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 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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May 12, 2020 SCOPE ATVA 2020 is the 18th in the ATVA series of symposia intended topromote research in theoretical and practical aspects of automatedanalysis, verification and synthesis in Asia by providing a forum forinteraction between the regional and international researchcommunities and industry in the field. The previous 17 events wereheld in Taipei (2003-2005-2019), Beijing (2006), Tokyo (2007), Seoul(2008), Macao (2009), Singapore (2010), Taipei (2011-2019),Thiruvananthapuram (2012), Hanoi (2013), Sydney (2014), Shanghai(2015), Chiba (2016), Pune (2017), and Los Angeles (2018).The proceedings of ATVA 2020 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, same as in previous years. ATVA 2020 solicits high-quality submissions on, but not limited to,the following topics: ??? Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems ??? Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized system ??? Program analysis and software verification ??? Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and embedded systems ??? Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced, weighted and probabilistic? systems ??? Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement techniques for analysis and verification ??? Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability ??? Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology ??? Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent systems ??? Verification in industrial practice ??? Synthesis for hardware and software systems ??? Applications and case studies ??? Automated tool support SUBMISSIONS ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: ??? Regular research papers (16 pages, including references) ??? Tool papers (6 pages, including references) Submissions must be in Springer?s LNCS format. Additional material maybe placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of thereviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting stylefiles and further guidelines for formatting can be found at theSpringer website.Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the toolcan be downloaded or accessed on-line for evaluation. The URL mustalso contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usageof the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be downloadedand installed, the URL must contain instructions for installation ofthe tool on Linux/Windows/MacOS.Papers must be submitted through EasyChair. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer?sLecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author of eachaccepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at theconference. NEW IMPORTANT DATES ??? Abstract submission:? May 6, 2020 ??? Paper submission deadline:? May 12, 2020 ??? Paper acceptance/rejection notification: Jun 24, 2020 ??? Early registration: September 16, 2020 ??? Conference: October 19-23, 2020 INVITED SPEAKERS ??? Tobias Nipkow (Munich, Germany) ??? Klaus Havelund (CalTech / NASA JPL) ??? David Dill (Standford, USA) CONFERENCE CHAIR Pham Bao Son, Vice President of VNU PC CO-CHAIRS ??? Dang Van Hung, VNU-Hanoi ??? Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE ??? Dang Van Hung,VNU-Hanoi ??? Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA ??? Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Uppsala University ??? Ondrej Lengal, Brno University of Technology ??? Christel Baier, TU Dresden ??? Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University ??? Chih-Hong Cheng, fortiss ? Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria ??? Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University ??? Tachio Terauchi, Waseda University ??? Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica ??? Zhilin Wu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences ??? Pham Ngoc Hung, VNU, Hanoi ??? Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Iowa State University ??? Truong Anh Hoang, VNU, Hanoi ??? Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA ??? Ezio Bartocci, Technical U. of Vienna ??? Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich ??? Xuan Dong Li, Nanjing University ??? Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University ??? Do Van Tien, Budapest University of Technology and Economics ??? Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ??? Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University ??? Keijo Heljanko, University of Helsinki ??? Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology (IST) ??? Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool ??? Franck Cassez, Macquarie University ??? Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design ??? Lu Feng, U. of Virginia ??? Hakjoo Oh, Korea University ??? Udi Boker, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya ??? Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste ??? Michael??? Tautschnig, Queen Mary University of London ??? Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica ??? Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences ??? Quan Thanh Tho, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology ??? David Lo, SMU, Singapore ??? Swen Jacobs, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany ??? Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan ??? Meenakshi D'Souza, International Institute of Information Technology, India ??? Vo Dinh Hieu, VNU-HanoiIndranil Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS ??? Vo Dinh Hieu, VNU-Hanoi ??? Pham Ngoc Hung, VNU-Hanoi CONFERENCE VENUE Historical Campus, Vietnam National University, 19 Le Thanh Tongstreet, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, Vietnam. From jdc at uwo.ca Sun Apr 19 14:09:33 2020 From: jdc at uwo.ca (Dan Christensen) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:09:33 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The HoTTEST Conference of 2020, June 15-19 (Homotopy Type Theory) Message-ID: <871roj73fm.fsf@uwo.ca> We are pleased to announce the HoTTEST Conference of 2020 taking place online June 15-19, 2020. There will be two talks per day, at 10:30 and 12 EDT (UTC-4). Details, including how to connect, can be found at https://www.uwo.ca/math/faculty/kapulkin/seminars/hottest_conference_2020.html Invited speakers Timothy Campion (University of Notre Dame) Eric Finster (INRIA Nantes) Valery Isaev (Saint Petersburg Academic University) Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) David Jaz Myers (Johns Hopkins University) Paige North (Ohio State University) Anja Petkovi? (University of Ljubljana) Mitchell Riley (Wesleyan University) Mike Shulman (University of San Diego) Taichi Uemura (University of Amsterdam) There will be no banquet, but if you insist on paying $80 for a meal worth no more than $15, consider tipping generously for takeout from your local restaurant. On behalf of the organizers, Dan Christensen Chris Kapulkin From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Mon Apr 20 04:41:38 2020 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:41:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Workshop on Confluence [IWC 2020] - Deadline extension Message-ID: <438288c4-01d6-bea8-0c6c-ca55290cc1b1@lix.polytechnique.fr> --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- Last 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 --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- ## DEADLINE EXTENSION Important notice: the deadline has been extended by one week, see below (abstract on April 24th and paper on April 29th). ## DESCRIPTION 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. ## ORGANIZATION 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 24, 2020 - Paper Submission: ? April 29, 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 bernardobruno at gmail.com Tue Apr 21 03:37:26 2020 From: bernardobruno at gmail.com (Bruno Bernardo) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:37:26 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMBC 2020: 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (CfP, Deadline Extension) Message-ID: [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ======================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2020 - Second 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: May 5, 2020 (extended) Full paper submission: May 12, 2020 (extended) Notification: June 16, 2020 (extended) 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 The authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the EasyChair style files: https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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) * Andrew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) * 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) From martin.avanzini at inria.fr Tue Apr 21 06:47:45 2020 From: martin.avanzini at inria.fr (Martin Avanzini) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:47:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Virtual LCC'20: Second Call for Contributions Message-ID: <916c8725-6684-c346-3ae9-b1c21394755c@inria.fr> (Apologies for cross posting.) =================================================================== ???????????????? Second Call for Contributions ??????????????????????????? LCC 2020 ?21th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity ????????? July 6, 2020, VIRTUAL (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. VIRTUAL EDITION: The LCC workshop is co-allocated with LICS/ICALP and as such will take place as a virtual event, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The workshop has been moved to July 6th for this reason. Further details will be posted on the webpage as soon as the handling of the virtual LICS/ICALP conferences become clear. IMPORTANT DATES: All dates are AoE, extended because of COVID-19. ?* submission???? May? 6, 2020 ?* notification?? May 27, 2020 ?* workshop?????? July 6, 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 (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany, co-chair) CONTACT: To contact the workshop organizers, please send an e-mail to lcc20 at easychair.org From r.e.monti at utwente.nl Tue Apr 21 06:55:40 2020 From: r.e.monti at utwente.nl (r.e.monti at utwente.nl) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:55:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VTLTC 2020 - Final Call for Online Participation Message-ID: <82F4AE73-C160-410F-9148-0279BF45EFEE@utwente.nl> Final 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 <<< !! Please register on this website if you want to participate !! (There are no costs involved in participating) ## 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. If the situation permits, the onsite event will take place in autumn during ETAPS. ## Call for Participation Everybody who is interested about the challenge, the proposed solutions and VerifyThis is cordially invited to join the meeting! To avoid spammers, you need to register yourself. An email with login credentials will be sent in advance. Registration information, agenda and resources are on our webpage of the online workshop: >>> https://verifythis.github.io/online-event <<< ## Agenda We start at 10:00 UTC. Please join the meeting in-time. 1. Greeting and Introduction to the VerifyThis Longterm Challenge 2020 2. Claire Dross, Johannes Kanig, and Yannick Moy A Solution to the Long-Term Challenge in SPARK 3. Diego Diverio, Cl?udio Louren?o and Claude March? ``You-Know-Why'': an Early-Stage Prototype of a Key Server Developed using Why3 4. Stijn de Gouw, Mattias Ulbrich and Alexander Weigl The KeY Approach on Hagrid 5. Gidon Ernst and Lukas Rieger Information Flow Testing of a PGP Keyserver 6. Gidon Ernst, Toby Murray and Mukesh Tiwari Verifying the Security of a PGP Keyserver 7. Final discussion and feedback to the challenge. 8. Closing (ca. 14:00) ## Program Chairs and Organizers Marieke Huisman Raul E. Monti Mattias Ulbrich Alexander Weigl [0] Find out your local time here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=VerifyThis%20Online&iso=20200427T12&p1=964&ah=3 [1] https://www.pm.inf.ethz.ch/research/verifythis.html [2] https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2019/06/14/20190614-hagrid/ From walther.neuper at jku.at Thu Apr 23 06:20:00 2020 From: walther.neuper at jku.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:20:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'20/EPTCS Post-proceedings - Open Call for Papers Message-ID: Open Call for Papers ************************************************************************** Proceedings for ThEdu'20 Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu20 ************************************************************************** to be published by EPTCS, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science http://published.eptcs.org ************************************************************************** Synopsis ThEdu'20 was accepted as a workshop at IJCAR 2020, the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, June 29 - July 5, 2020, Paris, France (https://ijcar2020.org/). The interest expressed for the workshop was such, that the PC decided to publish proceedings, in spite of cancellation after IJCAR become virtual. Thanks to a decision of the EPTCS editorial board adapting to the specific situation, the proceedings already received the approval to be published by EPTCS. 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. Important Dates * Full Papers: 14 June 2020 * Author Notification: 12 July 2020 * Revised papers due: 13 Sept.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 full papers presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All contributions will be reviewed (blind review) by three members of the PC for each submission, to meet the high standards of EPTCS. The authors should comply with the "instructions for authors", LaTeX style files and accept the "Non-exclusive license to distribute" of EPTCS: Instructions for authors (http://info.eptcs.org/) LaTeX style file and formatting instructions (http://style.eptcs.org/) Copyright (http://copyright.eptcs.org/) Papers should be submitted via EasyChair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu20. 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. 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The symposium will bring together doctoral students working in the area of software testing and analysis and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research goals, methods, and preliminary results in a constructive and international atmosphere. The Symposium will include two keynotes by a prominent academic leaders. The Symposium will be closed-door, with participation restricted to the students taking part in the symposium and the members of the ISSTA 2020 Doctoral Symposium Program Committee. Accepted submissions will also be published as short papers in the ISSTA 2020 conference proceedings. The goals of the Doctoral Symposium are to: - provide the participants independent and constructive feedback on their current research and future research directions; - develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; - provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the software engineering community. Participating students will have the unique opportunity to describe their research ideas and receive comments and suggestions from experienced researchers in the software testing and analysis community. # Important Dates Submission deadline: *** 30 April 2020 *** Acceptance notification: 14 May 2020 Doctoral Symposium 18 July 2020 Main conference dates: 18-22 July 2020 # Submission Prospective student participants should be at a stage in their research where they have already identified a research topic, but should still be at least six months away from completing their dissertation. Participants will be selected based on a four-page paper describing their proposed thesis research. The paper should state the problem their research intends to address and detail how they propose to address it, including a statement of their hypotheses, a description of their approach and evaluation plans, their positioning with respect to the state of the art, and the expected improvements and benefits. A Doctoral Symposium submission must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, figures, tables, and appendices; one additional page containing only references is permitted. Submission should be in ACM Master conference format using 9-point type. For LaTeX users, this means using the acmart document class with the sigconf option (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}). Please submit through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issta20ds # Program Committee - Marcel B?hme (co-chair, Monash University, Australia) - Jaco Geldenhuys (co-chair, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) - Aldeida Aleti (Monash University, Australia) - Sang Kil Cha (KAIST, South Korea) - Sudipta Chattopadhyay (Singapore University of Technology and Design) - Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) - Antonio Filieri (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) - Gordon Fraser (University of Passau, Germany) - Julia Lawall (INRIA) - Andreas Zeller (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From valeria.depaiva at gmail.com Sat Apr 25 09:25:45 2020 From: valeria.depaiva at gmail.com (Valeria de Paiva) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:25:45 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FINAL Call for Papers: VIRTUAL Linearity & TLLA 2020 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ======================================================= FINAL Call for Papers: NEW DEADLINE 4th May 2020 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: 4th May 2020 * Author notification: 29th May 2020 * Contribution for Informal Proceedings: 12th June 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk Sun Apr 26 05:33:05 2020 From: m.roggenbach at swansea.ac.uk (Roggenbach M.) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 09:33:05 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMNET@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Message-ID: <804C4A1C-E834-4D2B-AA63-B75B7B06BB44@swansea.ac.uk> Dear friends, it is my pleasure to invite you to participate in our Virtual WADT on Wednesday, 29.4.2020 9.30 - 16.00 BST to be held using the Zoom Software. Please share this invitation with your students and scientific friends: the more participants the better. For more details, please see our webpage https://wadt2020.github.io As a physical meeting, the 25th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques 2020 will be co-located with ETAPS 2020 in Dublin. As ETAPS 2020 has been postponed due the pandemic, WADT 2020 will additionally happen as a virtual workshop, where a subset of the accepted abstracts will be presented. WADT focuses on the algebraic approach to system specification, which encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. The programme of the Virtual Worskhop, 29.4.2020, via Zoom is as follows: #Session 1: (Chair: Alexander Knapp - for the 3rd talk: Andrea Corradini) ? 9.30 Conor Reynolds and Rosemary Monahan: Formalizing Institutions in the Coq Proof Assistant ? 10.00 Ionut Tutu, Jos? Luiz Fiadeiro and Claudia Chirita: Dynamic reconfigurations through hybrid lenses ? 10.30 Tobias Rosenberger, Saddek Bensalem, Alexander Knapp and Markus Roggenbach: Unbabel your tools - Leveraging SPASS for UML ? break, with the possibility for some social conversations in the virtual conference room ? #Session 2: (Chair: Marieke Huismann) ? 11.30 Wytse Oortwijn: Verifying Distributed Systems by Abstracting Channel Interaction ? 12.00 Dominik Klumpp and Philip Lenzen: K and KIV - Towards Deductive Verification for Arbitrary Programming Languages ? lunch break ? #Session 3: (Chair: Markus Roggenbach) ? 14.00 Manisha Jain, Alexandre Madeira and Manuel A. Martins: Quotients and reductions in a simple Fuzzy Modal Logic ? 14.30 Navid Roux and Florian Rabe: Functorial Diagram Operators ? 15.00 Jan Bergstra and John Tucker: The wheel of rational numbers as an abstract data type ? 15.30 Filippo Bonchi, Robin Piedeleu, Pawel Sobocinski and Fabio Zanasi: From Linear to Concurrent Algebra: a Diagrammatic Approach All times are given in British Summer Time (BST) Not all papers that have been accepted for presentation at the physical workshop will be presented at the virtual workshop. With kind regards, Markus Roggenbach -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tatjana.petrov at uni-konstanz.de Sun Apr 26 11:38:30 2020 From: tatjana.petrov at uni-konstanz.de (Tatjana Petrov) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:38:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMSB 2020: Final Call for Contributions [deadline further postponed and going online] Message-ID: <1FA124B2-B8AE-48D3-AB92-9595EEE6DB20@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) ========================================================================= Update on organisational changes due to coronavirus situation We are considering to move CMSB2020 either partially or completely online. All submission deadlines are shifted ahead. Please consult the conference webpage for the latest updates. ========================================================================= 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, Max Planck Institute and 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: May 04, 2020 - Regular Paper submission: May 14, 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 material (in the form of appendix) 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: May 04, 2020 - Tool Paper submission: May 14, 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: May 04, 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: May 14, 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 ?afr?nek (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 ? 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URL: From marthaflinderslewis at gmail.com Mon Apr 27 09:36:15 2020 From: marthaflinderslewis at gmail.com (Martha Lewis) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:36:15 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension: Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science (SemSpace2020) Message-ID: <19F94950-1B4D-4B03-B264-12B6E4FF9913@gmail.com> [with apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home August 8th and 9th 2020 Utrecht, The Netherlands (dates and location subject to confirmation) **** DEADLINE EXTENSION Due to various requests, we are extending the submission deadline to 22nd May. Updated dates are as follows: Paper submission: 22nd May 2020 Notification to contributors: 1st July 2020 Workshop dates: 8th-9th August 2020 (subject to confirmation) COVID-19 UPDATE We will be going ahead with the workshop, either in an online format or in person if the situation allows. Since ESSLLI 2020 has been cancelled, the dates and location may be subject to slight change. AIMS AND SCOPE Vector embeddings of word meanings have become a mainstream tool in large scale natural language processing tools. The use of vectors to represent meanings in semantic spaces or feature spaces is also employed in cognitive science. Unrelated to natural language and cognitive science, vectors and vector spaces have been extensively used as models of physical theories and especially the theory of quantum mechanics. Crucial similarities between the vector representations of quantum mechanics and those of natural language are exhibited via bicompact linear logic and compact closed categorical structures in natural language. Exploiting the common ground provided by vector spaces, the proposed workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, cognitive science, and physics, offering to them an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay between these three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse via grammatical types, how they are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): Reasoning in semantic spaces Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces Conceptual spaces in linguistics and natural language processing Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science Modelling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing and cognitive science Modelling so-called ?non-compositional? phenomena such as metaphor INVITED SPEAKERS Jennifer Culbertson, University of Edinburgh Andrea E. Martin, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen SPECIAL SESSION A special session will address 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 was originally planned to be held jointly with the Formal Grammar conference (http://fg.phil.hhu.de/2020/ ) which has been cancelled. We welcome papers that were submitted for the joint FG/SemSpace session as SemSpace submissions under the present CfP. SUBMISSIONS: Electronic submission of original contributions (up to 16 pages) of previously unpublished work. Submission of substantial, albeit partial results of work in progress is welcomed. Extended abstracts (3 pages) of previously published work that is recent and relevant to the workshop. These should include a link to a separately published paper or preprint. Contributions should be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semspace2020 In submitting your abstract, please indicate whether you intend your submission for the special session. A special issue of selected extended papers will be prepared following the workshop. Only original contributions will be considered for publication. Please send any queries to semspace2020 at easychair.org PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Bob Coecke, University of Oxford Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford Giuseppe Greco, Utrecht University Peter G?rdenfors, Lund University Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Peter Hines, University of York Alexander Kurz, Chapman University Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Department of Computer Science Dan Marsden, University of Oxford Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University Richard Moot, CNRS (LIRMM) & University of Montpellier Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii Emmanuel Pothos, City University London Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Oriol Valent?n, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Dominic Widdows, Grab Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Queen Mary University of London Gijs Wijnholds, Utrecht University Frank Zenker, Lund University ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.g.h.cockx at tudelft.nl Mon Apr 27 12:56:21 2020 From: j.g.h.cockx at tudelft.nl (Jesper Cockx) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:56:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two Assistant/Associate Professors in Programming Languages - TU Delft Message-ID: The TU Delft Department of Software Technology has open positions for two Assistant or Associate Professors in Programming Languages. Deadline for applications: July 15, 2020 Job Description We are seeking to strengthen the Delft Programming Languages research group with two ambitious and enthusiastic assistant or associate professors. The successful candidates are expected to contribute significantly to the research portfolio of the Programming Languages research group and are encouraged to develop their own research line in a viable and promising subfield of programming languages. We welcome applications from candidates in all subfields of programming languages, but we are particularly interested in the following topics: language engineering, compilers, programming systems, software verification, type systems, program analysis, program synthesis, programming languages for security, probabilistic programming, programming languages for AI, AI for programming languages. Responsibilities of the position will include: - Conducting high impact research in the area of programming languages - Supervising PhD students and helping them to become top researchers in programming languages - Teaching courses on programming and programming languages topics at the bachelor and master?s level in the TU Delft Computer Science curriculum - Supervising bachelor and master?s students in their graduation projects - Acquiring and managing externally funded research projects in programming languages - Collaborating with industry to ensure that the group?s research results have a lasting impact in software development practice - Strengthening the contacts between the group and industry as well as other international academic institutions - Taking responsibility for management and committee work within the section and the department Requirements Applicants must have a PhD degree in the broad field of programming languages, a proven track record of research excellence, the ambition to strengthen and expand the research and teaching of the programming languages research group, a team player mentality, and good communication and social skills. Preferably, the successful candidate has experience in teaching at university level. The Position For tenure track assistant professors: A tenure-track position is offered for six years. Based on performance indicators agreed upon at the start of the appointment, a decision will be made by the fifth year whether to offer you a permanent faculty position. For circumstances as having children or parental leave during the tenure track, it is possible to delay the definitive assessment and extend the Tenure Track appointment to a maximum of 8 years. For all positions: Each position comes with a start-up package including funding for research travel and a four year PhD student position. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. Coming to Delft Service and Partner Career Advice can support with advice for you and your accompanying partner about your individual settling needs in the Netherlands. Once arrived you can be supported with individual consults and diverse workshops. Located on campus are the International Children?s Centre and an international primary school which are subject to availability as well as several bilingual schools in the nearby surrounding. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. The TU Delft sets specific standards for the English competency of the teaching staff. The TU Delft offers training to improve English competency. Inspiring, excellent education is our central aim. If you have less than five years of experience and do not yet have your teaching certificate, you get the chance to obtain this within three years. The Organization The Programming Languages Research Group is an internationally leading research group in programming languages, and active in areas such as language engineering, language design, domain-specific languages, type systems, software verification, and program logics. The group is growing to five full-time faculty positions. The group is responsible for programming and programming languages education at the bachelor and master?s levels in the TU Delft Computer Science curriculum. The Software Technology (ST) Department is one of the leading Dutch departments in research and academic education in computer science, employing over 150 people. The ST Department is responsible for a large part of the curriculum of the bachelor?s and master?s programmes in Computer Science as well as the master?s programme Embedded Systems. The inspiration for its research topics is largely derived from technical ICT problems in industry and society related to large-scale distributed processing, embedded systems, programming productivity, and web-based information analysis. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) is known worldwide for its high academic quality and the societal relevance of its research programmes. Offering an international working environment, the faculty has more than 1100 employees (including about 500 PhD students) and more than 3000 bachelor?s and master?s students. Together they work on a broad range of technical innovations in the fields of electrical sustainable energy, microelectronics, intelligent systems, software technology, and applied mathematics. Additional Information For more information about the Delft PL group see http://pl.ewi.tudelft.nl. 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URL: From e at x80.org Mon Apr 27 13:56:55 2020 From: e at x80.org (=?utf-8?Q?Emilio_Jes=C3=BAs_Gallego_Arias?=) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:56:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Coq Workshop 2020: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <87imhkhkwo.fsf@x80.org> Dear all, the deadline for abstract submission for the Coq Workshop 2020 has been extended until Friday, May 1st, "Anywhere on Earth" New dates: - May 1st, 2020 (AoE): Deadline for abstract submission - May 25th, 2020: Notification to authors - July 5-6th 2020: Workshop [online] Find more information online at: https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/2020 Yours sincerely, 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 benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Mon Apr 27 17:21:59 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:21:59 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position at University of Birmingham, UK Message-ID: <1edd871a-887e-2087-6689-f8355a36d7bd@gmail.com> Dear All, I would like to invite applications for a fully-funded PhD position in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. Topics of interest include: * Syntax and semantics of type theory * Formalisation of mathematics in univalent foundations * Directed type theory * Algebraic specification of programming languages Students broadly interested in one of these fields of research, or a related field, are strongly encouraged to apply. Applicants should hold, or be about to obtain, a Masters or Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Mathematics. The PhD position is fully funded, covering tuition fees and a tax-free scholarship. Healthcare is provided. For further details please send me an email (b.ahrens at cs.bham.ac.uk) and see my website (https://benediktahrens.net). The theory group at Birmingham's School of Computer Science is very active, organising regular seminars and informal meetings, such as the YaMCATS category theory seminar, Midlands Graduate School, and Workshops on Univalent Mathematics. For more information see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/groupings/theory/. Information on how to apply is given on http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate-research/. However, interested candidates should contact me in the first instance. All the best, Benedikt Ahrens From sey19 at uclive.ac.nz Tue Apr 28 00:00:22 2020 From: sey19 at uclive.ac.nz (Simon Yusuf-Enoch) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 04:00:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: The 25th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2020) Message-ID: The 25th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2020) The University Club of Western Australia, Perth, Australia December 1-4, 2020 http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2020/ Call for papers PRDC 2020 is the twenty-fifth event in the series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing systems has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ? Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation ? Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools ? Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems ? Software aging and rejuvenation ? Safety-critical systems and software ? Architecture and system design for dependability ? Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols ? Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications ? Cloud computing security and privacy ? Software defined networks architectures and protocols ? Internet of things architectures, protocols, security and privacy ? Dependability issues in artificial intelligence and its applications ? Dependability issues in computer networks and communications ? Dependability issues in high performance computing ? Dependability issues in real-time systems ? Dependability issues in storage and databases systems ? Dependability issues in cyber-physical systems ? Dependability issues in socio-technical systems ? Dependability and security in machine learning systems ? Blockchain and smart contracts Submission and Publication Information Manuscripts should be submitted in the following two categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 10 pages using IEEE Computer Society camera-ready 8.5"x11" two-column format. Practical Experience Reports (max 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission website (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prdc2020). Please note that all submissions will undergo a double-blind review. Please ensure that you have removed any references that could lead to identifying the authors of the paper. Failure to do so may result in rejection of the paper regardless of the paper contributions. Papers will be reviewed internationally and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI Indexed). One outstanding paper will be selected to receive the Best Paper Award, and one outstanding paper first authored by a student will receive the Best Student Paper Award. Important Dates Submission: 18 July 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 22 August 2020 General Chair Jin B. 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URL: From mauro.jacopo at gmail.com Tue Apr 28 06:29:44 2020 From: mauro.jacopo at gmail.com (Jacopo Mauro) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:29:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SEFM - Deadline extension and move to virtual modality Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: SEFM - Deadline extension and move to virtual modality 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 NEW Abstract submission deadline: Sunday 24 May 2020 (AoE) NEW Paper submission deadline: Sunday 31 May 2020 (AoE) Paper notification: Friday 26 June 2020 Camera ready: Tuesday 7 July 2020 (AoE) SEFM 2020 WILL BE AN ENTIRELY VIRTUAL EVENT Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided that SEFM 2020 will not take place physically but will be replaced by a virtual event. As usual, a LNCS proceedings will be prepared and all accepted papers have to be presented at the virtual conference. How the virtual conference will be organised is still under consideration, e.g., live presentations and/or recorded ones. The paper selection process will however proceed as planned (apart from the above mentioned deadline extensions). 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 Oslo , Norway 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 Workshop Co-chairs 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 Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at Thu Apr 30 09:36:27 2020 From: Dejan.Nickovic at ait.ac.at (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Ni=E8kovi=E6_Dejan?=) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:36:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMICS'20 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] Call for Papers FMICS 2020: 25th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems Virtually held from Vienna, Austria, September 2-3, 2020 https://fmics20.ait.ac.at/ ------------------------- IMPORTANT INFO: Amid the recent COVID-19 situation, the organization committee decided that QONFEST 2020, including FMICS 2020, will be organized on-line. Accepted papers will be published as planned, by September 2020, but no physical meeting/presentations will take place. We plan that the authors will record their talks and discuss them with the conference participants online. In order to help the researchers accommodate to the new situation, we also decided to extend the submission deadlines by 2 weeks (see Important Dates). ------------------------- 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 with a panel in which the founders and previous chairpersons of the FMICS working group of ERCIM will act as panelists. They will recall the original motivation and beginning of FMICS, share some success stories, and present a study on the future of formal methods and their adoption in industry. QONFEST 2020: FMICS 2020 is part of the QONFEST umbrella conference comprising also CONCUR 2020, FORMATS 2020 and QEST 2020. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 22, 2020 Paper submission: May 29, 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. We note that the registration fees will be minor. 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 - Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund - 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... 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For more details, see https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-position-in-differential-and-probabilistic-programming-10-fte The deadline for applications is Monday, June 8, 2020, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. For all inquiries please contact Matthijs V?k?r (m.i.l.vakar at uu.nl) Kind regards, Matthijs ---------------------- https://www.uu.nl/staff/MILVakar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ariesco at fdi.ucm.es Wed Apr 29 01:10:32 2020 From: ariesco at fdi.ucm.es (ADRIAN RIESCO RODRIGUEZ) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:10:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WPTE 2020 - Deadline extension Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE 2020: 7th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (Virtually held in) Paris, France, June 29, 2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference website http://maude.ucm.es/wpte20/ Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2020 Submission deadline (extended) May 18, 2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** IMPORTANT UPDATE - WPTE WILL BE HELD AS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE *** FSCD - IJCAR and associated workshops will be held as Virtual Conferences. 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 (extended): May 18, 2020 Notification of acceptance (extended): June 5, 2020 Final version for proceedings deadline (extended): June 15, 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 subm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Formal Methods for the development of computer systems have been extensively researched and studied. We now have good theoretical understandings of how to describe what programs do, how they do it, and why they work. A range of semantic theories, specification languages, design techniques, verification methods, and supporting tools have been developed and applied to the construction of programs of moderate size that are used in critical applications. The remaining challenge now is how to deal with problems in developing and maintaining large scale and complex computer systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to help advance state of the art. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible engineering benefits. Scope and Topics: Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal engineering methods and their practical applications will also be considered: ? Abstraction, refinement and evolution ? Formal specification and modelling ? Formal verification and analysis ? Model checking ? Formal approaches to software testing and inspection ? Formal methods for self-adaptive systems ? Formal methods for object-oriented systems ? Formal methods for component-based systems ? Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems ? Formal methods for cloud computing ? Formal methods for cyber-physical systems ? Formal methods for software safety and security ? Formal methods for software reliability and dependability ? Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems ? Formal certification of products under international standards ? Formal model-based development and code generation Submission and Publication: Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2020 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem20 Workshop or tutorial proposals should be directly sent to the Workshop Chair via email. Each proposal should include (1) title, scope, and aims, (2) brief bio of the organizer or lecturer, and (3) postal and email addresses. Organising Committee: General Chair Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Program Co-Chairs Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Finance Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Workshop Chair Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chair Lei Ma, Kyushu University, Japan Program Committee Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France ?tienne Andr?, Univesrity of Lorraine, France Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yean-Ru Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ranald Clouston, Australian National University, Australia Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Jeremy Dawson, Australian National University, Australia Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Australia Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Marc Frappier, Universit? de Sherbrooke, Canada Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Xudong He, Florida International University, United States Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China Brendan Mahony, DSTO, Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Dominique Mery, Universit? de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain David Sanan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia Meng Sun, Peking University, China Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From i.hasuo at acm.org Wed Apr 29 03:26:57 2020 From: i.hasuo at acm.org (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:26:57 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFEM'20 deadline extended to 17th May 2020 Message-ID: --------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2020), 2-6 November 2020, Singapore (subject to changes, including backup options such as postponing the conference or hosting it online). http://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2020/ Extended deadlines: Full Paper Submissions Due: 17 May 2020 (AoE) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due: 20 March 2020 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 5 July 2020 Camera-ready Due: 17 July 2020 Since 1997, ICFEM provides a forum for both researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing practical formal methods for software engineering or applying existing formal techniques to improve software development process in practice systems. Formal Methods for the development of computer systems have been extensively researched and studied. We now have good theoretical understandings of how to describe what programs do, how they do it, and why they work. A range of semantic theories, specification languages, design techniques, verification methods, and supporting tools have been developed and applied to the construction of programs of moderate size that are used in critical applications. The remaining challenge now is how to deal with problems in developing and maintaining large scale and complex computer systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to help advance state of the art. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible engineering benefits. Scope and Topics: Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal engineering methods and their practical applications will also be considered: ? Abstraction, refinement and evolution ? Formal specification and modelling ? Formal verification and analysis ? Model checking ? Formal approaches to software testing and inspection ? Formal methods for self-adaptive systems ? Formal methods for object-oriented systems ? Formal methods for component-based systems ? Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems ? Formal methods for cloud computing ? Formal methods for cyber-physical systems ? Formal methods for software safety and security ? Formal methods for software reliability and dependability ? Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems ? Formal certification of products under international standards ? Formal model-based development and code generation Submission and Publication: Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2020 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem20 Workshop or tutorial proposals should be directly sent to the Workshop Chair via email. Each proposal should include (1) title, scope, and aims, (2) brief bio of the organizer or lecturer, and (3) postal and email addresses. Organising Committee: General Chair Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Program Co-Chairs Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Finance Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Workshop Chair Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chair Lei Ma, Kyushu University, Japan Program Committee Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France ?tienne Andr?, Univesrity of Lorraine, France Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yean-Ru Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ranald Clouston, Australian National University, Australia Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Jeremy Dawson, Australian National University, Australia Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Australia Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Marc Frappier, Universit? de Sherbrooke, Canada Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Xudong He, Florida International University, United States Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China Brendan Mahony, DSTO, Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Dominique Mery, Universit? de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain David Sanan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia Meng Sun, Peking University, China Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway ====== Ichiro Hasuo Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics i.hasuo at acm.org Secretaries: hasuolab-secr at nii.ac.jp http://group-mmm.org/~ichiro/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ross.horne at uni.lu Thu Apr 30 11:45:54 2020 From: ross.horne at uni.lu (Ross James HORNE) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:45:54 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD studentship in Privacy, Security and Trust, in Luxembourg Message-ID: <34acefb421e14656952a8025ffeac4cb@uni.lu> 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. This is an area where type systems and related formal methods play a prominent role. Hence we encourage applicants with a strong theoretical background in these areas. Terms: full time and fully funded for duration of study Start date: From 15 June 2020, negotiable Apply here (CV + research statement required): http://emea3.mrted.ly/2g9oy COVID-19 arrangements: Applications should be submitted ASAP due to possible HR delays. There is a possibility for EU citizens to start remotely. Non-EU citizens, will first need to have a residence permit approved and delivered, which is currently an unpredictable process. 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 2019 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, 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 S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk Fri May 1 03:57:36 2020 From: S.J.Thompson at kent.ac.uk (Simon Thompson) Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 08:57:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Erlang MOOC running free from Monday 4 April Message-ID: <89DAA1B3-52B0-48C8-BE02-FF6B7D2A934D@kent.ac.uk> A MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Functional Programming in Erlang will be available from 4 May 2020 on the FutureLearn platform. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/functional-programming-erlang The course is free and designed for anyone with prior programming experience, whether self-taught or professional. This is followed in late June by a second MOOC on Concurrent Programming in Erlang. We combine the theory of functional programming and the practice of how that works in Erlang. The course will also help you if you are interested in Elixir, based on the same virtual machine as Erlang, and will help you get going with any functional language. You?ll learn with Simon Thompson ? co-author of one of the standard introductions to Erlang, O?Reilly Media?s Erlang Programming. Simon is joined by Francesco Cesarini, of Erlang Solutions, and Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of Erlang. This University of Kent designed course will teach theory and practice, through practical exercises and suggested projects and includes: ? Getting started programming in Erlang ? Programs and functions in Erlang ? Data structures using lists ? Tools for Erlang programming ? Functions as data, and higher-order functions ? Case studies The MOOC is supported by the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation and Erlang Solutions Ltd, as well as the University of Kent. We look forward to you joining! Simon Simon Thompson | Emeritus Professor of Logic and Computation School of Computing | University of Kent | Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK s.j.thompson at kent.ac.uk | M +44 7986 085754 | W www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~sjt From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Fri May 1 05:47:24 2020 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 09:47:24 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WFLP 2020 CFP (Workshop on Functional and Constraint Logic Programming) Message-ID: <3a42f551ce77eddd3d13e4e42ec0903ac2b9785e.camel@unibo.it> ========================== WFLP 2020: Call for Papers ========================== 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming ## Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the workshop will be organized by ## the University of Bologna, but it will be held entirely on-line. Bologna, Italy, September 7th, 2020 (part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020; co-located with PPDP, LOPSTR, Microservices) Important Dates Paper Registration: June, 29th Submission: July, 06th Notification of Authors: July, 27th Camera-ready Papers: August, 24th Conference & Workshops: September 7th, 2020 WFLP 2020 The international Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP) aims at bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners interested in functional programming, logic programming, and their integration. WFLP has a reputation for being a lively and friendly forum, and it is open for presenting and discussing work in progress, technical contributions, experience reports, experiments, reviews, and system descriptions. The 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2020) will be organized by the University of Bologna, Italy, as part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020 and it will be held entirely on-line due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previous WFLP editions were WFLP 2019 (Cottbus, Germany), WFLP 2018 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), WFLP 2017 (W?rzburg, Germany), WFLP 2016 (Leipzig, Germany), WFLP 2014 (Wittenberg, Germany), WFLP 2013 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2012 (Nagoya, Japan), WFLP 2011 (Odense, Denmark), WFLP 2010 (Madrid, Spain), WFLP 2009 (Brasilia, Brazil), WFLP 2008 (Siena, Italy), WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany). Topics The topics of interest cover all aspects of functional and logic programming. They include (but are not limited to): * Functional programming * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Deductive databases, data mining * Extensions of declarative languages, objects * Multi-paradigm declarative programming * Foundations, semantics, non-monotonic reasoning, dynamics * Parallelism, concurrency * Program analysis, abstract interpretation * Program and model manipulation * Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming * Specification, * Verification * Debugging * Testing * Knowledge representation, machine learning * Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms * Implementation of declarative languages * Advanced programming environments and tools * Software techniques for declarative programming * Applications The primary focus is on new and original research results, but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and experience reports are also welcome. Papers must be written and presented in English. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submission Guidelines Submission is via Easychair submission website for WFLP 2020: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2020 Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: + Regular research paper + Work-in-progress report + System description Regular research papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been formally published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with formal proceedings. They will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. For work-in-progress reports and system descriptions, less formal rules apply, and presentation-only submissions (talk and discussion, but no paper in the formal proceedings) are possible. Please contact the PC chair with any questions. All submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. However, all submissions (especially work-in-progress reports and system descriptions) may be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Proceedings All papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published in informal proceedings publicly available at the Computing Research Repository. According to the program committee reviews, submissions can be directly accepted for publication in the formal post-conference proceedings. The formal post-conference proceedings will be published in both electronic and paper formats by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, all authors accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the conference. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Therefore, all accepted papers will be published in open-access, and the authors can also decide to publish their work in the Springer LNCS formal proceedings. Program Committee Sergio Antoy (Portland State University, USA) Demis Ballis (University of Udine, Italy) Moreno Falaschi (Universit? di Siena, Italy) Michael Hanus (University of Kiel, Germany) (Co-Chair) Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster, Germany) Dale Miller (INRIA and LIX/?cole Polytechnique) Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) (Co-Chair) Konstantinos Sagonas (Uppsala University, Sweden) Enrico Tassi (INRIA, France) Janis Voigtl?nder (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig, Germany) Organizing Committee Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) (Co-Chair) -- Prof. Claudio Sacerdoti Coen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna From woortwijn at inf.ethz.ch Fri May 1 06:03:42 2020 From: woortwijn at inf.ethz.ch (Oortwijn Wytse) Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 10:03:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FTfJP 2020 - Deadline Extended Message-ID: # DEADLINE EXTENDED - CALL FOR PAPERS Extended submission deadline: Friday 8 May (AoE) 22st Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP 2020) https://2020.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2020-papers Co-located with ECOOP 2020, July 13-17, Berlin, Germany ## About FTfJP 2020 Formal techniques can help analyse programs, precisely describe program behaviour, and verify program properties. Modern programming languages are interesting targets for formal techniques due to their ubiquity and wide user base, stable and well-defined interfaces and platforms, and powerful (but also complex) libraries. New languages and applications in this space are continually arising, resulting in new programming languages (PL) research challenges. Work on formal techniques and tools and on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. FTfJP is an established workshop which has run annually since 1999 alongside ECOOP, with the goal of bringing together people working in both fields. The workshop has a broad PL theme; the most important criterion is that submissions will generate interesting discussions within this community. The term ?Java-like? is somewhat historic and should be interpreted broadly: FTfJP solicits and welcomes submission relating to programming languages in general, beyond Java, C#, Scala, etc. Example topics of interest include: * Language design and semantics * Type systems * Concurrency and new application domains * Specification and verification of program properties * Program analysis (static or dynamic) * Program synthesis * Security * Pearls (programs or proofs) FTfJP welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers. ## Submissions Contributions are sought in two categories: * Full Papers (6 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. We welcome both complete and incomplete technical results; ongoing work is particularly welcome, provided it is substantial enough to stimulate interesting discussions. * Short Papers (2 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, or otherwise present a position likely to stimulate discussion at the workshop. We encourage e.g. established researchers to set out a personal vision, and beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. ## Formatting and Publication Submissions should be in acmart/sigplan style, 10pt font. 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The ICFP Organizing Committee From eliasca at kth.se Sat May 2 16:41:35 2020 From: eliasca at kth.se (Elias Castegren) Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 20:41:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline: IWACO 2020 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <6E1065B3-D6A5-4519-A130-24E0876D9527@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 8th, 2020 (Updated) 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 8th. 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) From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Sun May 3 12:20:53 2020 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 17:20:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CfP: Applied Category Theory Conference (ACT2020) In-Reply-To: References: 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. 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A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton by 31st May 2020: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. 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From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Mon May 4 10:09:38 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Rozman, Mihaela) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 14:09:38 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final call for contributions for the virtual WiL 2020 (4th Women in Logic Worskhop collocated with Petri Nets, IJCAR etc) In-Reply-To: <1588601210994.96841@tuwien.ac.at> References: <35034549-A2C0-4B94-BD65-326F62D92519@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, <1588600944041.78550@tuwien.ac.at>, <1588600989622.30446@tuwien.ac.at>, <1588601171806.43174@tuwien.ac.at>, <1588601210994.96841@tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: <1588601378508.85512@tuwien.ac.at> (Deadline approaching, last chance to submit a contribution.) (Please consider sharing this piece of information among the nodes in your network.) (Apologies for cross-posting.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at FSCD-IJCAR 2020? 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 May 10, 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 virtual 30 June 2020 https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, 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 * Maribel Fern?ndez (Kings College London) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 10, 2020 Notification: June 2, 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 May 10, 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... 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URAs will be expected to help develop software and evaluation methods, and will have the opportunity to be co-authors on publications. Specific goals of this project are to develop network and programming architectures for security and privacy in distributed, federated machine learning applications, as an instance of edge computing in IoT settings. The project period is 5/25/20-8/21/20, with $8,000 in stipend support for the Summer. To apply, send your cv and a current copy of your transcript to christian.skalka at uvm.edu and joe.near at uvm.edu. Applicants must be US citizens and full-time undergraduate students, preferably in Computer Science or a related field. ---------------------------------------------------- Christian Skalka Professor and Chair, Computer Science The University of Vermont http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~ceskalka -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de Mon May 4 12:35:24 2020 From: andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de (Andreas Abel) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 18:35:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2020 Final 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/~abela/ppdp20/), hosted 8-10 September 2020 by the University of Bologna, Italy. **Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PPDP 2020 will take place online. The submission, review, and publication process is unaffected. However, short extensions are available on request.** TL;DR Abstract deadline: 11 May; paper deadline: 15 May; extensions available. 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 virtually hosted by the University of Bologna, Italy, co-organized 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 ---------------------------- **Due to the shift to an online event, registration fees will be decreased to cover only the costs of publication and online event hosting.** At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to register 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 --------------- The organizers appreciate that potential authors may be disadvantaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting disruption. **To encourage submissions, short extensions are available on request.** To request an extension, please register an abstract before the abstract deadline and write to the PC chair before the submission deadline explaining the circumstances and duration of the extension. -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- 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: 21 July 2020 Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020 -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Organization ------------ ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee chairs: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh Steering committee chair: James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee ----------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Abel (co-chair) Gothenburg University, SE Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, JP James Cheney (co-chair) The University of Edinburgh, UK Ugo Dal Lago University of Bologna, IT & INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm, DE Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel, DE Jacob Howe City, University of London, UK Fred Mesnard Universit? de la R?union, FR Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK David Sabel Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, DE Claudio Sacerdoti Coen University of Bologna, IT Ulrich Sch?pp fortiss GmbH, DE Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE Christine Tasson Universit? Paris Diderot & IRIF, FR Peter Van Roy Universit? catholique de Louvain, BE ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ From a.scalas at aston.ac.uk Mon May 4 13:07:17 2020 From: a.scalas at aston.ac.uk (Alceste Scalas) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 18:07:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3rd CfP: 13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2020) Message-ID: CALL FOR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND SHORT PAPERS 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 oral communications of already published or preliminary work * Deadlines: 8 May (abstract submission), 11 May (paper submission) * 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. 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) === * 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 === 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. NOTE: the deadline for research papers has passed * 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. 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. === 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 gtan at cse.psu.edu Tue May 5 22:32:56 2020 From: gtan at cse.psu.edu (Gang (Gary) Tan) Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 22:32:56 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation, LangSec 2020, May 21st, on Zoom Message-ID: Call for Participation Sixth Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) Affiliated with 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) May 21st, 2020. On Zoom. LangSec was founded to bring together researchers who were interested in the language-theoretic approach to software security (LangSec).? We are glad to announce the program of LangSec 2020, featuring two keynotes by David Walker from Princeton University and Jeremy Yallop from University of Cambridge. The full program also includes two invited talks and a number of technical talks, with detailed information at the following website: http://spw20.langsec.org/workshop-program.html Registration fee for general attendance (including the full IEEE S&P conference and all workshops) is only $25: http://spw20.langsec.org/registration-info.html -- Gang (Gary) Tan Associate Professor Penn State CSE and ICS W358 Westgate Building http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29 Tel:814-8657364 From bernardobruno at gmail.com Wed May 6 06:59:01 2020 From: bernardobruno at gmail.com (Bruno Bernardo) Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:59:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMBC 2020: 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (3rd CfP, Deadline Extension) Message-ID: <42e87b03-040e-6c6c-9878-36bc1f33c07b@gmail.com> [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ======================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2020 - Third Call https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2020 July 19, 2020 Co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020) http://i-cav.org/2020/ *Due do the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop is likely to be held online.* ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- Abstract submission: May 12, 2020 (extended) Full paper submission: May 19, 2020 (extended) Notification: June 23, 2020 (extended) Camera-ready: July 14, 2020 (extended) Conference: July 19, 2020 Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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 The authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and the EasyChair style files: https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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, published as a volume of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) by Dagstuhl. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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) * Andrew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) * 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) From jeannin at umich.edu Tue May 5 20:33:38 2020 From: jeannin at umich.edu (Jean-Baptiste Jeannin) Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 20:33:38 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Verification Mentoring Workshop 2020: Call for scholarship applications Message-ID: Verification Mentoring Workshop (VMW 2020) http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ co-located with CAV 2020 20 July 2020 Los Angeles, California, USA APPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS We warmly invite eligible students to apply for scholarships to attend the Verification Mentoring Workshop and CAV. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2020. Applications are received via the form at https://forms.gle/5Nk61at9juHqVTDL8 ABOUT VMW The purpose of the Verification Mentoring Workshop is to provide mentoring and career advice to early-stage graduate students, to attract them to pursue research careers in the area of computer-aided verification. The workshop will particularly encourage participation of women and underrepresented minorities. The workshop program will include a number of talks and interactive sessions. The talks will give an overview of the field along with brief introductions to the varied topics highlighted at CAV 2020. Other talks will provide mentoring and career advice, from academia and industry. More information can be found at http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ Please note that the scholarships this year may not cover travel, depending on how the current situation evolves. All students interested in attending VMW 2020 should still apply for scholarships and watch http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ for further updates. SPEAKERS Erika ?brah?m, RWTH Aachen University Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rupak Majudar, MPI-SWS Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research In case of questions, please contact the organizers Roopsha Samanta (chair) Rayna Dimitrova Jean-Baptiste Jeannin James R. Wilcox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Wed May 6 10:34:31 2020 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 10:34:31 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Online seminars in functional programming @ Chalmers Message-ID: <42542A50-6182-44D5-AB8F-2159A095809E@cis.upenn.edu> The folks at Chalmers have just put together an online seminar series in Functional Programming?details here: http://chalmersfp.org . 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The main task will be to pursue research leading to a dissertation. The position comes with teaching obligations of 2 hours per semester. The minimum gross salary (stipulated by collective agreement) for this position amounts to ? 1.465 per month (14 times). The official job advert (code MIP-11245) appeared at http://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=11245 Applications (including CV, list of presentations, motivation letter, possible research topics) must be submitted electronically at https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.bewerben?page=w&a_id=11245 We look forward to receiving your online application (code MIP 11245) until May 27, 2020 Informal inquiries may be addressed to aart.middeldorp at uibk.ac.at The city of Innsbruck, which hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and 1976, is superbly located in the beautiful surroundings of the Tyrolean Alps. The combination of the Alpine environment and urban life in this historic town provides a high quality of living. Further information is available from the following links: Computational Logic: http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/ University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ City of Innsbruck: http://www.innsbruck.at/ From comar at umich.edu Wed May 6 17:12:56 2020 From: comar at umich.edu (Cyrus Omar) Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 17:12:56 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TyDe 2020 - Final Call for Papers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Workshop on Type-Driven Development (TyDe 2020) Co-Located with ICFP 2020 (Online) https://icfp20.sigplan.org/home/tyde-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Goals of the workshop The workshop on Type-Driven Development aims to show how static type information may be used effectively in the development of computer programs. Co-located with ICFP, this workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners who are using or exploring types as a means of program development. We welcome all contributions, both theoretical and practical, on a range of topics including: - dependently typed programming; - generic programming; - design and implementation of programming languages, exploiting types in novel ways; - exploiting typed data, data dependent data, or type providers; - static and dynamic analyses of typed programs; - tools, IDEs, or testing tools exploiting type information; - pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of types used in the derivation, calculation, or construction of programs. # Coronavirus Update (2020-5-2) Due to the coronavirus pandemic, TyDe will be held online alongside ICFP. We will strive to accommodate authors from all time zones, e.g. by allowing pre-recorded videos or by spreading out the talks throughout the day, following the lead of the main conference. Updates will be posted on the website and sent to all authors of submitted papers as they become available. # Program Committee - Bob Atkey, Strathclyde University (UK) - Sandrine Blazy, IRISA (FR) - Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP) - Nils Anders Danielsson, Gothenburg University/Chalmers (SE) - Larry Diehl, Symbiont (USA) - Favonia, University of Michigan (USA) - Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University (JP) - Ranjit Jhala, UCSD (USA) - Dan Licata, Wesleyan University (USA) - James McKinna, LFCS, University of Edinburgh (UK) (PC Co-chair) - Cyrus Omar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) (PC Co-chair) - Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University (NL) # Proceedings and Copyright We will have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance, but may retain copyright if they wish. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, and so forth). The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. 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. # Submission details Submissions should fall into one of two categories: - regular research papers (12 pages) - extended abstracts (2 pages) The bibliography will not be counted against the page limits for either category. Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results, and will be included in the formal proceedings. 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Regardless of the final decision, the virtual presentation will be offered as option. * In order to help the researchers accommodate to the new situation, we also decided to extend the submission deadlines by 3 weeks (see Important Dates). 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 shall be sent by email to the PC Chairs and 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: June 8, 2020 Paper submission: June 15, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The SAS 2020 organisation committee is carefully watching the COVID-19 situation and will take all possible measures to ensure the safety of participants on one side and the success of the conference on the other. Authors that cannot present at the conference due to the pandemic will be allowed to present their work virtually. 