The application deadline for the first position closes on April 29th. You can apply through the University's website: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/5-year-phd-candidate-position-in-intelligent-tutoring-systems-for-functional-programming-10-fte The application for the second position is not yet open -- but feel free to contact me directly if you're interested. If you're interested in either position, feel free to apply using the link above; we're happy to discuss which topic fits your interests best during the application process. From theo.zimmi at gmail.com Mon Apr 6 17:02:02 2020 From: theo.zimmi at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Th=C3=A9o_Zimmermann?=) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 23:02:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Coq Workshop 2020: Second Call for Talk Proposals + COVID-19 update Message-ID: *********************************************************************** The Coq Workshop 2020: Second Call for Talk Proposals *********************************************************************** Find this call online at: https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/2020 COVID-19 notice: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and containment measures in France and in most other countries, the FSCD-IJCAR conferences to which the Coq workshop is affiliated will be held as a virtual event, and so will the Coq workshop. Since the COVID-19 crisis is affecting everyone's life and since attending a virtual event requires less planning ahead than attending a physical one, we have extended the submission deadline. We invite you to submit talk proposals for the Coq workshop 2020, which will be held as a virtual event online on July 5-6 2020. The Coq workshop is part of IJCAR 2020 (https://ijcar2020.org/). The Coq workshop 2020 is the 11th Coq Workshop. The Coq Workshop series (https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/) brings together Coq (https://coq.inria.fr/) users, developers, and contributors. While conferences usually provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical issues, including the future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. Thus, the workshop will be organized around contributed talks and discussions, supplemented with invited talks, seizing the opportunity of the 35th birthday of the first release of Coq to spread this year's edition over two days. Important dates (UPDATED): - April 27th 2020 (AoE): Deadline for abstract submission - May 20th 2020: Notification to authors - July 5-6th 2020: Workshop Submission Instructions: Authors should submit short proposals through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq2020) in the form of a PDF extended abstract of at most 2 pages, in full-page single-column style (using the EasyChair template available at https://easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip). Relevant subject matter includes but is not limited to: - Theory and implementation of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions - Language or tactic features - Plugins and libraries for Coq - Techniques for formalization programming languages and mathematics - Applications and experience in education and industry - Tools and platforms built on Coq (including interfaces) - Formalization tricks and pearls Program Committee: - Andrew Appel (Princeton University, USA) - Sylvie Boldo (Inria Saclay, Universit? Paris-Saclay, France) - Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, Paris, France) - Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIEE Paris-Evry, France) - Karl Palmskog (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) - Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany) - Laurent Th?ry (Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France) Organizing Committee (co-chairs): - Emilio J. Gallego Arias - Hugo Herbelin - Th?o Zimmermann (Inria Paris, Universit? de Paris, France) [mail: coq2020 at easychair.org] From mauro.jacopo at gmail.com Tue Apr 7 04:51:37 2020 From: mauro.jacopo at gmail.com (Jacopo Mauro) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 10:51:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP SEFM - International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers SEFM 2020 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14-18 September 2020 https://event.cwi.nl/sefm2020/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: Monday 27 April 2020 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: Monday 4 May 2020 (AoE) Paper notification: Friday 26 June 2020 Camera ready: Tuesday 7 July 2020 (AoE) Concerning COVID-19 The Program Chairs and the Steering Committee of SEFM 2020 are fully aware that the COVID-19 crisis may require the organisation of alternatives to the scheduled physical conference events, following the recommendations of relevant national and international bodies, such as the World Health Organization. Such possible alternative scenarios include the possibility of remote paper presentations or a full electronic organisation of the conference. Any measures taken will be communicated via the SEFM website and via emails to the authors and the PC. OVERVIEW AND SCOPE 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods: # Software Development Methods - Formal modeling, specification, and design - Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse # Design Principles - Programming languages - Domain-specific languages - Type theory - Abstraction and refinement # Software Testing, Validation, and Verification - Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures - Testing and runtime verification - Statistical and probabilistic analysis - Synthesis - Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties - Other light-weight and scalable formal methods # Security and Safety - Security, privacy, and trust - Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems - Software certification # Applications and Technology Transfer - Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things - Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems - Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems - Intelligent systems and machine learning - HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis - Education # Case studies, best practices, and experience reports PAPER SUBMISSION We solicit two categories of papers: - Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages, excluding bibliography. - Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages (including bibliography) and should include the URL of the tool. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2020 Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs). PUBLICATION All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in the Formal Methods sublime of the Springer's LNCS series. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special issue. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE LECTURES Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila, Italy Website: http://people.disim.univaq.it/inverard/ Eelco Visser Delft University of Technology, Neteherlands Website: https://eelcovisser.org/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Alessandro Aldini, University of Urbino, Italy Lu?s Soares Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Maurice H. ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy Dirk Beyer, LMU, Germany Frank de Boer (Co-chair), CWI, Netherlands Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom Antonio Cerone (Co-chair), Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Alessandro Cimatti, FBK, Italy Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Alexander Knapp, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany Jacopo Mauro, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Tiziana Margaria, Lero, Ireland Peter M?ller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hans de Nivelle, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA, France Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Birna Riemsdijk, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Gwen Sala?n, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Augusto Sampaio, Federal university of Pernambuco, Brazil Gerardo Schneider, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Ina Schaefer, Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Germany Robert Segala, University of Verona, Italy Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University, Sweden Graeme Smith, The University of Queensland, Australia Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, Norway Meng Sun, Peking University, China Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa, University of Oslo, Norway Simone Tini, Univerisity of Insubria, Italy Elena Troubitsyna, KTH -Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy CONTACT: sefm2020 at easychair.org -- Jacopo Mauro, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) University of Southern Denmark (SDU) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ucacsam at ucl.ac.uk Tue Apr 7 05:39:16 2020 From: ucacsam at ucl.ac.uk (Matteo Sammartino) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 09:39:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position on verification of concurrent systems via model learning, Royal Holloway University of London, Deadline: 4 May 2020 Message-ID: - Application deadline: Midnight, 04 May 2020 - Interview Date: To be confirmed - Starting date: as soon as possible, flexible due to COVID-19; remote working options can be explored. - Salary: ?35,931-?37,979, including London allowance (grade 7, pay scales 31-33) - Duration: 33 months Applications are invited for the post of Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the Computer Science Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Successful applicants will be working on the EPSRC-funded "Verification of Hardware Concurrency via Model Learning" (CLeVer) project (EP/S028641/1), led by Alexandra Silva (UCL) and Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London). This is a joint research endeavour involving Royal Holloway University of London, University College London, and ARM, world-leading designer of multi-core chips. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Dr. Matteo Sammartino on Matteo.Sammartino at rhul.ac.uk. # Project Description Digital devices increasingly rely on multi-threaded computation, with sophisticated concurrent behaviour becoming prevalent at any scale. As the complexity of these systems increases, there is a pressing need to automate the assessment of their correctness, especially with respect to concurrency-related aspects. Formal verification provides highly effective techniques to assess the correctness of systems. However, formal models are usually built by humans, and as such can be error-prone and inaccurate. The CLeVer project aims to: - develop a novel verification framework that relies on learning techniques to automatically build and verify models of concurrency, with a particular focus on multi-core systems. - apply the framework to real-world verification tasks, in collaboration with ARM. # The ideal candidate We are looking for candidates with a PhD in one of the following areas: model-based testing and verification, formal methods for concurrency, automated analysis of hardware systems. Experience in multiple areas will be valued. Candidates ideally should also have strong programming skills. # Where to apply https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=0420-101 From valeria.depaiva at gmail.com Tue Apr 7 09:17:44 2020 From: valeria.depaiva at gmail.com (Valeria de Paiva) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 06:17:44 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: VIRTUAL Linearity & TLLA 2020 Message-ID: ======================================================= SECOND Call for Papers Joint Linearity & TLLA Workshop Sixth International Workshop on Linearity Fourth International Workshop on Trends in Linear Logic and Applications Paris, Aubervilliers, France, 29-30 June 2020 Affiliated with FSCD 2020 https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/LinearityTLLA2020/ ======================================================== *COVID-19 Emergency*: *Our highest priority is the safety of all participants. Due to the covid19 pandemic, Linearity and TLLA 2020 will happen as a virtual conference. More details will follow when we know from the main organizers of FSCD 2020, athttps://fscd2020.org/2020/04/01/Virtualisation-FSCD-IJCAR-2020/ .