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 shiloviis at mail.ru Sun May 10 07:50:23 2020 From: shiloviis at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?U2hpbG92IE5pa29sYXk=?=) Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:50:23 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Papers_-_PSSV-2020=3A_XI_Wor?= =?utf-8?q?kshop_Program_Semantics=2C_Specification_and_Verification?= Message-ID: <1589111423.661720346@f221.i.mail.ru> XI Workshop Program Semantics, Specification and Verification (Theory and Applications)? will be held November 3-4, 2020, in Moscow, hopefully - offline (but actual format is to be decide) PSSV-2020 workshop' page: https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020 History of PSSV via past web-pages: PSSV-2010-2016 workshops' pages: http://pssv-conf.ru PSSV-2017 workshop' page: http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2017 PSSV-2018 workshop' page: http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2018 PSSV-2019 workshop' page: http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2019 PSSV Scope and Topics Research, work in progress, position and student papers were welcome. List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): * formalisms for program semantics; * formal models and semantics of programs and systems; * semantics of programming and specification languages; * formal description techniques; * logics for formal specification and verification; * deductive program verification; * automatic theorem proving; * model checking of programs and systems; * static analysis of programs; * formal approach to testing and validation; * program analysis and verification tools. PSSV-2020 Program Committee: * Natasha Alechina (Utrecht University, Netherlands), * Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK), * Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia), * Igor Konnov (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France, to be confirmed), * Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia), * Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia), * Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK), * Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia), * Sergey Staroletov (Polzunov Altai State Technical University, Barnaul, Russia), * Nina Yevtushenko (Tomsk State University and Institute for System Programming, RAS, Moscow, Russia). PSSV-2020 Program Co-Chairs: * Nikolay Shilov (Innopolis University, Russia, shiloviis(at)mail.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (Moscow State University, Russia, zakh(at)cs.msu.su) PSSV Steering Committee: * Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia, vnep(at)iis.nsk.su) * Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, valery-sokolov(at)yandex.ru) PSSV-2020 Local Organizing Committee (Higher School of Economics - National Research University) * Irina Lomazova (ilomazova(at)hse.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (zakh(at)cs.msu.su) Types of Submissions and Publications Program Committee solicites? * regular research submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, LNCS style) in English (additional details could be included in an appendix up to 4 pages for Program Committee), each regular research submission will be reviewed by 3 PC members; * work in progress, position, poster and student papers (up to 4 pages), each of these submissions will be reviewed by a PC member. Right now Easy Chair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2020 is open for regular paprs. All accepted papers will be published before the workshop (format and venue TBD) Selected revised and extended papers have been published after the workshop in Russian peer-review journal Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems (https://www.mais-journal.ru). We expect (as it was in the previous years of the PSSV) that English translations of some of these selected papers will appear next year in Automatic Control and Computer Sciences(http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11950) (indexed by WoS and Scopus). Important dates: * regular research submissions (extended abstracts) - September 14, 2020; * notification for regular submissions - October 12, 2020; * decision about workshop format (offline or online) - October 12, 2020; * short submissions (abstracts of work in progress, position papers and posters) - October 19, 2020; * notification for short submissions - October 26, 2020; * final versions of regular research submissions (for pre-proceedings) - October 26, 2020; * worksop (offline or online) - November 3-4, 2020; * invitations of selected talks to post proceedings - November (TBD), 2020. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roberto.blanco at inria.fr Sun May 10 11:36:18 2020 From: roberto.blanco at inria.fr (Roberto Blanco) Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:36:18 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Spanish summer school on software verification (July 13-17) Message-ID: <475728de-2d79-5809-ecf4-a89afd62ef21@inria.fr> Call for participation / expression of interest Software foundations: introduction to verified programming Summer School of the University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain) 13-17 July 2020 (adjustments possible, please see below) General information (in Spanish): https://cursosextraordinarios.unizar.es/curso/2020/fundamentos-del-software-introduccion-la-programacion-verificada Register to participate or receive information until 31 May 2020 (in Spanish): https://cursosextraordinarios.unizar.es/formulario-inscripcion The University of Zaragoza organizes its annual interdisciplinary summer school, the oldest in Spain, this year entering its 93rd edition. As part of its program, we are happy to present a week-long course offering a hands-on introduction to practical program verification and security, making intensive use of the Coq proof assistant. To our knowledge, this is the first such initiative to introduce the practice of this exciting field to audiences in Spain. The course is open to a wide range of participants, from students (advanced undergraduates and up) to industry and academic professionals. Lectures will be held in Spanish. We invite potential participants to signal their interest by registering to participate or receive information about the course via the website of the summer school through May. In the first week of June, the university will assess interest in the course and determine the final conditions in which it can be held, which may include changes to the course dates according to public health guidelines. Course organizers: - Roberto Blanco (Inria Paris / MPI for Cyber Security and Privacy) - Ricardo J. Rodr?guez (University of Zaragoza) Additional information (materials, funding, sponsors, etc.; in Spanish): https://robblanco.github.io/teaching/unizar2020/ From benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Sun May 10 22:25:46 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 22:25:46 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF'20) on July 5-6, 2020 Message-ID: Quick info: - HoTT/UF 2020 will take place online on July 5-6, 2020 - 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 ohad.kammar at ed.ac.uk Mon May 11 13:38:50 2020 From: ohad.kammar at ed.ac.uk (Ohad Kammar) Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 18:38:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [HOPE'20] DEADLINE EXTENSION: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects (co-organised with ICFP'20) Message-ID: We solicit proposals for contributed talks. We recommend preparing proposals of at most 2 pages, in either plain text or PDF format. However, we will accept longer proposals or submissions to other conferences, under the understanding that PC members are only expected to read the first two pages of such longer submissions. When submitting talk proposals, authors should specify how long a talk the speaker wishes to give. By default, contributed talks will be 30 minutes long, but proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a full paper, talk slides) if they desire, which PC members are free (but not expected) to read. We are interested in talks on all topics related to the interaction of higher-order programming and computational effects. Talks about work in progress are particularly encouraged. If you have any questions about the relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs, Filip Sieczkowski (efes at cs.uni.wroc.pl) and Ohad Kammar (ohad.kammar at ed.ac.uk). ### Invited speaker Paul Blain Levy, University of Birmingham. ### Covid-19 Updates 1) Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, HOPE will take place online **only**. 2) After a hiatus of 1 year, we were hoping to use submission and participation data as surrogate measure for the community of, and the need for, the HOPE workshop. Since the Covid-19 situation may well skew those numbers, please do get in touch with the PC chairs with any input about the future of HOPE. ### Important Dates * Deadline for talk proposals: **May 18th, 2020** (Monday) [EXTENDED] * Notification of acceptance: **June 15th, 2020** (Monday) * Workshop: **August 23rd, 2020** (Sunday) ### Submission Link The submission website is now open: https://hope20.hotcrp.com/ Programme committee: Malgorzata Biernacka University of Wroclaw Rapha?lle Crubill? Paul Downen University of Oregon Francesco Gavazzo University of Bologna Sergey Goncharov FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg Jacques-Henri Jourdan Universersit? Paris Saclay Ohad Kammar (co-chair) University of Edinburgh Daan Leijen Microsoft Research Agata Murawska University of Copenhagen Filip Sieczkowski (co-chair) University of Wroc?aw The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Tue May 12 06:38:13 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Rozman, Mihaela) Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 10:38:13 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Several Open PhD Positions in the doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS) in Austria ***Deadline: June 12, 2020*** In-Reply-To: <1589279811587.88819@tuwien.ac.at> References: <1589276960667.70264@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589277402537.60696@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589278114759.18565@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589278319523.67973@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589278665408.46181@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589278848743.34475@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589279176787.28234@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589279569654.99233@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589279580452.81248@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589279657139.90162@tuwien.ac.at>, <1589279811587.88819@tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: <1589279892918.21568@tuwien.ac.at> {With apologies for cross-posting, please see below for information and thank you for a possible share among your network nodes} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) TU Graz (Graz University of Technology), and JKU Linz (Johannes Kepler University), are seeking highly qualified candidates for the joint doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). We are recruiting up to 12 doctoral candidates for a starting period of 3 years, with a negotiable starting date. Deadline: June 12, 2020 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The PhD program focuses on interdisciplinary research topics covering ? computational logic, and applications of logic to ? databases and artificial intelligence, ? computer-aided verification, ? security and privacy, ? cyber-physical systems, as well as to ? distributed systems. ______________________________________________________ THE PROGRAM ______________________________________________________ Our PhD program LogiCS is focusing on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful applicants will work with and be mentored by leading researchers in the fields of computational logic, databases and knowledge representation, computer-aided verification, security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, and distributed systems. The LogiCS doctoral program offers top research expertise, and a stimulating and supportive environment. The LogiCS is coordinated by TU Wien, which offers an outstanding research environment and numerous professional development opportunities. The Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien is the largest one in Austria and is consistently ranked among the best in Europe. The founding body of the LogiCS, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), offers multiple funding opportunities for young researchers to advance their independent scientific careers. ______________________________________________________ FACULTY MEMBERS ______________________________________________________ - M. Bartocci - A. Biere - R. Bloem - A. Ciabattoni - T. Eiter - G. Gottlob - R. Grosu - L. Kovacs - M. Maffei - M. Ortiz - U. Schmid - M. Seidl - S. Szeider - G. Weissenbacher - S. Woltran The LogiCS faculty comprises 15 renowned researchers with strong records in research, teaching and advising, complemented by 15 associated members who further strengthen the research and teaching activities of the college. ______________________________________________________ POSITIONS AND FUNDING ______________________________________________________ * We are looking for 12 very strong doctoral students. * The doctoral positions are funded for at least 3 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). (30 hours per week/ 39.000 EUR gross/year) * The funding can be extended for one additional year contingent on a placement at one of our international partner institutions. * The location of the research post is Vienna, Graz or Linz, Austria. ______________________________________________________ SEEKING CANDIDATES FOR THE CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS ______________________________________________________ At the moment we are particularly looking for candidates interested in the following areas: * Automated Software Verification * Description Logics * Epistemic logic in distributed computing * Game-based Semantics * Fixed-Parameter Algorithms and Complexity * Formal Verification of hybrid systems * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Model Checking * Modeling and analysis of digital integrated circuits * Normative Reasoning * Ontology-based Data Access * Security and Privacy * Scheduling and logic programming * Study of the Interaction between rules from a knowledge base and rules arising from machine learning * Topology in distributed computing * Quantified Boolean Formulas ______________________________________________________ HOW TO APPLY ______________________________________________________ Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS web-page: https://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ * The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent diploma or master?s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. * Candidates with comparable achievements will be considered on a case-by-case basis. * Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. Application Deadline: June 12, 2020 ______________________________________________________ LOGIC IN AUSTRIA ______________________________________________________ Austria has a highly active and successful logic in the computer science community. Recent activities include: Austrian Research Network in Rigorous Systems Engineering - http://www.arise.or.at Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms - http://www.vcla.at International Kurt Goedel Society - http://www.kgs.logic.at ______________________________________________________ HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE ______________________________________________________ The Austrian cities Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps and surrounded by beautiful nature, provide an exceptionally high quality of life, with a vibrant cultural scene, numerous cultural events, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, a varied cuisine and famous coffee houses. If you decide to be located in Vienna, the city features a vibrant and excellence-driven research landscape, with several leading research institutes (e.g., University of Vienna, IST, AIT, SBA) and universities continuously establishing collaborations in various fields. Finally, Vienna has been consistently ranked by Mercer over the last years the best city for quality of life worldwide. ______________________________________________________ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ______________________________________________________ LogiCS web-page: https://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ For further information please contact: info at logic-cs.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bart.jacobs at cs.kuleuven.be Tue May 12 11:08:12 2020 From: bart.jacobs at cs.kuleuven.be (Bart Jacobs) Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 17:08:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Professor Positions in Secure Systems, Software Engineering at KU Leuven Message-ID: Dear all, Here at KU Leuven, we have two open professor positions: - a Research Professor (tenure track or tenured, assistant/associate/regular/full) in Secure Systems (deadline 18 September 2020) - a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Software Engineering (deadline 15 October 2020) In both cases, your group will be part of the DistriNet research group of the Department of Computer Science. For both calls, the topic is to be construed broadly; programming languages research is very much in scope. https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55627646 https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/55579725 https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be Best regards, Bart From marco.vassena at cispa.saarland Tue May 12 12:25:49 2020 From: marco.vassena at cispa.saarland (Vassena, Marco) Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 16:25:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS'20) Message-ID: <0909B17C-FE7C-499E-AE69-C82388791336@cispa.saarland> Dear colleagues, PLAS is calling for paper submissions at the intersection of programming languages and security. See below for further details. ACM SIGSAC 15th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2020) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday November 13, 2020 - Orlando, USA (Co-located with ACM CCS 2020) http://plas.ws/ PLAS provides a forum for exploring and evaluating the use of programming language and program analysis techniques for promoting security in the complete range of software systems, from compilers to machine-learned models and smart contracts. The workshop encourages proposals of new, speculative ideas, evaluations of new or known techniques in practical settings, and discussions of emerging threats and problems. We also host position papers that are radical, forward-looking, and lead to lively and insightful discussions, influential to the future research at the intersection of programming languages and security. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: - *NEW THIS YEAR*: Language-based techniques for detecting and eliminating side-channel vulnerabilities - Programming language techniques and verification applied to security in other domains (e.g. adversarial learning and smart contracts) - Software isolation techniques (e.g., SFI and sandboxing) and compiler-based hardening techniques (e.g, secure compilation) - Compiler-based security mechanisms (e.g. security type systems) or runtime-based security mechanisms (e.g. inline reference monitors) - Techniques for discovering and detecting security vulnerabilities, including program (binary) analysis and fuzzing - Automated introduction and/or verification of security enforcement mechanisms - Language-based verification of security properties in software, including verification of cryptographic protocols - Specifying and enforcing security policies for information flow and access control - Model-driven approaches to security - Security concerns for Web programming languages - Language design for security in new domains such as cloud computing and IoT - Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques * Call for Papers ----------------------- We invite both full papers and short papers. For short papers we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well as short papers covering ongoing and future work. Full and short paper presentations will have equal time slots. * Full papers should be at most 11 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references and appendices. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. * Short papers should be at most 3 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category, as are papers presenting preliminary and exploratory work. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Submissions should be PDF documents typeset in the ACM proceedings format using 10pt fonts. A SIGPLAN-approved template can be found at SIGPLAN Author Information. We recommend using this template. Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues (see the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details). Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions can be made via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plas2020. Important Dates Paper submission: Friday June 12, 2020 (AoE) Author notification: August 8, 2020 Camera ready version: Wednesday September 2, 2020 Workshop date: Friday November 13, 2020 * Sponsorship Opportunities -------------------------------------- PLAS offers sponsorship opportunities to companies and institutions interested in promoting their brand at the workshop. These contributions will allow us to offer travel grants and reduced registration fees to students and underrepresented groups. Please, see http://plas.ws/#cfs for more details. * Program Committee -------------------------------------- - Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) - Owen Arden (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Musard Balliu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Ethan Cecchetti (Cornell University) - Dominique Devriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Fran?ois Dupressoir (University of Bristol) - Anitha Gollamudi (Harvard University) - Marco Guarnieri (IMDEA Software Institute) - Scott Moore (Galois) - Deian Stefan (University of California, San Diego) # Organizers -------------------------------------- - Alley Stoughton (Boston University) - Marco Vassena (CISPA, Helmholtz Center for Information Security) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de Tue May 12 12:55:11 2020 From: andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de (Andreas Abel) Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 18:55:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2020 deadline extension Message-ID: <56d8956e-a6d4-7900-e7b6-406815407f59@ifi.lmu.de> UPDATE: extended deadlines! Abstract deadline: Mon 18 May 2020 AoE Paper deadline: Fri 22 May 2020 AoE Submissions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2020 PPDP 2020 Call For Papers ========================= The 22nd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, [PPDP 2020](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/ppdp20/), hosted 8-10 September 2020 by the University of Bologna, Italy. **Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PPDP 2020 will take place online. The submission, review, and publication process is unaffected. However, the deadlines have been extended by a week to accommodate for the situation.** 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 virtually hosted by the University of Bologna, Italy, co-organized 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/). Submissions ----------- Submissions are welcome on easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2020 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 ---------------------------- **Due to the shift to an online event, registration fees will be decreased to cover only the costs of publication and online event hosting.** At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to register 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 --------------- The organizers appreciate that potential authors may be disadvantaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting disruption. **To encourage submissions, short extensions are available on request.** To request an extension, please register an abstract before the abstract deadline and write to the PC chair before the submission deadline explaining the circumstances and duration of the extension. -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Title and abstract (extended): 18 May 2020 (AoE) Paper submission (extended): 22 May 2020 (AoE) Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2020 (AoE) Author notification: 3 July 2020 Final paper version: 21 July 2020 Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020 -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Organization ------------ ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee chairs: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh Steering committee chair: James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee ----------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Abel (co-chair) Gothenburg University, SE Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, JP James Cheney (co-chair) The University of Edinburgh, UK Ugo Dal Lago University of Bologna, IT & INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm, DE Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel, DE Jacob Howe City, University of London, UK Fred Mesnard Universit? de la R?union, FR Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK David Sabel Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, DE Claudio Sacerdoti Coen University of Bologna, IT Ulrich Sch?pp fortiss GmbH, DE Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE Christine Tasson Universit? Paris Diderot & IRIF, FR Peter Van Roy Universit? catholique de Louvain, BE ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ From leo at lpw25.net Tue May 12 14:14:39 2020 From: leo at lpw25.net (Leo White) Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 19:14:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ML Family Workshop 2020 : Deadline extension Message-ID: <6aac9a35-919f-4660-9f40-a7a2c40d911b@www.fastmail.com> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ML 2020 will take place online. The submission deadlines have been extended to the end of the month to accommodate for the change in situation. ============================================================= 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. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop will take place online. See our detailed CFP online on the ICFP website: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/home/mlfamilyworkshop-2020 Important dates --------------- - Friday 29th May (any time zone): Abstract submission deadline - Friday 17th July: Author notification - Thursday 27th August: ML Family Workshop Program committee ----------------- - Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - Ivan Gotovchits (Carnegie Mellon University) - 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 Erwan.Bousse at ls2n.fr Wed May 13 05:01:28 2020 From: Erwan.Bousse at ls2n.fr (Erwan BOUSSE) Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:01:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_GPCE_2020_=E2=88=92_19th_Inter?= =?utf-8?q?national_Conference_on_Generative_Programming=3A_Concepts_=26_E?= =?utf-8?q?xperiences?= Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GPCE 2020: 19th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences November 16-17, 2020 Chicago, IL (USA) (a part of the SPLASH series of conferences) https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences is a programming languages conference focusing on techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. --------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- - Abstract submission: July 20, 2020 (Monday), AoE - Paper submission: July 27, 2020 (Monday), AoE - Author notification: September 9, 2020 (Wednesday) - Conference: November 16-17, 2020 --------------------------- PAPER SELECTION --------------------------- The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: - Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. - Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. - Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. - Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. --------------------------- PAPER CATEGORIES --------------------------- GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions: - Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. - Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. Short papers must have the text ?(Short Paper)? appended to their title, though any papers of 6 or fewer pages that are not tool demonstration papers will be considered as short papers. - Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords ?Tool Demo? or ?Tool Demonstration? appended in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. --------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------- All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format ?acmart? (http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format). Please be sure to use the latest LaTeX templates and class files. the SIGPLAN sub-format, and 10 point font. Consult the sample-sigplan.tex template and use the document-class \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Please do not make any changes to this format! To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors? own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce2020.hotcrp.com/ The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must describe work not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by the SIGPLAN Republication Policy (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/). --------------------------- ORGANIZATION --------------------------- - Steering Committee Chair: Ulrik Pagh Schultz (Denmark) - General Chair: Martin Erwig (USA) - Program Chair: Jeff Gray (USA) - Publicity Chair: Erwan Bousse (France) For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair at gray at cs.ua.edu --------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- - Juliana Alves Pereira (Brazil) - Ira Baxter (USA) - Don Batory (USA) - Sandrine Blazy (France) - Sheng Chen (USA) - Shigeru Chiba (Japan) - Thomas Degueule (France) - Robert Gl?ck (Denmark) - Aniruddha Gokhale (USA) - Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Belgium) - Julia Lawall (France) - Geoffrey Mainland (USA) - Marjan Mernik (Slovenia) - Bruno Oliveira (Hong Kong) - Alex Potanin (New Zealand) - Suman Roychoudhury (India) - Christoph Seidl (Denmark) - Michel Steuwer (UK) - Eli Tilevich (USA) - Naoyasu Ubayashi (Japan) - Tijs van der Storm (Netherlands) - Vadim Zaytsev (Netherlands) From jfoster at cs.tufts.edu Wed May 13 11:42:42 2020 From: jfoster at cs.tufts.edu (Jeff Foster) Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:42:42 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at Tufts in Program Synthesis Message-ID: <0A13DDB6-4163-4829-B5D1-2083FE45C4E5@cs.tufts.edu> The Tufts University Department of Computer Science invites applications for a postdoctoral research position. The candidate will work with Prof. Jeff Foster on a DARPA-funded project on program synthesis using symbolic solving and evolutionary algorithms. Applicants should have expertise in at least one of those areas, though those with closely related expertise will also be considered. Strong applicants will also have demonstrated strong programming and organizational skills. The postdoctoral researcher will join the Tufts University Programming Languages group (TuPL), a collaborative, highly collegial group of PL researchers. More information about Prof. Foster (https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~jfoster/) and TuPL (https://tupl.cs.tufts.edu) can be found on the web. For more information about the position, please contact Prof. Foster (jfoster at cs.tufts.edu). Interested candidates should send their CV, including the names of two references, to Prof. Foster at jfoster at cs.tufts.edu. Applications will be considered immediately, and application review will continue until the position is filled. The starting date is negotiable, and the position will last from 1-4 years, depending on funding availability and preferences of the applicant. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Tufts University, founded in 1852, prioritizes quality teaching, highly competitive basic and applied research, and a commitment to active citizenship locally, regionally, and globally. Tufts University also prides itself on creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. Current and prospective employees of the university are expected to have and continuously develop skill in, and disposition for, positively engaging with a diverse population of faculty, staff, and students. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. See the University?s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling Johny Laine in the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at johny.laine at tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at http://oeo.tufts.edu. From marino.miculan at uniud.it Thu May 14 04:21:42 2020 From: marino.miculan at uniud.it (Marino Miculan) Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 08:21:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two fellowship grants on Trustworthy Distributed Adaptive Systems at the University of Udine, Italy Message-ID: Dear all, two fellowship grants for 12 and 18 months respectively, are available at the University of Udine, Italy, within the Italian national project ?IT MATTERS?. The overall aim of the project is the development of a novel methodology, based on formal methods, for the specification, implementation and validation of trustworthy, large-scale, distributed adaptive systems. The subjects of these two grants can be adapted, as long as they are in the scope of the project. These positions are research-only, with no teaching or administrative obligations. Keywords: formal methods, concurrency theory, models and languages for large-scale distributed systems, bigraphs, aggregate programming, spatial logics. Having a PhD (or being close to) is appreciated but not required. Starting date is (partly) negotiable. Both positions can be extended for another 12 months (subject to funding availability). Deadline for applications: May 31, 2020, 14:00 CEST. Working environment: Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University of Udine. Founded in 1978, the Department is among the oldest CS departments in Italy. Frequent interactions will be conducted with the other partners of the project: the universities of Camerino and Pisa, the Italian CNR, the GSSI in l?Aquila, and the IMT in Lucca. Udine is a historical city in the North-East of Italy, strategically positioned one hour from the Alps and the Adriatic Sea. Dubbed ?Venice on land? for its architecture, this city is among the top ten Italian cities for quality of life, but with an affordable cost of living. Remuneration: about 1600-1700 ?/month net, after taxes and contributions for social security and retirement scheme. More details at https://mads.uniud.it/2020/05/two-fellowship-grants-it-matters/ For any information, please contact Marino Miculan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeannin at umich.edu Thu May 14 07:27:34 2020 From: jeannin at umich.edu (Jean-Baptiste Jeannin) Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 07:27:34 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Updated, deadline May 15] Verification Mentoring Workshop 2020: Call for scholarship applications Message-ID: Verification Mentoring Workshop (VMW 2020) http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ *Update: The verification mentoring workshop will be virtual this year, along with CAV 2020.* co-organized with CAV 2020 20 July 2020 APPLICATIONS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS We warmly invite eligible students to apply for scholarships to attend the Verification Mentoring Workshop and CAV. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2020. Applications are received via the form at https://forms.gle/5Nk61at9juHqVTDL8 ABOUT VMW The purpose of the Verification Mentoring Workshop is to provide mentoring and career advice to early-stage graduate students, to attract them to pursue research careers in the area of computer-aided verification. The workshop will particularly encourage participation of women and underrepresented minorities. The workshop program will include a number of talks and interactive sessions. The talks will give an overview of the field along with brief introductions to the varied topics highlighted at CAV 2020. Other talks will provide mentoring and career advice, from academia and industry. More information can be found at http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ The workshops will be virtual this year, but all students interested in attending VMW 2020 should still apply for scholarships and watch http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ for further updates. SPEAKERS Erika ?brah?m, RWTH Aachen University Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rupak Majudar, MPI-SWS Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research In case of questions, please contact the organizers Roopsha Samanta (chair) Rayna Dimitrova Jean-Baptiste Jeannin James R. 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We aim to build programming language theory and practice for reliable concurrent and distributed systems, and to provide lightweight tool support for developers ? e.g. warning of potential reliability issues, suggesting appropriate recovery strategies ? so that developers may continue to use established idioms and workflows. This full time, 48 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. The successful candidate will be supported by two supervisors at Kent: Dr Laura Bocchi and Prof Simon Thompson. The role will involve collaboration with the STARDUST project partners: the research groups of Prof Simon Gay and Prof Phil Trinder (University of Glasgow) and Prof Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London), and industry partners Actyx AG, Erlang Solutions Ltd, Lightbend, Quviq AB, and Tata Consultancy Services. Contact Laura Bocchi (l.bocchi at kent.ac.uk) if you have any questions. As Research Associate you will: * contribute to developing a theory of session types for reliable actor-based interactions. * contribute to developing techniques for static/dynamic verification of Erlang and/or Scala/Akka programs, and for automatic verification/generation of recovery strategies. * contribute to gathering, modelling, and developing case studies, and evaluating results in a principled way, e.g., via benchmarking based on the case studies. 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 actor-based and concurrent programming; * Good grasp of type systems and typed programming language definitions and/or real-time systems; * 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?id=1249 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sajnani.hitesh at gmail.com Fri May 15 03:27:53 2020 From: sajnani.hitesh at gmail.com (hitesh sajnani) Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 00:27:53 -0700 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: * PACMPL Issue OOPSLA * SPLASH Workshops * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * Static Analysis Symposium (SAS) * SPLASH-E * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Student Volunteers ## 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: Fri 15 May, 2020 https://2020.splashcon.org/track/splash-2020-oopsla ## 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. The paper submission deadline for all workshops is Sep 4, 2020 AoE. The following workshops are co-located with SPLASH 2020. * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) https://2020.splashcon.org/home/agere-2020 * TAPAS (Tools for Automatic Program Analysis) https://2020.splashcon.org/home/tapas-2020 * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages and Systems) https://2020.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2020 ## 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: Sun 17 May, 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: Sat 23 May, 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 9 July, 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: Mon 20 July, 2020 Submissions due: Mon 27 July, 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: Mon 20 July, 2020 Submissions due: Mon 27 July, 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: Fri 22 May, 2020 Paper Submissions due: Sun 24 May, 2020 Artifacts Submissions due: Fri 29 May, 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. ## 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: Thu 10 Sep, 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 August 2, 2020 Travel Grant Application due: Fri 4 Sep, 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: Sat Aug 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 james.cheney at gmail.com Fri May 15 12:06:47 2020 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 17:06:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position on Web/database programming languages at Edinburgh LFCS Message-ID: Hi, We are now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position in Web/database programming languages. The position is for 24 months, starting on September 1, 2020 or earlier. Funding is provided by a ?1.99M Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council on the project: "Skye: A programming language bridging theory and practice for scientific data curation". https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052075 Funding from this ERC grant, and certain national funding schemes, is also available to help support travel/accommodation costs for visits from students, researchers or faculty at other institutions whose research aligns with the project. Please get in touch if interested. == Research associate (?33,797 - ?40,322) == This postdoctoral research position is on Web/database programming and scientific data curation techniques in the Skye project. This project builds on the Links web programming language to add built-in support for scientific data management needs, particularly data archiving, transformation and provenance. Currently Links supports sophisticated database access via language-integrated query (ICFP 2013), but only for relational databases; other data models and query languages are not supported, and Links's capabilities for rewriting or transforming queries or updates is limited. The overall research goal of the Skye project is to identify, develop, and implement extensibility or metaprogramming capabilities to make advanced database programming easy. The successful candidate will focus on developing language-integrated query support for new data models/query languages, such as graph or RDF databases, and will work with other Skye project members to incorporate these techniques into Links. Links also has other advanced capabilities such as support for type inference with first-class poplymorphism (PLDI 2020), distributed programming with session types (POPL 2019) and algebraic effects and handlers (JFP 2020), and interactions between these features and database programming or new applications to database programming are in scope. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in programming languages or databases, with a specialization in Web programming or database programming including familiarity with different distributed programming techniques or query languages and data models. Familiarity with programming language foundations is also desirable, as is experience with functional programming (e.g. Scala, OCaml, Haskell). Candidates with a strong background in either database or programming language research will be considered as long as there is clear evidence of ability to learn the complementary background. == What about COVID-19 then? == Remote working is possible and encouraged. Successful candidates who are eligible to work in the UK without a visa (= UK or EEA nationals) will be able to take up the post and work remotely prior to arrival in Edinburgh. Candidates currently in the UK on Tier 4 student visas will also be able to begin work while waiting for a Tier 2 visa. Candidates in other situations may be able to start work remotely but this depends on UKVI guidelines which are in flux; such candidates are advised to contact us to discuss the situation. == To apply == For more information about the project, and about other related activities in my group, LFCS, and Edinburgh, please write to me or consult the following page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcheney/group/skye.html Applications must be received by 5pm GMT, June 9, 2020. To apply, visit the University job posting for this position: Research Associate https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052075 then click "apply" and follow the instructions. Please note that applicants must use the University's application system above, which involves some account registration and form-filling, and it is recommended that applicants complete this process well before the deadline, since the system automatically stops accepting applications after the deadline. == Environment == The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics brings together world-class research groups in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The School led the UK 2014 REF rankings in volume of internationally recognized or internationally excellent research. In 2013, the School of Informatics received an Athena Swan Silver Award, in recognition of its commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. Overall the University of Edinburgh has achieved a Silver Award. LFCS hosts a wide variety of research on programming languages, and collaborates with researchers in compilers/systems elsewhere in the School of Informatics as well as with colleabgues across Scotland as part of the Scottish Programming Languages & Verification community. PL research in the School will soon be strengthened by new arrivals with interests in verification, program synthesis, DSLs for performance-portable parallelism, and databases. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Sat May 16 04:14:41 2020 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:14:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Continuity, Computability, Constructivity 2020; call for submissions In-Reply-To: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> References: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> Message-ID: Continuity, Computability, Constructivity ? From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2020) Faro (Portugal) or online 31 August - 4 September 2020 Call for papers http://cid.uni-trier.de/ccc-2020-continuity-computability-constructivity-from-logic-to-algorithms-faro-portugal-august-31-september-4-2020/ CCC is a workshop series that brings together researchers applying logical methods to the development of algorithms, with a particular focus on computation with infinite data, where issues of continuity, computability and constructivity play major roles. Specific topics include exact real number computation, computable analysis, effective descriptive set theory, constructive analysis, and related areas. The overall aim is to apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with real numbers and other continuous data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation. The workshop is planned to take place in Faro, Portugal. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop may take place online. Previous workshops have been held in Cologne 2009, Trier 2012, Gregynog 2013, Ljubljana 2014, Kochel 2015, Nancy 2017, Faro 2018, and Ljubljana 2019. The workshop is open to all researchers in the area. Scope: The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory, Domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas. Invited Speakers: Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza) Eike Neumann (Oxford) Hideki Tsuiki (Kyoto) Tutorial Speaker: Hongseok Yang (KAIST) Submission: Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome. 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Applicants must have completed a doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and must have demonstrated outstanding research vision, and potential to successfully lead a research group. Successful candidates are expected to build a highly visible research agenda, to mentor Ph.D. students, and to participate in collaborative projects. The Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (https://www.mpi-sp.org) is located in Bochum, Germany. We maintain an open, international, and diverse work environment and seek applications from outstanding researchers regardless of national origin. Our working language is English. We collaborate with several major research institutions worldwide and have high international visibility. We offer competitive salaries and support for Ph.D. students, as well as generous travel, administrative, and technical support. Please apply at https://apply.cis.mpg.de/register/mpispjrgl You need to send your CV, a research plan, an optional teaching statement, and 3-5 references. Reviewing of applications will start immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. The expected starting date for the position is Fall 2020, open to negotiations. Informal inquiries can be addressed to applications-jrgl at mpi-sp.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From florian.rabe at fau.de Sun May 17 07:52:05 2020 From: florian.rabe at fau.de (Florian Rabe) Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 13:52:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for abstracts: Workshop on Natural Formal Mathematics (NFM 2020) Message-ID: <9e888fcc-8fef-5c28-adb7-4964f06dc38d@fau.de> A workshop held between July 27 - 31, 2020 as part of the 13th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2020) (WILL BE HELD ONLINE; details to be announced on the CICM website https://cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php) In (pure) mathematics there has always existed a strong informal sense of "naturality". "Natural" theories, notions, properties, or proofs are prefered over technical, convoluted, or counterintuitive approaches. If formal mathematics is to become part of mainstream mathematics, its formalizations and user experience have to become more "natural". This workshop broadly addresses the issue of naturality in formal mathematics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): The notion of naturality in mathematics generally Natural input and output languages for formal mathematics systems Parsing natural mathematical language Controlled natural languages (CNL) for mathematics Making formal mathematics documents readable Naturality of foundational theories (types, sets, HOL, ...) Naturality of proof methods Natural proof structures and granularities Natural structurings of formalized mathematical texts and libraries Mathematical type setting (LaTeX) and formal mathematics Examples of natural formalizations Invited speaker: tba Submissions: We call for submissions of extended abstracts and demonstration proposals presenting work related to the workshop's topics of interest. To promote Natural Formal Mathematics unfinished or exploratory work will also be welcome. Electronic submission is done through EasyChair. Extended abstracts and demonstration proposals should be 1 page, formatted in LaTeX using the style onecolceurws. Submission deadline: June 15 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 01 2020 Accepted abstracts and demonstrations should be presented online and live, to allow for questions and discussions. Abstracts will be made available online. Program Committee Florian Rabe, Erlangen (co-chair) Peter Koepke, Bonn (co-chair) Merlin Carl, Flensburg Marcos Cramer, Dresden Adam Grabowski, Bialystok Michael Junk, Konstanz Cezary Kaliszyk, Innsbruck Andrea Kohlhase, Neu-Ulm Aarne Ranta, Gothenburg Josef Urban, Prague From p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk Sun May 17 08:05:23 2020 From: p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk (Gardner, Philippa A) Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 12:05:23 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RA position, Imperial, symbolic analysis, concurrency or distribution Message-ID: <20704AE3-3560-4DF7-905F-B68A97149CEF@ic.ac.uk> Hi all, Sorry for multiple postings. I would like to announce the availability of an RA position in my research group at Imperial College London. This position is initially for two years with an option to extend in future. My funding from a research fellowship is flexible so the start date can be flexible in these uncertain times, in the academic year starting September 2020. I also expect to have further funding available over the next year. If interested, please contact me by **15th June**, just so that I have an understanding of who might be interested in either this position or a future position. I give a description of some potential projects below, focussing on symbolic analysis, concurrency and distribution. 1. Gillian: a multi-language platform for compositional symbolic analysis My group has recently introduced Gillian (PLDI'20), supporting three flavours of analysis: symbolic testing, full verification and automatic compositional testing, unified by a common symbolic execution engine that is parametric on the memory model of the target language. We instantiate Gillian to the real-world languages C and JavaScript, obtaining results on real-world code that demonstrate the viability of our unified, parametric approach. There are many possible projects. I would especially like to recruit someone interested in extending Gillian with concurrency or underpinning Gillian with Coq-certification. 2. Concurrency My group has worked on compositional reasoning about concurrent programs, introducing fundamental techniques underpinning modern concurrent separation logics: logical abstraction (CAP logic), logical atomicity (TaDA Safety) and logical environment liveness properties (TaDA Live). We have applied our reasoning to, for example, algorithms for manipulating concurrent B-trees, skip lists from java.util.concurrent, graph algorithms and the POSIX file system. There is still much to understand: for example, working with the fundamental theory; applying the work to real-world libraries; developing prototype analysis tools; or moving to the Coq-focused Iris project which uses much of our foundational theory. 3. Distribution. My group has recently begun to work on weak consistency models for distribution, developing an interleaving operational semantics for client-observational behaviour of atomic transactions (ECOOP?20). I would be interested in someone to work in this area: for example, developing further the operational semantics and providing prototype tools for proving robustness results or discovering litmus tests; or introducing program logics which connect with program logics for concurrency and weak memory. ----- A successful candidate is likely to have a strong record of research in programme languages, analysis or verification. They will join my Verified Software group at Imperial. Current and former RAs and PhD students from this group include Brotherston (UCL academic), Calcagno (Imperial academic then Monoidics start-up then Facebook), Maffeis (Imperial academic), Naudziuniene (Infer at Facebook), Ntzik (systems R&D at Amadeus), Raad (Imperial academic), Smith (Pivotal Software Inc) and Villard (Infer at Facebook). We have thriving interactions with the tech companies in London, especially with Facebook and Amazon who fund my research. 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Research topics include: extensions of higher-order concurrent separation logics (such as our Iris logic, see iris-project.org), e.g., to reason about distributed systems; probabilistic program logics; logical relations for relational reasoning about safety and security properties; formal modeling of low-level capability machines, and secure compilation; guarded cubical type theory; and Coq formalizations. The Post Doc positions are for two years (with a possibility of extension). Application deadline is June 1, 2020. See https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/center-for-basic-research-in-program-verification-cpv-is-looking-for-postdocs/ for more information. Please contact me at birkedal at cs.au.dk if you have any questions. Best wishes, Lars Birkedal -- -- Lars Birkedal Villum Investigator Professor, Head of Logic and Semantics Group Dept. of Computer Science Aarhus University Aabogade 34 8200 Aarhus N Denmark birkedal at cs.au.dk www.cs.au.dk/~birke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Mon May 18 06:42:30 2020 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 06:42:30 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Chalmers Online Functional Programming Seminar Series (TODAY: Benjamin Pierce!) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3242679F-8FD8-46A2-9CE7-C84FFA23AAEB@cis.upenn.edu> A reminder of today's seminar by Benjamin Pierce. 16.00. Backtracking Generators for Random Testing. Last week we had 720 people who tuned in to Simon Peyton Jones! Unfortunately, we had severe problems using Zoom webinar technology (which was dimensioned in our license for up to 1000 people, but Zoom was just not up to the task). 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Modern programming languages are interesting targets for formal techniques due to their ubiquity and wide user base, stable and well-defined interfaces and platforms, and powerful (but also complex) libraries. New languages and applications in this space are continually arising, resulting in new programming languages (PL) research challenges. Work on formal techniques and tools and on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. FTfJP is an established workshop which has run annually since 1999 alongside ECOOP, with the goal of bringing together people working in both fields. The workshop has a broad PL theme; the most important criterion is that submissions will generate interesting discussions within this community. The term ?Java-like? is somewhat historic and should be interpreted broadly: FTfJP solicits and welcomes submission relating to programming languages in general, beyond Java, C#, Scala, etc. Example topics of interest include: * Language design and semantics * Type systems * Concurrency and new application domains * Specification and verification of program properties * Program analysis (static or dynamic) * Program synthesis * Security * Pearls (programs or proofs) FTfJP welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers. ## Submissions Contributions are sought in two categories: * Full Papers (6 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. We welcome both complete and incomplete technical results; ongoing work is particularly welcome, provided it is substantial enough to stimulate interesting discussions. * Short Papers (2 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, or otherwise present a position likely to stimulate discussion at the workshop. We encourage e.g. established researchers to set out a personal vision, and beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. ## Formatting and Publication Submissions should be in acmart/sigplan style, 10pt font. Formatting requirements are detailed on the SIGPLAN Author Information page (https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author). Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library by default, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work and participate in the discussions. ## Important Dates * Submission: June 5th (AoE) * Notification: July 3th ## Program Committee * Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University, Sweden) * Petra van den Bos (University of Twente, the Netherlands) * Marie Farrell (University of Liverpool, UK) * Paula Herber (University of Munster, Germany) * Nikolai Kosmatov (CEA LIST, France) * James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) * Violet Ka I Pun (University of Oslo, Norway) * John Singleton (University of Central Florida, USA) * Mattias Ulbrich (KIT, Germany) * Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University, the Netherlands) * Elena Zucca (University of Genova, Italy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We seek candidates with a PhD in computer science or a closely related area and an interest in any or all of the following: * program analysis and verification; * concurrency theory; * probability theory; * automated reasoning; * logic and formal methods. Previous experience in developing automated software tools is desirable, but not essential. The role will be jointly managed by James Brotherston (and David Pym) at UCL and John Wickerson at Imperial College. While based primarily at UCL, the role will involve frequent contact with Imperial College and the other project partners. The post is offered for 12 months initially, but is extensible up to 36 months. Informal enquiries prior to application are welcome and should be directed initially to James Brotherston at J.Brotherston at ucl.ac.uk. Apply at:? https://tinyurl.com/yctdne4y More info on IRIS at: https://interfacereasoning.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Formal Methods for the development of computer systems have been extensively researched and studied. We now have good theoretical understandings of how to describe what programs do, how they do it, and why they work. A range of semantic theories, specification languages, design techniques, verification methods, and supporting tools have been developed and applied to the construction of programs of moderate size that are used in critical applications. The remaining challenge now is how to deal with problems in developing and maintaining large scale and complex computer systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to help advance state of the art. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible engineering benefits. Scope and Topics: Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal engineering methods and their practical applications will also be considered: ? Abstraction, refinement and evolution ? Formal specification and modelling ? Formal verification and analysis ? Model checking ? Formal approaches to software testing and inspection ? Formal methods for self-adaptive systems ? Formal methods for object-oriented systems ? Formal methods for component-based systems ? Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems ? Formal methods for cloud computing ? Formal methods for cyber-physical systems ? Formal methods for software safety and security ? Formal methods for software reliability and dependability ? Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems ? Formal certification of products under international standards ? Formal model-based development and code generation Submission and Publication: Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2020 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem20 Workshop or tutorial proposals should be directly sent to the Workshop Chair via email. Each proposal should include (1) title, scope, and aims, (2) brief bio of the organizer or lecturer, and (3) postal and email addresses. Organising Committee: General Chair Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Program Co-Chairs Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Finance Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Workshop Chair Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chair Lei Ma, Kyushu University, Japan Program Committee Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France ?tienne Andr?, Univesrity of Lorraine, France Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yean-Ru Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ranald Clouston, Australian National University, Australia Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Jeremy Dawson, Australian National University, Australia Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Australia Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Marc Frappier, Universit? de Sherbrooke, Canada Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Xudong He, Florida International University, United States Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China Brendan Mahony, DSTO, Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Dominique Mery, Universit? de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain David Sanan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia Meng Sun, Peking University, China Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gaboardi at bu.edu Tue May 19 15:04:48 2020 From: gaboardi at bu.edu (Gaboardi, Marco) Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 19:04:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSF 2020 - Call for Short Talks Message-ID: <2387B350-B3D8-407D-B072-48D149688DEA@bu.edu> CSF 2020 - Call for Short Talks -------------------------------- The Computer Security Foundations Symposium is an annual conference for researchers in computer security. Following the current COVID-19 situation, this year CSF will be an online event. https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/CSF2020/ Dates: June 22 to 26, 2020 CSF is now seeking *short talks* on foundational aspects of computer security, such as formal security models, relationships between security properties and defenses, principled techniques and tools for design and analysis of security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed above, the main focus of CSF is foundational security and privacy. Short talks are a great way to present late-breaking results, works-in-progress, works you want to advertise, and student projects to the CSF community. Each accepted short talk will be assigned a 5 min slot. Deadline: June 20, 2020 Submission Instructions: Authors are required to submit a title and abstract by email to gaboardi at bu.edu with subject "[CSF 2020] short talk proposal". From brunocdsoliveira at googlemail.com Wed May 20 01:15:01 2020 From: brunocdsoliveira at googlemail.com (Bruno Oliveira) Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 13:15:01 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2020 Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) Nov 29-Dec 3, 2020 Fukuoka, Japan https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2020 The 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of the latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community. APLAS 2020 will be tentatively held in Nishijin Plaza, Fukuoka City, Japan between November 30th and 2rd of December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 situation, all authors will be given the chance to present remotely regardless of whether the conference is held as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting. Papers are solicited on topics such as: - Semantics, logics, foundational theory - Design of languages, type systems, and foundational calculi - Domain-specific languages - Compilers, interpreters, abstract machines - Program derivation, synthesis, and transformation - Program analysis, verification, model-checking - Logic, constraint, probabilistic, and quantum programming - Software security - Concurrency and parallelism - Tools and environments for programming and implementation Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool demonstrations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with program chair prior to submission. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: June 26th, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: July 3rd, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Author response: August 3-5, 2020 Author notification: August 14, 2020 Final version: September 1, 2020 Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2020 CALL FOR REGULAR RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit submissions in the form of regular research papers describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions) papers. In either case, submissions should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS We solicit submissions in the form of tool papers describing a demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented tool-highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the tool, an assessment of the tool?s strengths and weaknesses, and a summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews, UK Soham Chakraborty, IIT Delhi, India Andreea Costea, National University Of Singapore, Singapore Silvia Crafa, University of Padova, Italy Pierre-Evariste Dagand, LIP6/CNRS, France Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy Cristina David, University of Oxford, UK Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University, US Florian Rabe, University of Erlangen, Germany Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, UK James McKinna, The University of Edinburgh, UK Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Hakjoo Oh, Korea University, South Korea Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, South Korea Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium Ilya Sergey, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Servetto, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University, Netherlands Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, US Janis Voigtl?nder, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Meng Wang, University of Bristol, UK Nicolas Wu, Imperial College London, UK Yizhou Zhang, Harvard University / University of Waterloo, US Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using HotCRP (https://aplas2020.hotcrp.com). The acceptable format is PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer?s LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. REVIEW PROCESS APLAS 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 judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted or anonymised, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and respond to them as appropriate. RESEARCH INTEGRITY The Program Committee reserves the right, up until the time of publication, to reverse a decision of paper acceptance. Reversal is possible if fatal flaws are discovered in the paper, or research integrity is found to have been seriously breached. ABOUT Fukuoka City Fukuoka is a compact city. It only takes 10 minutes by subway from the airport to the city center. It takes 10 minutes by subway from the city center to Nishijin Station. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vladimir at zamdzhiev.me Wed May 20 10:52:08 2020 From: vladimir at zamdzhiev.me (Vladimir Zamdzhiev) Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 16:52:08 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2020 -- Call for Participation Message-ID: 36th International Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics ? MFPS 2020 June 2 ? 6, 2020 To be jointly held with QPL'20. https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/ # About MFPS conferences are dedicated to the areas of mathematics, logic, and computer science that are related to models of computation in general, and to semantics of programming languages in particular. This is a forum where researchers in mathematics and computer science can meet and exchange ideas. The participation of researchers in neighbouring areas is strongly encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: concurrent qualitative and quantitative distributed systems; process calculi; probabilistic systems; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; logic; type systems; type theory. We also welcome contributions that address applications of semantics to novel areas such as complex systems, markets, and networks, for example. # Online Event MFPS 2020 will be held online, jointly with the 17th International Conference on Quantum and Physics Logic (QPL) 2020. We will hold a live meeting using video and online discussion platforms. Registration is free but mandatory. Please follow this link: https://forms.gle/Bozgh92BoLUQxVaD7 to register. # Invited Speakers and Organizers of 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 (LORIA, Nancy) # Accepted Papers * Gordon Plotkin. A complete axiomatisation of partial differentiation. * Alejandro Aguirre and Shin-ya Kastumata. Weakest preconditions in fibrations * Abbas Edalat, Amin Farjudian, Mina Mohammadian and Dirk Pattinson. Domain Theoretic Second-Order Euler?s Method for Solving Initial Value Problems. * Tao Gu, Alexandra Silva and Fabio Zanasi. Hennessy-Milner Results for Probabilistic PDL. * Linan Chen, Florence Clerc and Prakash Panangaden. Towards a classification of behavioural equivalences in continuous-time Markov processes. * Niels Voorneveld. Combining Algebraic Effect Descriptions using the Tensor of Complete Lattices. * Tarmo Uustalu, Niccol? Veltri and Noam Zeilberger. Eilenberg-Kelly reloaded. * Paolo Perrone and Tobias Fritz. Monads, partial evaluations, and rewriting. * Thomas Paine. A pebbling comonad for finite rank and variable logic, and an application to the equirank-variable homomorphism preservation theorem. * Ernest Manes. Continuous Monads. * Roy Crole, Samuele Buro and Isabella Mastroeni. Equational Logic and Categorical Semantics for Multi-Languages. * Nicolas Blanco and Noam Zeilberger. Bifibrations of Polycategories and Classical Linear Logic. * Ryan Kavanagh. Some Properties of Parametrized Fixed Points on O-Categories. # Program All talks will be available on YouTube and there will be a forum organised on Slack where participants can discuss the talks. A schedule will be posted soon on the conference website. See https://www.monoidal.net/paris2020/mfps/ for more information. # Program 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 (Huawei Research and University of Birmingham) Pierre Hyvernat (Universit? Savoie Mont Blanc) Mauro Jaskelioff (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University) - Chair Achim Jung (University of Birmingham) Barbara K?nig (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen) Dexter Kozen (Cornell 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) # Organising Committee Pablo Arrighi (AMU & INRIA) Aleks Kissinger (University of Oxford) Shane Mansfield (Sorbonne Universit?) Beno?t Valiron (U. Paris Saclay) John van de Wetering (Radboud University Nijmegen ? Wiz Team) James Hefford (University of Oxford ? Wiz Team) Matthew Wilson (University of Oxford ? Wiz Team) Vladimir Zamdzhiev (Loria, Nancy) From ana.agvb at gmail.com Thu May 21 16:00:28 2020 From: ana.agvb at gmail.com (Ana Borges) Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 21:00:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job offer for a Mathematician or Computer Scientist researcher in Barcelona Message-ID: We are looking for a full-time Mathematician or Computer Scientist researcher to participate in a 3,5 year project. We are an active and diverse team lead by Dr. Joost J. Joosten, which comprises several PhD and Master students with a background in Mathematics and Philosophy, among others. Our group's research involves, but is not limited to, proof theory (pure and applied), provability, interpretability and other modal logics, fragments of first and higher-order arithmetic, algebraic logic, formalized meta-mathematics, and ordinal analysis. We are based in the Philosophy Department of the University of Barcelona, located in the city center of Barcelona. Our PhD students are all enrolled in the doctorate program of mathematics and computer science. Most of us are also affiliated to the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Barcelona and to the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics. In our applied proof theory group we are developing an industrial product with social impact value for the legal infrastructure of transport of people and goods by road. The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci?n y Universidades. Our software is developed using formal methods, with the goal of high reliability in mind. We are using Coq as our main tool. The successful applicant will be expected to have: - Proven experience with Ocaml or similar - Proven experience with LaTeX The following will be valued: - Experience with Coq - Ability to solve problems - Self-learning skill - Creativity and cooperation capability. Required documents: - Motivation letter - Curriculum vitae including list of publications Please send your application to Aleix Sol? . This announcement can be found at https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/471949 Project title: Error free software (Software de fallo cero). Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER) - and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci?n y Universidades ? Agencia Estatal de Investigaci?n. Project reference: RTC-2017-6740-7 Priority will be given to people with disabilities. Female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro Fri May 22 02:34:13 2020 From: motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro (motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro) Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 09:34:13 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] cfp Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020) Message-ID: <5ff5d0f0bc1a42c4f036e58b8c25040c.squirrel@www.cs.ubbcluj.ro> Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020) September 4-6, 2020, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/ -A Fully Virtual Conference- ##Overview FROM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2020 is organized by by Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the STAR-UBB Institute, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest. Due to the current pandemic situation, FROM 2020 will happen as a fully virtual conference. FROM 2020 is the fourth event in a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest (http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017), the second edition was held in 2018 in Iasi (http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018), and the third edition was held in 2019 in Timisoara (http://from2019.projects.uvt.ro/). The second edition papers have been published in Fundamenta Informaticae, vol.l 173, no.l 2-3, while the third edition papers are under review process in Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming. The format of the symposium encourages interaction. The program includes invited lectures and regular contributions such that a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. FROM welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers. ##Topics of Interest Areas and formalisms of interest include: + Category theory in computer science + Distributed systems and concurrency + Formal languages and automata theory + Formal modelling, verification and testing + Logic in computer science + Logical frameworks + Mathematical structures in computer science + Models of computation + Semantics of programming languages + Type systems Methods of interest include: + Automated reasoning and model generation + Automated induction + Certified programs + Data-flow and control-flow analysis + Deductive verification + Mechanized proofs + Model checking + Proof mining + Symbolic computation + Term rewriting Applications of interest include: + Computational logic + Computer mathematics + Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases + Program analysis + Verification and synthesis of software and hardware + Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing ##Submissions We expect two categories of contributions: +Full Papers (maximum 15 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. They must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Full papers will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. +Short Papers (maximum 5 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, describe work in progress or provide system descriptions. They need not be original. We encourage especially beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Short papers will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from20 There is no need to indicate the paper category (long/short). ##Formatting and Publication Papers should be written in English and should follow the formatting requirements detailed at http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. All accepted papers will be published online in Studia UBB Informatica (http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal) by default, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the symposium to present the work and participate in the discussions. The revised versions of the full papers will be published in a post-proceedings after the conference. Further information will be available in short time. Authors of the best original contributions will also be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. ##Important Dates June 30 2020: deadline for paper submission July 30 2020: notification of acceptance August 24 2020: revised papers according to the reviews August 31 2020: registration September 4-6 2020: symposium days September 14 2020: revised papers for the post-proceedings ##Invited Speakers Andrei Arusoaie Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Guangdong Bai University of Queensland, Australia Marius Bozga University of Grenoble, INSA, France Corina Carstea University of Southampton, Great Britain Wei Ngan Chin National University of Singapore, Singapore Daniel David Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Zhenjiang Hu Peking University, China Chao Huang Northwestern University, US Tudor Jebeleanu Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu Southwest University, China Quang Loc Le University College London, UK Jun Pang University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Grigore Rosu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Sebastian Rudolph TU Dresden, Germany Traian Serbanuta University of Bucharest, Romania Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Singapore Meng Sun Peking University, China Zhiwu Xu Shenzhen University, China Hongseok Yang Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Naijun Zhan Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ##Programme Committee Xin Chen Nanjing University, China Stefan Ciobaca Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Florin Craciun (co-chair) Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Zoltan Horvath Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Yanhong Huang East China Normal University, China Temur Kutsia Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Ton Chanh Le Stevens Institute of Technology, US Laurentiu Leustean University of Bucharest, Romania Dorel Lucanu Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania Mircea Marin West University of Timisoara, Romania Victor Mitrana University of Bucharest, Romania Simona Motogna (co-chair) Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Chunyan Mu Teesside University, United Kingdom Iulian Ober Universite Paul Sabatier, France Peter Csaba Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Ion Petre University of Turku, Finland Shengchao Qin (co-chair) Teesside University, UK Vlad Rusu INRIA, France Christian Sacarea Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans University Koblenz-Landau, Germany Gheorghe Stefanescu University of Bucharest, Romania Alin Stefanescu University of Bucharest, Romania Sorin Stratulat Universite de Lorraine, France Keming Wang Southwest Jiaotong University, China Meng Wang Bristol University, UK Hengjun Zhao Southwest University, China ##Local Organizing Committee Arthur Molnar Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Vladiela Petrascu Babes-Bolyai University, Romania ##General Chairs Florin Craciun Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Simona Motogna Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Assoc.Prof.PhD. Simona Motogna VicePresident of UBB Senate Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science email: motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro From davide.bresolin at unipd.it Fri May 22 06:34:43 2020 From: davide.bresolin at unipd.it (Davide Bresolin) Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 12:34:43 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: GandALF2020 - 2nd Call for Papers References: <9da3c018-4bde-4eeb-b3ce-f964b8bf5e3c@Spark> Message-ID: **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2020 ***************************************************************************** The Eleventh International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will take place on September 21 and 22, 2020. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the difficulties that are foreseen regarding travelling during next September, it has been decided to organise the symposium online. The organisation will be as follows: -the authors of accepted papers will be invited to record a 25 minutes presentation of their paper -these presentations will be made available to the registered participants (with no fees) to the conference a few days before the conference -four invited talks will be given live during the online conference -each invited talk will be followed by a Q/A session on papers grouped by topics. Each such session will open with 5 minutes short presentations of each of the papers of the session by one of their author. 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 anupamdotdas at gmail.com Tue May 26 07:52:59 2020 From: anupamdotdas at gmail.com (anupamdotdas at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 12:52:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in Proof Theory - University of Birmingham, UK. Message-ID: <008a01d63354$34818060$9d848120$@gmail.com> Research Fellow in Proof Theory - School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint up to 2 Research Fellows (postdocs) in Proof Theory, for a duration of 2 years (with possibility of extension). The theory group at the University of Birmingham is one of the leading groups in logical foundations of computer science, with expertise not only in Proof Theory but also related areas such as Type Theory, Category Theory and Mathematical Logic: These positions are funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship ?StrIP: Structure vs Invariants in Proofs?, led by Dr Anupam Das. The project aims to develop the theory of ?cyclic proofs? and their connections to automata theory. The principal responsibility of the fellow(s) will be to conduct research, both collaboratively with Dr Das and other researchers at Birmingham, and independently. The fellow(s) will also be supported in career development and encouraged to pursue independent opportunities. Qualifications and expertise You will have (or be close to completing) a PhD in Logic (computer science, mathematics or philosophy), or equivalent qualifications. You will have an excellent research record, with expertise in some of the following areas: * Proof theory (in particular, deep inference or cyclic proofs). * Automata theory (in particular, infinite word and tree automata). * Mathematical logic (in particular, fragments of arithmetic or set theory). Application Informal inquiries prior to application are encouraged and should be directed to Dr Anupam Das . You may find further details on the positions and instructions for applying here: Practical information Starting salary range: ?30,942 - ?40,322 (potentially progressing to ?42,792). Application deadline: 24 June 2020. Starting date: As soon as possible, but ideally no later than October 2020. Duration: 2 years (with possibility of extension) From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Tue May 26 09:43:28 2020 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 15:43:28 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TEASE-LP - Workshop on Logic Programming: Trends, Extensions, Applications, 28-29 May 2020 Message-ID: <95ebef7a-3f34-e32c-bb2d-dd226518102b@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> We invite participants to the on-line workshop TEASE-LP on Trends, Extensions, Applications and Semantics of Logic Programming Logic programming is a framework for expressing programs, propositions and relations as Horn clause theories, and for 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 propositional facts, it was extended to account for much more complex theories. This includes first-order theories, 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. Keynote talk: Dale Miller. Structural Proof-Theory and Logic Programming Invited tutorial: Uli Sattler. Description Logics and Ontology Languages - an introduction and overview In light of COVID-19, we organise TEASE-LP as a virtual workshop and online-only event. To achieve broad participation, we use three different mediums: Discussion Forum, Pre-recorded lightning talks, Live sessions with invited and contributed live talks. Further details can be found here: https://www.coalg.org/tease-lp/workshop-schedule/. Registration is free, but we require all participants to sign up at https://teaselp.flarum.cloud/ For any further queries, please contact the organisers: Henning Basold Katya Komendantskaya -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The reviewing and publication process remain unchanged. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. LOPSTR is a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. This year LOPSTR is part of the Bologna Federated Conference in Programming languages, together 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 any of these areas are welcome. Survey papers and papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. SUBMISSION: Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). 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 LNCS style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages excluding references. Additional pages may be used for appendices (not intended for publication) but note that reviewers are not required to read appendices. Papers should be submitted via the Easychair. Proceedings ----------- Post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in LNCS. 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. INVITED SPEAKER Philipp Ruemmer (University of Uppsala, Sweden). 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 Programme Committee Chair: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk --- Professor Maribel Fernandez Department of Informatics, King?s College London Strand Campus, Bush House, 30 Aldwych London WC2B 4BG www.nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If you have a paper to present, then you need to pay a nominal registration fee (see below), but otherwise, the registration is free of charge. ************************************************************************ 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. * Keynote Speakers * - Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique - Holger Hermanns, Saarland University - Peter Kriens, OSGi Alliance Schedule, Title and abstracts available at https://www.discotec.org/2020/programme * Main Conferences (Jun 16 - 18) * - 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) * Satellite Events * - DisCoTec Tools (https://www.discotec.org/2020/tutorials) Tutorial Sessions - ICE 2020 (https://www.discotec.org/2020/ice) 13th Workshop on Interaction and Concurrency Experience - FOCODILE 2020 (https://www.discotec.org/2020/focodile) 1st International Workshop on the Foundations of Consensus and Distributed Ledgers * Registration * The conference registration can be found at https://www.um.edu.mt/events/discotec2020/registration If you have a paper to present, then you need to pay a nominal registration fee, but otherwise, the registration is free of charge. If the paper has more than one author, only the presenter needs to pay the registration fee (the other authors can register free of charge). A limited amount of student travel grants are provided by IFIP. Deadline for registration: 08 June 2020 midnight CET Coordination/DAIS/FORTE Paper Registration fee: EUR 50 Workshop Paper Registration fee: EUR 10 Participant Registration fee: FREE (Access to the tutorial sessions on Monday 15 June, access to keynote speakers and all three conference presentations on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 16-18 June, access to workshops on Friday 19 June) * 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 j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk Thu May 28 11:37:04 2020 From: j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk (Wickerson, John P) Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 15:37:04 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI 2020 - registration closing soon Message-ID: If you're planning on attending virtual PLDI next month, please note that registration is open until Friday 5 June: https://pldi20.sigplan.org/. Registration is FREE, and you will get: * 77 top-quality PLDI paper presentations with live Q&As, * 16 Ask-me-anything sessions where you can hang out with some of the world's foremost experts on (and even some of the creators of) Rust, C++, Java, LLVM, Swift, Lisp, Haskell, and Scheme, * four tutorials, * the Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), * two co-located conferences (ISMM and LCTES), * four co-located workshops, and * the Student Research Competition. Looking forward to seeing you and your colleagues and students at PLDI in a few weeks! https://pldi20.sigplan.org/ Best wishes, John -- Dr John Wickerson Lecturer Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London https://johnwickerson.github.io From mark.harman at ucl.ac.uk Fri May 29 03:38:55 2020 From: mark.harman at ucl.ac.uk (Harman, Mark) Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 07:38:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Request for funding Proposals on automatically finding and fixing bugs using Web Enabled Simulation (WES). Message-ID: <2B5CD6C1-8135-44A0-9529-3DD0FD3039F8@ucl.ac.uk> Here is the Facebook Request for funding Proposals on automatically finding and fixing bugs using Web Enabled Simulation (WES). Deadline: July 15th 2020. It's a light touch funding process: you need only write a short two page proposal. - There is a paper about WES here: https://research.fb.com/publications/wes-agent-based-user-interaction-simulation-on-real-infrastructure/ - The request for funding proposals is here: https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/05/new-research-award-opportunities-in-agent-based-user-interaction-simulation/ Relevant research areas include (but are not limited to) - AI-assisted gameplay - Causal inference - Evolutionary computation - Game theory, graph theory - Information theory - Machine learning - Multi-agent systems - Predictive modeling - Programming languages - Search-based software engineering - Simulation - Software repository mining - Software testing (in particular, social testing) Looking forward to receiving your research proposals. Mark Harman, (Part Time) Professor of Software Engineering (UCL) & (Full Time) Research Scientist at Facebook. 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The applicant is responsible for the organisation and further development of the teaching and research portfolios for secure IT-Systems, in particular for the Computer Science (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) and Digital Technologies (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) courses of study. The professorship will focus on innovative areas of Secure IT-Systems with a high potential for innovation and third-party funding. In particular, the following scientific expertise is expected: 1. Security Approaches from Development to Operations (IT-Security for DevOps) 2. Static Analysis of Software, in particular regarding IT-Security. The applicant should also have substantial research experience in at least one of the following areas: 3. Programming Languages for Secure Systems 4. Proof-Carrying Code & Compiler for Secure Systeme 5. Symbolic Execution or Symbolic Testing for Secure Systems 6. Security Monitoring of IT-Systems in Operation 7. Defense for IT-Systems in case of attacks 8. Security for Cloud Applications 9. Structured approaches to IT Security in DevOps The main goal is to establish a research branch in Secure IT-Systems at TU Clausthal that is strong in research and third-party funding. Within the university, the professorship should actively contribute to the Open Cyberphysical Systems and Simulation research area and thus strengthen the digitalization-related research profile of our engineering sciences and computer science institutes. We expect the appointed applicant to become an active member of the Center for Digital Technologies (DIGIT). This includes in particular the participation in the bachelor, master and further education programs of the joint study program Digital Technologies as well as the further development of this study program, which Clausthal University of Technology and the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences offer in cooperation. In addition, the DIGIT and the associated silverLabs digitalisation laboratories offer the opportunity to actively participate in research projects. Cooperating with the Clausthal Research Center for Environmental Technologies (CUTEC) and the Simulation Science Center Clausthal-G?ttingen (SWZ) is also desired. The requirements of the position are defined in Section 30 of the Niedersachsen Higher Education Act (Nieders?chsisches Hochschulgesetz NHG). Junior professors are appointed to a fixed term of three years (in line with ? 30 Abs. 4 of the Niedersachsen Higher Education Act, NHG). In case of a positive evaluation of this term, the appointment can be extended by up to three additional years. After at most five years overall, the tenure-track evaluation process as outlined in the ?Tenure Track Ordnung der TU Clausthal? (Ordnung zur Gew?hrung einer Professur auf Lebenszeit im Tenure Track-Verfahren) can be initiated. In case of a positive outcome and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the junior professorship will be converted to a permanent professorship (Salary Scale W2). Experience in the acquisition of third-party funded projects is expected. The willingness to hold courses in German and English is a prerequisite. Strong commitment to teaching is expected. The Clausthal University of Technology wishes to increase the number of its female faculty. Therefore, applications from female candidates are particularly welcome. Candidates with disabilities who are equally qualified will be given preference. Applications from international scientists are welcome; proficiency in the German language is desired for teaching and committee work. A part-time professorship is possible upon request. Applicants who are 50 years or older at the time the appointment commences and who do not hold already a permanent civil servant status (Beamtenverh?ltnis auf Lebenszeit) will be employed with employee status (Angestelltenverh?ltnis). Further information is available from the Chairman of the Search Committee, Prof. Dr. Stephan Westphal, Phone: +49 (0) 5323 72-2491, Fax: +49 (0) 5323 72-2304, Email: stephan.westphal at tu-clausthal.de. Applications with the usual documents must be submitted until 16.06.2020 in electronic form (one single PDF file to fakultaet3 at tu-clausthal.de) addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics/Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at Clausthal University of Technology, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Wesling, Leibnizstr. 6, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany. 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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. Details: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG01270/research-assistant-research-associate ------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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The focus of Imperial College London Group is theories and applications of (Multiparty) Session Types (JACM,POPL'08) which include: -- Go (ECOOP'20,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 (ECOOP'20), 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference will be preceded by a series of workshops, which will take place on 6-7 July 2020. ================= Invited Speakers ================= - Stefan Kiefer, University of Oxford (Track B) - Robert Krauthgamer, the Weizmann Institute of Science (Track A) - Jerome Leroux, University of Bordeaux (Joint ICALP-LICS plenary speaker) - Virginia Vassilevska Williams, MIT (Track A) - Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University (Joint ICALP-LICS plenary speaker) ==================== High quality papers ==================== ICALP 2020 features 138 high quality papers, spanning two thematic tracks: - Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games - Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming For the list of accepted papers, see: https://icalp2020.saarland-informatics-campus.de/programme/ =============== Special Events =============== - Awards sessions, including: The EATCS Award: Mihalis Yannakakis The Presburger Award: Dmitriy Zhuk The Goedel Prize: Robin Moser and Gabor Tardos - The EATCS General Assembly =================== Programme and Registration =================== Video recordings of all contributed talks will be made available a few days before the conference. Invited talks will be streamed live at fixed time according to the programme (with recordings available to view later). There will be live question and answer sessions with authors of contributed papers during the conference. All talks are available to view free of cost. Participation in live question and answer sessions requires registration. This is free of cost (except for registration fees required of authors). For the detailed programme see: https://icalp2020.saarland-informatics-campus.de/programme/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 455 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From walther.neuper at jku.at Mon Jun 1 07:35:27 2020 From: walther.neuper at jku.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 13:35:27 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ThEdu'20/EPTCS proceedings 2nd call for papers Message-ID: <3293c5a8-3c7c-2549-1511-8a588f47d6dd@jku.at> ????????????????????????? Open 2nd Call for Papers ************************************************************************** ??????????????????????? Proceedings for ThEdu'20??????????? ??????????? Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software ?????????????? http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/thedu20 ************************************************************************** ??????????????????????? to be published by EPTCS, ?????????? Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science ?????????????????????? http://published.eptcs.org ************************************************************************** Synopsis ? ThEdu'20 was accepted as a workshop at IJCAR 2020, the International ? Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, June 29 - July 5, 2020, ? Paris, France (https://ijcar2020.org/). ? The interest expressed for the workshop was such, that the PC ? decided to publish proceedings, in spite of cancellation after IJCAR ? become virtual.? Thanks to a decision of the EPTCS editorial board ? adapting to the specific situation, the proceedings already received ? the approval to be published by EPTCS. 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. Important Dates ?* Full Papers:???????? 14 June 2020 ?* Author Notification: 12 July 2020 ?* Revised papers due:? 13 Sept.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 full papers presenting original unpublished work ? which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. ? All contributions will be reviewed (blind review) by three members ? of the PC for each submission, to meet the high standards of EPTCS. ? ? The authors should comply with the "instructions for authors", LaTeX ? style files and accept the "Non-exclusive license to distribute" of ? EPTCS: Instructions for authors (http://info.eptcs.org/) LaTeX style ? file and formatting instructions (http://style.eptcs.org/) Copyright ? (http://copyright.eptcs.org/) ? Papers should be submitted via EasyChair,?? ? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thedu20. 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 ? 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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. 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URL: From jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Jun 1 13:24:41 2020 From: jamie.vicary at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 18:24:41 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics -- Summer Programme 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 an online-only series of 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.) Starting this Wednesday, we are excited to announce the first of our OWLS Young Researcher talks, given by a researcher within 7 years of completing their PhD. A new initiative, these OWLS-YR talks will take place fortnightly, interleaved with regular OWLS talks. Our goal is to give a platform to the excellent work being done by junior members of the community. All members of the community are encouraged to attend these talks. ** UPCOMING PROGRAMME ** Talks take place on Wednesdays at 2pm UTC+1. Abstracts are available at the OWLS homepage. Visit this link to sign up for reminder emails on the day of the talk: https://bit.ly/3cm0GZG - 3 June (OWLS-YR). Dmitry Chistikov, University of Warwick, "Parikh's theorem from the complexity viewpoint" - 10 June (OWLS). Valeria Vignudelli, ENS Lyon, "Monads and quantitative equational theories for nondeterminism and probability" - 17 June (OWLS-YR). Marie Fortin, University of Liverpool, "FO=FO3 for linear orders with monotone binary relations" - 24 June (OWLS). Anupam Das, University of Birmingham - 1 July (OWLS-YR). Amina Doumane, CNRS, ENS de Lyon - 8 July (OWLS). Christine Tasson, IRIF, Paris - 15 July (OWLS-YR). Justin Hsu, University of Wisconsin?Madison, "A separation logic for probabilistic independence" - 22 July (OWLS). Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University ** SEMINAR INFORMATION ** 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. After and before each seminar, the participants split into small groups for informal discussion, an optional feature of the seminars which has already become a favourite feature of the series for many of the regular participants. Everybody is welcome to join these friendly discussions. 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. Best wishes, the organizers: - Nathana?l Fijalkow, CNRS, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France - Charles Grellois, Universit? Aix-Marseille, France. - S. Krishna, IIT Bombay, India - Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan - Alexandra Silva, University College London - Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology - Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge From anupamdotdas at gmail.com Mon Jun 1 14:23:21 2020 From: anupamdotdas at gmail.com (anupamdotdas at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 19:23:21 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Proof Theory Blog Message-ID: <018601d63841$bbc1d380$33457a80$@gmail.com> Dear Colleagues, We would like to announce the launch of a new collaborative project: The Proof Theory Blog. http://prooftheory.blog/ The purpose of this blog is to give proof theorists a venue to communicate ideas, work in progress, or observations that may be relevant to the proof theory community. In addition to core topics in proof theory, we are keen to receive contributions which explore applications in and connections to different areas of mathematics, computer science or philosophy. Ultimately, we hope that the blog can evolve into a vibrant forum for proof theoretic discussion and collaboration. However, to achieve this we need contributions from the broader proof theory community! So this announcement is also a warm invitation for you to get involved. If you are interested in writing a post please get in touch with us and we can set you up as a contributor. One feature of the blog is that it has been adapted for academic writing (e.g. with latex and bibtex support), particularly with proof theory in mind. We are also maintaining a page that curates resources for proof theorists, such as listings for online seminars or links to other blogs: http://prooftheory.blog/resources/. Do let us know if you think there is something that we should include here. The Proof Theory Blog is currently edited by Anupam Das and Thomas Powell . Please get in touch if you would like to be involved in any capacity. Finally, please don't hesitate to send us any comments and suggestions you might have! Anupam & Thomas From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Tue Jun 2 09:10:41 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Mihaela Rozman) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 15:10:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 12 PhD Positions in the Doctoral Program Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS) - fully funded - Vienna, Austria - Deadline: 12 June 2020 Message-ID: <16c301d638df$37960790$a6c216b0$@tuwien.ac.at> ========================================================== ========================================================== TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) TU Graz (Graz University of Technology), and JKU Linz (Johannes Kepler University), are seeking highly qualified PhD candidates for the joint doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). We are recruiting up to 12 fully funded doctoral candidates for a starting period of 3 years. STARTING DATE: Negotiable LOCATION: Vienna or Graz, Austria (candidate?s choice) SALARY: The PhD candidates receive an employment contract DEADLINE: June 12, 2020 WEBSITE: https://logic-cs.at/phd ========================================================== ========================================================== The PhD program focuses on interdisciplinary research topics covering ? computational logic, and applications of logic to ? databases and artificial intelligence, ? computer-aided verification, ? security and privacy, ? cyber-physical systems, as well as to ? distributed systems. ========================================================== ============= RESEARCH AREAS ============= At the moment we are particularly looking for PhD candidates interested in the following areas: * Automated Software Verification * Description Logics * Epistemic logic in distributed computing * Game-based Semantics * Fixed-Parameter Algorithms and Complexity * Formal Verification of hybrid systems * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Model Checking * Modeling and analysis of digital integrated circuits * Networking and Communication Technology * Normative Reasoning * Ontology-based Data Access * Security and Privacy * Scheduling and logic programming * Study of the Interaction between rules from a knowledge base and rules arising from machine learning * Topology in distributed computing * Quantified Boolean Formulas ============= THE PROGRAM ============= Our PhD program LogiCS is focusing on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful applicants will work with and be mentored by leading researchers in the fields of computational logic, databases and knowledge representation, computer-aided verification, security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, and distributed systems. The LogiCS doctoral program offers top research expertise, and a stimulating and supportive environment. The LogiCS is coordinated by TU Wien, which offers an outstanding research environment and numerous professional development opportunities. The Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien is the largest one in Austria and is consistently ranked among the best in Europe. The founding body of the LogiCS, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), offers multiple funding opportunities for young researchers to advance their independent scientific careers. ============= FACULTY MEMBERS ============= - E. Bartocci - A. Biere - R. Bloem - A. Ciabattoni - T. Eiter - G. Gottlob - R. Grosu - L. Kovacs - M. Maffei - M. Ortiz - U. Schmid - M. Seidl - S. Szeider - G. Weissenbacher - S. Woltran The LogiCS faculty comprises 15 renowned researchers with strong records in research, teaching and advising, complemented by 15 associated members who further strengthen the research and teaching activities of the college. ============= POSITIONS AND FUNDING ============= * We are looking for 12 very strong doctoral students. * The doctoral positions are funded for at least 3 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT) * The location of the research post is Vienna or Graz, Austria. ============= HOW TO APPLY ============= Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS web-page: https://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ * The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent diploma or master?s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. * Candidates with comparable achievements will be considered on a case-by-case basis. * Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. Application Deadline: June 12, 2020 ============= LOGIC IN AUSTRIA ============= Austria has a highly active and successful logic in the computer science community. Recent activities include: Austrian Research Network in Rigorous Systems Engineering - http://www.arise.or.at Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms - http://www.vcla.at International Kurt Goedel Society - http://www.kgs.logic.at ============= HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE ============= The Austrian cities Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps and surrounded by beautiful nature, provide an exceptionally high quality of life, with a vibrant cultural scene, numerous cultural events, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, a varied cuisine and famous coffee houses. If you decide to be located in Vienna, the city features a vibrant and excellence-driven research landscape, with several leading research institutes (e.g., University of Vienna, IST, AIT, SBA) and universities continuously establishing collaborations in various fields. Finally, Vienna has been consistently ranked by Mercer over the last years the best city for quality of life worldwide. ============= ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ============= LogiCS web-page: https://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ For further information please contact: info at logic-cs.at ============= TWITTER ============= @vclaTUwien -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Jun 2 10:02:12 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:02:12 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions: ICFP Student Research Competition Message-ID: <5ed65be4cfff3_bbe12b160d7105a4288d1@homer.mail> ICFP 2020 Student Research Competition Call for Submissions ICFP invites students to participate in the Student Research Competition, which will be held virtually alongside the main conference, in order to present their research and receive feedback from prominent members of the programming language research community. As usual, the SRC consists of three rounds: * Extended abstract * Poster session at ICFP 2020 * ICFP presentation To make the virtual competition fruitful, we will make sure that every student will have an "invited audience"?during the poster?session.? We are also planning to organize a social event for the students. Please visit the SRC website for updates. ### Important Dates Submissions due: 26 Jun 2020 (Friday) https://icfp20src.hotcrp.com Notification: 10 July 2020 (Friday) Conference: 23 August (Sunday) - 28 August (Friday) ### Submission Details Each submission (referred to as "abstract" below) should include the student author?s name and e-mail address; institutional affiliation; research advisor?s name; ACM student member number; category (undergraduate or graduate); research title; and an extended abstract addressing the following: * Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem. * Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work in the context of ICFP areas of interest. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others. * Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in addressing the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel. * Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to programming language design and implementation in particular and to computer science in general; explain the significance of those results. * Submissions must be original research that is not already published at ICFP or another conference or journal. One of the goals of the SRC is to give students feedback on ongoing, unpublished work. Furthermore, the abstract must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and*or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student?s role was and should focus on that portion of the work. * 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 https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions. For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format. The submission must not exceed 3 pages in PDF format. Reference lists do not count towards the 3-page limit. Further information is available at the ICFP SRC website: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-Student-Research-Competition Program Committee: Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Stephen Chang (University of Massachusetts Boston) Jesper Cockx (Delft University of Technology) Hsiang-Shang Ko (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica) Cyrus Omar (University of Michigan) From dr.ross.duncan at gmail.com Wed Jun 3 06:12:55 2020 From: dr.ross.duncan at gmail.com (Ross Duncan) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:12:55 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP : International Workshop on Quantum Compilation : 23-24 Sept 2020 Message-ID: Note to moderator : since type systems for quantum computing are included in the workshop topics we believe this notice is relevant for TYPES. --- IWQC 2020 Call for contributions --- 4rd International Workshop on Quantum Compilation. https://quantumweek2020.cambridgequantum.com/iwqc20.html We invite contributions to the 4th International Workshop on Quantum Compilation. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from quantum computing, electronic design automation, and compiler construction. Open questions that we anticipate this group to tackle include new methods for circuit synthesis and optimization, optimizations and rewriting, techniques for verifying the correctness of quantum programs, and new techniques for compiling efficient circuits and protocols regarding fault-tolerant and architecture constraints.The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, current hot topics in quantum circuit design such as : * space-optimizing compilers for reversible circuits * design-space exploration for automatic code generation from classical HDL specification * quantum programming languages and type systems * reversible logic synthesis * technology-aware mapping * error correction * optimized libraries (e.g., for arithmetic and Hamiltonian simulation) * benchmarking of circuits for small and medium scale quantum computers * quantum and reversible circuit peep-holing and (re)synthesis * software and tools for all above mentioned topics * quantum outreach: coding contests, tutorials, education Due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic the workshop will happen as an online virtual event. We will investigate the possibility of an in-person meeting if the situation improves, but the full participation in the workshop will be possible remotely. Invited Speakers : * Eleanor Rieffel, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) NASA Ames Research Center * Margaret Martonosi, Quantum computer architecture and programming languages research group (QArch), Princeton University Important dates: * 14 August 2020: Submission of abstracts * 31 August 2020: Notification of decisions * 23 and 24 September 2020 : Workshop Note that IWQC20 forms part of a week long sequence of workshops on quantum computing; see https://quantumweek2020.cambridgequantum.com/ Instructions for authors : The main purpose of the workshop is to exchange recent ideas and research in the area of quantum compilation. The workshop has no formal proceedings. Authors are invited to submit an abstract or a paper, with no restrictions on the format. 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URL: From kaustuv.chaudhuri at inria.fr Wed Jun 3 12:18:19 2020 From: kaustuv.chaudhuri at inria.fr (Kaustuv Chaudhuri) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 18:18:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Joint Call for Participation: IJCAR 2020 + FSCD 2020 + 17 workshops and events, June 29 -- July 6, 2020 Message-ID: <1716725697.14333996.1591201099231.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> ======================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- June 29 to July 6, 2020 10th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) https://ijcar2020.org and 5th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) https://fscd2020.org and 17 affiliated workshops and events (list below) ======================================================================== All conferences and affiliated events will be virtualized. Registration is **FREE** and required for all participants. https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/register Due to the different virtualization modes, the organizers have decided to split the registration among the conferences and the affiliated workshops and events. Invited Speakers ---------------- IJCAR-FSCD Joint Invited Speakers - John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA - Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria FSCD Invited Speakers - Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK - Simona Ronchi della Rocca, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada IJCAR Invited Speakers - Clark Barrett, Stanford University, USA - Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA Technical Program ----------------- The IJCAR and FSCD technical program consists of four days of technical sessions. The final program will be announced shortly. IJCAR accepted papers: http://membres-lig.imag.fr/peltier/IJCAR2020_accepted.html FSCD accepted papers: https://fscd2020.org/accepted Affiliated workshops and events ------------------------------- https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/workshops - Linearity & TLLA (Joint Workshop on Linearity and Trends in Linear Logic and Applications, June 29-30) - UNIF (Workshop on Unification, June 29) - WPTE (Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation, June 29) - Proof Ground (June 29) - LFMTP (Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice, June 29) - WiL (Women in Logic, June 30) - IWC (International Workshop on Confluence, June 30) - IFIP WG 1.6 (June 30) - Isabelle Workshop (June 30) - PAAR (Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning, June 30) - HoTT/UF (Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations, July 5-6) - GeoCat (Geometric and Categorical Structures for Computation and Deduction, July 5-6) - The Coq Workshop (July 5-6) - SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories, July 5-6) - TERMGRAPH (July 5) - CASC-J10 (The CADE ATP Systems Competition) http://www.tptp.org/CASC/J10/ - Termination and Complexity Competition 2020 http://www.termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_Competition_2020 Virtualization Details ---------------------- The conference will run in the CEST (UTC+2) timezone. We will use the Zoom platform to host all the sessions of the conferences and the affiliated workshops and events (where applicable). We will have a mixture of live and pre-recorded talks, but all talks will have a live Q&A. Registered participants will be given invitations to the main events before the start of the event. We are also planning to have a (nonparticipatory) broadcast of the conference sessions for the benefit of participants who are unable to use Zoom. Finally, we plan to make available recordings of the talks for a certain period after the talks. (We will seek a written consent from speakers for any such recordings.) From gopalan at cs.umn.edu Wed Jun 3 16:27:01 2020 From: gopalan at cs.umn.edu (Gopalan Nadathur) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:27:01 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral Opening at the University of Minnesota Message-ID: Applications are invited for a one-year postdoctoral position at the University of Minnesota related to an NSF-funded project entitled "A Higher-Order Framework for Meta-Theoretic Reasoning." The position is available immediately and reviews of applications will be conducted as they are received. The project within which the appointment is to be made concerns the development of a framework that supports the encoding of rule-based relational specifications and the process of reasoning about such specifications through the encoding. A defining characteristic of the project is its focus on the so-called higher-order abstract syntax approach to representing objects that embody a binding structure. Ongoing work is aimed at developing systems for reasoning about specifications encoded in linear logic as well as in the dependently typed lambda calculus LF. The group is also interested in furthering its earlier work that has demonstrated the benefits of higher-order representations of syntax in the verification of compilers and transformers for functional programming languages. Another direction of investigation is that of enhancing the logic underlying the Abella proof assistant (see http://abella-prover.org) with the capability of predicate quantification and on exhibiting the usefulness of such an enhancement through a collection of targeted reasoning applications. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in and help lead the work in some of these directions. To be suitable for the position, the candidate should be broadly conversant with the areas of computational logic and programming languages and should have the mathematical and programming skills necessary for conducting research in them. Some particular facets that would be help in engaging immediately with the research problems are a prior exposure to a proof assistant or logical framework such as Coq, Isabelle or Abella, programming experience with a functional language such as OCaml, an understanding of proof theoretic treatments of aspects such as induction and co-induction, and familiarity with issues related to proof search in sequent calculi and similar logical systems. Please feel free to contact me (Gopalan Nadathur, ngopalan at umn.edu) for more details about the topics of research within the project, the necessary background and other relevant details about the position. To view the official announcement, please visit the URL https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/330828. This site also provides details about how to apply and serves as the portal for applications. The application process will require you to submit a letter indicating your interest, a current CV, one or two of your papers broadly related to the topics of research and the names and contact details for two references who might be contacted as part of the application review process. Note that a prerequisite for employment is a doctoral degree in Computer Science or closely related field. -Gopalan Nadathur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hossein.haeri at gmail.com Tue Jun 2 04:39:36 2020 From: hossein.haeri at gmail.com (Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 10:39:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Call for Speakers - PRiML 2020 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, Please consider providing a talk to the following workshop which will now be held online. Sorry for cross-posting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Speakers Workshop on Programming Research in Mainstream Languages (PRiML) Saarbr?cken, Germany, Mon July 6th, 2020 https://agozillon.github.io/PRiML PRiML 2020 will be held online. Registration is free. # About PRiML The First Workshop on Programming Research in Mainstream Languages is co-located with the Thirty-Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2020) & the 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2020) in Saarbr?cken, Germany, in July, 2020. The PRiML workshop will consist of invited talks by leading experts and shorter contributed talks selected by the Program Committee. Programming language (PL) research in mainstream languages, entails challenges beyond those encountered within the isolation of the laboratory. Mainstream PLs, are supported by their many users, who expect stability, but so too innovation ? whether within the language itself, or its standard libraries. A mainstream PL needs to support the initial concept critique, subsequent implementations, political calculations, and, ultimate bureaucracy involved in the execution of full support for novel features ? often across multiple implementations. All that debate is due to real concerns about feature interaction. Performing PL research within a mainstream language can bring a hitherto proven research concept from the laboratory to a wider audience. Moreover, of course, the lack of isolation presents fresh challenges as new concepts must fund their own idiomatic expressions over the debate on feature interaction. One finds such expressions either within an existing PL or as a new PL with the funding or wherewithal to approach a mainstream audience. On the other hand, the prototype PL crafted for experimenting with a research idea might have features remote from existing mainstream PLs. Choosing a mainstream PL to host the same research entails a fresh examination of the host?s features for their suitability for the research. The implication might be a very different feature set from the host or simulation to those of the prototype in the mainstream PL. Either way, the added benefit is solving the same research problem using a fresh set of features. # Preparation of submissions We are looking for talks about PL research within mainstream PLs. Prospective speakers should consider topics which: 1) briefly report on PL research performed with a mainstream PL; and 2) clearly outline the added value of the chosen PL(s) for the reported research. We invite contributions from innovators working with classic TIOBE programming language mainstays such as Java, C, C++, Python and C#. But so too we welcome maturing Stack Overflow darlings such as Rust, Swift, Go and beyond. Talk titles along with abstracts should be submitted by email to the program chairs. Contact details are available on the [workshop website](https://agozillon.github.io/PRiML). # Important Dates Proposal submission deadline: Friday June 5th Author notification: by Friday June 12th Workshop: Monday July 6th # Program Chairs The workshop is co-organized by Seyed Hossein Haeri (Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Paul Keir (University of the West of Scotland, UK). Contact details are available on the [workshop website](https://agozillon.github.io/PRiML). Please consider the environment and think before you print. The University of the West of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity. Charity number SC002520. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University of the West of Scotland. As a public body, the University of the West of Scotland may be required to make available emails as well as other written forms of information as a result of a request made under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein), Dr. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Computing Science and Engineering Catholic University of Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From massimo.merro at univr.it Wed Jun 3 03:57:25 2020 From: massimo.merro at univr.it (Massimo Merro) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:57:25 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 13 PhD Positions in Computer Science and System Engineering at University of Verona Message-ID: <714F8220-C059-472A-A5B3-ADE93CC7219D@univr.it> *** Apologies for multiple copies **** We are glad to announce 13 fully-funded PhD positions within the PhD program in Computer Science coordinated by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona, Italy. The positions are the following: -- 8 positions, funded by Verona University in Computer Science and System engineering (open subject); -- 1 position, funded by the MIUR project ?Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018-2022?, with subject ?Informatics for Industry 4.0? (topics include: design of Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT systems, Security of IoT and Cyber-physical systems, Machine intelligence, Formal and semi-formal verification, Big-data); -- 2 positions, funded by the project H2020 - ARS - "Automatic Robotic Surgery?, with the following subjects: i) ?Intelligent instruments for autonomous robotic surgery?; ii) ?Advanced control methods for autonomous robotic surgery?; -- 2 positions funded by the project H2020 - TUBE - ?Ultrafines and the Brain effects", with the following subjects: i) ?Advanced methods for omics integration to understand ultrafine particle interaction in the brain?; ii) ?Efficient single cell omics analysis to understand the ultrafine effects in the brain?. 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URL: From lburguenoc at uoc.edu Thu Jun 4 03:59:01 2020 From: lburguenoc at uoc.edu (=?UTF-8?Q?Loli_Burgue=C3=B1o?=) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:59:01 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: SLE 2020 - 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering Message-ID: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2020) November 15-20, 2020 Chicago, Illinois, United States https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2020 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2020), held in conjunction with SPLASH, GPCE and SAS 2020 in Chicago, Illinois, on November 15-20, 2020. -=-=-=-=-=- Scope -=-=-=-=-=- The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to the principles of software languages: their design, their implementation, and their evolution. With the ubiquity of computers, software has become the dominating intellectual asset of our time. In turn, this software depends on software languages, namely the languages it is written in, the languages used to describe its environment, and the languages driving its development process. Given that everything depends on software and that software depends on software languages, it seems fair to say that for many years to come, everything will depend on software languages. Software language engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. While SLE is certainly driven by its metacircular character (software languages are engineered using software languages), SLE is not self-satisfying: its scope extends to the engineering of languages for all and everything. Like its predecessors, the 13th edition of the SLE conference, SLE 2020, will bring together researchers from different areas united by their common interest in the creation, capture, and tooling of software languages. It overlaps with traditional conferences on the design and implementation of programming languages, model-driven engineering, and compiler construction, and emphasizes the fusion of their communities. To foster the latter, SLE traditionally fills a two-day program with a single track, with the only temporal overlap occurring between co-located events. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Topics of Interest -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SLE 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. Broadly speaking, SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software Language Design and Implementation - Approaches to and methods for language design - Static semantics (e.g. design rules, well-formedness constraints) - Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics - Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) - Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Software Language Validation - Verification and formal methods for languages - Testing techniques for languages - Simulation techniques for languages * Software Language Integration and Composition - Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools - Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) - Traceability between languages - Deployment of languages to different platforms * Software Language Maintenance - Software language reuse - Language evolution - Language families and variability * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools - User studies evaluating usability - Performance benchmarks - Industrial applications -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Important Dates -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- All dates are Anywhere on Earth. * Mon 20 Jul 2020 - Abstract Submission * Mon 27 Jul 2020 - Paper Submission * Wed Sept 9th 2020 - Author Notification * Wed Sep 16th 2020 - Artifact Submission * Mon 12 Oct 2020 - Camera ready deadline * Mon 26 Oct 2020 - Artifact notification * Sun 15 Nov - Fri 20 Nov 2020 - SLE Conference -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Types of Submissions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * Research papers: These are "traditional" papers detailing research contributions to SLE. These papers have a limit of 12 pages, and may optionally include 8 further pages of bibliography/appendices * Tool papers: These are papers which focus on the tooling aspects which are often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that are likely to be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. They may optionally come with an appendix with a demo outline / screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. Tool paper titles must start with "Tool Demo:". * New ideas / vision papers: These are forward-looking papers about ideas that will interest the SLE community but which are not currently at an advanced level of research. These might be about new research avenues or about integrating existing research ideas, or technologies. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 5 pages, and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Artifact Evaluation -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- For the fifth year SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation page: http://www.sleconf.org/2020/ArtifactEvaluation.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Submission -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart" ( http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format); please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template ( https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip), and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors? own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. Concurrent Submissions: Papers must describe unpublished work Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN?s Republication Policy ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication). Submitters should also be aware of ACM?s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism ( http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: Submissions will be accepted at https://sle20.hotcrp.com/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Reviewing Process -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas / vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. -=-=-=-=-=- Awards -=-=-=-=-=- * Distinguished paper: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. * Distinguished reviewer: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs. * Distinguished artifact: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Publication -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Program Committee -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jonathan Aldrich, CMU, USA Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany Olivier Barais, ?Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA?, France Artur Boronat, University of Leicester, UK Erwan Bousse, University of Nantes, France Javier Canovas, UOC - IN3, Spain Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Aston University, UK Sebastian Erdweg, JGU Mainz, Germany Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA G?rel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Padmanabhan Krishnan, Oracle Labs, Australia Thomas K?hne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand S?rgio Queiroz de Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Yann R?gis-Gianas, IRIF - INRIA, France Elizabeth Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Chris Seaton, Shopify, UK Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversit?t in Hagen, Germany Tijs van der Storm, CWI, Netherlands Eugene Syriani, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada Jes?s S?nchez Cuadrado, University of Murcia, Spain Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Markus Voelter, independent/itemis Vadim Zaytsev, Raincode Labs, Belgium Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria -=-=-=-=-=- Contact -=-=-=-=-=- For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the Programme Chairs (Juan de Lara and Laurence Tratt) by email ( Juan.deLara at uam.es and laurie at tratt.net). -- INFORMACI? 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URL: From maribel.fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Sat Jun 6 06:48:14 2020 From: maribel.fernandez at kcl.ac.uk (Fernandez, Maria Isabel) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:48:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2020: Extended Deadlines Message-ID: <2AC0DD16-DFEC-4662-A708-0A594378EC3B@kcl.ac.uk> ====================================================================== LOPSTR 2020: Call for Papers ====================================================================== 30th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez/LOPSTR2020/ ONLINE 7-9 September 2020 ====================================================================== Abstract Deadline EXTENDED: 12 June 2020 (AoE) Paper Deadline EXTENDED: 19 June 2020 (AoE) ====================================================================== The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. This year LOPSTR is part of the Bologna Federated Conference in Programming languages, together 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 any of these areas are welcome. Survey papers and papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work and cannot exceed 15 pages in LNCS style, excluding references. Additional pages may be used for appendices (not intended for publication). Reviewers are not required to read appendices. Papers should be submitted via Easychair. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: 12 June 2020 (AoE) Paper/Extended abstract submission: 19 June 2020 (AoE) Notification: 19 July 2020 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): 12 August 2020 Symposium: 7-9 September 2020 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. PROCEEDINGS Post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in LNCS. 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. INVITED SPEAKER Philipp Ruemmer (University of Uppsala, Sweden). 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 Programme Committee Chair: Maribel.Fernandez at kcl.ac.uk --- Professor Maribel Fernandez Department of Informatics, King?s College London Strand Campus, Bush House, 30 Aldwych London WC2B 4BG www.nms.kcl.ac.uk/maribel.fernandez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From victor.lanvin at irif.fr Sat Jun 6 13:24:37 2020 From: victor.lanvin at irif.fr (Victor Lanvin) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 19:24:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2020: First Call for Students Volunteers Message-ID: Please don't hesitate to share this information with your students, classmates or colleagues! ICFP'20 FIRST CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS ========================================= ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. In order to smoothly run the conference, associated workshops, and tutorials, we need student volunteers to help out on the practical aspect of the organization. All the events associated with ICFP'20 will take place **virtually** from Sun 23 - Fri 28 August 2020. Even though the event will be virtual, we will more than ever need the help of student volunteers to make sure everything runs smoothly. In return, as an ICFP 2020 student volunteer, you will get more visibility and be able to interact closely with researchers, academics and practitioners from various disciplines and discuss with other students from around the world. While the exact structure of the conference is still being discussed, job assignments for student volunteers will probably include: 1- Assisting with technical sessions, workshops, tutorials, Q&A sessions, and panels. 2- Helping to get authors' videos prepped and ready for broadcast. 3- Managing the various slack channels and social activities. To be considered as a Student Volunteer for ICFP, please fill in the following application form. https://forms.gle/TRN9LxWWkfR3sHtN6 The permanent link to this form can be found on the official conference website. https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-student-volunteering There are two rounds of calls with the following deadlines: * deadline for first round: June 21st, 2020 AoE (notification: June 23rd) * deadline for second round: July 19th, 2020 AoE (notification: July 21th) **Please note that the first deadline is in two weeks only!** Positive notifications given in the first round are firm and the second round is only for spots not filled by the first round. If your application is not accepted in the first round, it will automatically be included in the 2nd round. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Alvin (on behalf of the seminar series student organizers) From piotrm at cmu.edu Mon Jun 8 01:59:56 2020 From: piotrm at cmu.edu (Piotr Mardziel) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 22:59:56 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLAS 2019 talk recordings available Message-ID: Hello all. Talks from last year's ACM SIGSAC 14th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2019) are available on youtube. The links and a playlist can be found on the website: http://2019.plas.ws/ . More importantly, the submission deadline for PLAS 2020 is this Friday! See http://2020.plas.ws/ for more information. Best, Piotr (Peter) Mardziel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From publicityifl at gmail.com Mon Jun 8 08:13:55 2020 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (Jurriaan Hage) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 05:13:55 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First call for draft papers for IFL 2020 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages) Message-ID: Hello, Please, find below the final call for draft papers for IFL 2020. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL ================================================================================ IFL 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2020 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialisation - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - meta-programming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications ### Post-symposium peer-review Following IFL tradition, IFL 2020 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. Before the symposium authors submit draft papers. These draft papers will be screened by the program chair to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL. The draft papers will be made available to all participants at the symposium. Each draft paper is presented by one of the authors at the symposium. After the symposium every presenter is invited to submit a full paper, incorporating feedback from discussions at the symposium. Work submitted to IFL may not be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected for the formal proceedings. We plan to publish these proceedings in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library, as in previous years. ### Important dates Submission deadline of draft papers: 17 August 2020 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 19 August 2020 Registration deadline: 31 August 2020 IFL Symposium: 2-4 September 2020 Submission of papers for proceedings: 7 December 2020 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2021 Camera-ready version: 15 March 2021 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honoured article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Organisation IFL 2020 Chair: Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, UK IFL Publicity chair: Jurriaan Hage, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ### Virtual symposium Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2020 will be an online event, consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings. Registered participants can take part from anywhere in the world. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organisers for their work, which is reused here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Mon Jun 8 09:00:33 2020 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei, Matteo) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 13:00:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IEEE CSF 2020: Registration Message-ID: <553D26DB-0A23-49DA-99FF-917DE4CFC9D5@tuwien.ac.at> The 33rd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium is taking place online. The program features three outstanding invited speakers (Michael Hicks, Dan Boneh, and Amal Ahmed) and a great collection of papers. Further details are available at https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/CSF2020/program.html The registration is now open and the general registration fee is 50$ only. Please follow the registration instructions at https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/CSF2020/register.html to attend this exciting event! From sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt Mon Jun 8 15:55:09 2020 From: sandra at dcc.fc.up.pt (Sandra Alves) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 20:55:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2020 - Call for (Online) Participation Message-ID: <2C1E734C-76BE-466A-A3D3-9027E0EC637D@dcc.fc.up.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fifth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2020) June 29 ? July 5, 2020, Paris, France http://fscd2020.org/ The 2020 edition of FSCD and of its satellite workshops will be held online. Participation will be free, but a preregistration will be required to join the video meetings of the events. FSCD covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation (e.g. quantum computing, probabilistic computing, homotopy type theory), semantics and verification in new challenging areas (e.g. blockchain protocols or deep learning algorithms). REGISTRATION --------------- The registration page is already open and linked from: https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/register . INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Ren? Thiemann: FSCD-IJCAR joint speaker (http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/thiemann/ ) - John Harrison: IJCAR-FSCD 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 AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS: -------------------------- - Linearity & TLLA (Joint Workshop on Linearity and Trends in Linear Logic and Applications, June 29-30) - UNIF (Workshop on Unification, June 29) - WPTE (Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation, June 29) - WiL (Women in Logic, June 30) - IWC (International Workshop on Confluence, June 30) - IFIP WG 1.6 (June 30) - HoTT/UF (Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations, July 5-6) - GeoCat (Geometric and Categorical Structures for Computation and Deduction, July 5-6) - TERMGRAPH (July 5) 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. 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A Swedish PhD typically runs for 5 years (including 1 calendar year of teaching duties) and is a fully funded employment with pension benefits, paid vacation, possibility for extension due to parental leave, etc. Link to description of position: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=338944 Applicants should hold a Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent, or be about to finish one this summer. Especially meritorious is prior experience with implementation of execution environments, in particular OpenJDK and memory management / garbage collection, but there are also interesting possibilities for applicants with a strong computer architecture background. (See e.g. project description here: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=315117) STARTING DATE: From 2020-08-01 or as per agreement DEADLINE: June 25th, 2020 Link to description of position: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=338944 Applications must be submitted through the online form available at https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=338944 no later than 25 June 2020 (midnight CET). Questions can be directed to Tobias Wrigstad (tobias.wrigstad at it.uu.se). ------------------------------------------------------------ Tobias Wrigstad, Professor Distinguished University Teacher Head of Education Department of Information Technology Uppsala University, Sweden Email: tobias.wrigstad at it.uu.se Web: http://wrigstad.com 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 sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 9 13:43:44 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 17:43:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral fellowship in Oxford (All Souls College) Message-ID: <25634B83-93C8-4E16-A3B4-E6B5C5867A59@cs.ox.ac.uk> Hello, All Souls College in Oxford are advertising a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical computer science. Key points: * for people awarded their PhDs between 1 August 2018 and 1 October 2021, with possible exemptions * closing date 11 September 2020 NOON * typical start date 1 Oct 2021 (I?m not on the panel, I just extracted these from the ad, so do check them yourselves!) This looks like a very nice opportunity. All Souls in an interesting college, and Oxford is a lively place for computer science. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctoral-research-fellowships Sam. From tringer at cs.washington.edu Tue Jun 9 13:24:02 2020 From: tringer at cs.washington.edu (Talia Ringer) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:24:02 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Shut Down PL Message-ID: In the United States, the most recent murders of Black people at the hands of police have prompted international protest that has itself been met with further police brutality?the latest manifestation of a centuries-old history of violence and oppression. We in the global programming languages community acknowledge that every institution in our society is built on a foundation of white supremacy?and our academic systems and research industry are no exception. We have the strongest moral imperative to act not just in this particular moment of political turmoil and uncertainty, but in lasting, sustainable ways to permanently transform our institutions against the systemic racism from which they benefit and which they perpetuate. Join Us: Register Here On this *Wednesday, June 10, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT*, we join in the movement to #ShutdownSTEM for a global #Strike4BlackLives . We call on anyone in the global programming languages community to come listen, work, and plan to actively reject racism from the systems we create and the systems within which we exist. We know that one day of action is not enough: our goal is to both achieve small immediate change, and to facilitate the planning of broader systemic change across the world of programming languages research. We will be holding a virtual day of conversation and focused group action. We encourage you to attend for all or most of the day, but we will be happy to welcome you if you can only be there some of the time. Our schedule (subject to change at the desire of participants): 10:00 - 10:30 PDT: Introduction, opening, setting intentions 10:45 - 12:00 PDT: Break into smaller self-determined groups 12:30 - 1:00 PDT: Progress check-in, discussion 1:15 - 2:30 PDT: Second round of focused small group work 2:30 - 3:00 PDT: Closing discussion We want to note: both of the organizers of #ShutdownPL (Talia and Kenny) are white, and we do not want to demand labor of Black voices on a day that is focused on sustainable allyship. However, the last thing we want is a day of non-Black researchers speaking for and taking actions on the behalf of Black researchers without their input. Accordingly, we will ensure all our commitments to act begin from a place of listening to the Black community within and beyond programming languages research. 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The workshop encourages proposals of new, speculative ideas, evaluations of new or known techniques in practical settings, and discussions of emerging threats and problems. We also host position papers that are radical, forward-looking, and lead to lively and insightful discussions, influential to the future research at the intersection of programming languages and security. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: - *NEW THIS YEAR*: Language-based techniques for detecting and eliminating side-channel vulnerabilities - Programming language techniques and verification applied to security in other domains (e.g. adversarial learning and smart contracts) - Software isolation techniques (e.g., SFI and sandboxing) and compiler-based hardening techniques (e.g, secure compilation) - Compiler-based security mechanisms (e.g. security type systems) or runtime-based security mechanisms (e.g. inline reference monitors) - Techniques for discovering and detecting security vulnerabilities, including program (binary) analysis and fuzzing - Automated introduction and/or verification of security enforcement mechanisms - Language-based verification of security properties in software, including verification of cryptographic protocols - Specifying and enforcing security policies for information flow and access control - Model-driven approaches to security - Security concerns for Web programming languages - Language design for security in new domains such as cloud computing and IoT - Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques * CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ We invite both full papers and short papers. For short papers we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well as short papers covering ongoing and future work. Full and short paper presentations will have equal time slots. * Full papers should be at most 11 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references and appendices. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. * Short papers should be at most 3 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category, as are papers presenting preliminary and exploratory work. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Submissions should be PDF documents typeset in the ACM proceedings format using 10pt fonts. A SIGPLAN-approved template can be found at SIGPLAN Author Information. We recommend using this template. Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues (see the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details). Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions can be made via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plas2020. * SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ------------------------------------------------- PLAS offers sponsorship opportunities to companies and institutions interested in promoting their brand at the workshop. These contributions will allow us to offer travel grants and reduced registration fees to students and underrepresented groups. Please, see http://plas.ws/#cfs for more details. * PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------------- - Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University) - Owen Arden (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Musard Balliu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Ethan Cecchetti (Cornell University) - Dominique Devriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Fran?ois Dupressoir (University of Bristol) - Anitha Gollamudi (Harvard University) - Marco Guarnieri (IMDEA Software Institute) - Scott Moore (Galois) - Deian Stefan (University of California, San Diego) * ORGANIZERS -------------------------------------- - Alley Stoughton (Boston University) - Marco Vassena (CISPA, Helmholtz Center for Information Security) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the difficulties that are foreseen regarding traveling during next September, it has been decided to organize the symposium online. The organization will be as follows: -the authors of accepted papers will be invited to record a 25 minutes presentation of their paper ? An award will be attributed to the best video by the PC members of Gandalf -these presentations will be made available to the registered participants to the conference a few days before the conference ? To favor interactions, registered participants will be encouraged to send questions to the authors -four invited talks will be given **live** during the online conference. We have confirmations from Prof. Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Prof. Adnan Darwiche (UCLA, USA), Prof. Jan Kretinsky (TU M?nchen, Germany), and Prof. Guillermo Perez (U Antwerpen, Belgium). -each invited talk will be followed by a Q/A session on papers grouped by topics. Each such session will open with 5 minutes short presentations of each of the papers of the session by one of their author and replies to questions sent by registered participants. Further interactions will follow the answers by the authors to those questions. https://di.ulb.ac.be/verif/gandalf2020/ To maximize the online attendance to the conference, the registration will be mandatory but free of charge. **************************************************************************** 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-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. 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 - EXTENDED DEADLINES **************************************************************************** ? Abstract submission: June 30, 2020 (EXTENDED) ? Paper submission: July 5, 2020 (EXTENDED) ? Notification: August 3, 2020 (EXTENDED) ? Camera-ready: September 1, 2020 (EXTENDED) - Conference: September 21-22, 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, 2017 are published, and those for 2018 and 2019 are 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 **************************************************************************** -Prof. Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany) -Prof. Adnan Darwiche (UCLA, USA) -Prof. Jan Kretinsky (TU M?nchen, Germany) -Prof. Guillermo Perez (U Antwerpen, Belgium). ?PROGRAM CHAIRS **************************************************************************** Davide Bresolin, University of Padova (Italy) 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... 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URL: From jdc at uwo.ca Fri Jun 12 12:02:57 2020 From: jdc at uwo.ca (Dan Christensen) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:02:57 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The HoTTEST Conference of 2020, June 15-19 (homotopy type theory) Message-ID: <87lfks1dce.fsf@uwo.ca> The HoTTEST Conference of 2020 is next week, from Monday to Friday, with two talks per day at 10:30am and 12pm EDT (UTC-4). The Zoom link is https://zoom.us/j/994874377 Speakers and titles Brandon Doherty (University of Western Ontario) Cubical models of (?,1)-categories Eric Finster (University of Birmingham) Weak structures from strict ones Valery Isaev (JetBrains Research and Higher School of Economics) Indexed type theories Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine (Stockholm University) What are we thinking when we present a type theory? David Jaz Myers (Johns Hopkins University) Higher Schreier theory Paige Randall North (Ohio State University) A higher structure identity principle Anja Petkovi? (University of Ljubljana) Equality checking for finitary type theories Mitchell Riley (Wesleyan University) Synthetic spectra via a monadic and comonadic modality Mike Shulman (University of San Diego) Type-theoretic model toposes Taichi Uemura (University of Amsterdam) Abstract type theories Further information, including abstracts and schedule, can be found at https://www.uwo.ca/math/faculty/kapulkin/seminars/hottest_conference_2020.html The talks are also listed at https://researchseminars.org/seminar/HoTTEST2020 On behalf of the organizers, Dan Christensen Chris Kapulkin From abderrahim.aitwakrime at gmail.com Fri Jun 12 06:05:45 2020 From: abderrahim.aitwakrime at gmail.com (Abderrahim AIT WAKRIME) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:05:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP DETECT 2020 - Special Issue at ISSE NASA Journal Message-ID: *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) * The international workshop on moDeling, vErification and Testing of dEpendable CriTical systems (DETECT).* *https://detect.ensma.fr/2020/ * In conjunction with 14th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) 14-18 September 2020, L?Aquila, Italy. https://ecsa2020.disim.univaq.it/ All accepted papers will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) by Springer. All papers presented in DETECT 2020 will be invited for a special issue in the NASA Journal - Springer: Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering ( https://www.springer.com/journal/11334) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract submission: 17 June, 2020 (optional) Full paper submission deadline: 24 June, 2020 (firm) Notification of acceptance: 8 July, 2020 Camera-ready papers: 13 July, 2020 DETECT Workshop 14 September, 2020 SCOPE ----- Critical systems are more and more used in different domains and under several forms (e.g., cyber physical systems, embedded systems, real-time systems) and become more complex since they can be networked and composed of heterogeneous subsystems. Due to their heterogeneity and variability, critical systems require the expertise of modeling, verification and testing area to ensure their dependability and safety of their software architectures. The international workshop on moDeling, vErification and Testing of dEpendable CriTical systems (DETECT) will be mainly based on model-based system engineering paradigm and software architecture challenges. Also, DETECT aims to create a common community from academia and industry to share best practices, tools and methodologies taking into account the functional and non-functional aspects (e.g., scheduling, performance, security, safety, etc.). CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------- Critical systems are emerging research fields where the safety is dependent upon the precise operations of the system. With this in mind, the software architecture is one of the most challenging topics for critical dependable systems since it requires integrating solutions from experts of various domains. Also, integration of components contributed by respective domain experts is one of the key challenges in engineering software architectures. Yet, deploying for example cyber-physical and internet-of-thing systems in several critical domains requires to ensure the safety and dependability of those systems. DETECT 2020 aims to bring together researchers from participating domains with practitioners to identify new frontiers in software architecture engineering of critical dependable systems, discuss challenges raised by real-world applications, and transfer latest insights from research to industry. TOPICS ------ Workshop topics include, but not limited to: * Formal specification of software architectures and verification of dependable and critical systems * Domain specific modeling languages, ontologies, methods and software frameworks for critical systems * Software architecture evaluation of functional and non-functional properties (performance, security, safety, etc.) * Methodologies and Tools for CPS architectures and RTES Design * Model-based testing of dependable critical systems? software architectures * Data engineering facilities and requirement engineering techniques for critical systems * Realistic case studies, applications and experimentation studies, applications and experimentation PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- DETECT 2020 invites papers in three categories. Submission guidelines for each category of paper are as follows: 1- *Regular research papers*: contributions should describe original work (12-14 pages including all text, figures, references and appendices). 2- *Industrial case studies* and lessons learned papers: works with experiences and notable industrial advances using model-driven engineering technology for verification and testing purposes (12-14 pages including all text, figures, references and appendices). 3- *Short papers and position papers*: research in progress, tools presentations, and new ideas (6-10 pages including all text, figures, references and appendices). Each submitted paper must be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Contributions should be written in English and be prepared using Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated by at least three reviewers. Submissions must be in PDF format and should be made using the DETECT 2020 Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=detect2020 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ------------ - Yassine Ouhammou, LIAS/ISAE-ENSMA, France - Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, FSR Mohammed V University, Morocco -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Tue Jun 16 03:39:53 2020 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:39:53 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2020 afternoon, online, 2 July 2020, call for participation Message-ID: <20200616103953.0618bbdd@cs.ioc.ee> [There will be no physical ETAPS in Dublin this autumn. Instead, on 2 July 2020, we will hold an online ETAPS 2020 afternoon. The authors of papers accepted to the main conferences of ETAPS 2020 will get an opportunity to present their work at ETAPS 2021 in Luxembourg.] The ETAPS EC and ETAPS 2020 LOC regret to announce that the plan of a postponed physical ETAPS in Dublin in autumn 2020 has become unrealistic. We will follow the following substitute plan. - We will hold a 3-hour virtual online ETAPS 2020 event in the afternoon of Thu 2 July 2020, see the call below. Everyone is most welcome to attend. There will be no registration, no fee. - The authors of papers accepted to the main conferences of ETAPS 2020 will get an opportunity to present their work at ETAPS 2021 in Luxembourg, Sat-Thu 27 March-1 April 2021. The exact arrangements for this move will be announced. - The workshop organizers will individually decide and announce whether, when and in what format their workshops will take place. - The local organizers of ETAPS 2020 will reimburse the fees collected (minus some administrative charge) according to a policy and a procedure to be announced. Thank you for your understanding! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2020 afternoon online, 2 July 2020 https://etaps.org/2020/afternoon ETAPS 2020 AFTERNOON To compensate for the cancelled physical ETAPS 2020 conference in Dublin, we will hold a 3-hour virtual event to hand out the awards of the conference and listen to talks by the best paper award winners. This will take place Thu 2 July 2020. The presentations will be streamed live. Questions to presenters can be asked in a chat. The event will be recorded and can be watched later. HOW TO JOIN There will be no registration, no fee. The link to join the programme online will be published on the webpage https://etaps.org/2020/afternoon on the day of the event. PROGRAMME All times below are CEST. Start: 15:00 CEST (= GMT+2, Amsterdam). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15:00 Welcome by Marieke Huisman Announcement on ETAPS 2021 in Luxembourg and on the plan for ETAPS 2020 papers by Peter Ryan 15:15 Talk by EASST best paper award winner Florian Frohn. A calculus for modular loop acceleration (TACAS) Award handed out by Reiko Heckel 15:45 Announcement of ETAPS test of time award winner Award handed out by Don Sannella 16:00 Break 16:30 Talk by EAPLS best paper award winner Raffi Khatchadourian, Yiming Tang, Mehdi Bagherzadeh and Baishakhi Ray. An empirical study on the use and misuse of Java 8 streams (FASE) Award handed out by Anton Wijs 17:00 Talk by ETAPS PhD award winner Oded Padon. Deductive verification of distributed protocols in first-order logic (Tel Aviv University, 2018) Award handed out by Caterina Urban 17:30 Talk by EATCS best paper award winner Thomas Neele, Antti Valmari and Tim A.C. Willemse. The inconsistent labelling problem of stutter-preserving partial-order reduction (FoSSaCS) Award handed out by Don Sannella 18:00 Closing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 16 14:40:00 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:40:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2020 Call for Participation Message-ID: <8C566EAE-0622-4223-BA7F-7F4152F2E9ED@cs.ox.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Thirty-Fifth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS) co-located with ICALP 8?11 July 2020 preceded by workshops 6-7 July 2020 Registration (including free option): https://lics2020.saarland-informatics-campus.de/lics-registration/ Preliminary schedule: https://lics2020.saarland-informatics-campus.de/programme/ Accepted papers: https://lics.siglog.org/lics20/accepted.php Keynotes from Mariangiola Dezani Jerome Leroux Andrew Yao Tutorials from Erich Gr?del Brigitte Pientka Workshops: AATG: Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs INFINITY: Verification of Infinite-State SystemsLCC: Logic and Computational Complexity LMW: Logic Mentoring Workshop PRiML: Programming Research in Mainstream Languages From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Jun 16 20:19:19 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:19:19 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Tutorial Proposals: ICFP 2020 Message-ID: <5ee961878f78a_223a22abfa25865c4109bc@homer.mail> CALL FOR TUTORIAL, PANEL, AND DISCUSSION PROPOSALS ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming August 23 - 28, 2020 Virtual https://icfp20.sigplan.org/ The 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held virtually on August 23-28, 2020. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. Proposals are invited for tutorials, lasting approximately 3 hours each, to be presented during ICFP and its co-located workshops and other events. These tutorials are the successor to the CUFP tutorials from previous years, but we also welcome tutorials whose primary audience is researchers rather than practitioners. Tutorials may focus either on a concrete technology or on a theoretical or mathematical tool. Ideally, tutorials will have a concrete result, such as "Learn to do X with Y" rather than "Learn language Y". This year, following the success of the #ShutDownPL event, we are also inviting proposals for panels and discussions on topics of broader interest to the PL community. Tutorials, panels, and discussions may occur before or after ICFP, co-located with the associated workshops, on August 23 or August 27-28. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: July 17th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 22nd, 2020 Prospective organizers of tutorials are invited to submit a completed tutorial proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2020 workshop co-chairs (Jennifer Hackett and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2020 at googlegroups.com by July 17th, 2020. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by July 22nd, 2020. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2020-files/icfp20-panel-form.txt http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2020-files/icfp20-tutorials-form.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2020 organizing committee. Tutorials Co-Chair: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham) Tutorials Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland) General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the tutorial co-chairs (Jennifer Hackett and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2020 at googlegroups.com From spreen at math.uni-siegen.de Wed Jun 17 09:30:45 2020 From: spreen at math.uni-siegen.de (Dieter Spreen) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:30:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CCC 2020; 2nd call for submissions; In-Reply-To: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> References: <8841cefc-0149-4a4f-d998-8dab51c75d91@jaist.ac.jp> Message-ID: <85EBA682-A50A-49B0-B85A-0EEB56E29316@math.uni-siegen.de> Continuity, Computability, Constructivity ? From Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2020) Faro (Portugal) or online 31 August - 4 September 2020 Second call for papers http://cid.uni-trier.de/ccc-2020-continuity-computability-constructivity-from-logic-to-algorithms-faro-portugal-august-31-september-4-2020/ CCC is a workshop series that brings together researchers applying logical methods to the development of algorithms, with a particular focus on computation with infinite data, where issues of continuity, computability and constructivity play major roles. Specific topics include exact real number computation, computable analysis, effective descriptive set theory, constructive analysis, and related areas. The overall aim is to apply logical methods in these disciplines to provide a sound foundation for obtaining exact and provably correct algorithms for computations with real numbers and other continuous data, which are of increasing importance in safety critical applications and scientific computation. The workshop is planned to take place in Faro, Portugal. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop may take place online. Previous workshops have been held in Cologne 2009, Trier 2012, Gregynog 2013, Ljubljana 2014, Kochel 2015, Nancy 2017, Faro 2018, and Ljubljana 2019. The workshop is open to all researchers in the area. Scope: The workshop specifically invites contributions in the areas of Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory, Domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, And related areas. Invited Speakers: Holger Boche (Munich) Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza) Eike Neumann (Oxford) Hideki Tsuiki (Kyoto). Tutorial Speaker: Hongseok Yang (KAIST) Submission: Extended abstracts (1-2 pages) of original work are welcome. 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URL: From motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro Fri Jun 19 08:31:43 2020 From: motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro (motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:31:43 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd cfp Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020) In-Reply-To: <5ff5d0f0bc1a42c4f036e58b8c25040c.squirrel@www.cs.ubbcluj.ro> References: <5ff5d0f0bc1a42c4f036e58b8c25040c.squirrel@www.cs.ubbcluj.ro> Message-ID: <561d7700c4c80aaf7d46af9a8628f685.squirrel@www.cs.ubbcluj.ro> Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020) September 4-6, 2020, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/ -A Fully Virtual Conference- ##NEW - Spriger CCIS proceedings## ##Important Dates July 19, 2020: deadline for paper submission August 15, 2020: notification of acceptance August 25, 2020: revised papers for Studia pre-proceedings August 31, 2020: registration September 4-6, 2020: virtual symposium days September 14, 2020: revised papers for the Springer CCIS post-proceedings ##Overview FROM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2020 is organized by by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the STAR-UBB Institute, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest. Due to the current pandemic situation, FROM 2020 will happen as a fully virtual conference. FROM 2020 is the fourth event in a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest (http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017), the second edition was held in 2018 in Iasi (http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018), and the third edition was held in 2019 in Timisoara (http://from2019.projects.uvt.ro/). The second edition papers have been published in Fundamenta Informaticae, vol.l 173, no.l 2-3, while the third edition papers are under review process in Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming. The format of the symposium encourages interaction. The program includes invited lectures and regular contributions such that a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. FROM welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers. ##Topics of Interest Areas and formalisms of interest include: + Category theory in computer science + Distributed systems and concurrency + Formal languages and automata theory + Formal modelling, verification and testing + Logic in computer science + Logical frameworks + Mathematical structures in computer science + Models of computation + Semantics of programming languages + Type systems Methods of interest include: + Automated reasoning and model generation + Automated induction + Certified programs + Data-flow and control-flow analysis + Deductive verification + Mechanized proofs + Model checking + Proof mining + Symbolic computation + Term rewriting Applications of interest include: + Computational logic + Computer mathematics + Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases + Program analysis + Verification and synthesis of software and hardware + Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing ##Submissions We expect two categories of contributions: +Full Papers (maximum 15 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. They must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Full papers will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. +Short Papers (maximum 6 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, describe work in progress or provide system descriptions. They need not be original. We encourage especially beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Short papers will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from20 There is no need to indicate the paper category (long/short). ##Formatting and Publication Papers should be written in English and should follow the formatting requirements detailed at http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines. All accepted papers will be published online in Studia UBB Informatica (http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal) by default, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the symposium to present the work and participate in the discussions. The revised versions of the selected papers will be published in a post-proceedings after the conference. The post-proceedings will be published with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) . CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Authors of the best original contributions will also be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. ##Invited Speakers Andrei Arusoaie (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Guangdong Bai (University of Queensland, Australia) Marius Bozga (University of Grenoble, INSA, France) Corina Carstea (University of Southampton, UK) Wei Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Daniel David (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Radu Grosu (Vienna University of Technology , Austria) Zhenjiang Hu (Peking University, China) Chao Huang (Northwestern University, US) Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, China) Quang Loc Le (University College London, UK) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden, Germany) Traian Serbanuta (University of Bucharest, Romania) Jun Sun (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Meng Sun (Peking University, China) Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen University, China) Hongseok Yang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) Naijun Zhan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) ##Programme Committee Zalan Bodo (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Xin Chen (Nanjing University, China) Stefan Ciobaca (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Florin Craciun (co-chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Zoltan Horvath (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Alexandra Jimborean (Uppsala University, Sweden) Yanhong Huang (East China Normal University, China) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Ton Chanh Le (Stevens Institute of Technology, US) Laurentiu Leustean (University of Bucharest, Romania) Dorel Lucanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Mircea Marin (West University of Timisoara, Romania) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, Romania) Simona Motogna (co-chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Chunyan Mu (Teesside University, United Kingdom) Iulian Ober (Universite Paul Sabatier, France) Peter Csaba Olveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Ion Petre (University of Turku, Finland) Shengchao Qin (co-chair) (Teesside University, UK) Vlad Rusu (INRIA, France) Christian Sacarea (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Anna Soos (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Gheorghe Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Alin Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Sorin Stratulat (Universite de Lorraine, France) Keming Wang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China) Meng Wang (Bristol University, UK) Hengjun Zhao (Southwest University, China) ##Local Organizing Committee Arthur Molnar (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Vladiela Petrascu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) ##General Chairs Florin Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Simona Motogna (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) From songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn Sat Jun 20 08:56:40 2020 From: songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 20:56:40 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA 2020) - Guangzhou China, November 24-27, 2020 References: <202003031145126707569@shanghaitech.edu.cn> Message-ID: <202006202056407514151@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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Thus, graphs and graph transformation form a universal modelling paradigm for formal reasoning and analysis, ranging from the verification of given properties to the discovery of new insights. The International Conference on Graph Transformation series aims at fostering the exchange and collaboration of researchers working with graphs and graph transformation, either contributing to theoretical foundations or applying established formalisms to classical or novel areas. The conference not only serves as an established scientific publication outlet, but also as a platform to boost inter/intra-disciplinary research and to leeway for new ideas. The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS and IFIP WG 1.3. The proceedings are published by Springer in its LNCS series. **VENUE** Due to the restrictions related to Covid-19, ICGT 2020 will be held as an online conference on June 25-26, 2020. The event will be broadcasted on the official YouTube channel of the University of Pisa. Links will be available a few days before the conference on the online program page. **PROGRAM** The conference program is online at http://icgt2020.di.unipi.it/online-program/ **KEYNOTE TALK** Bob Coecke (University of Oxford) Quantum natural language processing (on actual quantum hardware) **REGISTRATION** Attending the conference is free of charge, the streaming sessions will be freely available. A textual interaction will be possible for the audience, and all the questions will be visibile to session chairs and speakers. Fabio Gadducci and Timo Keher (ICGT 2020 Co-Chairs) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ivan.lanese at gmail.com Mon Jun 22 02:59:24 2020 From: ivan.lanese at gmail.com (ivan.lanese) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:59:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reversible Computation 2020 Call for Participation (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:56:02 +0200 (CEST) From: ivan.lanese To: RevComp-List at jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Reversible Computation 2020 Call for Participation We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ======================================================================= Call for Participation 12th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2020) July 9th-10th, 2020 https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/ Full online event will live talks and q&a Participation is free of charge (but registration is needed) ======================================================================= 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 ===== Program ==== The (preliminary) program is available at: https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/program/ ===== Registration and participation ==== RC 2020 will be held online due to the COVID-19 pandemics. Nevertheless, we will do a live event using Zoom technology. Thus, authors will give their talks using Zoom, and attendees can ask their questions and get the answers using Zoom as well. Detailed technical instructions will be made available in the next days. Participation is free of charge, but registration is needed in order to get the credentials for attending, hence please register at: https://reversible-computation-2020.github.io/registration/ We remark that this can be a good occasion to attend RC and get in contact with the RC community and the RC topics for people that may be in difficulty in attending a physical meeting, such as people on low budget. Hence, please send this call for participation to your students and colleagues. ===== Invited speakers ===== Marek Perkowski (Portland State University, US) Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) ===== 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 jgerling at mpi-inf.mpg.de Mon Jun 22 03:36:35 2020 From: jgerling at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Jennifer Gerling) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:36:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions at the International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing Message-ID: The International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing (IMPRS-TRUST) is a new graduate program jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarland University, and TU Kaiserslautern. The IMPRS-TRUST offers a PhD program upon successful completion of which students receive a Doctoral Degree in Computer Science from Saarland University or TU Kaiserslautern. The program is open to students with a bachelor?s or master?s degree in computer science (or an equivalent degree). Successful candidates will typically have ranked at or near the top of their classes, have engaged in research, and be highly proficient in spoken and written English. Admitted students receive full funding to cover their living expenses and tuition fees. They enjoy a research-oriented education with close supervision by world-renowned scientists in a competitive, yet collaborative, environment rich in interaction with other students, post-docs, and scientists. Students admitted to IMPRS-TRUST can enroll at either Saarland University or at TU Kaiserslautern. PhD projects are jointly supervised by scientists of the two Max Planck Institutes and their colleagues at the computer science departments at Saarland University and TU Kaiserslautern. Applications are accepted all year round; the current round closes on June 30th, 2020. Further information, including instructions on how to apply, can be found here: https://www.imprs-trust.mpg.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Mon Jun 22 19:26:07 2020 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 23:26:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP2020 Call for Participation Message-ID: <1e271a79fb520a5a1d0b62c88580436d049b826a.camel@unibo.it> ===================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2020 On-line conference, ==> 29-30 June 2020 <== Affiliated with FSCD 2020 and IJCAR 2020. The 2020 editions of LFMTP will be held online and it will consists of - 8 regular talks - 2 invited talks by Elaine Pimentel and Andre Popescu Participation will be free, but a preregistration is required to join the video meetings of the events. Registration page ===================================== 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. 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. * 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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There are plenty of opportunities to collaborate with existing work in a wide range of fields as well as opportunity to play a significant role in shaping the direction of the programming languages research group. At Uppsala University, a tenure-track position runs for 6 years, during which the department works to coach the applicant for promotion. Applicants with a PhD degree younger than 5 years (not counting paternal leave and periods of illness) will be prioritised for the tenure-track position. If offered employment as Associate Professor, you can apply to be employed as full Professor. 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For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy From stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr Thu Jun 25 07:44:40 2020 From: stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr (Stefano Guerrini) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:44:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd Joint Call for Participation: IJCAR 2020 + FSCD 2020 + 17 workshops and events, June 29 -- July 6, 2020 Message-ID: <724A88A3-61CB-44BF-991B-377EF5F16EA9@univ-paris13.fr> ======================================================================== 2ND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- June 29 to July 6, 2020 https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org 10th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) https://ijcar2020.org and 5th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD) https://fscd2020.org and 17 affiliated workshops and events (list below) https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/workshops ======================================================================== All conferences and affiliated events will be virtualized. Registration is **FREE** and required for all participants. https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/register Due to the different virtualization modes, the organizers have decided to split the registration among the conferences and the affiliated workshops and events. Program ---------------- JCAR and FSCD Programs are available at https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/program Workshop scheduling can be found at http://localhost:4000/workshops#schedule For more information on programs, please check the conference/workshop website. Invited Speakers ---------------- IJCAR-FSCD Joint Invited Speakers - John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA - Ren? Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria FSCD Invited Speakers - Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK - Simona Ronchi della Rocca, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Brigitte Pientka, McGill University, Canada IJCAR Invited Speakers - Clark Barrett, Stanford University, USA - Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA Technical Program ----------------- The IJCAR and FSCD technical program consists of four days of technical sessions. The final program will be announced shortly. IJCAR accepted papers: http://membres-lig.imag.fr/peltier/IJCAR2020_accepted.html FSCD accepted papers: https://fscd2020.org/accepted Affiliated workshops and events ------------------------------- https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/workshops - Linearity & TLLA (Joint Workshop on Linearity and Trends in Linear Logic and Applications, June 29-30) - UNIF (Workshop on Unification, June 29) - WPTE (Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation, June 29) - Proof Ground (June 29) - LFMTP (Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice, June 29) - WiL (Women in Logic, June 30) - IWC (International Workshop on Confluence, June 30) - IFIP WG 1.6 (June 30) - Isabelle Workshop (June 30) - PAAR (Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning, June 30) - HoTT/UF (Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations, July 5-6) - GeoCat (Geometric and Categorical Structures for Computation and Deduction, July 5-6) - The Coq Workshop (July 5-6) - SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories, July 5-6) - TERMGRAPH (July 5) - CASC-J10 (The CADE ATP Systems Competition) http://www.tptp.org/CASC/J10/ - Termination and Complexity Competition 2020 http://www.termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_Competition_2020 Virtualization Details ---------------------- The conference will run in the CEST (UTC+2) timezone. We will use the Zoom platform to host all the sessions of the conferences and the affiliated workshops and events (where applicable). We will have a mixture of live and pre-recorded talks, but all talks will have a live Q&A. Registered participants will be given invitations to the main events before the start of the event. We are also planning to have a (nonparticipatory) broadcast of the conference sessions for the benefit of participants who are unable to use Zoom. Finally, we plan to make available recordings of the talks for a certain period after the talks. (We will seek a written consent from speakers for any such recordings.) ===================================== Stefano Guerrini Institut Galil?e, Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), CNRS (UMR 7030) stefano.guerrini at univ-paris13.fr From emorehouse at wesleyan.edu Thu Jun 25 11:05:16 2020 From: emorehouse at wesleyan.edu (Ed Morehouse) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:05:16 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fully funded PhD positions at Tallinn University of Technology Message-ID: <82813377-6e64-9fe0-1004-70f343d3a034@wesleyan.edu> The Compositional Systems and Methods group at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (https://compose.ioc.ee) is seeking highly qualified PhD candidates. The ideal student should have a solid grounding in category theory, and in at least one of the following areas: programming languages, concurrency theory, quantum computing, database and information systems, or machine learning. The group?s lingua franca is category theory and our research concerns mathematical foundations, as well as various applications in computer science and related disciplines. We are working on relational algebra and functorial semantics, open games, process languages for smart contracts, string diagrams, compositional descriptions of models of computation and concurrency, lenses and optics in functional programming, type theory, and several other topics. The group is led by Pawel Sobocinski, has two postdoctoral researchers, Edward Morehouse and Fosco Loregian, and four PhD students: Elena Di Lavore, Nathan Haydon, Chad Nester and Mario Rom?n. One additional postdoctoral researcher will be recruited in the autumn of 2020. Our research is supported by the ESF funded Estonian IT Academy research measure. The group?s ethos emphasises openness, and inter-group collaboration is highly encouraged. We maintain an active member-led seminar series and hold regular group meetings, research retreats in the Estonian countryside, and various cross-cutting research activities. The successful students will be awarded a generous stipend and be provided with computing equipment and resources for travelling to conferences, summer schools, and other events relevant to their projects. Applicants should hold a Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a closely related field. To apply, send a CV and a motivation letter outlining your research interests to Pawel Sobocinski (pawel.sobocinski at taltech.ee). APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 31, 2020 STARTING DATE: November 2020 or as per agreement Fosco Loregian Edward Morehouse Pawel Sobocinski From abderrahim.aitwakrime at gmail.com Tue Jun 23 14:23:57 2020 From: abderrahim.aitwakrime at gmail.com (Abderrahim AIT WAKRIME) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:23:57 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP DETECT 2020 - Special Issue at ISSE NASA Journal Message-ID: *** Due to the many requests the deadline has been extended to 28 June, 2020 *** *************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) * The international workshop on moDeling, vErification and Testing of dEpendable CriTical systems (DETECT).* *https://detect.ensma.fr/2020/ * In conjunction with 14th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) 14-18 September 2020, L?Aquila, Italy. https://ecsa2020.disim.univaq.it/ All accepted papers will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) by Springer. All papers presented in DETECT 2020 will be invited for a special issue in the NASA Journal - Springer: Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering ( https://www.springer.com/journal/11334) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission deadline: 24 June, 2020, 28 June, 2020 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: 8 July, 2020 Camera-ready papers: 13 July, 2020 DETECT Workshop 14 September, 2020 SCOPE ----- Critical systems are more and more used in different domains and under several forms (e.g., cyber physical systems, embedded systems, real-time systems) and become more complex since they can be networked and composed of heterogeneous subsystems. Due to their heterogeneity and variability, critical systems require the expertise of modeling, verification and testing area to ensure their dependability and safety of their software architectures. The international workshop on moDeling, vErification and Testing of dEpendable CriTical systems (DETECT) will be mainly based on model-based system engineering paradigm and software architecture challenges. Also, DETECT aims to create a common community from academia and industry to share best practices, tools and methodologies taking into account the functional and non-functional aspects (e.g., scheduling, performance, security, safety, etc.). CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------- Critical systems are emerging research fields where the safety is dependent upon the precise operations of the system. With this in mind, the software architecture is one of the most challenging topics for critical dependable systems since it requires integrating solutions from experts of various domains. Also, integration of components contributed by respective domain experts is one of the key challenges in engineering software architectures. Yet, deploying for example cyber-physical and internet-of-thing systems in several critical domains requires to ensure the safety and dependability of those systems. DETECT 2020 aims to bring together researchers from participating domains with practitioners to identify new frontiers in software architecture engineering of critical dependable systems, discuss challenges raised by real-world applications, and transfer latest insights from research to industry. TOPICS ------ Workshop topics include, but not limited to: * Formal specification of software architectures and verification of dependable and critical systems * Domain specific modeling languages, ontologies, methods and software frameworks for critical systems * Software architecture evaluation of functional and non-functional properties (performance, security, safety, etc.) * Methodologies and Tools for CPS architectures and RTES Design * Model-based testing of dependable critical systems? software architectures * Data engineering facilities and requirement engineering techniques for critical systems * Realistic case studies, applications and experimentation studies, applications and experimentation PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- DETECT 2020 invites papers in three categories. Submission guidelines for each category of paper are as follows: 1- *Regular research papers*: contributions should describe original work (12-14 pages including all text, figures, references and appendices). 2- *Industrial case studies* and lessons learned papers: works with experiences and notable industrial advances using model-driven engineering technology for verification and testing purposes (12-14 pages including all text, figures, references and appendices). 3- *Short papers and position papers*: research in progress, tools presentations, and new ideas (6-10 pages including all text, figures, references and appendices). Each submitted paper must be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Contributions should be written in English and be prepared using Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated by at least three reviewers. 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URL: From balzers at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jun 24 19:52:16 2020 From: balzers at cs.cmu.edu (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:52:16 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: JLAMP Special Issue for PLACES 2020 Message-ID: # Call for Contributions # Special issue of JLAMP for the 12th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication cEntric Software (PLACES) 2020 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming/call-for-papers/special-issue-of-jlamp-for-the-12th-workshop-on-programming This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) is devoted to the topics of the 12th International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES 2020), which was planned to be a satellite event of ETAPS. This is however an **open call** for papers, therefore both participants of the workshop and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. ## Scope ## Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. Effectively programming such applications is challenging; performance, correctness, and scalability are difficult to achieve. 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 (such as scientific computing) and case studies. Please visit the above website for more detailed topics of interest. ## Submission ## We expect original articles (roughly 20-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in another journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Extended versions of papers published in the workshop's proceedings are permitted. Longer papers will be considered if there is a clear justification for why additional pages are necessary; authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have about one month to incorporate the comments of the reviewers and submit a revised version of their papers, which will be evaluated again by the reviewers to make a final decision. Contributions should be typeset in PDF format and must comply with JLAMP's author guidelines (see website for details). When submitting your paper, place choose "SI: PLACES 2020" from the "Article Type Name" drop down list. ## Guest editors ## * Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University) * Luca Padovani (Universit? di Torino) ## Dates ## Submission deadline: **16th October 2020** Acceptance notification: **19th February 2021** From benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com Thu Jun 25 13:56:14 2020 From: benedikt.ahrens at gmail.com (Benedikt Ahrens) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:56:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: HoTT/UF 2020 - July 5-7 Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations July 5-7, 2020, The Internet https://hott-uf.github.io/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. # Registration Registration is free of charge, but required. The details can be found on the event website. # Invited talks * Carlo Angiuli (Carnegie Mellon University) From raw terms to recollement * Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University) Building Effectful Realizability Models, Uniformly * Pierre-Louis Curien (Universit? de Paris) A syntactic approach to opetopes, opetopic sets and opetopic categories # Contributed talks 21 talks were accepted by the Program Committee. Their titles and abstracts are available on the event website. # Schedule The event will take place from July 5-7, 2020. The talks are scheduled between 2 PM and 7:30 PM CEST (UTC+2). Detailed schedule is now available on the website. # Organizers * Benedikt Ahrens (University of Birmingham) * Chris Kapulkin (University of Western Ontario) From theo at irif.fr Fri Jun 26 12:25:14 2020 From: theo at irif.fr (=?UTF-8?Q?Th=C3=A9o_Zimmermann?=) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:25:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [Call for participation] The Coq workshop 2020 Message-ID: July 5-6, the Internet. https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/2020/ The Coq Workshop 2020 is part of IJCAR 2020 and the Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020. Registration is free of charge, but required: https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/register The Coq workshop 2020 is the 11th Coq Workshop. The Coq Workshop series brings together Coq users, developers, and contributors. While conferences usually provide a venue for traditional research papers, the Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community and providing a forum for discussing practical issues, including the future of the Coq software and its associated ecosystem of libraries and tools. The program will include two panels, an invited talk, 13 accepted talks and a time for discussion with the Coq development team. See the website for details on the program. The workshop will be organized over Zoom, streamed on YouTube, and use the Coq Zulip chat for questions and discussion: https://coq.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/245089-Coq-workshop.202020 The Coq Workshop is governed by Coq's Code of Conduct [https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md]; the organizers are committed to ensure that the workshop will be a welcoming place for everyone. If you have any concern please contact coq-conduct at inria.fr. ## Diversity chat The workshop organizers acknowledge the diversity concerns in the Coq community. We have created a dedicated topic in our Zulip chat to discuss and propose diversity actions for the event, future events and more generally for the community [https://coq.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/245089-Coq-workshop.202020/topic/Diversity.20in.20the.20Coq.20community]. If you are part of a minority and feel concerned by this topic, feel free to join the discussion even if you do not participate in the rest of the Coq workshop. The Coq Workshop 2020 organizers From mcoblenz at cs.cmu.edu Sat Jun 27 22:07:20 2020 From: mcoblenz at cs.cmu.edu (Michael Coblenz) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:07:20 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: HATRA '20: Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants Message-ID: <73EA38DB-8889-4AB3-9B34-94BA9CC82723@cs.cmu.edu> ========================================== Call for Papers HATRA 2020: 1st International Workshop on Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants At SPLASH 2020, Chicago, Illinois, USA Submission deadline: September 4, 2020 ========================================== Programming language designers seek to provide strong tools to help developers reason about their programs. For example, the formal methods community seeks to enable developers to prove correctness properties of their code, and type system designers seek to exclude classes of undesirable behavior from programs. The security community creates tools to help developers achieve their security goals. In order to make these approaches as effective as possible for developers, recent work has integrated approaches from human-computer interaction research into programming language design. This workshop brings together programming languages, software engineering, security, and human-computer interaction researchers to investigate methods for making languages that provide stronger safety properties more effective for programmers and software engineers. We have two goals: (1) to identify and establish a research agenda for collaborative work in this space; (2) to provide a venue for discussion and feedback on early-stage approaches that might enable people to be more effective at achieving stronger safety properties in their programs. HATRA is interested in two different kinds of contributions. First, extended abstracts that summarize an existing body of work that is relevant to the workshop?s topic; the presentations serve to familiarize the community, which may be diverse, with work that already exists. Second, research papers that describe a new idea, approach, or hypothesis in the space, and are presented as an opportunity for the authors to receive community feedback and for the community to seek inspiration from others. The day will be divided into three segments. In the first segment, authors of accepted extended abstracts will present their work in approximately 20-minute time slots, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. To promote discussion, participants will be divided into small groups; then, the whole group will re-convene to discuss high-level points that arose in the small group discussions. In the second segment, authors of accepted papers will present their work. Then, in the third segment, we will conduct an activity to identify interesting research questions and help the community establish a research agenda. The organizers will produce a report after the workshop that catalogs the resulting agenda. HATRA welcomes two kinds of submissions: One-page extended abstracts summarizing existing published work that would be of interest to the community. Research proposals, position papers, and early-stage result papers. These come in short (up to four pages) and long (up to eight pages) varieties. These may describe hypotheses, ideas for research, or early-stage results. The objective is to provide an opportunity for the authors to receive feedback from the community as well as to help inspire participants to identify and clarify their own research directions. To encourage submission of ideas that may be published in other venues in the future, papers will not be published in the ACM Digital Library. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Type system design Programming language evaluation Programming language and tool design methodology Interactive theorem provers Lightweight specification tools Proof engineering Psychology of programming HATRA will use a double-blind review process. Authors should omit identifying information from their papers, and should reference their own related work in the third person. Submissions should be in ?ACM Small? style. 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URL: From paba at itu.dk Sun Jun 28 04:26:06 2020 From: paba at itu.dk (Patrick Bahr) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:26:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TERMGRAPH 2020: Call for (Online) Participation Message-ID: ======================================================================= Call for (Online) Participation TERMGRAPH 2020 Eleventh International Workshop on Computing with Terms and Graphs 5 July, 2020 termgraph.org.uk/2020 An FSCD 2020 Workshop ======================================================================= The 2020 edition of TERMGRAPH will be held online. Participation will be free, but registration is required to join the video meetings of the events. https://fscd-ijcar-2020.org/register ======================================================================= Programme --------- Dan Ghica Hypernet Semantics of Programming Languages (invited talk) Graham Campbell Parallel Hyperedge Replacement String Languages Clemens Grabmayer Structure-Constrained Process Graphs for the Process Semantics of Regular Expressions Nicolas Behr An Introduction to Stochastic Mechanics for Categorical Rewriting Systems (invited talk) Thierry Boy de La Tour Parallel Independence in Attributed Graph Rewriting From victor.lanvin at irif.fr Mon Jun 29 08:32:20 2020 From: victor.lanvin at irif.fr (Victor Lanvin) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:32:20 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP 2020: Second Call for Student Volunteers Message-ID: Please don't hesitate to share this information with your students, classmates or colleagues! ICFP'20 SECOND CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS =========================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. In order to smoothly run the conference, associated workshops, and tutorials, we need student volunteers to help out on the practical aspect of the organization. All the events associated with ICFP'20 will take place **virtually** from Sun 23 - Fri 28 August 2020. Even though the event will be virtual, we will more than ever need the help of student volunteers to make sure everything runs smoothly. In return, as an ICFP 2020 Student Volunteer, you will interact closely with researchers, academics and practitioners from various disciplines and meet other students from around the world. While the exact structure of the conference is still being worked on, job assignments for student volunteers will include but will not be restriced to: 1- Assisting with technical sessions, workshops, tutorials and panels. 2- Helping to get speakers prepped and ready for broadcast. 3- Managing the various slack channels and social activities. To be considered as a Student Volunteer for ICFP, please fill in the following application form. https://forms.gle/YPsgEb4qiqnuHteB7 The permanent link to this form can be found on the official conference website. https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-student-volunteering The deadline for the second round of applications is July 19th, 2020 AoE. The notification will be on July 21st. Positive notifications given in the first round are firm and the second round is only for spots not filled by the first round. 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CALL FOR PAPERS 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) Nov 29-Dec 3, 2020 Fukuoka, Japan https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2020 The 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of the latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community. APLAS 2020 will be tentatively held in Nishijin Plaza, Fukuoka City, Japan between November 30th and 2rd of December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 situation, all authors will be given the chance to present remotely regardless of whether the conference is held as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting. Papers are solicited on topics such as: - Semantics, logics, foundational theory - Design of languages, type systems, and foundational calculi - Domain-specific languages - Compilers, interpreters, abstract machines - Program derivation, synthesis, and transformation - Program analysis, verification, model-checking - Logic, constraint, probabilistic, and quantum programming - Software security - Concurrency and parallelism - Tools and environments for programming and implementation Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool demonstrations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with program chair prior to submission. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: July 3rd, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: July 6th, 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Author response: August 5-7, 2020 Author notification: August 14, 2020 Final version: September 1, 2020 Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2020 CALL FOR REGULAR RESEARCH PAPERS We solicit submissions in the form of regular research papers describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. This category encompasses both theoretical and implementation (also known as system descriptions) papers. In either case, submissions should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. System descriptions papers should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. CALL FOR TOOL PAPERS We solicit submissions in the form of tool papers describing a demonstration of a tool or a system that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. The main purpose of a tool paper is to display a completed, robust and well-documented tool-highlighting the overall functionality of the tool, the interfaces of the tool, interesting examples and applications of the tool, an assessment of the tool?s strengths and weaknesses, and a summary of documentation/support available with the tool. Authors of tool demonstration proposals are expected to present a live demonstration of the tool at the conference. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They may include an additional appendix of up to 6 extra pages giving the outline, screenshots, examples, etc. to indicate the content of the proposed live demo. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Edwin Brady, University of St. Andrews, UK Soham Chakraborty, IIT Delhi, India Andreea Costea, National University Of Singapore, Singapore Silvia Crafa, University of Padova, Italy Pierre-Evariste Dagand, LIP6/CNRS, France Mila Dalla Preda, University of Verona, Italy Cristina David, University of Oxford, UK Benjamin Delaware, Purdue University, US Florian Rabe, University of Erlangen, Germany Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Sam Lindley, The University of Edinburgh, UK James McKinna, The University of Edinburgh, UK Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Hakjoo Oh, Korea University, South Korea Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST, South Korea Tom Schrijvers, KU Leuven, Belgium Ilya Sergey, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Servetto, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University, Netherlands Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, US Janis Voigtl?nder, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Meng Wang, University of Bristol, UK Nicolas Wu, Imperial College London, UK Yizhou Zhang, Harvard University / University of Waterloo, US Tijs van der Storm, CWI & University of Groningen, Netherlands Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page using HotCRP (https://aplas2020.hotcrp.com). The acceptable format is PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer?s LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. REVIEW PROCESS APLAS 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 judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted or anonymised, 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. 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We research logical foundations for cyber-physical systems and develop practical theorem proving tools for analyzing and correctly building such systems, including the theorem prover KeYmaera X, verified runtime monitoring ModelPlex, verified compilation VeriPhy, and verified safe machine learning techniques. We apply our techniques to analyze the safety of autonomous cars, airplanes and collision avoidance protocols in aerospace applications, robotics, and train control. The ideal candidate has a strong background in logic, formal methods, and theorem proving, as well as familiarity with hybrid systems and differential equations. Experience in software development projects (e.g, in Java/Scala) and familiarity with Web development (e.g., AngularJS) is a plus. The successful candidate is able to quickly get into new research areas and will be responsible for actively engaging in novel research questions, publishing and communicating research results, advising students, assisting in preparing research grant proposals and grant reports, implementation of research results in formal methods tools, and demonstrating their applicability in cyber-physical systems applications. Applications via http://apply.interfolio.com/76853 Andr? http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aplatzer/ From andrew.j.reynolds at gmail.com Tue Jun 30 10:24:03 2020 From: andrew.j.reynolds at gmail.com (Andrew Reynolds) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:24:03 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for SyGuS Benchmarks and Language Extensions Message-ID: Call for SyGuS Benchmarks and Language Extensions Background: The classical formulation of the program-synthesis problem is to find a program that meets a correctness specification given as a logical formula. Recent work on program synthesis and program optimization illustrates many potential benefits of allowing the user to supplement the logical specification with a syntactic template that constrains the space of allowed implementations. The Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) problem is a standardized format for specifying the computational problem at the core of such efforts. The input to SyGuS consists of a background theory, a semantic correctness specification for the desired program given by a logical formula, and a syntactic set of candidate implementations given by a grammar. The computational problem then is to find an implementation from the set of candidate expressions that satisfies the specification in the given theory. The formulation of the problem builds on SMT-LIB. SyGuS Competition Status: Aimed at stimulating innovations in SyGuS solution techniques, SyGuS-Comp, a competition of solvers for SyGuS benchmarks, has been held every year from 2014 to 2019. There has been continued interest in both using SyGuS solvers for various synthesis applications and using SyGuS benchmarks for evaluating new solution strategies. However, we anticipate that this year there will be no significantly new solvers that are ready to compete. Hence, we will not be organizing SyGuS-Comp in 2020. To continue to provide useful infrastructure for advancing research in program synthesis, instead, we are seeking new benchmarks and proposals for extending the SyGuS language. Extensions to SyGuS Language: The most recent SyGuS competition, held in Summer 2019, had 5 tracks: 1) General SyGuS track, 2) Invariant Synthesis track, 3) Conditional Linear Integer Arithmetic track, and 4) Programming By Examples in Strings theory and 5) Programming By Examples in BitVector theory. The input format used in this competition, called "The SyGuS Language Version 2.0" (https://sygus.org/assets/pdf/SyGuS-IF_2.0.pdf), is compliant with SMT-LIB version 2.6. Based on requests from the synthesis researchers, we are currently considering the following extensions and updates: (1) Quantitative extensions of the SyGuS language: This includes the addition of weight annotations to SyGuS grammars, support for constraints over these weights, as well as a new command in the SyGuS language (e.g. maximize-synth) to ask the solver to synthesize a function that maximizes a given objective function. (2) Table transformations: We are working on syntax for a SMT-LIB compliant theory of tables whose signature includes operations like table join, filtering and aggregation. Upcoming SyGuS competitions will incorporate a track for programming-by-examples (PBE) constraints over this domain. (3) Infeasibility for SyGuS conjectures: Future editions of the SyGuS language standard will include further guidelines for solvers that can prove that no solution exists for a SyGuS conjecture. Future editions of SyGuS-Comp may include a track for such solvers. (4) Broadening the scope of verification backends: Traditionally, Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are the verification portion of SyGuS solvers. We are interested in incorporating and standardizing other backend black-box tools for this purpose. We welcome feedback and comments on the proposed extensions, as well as suggestions for other features. Please submit all comments by email to the organizers by September 1, 2020. Benchmarks: The SyGuS repository currently has over 2800 benchmarks. The domains of benchmarks include bit-vector manipulation, concurrency, robotics, string transformations, invariant generation, program repair and cryptographic circuits. These benchmarks are publicly available, and used by multiple research teams to evaluate new solver techniques. There is always a need for growing the set of benchmarks, and we would appreciate your contribution to this effort. New benchmarks can be submitted by September 1, 2020 by email to the organizers. Organization: The SyGuS infrastructure and competition was initiated as part of NSF Expeditions in Computing project ExCAPE, and is currently organized by Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania), Saswat Padhi (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrew Reynolds (University of Iowa), Rishabh Singh (Google Brain), and Abhishek Udupa (Microsoft). For more information see the sygus webpage https://sygus.org/ . For questions please contact the organizers at sygus-organizers at seas.upenn.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pierre.corbineau at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Wed Jul 1 05:10:31 2020 From: pierre.corbineau at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Pierre Corbineau) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 11:10:31 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Postdoctoral_position_available_at_Un?= =?utf-8?q?iversit=C3=A9_Grenoble_Alpes=2C_France?= Message-ID: We have a Postdoctoral position currently available. Subject: Formal proofs (using Coq) for Distributed Algorithms - Position: Post-Doctoral researcher - Contract: 12 months - Starting date: Sept-Dec 2020 - Location: Grenoble, Auvergne-Rh?ne-Alpes, France - Hosting institution: VERIMAG laboratory, Universit? Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Institute of Technology - Scientific advisors: Karine Altisen, Pierre Corbineau, St?phane Devismes How to Apply & Contact Information Please send information requests/applications to Karine.Altisen at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr, Pierre.Corbineau at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr, Stephane.Devismes at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Email subject MUST start with "[Post-Doc PADEC]"> Applications must include the following documents: - Letter of application: why you are interested in this research position and what you would like to work on - Curriculum vitae - References or letters of recommendation - Applicant?s scientific report or paper written in English - Any other document showing that you are an outstanding candidate Required Skills - Software Development - Theorem Proving (preferably with Coq) - Distributed Algorithmic is a plus Subject Modern distributed systems can be large-scale (e.g., Internet), dynamic (e.g., Peer-to-Peer systems), and / or resource constrained (e.g., wireless sensor networks (WSNs)). Those characteristics increase the number of faults which may hit the system. For instance, in WSNs, processes are subject to crash failures because of their limited battery. Moreover, their communications use radio channels which are subject to intermittent loss of messages. Now, due to their large-scale and the adversarial environment where they may be deployed, intervention to repair them cannot be always envisioned. In this context, fault-tolerance, i.e., the ability of a distributed algorithm to endure the faults by itself, is mandatory. Self-stabilization is a versatile lightweight technique to withstand transient faults in a distributed system. After transient faults hit and place the system into some arbitrary global state, a self-stabilizing algorithm returns, in finite time, to a correct behavior without external intervention. Self-stabilization makes no hypotheses on the nature or extent of transient faults that could hit the system, and recovers from the effects of those faults in a unified manner. Today's researches on self-stabilizing algorithms focus on more and more complex problems and adversarial environments. This makes the proof that an algorithm actually achieves self-stabilization even more complex and subtle to establish. Now, those proofs are usually performed by hand, using informal reasoning. Such methods are clearly pushed to their limits and this justifies the use of a proof assistant. Proof assistants are environments in which a user can express programs, state theorems, and develop proofs interactively, those ones being mechanically checked (i.e., machine-checked). In particular, the Coq proof assistant, which is targeted by this project, has been successfully used for various tasks such as mathematical developments as involved as the 4-colors or Feit-Thompson theorems, formalization of programming language semantics leading to the certification of a C compiler, certified numerical libraries, and verification of cryptographic protocols. Project. We propose a framework called PADEC, based on Coq, to (semi-) automatically construct certified proofs of self-stabilizing algorithms. The framework is currently under development and a first experiment has been conducted, with the certification of a non-trivial case study. This work imports into Coq the computational model in which the targeted algorithm is designed, formalizes the algorithm itself and its specification. Then the algorithm is proved using Coq including safety, convergence and also some performance analyses. This postdoc aims at further developping the PADEC library, a library of tools in Coq to handle the certification of self-stabilizing algorithms. From wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Thu Jul 2 06:16:19 2020 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:16:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Cardano Virtual Summit 2020 Message-ID: Cardano Virtual Summit 2020 takes place today and tomorrow. Some talks that may be of interest: *16.00 Thu 2 Jul* *An overview of IOHK research* Prof Aggelos Kiayias, Prof Elias Koutsoupias, Prof Alexander Russell, Prof Phil Wadler. *18.30 Thu 2 Jul* *Architecting the internet: what I would have done * *differently... *Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer and Google internet evangelist, Prof Aggelos Kiayias, panel moderated by Prof Philip Wadler. *20.00 Thu 2 Jul* *Functional smart contracts on Cardano* Prof Philip Wadler, Dr Manuel Chakravarty, Prof Simon Thompson. *16.00 Fri 3 Jul* *Haskell, then and now: What is the future for **functional programming languages?* Prof Simon Peyton-Jones, Prof John Hughes, Prof Philip Wadler, Dr Kevin Hammond, Dr Duncan Coutts. You need register in advance. You can do so here: https://cardanosummit.iohk.io/ . \ Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, . /\ School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh . / \ and Senior Research Fellow, IOHK . http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From preiner at cs.stanford.edu Thu Jul 2 13:07:24 2020 From: preiner at cs.stanford.edu (Mathias Preiner) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:07:24 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Invitation LogicLounge with Cory Doctorow - Surveillance Capitalism is not a Rogue Capitalism - virtual open livestream - 21 July 2020 - 8am PST - hosted by CAV 2020 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, dear friends of logic, We would like to cordially invite you to the 18th public discussion in the LogicLounge series on July 21 2020, part of CAV 2020: LogicLounge with Cory Doctorow ============================== Working as Intended: Surveillance Capitalism is not a Rogue Capitalism Big Tech companies are providing free services that billions of people use, which in turn enables them to monitor the behaviour of their users in astonishing detail. Very often without their explicit consent. This new form of capitalism that found a way to use tech for its purposes has recently been named ?Surveillance capitalism?. Companies spy because data allows them to influence their operations for their benefit in a devastatingly effective way. What if Big Tech?s ability to command billions for ads has more to do with cornering markets and eking out marginal gains through targeting, with stale data being largely useless for commercial purposes ? but still full of juicy kompromat for greedy state surveillance agencies? Without any regulatory oversight, are we all test rabbits for the big tech companies? Do free-range BigTech monopolies cause erosion of competition and innovation, democracy, personal freedoms, and sense of community? Tuesday, July 21 2020 Virtual 8am PST ? 3pm UTC ? 