* 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. We also hope to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. 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 * EXTENDED Submission deadline: 24th April 2020 * Author notification: 15th May 2020 * Contribution for Informal Proceedings: 29th May 2020 * Workshop date: 29-30 June 2020 SUBMISSIONS 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=tllalinearity2020 POST-PROCEEDINGS 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 Raphaelle Crubill? http://research.crubille.lautre.net/ Ugo Dal Lago (co-chair) https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/ugo.dallago/en Valeria De Paiva (co-chair) http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ Harley Eades http://metatheorem.org/ Koko Muroya http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kmuroya/ Michele Pagani https://www.irif.fr/~michele/ Elaine Pimentel https://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ Giselle Reis https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/directory/giselle-reis/ Thomas Seiller https://www.seiller.org/ Daniel Ventura http://www.inf.ufg.br/~daniel/ Lionel Vaux https://www.i2m.univ-amu.fr/perso/lionel.vaux/ -- Valeria de Paiva http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ -- Valeria de Paiva http://vcvpaiva.github.io/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vdp/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch Tue Apr 7 10:04:08 2020 From: peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch (Mueller Peter) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 14:04:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MARKTOBERDORF SUMMER SCHOOL 2020: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MARKTOBERDORF INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ENGINEERING SECURE AND DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS July 29th-August 7th, 2020, Marktoberdorf, Germany http://marktoberdorf.fortiss.org Sponsored by Amazon Web Services, https://aws.amazon.com/de/ Organized by fortiss, https://www.fortiss.org/en/ APPLY ONLINE ON OR BEFORE APRIL 19th: https://i4.pages.gitlab.lrz.de/organization/mod-2020/participation *** Lectures, see https://i4.pages.gitlab.lrz.de/organization/mod-2020/lectures *** Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto: tba Mike Dodds, Galois, Inc.: Formal methods at scale C?dric Fournet, Microsoft Research: tba Xiaowei Huang, University of Liverpool: Safety Certification of Deep Neural Networks Guy Katz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Formal Verification of Deep Neural Networks Rustan Leino, Amazon Web Services: Program Proofs Peter M?ller (co-director), ETH Zurich: Verification of Rust Programs - Reasoning about Imperative Programs using Ownership Frank Piessens, KU Leuven: Software security: cross-layer attacks and defenses Alexander Pretschner (co-director), TU M?nchen and fortiss: Testing Autonomous Cars Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa: Theory and practice of Satisfiability Modulo Theories *** 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 41st edition of the most prestigious summer school on software engineering in 2020. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk Wed Apr 8 04:34:24 2020 From: m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk (Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 08:34:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension for E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020 In-Reply-To: <35B61141-915E-4B31-8EAA-80399495D2BC@ucl.ac.uk> References: <35B61141-915E-4B31-8EAA-80399495D2BC@ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <10604891-E0CF-43F3-8563-57581C9BD1BE@ucl.ac.uk> Deadline Extension for E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2020 The Beth Dissertation Prize is to go ahead in 2020 with a deadline extension to 30th of April 2020. Nominations are welcome for the best dissertations in the areas of logic, language and information, resulting in a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2019. The 32nd ESSLLI summer school is postponed to 2021, due to the spread of CV-19. The Beth Prize will be awarded either through a virtual ceremony in 2020 or a presentation in ESSLLI 2021. The winner will be announced in early July 2020. For details about the qualifications and the prize, see http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74. Only digital submissions are accepted. The following documents are to be submitted in the nomination dossier: - The original dissertation in pdf format (ps/doc/rtf etc. not acceptable). - A ten-page English abstract of the dissertation, presenting the main results of each chapter. - A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor, which concisely describes the scope and significance of the dissertation, stating when the degree was officially awarded and the members of the Ph.D. committee. Nominations should contain the address, phone and email details of the nominator. - Two additional letters of support, including at least one from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree, nor otherwise related to the nominee (e.g. former teachers, supervisors, co-authors, publishers or relatives) or the dissertation. - Self-nominations are not possible. All pdf documents must be submitted electronically, as one zip file, via EasyChair by following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdp2020. In case of any problems or questions please contact the chair of the committee Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk). Beth dissertation prize committee 2020: Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Alexander Clark (Kings College London) Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford University) Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Arash Eshghi (Hariot-Watt University) Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai) Davide Grossi (Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam) Chris Haase (University College London) Aurelie Herbelot (University of Trento) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam) Laura Rimmell (Deep Mind) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair) Matthew Stone (Rutgers) Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki) Noam Zeilberger (Ecole Polytechnique) Since 2002, the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI) has been awarding the annual E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in Logic, Language, and Information (http://www.folli.info/?page_id=74), with financial support of the E.W. Beth Foundation (https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/funds/evert-willem-beth-stichting/evert-willem-beth-foundation). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From r.e.monti at utwente.nl Wed Apr 8 05:36:59 2020 From: r.e.monti at utwente.nl (r.e.monti at utwente.nl) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 09:36:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VTLTC 2020 - Call for Online Participation Message-ID: Call for Online Participation. VerifyThis Long-Term Challenge 2020 -- Online Result and Exchange Event -- 27th April 2020, 10:00 UTC [0] >>> https://verifythis.github.io/online-event <<< ## Introduction The VerifyThis Long-Term Challenge complements the on-site format of the VerifyThis competition with a verification challenge, in which teams contribute to the verification of a practically relevant piece of software over a longer period of time. The challenge aims to be a showcase that deductive program verification can produce relevant results for real systems with acceptable effort. The challenge system to be verified is the new implementation of the PGP server infrastructure, called HAGRID [2]. The old implementation did not conform to GDPR and was known to be vulnerable against DoS attacks. ## The Online Result and Exchange Workshop A final workshop session for the challenge had been planned at ETAPS (along with the VerifyThis program verification competition [1]). Since ETAPS has been postponed, we will meet and exchange online. We have received five submissions that each contribute a solution to different aspects of the challenge using different abstractions, different assumptions and different verification techniques. During this online meeting, the different solutions will be briefly explained, and we discuss the approaches, how they can benefit from one another and how further verification success can be stipulated. This meeting is not meant as a replacement of the on-site event. It is meant as an informal event to exchange ideas, to give positive impulses on further advances of approaches, or on how to combine solutions. 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To have an event where participants are not only there to enjoy the talks, but also to have informal interactions with each others, a common platform to handle all virtual workshops together will be used, so that all participants will be in the same virtual space. The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. The 7th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2020) is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020", a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Universit? Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/summer-of-love-2020/ Important dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended abstracts: May 4, 2020 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2020 Final version for proceedings deadline: June 1, 2020 Workshop: June 29, 2020 Submission to post-proceedings: September 2020 Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - 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. - Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. - 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. 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. Extended abstract submission to WPTE 2020 is handled by the corresponding easychair page. Formal proceedings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE post-proceedings of selected papers will be published in a JLAMP special issue. For this, full papers must be submitted until the post-proceedings deadline. The authors of all presented contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in September 2020. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Committees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee ----------------- Adri?n Riesco, (Chair), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Vivek Nigam (co-Chair), fortiss GmbH / Federal University of Para?ba. Irina Mariuca Asavoae, Trusted Labs, France. Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, United Kingdom. Kazutaka Matsuda, Tohoku University, Japan. Akimasa Morihata, the University of Tokyo, Japan. Keisuke Nakano, Tohoku University, Japan. Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Julia Sapi?a, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain. Ulrich Sch?pp, fortiss GmbH. Steering Committee ------------------ Horatiu Cirstea, LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine, France. Santiago Escobar, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia. Joachim Niehren, Inria, Lille. Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University. David Sabel, LMU Munich. Manfred Schmidt-Schau?, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main. Contact ------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to ariesco (at) ucm.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Wed Apr 8 10:46:40 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:46:40 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFP GraMSec 2020 Message-ID: Hi, everyone. A few updates with respect to GraMSec 2020. It is now going to be fully online, and we will have a post proceedings in LNCS. I would like to reiterate what I said before, we have an updated scope: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. These entries have a large non-empty intersection with topics related to this community. So submissions from this community will be well-received. 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Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. These entries have a large non-empty intersection with topics related to this community. So submissions from this community will be well-received. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Very best, Harley =CFP Below= GraMSec 2020: The Seventh International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security http://gramsec.uni.lu June 22, 2020 *Online event* Co-located with CSF 2020 *LNCS post-proceedings confirmed* 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. The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security is an established scientific event dedicated to study and exchange of experiences on graphical security and safety modelling. TOPICS This year, we encourage excellent submissions related, but not restricted, to the following broad headings: 1. Graph representations: mathematical, conceptual, and implemented tools for describing and reasoning about security and safety 2. Logical approaches: formal logical tools for representing and reasoning about graphs and their use as modelling tools in security 3. Machine learning: modelling and reasoning about the role of big data and machine learning in security operations 4. Networks in national security: terrorist networks, counter-terrorism networks; safety in national infrastructure (e.g., utilities and transportation) 5. Risk analysis and management: models and graphical methodologies for security and privacy risk management in business and organisational architectures 6. Social networks: using and reasoning about social graphs, network analysis, network protocols, social mapping, sociometry. 7. Semantics: developing or studying semantic approaches to graph-based models used in security like set theoretic models, categorical models, logical models, etc. 8. Threat modelling: modelling and analysing software systems security, models for DevSecOps, etc. 9. Security requirements: models and tools for describing and analysing requirements on system security and privacy. 10. Visual security: modelling and analytics for security visualisations. 11. Secure systems: safe and secure system design, quantification of security/safety, models for system security/safety evaluation. We welcome a broad range of contributions: from theory to tools and experience reports. Preference will be given to papers likely to stimulate high-quality debate at the Workshop. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit two types of submissions: - Regular papers (up to 18 pages, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices) describing original and unpublished work within the scope of the workshop. - Short papers (up to 10 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. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions should be made using the GraMSec 2020 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec2020. PUBLICATION As in previous editions, we the post-proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, published by Springer. Proceedings will be published after the workshop, thus permitting the authors to incorporate feedback. VENUE Due to the current coronavirus outbreak, the IEEE CSF Symposium and its associated workshops, including GraMSec, will be held online this year. Details about registration and participation will be soon made available. 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It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. Traditionally, the scope of the UNIF workshops has covered the topic of unification in a broad sense. Topics of interest to this forum include, but are not limited to: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Admissibility of Inference Rules - Unification in modal, fuzzy, temporal and description logics - Anti-unification/generalization - Semi-unification - Narrowing - Formalization of unification - Matching Problems - Applications - Unification in Special Theories - Higher-Order Unification - Combination problems - Constraint Solving - Disunification - Complexity Issues - Type Checking and reconstruction 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 34th International Workshop on Unification is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020", a joint event on LOgic and VErification at Universit? Paris 13, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. UNIF 2020 will be a satellite workshop of The International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2020). ------------------------------------------ ** Submission Instructions ------------------------------------------- Following the tradition of UNIF, we call for submissions of abstracts (5 pages) in EasyChair style, to be submitted electronically as PDF through the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=unif2020 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 electronic form as a technical report in the RISC-Linz Report Series from the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University. 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: April 13, 2020 Submission of full paper: April 20, 2020 Author notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready papers: June 8, 2020 UNIF 2020: June 29, 2020 (online format) ----------------------------- ** Invited Speakers ------------------------------ St?phanie Delaune (CNRS, IRISA) Manfred Schmidt-Schau? (Goethe-University Frankfurt) ----------------------------- ** Program Committee ----------------------------- Mauricio Ayala-Rincon (Universidade de Brasil?a) Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Alexander Baumgartner (University of Chile) Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay) Daniel Dougherty (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Besik Dundua (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) Serdar Erbatur (University of Texas at Dallas) Santiago Escobar (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) Maribel Fernandez (King's College London) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano) Pascual Julian-Iranzo (University of Castilla-La Mancha) Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz) co-chair Jordi Levy (IIIA - CSIC) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University) Andrew M. Marshall (University of Mary Washington) co-chair Barbara Morawska (Ahmedabad University) Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (Universidade de Bras?lia) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany--SUNY) Veena Ravishankar (University of Mary Washington) Christophe Ringeissen (INRIA) From bahareh1812 at gmail.com Thu Apr 9 02:30:43 2020 From: bahareh1812 at gmail.com (Bahareh Afshari) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 08:30:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in Logic, Gothenburg (Sweden) Message-ID: <5A710908-432C-4602-81D1-B798C93C314A@gmail.com> Two PhD positions in Logic, Gothenburg (Sweden) * University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Duration: 4 years fully-funded, starting September 2020 * Deadline for applications: 15 June 2020 * For full details see https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-details/?id=5700 The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science invites applications for two PhD positions in Logic. One position is available on the research project Modal mu-calculus: A study in descriptive complexity lead by Bahareh Afshari funded by the Swedish Research Council. The second position is open to all topics in mathematical, philosophical and computational logic within the expertise of the Logic Group. From Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Thu Apr 9 03:19:29 2020 From: Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Radu Iosif) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 09:19:29 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MOVEP2020 Message-ID: <4F73B595-F4F0-4060-ACC5-E70B78AEC0B8@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> COVID-19 UPDATE: Due to the global lockdown situation, MOVEP 2020 will be organized online and will be free of charge. The lecturers will give lectures using a web-based online teaching platform according to a schedule that will be announced. The fees of current registrants will be reimbursed and we shall keep the registration open and free of charge until June 22nd. ================================================ 14th Summer School on Modelling and Verification of Parallel Processes (MOVEP) Universit? Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France June 22 - 26, 2020 http://projects-verimag.imag.fr/movep2020/ ================================================ MOVEP is a five-day summer school on modelling and verification of infinite state systems. It aims to bring together researchers and students working in the fields of control and verification of concurrent and reactive systems. MOVEP 2020 will consist of ten invited tutorials. In addition, there will be special sessions that allow PhD students to present their on-going research (each talk will last around 20 minutes). Extended abstracts (2-3 pages) of these presentations will be published in informal proceedings. ================== Confirmed Speakers ================== * MIKO?AJ BOJA?CZYK (University of Warsaw, Poland) Computation Theory with Atoms * DMITRY CHISTIKOV (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Ultimately periodic sets, semi-linear sets, and Presburger arithmetic * THAO DANG (Verimag and CNRS) Set-based computation for hybrid systems verification * JAVIER ESPARZA (TU M?nchen) Proving liveness properties of replicated systems * ANTHONY LIN (TU Kaiserslautern) Algorithmic Verification of String-Manipulating Programs * DEJAN NICKOVIC (AIT Vienna) From real-time temporal logic to timed automata * JEAN-FRANCOIS RASKIN (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) Two-Player Zero Sum Games played on Graphs * ANDREW REYNOLDS (University of Iowa) Solving Verification Conditions using SMT Solvers * ALEXANDRA SILVA (University College London) Programming and Reasoning with Kleene Algebra with Tests * JAMES WORELL (University of Oxford) Decision Problems for Linear Dynamical Systems ========================================= Important Dates (AoE) ========================================= Submission of abstracts: May 1st 2020 Notification: May 15th 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=movep2020 ============ Committees ============ Organising committee Nicolas Basset (Verimag, University of Grenoble Alpes) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Program committee Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppsala University) Nicolas Basset (Verimag, University of Grenoble Alpes) Marie Duflot-Kremer (LORIA, Nancy, France) Nathana?l Fijalkow (CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux) Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute) Matthias Heizmann (University of Freiburg) Radu Iosif (Verimag, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes) Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Stefan Kiefer (University of Oxford) Nicola Paoletti (University of London) Pierre-Alain Reynier (Aix-Marseille Universit?) Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University) Ocan Sankur (CNRS, IRISA, Rennes) Sylvain Schmitz (Universit? de Paris) Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology) Steering committee Nathalie Bertrand (Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France)? Benedikt Bollig (LSV, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay) Giorgio Delzanno (DIBRIS, Universit? di Genova, Italy) Didier Lime (LS2N, ?cole Centrale de Nantes, France) Christof L?ding (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Nicolas Markey (CNRS, Universit? Rennes, France)?? From mihaela.sighireanu at irif.fr Thu Apr 9 04:15:09 2020 From: mihaela.sighireanu at irif.fr (Mihaela Sighireanu) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:15:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [SAS 2020] Second Call for Papers + COVID-19 update Message-ID: <2736e1ec586d0fdec121549bf0faf91b@irif.fr> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAS 2020 27th Static Analysis Symposium Co-located with SLASH 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States, November 18-20, 2020 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) - Abstract Submission: May 15, 2020 - Paper Submission: May 17, 2020 - Artifact Submission: May 22, 2020 - Author Response: July 06-09, 2020 - Notification: July 19, 2020 - Conference: Wednesday-Friday, November 18-20, 2020 All deadline times are AoE. ABOUT Static analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served as the primary venue for the presentation of theoretical, practical, and application advances in the area. TOPICS The technical program for SAS 2020 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 optimizations and transformations - Program synthesis - Program verification - Security analysis - Tool environments and architectures - Theoretical frameworks - Type checking SUBMISSION Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. - Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed proceedings. - Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. - They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. - Paper submissions should not exceed 18 pages in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them. ARTIFACT SUBMISSION As in previous years, we encourage 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. More information can be found on https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2020/#Call-for-Artifacts. LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING PROCESS SAS 2020 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following this process means that reviewers will not see the authors? names or affiliations as they initially review a paper. The authors? names will then be revealed to the reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted. To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following: - Author names and institutions must be omitted and - References to the authors? own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not ?We build on our previous work ?? but rather ?We build on the work of ??). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Josh Berdine, Facebook - Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder, USA - Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA - Jerome Feret, INRIA Paris, France - Samir Genaim, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada - Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA - Andy King, University of Kent, UK - Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Uber Technologies Inc. - Francesco Logozzo, Facebook - Antoine Min?, Sorbonne University, France - Anders M?ller, Aarhus University, Denmark - Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, Nokia - David Pichardie, ENS Rennes, France (co-chair) - Sylvie Putot, ?cole Polytechnique, France - Francesco Ranzato, University of Padova, Italy - Xavier Rival, INRIA Paris, France - Helmut Seidl, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany - Mihaela Sighireanu, Universit? de Paris, France (co-chair) - Caterina Urban, INRIA Paris, France - Tomas Vojnar,Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic - Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University, Korea - Enea Zaffanella, University of Parma, Italy - Florian Zuleger, TU Vienna, Austria From eliasca at kth.se Thu Apr 9 16:11:24 2020 From: eliasca at kth.se (Elias Castegren) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 20:11:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2020 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <157A4202-C94C-4CF8-A4BA-08CD9F230C6F@kth.se> 9th IWACO International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities and Ownership (IWACO) In connection with ECOOP in July (Date to be decided) Due to Covid-19, IWACO will be fully virtual. All participation will be online. ## Important Dates Paper submission: May 1st, 2020 Notification: May 29th, 2020 Final version: TBD Workshop: TBD (All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth) ## Aim and Scope Stable object identity and shared mutable state are two powerful principles in programming. The ability to create multiple aliases to mutable data allows a direct modelling of sharing that occurs naturally in a domain, and lies at the heart of efficient programming patterns where aliases provide shortcuts to key places in a data structure. However, aliasing is also the cause of low-level bugs which are notoriously hard to debug, where a change through one alias may cause unforeseen changes visible through another alias. These problems are exacerbated in a concurrent setting, where aliasing is at the root of data races with multiple threads mutating shared memory simultaneously. Coping with pointers, aliasing and the proliferation of shared mutable state is a problem that crosscuts the software development stack, from compilers and runtimes to bug-finding tools and end-user software. They complicate modular reasoning and program analysis, efficient code generation, efficient use of memory, and obfuscate program logic. Several techniques have been introduced to describe and reason about stateful programs, and to restrict, analyze, and prevent aliases. These include various forms of ownership types, capabilities, separation logic, linear logic, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, linear references, effect systems, and access control mechanisms. These tools have found their way into type systems, compilers and interpreters, runtime systems and bug-finding tools. IWACO?20 will focus on these techniques, on how they can be used to reason about stateful (sequential or concurrent) programs, and how they have been applied to programming languages. In particular, we will consider papers on: - models, type systems and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics; - empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these techniques in mind; - programming logics that deal with aliasing and/or shared state, or use ownership, capabilities or resourcing; - applications of capabilities, ownership and other similar type systems in low-level systems such as programming languages runtimes, virtual machines, or compilers; and - optimization techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics. ## Submissions Contributions may be submitted in two formats: - Short papers (up to 3 pages, excluding references and clearly marked appendices) describing new ideas and open questions for discussion. - Full papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and clearly marked appendices) describing (preliminary) research results. Submissions must be in English and must use the LIPIcs template (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#lipics). Papers must be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco2020 by May 1st. Full papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be archived in the ACM digital library. ## Organizing Committee Elias Castegren (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Aaron Weiss (Northeastern University, USA) ## Workshop Program committee Dominique Devriese (Vrije Universiteit, Belgium) Juliana Franco (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) Ralf Jung (MPI-SWS, Germany) Neel Krishnaswami (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK) Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni (Inria, France) Marianna Rapoport (University of Waterloo, Canada) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Fri Apr 10 13:35:32 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:35:32 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Online Seminar: A gentle introduction to template games Message-ID: I am the faculty chair of the CS colloquium series at Augusta University, and I have an exciting opportunity. I am happy to announce that Paul-Andr? Melli?s will be our final presenter of the semester, but that?s not all! I have 100 seats available on my Zoom account, and only 30 of them will be needed for AU students and faculty. That leaves open 70 seats! So I am taking RSVPs from anyone who would like to attend the talk online. For more information please see: https://blog.metatheorem.org/2020/04/10/A-gentle-introduction-to-template-games.html Best, Harley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Mon Apr 13 08:28:14 2020 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:28:14 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Guide to best practices for virtual conferences Message-ID: <041ED45D-D693-4807-AA6B-45B3FF484F3D@cis.upenn.edu> [TL;DR: Please help circulate a new guide for organizers of virtual conferences.] Dear colleagues, The Association for Computing Machinery recently chartered a Presidential Task Force to gather and disseminate guidance on best practices for virtual conferences, aimed at the many conference organizers moving their events online right now. The task force report, Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices , is now available on the ACM web site It offers a comprehensive survey of issues, organizational strategies, and technology platforms for successful virtual meetings. We hope that you and others in your field will find this report useful. If you do, we would love to hear about it! And naturally if you have any suggestions for improvement, we would love to hear those too; the PDF document linked above includes a pointer to a live Google Doc where you can leave suggestions and comments if you like. If you have recently organized a virtual conference or are organizing one now, we would especially like to include your experiences (how you organized it, how it went, what people thought, a summary of any post-conference survey results, your advice for future conferences, etc.) and add it (or better yet a pointer to it) to the appendix that we?ve provided for such experience reports. Finally, can you please help us make sure this guide reaches the people that need it by forwarding this announcement within your networks (especially, of course, to current conference organizers)? Many thanks! 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The work encompasses theoretical research work as well as the ability to implement software tools. PhD stipends at RIT are between 28K and 32K USD. The candidate will conduct their work as part of the Software Design and Productivity Lab (https://design.se.rit.edu/ ), led by professor Mehdi Mirakhorli (http://www.se.rit.edu/~mehdi/ ) Relevant papers: 1) https://design.se.rit.edu/papers/TacticalVulnerabilities.pdf 2) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276510295_Code_generation_for_Event-B For informal and formal inquiries contact Email: nxccics at rit.edu Best Regards, Nestor Catano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tom.schrijvers at cs.kuleuven.be Tue Apr 14 04:01:43 2020 From: tom.schrijvers at cs.kuleuven.be (Tom Schrijvers) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:01:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Haskell Symposium 2020 -- Call for Papers: Regular track & demos Message-ID: ================================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2020 New Jersey, United States 27--28 August, 2020 http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2020/ ================================================================================ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2020 will be co-located with the 2020 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). Like last year, we will be using a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. See further information below. The Haskell Symposium presents original research on Haskell, discusses practical experience and future development of the language, and promotes other forms of declarative programming. Topics of interest include: * Language design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management, as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * Tools, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts; * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work, and to other languages where appropriate. Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementers, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Submission Details ================== Early and Regular Track ----------------------- The Haskell Symposium uses a two-track submission process so that some papers can gain early feedback. Strong papers submitted to the early track are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit to the regular track. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. Formatting ---------- Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Authors should use the `acmart` format, with the `sigplan` sub-format for ACM proceedings. For details, see: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format It is recommended to use the `review` option when submitting a paper; this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews. Functional pearls, experience reports, and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such. Lightweight Double-blind Reviewing ---------------------------------- Haskell Symposium 2020 will use 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 judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. A reviewer will learn the identity of the author(s) of a paper after a review is submitted. Page Limits ----------- The length of submissions should not exceed the following limits: Regular paper: 12 pages Functional pearl: 12 pages Experience report: 6 pages Demo proposal: 2 pages There is no requirement that all pages are used. For example, a functional pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. In all cases, the list of references is not counted against these page limits. Deadlines --------- Early track: Submission deadline: 20 March 2020 (Fri) Notification: 24 April 2020 (Fri) Regular track and demos: Submission deadline: 15 May 2020 (Fri) Notification: 26 June 2020 (Fri) Deadlines are valid anywhere on Earth. Submission ---------- Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/), and authors should be aware of ACM's policies on plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). Program Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but their papers will be held to a higher standard. The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected. Papers should be submitted through HotCRP at: https://haskell20.hotcrp.com/ Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. Supplementary material: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should not be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a separate PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded at submission time, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors are free to upload both anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). 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. Travel Support ============== Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC program, see its web page (http://pac.sigplan.org). Proceedings =========== Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Their authors will be required to choose one of the following options: - Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission-to-publish license (and, optionally, licenses the work with a Creative Commons license); - Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permssion-to-publish license; - Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM. For more information, please see ACM Copyright Policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and ACM Author Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html). Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website but not formally published in the proceedings. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Artifacts ========= Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make auxiliary material (artifacts like source code, test data, etc.) available with their paper. They can opt to have these artifacts published alongside their paper in the ACM Digital Library (copyright of artifacts remains with the authors). If an accepted paper's artifacts are made permanently available for retrieval in a publicly accessible archival repository like the ACM Digital Library, that paper qualifies for an Artifacts Available badge (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging#available ). Applications for such a badge can be made after paper acceptance and will be reviewed by the PC chair. Program Committee ================= Arthur Azevedo de Amorim Carnegie Mellon University Manuel Chakravarty Tweag I/O / IOHK Jan Christiansen Flensburg University of Applied Sciences Youyou Cong Tokyo Institute of Technology Pierre-Evariste Dagand CNRS Anton Ekblad Chalmers University of Technology Jurriaan Hage Universiteit Utrecht Graham Hutton University of Nottingham Jos? Pedro Magalh?es Standard Chartered Clare Martin Oxford Brookes University Andrey Mokhov Jane Street Shin-Cheng Mu Academia Sinica Nikolaos Papaspyrou National Technical University of Athens Simon Peyton Jones Microsoft Research Cambridge Norman Ramsey Tufts University Exequiel Rivas INRIA Tom Schrijvers (chair) KU Leuven Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences If you have questions, please contact the chair at: tom.schrijvers at kuleuven.be ================================================================================ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.jansen at science.ru.nl Tue Apr 14 06:54:11 2020 From: n.jansen at science.ru.nl (Nils Jansen) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:54:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2020 ** 3nd Call for Papers** In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ? The abstract deadline is coming up soon! Due to several requests, we are planning a journal special edition of FORMATS 2019 and 2020. ? 3nd Call for Papers FORMATS 2020 September 1st-3rd Vienna, Austria (virtual meeting) co-located with CONCUR, FMICS, and QEST https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/ Invited Speakers: Alessandro Abate, Roderick Bloem, Annabelle McIver - Objective Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains have been treated independently by different communities. Researchers interested in semantics, verification, and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment. Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of events. - 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. This year again, FORMATS aims at being more inclusive with respect to applications, notably real-time systems and emerging directions such as data science. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): ? Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models). ? Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.). ? Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication). - Special Sessions This year, FORMATS additionally encourages submissions in two particular topics. Data-driven methods for timed systems (chaired by Guillermo Alberto Perez). We are interested in all kind of data-driven methods such as machine learning or automata learning that consider timing aspects. Examples are automata learning for timed automata or reinforcement learning with timing constraints. Probabilistic and timed systems (chaired by Arnd Hartmanns). Real-time systems often encompass probabilistic or random behavior. We are interested in all approaches to model or analyze such systems, for instance through probabilistic timed automata, or stochastic timed Petri nets. - Paper Submission FORMATS 2020 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages in length (excluding references, that are therefore not limited), and short papers (for instance describing case studies, or implementations) are limited to 5 pages (again excluding references). Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Papers will be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2020 Publication and best paper award The proceedings of FORMATS 2020 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems. Important dates ? Abstract submission: April 18, 2020 ? Paper submission: April 27, 2020 ? Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2020 ? Final version due: July 08, 2020 ? Conference: September 1-3, 2019 For any questions, feel free to contact the co-chairs Nathalie Bertrand (nathalie.bertrand at inria.fr ) and Nils Jansen (n.jansen at science.ru.nl ) Committees - Program Chairs Nathalie Bertrand (France) Nils Jansen (The Netherlands) - General Chair Ezio Bartocci (Austria) - Steering Committee Rajeev Alur (USA) Eugene Asarin (France) Martin Fr?nzle (chair, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger (Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Denmark) Oded Maler (founding chair, France) (1957-2018) Pavithra Prabhakar (USA) Mari?lle Stoelinga (The Netherlands) Wang Yi (Sweden) - Program Committee Mohamadreza Ahmadi (USA) Nicolas Basset (France) Anne Bouillard (France) Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (France) Milan Ceska (Czech Republic) Aiswarya Cyriac (India) Rayna Dimitrova (UK) Uli Fahrenberg (France) Gilles Geeraerts (Belgium) Arnd Hartmanns (The Netherlands) Fr?d?ric Herbreteau (France) Laura Humphrey (USA) Sebastian Junges (USA) Gethin Norman (UK) Marco Paolieri (USA) Guillermo Perez (Belgium) Hasan Poonawala (USA) Krishna S (India) Ocan Sankur (France) Ana Sokolova (Austria) Jiri Srba (Denmark) B Srivathsan (India) Ufuk Topcu (USA) Patrick Totzke (UK) Jana Tumova (Sweden) Frits W. 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URL: From paba at itu.dk Tue Apr 14 13:29:58 2020 From: paba at itu.dk (Patrick Bahr) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:29:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TERMGRAPH 2020: Deadline Extension - 22 April Message-ID: <6E48B366-3C38-4F69-8B20-103848A64E76@itu.dk> ======================================================================= Call for Papers (*** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***) TERMGRAPH 2020 Eleventh International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs 5 July, 2020 termgraph.org.uk/2020 An FSCD 2020 Workshop ======================================================================= Graphs and graph transformation systems are used in many areas within Computer Science: to represent data structures and algorithms, to define computation models, as a general modelling tool to study complex systems, etc. Topics of interest for TERMGRAPH encompass all aspects of term and graph rewriting, and applications of graph transformations in programming, automated reasoning and symbolic computation, including: * Theory of first-order and higher-order term and graph rewriting * Graph grammars * Graph-based models of computation * Graph-based programming languages and modelling frameworks * Applications in functional and logic programming * Applications in automated reasoning and symbolic computation * Term/graph rewriting tools: case studies and system descriptions * Implementation issues The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in these different domains and to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 22 April 2020 (extended) Notification: 15 May 2020 PreProceedings version: 24 May 2020 Online Workshop: 5 July 2020 (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop will be held online.) Submissions and Publication: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in PDF format of max. 8 pages in EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). This may include both original work and tutorials on any of the abovementioned topics; work in progress is also welcome. Submission is through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=termgraph2020 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: Beniamino Accattoli Zena Ariola Patrick Bahr (chair) Clemens Grabmayer Makoto Hamana Wolfram Kahl Fr?d?ric Prost Femke van Raamsdonk David Sabel Contact: Patrick Bahr From sebastien.bardin at cea.fr Wed Apr 15 13:49:10 2020 From: sebastien.bardin at cea.fr (=?Windows-1252?Q?BARDIN_S=E9bastien?=) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:49:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [postdoc] Multiple postdoc positions at CEA LIST, Paris, France, in Software Security through Program Analysis, Formal Methods or Machine Learning Message-ID: =============================================================================== Multiple postdoc positions at CEA LIST, Paris, France, in Software Security through Program Analysis, Formal Methods or Machine Learning =============================================================================== *OUR TEAM* - The BINary-level SECurity research group (BINSEC) is a dynamic team of 8 junior and 2 senior researchers. The group has frequent publications in top-tier Security, Formal Methods and SE conferences. We work in close collaboration with other French or international research teams, industrial partners and national agencies. The team is part of CEA, one of the best ranked research institution in the world (https://www.reuters.com/innovation/most-innovative-institutions-2019), with an annual budget of ?4.7 billion and about 16K staff members across France. *OUR WORK* - The team has high-level expertise in several code analysis approaches, including binary-level formal methods, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, SMT solving and fuzzing. We apply these techniques to improve the security of software at the binary level, covering notably continuous security analysis, code hardening and patching, advanced vulnerability detection, criticality assessment, backdoor detection, verification-oriented decompilation, malware analysis or binary-level formal verification. Additional information can be found on https://binsec.github.io/ http://sebastien.bardin.free.fr/ *YOUR MISSION* - The goal of your postdoc will be to leverage recent advances in program analysis, software verification and/or machine learning to develop methods and tools supporting security analysis at the binary level. This includes (but is not limited to) vulnerability analysis, code hardening, reverse engineering and malware analysis. In particular, you will be strongly encouraged to explore innovative solutions combining both program analysis and machine learning. You will get involved in EU or industry-funded projects, together with senior members of the group. You will be expected to solve challenging research problems, implement your solutions into evaluated prototypes, publish at top conferences and journals, mentor students and broadly participate to the scientific life of the group. All positions comprise theoretical work as well as prototyping (preferably in OCaml) and experimental evaluation. We recognize that postdocs may need to spend a fraction of their time applying for permanent positions and we will support you in advancing your career. *JOB REQUIREMENTS* - Successful candidates should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science (or be near completion), they should be proficient in English and have excellent programming skills. We are mainly looking for applicants with an excellent research track record in program analysis, formal methods, software security and/or machine learning. However, candidates with background in programming languages, compilation, empirical software engineering, architecture or system may also be considered. *HIRING PROCEDURE* - Interested applicants should send their CV to S?bastien Bardin (sebastien.bardin at cea.fr) as soon as possible (and at the very last before October 2020), as applications will be reviewed immediately as they arrive (first come first served). Each position will have a duration of 2 years and will be allowed to begin starting from 2 months after a successful interview, but not later than December 2020. *REMUNERATION PACKAGE* - Remuneration for the postdoc includes a gross salary ranging from 33 kEUR to 39 kEUR per year, full access to the French healthcare, social care and pension system, as well as several other benefits, like coverage of 50% of all your Parisian public transport fees. *WORKING AND LIVING IN PARIS* - Our offices are located in Plateau de Saclay, south of Paris, the French biggest research and industry cluster. Our welcome agency France Accueil is available to help you find your home and settle here. Most of us live either in the wooden and quiet southern suburbs of Paris or closer to the bustling center of the city. 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NEWS * Due to the COVID-19 situation, it is currently uncertain whether CPP 2021 will be a physical conference in Copenhagen, Denmark or a virtual one. * The submission deadline is one month earlier than usual. IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract Deadline: 16 September 2020 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h) * Paper Submission Deadline: 22 September 2020 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h) * Notification (tentative): 19 November 2020 * Camera Ready Deadline (tentative): 10 December 2020 * Conference: 18-19 January 2021 Deadlines expire at the end of the day, anywhere on earth. Abstract and submission deadlines are strict and there will be no extensions. TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest to CPP: * certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS kernels, runtime systems, security monitors, and hardware; * certified mathematical libraries and mathematical theorems; * proof assistants (e.g, ACL2, Agda, Coq, Dafny, F*, HOL4, HOL Light, Idris, Isabelle, Lean, Mizar, Nuprl, PVS, etc); * new languages and tools for certified programming; * program analysis, program verification, and program synthesis; * program logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code; * logics for certifying concurrent and distributed systems; * mechanized metatheory, formalized programming language semantics, and logical frameworks; * higher-order logics, dependent type theory, proof theory, logical systems, separation logics, and logics for security; * verification of correctness and security properties; * formally verified blockchains and smart contracts; * certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra, polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest; * certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality, first-order logic, and higher-order unification; * certificates for program termination; * formal models of computation; * mechanized (un)decidability and computational complexity proofs; * formally certified methods for induction and coinduction; * integration of interactive and automated provers; * logical foundations of proof assistants; * applications of AI and machine learning to formal certification; * user interfaces for proof assistants and theorem provers; * teaching mathematics and computer science with proof assistants. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Prior to the paper submission deadline, the authors should upload their anonymized paper in PDF format through the HotCRP system at https://cpp2021.hotcrp.com The submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the contribution. They must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format using the acmart style with the sigplan option, which provides a two-column style, using 10 point font for the main text, and a header for double blind review submission, i.e., \documentclass[sigplan,10pt,anonymous,review]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false} The submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained without the appendices. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. Submissions not conforming to the requirements concerning format and maximum length may be rejected without further consideration. CPP 2021 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To facilitate this, the submissions must adhere to two rules: (1) author names and institutions must be omitted, and (2) references to authors? own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing it more difficult. In particular, important background references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors are free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their papers as usual. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. POPL has answers to frequently asked questions addressing many common concerns: https://popl20.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2020-Research-Papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ We encourage the authors to provide any supplementary material that is required to support the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data. This material must be uploaded at submission time, as an archive, not via a URL. Two forms of supplementary material may be submitted: (1) Anonymous supplementary material is made available to the reviewers before they submit their first-draft reviews. (2) Non-anonymous supplementary material is made available to the reviewers after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and have learned the identity of the authors. Please use anonymous supplementary material whenever possible, so that it can be taken into account from the beginning of the reviewing process. The submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy ( https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) and the ACM Policy on Plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). Concurrent submissions to other conferences, journals, workshops with proceedings, or similar forums of publication are not allowed. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the (possibly virtual) conference. PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS The CPP proceedings will be published by the ACM, and authors of accepted papers will be required to choose one of the following publication options: (1) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission-to-publish license and, optionally, licenses the work under a Creative Commons license. (2) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permission-to-publish license. (3) Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM. For authors who can afford it, we recommend option (1), which will make the paper Gold Open Access, and also encourage such authors to license their work under the CC-BY license. ACM will charge you an article processing fee for this option (currently, US$700), which you have to pay directly with the ACM. For everyone else, we recommend option (2), which is free and allows you to achieve Green Open Access, by uploading a preprint of your paper to a repository that guarantees permanent archival such as arXiv or HAL. This is anyway a good idea for timely dissemination even if you chose option 1. Ensuring timely dissemination is particularly important for this edition, since, because of the very tight schedule, the official proceedings might not be available in time for CPP. The official CPP 2021 proceedings will also be available via SIGPLAN OpenTOC (http://www.sigplan.org/OpenTOC/#cpp). For ACM?s take on this, see their Copyright Policy ( http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and Author Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html). PROGRAM COMMITTEE C?t?lin Hri?cu, Inria Paris, France (co-chair) Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK (co-chair) Reynald Affeldt, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan June Andronick, CSIRO's Data61 and UNSW, Australia Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Joachim Breitner, DFINITY Foundation, Germany Jesper Cockx, TU Delft, Netherlands Cyril Cohen, Universit? C?te d?Azur, Inria, France Nils Anders Danielsson, University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Brijesh Dongol, University of Surrey, UK Floris van Doorn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Yannick Forster, Saarland University, Germany Shilpi Goel, Centaur Technology, Inc., USA Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University, South Korea Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki, University of Cambridge, UK Robert Y. Lewis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Hongjin Liang, Nanjing University, China Andreas Lochbihler, Digital Asset GmbH, Switzerland Petar Maksimovi?, Imperial College London, UK William Mansky, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Anders M?rtberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Sam Owre, SRI International, USA Karl Palmskog, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Johannes ?man Pohjola, CSIRO's Data61 / University of New South Wales, Australia Damien Pous, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France Tahina Ramananandro, Microsoft Research, USA Ilya Sergey, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore, Singapore Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Kathrin Stark, Princeton University, USA Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Amin Timany, Aarhus University, Denmark Josef Urban, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Christoph Weidenbach, MPI-INF, Germany Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Yannick Zakowski, University of Pennsylvania, USA CONTACT For any questions please contact the two PC chairs: C?t?lin Hri?cu ( catalin.hritcu at gmail.com) and Andrei Popescu (andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Thu Apr 16 07:56:31 2020 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:56:31 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Papers: ONLINE EXPRESS/SOS 2020 Deadline Extended Message-ID: <41F38DC3-E83F-45FE-8DB7-BCC93EBC37E7@gmail.com> =========================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Combined 27th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 17th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2020) https://express-sos2020.cs.ru.nl ONLINE Affiliated with CONCUR 2020 Submission deadline (full and short papers): *Monday, July 6, 2020* (Extended!) =========================================== == SCOPE AND TOPICS The EXPRESS/SOS workshop series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and in the expressiveness of computational models. Topics of interest for EXPRESS/SOS 2020 include, but are not limited to: - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between models of computation (process algebras, event structures, Petri nets, rewrite systems) - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between 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); - comparisons between structural operational semantics and other formal semantic approaches; - applications and case studies of structural operational semantics; - software tools that automate, or are based on, structural operational semantics. We especially welcome contributions bridging the gap between the above topics and neighbouring areas, such as, for instance: - computer security - multi-agent systems - programming languages - formal verification - reversible computation - knowledge representation == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We invite two types of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages, excluding references). * Short papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references, not included in the workshop proceedings) All submissions should adhere to the EPTCS format (http://www.eptcs.org ). Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is only allowed for short papers; full papers must be unpublished. Submission is performed through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2020 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. == SPECIAL ISSUE There is a long tradition of special issues of reputed international journals devoted to the very best papers presented in prior editions of the workshop. For instance, a special issue of Information and Computation with selected papers from EXPRESS/SOS 2018 is currently in progress. We will consider organizing a special issue for EXPRESS/SOS 2020. == INVITED SPEAKERS - Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) - Bas Luttik (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK) == IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: July 6, 2020 - Notification date: August 7, 2020 - Camera ready version: August 19, 2020 - Workshop: August 31, 2020 == WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK), co-chair Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (University of Torino, Italy) Rob van Glabbeek (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, U.S.A.) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Catuscia Palamidessi (Inria and ?cole Polytechnique, France) Marco Peressotti (University of Southern Denmark) Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), co-chair Ivano Salvo (Sapienza, Rome, Italy) == CONTACT Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the co-chairs in case of questions at express-sos20 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.greenberg at pomona.edu Thu Apr 16 12:21:37 2020 From: michael.greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:21:37 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2021 - Call for Workshop and Co-located Events - due 2020-05-29 Message-ID: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND CO-LOCATED EVENTS POPL 2021 48th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages POPL: 17-22 January 2021 Affiliated Events: 17-19, 22 January 2021 Copenhagen, Denmark http://popl21.sigplan.org The 48th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2021) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. POPL provides a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation, implementation and verification of programming languages, programming systems, and programming abstractions. Events focusing on experimental and theoretical topics are welcome. Proposals are invited for workshops and other events to be co-located with POPL 2021. all co-located events are sponsored by SIGPLAN (http://acm.org/sigplan/). Workshops should be more informal and focused than POPL itself, include sessions that enable interaction among the workshop attendees. The preference is for one-day workshops, but other schedules can also be considered. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: 29 May 2020 Notification of acceptance: 12 June 2020 A workshop proposal should provide the following information. ? Name of the workshop. ? Duration of the workshop. ? Whether the workshop will be Conference-approved or SIGPLAN-approved (see below). ? Organizers: names, affiliation, contact information, brief (100 words) biography. ? A short description (150-200 words) of the topic. ? Event format: workshop; type of submissions if any; review process; results dissemination. ? Expected attendance and target audience. ? Potential PC members - please do not contact them before the workshop is approved. ? History of the workshop. ? Plans for remote participation (Covid-19 crises) Proposals must be submitted in pdf form by email to the workshop chairs Ruzica Piskac (ruzica.piskac at yale.edu) and Jan Hoffmann (jhoffmann at cmu.edu). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Effects of the Covid-19 crises The planning for POPL 2021 is affected by the global covid-19 crises. POPL will take place January 17-22, 2021, as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting. Independent of how the situation evolves, authors and other participants will have the choice to participate in-person or remotely at POPL 2021. The workshop proposals should describe plans for remote participation and in particular indicate - if the organizers are committing to opening the workshop to remote participation and - whether the workshop will take place in the event that there will not be an in-person POPL. Advice and resources for enabling remote participation are available at https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences . --------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGPLAN Sponsorship POPL Co-located Events are sponsored by SIGPLAN (http://sigplan.org/). There are two kinds of Co-located Events: Conference-approved (no proceedings) and SIGPLAN-approved (proceedings in the ACM Digital Library). See http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Guidelines/Workshops/ for more information, including a full listing of prescriptions for Conference-approved and SIGPLAN-approved workshops. SIGPLAN-approved workshops must respect the SIGPLAN Diversity Policy. Proposals for SIGPLAN-approved workshops must additionally include the gender, country of affiliation, and professional status of potential PC members. See https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Diversity/ for more details. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee All submissions will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the POPL 2021 organizing committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Jan Hoffmann Carnegie Mellon University Workshops co-chair Ruzica Piskac Yale University Workshops co-chair Andreas Podelski University of Freiburg General chair Azadeh Farzan University of Toronto Program chair --------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any query regarding POPL 2021 co-located event proposals should be addressed to the workshops chairs Ruzica Piskac (ruzica.piskac at yale.edu) and Jan Hoffmann (jhoffmann at cmu.edu). From a.scalas at aston.ac.uk Thu Apr 16 12:42:16 2020 From: a.scalas at aston.ac.uk (Alceste Scalas) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:42:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: 13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2020) Message-ID: <6b6ea23c-0252-bdf3-937f-3a734919aac3@aston.ac.uk> ICE 2020 13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience 19 June 2020 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2020 http://www.discotec.org/2020/ice Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2020/Workshop/ICE === HIGHLIGHTS === * Distinctive selection procedure * ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings * ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or preliminary work * Publication in EPTCS * Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed) * Invited speakers: - Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit? C?te d?Azur, CNRS, I3S, France) - Karoliina Lehtinen (University of Liverpool, UK) === COVID-19 UPDATE === Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, ICE 2020 will be held online, as the rest of DisCoTec. Accepted papers will be published as planned, but no physical meeting/presentations will take place. Instead, the authors of accepted papers will give their talks remotely (or record their talks if they prefer), and discuss with the conference participants online. More details will follow. === IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) === * Full papers: * 1 May 2020: abstract submission * 4 May 2020: paper submission * Oral communications and short papers: * 8 May 2020: abstract submission * 11 May 2020: paper submission * 4 June 2020: notification * 19-20 June 2020: ICE workshop * 13 July 2020: camera-ready for EPTCS post-proceedings === SCOPE === Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE) 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. ICE adopts a light double-blind reviewing process, detailed below. === SUBMISSION GUIDELINES === Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2020/Workshop/ICE 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. === 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. 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. === ICECREAMERS === Julien Lange (University of Kent, UK) - j.s.lange at kent.ac.uk Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov Larisa Safina (Inria, FR) - larisa.safina at inria.fr Alceste Scalas (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) - a.scalas at aston.ac.uk === PROGRAM COMMITTEE === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Chiara Bodei (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) * Aim?e Borda (Trinity College Dublin, IE) * Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) * Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK) * Simon Fowler (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, NL) * Wen Kokke (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, RU) * Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) * Claudio Antares Mezzina (University of Urbino, IT) * Maurizio Murgia (University of Trento, IT) * Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK) * Kirstin Peters (TU Berlin, DE) * Johannes ?man Pohjola (Data61/CSIRO, AU) * Ivan Prokic (University of Novi Sad, RS) * Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) * Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, NO) * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT) * Laura Voinea (University of Glasgow, UK) === STEERING COMMITTEE === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT) === MORE INFORMATION === For additional information, please contact the ICEcreamers (see email addresses above). -- Alceste Scalas - https://cs.aston.ac.uk/~scalasa Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science Aston University, Birmingham, UK Main building, room MB214D, +44 121 204 4760 From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Thu Apr 16 13:16:54 2020 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:16:54 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2020 CFP (UPDATES due to Coronavirus) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, we would like to announce a few changes to the LFMTP 2020 workshop, that is scheduled to take place on 29th June 2020, co-located with FSCD and IJCAR this year. 1) LFMTP 2020 will follow FSCD-IJCAR lead to move to an online-only format for this year. 2) We will now require only a 2-page abstract submission, instead of a full paper. The abstracts will go through a quick informal review. Accepted abstracts will be invited for presentation at the workshop. After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit the full versions of their submissions for the post proceedings, which will undergo a proper review. 3) The submission deadline is now extended to 18 May 2020. The amended call for papers can be found below. Regards, Claudio Sacerdoti-Coen and Alwen Tiu LFMTP PC Chairs ==================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2020 Paris, France 29 June 2020 Affiliated with FSCD 2020 and IJCAR 2020 https://lfmtp.org/workshops/2020/ Submission deadline: 18 May 2020 ABOUT LFMTP 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 2020 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, process calculi and related formally specified systems. * Formalisation of model-theoretic and proof-theoretic semantics of logics. * 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 and their 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. * Design and implementation of systems and tools related to meta- languages and logical frameworks IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are established as the end of day (23:59) AoE. * Submission deadline: 18 May 2020 * Notification to authors: 1 June 2020 * Workshop: 29 June 2020 SUBMISSION INFORMATION We solicit submissions of long abstracts describing original research results or descriptions of work in progress. The topics of the submissions should be of interest to the LFMTP community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS LaTeX style. The length is restricted to 2 pages. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lfmtp2020 All submissions will undergo a light peer-review process and the authors of those accepted will be invited to present their papers at the workshop. POST-PROCEEDINGS After the workshop we will publish post-proceedings in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit the full versions of their papers for publication in the post-proceedings, subject to another round of review. PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Baelde, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris Fr?d?ric Blanqui, INRIA Alberto Ciaffaglione, University of Udine Dennis M?ller, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-N?rnberg Michael Norrish, Data61 Carlos Olarte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norde Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna (PC Co-Chair) Ulrich Sch?pp, fortiss GmbH Alwen Tiu, Australian National University (PC Co-Chair) Tjark Weber, Uppsala University -- Prof. Claudio Sacerdoti Coen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna From C.Kop at cs.ru.nl Fri Apr 17 04:09:52 2020 From: C.Kop at cs.ru.nl (Cynthia Kop) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:09:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open PhD Position at Radboud University Nijmegen Message-ID: Dear all, There is currently a PhD position available at Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) in the area of /Higher-Order Term Rewriting with Logical Constraints/. The position is for four years, and comes with a competitive salary and very attractive employment conditions. Interested students who either already hold a Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related area, or who will complete such a degree before September, are encouraged to apply. The application deadline is 31 May. *The project* As a PhD Candidate, you will conduct research into higher-order term rewriting systems with logical constraints. This project brings together two different areas of theoretical computer science: higher-order term rewriting and program analysis, and in particular analysis of functional programming languages. Term rewriting is a formal system that can be used to specify algorithms. Its simple, rigorous definition makes it very suitable for formal analysis, and as a result, its properties are well studied. Higher-order term rewriting extends standard term rewriting with anonymous functions and binders as in the ?-calculus, thus providing a highly liberal class of systems. Term rewriting can be combined with a logical theory and logical constraints; for example, integer numbers and conditions such as (x > 1) ? (y ? x). With this approach, it is possible to model programs in common programming languages; in particular, higher-order term rewriting systems offer a natural model to analyse functional programming languages. In this project, your task will be to develop techniques to analyse properties of higher-order term rewriting systems with logical constraints, and apply these techniques towards program analysis. You can build on several existing approaches, but will have a lot of freedom to define your own direction. You will be supervised by Dr Cynthia Kop. If you wish to learn more, feel free to send an e-mail to C.Kop at cs.ru.nl. *Work environment* Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. It is a place with a personal touch, where top-notch education and research take place on a beautiful green campus, in modern buildings with state-of-the-art facilities. The position is available in the Software Science group of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University. Research at iCIS focuses on software science, digital security and data science. During recent evaluations, iCIS has been consistently ranked as the No. 1 Computing Science department in the Netherlands. Evaluation committees praised our flat and open organisational structure, our ability to attract external funding, our strong ties to other disciplines, and our solid contacts with government and industrial partners. The Software Science group is well known for its contributions to the mathematical foundations of software, formal methods, and functional programming. *What we expect from you* * you will be able to start before or in September; * you hold an Msc or equivalent degree in computer science, mathematics or a closely related field -- or will graduate from such a field before starting the PhD position; * you are able to work both independently and as part of a team; * you are proficient in English (knowledge of Dutch is not required). Preference will be given to candidates with some programming experience, but this is not required. Prior knowledge of term rewriting or implicit complexity is also a boon, but not required. *What we have to offer* * employment: 0.8 - 1.0 FTE; * a maximum gross monthly salary of ??2,972 based on a 38-hour working week; * the gross starting salary amounts to ?2,325 per month, and will increase to ?2,972 in the fourth year; * in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus; * duration of the contract: you will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years. * you will be classified as a PhD Candidate (promovendus) in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO); * you will be able to make use of our dual career service ( https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/why-work-at-radboud-university-0/our-way-working-personal-approach/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; * For our employment conditions, see https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/why-work-at-radboud-university-0/terms-employment/ . *How to apply* You can apply at https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1098786 , or ask for more information by e-mail to me ( C.Kop at cs.ru.nl ) Note that the deadline for applications is set at 31 May, and the project can start immediately when a PhD candidate is hired, or later in discussion (but no later than September). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.jansen at science.ru.nl Fri Apr 17 10:26:47 2020 From: n.jansen at science.ru.nl (Nils Jansen) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:26:47 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2020 ** 4th Call for Papers ** In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <23A4F66D-0F83-4806-8443-22C6615C2EE7@science.ru.nl> ? We have decided to further extend the deadlines. The final paper deadline is May 07, 2020. Moreover, we are planning a journal special edition of FORMATS 2019 and 2020. ? 4th Call for Papers FORMATS 2020 September 1st-3rd Vienna, Austria (virtual meeting) co-located with CONCUR, FMICS, and QEST https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/ Invited Speakers: Alessandro Abate, Roderick Bloem, Annabelle McIver - Important dates (updated) ? Abstract submission: April 28, 2020 ? Paper submission: May 07, 2020 ? Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2020 ? Final version due: July 08, 2020 ? Conference: September 1-3, 2019 - Objective Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains have been treated independently by different communities. Researchers interested in semantics, verification, and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment. Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of events. - 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. This year again, FORMATS aims at being more inclusive with respect to applications, notably real-time systems and emerging directions such as data science. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): ? Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models). ? Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.). ? Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication). - Special Sessions This year, FORMATS additionally encourages submissions in two particular topics. Data-driven methods for timed systems (chaired by Guillermo Alberto Perez). We are interested in all kind of data-driven methods such as machine learning or automata learning that consider timing aspects. Examples are automata learning for timed automata or reinforcement learning with timing constraints. Probabilistic and timed systems (chaired by Arnd Hartmanns). Real-time systems often encompass probabilistic or random behavior. We are interested in all approaches to model or analyze such systems, for instance through probabilistic timed automata, or stochastic timed Petri nets. - Paper Submission FORMATS 2020 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages in length (excluding references, that are therefore not limited), and short papers (for instance describing case studies, or implementations) are limited to 5 pages (again excluding references). Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Papers will be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2020 - Publication and best paper award The proceedings of FORMATS 2020 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems. We are planning a journal special edition of FORMATS 2019 and 2020. For any questions, feel free to contact the co-chairs Nathalie Bertrand (nathalie.bertrand at inria.fr ) and Nils Jansen (n.jansen at science.ru.nl ) Committees - Program Chairs Nathalie Bertrand (France) Nils Jansen (The Netherlands) - General Chair Ezio Bartocci (Austria) - Steering Committee Rajeev Alur (USA) Eugene Asarin (France) Martin Fr?nzle (chair, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger (Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Denmark) Oded Maler (founding chair, France) (1957-2018) Pavithra Prabhakar (USA) Mari?lle Stoelinga (The Netherlands) Wang Yi (Sweden) - Program Committee Mohamadreza Ahmadi (USA) Nicolas Basset (France) Anne Bouillard (France) Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (France) Milan Ceska (Czech Republic) Aiswarya Cyriac (India) Rayna Dimitrova (UK) Uli Fahrenberg (France) Gilles Geeraerts (Belgium) Arnd Hartmanns (The Netherlands) Fr?d?ric Herbreteau (France) Laura Humphrey (USA) Sebastian Junges (USA) Gethin Norman (UK) Marco Paolieri (USA) Guillermo Perez (Belgium) Hasan Poonawala (USA) Krishna