5pm CEST (Vienna) http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/ The LogicLounge is hosted by the 32nd CAV 2020, and it will be recorded. Registration (free) =================== https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9AwAiQSmTj2ZjaIsIoTr5A About Cory Doctorow =================== Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist, working as a special advisor for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is a former director of Europen Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties. Organizers ========== The LogicLounge is hosted by the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) in memoriam of Helmut Veith. It is organized by Aina Niemetz and Mathias Preiner of Stanford University in collaboration with the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien (VCLA). About the LogicLounge ===================== The series originated in 2014 at the Vienna Summer of Logic, and is since then travelling between Vienna and the venue of the CAV conferences. LogicLounge features discussions on the ?science of reasoning? in the areas of logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence. The recordings of the past LogicLounges with Toby Walsh, Eva Galperin, Moshe Vardi or Dana Scott, among others, are available at: http://www.vcla.at/logiclounge/ Twitter ======== Join us on Twitter #LogicLounge #CAV20 #ShareTheWord Please feel free to forward this invitation to any people you think may be interested. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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ABOUT VMW The purpose of the Verification Mentoring Workshop is to provide mentoring and career advice to early-stage graduate students and late-stage undergraduate students, and introduce them to research topics aligned with the CAV conference and, more generally, formal methods. The workshop particularly encourages participation of women and underrepresented minorities. The program for VMW 2020 includes a number of talks and interactive sessions. The technical talks will provide gentle introductions to several recurring research themes in CAV, while the mentoring talks will provide useful tips about how to do good research and how to communicate your research well. The program also includes a panel that will address a variety of topics such as work-life balance and career options. More information can be found at http://i-cav.org/2020/mentoring/ SPEAKERS Erika ?brah?m, RWTH Aachen University Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Eva Darulova, MPI-SWS Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rupak Majudar, MPI-SWS Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research In case of questions, please contact the organizers Roopsha Samanta (chair) Rayna Dimitrova Jean-Baptiste Jeannin Arjun Radhakrishna James R. Wilcox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While this is not formally required for students coming from non-French universities (including the European Union), a 6-month evaluation period will apply. A list of available internship/evaluation topics is available here: http://nts.imag.fr/index.php/Internship_subjects The starting date is October 2020. To apply send your CV and a transcript of university grades to: Radu.Iosif at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Best wishes, Radu Iosif -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lburguenoc at uoc.edu Sat Jul 4 08:35:41 2020 From: lburguenoc at uoc.edu (=?UTF-8?Q?Loli_Burgue=C3=B1o?=) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 14:35:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: VIRTUAL SLE 2020 - 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering Message-ID: *SLE 2020* 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2020) November 15-20, 2020 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2020 @sleconf (co-located with SPLASH 2020) SPLASH and all co-located events (including SLE) will be virtual starting November 15, 2020. The decision to *virtualize* SPLASH and SLE was made to minimize the risks to attendees due to COVID-19 and associated uncertainties around travel. *Scope* The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to the principles of software languages: their design, their implementation, and their evolution. With the ubiquity of computers, software has become the dominating intellectual asset of our time. In turn, this software depends on software languages, namely the languages it is written in, the languages used to describe its environment, and the languages driving its development process. Given that everything depends on software and that software depends on software languages, it seems fair to say that for many years to come, everything will depend on software languages. Software language engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. While SLE is certainly driven by its metacircular character (software languages are engineered using software languages), SLE is not self-satisfying: its scope extends to the engineering of languages for all and everything. Like its predecessors, the 13th edition of the SLE conference, SLE 2020, will bring together researchers from different areas united by their common interest in the creation, capture, and tooling of software languages. It overlaps with traditional conferences on the design and implementation of programming languages, model-driven engineering, and compiler construction, and emphasizes the fusion of their communities. To foster the latter, SLE traditionally fills a two-day program with a single track, with the only temporal overlap occurring between co-located events. *Topics of Interest* SLE 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. Broadly speaking, SLE covers software language engineering rather than engineering a specific software language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Software Language Design and Implementation o Approaches to and methods for language design o Static semantics (e.g. design rules, well-formedness constraints) o Techniques for specifying behavioral / executable semantics o Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) o Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches ? Software Language Validation o Verification and formal methods for languages o Testing techniques for languages o Simulation techniques for languages ? Software Language Integration and Composition o Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools o Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) o Traceability between languages o Deployment of languages to different platforms ? Software Language Maintenance o Software language reuse o Language evolution o Language families and variability ? Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) ? Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools o User studies evaluating usability o Performance benchmarks o Industrial applications *Important Dates* All dates are Anywhere on Earth. ? Mon 20 Jul 2020 - Abstract Submission ? Mon 27 Jul 2020 - Paper Submission ? Wed Sept 9th 2020 - Author Notification ? Wed Sep 16th 2020 - Artifact Submission ? Mon 12 Oct 2020 - Camera ready deadline ? Mon 26 Oct 2020 - Artifact notification ? Sun 15 Nov - Fri 20 Nov 2020 - SLE Conference *Types of Submissions* ? Research papers: These are "traditional" papers detailing research contributions to SLE. These papers have a limit of 12 pages, and may optionally include 8 further pages of bibliography/appendices ? Tool papers: These are papers which focus on the tooling aspects which are often forgotten or neglected in research papers. A good tool paper focuses on practical insights that are likely to be useful to other implementers or users in the future. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must not exceed 5 pages and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices. They may optionally come with an appendix with a demo outline / screenshots and/or a short video/screencast illustrating the tool. Tool paper titles must start with "Tool Demo:". ? New ideas / vision papers: These are forward-looking papers about ideas that will interest the SLE community but which are not currently at an advanced level of research. These might be about new research avenues or about integrating existing research ideas, or technologies. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 5 pages, and may optionally include 1 further page of bibliography / appendices *Artifact Evaluation* For the fifth year SLE will use an evaluation process for assessing the quality of the artifacts on which papers are based to foster the culture of experimental reproducibility. Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit artifacts. For more information, please have a look at the Artifact Evaluation page: http://www.sleconf.org/2020/ArtifactEvaluation.html *Submission* Submissions have to use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart" ( http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format); please make sure that you always use the latest ACM SIGPLAN acmart LaTeX template ( https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip), and that the document class definition is \documentclass[sigplan,anonymous,review]{acmart}. Do not make any changes to this format! Ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes in figures and tables are legible. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. In this line, SLE will follow the double-blind process. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors? own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. All submissions must be in PDF format. Concurrent Submissions: Papers must describe unpublished work Papers must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as described by SIGPLAN?s Republication Policy ( http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication). Submitters should also be aware of ACM?s Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism ( http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Submissions that violate these policies will be desk-rejected. Submission Site: https://sle20.hotcrp.com/ *Reviewing Process* All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Research papers and tool papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. New ideas / vision papers will be evaluated primarily concerning novelty, significance, readability, and alignment with the conference call. For fairness reasons, all submitted papers must conform to the above instructions. Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the PC chairs. *Awards* Distinguished paper: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. ? Distinguished reviewer: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs. ? Distinguished artifact: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. *Publication* All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. *Program Committee* Jonathan Aldrich, CMU, USA Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany Olivier Barais, ?Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA?, France Artur Boronat, University of Leicester, UK Erwan Bousse, University of Nantes, France Javier Canovas, UOC - IN3, Spain Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Aston University, UK Sebastian Erdweg, JGU Mainz, Germany Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA G?rel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK Padmanabhan Krishnan, Oracle Labs, Australia Thomas K?hne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand S?rgio Queiroz de Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Yann R?gis-Gianas, IRIF - INRIA, France Elizabeth Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Chris Seaton, Shopify, UK Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversit?t in Hagen, Germany Tijs van der Storm, CWI, Netherlands Eugene Syriani, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada Jes?s S?nchez Cuadrado, University of Murcia, Spain Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Markus Voelter, independent/itemis Vadim Zaytsev, Raincode Labs, Belgium Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna, Austria *Contact* For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions, please contact the Programme Chairs (Juan de Lara and Laurence Tratt) by email ( Juan.deLara at uam.es and laurie at tratt.net). -- INFORMACI? 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The award is given to the PhD student who has made the most original and influential contribution to the research areas in the scope of the ETAPS conferences, and has graduated in 2019 at a European academic institution. The winner of the first edition of the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation award is Dr. Oded Padon (Tel Aviv University) for his dissertation on Deductive Verification of Distributed Protocols in First-Order Logic supervised by Prof. Mooly Sagiv. The winner was selected by a committee of international experts. More information is available at: https://www.etaps.org/about/doctoral-dissertation-award/ Candidate dissertations were evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the quality of writing. Dr. Oded Padon's dissertation received the best marks among several truly excellent submissions. The committee found that his dissertation is extremely well-written and makes original, surprising, and practically useful contributions to the automated verification of distributed systems, which is a difficult and very relevant topic today. The committee was also extremely impressed by the quality and quantity of the published work associated with the dissertation as well as the practical integration of the results into tools widely used both in academia and industry. We offer Dr. Oded Padon our congratulations and best wishes for his scientific career! From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Sun Jul 5 12:10:34 2020 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 16:10:34 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WFLP 2020: Deadline Extension Message-ID: <79a651730702314bdff8b29ff175166fb26fc6e5.camel@unibo.it> WFLP 2020: Deadline Extension ============================= 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming ## Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the workshop will be organized by ## ## the University of Bologna, but it will be held entirely on-line. ## Bologna, Italy, September 7th, 2020 (part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020; co-located with PPDP, LOPSTR, Microservices) Important Dates Paper Registration: July, 13th <== extended Submission: July, 20th <== extended Notification of Authors: August, 03rd Camera-ready Papers: August, 24th Conference & Workshops: September 7th, 2020 WFLP 2020 The international Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP) aims at bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners interested in functional programming, logic programming, and their integration. WFLP has a reputation for being a lively and friendly forum, and it is open for presenting and discussing work in progress, technical contributions, experience reports, experiments, reviews, and system descriptions. The 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2020) will be organized by the University of Bologna, Italy, as part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020 and it will be held entirely on-line due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previous WFLP editions were WFLP 2019 (Cottbus, Germany), WFLP 2018 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), WFLP 2017 (W?rzburg, Germany), WFLP 2016 (Leipzig, Germany), WFLP 2014 (Wittenberg, Germany), WFLP 2013 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2012 (Nagoya, Japan), WFLP 2011 (Odense, Denmark), WFLP 2010 (Madrid, Spain), WFLP 2009 (Brasilia, Brazil), WFLP 2008 (Siena, Italy), WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany). Topics The topics of interest cover all aspects of functional and logic programming. They include (but are not limited to): * Functional programming * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Deductive databases, data mining * Extensions of declarative languages, objects * Multi-paradigm declarative programming * Foundations, semantics, non-monotonic reasoning, dynamics * Parallelism, concurrency * Program analysis, abstract interpretation * Program and model manipulation * Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming * Specification, * Verification * Debugging * Testing * Knowledge representation, machine learning * Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms * Implementation of declarative languages * Advanced programming environments and tools * Software techniques for declarative programming * Applications The primary focus is on new and original research results, but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and experience reports are also welcome. Papers must be written and presented in English. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submission Guidelines Submission is via Easychair submission website for WFLP 2020: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2020 Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: + Regular research paper + Work-in-progress report + System description Regular research papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been formally published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with formal proceedings. They will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. For work-in-progress reports and system descriptions, less formal rules apply, and presentation-only submissions (talk and discussion, but no paper in the formal proceedings) are possible. Please contact the PC chair with any questions. All submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. However, all submissions (especially work-in-progress reports and system descriptions) may be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Proceedings All papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published in informal proceedings publicly available at the Computing Research Repository. According to the program committee reviews, submissions can be directly accepted for publication in the formal post-conference proceedings. The formal post-conference proceedings will be published in both electronic and paper formats by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, all authors accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the conference. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Therefore, all accepted papers will be published in open-access, and the authors can also decide to publish their work in the Springer LNCS formal proceedings. 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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 13, 2020 - Notification date: August 11, 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 Ornela -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fredrik.nordvall-forsberg at strath.ac.uk Tue Jul 7 12:30:28 2020 From: fredrik.nordvall-forsberg at strath.ac.uk (Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 17:30:28 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Permanent positions at the University of Strathclyde Message-ID: <4276bce4-66e0-a810-670f-81053e8dba8d@strath.ac.uk> Dear all, In the near future, the University of Strathclyde will announce a call for ** five-year research positions leading to permanent appointments ** Indeed, it is reassuring to see the university continue recruitment despite the Covid situation. The Mathematically Structured Programming group in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences welcomes applications from type theorists and semanticists, and would be happy to help you develop an application. Please contact Neil Ghani if you are interested, or of course me or anyone else from the group if you have questions. Please also forward this message to others who might be interested. The MSP group ============= The MSP group's vision is to use mathematics to understand the nature of computation, and to then turn that understanding into into the next generation of programming languages. We use ideas from category theory, type theory, and logic to do so. The group consists of Dr Robert Atkey, Dr Ross Duncan, Professor Neil Ghani, Dr Jules Hedges, Dr Clemens Kupke, Dr J?r?my Ledent, Professor Radu Mardare, Dr Conor McBride, Dr Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, Professor Glynn Winskel, and our PhD students. For more information, please see our group website, and our individual websites linked from there: http://msp.cis.strath.ac.uk Glasgow and Scotland ==================== The University of Strathclyde is located in the heart of Glasgow, which Lonely Planet Travel Guides hail as "one of Britain's most intriguing metropolises" (https://www.lonelyplanet.com/scotland/glasgow/). It is less than an hour away by car or public transport from the Scottish Highlands. Southern Scotland provides a particularly stimulating environment for researchers in theoretical computer science, with active groups in this area at Heriot-Watt University, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews, and the University of Strathclyde. Best wishes, Fredrik From bernardobruno at gmail.com Tue Jul 7 16:07:41 2020 From: bernardobruno at gmail.com (Bruno Bernardo) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 22:07:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMBC 2020 - Call for Participation Message-ID: [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ======================================================================== 2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2020 - Call for Participation https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2020 July 20 and 21, 2020, Online, 6AM-8AM PDT Co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020) http://i-cav.org/2020/ --------------------------------------------------------- The FMBC 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 The list of lightning talks and conditionally accecpted papers is available on the FMBC 2020 website: https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2020/program.html There will be one keynote by Grigore Rosu, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and Founder of Runtime Verification. Registration Registration to FMBC 2020 is free but required. It is done through the CAV 2020 registration form: http://i-cav.org/2020/attending/ Please register before *July 10, 2020*. From juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk Thu Jul 9 03:17:23 2020 From: juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk (Juan Fumero) Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:17:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP] VMIL 2020 - Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations - Co-located with SPLASH 2020 Message-ID: ======================================================================= = Call for Papers Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL?20) Co-located with SPLASH 2020 November 17, 2020, Chicago, USA https://2020.splashcon.org/tracks/vmil-2020 Follow us on twitter @vmil20 ======================================================================= = The concept of virtual machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. Due to COVID-19, it is quite likely that VMIL will be a virtual conference. However, we recommend checking the SPLASH website for regular updates on this matter (https://2020.splashcon.org/). The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues. The workshop is intended to be welcoming to a wide range of topics and perspectives, covering all areas relevant to the workshop?s theme. Aspects of interest include, but are not limited to: - design issues in VMs and IRs (e.g. IR design, VM modularity, polyglotism) - compilation (static and dynamic compilation strategies, optimizations, data representations) - VM embeddings in other systems (e.g., DBMSs, Big Data frameworks, Microservices, etc.) - memory management - concurrency (both internal and user-facing) - tool support and related infrastructure (profiling, debugging, liveness, persistence) - the experience of VM development (use of high-level languages, bootstrapping and self-hosting, reusability, portability, developer tooling, etc) - empirical studies on related topics, such as usage patterns, the usability of languages or tools, experimental methodology, or benchmark design Submission Guidelines --------------------- We invite high-quality papers in the following two categories: * Research and experience papers: These submissions should describe work that advances the current state of the art in the above or related areas. The suggested length of these submissions is 6-10 pages (maximum 10pp). * Work-in-progress or position papers: These papers should document ongoing efforts in an area of interest which have not yet yielded final results, and/or should present and defend the authors' position on a topic related to the broad area of the workshop. The suggested length of these submissions is 4-6 pages (maximum 6pp). For the first submission deadline, all paper types are considered for publication in the ACM Digital Library, except if the authors prefer not to be included. Publication of work-in-progress and position papers at VMIL is not intended to preclude later publication elsewhere. Submissions will be judged on novelty, clarity, timeliness, relevance, and potential to stimulate discussion during the workshop. For the second deadline, we will consider only work-in-progress and position papers. These will not be published in the ACM DL, and will only appear on the web site. The address of the submission site is: https://vmil20.hotcrp.com/ Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e. GMT/UTC?12:00 hour Fri 4 Sep Submission Deadline Fri 18 Sep Second Submission Deadline (WIP and position papers only) Mon 5 Oct Author Notification Mon 12 Oct Camera-ready Tue 17 Nov Workshop **to be confirmed with SPLASH organizers** Format Instructions -------------------- Please use the SIGPLAN acmart style for all papers: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. The provided double-column template is available for Latex and Word. Organization ------------ Program Committee: Marc Feeley, University of Montreal Juan Fumero, University of Manchester Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel David Leopoldseder, Oracle Labs Hannes Payer, Google Andreas Rossberg, Dfinity Konstantinos Sagonas, Uppsala University Manuel Serrano, INRIA Foivos Zakkak, Red Hat PC-Chairs: Marc Feeley, University of Montreal Juan Fumero, University of Manchester From andrzej.murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Jul 9 13:23:18 2020 From: andrzej.murawski at cs.ox.ac.uk (Andrzej Murawski) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 18:23:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 4th Workshop on Program Equivalence and Relational Reasoning (PERR 2020) Message-ID: <07745FF3-9CC8-4868-8078-BF567B360DBA@cs.ox.ac.uk> *** Registration closes July 10th, 2020 *** 4TH WORKSHOP ON PROGRAM EQUIVALENCE AND RELATIONAL REASONING (PERR 2020) Associated with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020) Tuesday 21st July 2020 (online) https://easychair.org/cfp/PERR-2020 * REGISTRATION Registration for the CAV 2020 event is free. Registration closes JULY 10TH, 2020. Registration is required to attend the main conference and all associated workshops. http://i-cav.org/2020/attending/ * 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. * PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Starts at 6am (Los Angeles), 9am (New York), 2pm (London), 3pm (Paris) 06:00-07:00 Kedar Namjoshi, Designing a Self-Certifying Compiler (invited talk) 07:00-07:20 Lucas Silver, Irene Yoon, Yannick Zakowski and Steve Zdancewic. Equational Proofs of Optimizations with Interaction Trees 07:20-07:40 Alexander Weigl, Mattias Ulbrich, Suhyun Cha, Birgit Vogel-Heuser and Bernhard Beckert. Relational Test Tables: A Practical Specification Language for Evolution and Security From jr2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk Fri Jul 10 05:16:07 2020 From: jr2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rathke J.) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:16:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fully funded PhD studentship available at University of Southampton Message-ID: A fully-funded studentship is available in the Cyber Security Academy (https://csa.southampton.ac.uk/) in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton (https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) to work with Dr Julian Ratke on using automatic transformations of code as a means of enhancing software security whilst providing formal behavioural guarantees. Skills needed are: good undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar, strong programming skills (preferably in C), strong mathematical skills and an understanding of formal semantics and verifcation. For full details see the advert at: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CAQ125/phd-studentship-automated-provable-safety-aware-software-rewriting-for-security or email me directly at jr2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk Please note that this is UK government funded and has eligibility restrictions of UK nationality. Best Wishes, Julian Dr Julian Rathke Associate Professor Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Room 3215, Building 59, Highfield Campus Southampton SO17 1BJ Tel: +44 (0)2380599181 www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The workshop is intended to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, with practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. The goal of the workshop is to serve as a forum for collecting, discussing, and comparing related research works that typically appear in different communities in the context of (distributed) artificial intelligence, distributed computing, computer programming, programming language design and software engineering. The workshop will be organized as a one-day workshop, integrating both: - A part with a mini-conference style, like previous editions, reserving time slots for the presentation and discussion of accepted contributions that are published on the formal proceedings on the ACM Digital Library. - A part featuring demonstrations of artefacts described by a set of demo papers submitted to the workshop, selected by the Program Committee, to present interesting results and to solicit discussions on ideas and challenges. The workshop welcomes two types of contributions: - Mature contributions: full papers presenting new, previously unpublished research in one or more of the topics identified above. Full papers will be published on the ACM Digital Library as an official ACM SIGPLAN publication. - Demo contributions: short papers describing artefacts that authors agree to demonstrate at the workshop, also to trigger discussions and interactions. Demo papers will be included in the informal proceedings. Format and Submission --------------------- Authors are invited to submit their papers in PDF using the submission system at https://agere20.hotcrp.com/. - Full papers: up to 10 pages, including references - Demo papers: up to 2 pages, excluding references The deadline is August 21, 2020. Submissions should use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart Format with ?sigplan? Subformat, 10 point font. All submissions should be in PDF format. If you use LaTeX or Word, please use the ACM SIGPLAN acmart templates. Otherwise, follow the author instructions. If you are formatting your paper using LaTeX, you will need to set the 10pt option in the \documentclass command. If you are formatting your paper using Word, you may wish to use the provided Word template that supports this font size. Please include page numbers in your submission with the LaTeX \settopmatter{printfolios=true} command. 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Being virtual, accepted papers will be bundled together in a special issue on the Elsevier webpage dedicated to HSB 2020. The special issue welcomes research papers presenting original results on modeling and analysis of biological systems, with an emphasis on both hybrid systems (in the classical sense, i.e., mixed continuous-discrete-stochastic systems) and hybrid approaches that combine modeling, analysis, algorithmic and experimental techniques from different areas. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers should be submitted via Editorial Manager (EM), the online submission and peer review tracking system for Information and Computation, please check the instructions at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-and-computation/0890-5401/guide-for-authors The submission website for the journal is located at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/yinco/ To ensure that all the manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue we are editing, it is important to select: ?? "VSI: HSB 2020" when you choose the "Article Type" of your submission. Guest Editors: ??? Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste (Italy) and University of Saarland (Germany) ??? Laura Nenzi, University of Trieste (Italy) and TU Wien (Austria) ??? Max Tschaikowski, Aalborg University (Denmark) From serge.autexier at dfki.de Fri Jul 10 11:25:29 2020 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] CICM 2020, July 26-31: Call for Online Participation Message-ID: <20200710152529.CB573335C8EB@gigondas.localdomain> ===================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CICM 2020 -- Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics https://cicm-conference.org/2020/ Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, CICM 2020 is held as an online conference ====================================================================== GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. Separate communities have developed to investigate and build computer based systems for computer algebra, automated deduction, and mathematical publishing as well as novel user interfaces. While all of these systems excel in their own right, their integration can lead to synergies offering significant added value. The Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM) offers a venue for discussing and developing solutions to the great challenges posed by the integration of these diverse areas. REGISTRATION ------------ The conference and the affiliated events will take place online. Registration is free of charge. However, registration is mandatory to attend the talks. Please fill this form to register for CICM 2020: https://forms.gle/oS5BVGDf6LgDGDiK8 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ------------------ The program of the conference is available under: https://easychair.org/smart-program/CICM-13/ (all times are in CEST timezone (UTC+2)) INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------ - Kevin Buzzard, Imperial College, London, UK Formalizing Undergraduate Mathematics - Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, CNRS, Evry, France Formally Verified Constraints Solvers: a Guided Tour - Christian Szegedy, Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA A Promising Path Towards Autoformalization and General Artificial Intelligence INVITED WORKSHOP SPEAKERS ------------------------- - Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL Formal Proof for the Future - Fairouz Kamareddine, Heriot-Watt University, UK TBA AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS AND DOCTORAL PROGRAMME --------------------------------------- - NFM 2020 - Workshop on Natural Formal Mathematics (https://cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=NFM) - Doctoral Programme (https://cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=doctoral) From songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn Sun Jul 12 22:06:19 2020 From: songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:06:19 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SETTA-2020 CFP [Deadline extended]: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications - Guangzhou China, November 24-27, 2020 References: <202003031145126707569@shanghaitech.edu.cn>, <202006202056407514151@shanghaitech.edu.cn> Message-ID: <202007131006190211399@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 Guangzhou, China, November 24-27, 2020 Abstract & Paper Submission deadline: July 31th, 2020 Conference website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2020/ ======================================== ************************ 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 31, 2020 (AoE) Notification to authors: September 5, 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. ************************ 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 *). 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... URL: From gam23 at bath.ac.uk Mon Jul 13 04:55:25 2020 From: gam23 at bath.ac.uk (Guy McCusker) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 08:55:25 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lecturer (Assistant Professor) position available at Bath, UK Message-ID: <1CE7A32A-2887-4195-A0D4-80B751A81F04@bath.ac.uk> The University of Bath is hiring a lecturer (assistant professor) in Computer Science. The post is available to all research areas in the department (including HCI, Graphics & Vision, AI), but we would be delighted to receive applications from excellent candidates who complement our current specialities in the Mathematical Foundations area: http://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/mathematical-foundations-of-computation/ The vacancy and online application form are here: https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CC7664 Note the deadline: Wednesday 05 August 2020 For informal enquiries, please feel free to contact us: Alessio Guglielmi: A.Guglielmi at bath.ac.uk Guy McCusker: G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk or the Head of Department, Mike Fraser mcf35 at bath.ac.uk Note also that two teaching-focussed posts are available: https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CC7617 From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Jul 14 15:55:12 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:55:12 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: ICFP 2020 Message-ID: <5f0e0da061171_93ca21c30d0@homer.mail> ===================================================================== Call for Participation ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events August 23 - August 28, 2020 Online http://icfp20.sigplan.org/ Early Registration until August 8! The ICFP Programming Contest starts on July 17! ===================================================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. This year, the conference will be a virtual event. All activities will take place online. The ICFP Programming competition will be July 17th through 20th, 2020! The main conference will take place from August 24-26, 2020 during two time bands. The first band will be 9AM-5:30PM New York, and will include both technical and social activities. The second band will repeat (with some variation) the technical program and social activities 12 hours later, 9AM-5:30PM Beijing, the following day. We?re excited to announce our two invited speakers for 2020: Evan Czaplicki, covering the Elm programming language and hard lessons learned on driving adoption of new programming languages; and Audrey Tang, Haskeller and Taiwan?s Digital Minister, on how software developers can contribute to fighting the pandemic. ICFP has officially accepted 37 exciting papers, and (as a fresh experiment this year) there will also be presentations of 8 papers accepted recently to the Journal of Functional Programming. Co-located symposia and workshops will take place the day before and two days immediately after the main conference. Registration is now open. The early registration deadline is August 8th, 2020. Registration is not free, but is significantly lower than usual. Students who are ACM or SIGPLAN members may register for FREE before the early deadline. https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php New this year: Attendees will be able to sign-up for the ICFP Mentoring Program (either to be a mentor, receive mentorship or both). * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/home * Accepted papers: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-papers#event-overview * JFP Talks: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-jfp-talks#event-overview * Registration is available via: https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php Early registration ends 8 August, 2020. * Programming contest: https://icfpcontest2020.github.io/ The Programming Contest begins July 17th! * Student Research Competition: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-Student-Research-Competition * Follow us on Twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference This year, there are 10 events co-located with ICFP: * Erlang Workshop (8/23) * Haskell Implementors' Workshop (8/28) * Haskell Symposium (8/27-8/28) * Higher-Order Programming with Effects (8/23) * miniKanren Workshop (8/27) * ML Family Workshop (8/27) * OCaml Workshop (8/28) * Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (8/23) * Scheme Workshop (8/28) * Type-Driven Development (8/23) ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Ghost Locomotion, Australia) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organizer: 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: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Video Chair: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Victor Lanvin (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) From pangjun at gmail.com Wed Jul 15 02:38:57 2020 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:38:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Formal Methods 2021 -- 1st Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ****************************************************************** FM 2021: 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods Beijng, China, November 20-26, 2021 http://formalmethods2021.csp.escience.cn/ ****************************************************************** FM 2021 is the 24th international symposium in a series organised by Formal Methods Europe (FME), an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a programme of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral work. FM 2021 will be both an occasion to celebrate and a platform for enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds to exchange their ideas and share their experience. FM 2021 will highlight the development and application of formal methods in a wide range of domains including software, cyber-physical systems and integrated computer-based systems. We are in particular interested in the application of formal methods in the areas of systems-of-systems, security, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, power, transport, smart cities, healthcare, biology. We also welcome papers on experiences from application of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools. ---------------- Important Dates ---------------- Abstract submission: April 30, 2021, 23:59 AoE Full paper submission: May 6, 2021, 23:59 AoE Notification: July 16, 2021 Camera ready: August 16, 2021 Conference: November 20-26, 2021 ---------------- Topics of Interest ---------------- FM 2021 encourages submissions on formal methods in a wide range of domains including software, computer-based systems, systems-of-systems, cyber-physical systems, security, human-computer interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, energy, transport, smart cities, and healthcare. We particularly welcome papers on techniques, tools and experiences in interdisciplinary settings. We also welcome papers on experiences of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools. The broad topics of interest for FM 2021 include, but are not limited to: ? Interdisciplinary formal methods: Techniques, tools and experiences demonstrating the use of formal methods in interdisciplinary settings. ? Formal methods in practice: Industrial applications of formal methods, experience with formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. The authors are encouraged to explain how formal methods overcame problems, led to improved designs, or provided new insights. ? Tools for formal methods: Advances in automated verification, model checking, and testing with formal methods, tools integration, environments for formal methods, and experimental validation of tools. The authors are encouraged to demonstrate empirically that the new tool or environment advances the state of the art. ? Formal methods in software and systems engineering: Development processes with formal methods, usage guidelines for formal methods, and method integration. The authors are encouraged to evaluate process innovations with respect to qualitative or quantitative improvements. Empirical studies and evaluations are also solicited. ? Theoretical foundations of formal methods: All aspects of theory related to specification, verification, refinement, and static and dynamic analysis. The authors are encouraged to explain how their results contribute to the solution of practical problems with formal methods or tools. ---------------- Submission Guidelines ---------------- Papers should be original work, not published or submitted elsewhere, in Springer LNCS format, written in English, submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2021 Each paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by the reviewers. Similarly, case study papers should describe significant case studies, and the complete development should be made available at the time of review. The usual criteria for novelty, reproducibility, correctness and the ability for others to build upon the described work apply. Tool papers and tool demonstration papers should explain enhancements made compared to previously published work. A tool demonstration paper need not present the theory behind the tool, but can focus on the tool?s features, how it is used, its evaluation, and examples and screenshots illustrating the tool?s use. Authors of tool and tool demonstration papers should make their tool available for use by the reviewers. We solicit various categories of papers: ? Regular Papers (max 15 pages) ? Long tool papers (max 15 pages) ? Case study papers (max 15 pages) ? Short papers (max 6 pages), including tool demonstration papers. Besides short tool demo papers, short papers are encouraged for any topic that can be described within the page limit, and in particular for novel ideas without an extensive experimental evaluation. Short papers will be given short presentations at the conference. All page limits do not count references and appendices. For all papers, an appendix can provide additional material such as details on proofs or experiments. The appendix is not part of the page count and not guaranteed to be read or taken into account by the reviewers. It should not contain information necessary for the understanding and the evaluation of the presented work. Papers will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were submitted. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference as a registered participant. ---------------- Best Paper Award ---------------- At the conference, the PC Chairs will present an award to the authors of the submission selected as the FM 2021 Best Paper. ---------------- Publication ---------------- Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings to appear in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science in the subline on Formal Methods. Traditionally, extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of one or more journals. ---------------- General Chair ---------------- Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ---------------- Program Committee Chairs ---------------- Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science, China ---------------- Program Committee ---------------- TBD ---------------- Publicity Chair ---------------- Eunsuk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ---------------- Local Organizers ---------------- Naijun Zhan (chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bai Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bohua Zhan Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Zhilin Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Andrea Turrini, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China David Jansen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Peng Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ---------------- Web Team ---------------- Bohua Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bai Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Wed Jul 15 09:13:23 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Mihaela Rozman) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:13:23 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Awardees of the VCLA International Student Awards for Outstanding Master and Undergraduate Theses in Logic and Computer Science - 2020 Message-ID: <0c0a01d65aa9$b837b600$28a72200$@tuwien.ac.at> The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (VCLA) has the pleasure to announce the recipients of the VCLA International Student Awards for Outstanding Master and Undergraduate Theses in Logic and Computer Science. The highly successful fifth edition of the VCLA International Student Awards was concluded in July 2020. The awardees of the 2020 edition of the VCLA International Student Awards are: ***OUTSTANDING MASTER THESIS AWARD*** Karolina Okrasa (Poland Warsaw University of Technology) Thesis: Complexity of variants of graph homomorphism problem in selected graph classes Under the supervision of Pawe? Rz??ewski http://www.vcla.at/2020/07/fifth-edition-of-the-vcla-international-student-awards-2020/ ***OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD*** Antonin Callard (France ENS Paris-Saclay) Thesis: Topological analysis of represented spaces and computable maps, cb0 spaces and non-countably-based spaces Under the supervision of Mathieu Hoyrup http://www.vcla.at/2020/07/fifth-edition-of-the-vcla-international-student-awards-2020/ ============= AWARDS ============= The annually awarded VCLA Awards are dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aim to carry on his commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these areas. The awardees receive: ? Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR ? Outstanding Undergraduate Research (Bachelor) Award: 800 EUR ? The awardees will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony (TBA due to COVID -19) =================== (SELF-)NOMINATIONS =================== The nominated theses had to be awarded between 15 November 2018 and 31 December 2019. The 2021 call will be issued in January 2021, for theses awarded between 15 November 2019 and 31 December 2020: http://www.vcla.at/vcla-awards =================== FORMER AWARDEES =================== *Mart?n Mu?oz (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile): Descriptive Complexity for Counting Complexity Classes *Alexej Rotar (TU M?nchen): The Satisfiability Problem for Fragments of PCTL *Tom?? Lamser (Masaryk University): Algorithmic Analysis of Patrolling Games *Jeremy Liang An Kong (Imperial College London): MCMAS-Dynamic: Symbolic Model Checking Linear Dynamic Logic *Felix D?rre (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Verification of Random Number Generators *Valeria Vignudelli (University of Bologna): The Discriminating Power of Higher-Order Languages: A Process Algebraic Approach *Maximilian Schleich (Oxford University): Learning Regression Models over Factorised Joins *Pablo Mu?oz (University of Chile): New Complexity Bounds for Evaluating CRPQs with Path Comparisons *Kuldeep S. 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Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL ================================================================================ IFL 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2020 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialisation - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - meta-programming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications ### Post-symposium peer-review Following IFL tradition, IFL 2020 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. Before the symposium authors submit draft papers. These draft papers will be screened by the program chair to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL. The draft papers will be made available to all participants at the symposium. Each draft paper is presented by one of the authors at the symposium. After the symposium every presenter is invited to submit a full paper, incorporating feedback from discussions at the symposium. Work submitted to IFL may not be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected for the formal proceedings. We plan to publish these proceedings in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library, as in previous years. ### Important dates Submission deadline of draft papers: 17 August 2020 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 19 August 2020 Registration deadline: 31 August 2020 IFL Symposium: 2-4 September 2020 Submission of papers for proceedings: 7 December 2020 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2021 Camera-ready version: 15 March 2021 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honoured article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Programme committee Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, United Kingdom (chair) Martin Erwig, Oregon State University,United States Daniel Horpacsi, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Neil Mitchell, Facebook, UK Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, United States Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University, Netherlands Colin Runciman, University of York, United Kingdom Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jurrien Stutterheim, Standard Chartered, Singapore Josef Svenningsson, Facebook, UK Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay Janis Voigtlander, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ### Virtual symposium Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2020 will be an online event, consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings. Registered participants can take part from anywhere in the world. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organisers for their work, which is reused here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Thu Jul 16 09:57:11 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:57:11 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Tutorials, Discussions, and Social Events: ICFP 2020 Message-ID: <5f105cb738f1b_d5ed29430d2@homer.mail> FINAL CALL FOR TUTORIAL, DISCUSSION, AND SOCIAL EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming August 23 - 28, 2020 Virtual https://icfp20.sigplan.org/ The 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held virtually on August 23-28, 2020. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. Proposals are invited for tutorials, lasting approximately 3 hours each, to be presented during ICFP and its co-located workshops and other events. These tutorials are the successor to the CUFP tutorials from previous years, but we also welcome tutorials whose primary audience is researchers rather than practitioners. Tutorials may focus either on a concrete technology or on a theoretical or mathematical tool. Ideally, tutorials will have a concrete result, such as "Learn to do X with Y" rather than "Learn language Y". To increase social interaction on the first ICFP virtual conference, this year we invite proposals for social events on topics of broader interest to the PL community. Such events can be panels and discussions (in the lines of the successful #ShutDownPL event), focused discussions (e.g., problem identifications, retrospective analysis, technical demos), social activities (e.g., treasure hunt, bingo, problem solving, artistic challenges). The typical duration of such events ranges from 30 minutes to one hour, but can be of any length. Tutorials may occur before or after ICFP, co-located with the associated workshops, on August 23 or August 27-28. Social events may be scheduled throughout the week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: July 17th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 22nd, 2020 Prospective organizers of tutorials are invited to submit a completed tutorial proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2020 workshop co-chairs (Jennifer Hackett and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2020 at googlegroups.com by July 17th, 2020. Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by July 22nd, 2020. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2020-files/icfp20-panel-form.txt http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2020-files/icfp20-tutorials-form.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2020 organizing committee. Tutorials Co-Chair: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham) Tutorials Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland) General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the tutorial co-chairs (Jennifer Hackett and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2020 at googlegroups.com From woortwijn at inf.ethz.ch Thu Jul 16 09:59:26 2020 From: woortwijn at inf.ethz.ch (Oortwijn Wytse) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:59:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FTfJP 2020 (virtual) - Call for Participation - 23.07.2020 Message-ID: # CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 22th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs, FTfJP 2020 https://2020.ecoop.org/track/FTfJP-2020-papers Virtual event, to be held using Zoom, on Thursday, 23 July 2020, from 10:00 to 17:30 (GMT+2 Amsterdam time). Participation is free. For more details please see the webpage linked above. ## INVITED SPEAKERS * Frank de Boer and Hans-Dieter Hiep (CWI, the Netherlands): History-based Specification and Verification of Java Collections in KeY * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University, CWI; the Netherlands): Discourje: Runtime Verification of Communication Protocols in Clojure ## INVITED TUTORIAL * Alexander Summers (University of British Columbia, Canada): Prusti ? Deductive Verification for Rust ## PROGRAM The program of (virtual) FTfJP 2020, July 23th, is as follows. All times are in GMT+2 Amsterdam time. Session One * 10:00 - 11:00: History-based Specification and Verification of Java Collections in KeY (invited talk) (Frank de Boer and Hans-Dieter Hiep) * 11:00 - 11:30: Dalarna: A Simplistic Capability-Based Dynamic Language Design For Data Race Freedom (Kiko Fernandez-Reyes, James Noble, Isaac Oscar Gariano, Erin Greenwood-Thessman, Michael Homer and Tobias Wrigstad) * 11:30 - 11:50: ConSysT: Tunable, Safe Consistency meets Object-Oriented Programming (Mirko K?hler, Nafise Eskandani Masoule, Alessandro Margara and Guido Salvaneschi) -- lunch break -- Session Two * 13:15 - 13:45: Salsa: Static Analysis of Serialization Features (Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, Reese Jones and Mehdi Mirakhorli) * 13:45 - 14:05: Towards Verified Construction of Correct and Optimised GPU Software (Marieke Huisman and Anton Wijs) * 14:05 - 14:35: An inductive abstract semantics for coFJ (Pietro Barbieri, Francesco Dagnino and Elena Zucca) * 14:35 - 15:05: A Separation Logic to Verify Termination of Busy-Waiting for Abrupt Program Exit (Tobias Reinhard, Amin Timany and Bart Jacobs) -- break -- Session Three * 15:30 - 16:30: Prusti ? Deductive Verification for Rust (invited tutorial) (Alexander Summers) * 16:30 - 17:30: Discourje: Runtime Verification of Communication Protocols in Clojure (invited talk) (Sung-Shik Jongmans) ## ABOUT FTfJP 2020 Formal techniques can help analyse programs, precisely describe program behaviour, and verify program properties. Modern programming languages are interesting targets for formal techniques due to their ubiquity and wide user base, stable and well-defined interfaces and platforms, and powerful (but also complex) libraries. New languages and applications in this space are continually arising, resulting in new programming languages (PL) research challenges. Work on formal techniques and tools and on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. FTfJP is an established workshop which has run annually since 1999 alongside ECOOP, with the goal of bringing together people working in both fields. The workshop has a broad PL theme; the most important criterion is that submissions will generate interesting discussions within this community. The term ?Java-like? is somewhat historic and should be interpreted broadly: FTfJP solicits and welcomes submission relating to programming languages in general, beyond Java, C#, Scala, etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at Sun Jul 19 15:44:51 2020 From: anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at (Ana Sokolova) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:44:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position in Formal Methods, Programming Languages, and Systems, at the University of Salzburg, Computational Systems Group Message-ID: We are happy to announce an opening for a postdoc position within the Computational Systems Group at the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, The position is for up to 2.5 years with an initial contract for 1 year. The ideal candidate is interested in one or more (ideally all) of the areas: Formal Methods, Programming Languages, and Systems. The position is associated with an Austria-wide project "Teaching Digital Thinking" financed by the ministry of education related to teaching computer science content to non-computer-science students and understanding what computer science students could gain from other areas. We expect some help from you regarding the project, but this is not supposed to be too much work. We also expect you to engage in a reasonably small amount of teaching. Other than that, we expect you to collaborate with us on research in one of the mentioned areas. You would also have the freedom to conduct independent research. Please contact Christoph Kirsch (ck at cs.uni-salzburg.at) and/or Ana Sokolova (anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at) for more information. The official opening (in German) is available at: https://www.uni-salzburg.at/fileadmin/multimedia/Serviceeinrichtung%20Personal/documents/A_0042_Postdoc_CoWi_II.pdf . The application deadline is August 5, 2020. Best, Ana and Christoph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deligu at di.unito.it Sun Jul 19 17:13:09 2020 From: deligu at di.unito.it (Ugo de'Liguoro) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 23:13:09 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES post-proceedings: call for papers Message-ID: <6506b89a-26a0-a530-c4a0-07ed5e82e94a@di.unito.it> Call for papers - TYPES 2020 - Postproceedings TYPES is a major forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of type theory and its applications. TYPES 2020 wasn?t held in Turin as planned because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Nonetheless the significant number of submissions and registrations testified the interest for TYPES in our community, motivating us to plan publishing post-proceedings. The post-proceedings volume will be published in LIPIcs, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics , an open-access series of conference proceedings. Submission to this post-proceedings volume is open to everyone, also to those who did not submit a contribution to the conference. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Homotopy type theory; * Applications of type theory; * Dependently typed programming; * Industrial uses of type theory technology; * Meta-theoretic studies of type systems; * Proof assistants and proof technology; * Automation in computer-assisted reasoning; * Links between type theory and functional programming; * Formalizing mathematics using type theory; * Type theory in linguistics. Important dates: * Paper submission: 19 October 2020 * Author notification: 18 January 2021 * Final version: ?15 February 2021 * Publication (presumably): 29 March 2021 Details: * Papers have to be formatted with lipics.cls and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs . * The recommended length of a paper is 12-15 pages, excluding front-page(s) (authors, affiliation, keywords, abstract, ...), bibliography and an appendix of max 5 pages. Longer submissions will not be considered. * In case of questions, please contact one of the editors. Editors: * Ugo de?Liguoro (Universit? di Torino) * Stefano Berardi (Universit? di Torino) * Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) -- Ugo de'Liguoro Associate Professor of Computer Science Dipartimento di Informatica Universit? di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy phone +39 011 6706766 - fax: +39 011 751603 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro Sat Jul 18 04:14:42 2020 From: motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro (motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:14:42 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] extended deadline Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020)] Message-ID: <4a52eb39c2ba20fe1d2867a29fe1ebcb.squirrel@www.cs.ubbcluj.ro> Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020) September 4-6, 2020, Cluj-Napoca, Romania http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/ -A Fully Virtual Conference- ##Submission deadline extended to 27 July, 2020 (AoE)## ##Important Dates July 27, 2020 (AoE): deadline for paper submission August 15, 2020: notification of acceptance August 25, 2020: revised papers for Studia pre-proceedings August 31, 2020: registration September 4-6, 2020: virtual symposium days September 14, 2020: revised papers for the Springer CCIS post-proceedings ##Overview FROM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2020 is organized by by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the STAR-UBB Institute, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest. Due to the current pandemic situation, FROM 2020 will happen as a fully virtual conference. FROM 2020 is the fourth event in a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest ( http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017), the second edition was held in 2018 in Iasi ( http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018), and the third edition was held in 2019 in Timisoara ( http://from2019.projects.uvt.ro/). The second edition papers have been published in Fundamenta Informaticae, vol.l 173, no.l 2-3, while the third edition papers are under review process in Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming. The format of the symposium encourages interaction. The program includes invited lectures and regular contributions such that a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. FROM welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers. ##Topics of Interest Areas and formalisms of interest include: + Category theory in computer science + Distributed systems and concurrency + Formal languages and automata theory + Formal modelling, verification and testing + Logic in computer science + Logical frameworks + Mathematical structures in computer science + Models of computation + Semantics of programming languages + Type systems Methods of interest include: + Automated reasoning and model generation + Automated induction + Certified programs + Data-flow and control-flow analysis + Deductive verification + Mechanized proofs + Model checking + Proof mining + Symbolic computation + Term rewriting Applications of interest include: + Computational logic + Computer mathematics + Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases + Program analysis + Verification and synthesis of software and hardware + Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing ##Submissions We expect two categories of contributions: +Full Papers (maximum 15 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. They must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Full papers will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. +Short Papers (maximum 6 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, describe work in progress or provide system descriptions. They need not be original. We encourage especially beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Short papers will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from20 There is no need to indicate the paper category (long/short). ##Formatting and Publication Papers should be written in English and should follow the formatting requirements detailed at http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines . All accepted papers will be published online in Studia UBB Informatica ( http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal) by default, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend the symposium to present the work and participate in the discussions. The revised versions of the selected papers will be published in a post-proceedings after the conference. The post-proceedings will be published with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) . CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Authors of the best original contributions will also be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of a prestigious international journal. ##Invited Speakers Andrei Arusoaie (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Guangdong Bai (University of Queensland, Australia) Marius Bozga (University of Grenoble, INSA, France) Corina Carstea (University of Southampton, UK) Wei Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Daniel David (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Radu Grosu (Vienna University of Technology , Austria) Zhenjiang Hu (Peking University, China) Chao Huang (Northwestern University, US) Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, China) Quang Loc Le (University College London, UK) Ileana Ober (Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden, Germany) Traian Serbanuta (University of Bucharest, Romania) Jun Sun (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Meng Sun (Peking University, China) Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen University, China) Hongseok Yang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) Naijun Zhan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) ##Programme Committee Zalan Bodo (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Xin Chen (Nanjing University, China) Christine Choppy (Universit? Paris Nord, France) Stefan Ciobaca (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Florin Craciun (co-chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Septimiu Crivei (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Mengda He (Teesside University, UK) Zoltan Horvath (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Alexandra Jimborean (Uppsala University, Sweden) Yanhong Huang (East China Normal University, China) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Ton Chanh Le (Stevens Institute of Technology, US) Laurentiu Leustean (University of Bucharest, Romania) Yi Li (Nanyang Technological University) David Lo (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Dorel Lucanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) Mircea Marin (West University of Timisoara, Romania) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, Romania) Simona Motogna (co-chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Chunyan Mu (Teesside University, United Kingdom) Iulian Ober (Universite Paul Sabatier, France) Peter Csaba Olveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) Ion Petre (University of Turku, Finland) Shengchao Qin (co-chair) (Teesside University, UK) Vlad Rusu (INRIA, France) Christian Sacarea (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Anna Soos (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Gheorghe Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Alin Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Sorin Stratulat (Universite de Lorraine, France) Keming Wang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China) Meng Wang (Bristol University, UK) Hengjun Zhao (Southwest University, China) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ##Local Organizing Committee Arthur Molnar (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Vladiela Petrascu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) ##General Chairs Florin Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Simona Motogna (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) From wortmann at se-rwth.de Tue Jul 21 10:48:03 2020 From: wortmann at se-rwth.de (Andreas Wortmann) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:48:03 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EAPLS PhD Award 2020: Call for Nominations Message-ID: ============================================= EAPLS PhD Award 2020: Call for Nominations ============================================= URL: http://eapls.org/pages/phd_award/ The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) has established a Best Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the Ph.D. student who in the previous period has made the most original and influential contribution to the area. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to excellent work, to help the career of the student in question, and to promote the research field as a whole. Eligibility -------------------------------- Eligible for the award are those who successfully defended their PhD * at an academic institution in Europe * in the field of Programming Languages and Systems * in the period from 1 January 2019 ? 31 December 2019 Nominations -------------------------------- Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the nomination to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ep19. The nomination must consist of a single PDF file containing * a letter from the supervisor describing why the thesis should be considered for the award; * a report from an independent researcher who has acted as examiner of the thesis at its defense; and * the thesis itself. The theses will be evaluated with respect to originality, influence, relevance to the field and (to a lesser degree) quality of writing. Questions can be directed to the Ph.D. award chairs, at ep19 at easychair.org. Procedure -------------------------------- The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international committee of experts. The procedure to be followed is analogous to the review phase of a conference. The justification by the supervisor and the external report will play an important role in the evaluation. The final decision is made by the EAPLS board, based on the recommendation of the expert committee. Members of the expert committee and the EAPLS board are barred from nominating their own Ph.D. students for the award. The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner to have received the EAPLS Ph.D. award 2019 and the supervisor will receive a copy of this certificate. If possible, the certificate will be handed out ceremonially at a suitable occasion, as for instance the ETAPS conference. Apart from the winner, no further ranking of nominees will be published. The decision of the expert committee is final and binding and will not be subject to discussion. Important Dates -------------------------------- 30 August 2020: Deadline for nominations 1 December 2020: Announcement of the award winner -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andreas Wortmann | Software Engineering Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany | RWTH Aachen University Phone +49 (241) 80-21346 / Fax -22218 | http://www.se-rwth.de Model-Driven Development of a Digital Twin for Injection Molding CAiSE 2020: Advanced Information Systems Engineering (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49435-3_6 From sey19 at uclive.ac.nz Thu Jul 23 04:28:33 2020 From: sey19 at uclive.ac.nz (Simon Yusuf-Enoch) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:28:33 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended deadline: PRDC 2020 The 25th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing Message-ID: -- [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] -- ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - PRDC 2020 The 25th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing December 1-4, 2020, Perth, Australia Paper Submission Deadline: 1 August 2020 (Firm) http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2020/ ********************************************************************** PRDC 2020 is the twenty-fifth event in the series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependabil- ity of computing systems has become increasingly critical. This sympo- sium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ?Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation ?Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools ?Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems ?Software aging and rejuvenation ?Safety-critical systems and software ?Architecture and system design for dependability ?Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols ?Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications ?Cloud computing security and privacy ?Software defined networks architectures and protocols ?Internet of things architectures, protocols, security and privacy ?Dependability issues in artificial intelligence and its applications ?Dependability issues in computer networks and communications ?Dependability issues in high performance computing ?Dependability issues in real-time systems ?Dependability issues in storage and databases systems ?Dependability issues in cyber-physical systems ?Dependability issues in socio-technical systems ?Dependability and security in machine learning systems ?Blockchain and smart contracts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission and Publication Information Manuscripts should be submitted in the following two categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 10 pages using IEEE Computer Society camera-ready 8.5"x11" two-column format. Practical Experience Reports (max 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prdc2020 Please note that all submissions will undergo a double-blind review. Please ensure that you have removed any references that could lead to identifying the authors of the paper. Failure to do so may result in rejection of the paper regardless of the paper contributions. Papers will be reviewed internationally and selected based on their original- ity, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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URL: From tarmo at cs.ioc.ee Thu Jul 23 16:02:27 2020 From: tarmo at cs.ioc.ee (Tarmo Uustalu) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:02:27 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS 2021 1st joint call for papers Message-ID: <20200723230227.490c265f@cs.ioc.ee> ****************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS 24th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2021 Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 27 March-1 April 2021 http://www.etaps.org/2021 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2021 is the twenty-fourth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (29 March-1 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair: Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs: Esther Guerra, Univ. Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain, and Mari?lle Stoelinga, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs: Stefan Kiefer, Univ. of Oxford, UK, and Christine Tasson, IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot, France) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs: Jan Friso Groote, Techn. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark) TACAS '21 will host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 15 October 2020 23:59 AoE (=GMT-12) * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS and, for selected papers, TACAS): 7 December 00:01 AoE - 9 December 23:59 AoE * Notification: 23 December 2020 * Camera-ready versions due: 22 January 2021 -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- The four main conferences of ETAPS 2021 solicit contributions of the following types. All page limits are given **excluding bibliography**. * ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of max 18 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp + mandatory appendix of max 6 pp, * FoSSaCS: regular research papers of max 18 pp * TACAS: regular research papers, case study papers and regular tool papers of max 16 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp For definitions of the different paper types and specific instructions, where they are present, see the webpages of the individual conferences. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and have presentations during the conference. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's LNCS and be submitted electronically in pdf through the Easychair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will use double-blind reviewing. Authors are asked to omit their names and institutions; refer to own prior work in the third person; not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. Regular tool paper and tool demonstration paper submissions to TACAS must be accompanied by an artifact. The artifact will be evaluated and the outcome will be taken into account in the acceptance decision of the paper. ESOP and FoSSaCS will use an author rebuttal phase. TACAS will have rebuttal for selected papers. -- PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's LNCS series. The proceedings volumes will appear in gold open access, so the published versions of all papers will be available for everyone to download from the publisher's website freely, from the date of online publication, perpetually. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (27-28 March) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. -- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION -- Luxembourg is the capital of the small European nation of the same name. Built amid deep gorges cut by the Alzette and P?trusse rivers, it is famed for its ruins of medieval fortifications. The vast Bock Casemates tunnel network encompasses a dungeon, prison and the Archaeological Crypt, considered the city's birthplace. Along ramparts above, the Chemin de la Corniche promenade offers dramatic viewpoints. ETAPS 2021 is organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), Universit? du Luxembourg. -- ORGANIZERS -- General chair: Peter Y. A. Ryan (SnT & Universit? du Luxembourg) Workshops chair: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Organization chair: Peter Roenne (SnT Luxembourg) Event manager: Magali Martin (SnT Luxembourg) -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2021 at uni.lu . From marthaflinderslewis at gmail.com Fri Jul 24 10:20:36 2020 From: marthaflinderslewis at gmail.com (Martha Lewis) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:20:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for online participation: Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences Message-ID: [with apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION Workshop on Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Sciences https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/home August 6th and 7th 2020 online **** Registration is now open for SemSpace2020 at https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/registration . Registration is free, but please do register for planning purposes. AIMS AND SCOPE Vector embeddings of word meanings have become a mainstream tool in large scale natural language processing tools. The use of vectors to represent meanings in semantic spaces or feature spaces is also employed in cognitive science. Unrelated to natural language and cognitive science, vectors and vector spaces have been extensively used as models of physical theories and especially the theory of quantum mechanics. Crucial similarities between the vector representations of quantum mechanics and those of natural language are exhibited via bicompact linear logic and compact closed categorical structures in natural language. Exploiting the common ground provided by vector spaces, the proposed workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of NLP, cognitive science, and physics, offering to them an appropriate forum for presenting their uniquely motivated work and ideas. The interplay between these three disciplines will foster theoretically motivated approaches to understanding how meanings of words interact with each other in sentences and discourse via grammatical types, how they are determined by input from the world, and how word and sentence meanings interact logically. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): Reasoning in semantic spaces Compositionality in semantic spaces and conceptual spaces Conceptual spaces in linguistics and natural language processing Applications of quantum logic in natural language processing and cognitive science Modelling functional words such as prepositions and relative pronouns in compositional distributional models of meaning Diagrammatic reasoning for natural language processing and cognitive science Modelling so-called ?non-compositional? phenomena such as metaphor INVITED SPEAKERS Jennifer Culbertson, University of Edinburgh Andrea E. Martin, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Nijmegen LIST OF ACCEPTED TALKS (in no particular order) (see also https://sites.google.com/view/semspace2020/programme ) Russell Richie and Sudeep Bhatia: Similarity judgment within and across categories: A comprehensive model comparison James Hefford, Vincent Wang and Matthew Wilson: Categories of Semantic Concepts Sean Tull and Johannes Kleiner: Integrated Information in Process Theories Sonia Cenceschi, Licia Sbattella and Roberto Tedesco: CALLIOPE: a multi-dimensional model for the prosodic characterisation of Information Units Tiffany Duneau: Solving logical puzzles in DisCoCirc Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Stefano Gogioso, Giovanni De Felice, Alexis Toumi, Nicolo Chiappori and Bob Coecke: Quantum Natural Language Processing on Near-Term Quantum Computers Sergey Slavnov: Cobordisms and commutative categorial grammars Sean Tull: Monoidal Categories for Formal Concept Analysis Lachlan McPheat, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Adriana Correia and Alexis Toumi: Derivations and Vector Semantics of Anaphora with Ellipsis in Lambek Calculus with a Relevant Modality Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh and Lewis Sword: Gaussianity and typicality in matrix distributional semantics Gemma De Las Cuevas, Andreas Klinger, Martha Lewis and Tim Netzer: Cats climb entails mammals move: preserving hyponymy in compositional distributional semantics Whitney Tabor: On the relationship between syntactic and semantic encoding in vector space language models Please send any queries to semspace2020 at easychair.org PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Bob Coecke, University of Oxford Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford Giuseppe Greco, Utrecht University Peter G?rdenfors, Lund University Helle Hvid Hansen, Delft University of Technology Jules Hedges, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Peter Hines, University of York Alexander Kurz, Chapman University Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Department of Computer Science Dan Marsden, University of Oxford Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University Richard Moot, CNRS (LIRMM) & University of Montpellier Dusko Pavlovic, University of Hawaii Emmanuel Pothos, City University London Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London Giovanni Sileno, University of Amsterdam Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Oriol Valent?n, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Dominic Widdows, Grab Geraint Wiggins, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Queen Mary University of London Gijs Wijnholds, Utrecht University Frank Zenker, Lund University ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Martha Lewis, ILLC, University of Amsterdam Michael Moortgat, Utrecht University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sajnani.hitesh at gmail.com Fri Jul 24 22:33:56 2020 From: sajnani.hitesh at gmail.com (hitesh sajnani) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:33:56 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SPLASH 2020 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions Message-ID: SPLASH 2020 Combined Call for Workshop Submissions ================================================== Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH will host a variety of 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. The following workshops will be *virtually* co-located with SPLASH 2020 and ECOOP 2020. * AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) * HATRA (Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants) * HILT (High Integrity Language Technologies) * LIVE (Live Programming) * LPOP (Logic and Practice of Programming) * META (Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection) * NSAD (Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains) * PLATEAU (PL + HCI) * REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) * TAPAS (Tools for Automatic Program Analysis) * VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) AGERE (Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control) ------------------------------------------------- The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and?more generally?on high-level programming paradigms which promote decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is intended to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/agere-2020 Deadline: *21st August AoE* HATRA (Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants) ------------------------------------------------------- Programming language designers seek to provide strong tools to help developers reason about their programs. The HATRA workshop focuses on methods for making languages that provide stronger safety properties more effective for programmers and software engineers. By bringing together programming languages, software engineering, security, and human-computer interaction researchers, we will explore interdisciplinary methods for creating languages that benefit their users. Our interest spans all approaches for reasoning assistants and safer programming languages. For example, the formal methods community seeks to enable developers to prove correctness properties of their code, and type system designers seek to exclude classes of undesirable behavior from programs. The security community creates tools to help developers achieve their security goals. We invite the SPLASH community to join us in identifying and establishing a research agenda for collaborative work in this space and discussion of early-stage approaches in this area. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/hatra-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* HILT (High Integrity Language Technologies) ------------------------------------------- High Integrity Language Technologies have been tackling the challenges of building efficient, safe, reliable software for decades. Critical software as a domain is quickly expanding beyond embedded real-time control applications to the increasing reliance on complex software for the basic functioning of businesses, governments, and society in general. HILT 2020 will focus on the growing importance of large-scale, highly parallel, distributed and/or cloud applications. Single-thread performance is reaching the limits of physics, and this has driven growth in parallel programming, massively distributed systems, and heterogeneous/ accelerated computing models. Once the domain of high-performance computing experts, parallel, distributed, and cloud computing are becoming fundamental technologies for all programmers. This workshop seeks to explore ways High Integrity Language Technologies can bring the capabilities of parallelism, distribution, and heterogeneity to a wider audience, without the associated increase in complexity. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/hilt-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* LIVE (Live Programming) ----------------------- Live programming gives the programmer immediate feedback on the behavior of a program as it is edited, replacing the edit-compile-debug cycle with a fluid programming experience. The most commonly used live programming environment is the spreadsheet, but there are many others. The study of live programming is now an established area of research. The LIVE workshop focuses on the human experience of programming and is a forum for early-stage work to receive constructive criticism. We accept short papers, web essays with embedded videos, and demo videos. Traditionally, the majority of LIVE submissions are demonstrations of novel programming systems; we encourage such demos to include a reflection about their place in the history of programming environments. LIVE additionally accepts and welcomes experience reports, literature reviews, and position papers. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/live-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* LPOP (Logic and Practice of Programming) ---------------------------------------- The goal of the workshop is to bring together the best people and best languages, tools, and ideas to help improve logic languages for the practice of programming and to improve the practice of programming with logic and declarative programming. We plan to organize the workshop around a number of ?challenge problems?, including in particular expressing a set of system components and functionalities clearly and precisely using a chosen description language. We will have invited talks by Adnan Darwiche (UCLA), Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), and Peter Stuckey (U of Melbourne). There will be additional presentations and discussion panels on using well-known description methods and tools. We will aim to group presentations of description methods and tools by the kind of problems that they address, and to allow ample time to understand the strengths of the various approaches and how they might be combined. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/lpop-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* META (Meta-Programming Techniques and Reflection) ------------------------------------------------- The changing hardware and software landscape along with the increased heterogeneity of systems make metaprogramming once more an important research topic to handle the associated complexity. Meta?20 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions, or software tools using them. The challenges which metaprogramming faces are manifold. They start with formal reasoning about reflective programs, continue with performance and tooling, and reach into the empirical field to understand how metaprogramming is used and how it affects software maintainability. While industry accepted metaprogramming on a wide scale with Ruby, Scala, JavaScript and others, academia still needs to bring it to the same level of convenience, tooling, and understanding as for direct programming styles. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to the design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as formal methods and empirical studies for such systems and languages. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/meta-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* NSAD (Numerical and Symbolic Abstract Domains) ---------------------------------------------- Abstract domains are a key notion in Abstract Interpretation theory and practice. They embed the semantic choices, data-structures and algorithmic aspects, and implementation decisions. The Abstract Interpretation framework provides constructive and systematic formal methods to design, compose, compare, study, prove, and apply abstract domains. Many abstract domains have been designed so far: numerical domains (intervals, congruences, polyhedra, polynomials, etc.), symbolic domains (shape domains, trees, etc.), but also domain operators (products, powersets, completions, etc.), and have been applied to several kinds of static analyses (safety, termination, probability, etc.) on a variety of systems (hardware, software, neural networks, etc.). The goal of NSAD workshop is to discuss work in progress, recent advances, novel ideas, experiences in the theory, practice, application, implementation, and experimentation related to abstract domains and/or their combination. This year?s edition in particular welcomes abstract domains related and/or applied to analyzing neural networks, dynamical and hybrid systems. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/nsad-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* PLATEAU (PL + HCI) ------------------ Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But programmer effectiveness depends on the usability of the languages and tools with which they develop software. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. Find more details of the PLATEAU workshop at the website: https://plateau-workshop.org/ Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/plateau-2020 Deadline: *4th September AoE* REBLS (Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems) ---------------------------------------------------- Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design ? so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) ? have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. This workshop will gather researchers in reactive and event-based languages and systems. The goal of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2020 Deadline: *21st August AoE* (extended) TAPAS (Tools for Automatic Program Analysis) -------------------------------------------- In recent years, a wide range of static analysis tools have emerged, some of which are currently in industrial use or are well beyond the advanced prototype level. Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation, formal methods and static analysis tool users. Call: https://2020.splashcon.org/home/tapas-2020 Deadline: *19th Aug AoE* VMIL (Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages) -------------------------------------------------- The concept of Virtual Machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual Machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues. 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URL: From dr.ross.duncan at gmail.com Tue Jul 28 09:42:14 2020 From: dr.ross.duncan at gmail.com (Ross Duncan) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:42:14 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP : International Workshop on Quantum Compilation : 23-24 September 2020 Message-ID: Note to moderator : due the use of type theory in quantum software we believe this notice is relevant to the list. --- IWQC 2020 Call for contributions --- 4rd International Workshop on Quantum Compilation. https://quantumweek2020.cambridgequantum.com/iwqc20.html We invite contributions to the 4th International Workshop on Quantum Compilation. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from quantum computing, electronic design automation, and compiler construction. Open questions that we anticipate this group to tackle include new methods for circuit synthesis and optimization, optimizations and rewriting, techniques for verifying the correctness of quantum programs, and new techniques for compiling efficient circuits and protocols regarding fault-tolerant and architecture constraints.The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, current hot topics in quantum circuit design such as : * space-optimizing compilers for reversible circuits * design-space exploration for automatic code generation from classical HDL specification * quantum programming languages and type systems * reversible logic synthesis * technology-aware mapping * error correction * optimized libraries (e.g., for arithmetic and Hamiltonian simulation) * benchmarking of circuits for small and medium scale quantum computers * quantum and reversible circuit peep-holing and (re)synthesis * software and tools for all above mentioned topics * quantum outreach: coding contests, tutorials, education Due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic the workshop will happen as an online virtual event. We will investigate the possibility of an in-person meeting if the situation improves, but the full participation in the workshop will be possible remotely. Best Student Paper Prize! The PC will award a GBP 500 prize for the best accepted paper whose authors are all students at the time of submission. The prize will be shared equally between the authors. Invited Speakers : * Eleanor Rieffel, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) NASA Ames Research Center * Margaret Martonosi, Quantum computer architecture and programming languages research group (QArch), Princeton University * Earl T. Campbell, University of Sheffield and AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Important dates: * 14 August 2020: Submission of abstracts * 31 August 2020: Notification of decisions * 23 and 24 September 2020 : Workshop Note that IWQC20 forms part of a week long sequence of workshops on quantum computing; see https://quantumweek2020.cambridgequantum.com/ Instructions for authors : The main purpose of the workshop is to exchange recent ideas and research in the area of quantum compilation. The workshop has no formal proceedings. Authors are invited to submit an abstract or a paper, with no restrictions on the format. Submission of tool and case-study papers are highly encouraged. In case of a positive evaluation, submissions are accepted either as oral or poster presentation to be part of the workshop program. All abstracts and papers are distributed only among the participants. 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Prospective authors should be aware of SIGPLAN?s Copyright policies. Proceedings will be made available online in the ACM digital library from one week before to one week after the conference. Full CfP: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers ARTIFACT EVALUATION Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for the Artifact Evaluation (AE). The Artifact Evaluation process begins after the acceptance notification, and is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. To ease the organization of the AE committee, we kindly ask authors to indicate at the time they submit the paper, whether they are interested in submitting an artifact. 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, but not required, to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as ?source materials? in the ACM Digital Library. CC AE web page: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/research-artifacts ORGANIZERS General Chair: Aaron Smith - Microsoft / University of Edinburgh Program Chairs: Delphine Demange - Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Rajiv Gupta - UC Riverside Artifact Evaluation Chairs: Bruno Bodin - Yale-NUS College Michel Steuwer - University of Glasgow Web Chair: Martin L?cke - University of Edinburgh Steering Committee: Bj?rn Franke (Chair) - University of Edinburgh Jose Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta Christophe Dubach - University of Edinburgh Sebastian Hack - Saarland University Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA Software Institute and T.U. of Madrid (UPM) Alexandra Jimborean - University of Murcia Milind Kulkarni - Purdue University Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Peng Wu - Futurewei Technologies Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Ayal Zaks - Intel Corporation and Technion Program Committee: Guillaume Baudart - IBM Research Walter Binder - University of Lugano Simone Campanoni - Northwestern University Albert Cohen - Google Caroline Collange - Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA Huimin Cui - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Christophe Dubach - McGill University Beno?t Dupont de Dinechin - Kalray Bernhard Egger - Seoul National University Christine Flood - Red Hat Laure Gonnord - University of Lyon and LIP Myoungsoo Jung - KAIST Andrew Kennedy - Facebook Dongyoon Lee - Stony Brook University Christian Lengauer - University of Passau Xavier Leroy - Coll?ge de France and Inria Yun Liang - Peking University Toby Murray - University of Melbourne and Data61 Biswabandan Panda - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Santosh Pande - Georgia Tech Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Gabriel Rodr?guez - Universidade da Coru?a Jan Vitek - Northeastern University Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Zhijia Zhao - UC Riverside From David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk Fri Jul 31 11:19:53 2020 From: David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk (David Aspinall) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:19:53 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in Foundational Security for AI at University of Edinburgh, UK Message-ID: <0d60a85b-000c-ead9-f9c7-352c8ec467f3@ed.ac.uk> Postdoc in Foundational Security for AI at University of Edinburgh, UK ====================================================================== Applications are invited for a Research Assistant in Security for AI, working in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. This post is part of the project AISEC - AI Secure and Explainable by Construction a UKRI research project on Security for Artificial Intelligence running 2020-23, joint with Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde. The AISEC project aims to design and implement a methodology and development environment for "policy-to-property" verification of complex AI systems which are secure and explainable by construction. The project will employ types systems and supporting lightweight verification methods to help document, implement and refine policies for complex deep learning and rules-based systems. Types will serve as a unifying mechanism to embed security and safety contracts directly into programs that implement AI. The project will examine two key AI application areas: autonomous vehicles and natural language interfaces and it includes collaboration with legal researchers and industrial partners in each application area. An ideal background for this post would encompass some foundational aspects of security (programming language based or other approaches), with some knowledge of current AI methods. For more details, please see: * https://laiv.uk/vacancies/ - about the project * https://edin.ac/339zEUB - about the job and to apply Application deadline: 7th September. For informal enquiries, please contact David Aspinall (David.Aspinall at ed.ac.uk). -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Sun Aug 2 16:47:37 2020 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 22:47:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2020: Call for Participation Message-ID: <80dd5feb-12c3-032a-d04f-a5a62db2447f@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> Call for Participation The 15th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'20) ONLINE, Sept-Oct 2020 https://coalg.org/cmcs20 Update: CMCS 2020 will be held virtually, as a series of approximately three hour sessions spread across five weeks, according to the following tentative schedule: ? 21/09/2020, 15:00 ? 18:00 CEST ? 28/09/2020, 10:00 ? 13:00 CEST ? 05/10/2020, 15:00 ? 18:00 CEST ? 12/10/2020, 10:00 ? 13:00 CEST ? 19/10/2020, 10:00 ? 13:00 CEST The exact schedule will be determined and announced in August. Registration will be free (details will follow), but please subscribe to the coalgebra mailing list for updates: https://framalistes.org/sympa/subscribe/coalgebra 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 --------------- Online, see above. 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) 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? de Paris, IRIF, 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? de Paris, IRIF, 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 Accepted papers --------------------- For a list of accepted papers and short contributions, see https://www.coalg.org/cmcs20/accepted-papers/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a well-established forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative programming, including functional and logic programming, database and constraint programming, and theorem proving. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages for software engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical languages and extensions such as probabilistic and reactive languages PADL 2021 especially welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications, design and implementation of declarative languages going beyond the scope of the past PADL symposia, for example, advanced database languages and contract languages, computational creativas well as verification and theorem proving methods that rely on declarative languages. Submissions ------------ PADL solicits three kinds of submission, in Springer LNCS format: * Technical papers (max. 15 pages) Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. * Application papers (max. 8 pages) Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. * Extended abstracts (max. 3 pages) Describing new ideas, a new perspective on already published work, or work-in-progress that is not yet ready for a full publication. Extended abstracts will be posted on the symposium website but will not be published in the formal proceedings. All page limits exclude references. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place in which it has previously appeared. Important dates ---------------- * Deadline: 9th October 2020 (AoE) * Notification: 6th November 2020 * Symposium: 18-19th January 2021 Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl2021 COVID-19 -------- PADL is co-located with POPL, which will take place January 17-22, 2021, as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting. We will be monitoring the Covid-19 situation and will announce a decision on the nature of the meeting in time which will follow suit with POPL. Distinguished Papers -------------------- The authors of a small number of distinguished papers will be invited to submit a longer version for journal publication after the symposium. For papers related to logic programming, in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theory-and-practice-of-logic-programming, and for papers related to functional programming, in Journal of Functional Programming (JFP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming. The extended journal submissions should include roughly 30% more content including, for example, explanations for which there was no space, illuminating examples and proofs, additional definitions and theorems, further experimental results, implementational details and feedback from practical/engineering use, extended discussion of related work and such like. These submissions will then be subject to peer review by the journal, although with the aim of a swifter review process by reusing original reviews from PADL. 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Format ====== As with past editions of CLA, we plan to have both invited and contributed talks, with the opportunity to present either work-in-progress or recently published work in a friendly and informal setting...the only difference is that CLA 2020 will be entirely online! We are likely to have a mix of live talks, pre-recorded talks, and text-based discussions, with the precise cocktail of technologies to be determined. Participation will be free and open to all but will require prior registration. Scope ===== Topics within the scope of CLA include: - combinatorics of lambda calculus and related formalisms, - quantitative aspects of program evaluation and normalisation, - asymptotic enumeration in computational logic, - statistical properties of formulae, terms and programs, - random generation of large combinatorial structures in computational logic, - randomness in software testing and counter-example generation methods. Submission ========== Talk proposals should consist of short abstracts (at most 2 pages) describing work-in-progress or previously published work, and can be written in either plain text or pdf format. They will be evaluated by the program committee to determine interest and scope, so talk proposals should give some indication of the relevance to CLA in case this is not immediately obvious. You can also indicate whether you prefer to give a live or pre-recorded talk and the amount of time you would like to speak, although this is left up to the discretion of the program committee. Submission is done through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla20201 Invited speakers ================ - [Mirai Ikebuchi](https://mir-ikbch.github.io/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology - [Marc Noy](https://sites.google.com/view/marcnoy/), Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Program committee ================= - Maciej Bendkowski, Jagiellonian University - Antoine Genitrini, Sorbonne University - Alain Giorgetti, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comt? - Bernhard Gittenberger, TU Wien - Katarzyna Grygiel, Jagiellonian University (co-chair) - Leonidas Lampropoulos, University of Maryland - Ryoma Sin'ya, Akita University - Michael Wallner, TU Wien - Noam Zeilberger, Ecole Polytechnique (co-chair) Important dates =============== - Submission deadline: August 31, 2020 (AoE) - Success notification: September 14, 2020 (AoE) - Registration deadline: October 11, 2020 - Workshop: October 12-13, 2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will do research in the context of the EU-funded Horizon-2020 project ADMORPH, coordinated by the University of Amsterdam. He or she will work under the supervision of Dr Clemens Grelck and Dr Andy Pimentel and is expected to address the programming language technology dimension of ADMORPH. We are developing a domain-specific language (DSL) that combines functional dependencies with extra-functional requirements, expectations and strategies regarding fault-tolerance, timing, security, quality-of-service, etc. More information on the planned research as well as on the formalities of the position can be found at the official vacancy site: https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/07/20-420-researcher-in-programming-language-technology-for-adaptive-cyber-physical-systems.html?z A PhD position in the Netherlands is a paid job (4 years) with a decent salary, paid holidays and all social benefits of the Dutch public services sector. The teaching load is relatively low: nominally 10% of the work time. Closing date: August 17, 2020. For informal inquiries, please contact: ?Dr Clemens Grelck or ?Dr Andy Pimentel . -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 Associate Professor 1098XH Amsterdam Programme Director MSc Software Engineering Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Systems and Networking Lab F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Parallel Computing Systems Group Office C3.109 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From mzw at cs.princeton.edu Thu Aug 6 11:21:52 2020 From: mzw at cs.princeton.edu (Matthew Weaver) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 11:21:52 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LGBTQ Social at ICFP Message-ID: ICFP is just a few weeks away, and as a part of the many social events planned we are having an LGBTQ hangout and discussion on Tuesday August 25th from 1:30 - 2:30 EDT. 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URL: From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Thu Aug 6 22:47:53 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:47:53 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Participation: ICFP 2020 Message-ID: <5f2cc0d9b6e5d_1e99e2943019@homer.mail> ===================================================================== Second Call for Participation ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events August 23 - August 28, 2020 Online http://icfp20.sigplan.org/ Early Registration ends August 8! ==================================================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. Watch our new video, and Don't Stop ICFP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fte5wwnwCws Early Registration ends August 8th! Registration for students with an ACM or SIGPLAN membership is free, and anyone can apply for a fee waiver at: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/attending/Registration This year, the conference will be a virtual event. All activities will take place online. The main conference will take place from August 24-26, 2020 during two time bands. The first band will be 9AM-5:30PM New York, and will include both technical and social activities. The second band will repeat (with some variation) the technical program and social activities 12 hours later, 9AM-5:30PM Beijing, the following day. We've written a blog post about how conference mirroring will work for ICFP: https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/08/04/come-to-virtual-icfp/ We?re excited to announce our two invited speakers for 2020: Evan Czaplicki, covering the Elm programming language and hard lessons learned on driving adoption of new programming languages; and Audrey Tang, Haskeller and Taiwan?s Digital Minister, on how software developers can contribute to fighting the pandemic. ICFP has officially accepted 37 exciting papers, and (as a fresh experiment this year) there will also be presentations of 8 papers accepted recently to the Journal of Functional Programming. Co-located symposia and workshops will take place the day before and two days immediately after the main conference. Registration is now open. The early registration deadline is August 8th, 2020. Registration is not free, but is significantly lower than usual. Students who are ACM or SIGPLAN members may register for FREE before the early deadline. https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php New this year: Attendees will be able to sign-up for the ICFP Mentoring Program (either to be a mentor, receive mentorship or both). * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/home * Full Schedule: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/program/program-icfp-2020 * Accepted papers: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-papers#event-overview * JFP Talks: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-jfp-talks#event-overview * Registration is available via: https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php Early registration ends 8 August, 2020. * Programming contest: https://icfpcontest2020.github.io/ * Student Research Competition: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-Student-Research-Competition * Follow us on Twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference This year, there are 10 events co-located with ICFP: * Erlang Workshop (8/23) * Haskell Implementors' Workshop (8/28) * Haskell Symposium (8/27-8/28) * Higher-Order Programming with Effects (8/23) * miniKanren Workshop (8/27) * ML Family Workshop (8/27) * OCaml Workshop (8/28) * Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (8/23) * Scheme Workshop (8/28) * Type-Driven Development (8/23) ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Ghost Locomotion, Australia) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organizer: 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: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Video Chair: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Victor Lanvin (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) From n.jansen at science.ru.nl Sat Aug 8 08:33:32 2020 From: n.jansen at science.ru.nl (Nils Jansen) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 14:33:32 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2020 **Call for Participation** In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7CC05A8C-FB71-4955-8B56-8BB761BADB1C@science.ru.nl> Call for Participation FORMATS 2020 September 1st-3rd Online Event co-located with CONCUR, FMICS, and QEST https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/ Invited Speakers: Alessandro Abate, Roderick Bloem, Annabelle McIver - Deadlines ? Early registration deadline: no later than August 13th, 2020 ? Late registration deadline: from August 14th to September 5th, 2020 - 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. - Special Sessions This year, FORMATS features two special sessions: 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. - Invited Talks ? Alessandro Abate ? Roderick Bloem ? Annabelle McIver - Accepted Papers ? Hai Nguyen Van, Thibaut Balabonski, Fr?d?ric Boulanger, Chantal Keller, Beno?t Valiron and Burkhart Wolff. On the Semantics of Polychronous Polytimed Specifications. ? R?mi Parrot and Didier Lime. Backward Symbolic Optimal Reachability in Weighted Timed Automata. ? Simon Wimmer, Fr?d?ric Herbreteau and Jaco van de Pol. Certifying Emptiness of Timed B?chi Automata. ? Nicolas Basset, Thao Dang, Akshay Mambakam and Jos? Ignacio Requeno Jarabo. Learning specifications for labelled patterns. ? Thomas Brihaye and Aline Goeminne. On Subgame Perfect Equilibria in Turn-Based Reachability Timed Games. ? Emily Clement, Thierry J?ron, Nicolas Markey and David Mentr?. Computing maximmaly-permissive strategies in acyclic timed games. ? Martin K?lbl, Stefan Leue and Robert Schmid. Dynamic Causes for the Violation of Timed Reachability Properties. ? L?o Henry, Thierry J?ron and Nicolas Markey. Active learning of timed automata with unknown resets. ? Alessandro Abate, Alessandro Cimatti, Andrea Micheli and Muhammad Syifaul Mufid. Computation of Transient in Max-Plus Linear Systems via SMT-Solving. ? Xin Qin and Jyotirmoy Deshmukh. Clairvoyant Monitoring for Signal Temporal Logic Patterns. ? Brian Kempa, Pei Zhang, Phillip Jones, Joseph Zambreno and Kristin Yvonne Rozier. Embedding online RV for fault disambiguation on Robonaut2. ? Susanna Donatelli and Serge Haddad. Guarded Autonomous Transitions Increase Conciseness and Expressiveness of Timed Automata. ? Edoardo Bacci and David Parker. Probabilistic Guarantees for Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning. ? Thierry J?ron, Nicolas Markey, David Mentr?, Reiya Noguchi and Ocan Sankur. Incremental methods for checking real-time consistency. ? Dongxu Li, Stanley Bak and Sergiy Bogomolov. Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Hybridization and Dynamics Scaling. ? Wolfgang Granig, Stefan Jaksic, Lewitschnig Horst, Cristinel Mateis and Dejan Nickovic. Weakness Monitors for Fail-Aware Systems. 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 - 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 Chairs Nathalie Bertrand (France) Nils Jansen (The Netherlands) - 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. Vaandrager (The Netherlands) Masaki Waga (Japan) Lijun Zhang (China) ? 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Invited Speakers ================ Pierre-Marie P?drot - Inria Rennes-Bretagne-Atlantique, France Satnam Singh - Google Research, USA 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. Programme ========= All times are UTC+1 (i.e. the timezone of Dublin, Ireland where MSFP 2020 was originally scheduled to be held). Monday ------ 13:00 Invited Speaker: Pierre-Marie Pedrot All your base categories are belong to us: A syntactic model of presheaves in type theory 14:00 break 14:30 Philippa Cowderoy Information aware type systems and telescopic constraint trees 15:00 Christopher Jenkins, Aaron Stump, and Larry Diehl Efficient lambda encodings for Mendler-style coinductive types in Cedille 15:30 break 16:00 Niels Voorneveld From equations to distinctions: Two interpretations of effectful computations 16:30 Dominic Orchard, Philip Wadler, and Harley Eades III Unifying graded and parameterised monads 17:00 virtual pub Tuesday ------- 13:00 Anne Baanen and Wouter Swierstra Combining predicate transformer semantics for effects: a case study in parsing regular languages 13:30 Oleg Grenrus Shattered lens 14:00 break 14:30 Artjoms Sinkarovs Multi-dimensional arrays with levels 15:00 Fritz Henglein and Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen Module theory and query processing 15:30 break 16:00 Invited speaker: Satnam Singh Extracting low-level formally verified circuits from Cava in Coq 17:00 virtual pub 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 Platforms ========= * We will use Google Meet for presentations. * If the number of participants is not too high then we will invite all participants to use Google Meet if they wish. * Regardless, we will also livestream talks via YouTube. * Questions and general discussion will be handled through Zulip. * We will use gather.town for "corridor chat". Further details will be emailed to registered participants. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From fritz at henglein.com Tue Aug 11 02:10:38 2020 From: fritz at henglein.com (Fritz Henglein) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:10:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: VMCAI 2021 Message-ID: ******************************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 22nd International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation VMCAI 2021 January 17-19, 2021 https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/VMCAI-2021 ******************************************************************************* *Call for Papers* VMCAI 2021 is the 22nd International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. The conference will be held on January 17-19, 2021, in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting depending on the COVID-19 situation. VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. *Scope* The program of VMCAI 2021 will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: Program Verification Model Checking Abstract Interpretation Abstract Domains Program Synthesis Static Analysis Type Systems Deductive Methods Program Logics First-Order Theories Decision Procedures Interpolation Horn Clause Solving Program Certification Separation Logic Probabilistic Programming and Analysis Error Diagnosis Detection of Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities Program Transformations Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems Concurrent and distributed Systems Analysis of numerical properties Analysis of smart contracts Analysis of neural networks Case Studies on all of the above topics Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. *Important Dates AoE (UTC-12)* October 5th, 2020 Paper submission November 6th, 2020 Notification November 13th, 2020 Camera-ready Conference Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2021 *Submissions* Submissions are required to follow Springer?s LNCS format. The page limit depends on the paper?s category (see below). In each category, additional material beyond the page limit may be placed in a clearly marked appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2021 Accepted papers will be published in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. There will be three categories of papers: regular papers, tool papers and case studies. Papers in each category have a different page limit and will be evaluated differently. Regular papers clearly identify and justify an advance to the field of verification, abstract interpretation, or model checking. Where applicable, they are supported by experimental validation. Regular papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. Tool papers present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, and emphasize the design and implementation concerns, including software architecture and core data structures. A regular tool paper should give a clear account of the tool?s functionality, discuss the tool?s practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, describe experience with realistic case studies, and where applicable, provide a rigorous experimental evaluation. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool, preferably substantiated by data on enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available and submit an artifact. Tool papers are restricted to 12 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. Case studies are expected to describe the use of verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation techniques in new application domains or industrial settings. Papers in this category do not necessarily need to present original research results but are expected to contain novel applications of formal methods techniques as well as an evaluation of these techniques in the chosen application domain. Such papers are encouraged to discuss the unique challenges of transferring research ideas to a real-world setting and reflect on any lessons learned from this technology transfer experience. Case study papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. (Shorter case study papers are also welcome.) *Artifacts* VMCAI 2021 allows authors to submit an artifact along a paper. Artifacts are any additional material that substantiates the claims made in the paper, and ideally makes them fully replicable. Submitting an artifact is encouraged but not required. The artifact will be evaluated in parallel with the submission by the artifact evaluation committee (AEC). The AEC will read the paper and evaluate the artifact on the following criteria: - consistency with and replicability of results in the paper, - completeness, - documentation, and - ease of use. More information will be available on the conference webpage: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/VMCAI-2021 *Organizing Committee* Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Sharon Shoham (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Yakir Vizel (The Technion, Israel) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Open questions that we anticipate this group to tackle include new methods for circuit synthesis and optimization, optimizations and rewriting, techniques for verifying the correctness of quantum programs, and new techniques for compiling efficient circuits and protocols regarding fault-tolerant and architecture constraints.The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, current hot topics in quantum circuit design such as : * space-optimizing compilers for reversible circuits * design-space exploration for automatic code generation from classical HDL specification * quantum programming languages and type systems * reversible logic synthesis * technology-aware mapping * error correction * optimized libraries (e.g., for arithmetic and Hamiltonian simulation) * benchmarking of circuits for small and medium scale quantum computers * quantum and reversible circuit peep-holing and (re)synthesis * software and tools for all above mentioned topics * quantum outreach: coding contests, tutorials, education Due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic the workshop will happen as an online virtual event. We will investigate the possibility of an in-person meeting if the situation improves, but the full participation in the workshop will be possible remotely. Best Student Paper Prize! The PC will award a GBP 500 prize for the best accepted paper whose authors are all students at the time of submission. The prize will be shared equally between the authors. Invited Speakers : * Eleanor Rieffel, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) NASA Ames Research Center * Margaret Martonosi, Quantum computer architecture and programming languages research group (QArch), Princeton University * Earl T. Campbell, University of Sheffield and AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Important dates: * 14 August 2020: Submission of abstracts * 31 August 2020: Notification of decisions * 23 and 24 September 2020 : Workshop Note that IWQC20 forms part of a week long sequence of workshops on quantum computing; see https://quantumweek2020.cambridgequantum.com/ Instructions for authors : The main purpose of the workshop is to exchange recent ideas and research in the area of quantum compilation. The workshop has no formal proceedings. Authors are invited to submit an abstract or a paper, with no restrictions on the format. Submission of tool and case-study papers are highly encouraged. In case of a positive evaluation, submissions are accepted either as oral or poster presentation to be part of the workshop program. All abstracts and papers are distributed only among the participants. Please submit your papers through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwqc20 Programme Committee : Ross Duncan, Cambridge Quantum Computing and University of Strathclyde, ross.duncan at cambridgequantum.com Thomas H?ner, Microsoft, thomas.haner at microsoft.com Aleks Kissinger, University of Oxford, Aleks.kissinger at cs.ox.ac.uk Neil J. Ross, Dalhousie University, neil.jr.ross at gmail.com Mathias Soeken, Microsoft and EPFL, mathias.soeken at epfl.ch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tatjana.petrov at uni-konstanz.de Tue Aug 11 05:04:22 2020 From: tatjana.petrov at uni-konstanz.de (Tatjana Petrov) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:04:22 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Registration for CMSB 2020 is open! Message-ID: ========================================================================= [Please feel free to share, apologies if you receive multiple copies] ========================================================================= Registration for CMSB 2020 is now open - please follow the instructions at the webpage. As you know, this year's edition of CMSB will be on-line, hence you can participate without the need to travel. Also, the registration and proceedings will be free-of-charge, thanks to the support of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior (https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/). The final programme will be announced shortly. In the meanwhile, you can have a look at the accepted papers at the conference webpage: https://cmsb2020.uni-saarland.de. Looking forward to welcoming you at the virtual sessions of CMSB 2020. 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URL: From tristanj at bc.edu Tue Aug 11 09:50:54 2020 From: tristanj at bc.edu (Jean-Baptiste Tristan) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:50:54 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PROBPROG 2020 Call for Late-breaking Submissions Message-ID: Conference Dates: Oct 22 - 24 2020 (previously Apr 23 ? 25 2020) Deadline: Mon Sep 14, 2020 11:59 PM AOE Submissions: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROBPROG2020 Instructions: https://probprog.cc/submissions/ The International Conference on Probabilistic Programming (PROBPROG 2020) has been rescheduled to Oct 22 - 24 and will take place in a fully online format. Owing to the 5-month gap relative to the original conference dates, we would like to invite authors who did not have a chance to submit in January to do so in September. The PROBPROG 2020 conference invites two kinds of submissions: 1. Extended Abstracts: Authors may submit work in the form of an extended abstract of 2-6 pages for consideration for a poster presentation, talk, or full-length proceedings submission. Extended abstracts are intended as a mechanism for discussing work that may be preliminary, and for this reason, are non-archival. Titles for accepted poster presentations and talks will be listed on the conference website. Our aim is to enable researchers to get feedback from the PROBPROG community that helps mature the research, strengthen the probabilistic programming content, and improve the chances of acceptance in top venues aligned with other fields. 2. Syndicated Submissions: Authors may submit work that has been accepted for publication in another venue within the last 12 months for consideration as a poster presentation or talk. These submissions may be full-length and are also non-archival, but will be listed on the conference website. *Note: *Authors of previously accepted submissions need to resubmit this cycle. Authors of submissions that were not accepted are encouraged to resubmit an updated abstract. Organizers - Vikash Mansinghka (MIT) - Jean-Baptiste Tristan (Boston College) - Jan-Willem van de Meent (Northeastern University) - Avi Pfeffer (Charles River Analytics) Program Information - Thursday 22 October: Industry day and Tutorials - Friday 23 October: Main conference - Saturday 24 October: Main conference Probabilistic programming is an emergent field based on the idea that probabilistic models can be efficiently represented as executable code. This idea has enabled researchers to formalize, automate, and scale-up many aspects of modeling and inference; to make modeling and inference accessible to a broader audience of developers and domain experts; and to develop new programmable AI systems that integrate modeling and inference approaches from multiple domains. PROBPROG is the first international conference dedicated to probabilistic programming. PROBPROG includes presentations on basic research, applied research, open-source, and the practice of probabilistic programming. PROBPROG attendees come from academia, industry, non-profits, and government. The conference aims to achieve three goals: 1. Create a venue where researchers from multiple fields ? e.g. programming languages, statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence ? can meet, interact, and exchange ideas. 2. Grow a diverse and inclusive probabilistic programming community, by actively seeking participation from under-represented groups, and providing networking opportunities, mentorship, and feedback to all members. 3. Support the development of the practice of probabilistic programming, including open-source systems and real-world applications, and provide a bridge between the practice of probabilistic programming and basic research. PROBPROG welcomes abstract submissions for contributed research presentations, demonstrations, open-source systems, participants in open discussions, and consideration for invited publication in an online journal. Submissions should indicate alignment with one or more of the following themes: 1. Artificial and Natural Intelligence. Probabilistic programs and probabilistic programming technology for formulating and solving the core problems of intelligence, including research relevant for engineering artificial intelligence and for reverse-engineering natural intelligence. A central theme in this track is new AI architectures based on probabilistic programming that integrate statistical, symbolic, neural, Bayesian, and simulation-based approaches to knowledge representation and learning. Another central theme is proposals for learning probabilistic programs from data, and modeling high-level forms of human learning using probabilistic program synthesis. This track also includes research at the intersection of probabilistic programming and intelligence augmentation, collective intelligence, machine learning, and the development and analysis of intelligent infrastructure. 2. Statistics and Data Analysis. Probabilistic programs and probabilistic programming technology for formulating and solving problems in statistics and data analysis. Topics include latent variable models, parameter estimation, automated data modeling, Bayesian inference, calibration, model checking, model criticism, visualization, and testing of statistical models and inference algorithms. This track also includes statistical applications and deployments of probabilistic programming for data analysis. 3. Languages, Tools, and Systems. The design, implementation, and formal semantics of probabilistic programming languages and systems, including domain-specific and general-purpose languages, interpreters, compilers, probabilistic meta-programming techniques, probabilistic meta-programming languages, and runtime systems. This track also includes research on dynamic and static analysis of probabilistic programs, and empirical and theoretical study of the usability, performance, and accuracy of probabilistic programming languages and systems. 4. The Practice of Probabilistic Programming. This track is centered on four themes: (i) probabilistic programs and systems based on probabilistic programming that solve problems in industry, government, philanthropic work, applied research, and teaching, as well as potential use cases for probabilistic programs or probabilistic programming technology in these areas; (ii) challenges that arise when using probabilistic programming in practice, including inspection, debugging, testing, and performance engineering; (iii) human-centric design of probabilistic programs and probabilistic programming technology; and (iv) probabilistic programming tools, probabilistic program analyses, probabilistic programming styles/workflows, probabilistic programming practices/guidelines/experience reports, and probabilistic programming environments with the potential to address issues faced by practitioners. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Tue Aug 11 09:59:11 2020 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:59:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QONFEST 2020 (CONCUR, FMICS, FORMATS, QEST + WORKSHOPS) - Call for Participation (Early Registration Deadline: 13 August 2020) Message-ID: <13E0B5C4-F42B-4320-9503-058B67B17DA4@tuwien.ac.at> QONFEST 2020 - Call for Participation ==================================== August 31st - September 5, 2020 Amid the recent COVID-19 situation, the organization committee decided that QONFEST 2020, will be organized online on ZOOM. Early Registration Deadline: 13 August 2020 https://qonfest2020.github.io/ QONFEST is the umbrella conference comprising the joint international 2020 meetings: CONCUR 2020, the 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory FMICS 2020, the 25th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems FORMATS 2020, the 18th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems QEST 2020, the 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems alongside with several workshops (EXPRESS/SOS, FRIDA, QAVS, TRENDS, SNR) and QEST tutorials. The topics covered are Theory, Formal Modelling, Verification, Performance Evaluation and Engineering of concurrent, timed, industrial critical, and other systems. Keynote speakers ================ - Alessandro Abate - University of Oxford, UK - Roderick Bloem - TU Graz (Austria) - Thomas A. Henzinger - IST (Austria) - Annabelle McIver - Macquarie University (Australia) - Catuscia Palamidessi - INRIA Saclay and LIX (France) - Stefan Resch - Thales, (Austria) - Evgenia Smirni - College of William and Mary, VA, USA Registration ============ This year, the early registration fee (August 13, 2020) for the whole of QONFEST is only 10 EUR. The early workshop registration fee is 5 EUR. Late registration is 50% more expensive (15 EUR and 8 EUR, respectively). More information at: https://qonfest2020.github.io/registration.html Organizing Committee ================== General Chair - Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria Workshops Chair - Florian Zuleger, TU Wien, Austria CONCUR PC-Chairs - Igor Konnov, INRIA Nancy, France - Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria FMICS PC-Chairs - Dejan Nickovic, AIT, Austria - Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy FORMATS PC-Chairs - Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA, France - Nils Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands QEST PC-Chairs - Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - David N. Jansen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Anne Remke, University of M?nster, Germany Publicity Chairs - Carlos E. Budde, University of Twente, Netherlands - Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria -- Prof. Ezio Bartocci Faculty of Informatics TU Wien, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Treitlstra?e 3, 1040 Vienna, Austria E-Mail: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From publicityifl at gmail.com Tue Aug 11 14:22:35 2020 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (Jurriaan Hage) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:22:35 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Third call for draft papers for IFL 2020 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages) Message-ID: Hello, Please, find below the third call for draft papers for IFL 2020. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL ================================================================================ IFL 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2020 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialisation - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - meta-programming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications ### Post-symposium peer-review Following IFL tradition, IFL 2020 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. Before the symposium authors submit draft papers. These draft papers will be screened by the program chair to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL. The draft papers will be made available to all participants at the symposium. Each draft paper is presented by one of the authors at the symposium. After the symposium every presenter is invited to submit a full paper, incorporating feedback from discussions at the symposium. Work submitted to IFL may not be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected for the formal proceedings. We plan to publish these proceedings in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library, as in previous years. ### Important dates Submission deadline of draft papers: 17 August 2020 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 19 August 2020 Registration deadline: 31 August 2020 IFL Symposium: 2-4 September 2020 Submission of papers for proceedings: 7 December 2020 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2021 Camera-ready version: 15 March 2021 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honoured article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Programme committee Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, United Kingdom (chair) Martin Erwig, Oregon State University,United States Daniel Horpacsi, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Neil Mitchell, Facebook, UK Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, United States Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University, Netherlands Colin Runciman, University of York, United Kingdom Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jurrien Stutterheim, Standard Chartered, Singapore Josef Svenningsson, Facebook, UK Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay Janis Voigtlander, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ### Virtual symposium Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2020 will be an online event, consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings. Registered participants can take part from anywhere in the world. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organisers for their work, which is reused here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Wed Aug 12 10:56:09 2020 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:56:09 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2021 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: <5ec22ef5-4e84-2661-5b82-f8f674eabe10@ed.ac.uk> -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM) 2021 =============================================================================== * Website : https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/pepm-2021 * Time : 18th--19th January 2021 * Place : Online or Copenhagen, Denmark (co-located with POPL 2021) **Note that the workshop will be held as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting in line with POPL 2021. Details to appear.** The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM), which has a history going back to 1991 and has co-located with POPL every year since 2006, originates in the discoveries of practically useful automated techniques for evaluating programs with only partial input. Over the years, the scope of PEPM has expanded to include a variety of research areas centred around the theme of semantics-based program manipulation ? the systematic exploitation of treating programs not only as subject to black-box execution, but also as data structures that can be generated, analysed, and transformed while establishing or maintaining important semantic properties. Scope ----- In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below), PEPM 2021 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular: * Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation. * Modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications. More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2021 include, but are not limited to: * Program and model manipulation techniques such as: supercompilation, partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly program adaptation, active libraries, program inversion, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, decompilation, and obfuscation. * Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including metaprogramming, generative programming, embedded domain-specific languages, program synthesis by sketching and inductive programming, staged computation, and model-driven program generation and transformation. * Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model manipulation such as: abstract interpretation, termination checking, binding-time analysis, constraint solving, type systems, automated testing and test case generation. * Application of the above techniques including case studies of program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source) projects and software development processes, descriptions of robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program understanding and transformation, DSL implementations, visual languages and end-user programming, scientific computing, middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications, embedded and resource-limited computation, and security. This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions describing new theories and applications related to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have a question as to whether a potential submission is within the scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs, Sam Lindley and Torben Mogensen . Submission categories and guidelines ------------------------------------ Two kinds of submissions will be accepted: * Regular Research Papers should describe new results, and will be judged on originality, correctness, significance, and clarity. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages. * Short Papers may include tool demonstrations and presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial, and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages. References and appendices are not included in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers. Both kinds of submissions should be typeset using the two-column ?sigplan? sub-format of the new ?acmart? format available at: http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ and submitted electronically via HotCRP: https://pepm21.hotcrp.com/ Reviewing will be single-blind. Submissions are welcome from PC members (except the two co-chairs). Accepted papers will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM, and be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of short papers, however, can ask for their papers to be left out of the formal proceedings, in which case they will not be treated as formal publications and may be revised and published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop (physically or virtually) and present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Suggested topics, evaluation criteria, and writing guidelines for both research tool demonstration papers will be made available on the PEPM 2021 web site: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/pepm-2021 Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : **Thursday 8th October 2020 (AoE)** * Author notification : **Thursday 12th November 2020 (AoE)** * Workshop : **Monday 18th January 2021 to Tuesday 19th January 2021** Best paper award ---------------- PEPM 2021 continues the tradition of a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Programme committee ------------------- * Guillaume Allais (St Andrews, UK) * Zena M. Ariola (Oregan, US) * Robert Atkey (Strathclyde, UK) * Lennart Augusstson (Google, US) * Casper Bach Poulsen (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Youou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) * Olivier Danvy (Yale NUS, Singapore) * Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute, Russia) * Sam Lindley (Heriot-Watt, UK) (Co-chair) * Torben Mogensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) (Co-chair) * J. Garrett Morris (Iowa, US) * Antonina Nepeivoda (Ailamazyan Pereslavl, Russia) * Gabriel Radanne (Inria, France) * Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku, Japan) * Niki Vazou (IMDEA, Spain) * Eelco Visser (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Jeremy Yallop (Cambridge, UK) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk Thu Aug 13 08:19:35 2020 From: juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk (Juan Fumero) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:19:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MPLR 2020: Deadline Extended to August 19, 23:59 AoE Message-ID: Please note, we extended the submission deadline to August 19th, 2020. ======================================================================= = Call for Papers MPLR 2020 - 17th International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes November 4-6, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom https://mplr2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ Follow us @MPLR_Conf ======================================================================= = The 17th International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes (MPLR, formerly ManLang) is a premier forum for presenting and discussing novel results in all aspects of managed programming languages and runtime systems, which serve as building blocks for some of the most important computing systems in use, ranging from small-scale (embedded and real-time systems) to large-scale (cloud-computing and big-data platforms) and anything in between (desktop, mobile, IoT, and wearable applications). This year, MPLR will be held virtually. Registration and participation will be free. For up-to-date details, check out the conference website: https://mplr2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ and follow us on Twitter @MPLR_Conf. The areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Languages and Compilers - Managed languages (e.g., Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C#, F#, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, R, Smalltalk, Racket, Rust, Go, etc.) - Domain-specific languages - Language design - Compilers and interpreters - Type systems and program logics - Language interoperability - Parallelism, distribution, and concurrency * Virtual Machines - Managed runtime systems (e.g., JVM, Android Runtime (ART), V8, LLVM, .NET CLR, RPython, GraalVM, etc.) - VM design and optimization - VMs for mobile and embedded devices - VMs for real-time applications - Memory management and garbage collection - Hardware/software co-design * Techniques, Tools, and Applications - Static and dynamic program analysis - Testing and debugging - Refactoring - Program understanding - Program synthesis - Security and privacy - Performance analysis and monitoring - Compiler and program verification Submission Categories --------------------- MPLR accepts four types of submissions: 1. Regular research papers describing novel contributions involving managed language platforms. Research papers will be evaluated based on their relevance, novelty, technical rigor, and contribution to the state-of-the- art. Format: up to 12 pages, excluding bibliography and appendix 2. Work-in-progress research papers describing promising new ideas, with perhaps less maturity than full Papers. Work-in-progress papers will be evaluated with an emphasis on novelty and the potential of the new ideas instead of technical rigor and experimental results. Format: up to 6 pages, excluding bibliography and appendix 3. Industry and tool papers presenting technical challenges and solutions for managed language platforms in the context of deployed applications and systems. Industry and tool papers will be evaluated on their relevance, usefulness, and results. Suitability for demonstration and availability will also be considered for tool papers. Format: up to 6 pages, excluding bibliography and appendix 4. Posters They will be evaluated similarly to work-in-progress papers. Posters can accompany any submission as a way to provide additional demonstration and discussion opportunities. Format: poster and 1-page abstract Accepted submissions will be published in the ACM Digital Library, except if the authors prefer not to be included. MPLR 2020 submissions must conform to the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy. See http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/ Author Instructions ------------------- Submissions need to use the ACM `acmart` format with the `sigconf` style: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template If you are using LaTeX, submissions need to use the 'acmart' document class with the 'sigconf' option. For reviewing, please include page numbers in your submission using the LaTeX command `\settopmatter{printfolios=true}`. The standard settings of a 9 point font size and the Libertine/Biolinum font family are to be kept. All submissions need to be in PDF format. MPLR uses single-blind reviewing, i.e., author names are generally included in submissions. Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes are legible. Submission Site: https://mplr2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk/submissions/ Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: 19 August 2020 Author Notification: 14 September 2020 Camera Ready: 05 October 2020 Conference Dates: 04-06 November 2020 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h). AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. COVID-19 -------- MPLR will be held virtual to avoid any health risks to attendees and avoid uncertainties around traveling. Organization ------------ Program Committee: Lubom?r Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Jeronimo Castrillon, TU Dresden, Germany Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo, Japan Irene Finocchi, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy Juliana Franco, Microsoft Research, UK Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil Georgia Kouveli, ARM, UK Burcu K?lah??o?lu ?zkan, MPI-SWS, Germany Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA Daryl Maier, IBM, Canada Mark Marron, Microsoft Research, USA Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, JKU Linz, Austria Hannes Payer, Google, Germany Julien Ponge, Red Hat, France Aleksandar Prokopec, Oracle Labs, Switzerland Manuel Rigger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Andrea Rosa, USI, Switzerland Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow, UK Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University, USA Tobias Wrigstad, Uppsala University, Sweden General Chair: Christos Kotselidis, University of Manchester, UK Program Chair: Stefan Marr, University of Kent, UK If you are unsure whether a particular topic falls within the scope of MPRL?20 or if you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chair (s.marr at kent.ac.uk). From wortmann at se-rwth.de Thu Aug 13 10:34:49 2020 From: wortmann at se-rwth.de (Andreas Wortmann) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:34:49 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EAPLS PhD Award 2020: Call for Nominations Message-ID: ============================================= EAPLS PhD Award 2020: Call for Nominations ============================================= URL: http://eapls.org/pages/phd_award/ The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS) has established a Best Dissertation Award in the international research area of programming languages and systems. The award will go to the Ph.D. student who in the previous period has made the most original and influential contribution to the area. The purpose of the award is to draw attention to excellent work, to help the career of the student in question, and to promote the research field as a whole. Eligibility -------------------------------- Eligible for the award are those who successfully defended their PhD * at an academic institution in Europe * in the field of Programming Languages and Systems * in the period from 1 January 2019 ? 31 December 2019 Nominations -------------------------------- Candidates for the award must be nominated by their supervisor. Nominating a candidate consists of submitting the nomination to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ep19. The nomination must consist of a single PDF file containing * a letter from the supervisor describing why the thesis should be considered for the award; * a report from an independent researcher who has acted as examiner of the thesis at its defense; and * the thesis itself. The theses will be evaluated with respect to originality, influence, relevance to the field and (to a lesser degree) quality of writing. Questions can be directed to the Ph.D. award chairs, at ep19 at easychair.org. Procedure -------------------------------- The nominations will be evaluated and compared by an international committee of experts. The procedure to be followed is analogous to the review phase of a conference. The justification by the supervisor and the external report will play an important role in the evaluation. The final decision is made by the EAPLS board, based on the recommendation of the expert committee. Members of the expert committee and the EAPLS board are barred from nominating their own Ph.D. students for the award. The award consists of a certificate announcing the winner to have received the EAPLS Ph.D. award 2019 and the supervisor will receive a copy of this certificate. If possible, the certificate will be handed out ceremonially at a suitable occasion, as for instance the ETAPS conference. Apart from the winner, no further ranking of nominees will be published. The decision of the expert committee is final and binding and will not be subject to discussion. Important Dates -------------------------------- 30 August 2020: Deadline for nominations 1 December 2020: Announcement of the award winner -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andreas Wortmann | Software Engineering Ahornstr. 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany | RWTH Aachen University Phone +49 (241) 80-21346 / Fax -22218 | http://www.se-rwth.de MODELS 2020 preprints available at https://awortmann.github.io/preprints/ 1.) A Compositional Framework for Systematic Language Reuse 2.) Model-Driven Digital Twin Construction: Synthesizing the Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems with Their Information Systems 3.) Modeling Mechanical Functional Architectures in SysML From maxtschaikowski at web.de Fri Aug 14 10:05:10 2020 From: maxtschaikowski at web.de (Max Tschaikowski) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:05:10 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] HSB2020 Call For Online Participation Message-ID: <68c420a7-1fdd-844a-f788-c1fa546a6aeb@web.de> Call for Online Participation HSB2020 centers on dynamical models in biology, with an emphasis on both hybrid systems and hybrid approaches that combine modeling, analysis, algorithmic and experimental techniques from different areas. The virtual workshop will be held 9:30 ? 17:00 CET on September the 4th. It is composed of ?? ?? An invited talk of Luca Cardelli, University of Oxford ?? ?? 14 Online presentations ?? ?? 2 Poster and discussion sessions For a detailed schedule please refer to http://hsb2020.conf.tuwien.ac.at/program/ Free registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hsb2020-tickets-86100652369 is sufficient to participate in online sessions. Information on how to access online sessions will be send via email to registered participants directly before the workshop. The HSB2020 PC Chairs Laura Nenzi (lnenzi at units.it) Max Tschaikowski (tschaikowski at cs.aau.dk) From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Tue Aug 18 22:00:33 2020 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 03:00:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) 2021: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal verification and certification as an essential paradigm for their work. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education. CPP 2021 (https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021) will be held on 18-19 January 2021 and will be co-located with POPL 2021. CPP 2021 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG. NEWS * CPP 2021 will feature Distinguished Paper Awards. * CPP 2021 will take place on January 18-19, 2021 as a virtual or hybrid physical-virtual meeting. This means that the authors will be able to present their papers online. The POPL and CPP organizers are monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and in September/October they will make an announcement on whether there will also be a physical meeting in Copenhagen; but irrespective of that decision, the online paper presentation option will be guaranteed. * 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: 24 November 2020 * Camera Ready Deadline: 15 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. DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARDS Around 10% of the accepted papers at CPP 2021 will be designated as Distinguished Papers. This award highlights papers that the CPP program committee thinks should be read by a broad audience due to their relevance, originality, significance and clarity. 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 (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) 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 (totally or partly virtual) conference. PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS The limit for the camera-ready version is 14 pages, excluding the bibliography (so 2 pages extra compared with the submission). 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 (https://arxiv.org) or HAL (https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr). 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, MPI-SP, Germany (co-chair) Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield, 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: Catalin Hritcu , Andrei Popescu From stourret at mpi-inf.mpg.de Wed Aug 19 03:28:33 2020 From: stourret at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Sophie Tourret) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:28:33 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CADE-28 Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials, and Competitions Message-ID: CADE-28: Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. 11-16th July 2021. http://www.cade-28.info CADE will carefully monitor the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, and take guidance from from the health authorities, to determine whether CADE-28 will be physical or online. CALL FOR PAPERS =============== CADE is the major international forum for presenting research on all aspects of automated deduction. High-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including logical foundations, theory and principles, applications in and beyond STEM, implementations, and the use/contribution of automated deduction in AI, are solicited. CADE-28 aims to present research that reflects the broad range of interesting and relevant topics in automated deduction. Important Dates + Abstract deadline: 15 February 2021 + Submission deadline: 22 February 2021 + Rebuttal phase: 2 April 2021 + Notification: 19 April 2021 + Final version: 31 May 2021 Submissions can be made in two categories: + Regular papers. Up to 15 pages in LNCS style. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit in the page limit may be provided in an appendix. Reviewers may consider additional material in appendices, but submissions must be self- contained within the page limit. + Short papers (including system descriptions, user experiences, domain models, etc.) Up to 10 pages in LNCS style. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, correctness, and readability. If software or data is relevant to a paper, a link that provides access to the software/data must be provided to enable reproduction of results. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be submitted to the CADE-28 track via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade28 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ================== Workshop proposals for CADE-28 are solicited. The workshops will take place before the conference. Both well-established workshops and newer ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus, are welcome. Please provide the following information in your application document: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Proposed workshop duration (from half a day to two days) and preferred day(s). + Brief description of the goals and the scope of the workshop. Why is the workshop relevant to CADE? + Is the workshop new or has it met previously? In the latter case information on previous meetings should be given (e.g., links to the program, number of submissions, number of participants). + What are the plans for publication? + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. CALL FOR TUTORIALS ================== Tutorial proposals for CADE-28 are solicited. The tutorials will take place before the conference. Tutorials are expected to be either half-day or full-day events, with a theoretical or applied focus, on a topic of interest to CADE-28. Proposals should provide the following information: + Tutorial title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Proposed tutorial duration (from half to one day) and the preferred day. + Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered. + Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously, and if/how the intended presentation differs. + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. Within reason, CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that would like this service. CALL FOR COMPETITIONS ===================== The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC), which evaluates automated theorem proving systems for classical logics, has become an integral part of the CADE conferences. Further competition proposals are solicited. The goal is to foster the development of automated reasoning systems and applications, in all areas relevant to automated deduction in a broad sense. Proposals should include the following information: + Competition title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Duration and schedule of the competition. + Room/space requirements. + Description of the competition task and the evaluation procedure. + Is the competition new or has it been organized before? In the latter case information on previous competitions should be given. + What computing resources are required and how will they be provided? + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. Important Dates Workshop/Tutorials/Competitions: + Submission deadline: 16 November 2020 + Notification: 11 December 2020 Submission Instructions Proposals for workshops, tutorials, and competitions must be submitted to the CADE-28-WTC track via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade28 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. Watch our new video, and Don't Stop ICFP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fte5wwnwCws Pre-registration ends August 21st! https://icfp20.sigplan.org/attending/Registration This year, the conference will be a virtual event. All activities will take place online. There are training sessions for Clowdr, our new online platform, on August 20 and 21. https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-clowdr-training#program The main conference will take place from August 24-26, 2020 during two time bands. The first band will be 9AM-5:30PM New York, and will include both technical and social activities. The second band will repeat (with some variation) the technical program and social activities 12 hours later, 9AM-5:30PM Beijing, the following day. We've written a blog post about how conference mirroring will work for ICFP: https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/08/04/come-to-virtual-icfp/ We?re excited to announce our two invited speakers for 2020: Evan Czaplicki, covering the Elm programming language and hard lessons learned on driving adoption of new programming languages; and Audrey Tang, Haskeller and Taiwan?s Digital Minister, on how software developers can contribute to fighting the pandemic. ICFP has officially accepted 37 exciting papers, and (as a fresh experiment this year) there will also be presentations of 8 papers accepted recently to the Journal of Functional Programming. Co-located symposia and workshops will take place the day before and two days immediately after the main conference. Registration is now open. The early registration deadline is August 8th, 2020. Registration is not free, but is significantly lower than usual. Students who are ACM or SIGPLAN members may register for FREE before the early deadline. https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php New this year: Attendees will be able to sign-up for the ICFP Mentoring Program (either to be a mentor, receive mentorship or both). * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/home * Full Schedule: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/program/program-icfp-2020 * Accepted papers: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-papers#event-overview * JFP Talks: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-jfp-talks#event-overview * Registration is available via: https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php Early registration ends 8 August, 2020. * Programming contest: https://icfpcontest2020.github.io/ * Student Research Competition: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-Student-Research-Competition * Tutorials https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-tutorials#program * Follow us on Twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference This year, there are 10 events co-located with ICFP: * Erlang Workshop (8/23) * Haskell Implementors' Workshop (8/28) * Haskell Symposium (8/27-8/28) * Higher-Order Programming with Effects (8/23) * miniKanren Workshop (8/27) * ML Family Workshop (8/27) * OCaml Workshop (8/28) * Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (8/23) * Scheme Workshop (8/28) * Type-Driven Development (8/23) As well as tutorials on 8/23, 8/27, and 8/28. ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Ghost Locomotion, Australia) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organizer: 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: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Video Chair: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Victor Lanvin (IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) From charles.grellois at univ-amu.fr Wed Aug 19 16:06:55 2020 From: charles.grellois at univ-amu.fr (Charles Grellois) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:06:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Panel Debate, Wednesday 2 September @ 3pm UTC: "Evolution or Revolution? The Future of Conferences in Theoretical Computer Science" Message-ID: The following message is from the steering?Committee of the OWLS seminar. Dear all, The entire community is invited to participate in a debate on the future of the conference system in theoretical computer science. Organized as a special event as part of the Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics (OWLS), this will provide a rare community-wide opportunity for us to consider the strengths and weaknesses of our current system, and consider if we can do better. The scope of the debate is all aspects of our publishing and community traditions, characterised by prestige earned mostly through publication in competitive conferences, and frequent local and international travel. Possible topics for discussion include the need to publish in conferences for career progression, which usually involves burning carbon; wasted author and reviewer effort when good papers are rejected from highly competitive conferences; the extent of our responsibility as a community to respond to climate change; alternative publishing models, like the journal-focussed system used in mathematics; high costs of conference travel and registration; virtual conference advantages, disadvantages and best practice; improving equality, diversity and access; consequences and response to COVID-19; and the role of professional bodies. These topics have many close relationships, and need to be discussed together to gain a full understanding of the issues involved, and how we can move forward. OUR PANEL To discuss these issues, we have an excellent panel with a wide range of relevant experience: ? - Dr Brendan Fong, MIT (brendanfong.com ) is a postdoctoral researcher with considerable experience organizing virtual conferences and seminars (act2020.mit.edu ), and an Executive Editor of the new open-access journal Compositionality. ? - Professor Delia Kesner, University of Paris (irif.fr/~kesner ) has served on the Steering Committee of six conferences and workshops, and is currently the SC Chair of FSCD, the most recent iteration of which was organized at short notice as a virtual event (fscd2020.org ). ? - Professor Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania (cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce ) has served as PC chair of a range of events including POPL and ICFP, and has written powerfully on the need for the computer science community to adapt to the reality of climate change. ? - Professor Moshe Vardi, Rice University (cs.rice.edu/~vardi ) is Senior Editor of the journal Communications of the ACM, and founded the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC). He has long been a vocal commentator on structural problems with computer science publishing. PROPOSE A QUESTION Questions will be asked by members of the community. That means you! Please reply to this email to propose your question, which could raise any issue in scope. **Why not do it right now?** Make sure to use an academic email address. We'll let you know if your question is accepted, and you'll then have the opportunity to ask it during the debate, and to respond to the panel's comments. WHEN AND WHERE The debate will take place on Wednesday 2 September at 3pm UTC, which corresponds to the following times in a range of cities around the world: ? 8am San Francisco / 10am Houston / 11am Philadelphia / 4pm London / 5pm Paris / 9pm Mumbai / 11pm Beijing / midnight Tokyo / 1am Sydney The event will take place on Zoom at the following address, with no password or registration required: ? - zoom.us/j/177472153 The debate will be followed by an opportunity to discuss informally with other members of the community in small groups. WEBPAGE This event is organized as part of the OWLS seminar series. For more information, a calendar you can embed into your own, and to sign up for reminder emails, visit the webpage: ? - https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vicaryjo/owls/ READING Members of the community may enjoy the following articles, related to the topic of the debate. ? - Lance Fortnow (2009), "Time for Computer Science to Grow Up", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/8/34492-viewpoint-time-for-computer-science-to-grow-up ? - Benjamin Pierce, Michael Hicks, Crista Lopes and Jens Palsberg (2020), "Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/3/243024-conferences-in-an-era-of-expensive-carbon ? - Moshe Vardi (2020), "Publish and Perish", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/1/241717-publish-and-perish We hope you will join us for the debate. Please forward this message to members of your research group, and others who may be interested to participate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We also encourage contributions that highlight challenges faced by the industry professionals while applying NLP techniques for generating/translating/processing the software artefacts. Submissions are invited in the following topics of interest include with respect to the application of NLP techniques and their advancements, but are not limited to: - Requirements analysis, elicitation, and tracing. - Automation and tool support. - Generating Software Artefacts by applying NLP techniques (e.g., domain models, entities, test information, test cases, etc.) - Bug report mining and analysis. - Test automation. - Functional and non-functional requirements categorisation. - Information extraction (abstraction identification, feature extraction). - Test information and test case generation. - Text mining. - Systematic Reviews (SLR, SMS). - Natural Language is a Programming Language. - Generation of test oracles using NLP. - Generating code from natural-language specifications. ------------------------------------ Invited Talks: ------------------------------------ - Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands ------------------------------------ Submission Categories: ------------------------------------ NLPaSE is looking for three kinds of contributions: - Research Papers, including case studies, reporting on original research results on the use of NLP in the Software Engineering domain. - Experience Reports describing experiences in the use of NLP, challenges, and lessons learnt in the Software Engineering domain. - Position Papers sharing the author?s insights or proposing an original idea or an opinion on NLP Advancements for Software Engineering. Submitted papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop Program Committee. ------------------------------------ Page Limits (including figures, references, and appendices): ------------------------------------ Research Papers & Experience Reports: maximum of eight pages Position Papers: maximum of four pages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlpase2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Submission Instructions: ------------------------------------ The NLPaSE 2020 workshop proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS for online publication (which is usually indexed by DBLP, and then by SCOPUS). The submitted paper must follow the CEUR-WS template of A4 size in PDF format (including figures, references, and appendices). Submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee members with respect to the overall quality including presentation, the future impact of the research, and the likely benefit to the students, academics, and professionals who will attend the workshop. ------------------------------------ Important Dates: ------------------------------------ Paper submissions due: September 30, 2020 Notification of acceptance: October 17, 2020 Camera-ready papers due: November 03, 2020 Workshop: December 01, 2020 ------------------------------------ NLPaSE Organisers: ------------------------------------ Saurabh Tiwari, DAIICT Gandhinagar, India Santosh Singh Rathore, ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India Lata Nautiyal, University of Bristol, UK For more details, please visit - https://sites.google.com/view/nlpase2020/ -- Dr Saurabh Tiwari Assistant Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Contact: +91-79-68261618 (O), +91-8224009398 (M) https://sites.google.com/site/saurabhiiitdmj/ *"Creating New Knowledge"* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Rene.Thiemann at uibk.ac.at Fri Aug 21 05:04:11 2020 From: Rene.Thiemann at uibk.ac.at (=?utf-8?B?VGhpZW1hbm4sIFJlbsOp?=) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:04:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job advertisement: assistant professor on cryptography at the University of Innsbruck Message-ID: Dear all, the following job advertisement might be of interest to those readers of this list that utilize type theory in the context of cryptography, e.g., in developments such as crypto-agda, etc. Best regards, Ren? The Department of Computer Science (at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics) at the University of Innsbruck seeks to fill the position of a full-time Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the area of Cryptography as of October 1, 2020. This position is initially limited to 6 years; a tenure-track agreement can be offered within the first year of employment. Upon positive evaluation, the position is converted into a tenured Associate Professorship. This career position is embedded in an attractive environment of existing competencies close to the above thematic area, including security and privacy, computational logic, distributed systems, and software engineering. Tasks: The successful applicant should engage in topics within the area of cryptography in research and teaching. Teaching comprises lectures especially in the above areas in the study programs of the Department of Computer Science, including mandatory courses in the bachelor program. In addition, co-supervision of bachelor-, master- and PhD-theses is expected. Participation in the academic self-management is a matter of course. Eligibility Requirements 1. Doctoral degree in computer science or a related field; 2. Postdoctoral experience; 3. Pertinent scientific achievements beyond the dissertation/PhD thesis; 4. Research experience in and relevant contributions to the field of cryptography; 5. Relevant publications in the leading international, refereed conference proceedings and journals as well as presentations at international conferences and workshops; 6. Research co-operations with international partners and industry; 7. Very good command of at least one programming language; 8. Experience in the acquisition and implementation of third-party funded projects; 9. Experience in the (co-)supervision of bachelor and master theses; 10. Experience in academic mobility; 11. Proficiency (written and oral) in English and German; willingness to teach in German within two years after appointment; 12. Didactic competence and excellence in teaching; 13. Social competencies, communication skills, and the ability to work in a team. How to Apply The application must be submitted in English and must contain: 1. CV with a description of the academic and professional career; 2. List of scientific publications 3. List of scientific presentations, further scientific works and projects; 4. Names and contact information of at least two references; 5. Research statement; 6. Teaching statement and a list of courses taught with evaluations (if available). Tenure-Track model: The vacant post offers a continuous scientific career up to an associate professor. A key component of this tenure track model is the so called "Qualifizierungsvereinbarung" (qualification agreement). This agreement shall be concluded as the case may be at the latest one year after being employed. More information: https://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/qualifizierungsvereinbarung. Salary: An initial salary of ? 3.890 p.m. shall be offered for this position. In the following, the conclusion of the qualification agreement will entitle to an increased salary of ? 4.599,60 p.m. and the fulfilment of the agreed qualification objectives will entitle to an increased salary of ? 4.987,20 p.m. All mentioned salaries are monthly gross salaries, paid 14 times p.a. Furthermore, the university has numerous attractive offers (https://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen/index.html.en). The University of Innsbruck strives to increase the proportion of its female employees, especially in leadership positions, and therefore explicitly invites women to apply. In the case of equivalent qualifications, female applicants will be given preference. We look forward to receiving your online application (Chiffre MIP 11387) until 02.09.2020 at https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=11387 The legally-binding text in German is available at: https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=11387 From dankoilik at gmail.com Fri Aug 21 05:36:02 2020 From: dankoilik at gmail.com (Danko Ilik) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:36:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Formal methods engineer positions at Siemens Mobility, Paris, France (full-time) Message-ID: Dear all, Some of you may be interested to know that we have open full-time proof engineering positions at Siemens Mobility in Chatillon, close to Paris. We are looking for people more or less experienced with formal methods development, from recent graduates to post-doc researchers. Remuneration depends on previous experience. The knowledge of French is however imperative. Do not hesitate to forward this announcement or to contact me by e-mail if interested. More details: https://jobs.siemens.com/jobs/214774?lang=fr-fr&utm_source=hellowork&utm_medium=jobboard&utm_campaign=hellowork Best regards, Danko -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Sat Aug 22 12:25:58 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:25:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Job: research associate in probabilistic programming Message-ID: <4F1B9C51-47A0-4D7D-A450-E43A012E994B@cs.ox.ac.uk> Hi, I'm looking for a postdoc to work on probabilistic programming. * job ad: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1838-full.html * BLAST project preliminary website: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samuel.staton/blast/ * Closing date 17 Sept 2020 (NB our HR use noon UK time!). Do get in touch with any questions. Sam. From Bertrand.Meyer at inf.ethz.ch Sun Aug 23 10:48:51 2020 From: Bertrand.Meyer at inf.ethz.ch (Bertrand Meyer) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:48:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD and postdoc positions at the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology Message-ID: <00fb01d6795c$84cbcff0$8e636fd0$@inf.ethz.ch> The Chair of Software Engineering (Prof. Bertrand Meyer), at the newly created Schaffhausen Institute of Technology , has open positions for both PhD students and postdocs. We are looking for candidates with a passion for reliable software and a mix of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in software engineering. Candidates should have degrees in computer science or related fields: a doctorate for postdoc positions, a master's degree for PhD positions. Postdoc candidates should have a substantial publication record. Experience in one or more of the following fields is a plus: * Software verification (axiomatic, model-checking, abstract interpretation etc.). * Advanced techniques of software testing. * Formal methods, semantics of programming languages, type theory. * Design by Contract, Eiffel, techniques of correctness-by-construction. * Cybersecurity. The PhD program is conducted in cooperation with partner universities. Interested candidates should send a CV and relevant documents or links to bm at sit.org . They are also welcome to contact Prof. Meyer for details. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maribel.fernandez at kcl.ac.uk Sun Aug 23 12:56:31 2020 From: maribel.fernandez at kcl.ac.uk (Fernandez, Maria Isabel) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:56:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for participation: BOPL 2020 (LOPSTR, Microservices, PPDP, WFLP) Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: BOPL 2020 Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages September 7-10, 2020 Online at https://bopl.cs.unibo.it Registration deadline: September 3, 2020 Registration fee: 30 euros. The Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages brings together four top level international conferences related to programming languages and software architectures: 28th International Workshop on Functional and Logic Programming 30th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation 3rd International Conference on Microservices 2020 22nd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming The program will include a plenary talk by Jose Meseguer and an industrial session with talks by representatives of leading companies. The overall program is available at https://bopl.cs.unibo.it/events. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, BOPL 2020 will be held online. Please, refer to the attending page https://bopl.cs.unibo.it/attending.html for instructions concerning how to register and how to join the sessions of the conference. 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We are looking for two outstanding and ambitious postdoctoral research associates to work on our ?SCorCH: Secure Code for Capability Hardware? project (https://scorch-project.github.io/). SCorCH is a collaboration between The University of Manchester, The University of Oxford, ARM Ltd, and Amazon Web Services that will leverage new advances in formal analysis tools to find security issues in code running on a new generation of security-aware hardware chips i.e. Capability Hardware. Our website provides an overview of our vision. The two positions are available at the University of Manchester, UK and are available to start ?as soon as possible?. These are fixed-term positions for 3 years with a salary from ?32,816. The University of Manchester (UK) is the largest single-site university in the UK, with the biggest student community, ranked 36th in the world, and fifth in the UK in the Shanghai Jiao Tong World Ranking. The research strength of the Department of Computer Science is reflected in consistently strong returns in UK research assessment exercises (5* in RAE 2000, 2nd in Research Power in RAE 2008, 4th in overall GPA in REF 2014 and ranked equal 1st for research environment). In particular, we have a strong Formal Methods group with expertise in model checking, runtime verification, and automated reasoning. For more information (see Further Particulars at bottom of page) and to apply see https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=18989. We welcome informal enquiries to Dr Giles Reger (giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tristanj at bc.edu Mon Aug 24 08:50:10 2020 From: tristanj at bc.edu (Jean-Baptiste Tristan) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:50:10 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [LAFI 2021]: POPL 21 workshop on Languages for Inference Message-ID: ===================================================================== Call for Extended Abstracts LAFI 2021 POPL 2021 workshop on Languages for Inference January 17, 2021 https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/lafi-2021 Submission deadline on October 16, 2020! ==================================================================== ***** Submission Summary ***** Deadline: October 16, 2020 (AoE) Link: https://lafi21.hotcrp.com/ Format: extended abstract (2 pages + references) ***** Call for Extended Abstracts ***** Inference concerns re-calibrating program parameters based on observed data, and has gained wide traction in machine learning and data science. Inference can be driven by probabilistic analysis and simulation, and through back-propagation and differentiation. Languages for inference offer built-in support for expressing probabilistic models and inference methods as programs, to ease reasoning, use, and reuse. The recent rise of practical implementations as well as research activity in inference-based programming has renewed the need for semantics to help us share insights and innovations. This workshop aims to bring programming-language and machine-learning researchers together to advance all aspects of languages for inference. Topics include but are not limited to: * design of programming languages for inference and/or differentiable programming; * inference algorithms for probabilistic programming languages, including ones that incorporate automatic differentiation; * automatic differentiation algorithms for differentiable programming languages; * probabilistic generative modeling and inference; * variational and differential modeling and inference; * semantics (axiomatic, operational, denotational, games, etc) and types for inference and/or differentiable programming; * efficient and correct implementation; * and last but not least, applications of inference and/or differentiable programming. Two years ago, we explicitly expanded the focus of the workshop from statistical probabilistic programming to encompass differentiable programming for statistical machine learning. This change seemed well-received by the community, and we want to continue it this year in an effort to extend the strong ties between programming language-based machine learning and the POPL community. We expect this workshop to be informal, and our goal is to foster collaboration and establish common ground. Thus, the proceedings will not be a formal or archival publication, and we expect to spend only a portion of the workshop day on traditional research talks. Nevertheless, as a concrete basis for fruitful discussions, we call for extended abstracts describing specific and ideally ongoing work on probabilistic and differential programming languages, semantics, and systems. ***** Submission guidelines ***** Submission deadline on October 16, 2020 (AoE) Submission link: https://lafi21.hotcrp.com/ Anonymous extended abstracts are up to 2 pages in PDF format, excluding references. 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URL: From eliasca at kth.se Mon Aug 24 10:10:06 2020 From: eliasca at kth.se (Elias Castegren) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:10:06 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline: AGERE 2020 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8DC28744-4822-42EA-A4FC-FC14BF7E3127@kth.se> 10th Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control (AGERE) In connection with SPLASH, November 17 https://2020.splashcon.org/home/agere-2020 ## Important Dates Paper submission (updated): September 1 2020 Notification (updated): September 23, 2020 Final version: October 9, 2020 Workshop: November 17 Call for Papers =============== The AGERE! workshop focuses on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and?more generally?on high-level programming paradigms promoting a mindset of decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is intended to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, with practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. The goal of the workshop is to serve as a forum for collecting, discussing, and comparing related research works that typically appear in different communities in the context of (distributed) artificial intelligence, distributed computing, computer programming, programming language design and software engineering. The workshop will be organized as a one-day workshop, integrating both: - A part with a mini-conference style, like previous editions, reserving time slots for the presentation and discussion of accepted contributions that are published on the formal proceedings on the ACM Digital Library. - A part featuring demonstrations of artefacts described by a set of demo papers submitted to the workshop, selected by the Program Committee, to present interesting results and to solicit discussions on ideas and challenges. The workshop welcomes two types of contributions: - Mature contributions: full papers presenting new, previously unpublished research in one or more of the topics identified above. Full papers will be published on the ACM Digital Library as an official ACM SIGPLAN publication. - Demo contributions: short papers describing artefacts that authors agree to demonstrate at the workshop, also to trigger discussions and interactions. Demo papers will be included in the informal proceedings. Format and Submission --------------------- Authors are invited to submit their papers in PDF using the submission system at https://agere20.hotcrp.com/. - Full papers: up to 10 pages, including references - Demo papers: up to 2 pages, excluding references The (extended) deadline is September 1, 2020. Submissions should use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference acmart Format with ?sigplan? Subformat, 10 point font. All submissions should be in PDF format. If you use LaTeX or Word, please use the ACM SIGPLAN acmart templates. Otherwise, follow the author instructions. If you are formatting your paper using LaTeX, you will need to set the 10pt option in the \documentclass command. If you are formatting your paper using Word, you may wish to use the provided Word template that supports this font size. Please include page numbers in your submission with the LaTeX \settopmatter{printfolios=true} command. Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes are legible. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pieter.philippaerts at kuleuven.be Mon Aug 24 16:01:12 2020 From: pieter.philippaerts at kuleuven.be (Pieter Philippaerts) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:01:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research professor position in Secure Systems In-Reply-To: <1598299207984.51412@kuleuven.be> References: <1598299207984.51412@kuleuven.be> Message-ID: <1598299271863.58631@kuleuven.be> The Science, Engineering and Technology Group, Faculty of Engineering Science, Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven, invites scholars to apply for a full?time research professorship in the DistriNet Research Group. This position is funded by the Special Research Fund (BOFZAP), established by the Flemish Government. We are looking for motivated and internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competence in the field of Secure Systems. The appointment is expected to start on October 1, 2021. Applications will be evaluated in parallel and independently by 1) the KU Leuven Research Council in a competitive process across academic domains and 2) the faculty advisory committee. During the first 10 years, the teaching obligations as a research professor will be limited. Afterwards, the position will be transformed into a regular professorship. We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated expertise in secure systems, who has already obtained excellent research results on some topics within this area, including but not limited to: * software vulnerabilities and the development of countermeasures for such vulnerabilities, * security aspects of middleware, virtualization, operating systems, distributed systems, compilers, cyber-physical systems, cloud systems, web and mobile applications, wireless systems or embedded systems, * foundational methods in security, including language-based security, information flow control, modeling and enforcement of security policies, verification of security properties in software or hardware, * quantitative, statistical and empirical methods for security research, * trusted computing technology, and the application of this technology in the construction of secure systems. DistriNet is an international research group with extensive expertise in secure and distributed software. Embedded in the Department of Computer Science of KU Leuven, DistriNet brings together a substantial critical mass of about 90 researchers, including 12 full-time professors, 10 permanent research staff members, 11 postdoctoral researchers, and about 60 PhD researchers. The conducted research is systems-centric, always application-driven and often performed in close collaboration with industry (e.g. in industrial automation, healthcare, transport & logistics). The know-how of DistriNet formed the basis of multiple spin-off companies. [https://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/] Duties Research It is part of the assignment of the appointed candidate to develop, within the domain of Secure Systems an international, competitive research programme, to pursue excellent scientific results at an international level and to support and promote national and international research partnerships. The candidate must meet a strong research profile or have the potential to do so. In addition, the candidate is expected to have a multidisciplinary attitude and a willingness to cooperate intensively with other researchers and research units at KU Leuven. The candidate: * Is an excellent, internationally oriented researcher and develops a research programme at the forefront in the field of Secure Systems. * Strengthens existing research lines and brings complementary and/or additionally new expertise by working closely with the members of the research unit. * Publishes at the highest scientific level in leading international journals and conferences. * Develops an own research group. * Supervises master students, PhD students and postdocs at a high international level. * Aims to acquire competitive research funding from national and/or international agencies and submits effective research project proposals for this purpose. * Establishes both within KU Leuven, national and international partnerships in the context of the research programme. * Strives for excellence in research and provides a contribution to the international research reputation of the DistriNet Research Group, Department of Computer Science and KU Leuven. * Has a pronounced interest in fundamental research, but also pays attention to the valorization and applications of the research. Education Although the position regards a research professorship at the start of employment, the candidate is expected to gradually contribute to state of the art teaching. The candidate also contributes to the pedagogic project of the faculty/university. He/she develops teaching in accordance with KU Leuven?s vision on activating and research?based education and makes use of the possibilities for the educational professionalization offered by the faculty and the university. The assignment of the candidate to be appointed also includes a teaching assignment in computer science and secure systems Service Scientific, societal and internal services (administrative and/or institutional) are also part of the assignment. Requirements * You have a PhD in Computer Science, or an equivalent degree. If you have recently obtained your PhD, it is important that you support your research and growth potential with academic references. * You have a strong research profile in the field and an indisputable research integrity. * The quality of your research is proven by publications in leading international journals and conferences. * International research experience is considered as an important advantage. * You have demonstrable qualities related to academic education. Teaching experience is a plus. * You possess organizational skills and have a cooperative attitude. You also have leadership skills within a university context. * Your spoken and written English is excellent. The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in administrative meetings. Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch resp. English to the required standard. Offer * We offer full-time employment in an intellectually challenging environment. KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research. Our university is highly inter- and multidisciplinary focused and strives for international excellence. In this regard, we actively collaborate with research partners in Belgium and abroad. We provide our students with an academic education that is based on high-quality scientific research. * Depending on your qualifications and academic experience, you will be appointed to or tenured in one of the grades of the senior academic staff: assistant professor, associate professor, professor or full professor. In principle, junior researches are appointed as assistant professor on the tenure track for a period of 5 years; after this period and a positive evaluation, they are permanently appointed as an associate professor. * You will work in Leuven, a historic and dynamic and vibrant city located in the heart of Belgium, within twenty minutes from Brussels, the capital of the European Union, and less than two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam. * KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration and administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching, ? * In order to facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of 100.000 euro is offered to new professors without substantial other funding and appointed for at least 50%. Interested? More information on the content of the job can be obtained from the academic contact person Prof. dr. 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URL: From juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk Tue Aug 25 02:23:05 2020 From: juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk (Juan Fumero) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:23:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [2nd CFP] VMIL 2020 - Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations - Co-located with SPLASH 2020 Message-ID: <3eb655a0427c56d2f00f9990f3aebf4f3d012fe4.camel@manchester.ac.uk> ======================================================================= = Call for Papers Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL?20) Co-located with SPLASH 2020 November 17, 2020, Chicago, USA https://2020.splashcon.org/tracks/vmil-2020 Follow us on twitter @vmil20 ======================================================================= = The concept of virtual machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. Due to COVID-19, VMIL will be held virtually. We recommend checking the SPLASH website for regular updates on this matter ( https://2020.splashcon.org/). The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use, and related issues. The workshop is intended to be welcoming to a wide range of topics and perspectives, covering all areas relevant to the workshop?s theme. Aspects of interest include, but are not limited to: - design issues in VMs and IRs (e.g. IR design, VM modularity, polyglotism) - compilation (static and dynamic compilation strategies, optimizations, data representations) - VM embeddings in other systems (e.g., DBMSs, Big Data frameworks, Microservices, etc.) - memory management - concurrency (both internal and user-facing) - tool support and related infrastructure (profiling, debugging, liveness, persistence) - the experience of VM development (use of high-level languages, bootstrapping and self-hosting, reusability, portability, developer tooling, etc) - empirical studies on related topics, such as usage patterns, the usability of languages or tools, experimental methodology, or benchmark design Submission Guidelines --------------------- We invite high-quality papers in the following two categories: * Research and experience papers: These submissions should describe work that advances the current state of the art in the above or related areas. The suggested length of these submissions is 6-10 pages (maximum 10pp). * Work-in-progress or position papers: These papers should document ongoing efforts in an area of interest which have not yet yielded final results, and/or should present and defend the authors' position on a topic related to the broad area of the workshop. The suggested length of these submissions is 4-6 pages (maximum 6pp). For the first submission deadline, all paper types are considered for publication in the ACM Digital Library, except if the authors prefer not to be included. Publication of work-in-progress and position papers at VMIL is not intended to preclude later publication elsewhere. Submissions will be judged on novelty, clarity, timeliness, relevance, and potential to stimulate discussion during the workshop. For the second deadline, we will consider only work-in-progress and position papers. These will not be published in the ACM DL, and will only appear on the web site. The address of the submission site is: https://vmil20.hotcrp.com/ Important Dates --------------- All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE), i.e. GMT/UTC?12:00 hour Fri 4 Sep Submission Deadline Fri 18 Sep Second Submission Deadline (WIP and position papers only) Mon 5 Oct Author Notification Mon 12 Oct Camera-ready Tue 17 Nov Workshop **to be confirmed with SPLASH organizers** Format Instructions -------------------- Please use the SIGPLAN acmart style for all papers: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. The provided double-column template is available for Latex and Word. Organization ------------ Program Committee: Marc Feeley, University of Montreal Juan Fumero, University of Manchester Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel David Leopoldseder, Oracle Labs Hannes Payer, Google Andreas Rossberg, Dfinity Konstantinos Sagonas, Uppsala University Manuel Serrano, INRIA Foivos Zakkak, Red Hat PC-Chairs: Marc Feeley, University of Montreal Juan Fumero, University of Manchester From ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at Tue Aug 25 14:03:38 2020 From: ezio.bartocci at tuwien.ac.at (Ezio Bartocci) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:03:38 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] QONFEST 2020 (CONCUR, FMICS, FORMATS, QEST + WORKSHOPS) - Last Call for Participation Message-ID: QONFEST 2020 - Call for Participation ==================================== Amid the recent COVID-19 situation, the organization committee decided that QONFEST 2020, will be organized online on ZOOM. Website: https://qonfest2020.github.io/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/qonfest2020 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=wien%20qonfest2020 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK9p1Z8nIPTP4Uv5Qodb1og/ (Watch the teasers of the conferences' talks) Platinum Sponsor: Interchain Foundation (https://interchain.io/ , https://youtu.be/hAgWLU4JW4U ) QONFEST is the umbrella conference comprising the joint international 2020 meetings: CONCUR 2020, the 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory FMICS 2020, the 25th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems FORMATS 2020, the 18th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems QEST 2020, the 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems alongside with several workshops (EXPRESS/SOS, FRIDA, QAVS, TRENDS, SNR) and QEST tutorials. The topics covered are Theory, Formal Modelling, Verification, Performance Evaluation and Engineering of concurrent, timed, industrial critical, and other systems. Keynote speakers ================ - Alessandro Abate - University of Oxford (UK) - Roderick Bloem - TU Graz (Austria) - Thomas A. Henzinger - IST (Austria) - Annabelle McIver - Macquarie University (Australia) - Catuscia Palamidessi - INRIA Saclay and LIX (France) - Stefan Resch - Thales, (Austria) - Evgenia Smirni - College of William and Mary, (USA) Registration at https://qonfest2020.github.io/registration.html Organizing Committee ================== General Chair - Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria Workshops Chair - Florian Zuleger, TU Wien, Austria CONCUR PC-Chairs - Igor Konnov, INRIA Nancy, France - Laura Kovacs, TU Wien, Austria FMICS PC-Chairs - Dejan Nickovic, AIT, Austria - Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy FORMATS PC-Chairs - Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA, France - Nils Jansen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands QEST PC-Chairs - Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - David N. Jansen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Anne Remke, University of M?nster, Germany Publicity Chairs - Carlos E. 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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. The LFMTP 2020 workshop adopts a post-proceedings publication model. The workshop itself took place on 29-30 June 2020 online, jointly with IJCAR and FSCD. Now that the workshop has concluded, we solicit submissions of full papers for the post-proceedings of LFMTP 2020, which will go through the normal peer-review process. Submission is open to all; attendance at the workshop is not prerequisite. Submissions related to the following topics are welcome: * 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. * Abstract submission deadline: 2 October 2020 * Paper submission deadline: 9 October 2020 * Notification to authors: 20 November 2020 * Final version due: 4 December 2020 SUBMISSION INFORMATION Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS LaTeX style. The length is restricted to 15 pages. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lfmtp2020 All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From publicityifl at gmail.com Wed Aug 26 08:41:35 2020 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (Jurriaan Hage) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 07:41:35 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] First and Only Call for Participation for IFL 2020 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages) Message-ID: Hello, Please, find below the first and final call for participation for IFL 2020. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL ======================================================= IFL 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages Call for Participation venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ======================================================== ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2020 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. ### Registration The symposium will be run via Zoom (zoom.us). If you can use Zoom, then you can participate. Please register for free via Eventbrite on the symposium webpage: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ### Programme Day 1: Wednesday, 2 September 12:45 Welcome 13:00 Nico Naus and Johan Jeuring: End-user feedback in multi-user workflow systems 13:30 Mart Lubbers, Haye B?hm, Pieter Koopman and Rinus Plasmeijer: Asynchronous Shared Data Sources 14:00 Pieter Koopman, Steffen Michels and Rinus Plasmeijer: Dynamic Editors for Well-Typed Expressions 14:30 Bas Lijnse and Rinus Plasmeijer: Asymmetric Composable Web Editors in iTasks 15:00 Social break 15:30 Sven-Olof Nystr?m: A subtyping system for Erlang 16:00 Andrew Marmaduke, Christopher Jenkins and Aaron Stump: Generic Zero-Cost Constructor Subtyping 16:30 Joris Burgers, Jurriaan Hage and Alejandro Serrano: Heuristics-based Type Error Diagnosis for Haskell - The case of GADTs and local reasoning 17:00 Social break 17:30 Kavon Farvardin and John Reppy: A New Backend for Standard ML of New Jersey 18:00 Chaitanya Koparkar, Mike Rainey, Michael Vollmer, Milind Kulkarni and Ryan R. Newton: A Compiler Approach Reconciling Parallelism and Dense Representations for Irregular Trees 18:30 Hans-Nikolai Vie?mann and Sven-Bodo Scholz: Effective Host-GPU Memory Mangement Through Code Generation 20:00 Virtual Pub Day 2: Thursday, 3 September 10:00 Virtual Breakfast 13:00 Michal Gajda: Less Arbitrary waiting time 13:30 S?lr?n Halla Einarsd?ttir and Nicholas Smallbone: Template-based Theory Exploration: Discovering Properties of Functional Programs by Testing 14:00 P?ter Bereczky, D?niel Horp?csi, Judit K?szegi, Soma Szeier and Simon Thompson: Validating Formal Semantics by Comparative Testing 14:30 Social break 15:00 Gergo Erdi: An Adventure in Symbolic Execution 15:30 Joshua M. Schappel, Sachin Mahashabde and Marco T. Morazan: Using OO Design Patterns in a Functional Programming Setting 16:00 Filipe Varj?o: Functional Programming and Interval Arithmetic with High Accuracy 16:30 Social break 17:00 Laith Sakka, Chaitanya Koparkar, Michael Vollmer, Vidush Singhal, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Ryan R. Newton and Milind Kulkarni: General Deforestation Using Fusion, Tupling and Intensive Redundancy Analysis 17:30 Benjamin Mourad and Matteo Cimini: A Declarative Gradualizer with Lang-n-Change 18:00 Maheen Riaz Contractor and Matthew Fluet: Type- and Control-Flow Directed Defunctionalization 19:30 Virtual Pub Day 3: Friday, 4 September 10:00 Virtual Breakfast 13:00 Michal Gajda: Towards a more perfect union type 13:30 Folkert de Vries, Sjaak Smetsers and Sven-Bodo Scholz: Container Unification for Uniqueness Types 14:00 Alejandro D?az-Caro, Pablo E. Mart?nez L?pez and Cristian Sottile: Polymorphic System I 14:30 Social break 15:00 Michal Gajda: Schema-driven mutation of datatype with multiple representations 15:30 Alexandre Garcia de Oliveira, Mauro Jaskelioff and Ana Cristina Vieira de Melo: On Structuring Pure Functional Programs with Monoidal Profunctors 16:00 Sara Moreira, Pedro Vasconcelos and M?rio Florido: Resource Analysis for Lazy Evaluation with Polynomial Potential 16:30 Social break 17:00 Neil Mitchell, Moritz Kiefer, Pepe Iborra, Luke Lau, Zubin Duggal, Hannes Siebenhandl, Matthew Pickering and Alan Zimmerman: Building an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on top of a Build System 17:30 Evan Sitt, Xiaotian Su, Beka Grdzelishvili, Zurab Tsinadze, Zongpu Xie, Hossameldin Abdin, Giorgi Botkoveli, Nikola Cenikj, Tringa Sylaj and Viktoria Zsok: Functional Programming Application for Digital Synthesis Implementation 18:00 Jocelyn Serot: HoCL: High level specification of dataflow graphs 19:30 Virtual Pub All times are in British Summer Time (BST), the local time in Canterbury, UK. 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CPP 2021 (https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021) will be held on 18-19 January 2021 and will be co-located with POPL 2021. CPP 2021 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG. NEWS * CPP 2021 will feature Distinguished Paper Awards. * CPP 2021 will take place on January 18-19, 2021 as a virtual or hybrid physical-virtual meeting. This means that the authors will be able to present their papers online. The POPL and CPP organizers are monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and in September/October they will make an announcement on whether there will also be a physical meeting in Copenhagen; but irrespective of that decision, the online paper presentation option will be guaranteed. * 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: 24 November 2020 * Camera Ready Deadline: 15 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. DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARDS Around 10% of the accepted papers at CPP 2021 will be designated as Distinguished Papers. This award highlights papers that the CPP program committee thinks should be read by a broad audience due to their relevance, originality, significance and clarity. 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 (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) 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 (totally or partly virtual) conference. PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS The limit for the camera-ready version is 14 pages, excluding the bibliography (so 2 pages extra compared with the submission). 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 (https://arxiv.org) or HAL (https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr). 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, MPI-SP, Germany (co-chair) Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield, 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: Catalin Hritcu , Andrei Popescu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 7429 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From pangjun at gmail.com Fri Aug 28 03:50:04 2020 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:50:04 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Formal Methods 2021 -- 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: ****************************************************************** FM 2021: 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods Beijng, China, November 20 - 26, 2021 http://formalmethods2021.csp.escience.cn/ ****************************************************************** FM 2021 is the 24th international symposium in a series organised by Formal Methods Europe (FME), an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a programme of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral work. FM 2021 will be both an occasion to celebrate and a platform for enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds to exchange their ideas and share their experience. FM 2021 will highlight the development and application of formal methods in a wide range of domains including software, cyber-physical systems and integrated computer-based systems. We are in particular interested in the application of formal methods in the areas of systems-of-systems, security, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, power, transport, smart cities, healthcare, biology. We also welcome papers on experiences from application of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools. We are monitoring closely the COVID-19 situation and, although we hope for an in-person event, we are also planning carefully for a virtual event or a hybrid virtual/person event, in case there will be travel restrictions or health advisories following the global Covid-19 crisis. We will announce a decision on the nature of the meeting in due course. ---------------- Important Dates ---------------- Abstract submission: April 30, 2021, 23:59 AoE Full paper submission: May 6, 2021, 23:59 AoE Notification: July 16, 2021 Camera ready: August 16, 2021 Conference: November 20-26, 2021 ---------------- Topics of Interest ---------------- FM 2021 encourages submissions on formal methods in a wide range of domains including software, computer-based systems, systems-of-systems, cyber-physical systems, security, human-computer interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, energy, transport, smart cities, and healthcare. We particularly welcome papers on techniques, tools and experiences in interdisciplinary settings. We also welcome papers on experiences of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools. The broad topics of interest for FM 2021 include, but are not limited to: ? Interdisciplinary formal methods: Techniques, tools and experiences demonstrating the use of formal methods in interdisciplinary settings. ? Formal methods in practice: Industrial applications of formal methods, experience with formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. The authors are encouraged to explain how formal methods overcame problems, led to improved designs, or provided new insights. ? Tools for formal methods: Advances in automated verification, model checking, and testing with formal methods, tools integration, environments for formal methods, and experimental validation of tools. The authors are encouraged to demonstrate empirically that the new tool or environment advances the state of the art. ? Formal methods in software and systems engineering: Development processes with formal methods, usage guidelines for formal methods, and method integration. The authors are encouraged to evaluate process innovations with respect to qualitative or quantitative improvements. Empirical studies and evaluations are also solicited. ? Theoretical foundations of formal methods: All aspects of theory related to specification, verification, refinement, and static and dynamic analysis. The authors are encouraged to explain how their results contribute to the solution of practical problems with formal methods or tools. ---------------- Submission Guidelines ---------------- Papers should be original work, not published or submitted elsewhere, in Springer LNCS format, written in English, submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2021 Each paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by the reviewers. Similarly, case study papers should describe significant case studies, and the complete development should be made available at the time of review. The usual criteria for novelty, reproducibility, correctness and the ability for others to build upon the described work apply. Tool papers and tool demonstration papers should explain enhancements made compared to previously published work. A tool demonstration paper need not present the theory behind the tool, but can focus on the tool?s features, how it is used, its evaluation, and examples and screenshots illustrating the tool?s use. Authors of tool and tool demonstration papers should make their tool available for use by the reviewers. We solicit various categories of papers: ? Regular Papers (max 15 pages) ? Long tool papers (max 15 pages) ? Case study papers (max 15 pages) ? Short papers (max 6 pages), including tool demonstration papers. Besides short tool demo papers, short papers are encouraged for any topic that can be described within the page limit, and in particular for novel ideas without an extensive experimental evaluation. Short papers will be given short presentations at the conference. All page limits do not count references and appendices. For all papers, an appendix can provide additional material such as details on proofs or experiments. The appendix is not part of the page count and not guaranteed to be read or taken into account by the reviewers. It should not contain information necessary for the understanding and the evaluation of the presented work. Papers will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were submitted. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference as a registered participant. ---------------- Best Paper Award ---------------- At the conference, the PC Chairs will present an award to the authors of the submission selected as the FM 2021 Best Paper. ---------------- Publication ---------------- Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings to appear in Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science in the subline on Formal Methods. Traditionally, extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of one or more journals. ---------------- General Chair ---------------- Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ---------------- Program Committee Chairs ---------------- Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science, China ---------------- Program Committee ---------------- Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Gustavo Betarte, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Ivana Cerna, Masaryk University, Czech Pedro R. D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba ? CONICET, Argentina Alessandro Fantechi, DINFO - Universita' di Firenze, Italy Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Martin Fr?nzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, Canada Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Paula Herber, University of M?nster, Germany Peter H?fner, Australian National University, Australia Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Nils Jansen, Radboud University, Netherlands Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Jan Kofron, Charles University, Czech Dorel Lucanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Radu Mateescu, INRIA, France Anastasia Mavridou, SGT Inc. / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Australia Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland Nina Narodytska, VMware Research, USA David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Jose Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dave Parker, University of Birmingham, UK Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Gustavo Petri, IRIF, Universit? Paris Diderot, France Akshay Rajhans, MathWorks, USA Tamara Rezk, INRIA, France Partha Roop, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore Management University, Singapore Maurice H. ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden Sebastian Uchitel, University of Buenos Aires and Imperial College London, UK Mattias Ulbrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Iceland Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Ji Wang, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK Naijun Zhan, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ---------------- Publicity Chair ---------------- Eunsuk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ---------------- Local Organizers ---------------- Naijun Zhan (chair), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bai Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bohua Zhan Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Zhilin Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Andrea Turrini, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China David Jansen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Peng Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ---------------- Web Team ---------------- Bohua Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Bai Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China From mauro.jacopo at gmail.com Fri Aug 28 11:25:59 2020 From: mauro.jacopo at gmail.com (Jacopo Mauro) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:25:59 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SEFM 2020: Registration is open Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- SEFM 2020 18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14-18 September 2020 https://event.cwi.nl/sefm2020/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- The virtual SEFM 2020 conference will be organised by live presentations (see the programme at https://easychair.org/smart-program/SEFM2020/ ), using Zoom. Participation is free, but registering to the mailing list https://lists.cwi.nl/mailman/listinfo/sefm2020-list is required in order to receive the Zoom link. Note that, once the registration to the mailing list is requested, it is necessary to confirm the registration by clicking on the link received on your e-mail. 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 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Antonio Cerone (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) 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... 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Submission to this post-proceedings volume is open to everyone, also to those who did not submit a contribution to the conference. We welcome high-quality descriptionsof original work, as well as position papers, overview papers, and system descriptions. Submissions should be written in English, _not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or a conference with archival proceedings_. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Homotopy type theory; * Applications of type theory; * Dependently typed programming; * Industrial uses of type theory technology; * Meta-theoretic studies of type systems; * Proof assistants and proof technology; * Automation in computer-assisted reasoning; * Links between type theory and functional programming; * Formalizing mathematics using type theory; * Type theory in linguistics. Important dates: * Paper submission: 19 October 2020 * Author notification: 18 January 2021 * Final version: ?15 February 2021 * Publication (presumably): end of March 2021 Details: * Papers have to be written in LaTex and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs . * The recommended length of a paper is 12-15 pages, excluding front-page(s) (authors, affiliation, keywords, abstract, ...), bibliography and an appendix of max 5 pages. 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URL: From james.cheney at gmail.com Tue Sep 1 06:26:30 2020 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 11:26:30 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position in programming languages at Edinburgh LFCS Message-ID: We are now accepting applications for a postdoctoral position in programming languages in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The position is for 18 months, starting on as soon as possible and by March 1, 2021 at the latest. Funding is provided by a ?1.99M Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council on the project: "Skye: A programming language bridging theory and practice for scientific data curation". https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052844 A second position may become available for this post depending on future funding. Funding from this ERC grant, and certain national funding schemes, is also available to help support travel/accommodation costs for visits from students, researchers or faculty at other institutions whose research aligns with the project. Please get in touch if interested. == Research associate (?33,797 - ?40,322) == This postdoctoral research position is on programming language design in the Skye project. This project builds on the Links web programming language to add built-in support for scientific data management needs, based on Links's already strong support for language-integrated query/update (ICFP 2013, SIGMOD 2014, ICFP 2018), type inference with first-class polymorphism (PLDI 2020), and Elm-style model-view-update programming (ECOOP 2020). Links also has support for distributed programming with session types (POPL 2019) and algebraic effects and handlers (JFP 2020), which may find further applications to the project. A broad range of programming language design topics potentially within the scope of this project. The successful candidate will work on extending the Links web programming language with stronger support for database programming (e.g. language-integrated query), client/server web programming, programming with effects (e.g. graded monads, algebraic effects/handlers), heterogeneous meta-programming/staging, modular language extensibility, or concurrent/distributed programming, and develop applications of these capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in programming languages or databases. Familiarity with programming language foundations is also desirable, as is experience with functional programming (e.g. Scala, OCaml, Haskell). Candidates with a strong background in either database or programming language research will be considered as long as there is clear evidence of ability to learn the complementary background. == What about COVID-19? == Remote working is possible and encouraged. Candidates are encouraged to make contact to discuss their needs or concerns, and to discuss any relevant visa/immigration issues. == To apply == For more information about the project, and about other related activities in my group, LFCS, and Edinburgh, please write to me or consult the following page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcheney/group/skye.html Applications must be received by 5pm, September 21, 2020. To apply, visit the University job posting for this position: Research Associate https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052844 then click "apply" and follow the instructions. Please note that applicants must first register with the University's application system, and it is recommended that applicants complete registration well before the deadline, since the system automatically stops accepting applications after the deadline. == Environment == The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics brings together world-class research groups in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The School led the UK 2014 REF rankings in volume of internationally recognized or internationally excellent research. In 2013, the School of Informatics received an Athena Swan Silver Award, in recognition of its commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. Overall the University of Edinburgh has achieved a Silver Award. LFCS hosts a wide variety of research on programming languages, and collaborates with researchers in compilers/systems elsewhere in the School of Informatics as well as with colleagues across Scotland as part of the Scottish Programming Languages & Verification community. PL research in the School has recently been strengthened by new arrivals with interests in verification, program synthesis, DSLs for performance-portable parallelism, and databases. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shiloviis at mail.ru Tue Sep 1 07:08:51 2020 From: shiloviis at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?U2hpbG92IE5pa29sYXk=?=) Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:08:51 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?2nd_Call_for_Papers_-_PSSV-2020=3A_XI?= =?utf-8?q?_Workshop_Program_Semantics=2C_Specification_and_Verification?= In-Reply-To: <1589111423.661720346@f221.i.mail.ru> References: <1589111423.661720346@f221.i.mail.ru> Message-ID: <1598958531.776957834@f110.i.mail.ru> 2nd Call for Papers - PSSV-2020: XI Workshop Program Semantics, Specification and Verification (Theory and Applications)? will be held November 3-4, 2020, in Moscow, hopefully - offline (with online option on demand but an actual format is to be decide by October 12, 2020). ? PSSV-2020 workshop' page: https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020 ? History of PSSV via past web-pages: PSSV-2010-2016 workshops' pages: http://pssv-conf.ru PSSV-2017 workshop' page: http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2017 PSSV-2018 workshop' page: http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2018 PSSV-2019 workshop' page: http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2019 ? PSSV Scope and Topics Research, work in progress, position and student papers were welcome. List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): * formalisms for program semantics; * formal models and semantics of programs and systems; * semantics of programming and specification languages; * formal description techniques; * logics for formal specification and verification; * deductive program verification; * automatic theorem proving; * model checking of programs and systems; * static analysis of programs; * formal approach to testing and validation; * program analysis and verification tools. ? PSSV-2020 Program Committee: * Natasha Alechina (Utrecht University, Netherlands), * Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK), * Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia), * Igor Konnov (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France, to be confirmed), * Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia), * Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia), * Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK), * Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia), * Sergey Staroletov (Polzunov Altai State Technical University, Barnaul, Russia), * Nina Yevtushenko (Tomsk State University and Institute for System Programming, RAS, Moscow, Russia). ? PSSV-2020 Program Co-Chairs: * Nikolay Shilov (Innopolis University, Russia, shiloviis(at)mail.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (Moscow State University, Russia, zakh(at)cs.msu.su) ? PSSV Steering Committee: * Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia, vnep(at)iis.nsk.su) * Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, valery-sokolov(at)yandex.ru) ? PSSV-2020 Local Organizing Committee (Higher School of Economics - National Research University) * Irina Lomazova (ilomazova(at)hse.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (zakh(at)cs.msu.su) ? Invited Speakers and Talks * Natasha Alechina (Intelligent Software Systems, Information and computing sciences department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands): State of the Art in Logics for Verification of Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent System. * Ekaterina Komendantskaya (School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK): Refinement types for Verification of Neural Networks. * Samvel K. Shoukourian (IT Educational and Research Center, Yerevan State University, Armenia): Polynomial algorithm for equivalence problem of deterministic multitape finite automata. * Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore): Deductive Synthesis of Heap-Manipulating Programs: Sound, Expressive, Fast. (Please refer https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020 for more information about speakers and abstracts.)? ? Types of Submissions and Publications Program Committee solicits? * regular research submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, LNCS style) in English (additional details could be included in an appendix up to 4 pages for Program Committee), each regular research submission will be reviewed by 3 PC members; * work in progress, position, poster and student papers (up to 4 pages), each of these submissions will be reviewed by a PC member. ? Right now Easy Chair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2020 is open for regular paprs. ? All accepted papers will be published before the workshop (format and venue TBD) Selected revised and extended papers have been published after the workshop in Russian peer-review journal Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems (https://www.mais-journal.ru). We expect (as it was in the previous years of the PSSV) that English translations of some of these selected papers will appear next year in Automatic Control and Computer Sciences(http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11950) (indexed by WoS and Scopus). ? Important dates: * regular research submissions (extended abstracts) - September 14, 2020; * notification for regular submissions - October 12, 2020; * decision about workshop format (offline or online) - October 12, 2020; * short submissions (abstracts of work in progress, position papers and posters) - October 19, 2020; * notification for short submissions - October 26, 2020; * final versions of regular research submissions (for pre-proceedings) - October 26, 2020; * worksop (offline or online) - November 3-4, 2020; * invitations of selected talks to post-proceedings - November (TBD), 2020. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noam.zeilberger at gmail.com Tue Sep 1 09:17:46 2020 From: noam.zeilberger at gmail.com (Noam Zeilberger) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:17:46 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computational Logic and Applications 2020: call for (virtual) talk proposals In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Just a note that the deadline was extended and there is still about one week to submit talk proposals. Further information about participating in the virtual workshop will be available on the CLA website. -N] ======= Context ======= The **Computational Logic and Applications** (CLA) workshops are a series of annual meetings (see https://cla.tcs.uj.edu.pl/) whose main purpose is to provide a free and open forum for research on combinatorial and quantitative aspects of mathematical logic and their applications in computer science. Since the physical version of the workshop had to be cancelled this year due to the global pandemic, we are organizing a virtual edition of CLA 2020 this Fall to help the community stay in touch. Next year, if the situation improves, then the hope is for CLA 2021 to be once again held as a physical (or hybrid) workshop in Vienna, as was originally planned for this year. Format ====== As with past editions of CLA, we plan to have both invited and contributed talks, with the opportunity to present either work-in-progress or recently published work in a friendly and informal setting...the only difference is that CLA 2020 will be entirely online! We are likely to have a mix of live talks, pre-recorded talks, and text-based discussions, with the precise cocktail of technologies to be determined. Participation will be free and open to all but will require prior registration. Scope ===== Topics within the scope of CLA include: - combinatorics of lambda calculus and related formalisms, - quantitative aspects of program evaluation and normalisation, - asymptotic enumeration in computational logic, - statistical properties of formulae, terms and programs, - random generation of large combinatorial structures in computational logic, - randomness in software testing and counter-example generation methods. Submission ========== Talk proposals should consist of short abstracts (at most 2 pages) describing work-in-progress or previously published work, and can be written in either plain text or pdf format. They will be evaluated by the program committee to determine interest and scope, so talk proposals should give some indication of the relevance to CLA in case this is not immediately obvious. You can also indicate whether you prefer to give a live or pre-recorded talk and the amount of time you would like to speak, although this is left up to the discretion of the program committee. Submission is done through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cla20201 Invited speakers ================ - [Mirai Ikebuchi](https://mir-ikbch.github.io/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology - [Marc Noy](https://sites.google.com/view/marcnoy/), Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Program committee ================= - Maciej Bendkowski, Jagiellonian University - Olivier Bodini, Universit? Sorbonne Paris Nord - Julien Courtiel, Universit? de Caen - Antoine Genitrini, Sorbonne University - Alain Giorgetti, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comt? - Bernhard Gittenberger, TU Wien - Katarzyna Grygiel, Jagiellonian University (co-chair) - Leonidas Lampropoulos, University of Maryland - Ryoma Sin'ya, Akita University - Michael Wallner, TU Wien - Noam Zeilberger, Ecole Polytechnique (co-chair) Important dates =============== - Submission deadline: September 7, 2020 (AoE) - Success notification: September 21, 2020 (AoE) - Registration deadline: October 11, 2020 - Workshop: October 12-13, 2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jamie.vicary at cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 1 13:28:04 2020 From: jamie.vicary at cl.cam.ac.uk (Jamie Vicary) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 18:28:04 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Announcement - Panel Debate, Tomorrow @ 3pm UTC: "Evolution or Revolution? The Future of Conferences in Theoretical Computer Science" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A reminder of the community debate tomorrow (Wednesday) at 3pm UTC. Everybody is welcome to join at zoom.us/j/177472153. -------------------- Dear all, The entire community is invited to participate in a debate on the future of the conference system in theoretical computer science. Organized as a special event as part of the Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics (OWLS), this will provide a rare community-wide opportunity for us to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our current system in a time of climate change, COVID and other stresses, and consider if we can do better. The scope of the debate is all aspects of our publishing and community traditions, characterised by prestige earned mostly through publication in competitive conferences, and frequent local and international travel. Possible topics for discussion include the need to publish in conferences for career progression, which usually involves burning carbon; wasted reviewing effort when good papers are rejected from highly competitive conferences; the extent of our responsibility as a community to respond to climate change; alternative publishing models, like the journal-focussed system used in mathematics; high costs of conference travel and registration; virtual conference advantages, disadvantages and best practice; improving equality, diversity and access; consequences and response to COVID-19; and the role of professional bodies. These topics have many tight relationships, and need to be discussed together to gain a full understanding of the issues involved. OUR PANEL To discuss these issues, we have an excellent panel with a wide range of experience: - Dr Brendan Fong, MIT (brendanfong.com) is a postdoctoral researcher with considerable experience organizing virtual conferences and seminars (act2020.mit.edu), and an Executive Editor of the new open-access journal Compositionality. - Dr Nicole Immorlica (www.immorlica.com) is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, and has recently co-founded the Virtual Chair conferencing system (www.virtualchair.net). - Professor Delia Kesner, University of Paris (irif.fr/~kesner) has served on the Steering Committee of six conferences and workshops, and is currently the SC Chair of FSCD, the most recent iteration of which was organized at short notice as a virtual event (fscd2020.org). - Professor Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania (cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce) has served as PC chair of a range of events including POPL and ICFP, and has written powerfully on the need for the computer science community to adapt to the reality of climate change. - Professor Thomas Schwentick, TU Dordmund (https://ls1-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/de/kontakt-thomas-schwentick) is the President of the European Association for Computer Science Logic. He was a co-creator of the tcs4f.org online pledge, and is currently setting up a new open-access TCS journal. - Professor Moshe Vardi, Rice University (cs.rice.edu/~vardi) is Senior Editor of the journal Communications of the ACM, and founded the Federated Logic Conference (FLOC). He has long been a vocal commentator on structural problems with computer science publishing. WHEN AND WHERE The debate will take place tomorrow (Wednesday 2 September) at 3pm UTC, which corresponds to the following times in a range of cities around the world: 8am San Francisco -- 10am Houston -- 11am Philadelphia -- 4pm London -- 5pm Paris -- 11pm Shanghai -- midnight Tokyo -- 1am Sydney The event will take place on Zoom at the following address. No password or registration is required. - zoom.us/j/177472153 WEBPAGE This event is organized as part of the OWLS seminar series. For more information, a calendar you can embed, and to sign up for reminder emails, visit the event webpage: - https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~vicaryjo/owls/ READING Members of the community may enjoy the following articles, related to the topic of the debate. - Antoine Amarilli, Thomas Colcombet, Hugo F?r?e and Thomas Schwentick (2020), "Pledge for Sustainable Research in Theoretical Computer Science", https://tcs4f.org/ - Boaz Barak (2016), "Computer Science should Stay Young", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202644-computer-science-should-stay-young/fulltext - Lance Fortnow (2009), "Time for Computer Science to Grow Up", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/8/34492-viewpoint-time-for-computer-science-to-grow-up/fulltext - Benjamin Pierce (2020), "Conferences in an Era of Expensive Carbon", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/3/243024-conferences-in-an-era-of-expensive-carbon/fulltext - Moshe Vardi (2020), "Publish and Perish", https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/1/241717-publish-and-perish/fulltext We hope you will join us for what promises to be a memorable and exciting event. Please forward this message to your research group, and others who may be interested to participate. Best wishes, Jamie From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Wed Sep 2 11:42:36 2020 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 15:42:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2020 Post-Proceedings: Call for Papers Message-ID: [Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice (Post-Proceedings) LFMTP 2020 https://lfmtp.org/workshops/2020/ Abstract submission deadline: 2 October 2020 Paper submission deadline: 9 October 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. The LFMTP 2020 workshop adopts a post-proceedings publication model. The workshop itself took place on 29-30 June 2020 online, jointly with IJCAR and FSCD. Now that the workshop has concluded, we solicit submissions of full papers for the post-proceedings of LFMTP 2020, which will go through the normal peer-review process. Submission is open to all; attendance at the workshop is not prerequisite. Submissions related to the following topics are welcome: * 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. * Abstract submission deadline: 2 October 2020 * Paper submission deadline: 9 October 2020 * Notification to authors: 20 November 2020 * Final version due: 4 December 2020 SUBMISSION INFORMATION Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS LaTeX style. The length is restricted to 15 pages. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lfmtp2020 All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series. 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Abella" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to abella-theorem-prover+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. 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Relevant topics include programming language foundations (including session types for concurrent and distributed systems) and formal methods (including process algebras, modelling and analysis of complex and reactive systems, model checking and bigraphs). The post-holder will develop, lead and sustain research of international standard in Computing Science; contribute to teaching, assessment, project supervision and curriculum design at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and participate in School management and organisation. For appointment at Reader you will have an outstanding track record of national and international distinction and leadership in research, including publications, income, and awards, bringing external recognition and distinction to yourself and the University. Since 1957, when Glasgow became the first university in Scotland to have an electronic computer, we have built a reputation for the excellence of our Computing Science research and our graduates. Today, our School is one of the foremost in the UK, setting itself the highest standards in research, and research-led learning and teaching. In the UK's 2014 independent research exercise, we are rated top in Scotland for research impact with 68% of our impact judged world-leading and 32% internationally excellent. In the overall research ranking, our School was judged equal 16th amongst UK computer science departments, rising to 10th position on research volume with 84% of all research judged world-leading or internationally excellent. We are 6th in the UK on research intensity-weighted GPA rank order (GPA * % returned). Our School is ranked 7th in the UK in The Complete University Guide 2020. Glasgow Computing is renowned for research and teaching at the intersection of theoretical and applied Computing, and our undergraduate degree programmes are underpinned by a deep theoretical understanding. 93% of our undergraduates are in positive employment (91% in professional destinations) and have a 20% higher salary than the average (Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education 2016-17, DiscoverUni). For more information, including the job description, see: https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs, reference number 040665 https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/worldchangerswelcome https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchsections/fata-section For informal inquiries please contact Professor David Manlove (David.Manlove at glasgow.ac.uk) Please note that the above positions require a Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 12 (PhD) or equivalent in Computing Science or closely related discipline, or equivalent as evidenced by relevant teaching experience. It is the University of Glasgow?s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity. The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 From motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro Wed Sep 2 02:00:06 2020 From: motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro (motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 09:00:06 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Participation FROM 2020 Message-ID: <4b2c621f7a545d83a5bdb1d550fc82a5.squirrel@www.cs.ubbcluj.ro> FROM 2020 Working Formal Methods Symposium is kindly inviting you to participate. The conference is online and free of charge, so we hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity to follow the presentations of our distinguished list of invited speakers. The final program is available here: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/conference-programme/ Please register following the link: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/conference-registration/ The conference will be hosted on Zoom and the details will be available here: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/connect-to-the-conference/ General chairs Simona Motogna and Florin Craciun From wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Thu Sep 3 08:15:58 2020 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 13:15:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Haskell tutors required! Message-ID: Edinburgh is one of a few places in the world that teaches functional programming to first-year students, specifically Haskell. This year, our Haskell course for first-year's will be delivered remotely. Last year's class was 400 students, this year we expect more. In the past we've had trouble locating enough high-quality tutors. The unique situation offers us a new possibility: recruit tutors from elsewhere. Please get in touch if: (a) You might yourself be interested. (b) You know of folk who might be interested or could forward an announcement to a suitable mailing list. Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation (INF1A/FP) Role: Tutor Description: Tutors required from week 1 to week 11 (Monday 21 September -- Friday 4 December) to assist in weekly one-hour ten-person tutorial sessions to review and mark solutions to exercises prepared by students in advance of the tutorial, to facilitate group work, and to answer questions about the material covered in the course. Tutors will be paid for 3 hours/week: 1 for preparation, 1 for marking, and 1 for the online tutorial session (?15.52/hour * 3 hours * 11 weeks). In the past, we have had trouble recruiting a sufficient number of capable tutors. This year, we will take advantage of remote delivery to recruit tutors from both within and without Edinburgh. Tutorials are expected to be on Thursdays and Fridays each week. Wadler will monitor tutorials, and expects to be in a position to write letters of recommendation after the course, if required. Skills: Good knowledge of functional programming, preferably in Haskell, and of basic finite state machines and propositional logic; such as might be had by a 3rd or 4th year undergraduate or a postgraduate student. Ability to communicate enthusiasm for the subject and encourage students new to university to engage in and contribute to tutorials. Tutors need to supply appropriate encouragement and support for all students, from those who are struggling to those who are coping easily and want to learn more. To apply: Send email to wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk. Include one paragraph on your background and why you would do a good job teaching the course. Please include any relevant documentation, such as a copy of your transcript. I look forward to hearing from you! 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Name: not available URL: From delphine.demange at irisa.fr Fri Sep 4 02:43:11 2020 From: delphine.demange at irisa.fr (Delphine Demange) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 08:43:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Compiler Construction (CC) 2021 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <98B3F19A-BE6A-4CC0-942A-3654DC169F6F@irisa.fr> ACM SIGPLAN 2021 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2021) Co-located with CGO, HPCA and PPoPP Sat 27 February - Wed 3 March 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/CC-2021 CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. = IMPORTANT DATES = Abstract Submission: November 8, 2020 Full Paper Submission: November 10, 2020 Author Response Period: December 7 - 9, 2020 Author Notification: December 22, 2020 Artifact Submission: January 5, 2021 AE Notification: January 20, 2021 Final Papers due: January 22, 2021 Conference: February 27 - March 3, 2021 Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation, optimization, and synthesis; the verification thereof - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers - Techniques, ranging from programming languages to micro-architectural support, for specific domains such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments - Design and implementation of novel language constructs, programming models, and domain-specific languages CC is an ACM SIGPLAN conference, and implements guidelines and procedures recommended by SIGPLAN (https://www.sigplan.org). Prospective authors should be aware of SIGPLAN?s Copyright policies. Proceedings will be made available online in the ACM digital library from one week before to one week after the conference. Full CfP: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers ARTIFACT EVALUATION Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for the Artifact Evaluation (AE). The Artifact Evaluation process begins after the acceptance notification, and is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. To ease the organization of the AE committee, we kindly ask authors to indicate at the time they submit the paper, whether they are interested in submitting an artifact. 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, but not required, to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as ?source materials? in the ACM Digital Library. CC AE web page: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/research-artifacts ORGANIZERS General Chair: Aaron Smith - Microsoft / University of Edinburgh Program Chairs: Delphine Demange - Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Rajiv Gupta - UC Riverside Artifact Evaluation Chairs: Bruno Bodin - Yale-NUS College Michel Steuwer - University of Glasgow Web Chair: Martin L?cke - University of Edinburgh Steering Committee: Bj?rn Franke (Chair) - University of Edinburgh Jose Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta Christophe Dubach - University of Edinburgh Sebastian Hack - Saarland University Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA Software Institute and T.U. of Madrid (UPM) Alexandra Jimborean - University of Murcia Milind Kulkarni - Purdue University Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Peng Wu - Futurewei Technologies Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Ayal Zaks - Intel Corporation and Technion Program Committee: Guillaume Baudart - IBM Research Walter Binder - University of Lugano Simone Campanoni - Northwestern University Albert Cohen - Google Caroline Collange - Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA Huimin Cui - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Christophe Dubach - McGill University Beno?t Dupont de Dinechin - Kalray Bernhard Egger - Seoul National University Christine Flood - Red Hat Laure Gonnord - University of Lyon and LIP Myoungsoo Jung - KAIST Andrew Kennedy - Facebook Dongyoon Lee - Stony Brook University Christian Lengauer - University of Passau Xavier Leroy - Coll?ge de France and Inria Yun Liang - Peking University Toby Murray - University of Melbourne and Data61 Biswabandan Panda - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Santosh Pande - Georgia Tech Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Gabriel Rodr?guez - Universidade da Coru?a Jan Vitek - Northeastern University Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Zhijia Zhao - UC Riverside From ksk at riec.tohoku.ac.jp Fri Sep 4 10:34:20 2020 From: ksk at riec.tohoku.ac.jp (Keisuke Nakano) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 23:34:20 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FLOPS 2020: Call for (free) Participation Message-ID: <1693BDCE-D760-43FF-9C7C-62C904F2AA50@riec.tohoku.ac.jp> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 15th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2020) September 14-16, 2020, Online https://www.ipl.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/FLOPS2020/ !!! FLOPS 2020 will be held online. Participation will be **free**, !!! !!! but a pre-registration is required by **September 8**. !!! FLOPS aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and implementors of the declarative programming, to discuss mutually interesting results and common problems: theoretical advances, their implementations in language systems and tools, and applications of these systems in practice. The scope includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, applications, implementations, and teaching of declarative programming. FLOPS specifically aims to promote cross-fertilization between theory and practice and among different styles of declarative programming. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Makoto Hamana, Gunma University, Japan - Adam Chlipala, MIT, USA PROGRAM (in UTC+9) ---------------- Please find at: https://easychair.org/smart-program/FLOPS2020/ Note that the timezone of the program is Japan Standard Time (JST = UTC+9). ORGANIZATION ---------------- Keisuke Nakano Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair, General Chair) Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University, Sweden (PC Co-Chair) Kazuyuki Asada Tohoku University, Japan (Local Co-Chair) Ryoma Sin'ya Akita University, Japan (Local Co-Chair) Katsuhiro Ueno Tohoku University, Japan (Local Co-Chair) From harley.eades at gmail.com Sat Sep 5 13:40:18 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 13:40:18 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar Talk on Gradual Typing and Verification Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 between 1pm and 2pm EDT, Dr. David Van Horn will be giving a presentation as part of the CS Colloquium Series at Augusta University. Presentation details can be found here: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/Horn.html I'm really excited about David's talk, and I'm sure it will be amazing! These talks are open to the general public via Zoom. I'll also be living streaming it on Youtube. So if you are interested in attending the Zoom meeting please RSVP with me before the talk. Questions will be only taken from those on Zoom. If you care to watch via YouTube, please use the following link: https://youtu.be/NjzAlu8LByo I hope all of you, your family and friends are doing well! Very best, Harley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the meeting, we will discuss upcoming new features, see talks and demonstrations of exciting current projects, solicit feedback for potential future changes, and generally work to strengthen the vibrant community around our favorite proof assistant. Topics in scope include: - General purpose libraries and tactic language extensions - Domain-specific libraries for programming language formalization and verification - IDEs, profilers, tracers, debuggers, and testing tools - Reports on ongoing proof efforts conducted via (or in the context of) the Coq proof assistant - Experience reports from Coq usage in educational or industrial contexts Workshop Format --------------- The workshop format will be driven by you, members of the community. We will solicit abstracts for talks and proposals for demonstrations and flesh out format details based on responses. We expect the final program to include experiment reports, panel discussions, and invited talks (details TBA). Talks will be selected according to relevance to the workshop, based on the submission of an extended abstract. To foster open discussion of cutting edge research which can later be published in full conference proceedings, we will not publish papers from the workshop. However, presentations may be recorded and the videos may be made publicly available. Submission details ------------------ Submission page: https://coqpl21.hotcrp.com/ Submission: Wednesday, October, 21 2020. Notification: Monday, November 16, 2020. Workshop: Tuesday, January 19, 2021. Submissions for talks and demonstrations should be described in an extended abstract, between 1 and 2 pages in length (excluding the bibliography). We suggest formatting the text using the two-column ACM SIGPLAN latex style (9pt font). Templates are available from the ACM SIGPLAN page: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author . Program Committee ----------------- Chairs: - Assia Mahboubi, Inria, France & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Amin Timany, Aarhus University, Denmark Program Committee: - Reynald Affeldt, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan - Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Jesper Bengtson, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Dominique Devriese, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - Paolo G. Giarrusso, Bedrock Systems, Germany - Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Universit? Paris Saclay, CNRS, LRI, France - Kenji Maillard, Inria Nantes & University of Chile, Chile - Kathrin Stark, Princeton University, USA Covid-19 and possibility of virtual workshop ------------------------------------------------ CoqPL 2021 is a collocated with POPL 2021 and will follow the decision of the organizing committee of POPL 2021 on whether it is held physically, virtually, or a combination thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davide.bresolin at unipd.it Mon Sep 7 12:30:14 2020 From: davide.bresolin at unipd.it (Davide Bresolin) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 18:30:14 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Gandalf 2020 - Call for Participation References: Message-ID: <1b8c4859-170f-444c-9ee2-1c4d4c9dd3d1@Spark> **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - GandALF 2020 https://di.ulb.ac.be/verif/gandalf2020/ ***************************************************************************** The Eleventh International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will take place on September 21 and 22, 2020. 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-fertilization. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the current difficulties for traveling, it has been decided to organize the symposium online. The organization will be as follows: -the authors of accepted papers have recorded a 25 minutes presentation of their paper ? An award will be attributed to the best video by the PC members of Gandalf -these presentations will be made available to the registered participants to the conference a few days before the conference ? To favor interactions, registered participants will be encouraged to post questions to the authors on a dedicated slack channel -four invited talks will be given **live** during the online conference that will take place on Zoom: -Monday September 21, 2:00pm-3:00pm : Prof. Guillermo Perez (U Antwerpen, BE) ?Regret Minimization in Discounted-Sum Games -Monday September 21, 4:30pm-5:30pm : Prof. Adnan Darwiche (UCLA, USA) ?Three Modern Roles for Logic in AI -Tuesday September 22, 2:00pm-3:00pm : Prof. Erika Abraham (RWTH, DE) ?Probabilistic Hyperproperties -Tuesday September 22, 4:30pm-5:30pm : Prof. Jan K?et?nsk? (TUM, DE) ?Approximating Values of Generalized-Reachability Stochastic Games -each invited talk will be followed by a Q/A session on papers grouped by topics. Each such session will open with 5 minutes short presentations of each of the papers of the session by one of their author and replies to questions sent by registered participants. Further interactions will follow the answers by the authors to those questions. All the talks and the Q/A sessions will be posted on Youtube:?https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_M8J35gzkXIy7l4jnodWQ/ Here is the list of accepted papers: GandALF 2020 Accepted Papers -Can Baskent. A Game Theoretical Semantics for Logics of Nonsense -Lucas Martinelli Tabajara and Moshe Vardi. LTLf Synthesis under Partial Observability: From Theory to Practice -Lauri Hella, Antti Kuusisto and Raine R?nnholm. Bounded game-theoretic semantics for modal mu-calculus -Florian Bruse, J?rg Kreiker, Martin Lange and Marco S?lzer. Local Higher-Order Fixpoint Iteration -Oebele Lijzenga and Tom van Dijk. Symbolic parity game solvers that yield winning strategies -Yong Li, Moshe Vardi and Lijun Zhang. On the Power of Unambiguity in B?chi Complementation -Aniello Murano, Sasha Rubin and Martin Zimmermann. Optimal Strategies in Weighted Limit Games -Bader Abu Radi and Orna Kupferman. Canonicity in GFG and Transition-Based Automata -Jan Kretinsky, Emanuel Ramneantu, Alexander Slivinskiy and Maximilian Weininger. Comparison of Algorithms for -Simple Stochastic Games -Patricia Bouyer, Thomas Brihaye, Mickael Randour, C?dric Rivi?re and Pierre Vandenhove. Decisiveness of Stochastic -Systems and its Application to Hybrid Models -Mara Downing, Abtin Molavi and Lucas Bang. Symbolic Execution + Model Counting + Entropy Maximization = Automatic Search Synthesis -B?atrice B?rard, Benedikt Bollig, Patricia Bouyer, Matthias F?gger and Nathalie Sznajder. Synthesis in Presence of Dynamic Links -Andrew Wells, Morteza Lahijanian, Lydia Kavraki and Moshe Vardi. LTLf Synthesis on Probabilistic Systems -??igo ?ncer Romeo, Leonardo Mangeruca, Tiziano Villa and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. The Quotient in Preorder Theories Those papers will appear in a volume of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. *** To maximize the online attendance to the conference, the registration is free of charge but mandatory. *** Registration can be done on the website of the conference: https://di.ulb.ac.be/verif/gandalf2020/ ?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... 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For both positions, candidates at post-doc level can also be considered. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic universities in Germany are partially closed. However, there is the possibility to meet and work at the university, observing the current Corona regulations. There is of course the possibility to do the job interview virtually. Requirements ------------ You should have or should be in the process of obtaining an MSc or equivalent degree (in Computer Science or Mathematics). Prior knowledge about the topics of the projects is considered an advantage. Good English speaking and writing skills are demanded, as well as the willingness to learn German. For a post-doc position you should have or should be in the process of obtaining a PhD. The application deadline is 8th October 2020. https://www.uni-due.de/theoinf/index_en.php ====================================================================== Your Application ---------------- You can obtain further information by adressing your enquiries to: Barbara Koenig barbara_koenig at uni-due.de tel.: ++49-203-3793397 If you are interested in the position, please send your application. Your application should include: * A description of your interest in the position, including your motivation and specific qualifications. * A curriculum vitae, including an abstract of your graduate thesis and the name of your supervisor. * If you are interested in a post-doc position, please include a list of your publications and the names of possible referees. Please send your application directly to me (barbara_koenig at uni-due.de). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DFG Project SpeQt - Spectra of Behavioural Distances and Quantitative Logics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the central topics in the study of concurrent systems are notions of system equivalence, which define when two given system states have the same behaviour in a given sense. Classically, i.e. over relational transition systems, such system semantics range on a spectrum between branching-time and linear-time equivalences, with each equivalence reflecting a notion of possible interaction with systems, and characterized by a dedicated modal logic. In this setting, equivalences and logics are two-valued, i.e. two states are either equivalent or inequivalent, and a formula is either satisfied or not satisfied in a given state. For systems involving quantitative data, such as probabilities, weights, or more generally values in some metric space, it has been recognized that quantitative notions of equivalence, i.e. behavioural distances, and quantitative logics are more suitable for some purposes, and enable a more fine-grained analysis. For instance, while two states in Markov chains with small differences in their transition probabilities are just inequivalent under two-valued probabilistic bisimilarity, a suitable behavioural distance will retain the information that the two states are not exactly equivalent but still quite similar. As indicated above, behavioural distances by their very nature apply to settings that deviate from the classical relational model; these settings are generally less standardized and vary quite widely. This creates a need for uniform methods that apply to many system types at once. For branching-time behavioural metrics, we have developed such methods in earlier work within the framework of universal coalgebra, which encapsulates system types as functors and systems as coalgebras for the given type functor. The objective of SpeQt is to additionally parametrize these methods over the system semantics, thus providing support for spectra of behavioural distances in coalgebraic generality. The key tool we foresee for such a parametrization are graded monads, which we have successfully used in earlier work to parametrize two-valued equivalences. Central research goals include game-theoretic and logical characterization and efficient calculation of distances. Our results will enable us to derive such logics, games and algorithms in a principled way for a whole range of different types of transition systems and for the full spectrum between branching-time and linear-time semantics. We plan to test and evaluate the resulting algorithms in case studies centered around conformance testing of hybrid systems and differential privacy. From georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at Tue Sep 8 10:34:58 2020 From: georg.weissenbacher at tuwien.ac.at (Georg Weissenbacher) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:34:58 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMCAD'20 (Sept 21 to 24) - Call for Participation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The 20th International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) will be held online from September 21 to September 24, 2020. Registration is now open and free: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD20/registration/ FMCAD 2020: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) https://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD20 FMCAD Tutorial Day: September 21, 2020 FMCAD Regular Program: September 22-24, 2020 Co-Chairs: Alexander Ivrii and Ofer Strichman CONFERENCE SCOPE FMCAD'20 is the twentieth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing ground-breaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. TECHNICAL PROGRAM The program comprises presentations of 28 papers, 3 tutorials and 2 keynotes, a student forum, and the Hardware Model Checking Competition: https://easychair.org/smart-program/FMCAD2020/ Short presentations will be given on Zoom and longer versions of the talks will be made available for download. KEYNOTES Peter Schrammel "How testable is business software?" Orna Kupermann "From Correctness to High Quality" TUTORIALS Alexander Nadel "Anytime Algorithms for MaxSAT and Beyond" Hillel Kugler "Formal Verification for Natural and Engineered Biological Systems" Armin Biere "Tutorial on Word-Level Model Checking" SPONSORS Financial support: Amazon Web Services, Centaur Technology Inc., IBM, Novi, Synopsys, and the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Supported by the FMCAD Association (https://fmcad.or.at) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All submissions will pass a thorough and rigorous reviewing process, according to the standards of MSCS. The reviewing process of each paper will start as soon as it is submitted, and? accepted papers will undergo production before being published online in MSCS. Submissions should be submitted to the ScholarOne system here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mscs When submitting your paper please select the Special Issue on "Confluence" from the drop-down list on the ScholarOne system, as thisis the only way the papers can be correctly tagged for this special issue. Guest Editors: Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia),? ayala(at)unb.br Samuel Mimram (LIX, ?cole Polytechnique), samuel.mimram(at)lix.polytechnique.fr Deadline: 31 January 2021 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From the job ad: *The role of Senior Manager, Model Programming Team Leader, will lead MAG?s Warsaw location, focusing on design and implementation of strategic upgrades to SCB?s Cortex analytics platform, particularly in the programming languages and compiler space, working closely with other Core team members to support this long-term vision. This individual will be an experienced Haskell developer who can run with coding assignments with minimal oversight, working with advanced technology in support of trading floor business and risk management activities.* Full details and how to apply here: https://scb.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2000007774 I'm not the hiring manager so I won't be able to provide much more detail, but I can pass questions on. I also suggest you apply if you're interested, even if you don't meet all the requirements. Cheers, Pedro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Most areas of computer science are on topic for this call, including those covered by this mailing list. NOTE THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS October 1st, 2020. More information is available at: https://site.unibo.it/callforinterest/en Best, Ivan Lanese From deian at cs.ucsd.edu Mon Sep 14 16:00:00 2020 From: deian at cs.ucsd.edu (Deian Stefan) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:00:00 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Presentations: Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2021 @ POPL 2021) Message-ID: Sorry if you're getting this email multiple times! All details are on the PriSC site and in this email. ================================================ Call for Presentations: PriSC 2021 @ POPL 2021 ================================================ The emerging field of secure compilation aims to preserve security properties of programs when they have been compiled to low-level languages such as assembly, where high-level abstractions don?t exist, and unsafe, unexpected interactions with libraries, other programs, the operating system and even the hardware are possible. For unsafe source languages like C, secure compilation requires careful handling of undefined source-language behavior (like buffer overflows and double frees). Formally, secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, thus enabling sound reasoning about security in the source language. A complementary goal is to keep the compiled code efficient, often leveraging new hardware security features and advances in compiler design. Other necessary components are identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess, devising efficient security mechanisms (both software and hardware), and developing effective verification and proof techniques. Research in the field thus puts together advances in compiler design, programming languages, systems security, verification, and computer architecture. 5th Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2021) ============================================================= The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a relatively new, informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation and to identify interesting research directions and open challenges. The 5th edition of PriSC will be held on January 17 in Copenhagen, Denmark together with the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), 2021. Important Dates =============== * Fri 30 Oct 2020: Submission deadline * Wed 25 Nov 2020: Notification * Sun 17 Jan 2021: Workshop Presentation Proposals and Attending the Workshop ================================================= Anyone interested in presenting at the workshop should submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages, details below) covering past, ongoing, or future work. 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. Presentations that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. This includes presentations on new attack vectors such as microarchitectural side-channels, whose defenses could benefit from compiler techniques. 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. Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts ============================================ Extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 2 pages (references not including). They should be formatted in two-column layout, 10pt font, and be printable on A4 and US Letter sized paper. We recommend using the new acmart LaTeX style in sigplan mode. Submissions are not anonymous and should provide sufficient detail to be assessed by the program committee. Presentation at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Contact and More Information ============================ You can find more information on the workshop website: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/prisc-2021 For questions please contact the workshop chairs, Jonathan Protzenko and Deian Stefan. From balzers at cs.cmu.edu Tue Sep 15 12:45:09 2020 From: balzers at cs.cmu.edu (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:45:09 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Contributions: JLAMP Special Issue for PLACES 2020 Message-ID: <3B4A8D49-9CCE-46D0-8505-2A29F9C1373F@cs.cmu.edu> # Call for Contributions # Special issue of JLAMP for the 12th Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication cEntric Software (PLACES) 2020 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming/call-for-papers/special-issue-of-jlamp-for-the-12th-workshop-on-programming This special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP) is devoted to the topics of the 12th International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES 2020), which was planned to be a satellite event of ETAPS. This is however an **open call** for papers, therefore both participants of the workshop and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. ## Scope ## Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. Effectively programming such applications is challenging; performance, correctness, and scalability are difficult to achieve. 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 (such as scientific computing) and case studies. Please visit the above website for more detailed topics of interest. ## Submission ## We expect original articles (roughly 20-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in another journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Extended versions of papers published in the workshop's proceedings are permitted. Longer papers will be considered if there is a clear justification for why additional pages are necessary; authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have about one month to incorporate the comments of the reviewers and submit a revised version of their papers, which will be evaluated again by the reviewers to make a final decision. Contributions should be typeset in PDF format and must comply with JLAMP's author guidelines (see website for details). When submitting your paper, place choose "SI: PLACES 2020" from the "Article Type Name" drop down list. ## Guest editors ## * Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University) > * Luca Padovani (Universit? di Torino) > ## Dates ## Submission deadline: **16th October 2020** Acceptance notification: **19th February 2021** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Wed Sep 16 16:36:19 2020 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:36:19 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CMCS 2020: Final Call for Participation Message-ID: <62831dc6-8e33-e11b-42e6-7781550ec898@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> Call for Participation The 15th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science (CMCS'20) ONLINE, Sept-Oct 2020 https://www.coalg.org/cmcs20/ CMCS 2020 will be held virtually, as a series of approximately three hour sessions spread across five weeks. We will have live talks on Zoom. The first session takes place on Monday 21 September, 15:00 ? 18:00 CEST. Programme -------------------- The full programme can be found at https://www.coalg.org/cmcs20/programme/ CMCS takes place during the following time slots: ? 21/09/2020, 15:00 ? 18:00 CEST ? 28/09/2020, 10:00 ? 13:00 CEST ? 05/10/2020, 15:00 ? 18:00 CEST ? 12/10/2020, 10:00 ? 13:00 CEST ? 19/10/2020, 10:00 ? 13:00 CEST Registration -------------------- Registration is free and is done by signing up to our discussion forum: https://cmcs2020.flarum.cloud/ The links for our zoom meetings and all other practical information will be posted on this forum in threads visible only to registered users. We would also like to use this forum as a platform for discussions. Therefore, please use your real name when registering. Please also consider subscribing to the coalgebra mailing list for future discussion and specific announcements regarding coalgebras, if you are not already subscribed: https://framalistes.org/sympa/subscribe/coalgebra 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 --------------- Online, see above. 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 (Boston University, US) Justin Hsu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) 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? de Paris, IRIF, 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? de Paris, IRIF, 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 Accepted papers --------------------- For a list of accepted papers and short contributions, see https://www.coalg.org/cmcs20/accepted-papers/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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October 9, 2020 Virtual Conference https://rv20.ait.ac.at/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RV?20 HIGHLIGHTS * RV?20 registration site is open ? participation to the conference is free! * https://rv20.ait.ac.at/registration/ * RV?20 is fully virtual this year * October 9 is dedicated to the special topic ?RV for Autonomy? with a panel discussion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include, 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTES * Katherine Driggs-Campbell - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Fantastic Failures and Where to Find Them: Designing Trustworthy Autonomy * Thomas A. Henzinger - IST Austria * Monitorability under Assumptions * Lane Desborough ? Stealth * The Physical Side of Cyber-Physical Systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS * Invited tutorial - L. Nenzi, E. Bartocci, L. Bortolussi, M. Loreti, E. Visconti * Monitoring Spatio-Temporal Properties * Tutorial 1: Y. A. Liu and S. D. Stoller * Assurance of Distributed Algorithms and Systems: Runtime Checking of Safety and Liveness * Tutorial 2: M. Schwenger * Monitoring Cyber-Physical Systems from Design to Integration * Tutorial 3: J. H. Dawes, M. Han, O. Javed, G. Reger, G. Franzoni, A. Pfeiffer * Analysing the Performance of Python-based Web Services with the VyPR Framework * Tutorial 4: K. Havelund, D. Peled * BDDs for Representing Data in Runtime Verification -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM The RV?20 program is available at https://rv20.ait.ac.at/program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANEL ON RV FOR AUTONOMY This year, RV has a full day dedicated to the topic of RV for Autonomy! As part of this program, RV?20 will have on *October 9, 2020, 8:10-9:10 PST* a panel discussion on this topic, with the following distinguished panelists: * Nathan Aschbacher ? Auxon * Mauricio Castillo-Effen ? Lockheed Martin * Katherine Driggs-Campbell ? University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Jens Oehlerking ? Robert Bosch GmbH * Aditya Zutshi ? Galois -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sabry at indiana.edu Thu Sep 17 16:12:17 2020 From: sabry at indiana.edu (Sabry, Amr A.) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:12:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor position at IU --- Quantum Computing References: <9ABC1FEE-A157-4050-9FE5-9ABC6B257834@indiana.edu> Message-ID: <93236EA5-7802-4549-8951-A02E5B3F698D@indiana.edu> I expect many readers of this list are qualified or know qualified colleagues. Please let me know if you have any questions. ?Amr Assistant Professor in Computer Science The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in Computer Science to begin in Fall 2021. We are particularly interested in candidates with research interests in formal models of computation, algorithms, information theory, and machine learning with connection to quantum computation, quantum simulation, or quantum information science. The successful candidate will also be a Quantum Computing and Information Science Faculty Fellow supported in part for the first three years by an NSF-funded program that aims to grow academic research capacity in the computing and information science fields to support advances in quantum computing and/or communication over the long term. For additional information about the NSF award please visit: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955027&HistoricalAwards=false The position allows the faculty member to collaborate actively with colleagues from a variety of outside disciplines including the departments of physics, chemistry, mathematics and intelligent systems engineering, under the umbrella of the Indiana University funded ?quantum science and engineering center? (IU-QSEc). Duties will include research, teaching multi-level courses both online and in person, participating in course design and assessment, and service to the School. Applicants should have a demonstrable potential for excellence in research and teaching and a PhD in Computer Science or a related field expected before August 2021. Candidates should review application requirements, learn more about the Luddy School and apply online at: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/9841 For full consideration submit online application by December 1, 2020. Applications will be considered until the positions are filled. Questions may be sent to sabry at indiana.edu Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a well-established forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative programming, including functional and logic programming, database and constraint programming, and theorem proving. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages for software engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical languages and extensions such as probabilistic and reactive languages PADL 2021 especially welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications, design and implementation of declarative languages going beyond the scope of the past PADL symposia, for example, advanced database languages and contract languages, computational creativas well as verification and theorem proving methods that rely on declarative languages. Submissions ------------ PADL solicits three kinds of submission, in Springer LNCS format: * Technical papers (max. 15 pages) Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. * Application papers (max. 8 pages) Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. * Extended abstracts (max. 3 pages) Describing new ideas, a new perspective on already published work, or work-in-progress that is not yet ready for a full publication. Extended abstracts will be posted on the symposium website but will not be published in the formal proceedings. All page limits exclude references. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted but the authors should notify the program chair about the place in which it has previously appeared. Important dates ---------------- * Deadline: 9th October 2020 (AoE) * Notification: 6th November 2020 * Symposium: 18-19th January 2021 Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=padl2021 COVID-19 -------- PADL is co-located with POPL, which will take place *virtually* January 17-22, 2021 due to the Covid-19 situation. Distinguished Papers -------------------- The authors of a small number of distinguished papers will be invited to submit a longer version for journal publication after the symposium. For papers related to logic programming, in the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theory-and-practice-of-logic-programming, and for papers related to functional programming, in Journal of Functional Programming (JFP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming. The extended journal submissions should include roughly 30% more content including, for example, explanations for which there was no space, illuminating examples and proofs, additional definitions and theorems, further experimental results, implementational details and feedback from practical/engineering use, extended discussion of related work and such like. These submissions will then be subject to peer review by the journal, although with the aim of a swifter review process by reusing original reviews from PADL. Chairs ------- - Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK) - Jose Morales (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Programme Committee -------------------- - Mario Alviano (University of Calabria, Italy) - Nada Amin (Harvard University, USA) - Edwin Brady (University of St. Andrews, Scotland) - Joachim Breitner (DFINITY) - Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - Mistral Contrastin (Facebook London) - Sandra Dylus (University of Kiel, Germany) - Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) - Martin Gebser (Alpen-Adria-Universit?t Klagenfurt, Germany) - Gopal Gupta (U. Dallas, USA) - Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) - Henrik Nilsson (University of Nottingham, UK) - Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA) - KC Sivaramakrishnan (IIT Madras, India) - Paul Tarau (University of North Texas, USA) - Jan Wielemaker (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Ningning Xie (University of Hong Kong) - Neng-Fa Zhou (City University of New York, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From franziska.hauffe at informatics-europe.org Fri Sep 18 10:15:55 2020 From: franziska.hauffe at informatics-europe.org (Franziska Hauffe) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:15:55 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ECSS 2020 - Diversity in Informatics Research and Education - Register Now! In-Reply-To: <4e47a54e-e592-a365-0273-777ed56775a0@informatics-europe.org> References: <4e47a54e-e592-a365-0273-777ed56775a0@informatics-europe.org> Message-ID: <527657d9-1c81-b553-3fb8-7fd8c9ce5bea@informatics-europe.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *ECSS 2020 - 16th European Computer Science Summit* *Diversity in Informatics Research and Education* 26 ? 28 October 2020, Online Event With an opening speech by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Registration Deadline 15 October 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) is the meeting place for anyone interested in issues of research, education and policy in Informatics. As in previous years, the program is very exciting, with some of Europe's most distinguished academics on the virtual stage, the Summit will not be short of inspiration and stimulation. The central theme of this year conference is *Diversity in Informatics Research and Education* . The conference will consist of the main Summit of *three days* composed of several complementary online events and sessions. We are proud to announce that the conference will be opened on Monday, 26 October, with a speech by *Mariya Gabriel*, *European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth*. She will be opening the first session, on the topic Informatics Education, of the *Workshop for Leaders of Informatics Research and Education* . The session will include also presentations and discussions on the *Informatics for All initiative* and the *European Commission Digital Education Action Plan*. The following sessions of the Leaders Workshop will focus on the central theme: *Post-Pandemic Ways for Learning and Researching in Informatics*. It will feature sessions in which renowned speakers will share their expertise with the audience in a webinar-style including virtual breakout rooms for a deeper Q&A. On the morning of 27 October, two high-profile keynote speakers, *Ewan Birney* Director from the *European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute* and *Vivian Lagesen* from the *Norwegian University of Science and Technology* will be addressing two different aspects of *Diversity in Informatics Research and Education*, interdisciplinarity and gender balance. The session will be highly interactive, allowing attendees to pose questions and discuss with the speakers. The afternoon session on 27 October will include presentations by the winners of the two *Informatics Europe Annual Awards* , *Best Practices in Education* and *Minerva Informatics Equality*. Rounding up Tuesday?s program a *Dialogue with Members Session* including the *Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly* will take place, where key topics of relevance to the community and the development of the organisation will be actively discussed. The ECSS 2020 closes on Wednesday, 28 October, with two special workshops: In the morning, the *National Associations Workshop* on "Interdisciplinarity and Informatics" will address how the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity in science affects the Informatics community in different European countries. Closing the ECSS 2020, the *WIRE Workshop* will take place joining together Academia, Industry and Policy (European Commission) for an afternoon debate dedicated to the key topic of gender diversity in Informatics research and education. Theadvanced conference schedule is available on the ECSS 2020 website. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Opening Keynote Speaker* - Mariya Gabriel , European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth *Keynote Speakers* - Ewan Birney , European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); European Bioinformatics Institute - Georgi Dimitrov , European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture - Paola Inverardi , University of L?Aquila - Vivian Anette Lagesen , Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Bashar Nuseibeh , The Open University - Martin Zachariasen , IT University of Copenhagen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Registration* Registrations are open until 15 October 2020. Benefit for Informatics Europe Members: We will grasp the opportunity of the online format and have a special offer for Departments members of Informatics Europe. For member departments we will have a departmental registration, i.e. one paid registration per department allowing multiple members (Faculty, Researchers, Postdocs, PhD Students) of that department to attend the event simultaneously without paying individual fees. For the details of the fees and how to register please visit our registration page . -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com From harley.eades at gmail.com Sat Sep 19 10:41:55 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:41:55 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar Talk on Graded Types Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 between 1pm and 2pm EDT, Dr. Dominic Orchard will be giving a presentation as part of the CS Colloquium Series at Augusta University. Presentation details can be found here: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/Orchard.html Dom's talk is going to have some pretty cool programming examples. Should be a lot of fun! These talks are open to the general public via Zoom. I'll also be living streaming it on Youtube. So if you are interested in attending the Zoom meeting please RSVP with me before the talk. Questions will be only taken from those on Zoom. If you care to watch via YouTube, please use the following link: https://youtu.be/5bqkq_S3p_0 I hope all of you, your family and friends are doing well! Very best, Harley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 4 Dec 2020 (till the end of the day) Author notification: 5 Feb 2021 Camera-ready submissions: 19 Feb 2021 Conference: 27 Mar 2021 KEYNOTE SPEECH Anders M?ller, Aarhus University, Denmark STEERING COMMITTEE Zhang Yuxin, CTO of Huawei Cloud Yevgeny Kolbin, CEO of SberCloud PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sergey Zykov, HSE University, Russia (Chair) Anastasios Antoniadis, University of Athens, Greece Julia Belyakova, Northeastern University, USA Magiel Bruntink, SIG, The Netherlands Laura M. Castro, Universidade da Coru?a, Spain Yufei Ding, UCSB, USA Umar Farooq, UCR, USA Kiko Fernandez-Reyes, Uppsala University, Sweden Alexander Gerasimov, Huawei RRI, Russia Ben Hardekopf, UCSB, USA Christian Hammer, University of Potsdam, Germany Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany Hugh Leather, University of Edinburgh, UK Brandon Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Petr Maj, FIT CTU, Czech Republic Jens Palsberg, UCLA, USA Alexander K. Petrenko, ISP RAS, Russia Vladimir Rubanov, Huawei RRI, Russia Malavika Samak, MIT, USA Johannes Sp?th, University of Paderborn, Germany Yulei Sui, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jubi Taneja, University of Utah, USA Qianxiang Wang, Huawei, China Zheng Wang, University of Leeds, UK David West, US PUBLICATIONS Papers will be published in the Proceedings of ICCQ, will appear in IEEE Xplore?, and will be indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, and others. Thanks to our partners, publishing will be free. We consider the following criteria when evaluating papers. Novelty: The paper presents new ideas and results and places them appropriately within the context established by previous research. Importance: The paper contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the field. We also welcome papers that diverge from the dominant trajectory of the field. Evidence: The paper presents sufficient evidence supporting its claims, such as proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, case studies, and anecdotes. Clarity: The paper presents its contributions, methodology, and results clearly. Papers will be reviewed by three PC members using a double-blind review process. Submissions must be in PDF, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper. All submissions must adhere to the ACM Small template (11pt font size). Submitted papers must be at least 4 and at most 12 pages long, including bibliographical references and appendices. Please, submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/ICCQ20 SPONSORS ICCQ is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, HSE University, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming (ISP) of the RAS, Moscow State University (MSU), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), RUSSOFT, SECR, Huawei, SberCloud, Yandex, Kaspersky, and others. QUESTIONS? If any questions, please email to team at iccq.ru > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): * formalisms for program semantics; * formal models and semantics of programs and systems; * semantics of programming and specification languages; * formal description techniques; * logics for formal specification and verification; * deductive program verification; * automatic theorem proving; * model checking of programs and systems; * static analysis of programs; * formal approach to testing and validation; * program analysis and verification tools. ? PSSV-2020 Program Committee: * Natasha Alechina (Utrecht University, Netherlands), * Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK), * Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia), * Igor Konnov (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France, to be confirmed), * Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia), * Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia), * Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK), * Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia), * Sergey Staroletov (Polzunov Altai State Technical University, Barnaul, Russia), * Nina Yevtushenko (Tomsk State University and Institute for System Programming, RAS, Moscow, Russia). PSSV-2020 Program Co-Chairs: * Nikolay Shilov (Innopolis University, Russia, shiloviis(at)mail.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (Moscow State University, Russia, zakh(at)cs.msu.su) ? PSSV Steering Committee: * Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia, vnep(at)iis.nsk.su) * Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, valery-sokolov(at)yandex.ru) ? PSSV-2020 Local Organizing Committee (Higher School of Economics - National Research University) * Irina Lomazova (ilomazova(at)hse.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (zakh(at)cs.msu.su) ? PSSV-2020?Invited Speakers and Talks: * Natasha Alechina (Intelligent Software Systems, Information and computing sciences department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands): State of the Art in Logics for Verification of Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent System. * Ekaterina Komendantskaya (School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK): Refinement types for Verification of Neural Networks. * Samvel K. Shoukourian (IT Educational and Research Center, Yerevan State University, Armenia): Polynomial algorithm for equivalence problem of deterministic multitape finite automata. * Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore): Deductive Synthesis of Heap-Manipulating Programs: Sound, Expressive, Fast. (Please refer https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020 for more information about speakers and abstracts.)? ? Types of Submissions and Publications Program Committee solicits? * regular research submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up to 8 pages, LNCS style) in English (additional details could be included in an appendix up to 4 pages for Program Committee), each regular research submission will be reviewed by 3 PC members; * work in progress, position, poster and student papers (up to 4 pages), each of these submissions will be reviewed by a PC member. Right now Easy Chair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2020 is open for regular paprs. All accepted papers will be published before the workshop (format and venue TBD) Selected revised and extended papers have been published after the workshop in Russian peer-review journal Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems (https://www.mais-journal.ru). We expect (as it was in the previous years of the PSSV) that English translations of some of these selected papers will appear next year in Automatic Control and Computer Sciences(http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11950) (indexed by WoS and Scopus). ? Important dates: * regular research submissions (extended abstracts) - September 28, 2020; * notification for regular submissions - October 12, 2020; * short submissions (abstracts of work in progress, position papers and posters) - October 19, 2020; * notification for short submissions - October 26, 2020; * final versions of regular research submissions (for pre-proceedings) - October 26, 2020; * worksop (offline or online) - November 3-4, 2020; * invitations of selected talks to post-proceedings - November (TBD), 2020. ? 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We will decide in January 2021 at the latest. If ETAPS 2021 can go ahead as a physical conference, accepted authors may still present remotely. -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2021 is the twenty-fourth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (29 March-1 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair: Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs: Esther Guerra, Univ. Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain, and Mari?lle Stoelinga, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs: Stefan Kiefer, Univ. of Oxford, UK, and Christine Tasson, IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot, France) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs: Jan Friso Groote, Techn. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark) TACAS '21 will host the 10th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- The invited speakers and tutorialists planned for ETAPS 2020 have been reinvited: * Unifying speakers: Lars Birkedal (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) a further speaker to be reconfirmed * ESOP invited speaker: Isil Dillig (University of Texas at Austin, USA) * FASE invited speaker: Willem Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) * Tutorial speakers: Erika ?brah?m (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Madhusudan Parthasararathy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) -- IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 15 October 2020 23:59 AoE (=GMT-12) * Rebuttal (ESOP, FoSSaCS and, for selected papers, TACAS): 7 December 00:01 AoE - 9 December 23:59 AoE * Notification: 23 December 2020 * Camera-ready versions due: 22 January 2021 -- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -- The four main conferences of ETAPS 2021 solicit contributions of the following types. All page limits are given **excluding bibliography**. * ESOP: regular research papers of max 25 pp * FASE: regular research papers and empirical evaluation papers of max 18 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp + mandatory appendix of max 6 pp, * FoSSaCS: regular research papers of max 18 pp * TACAS: regular research papers, case study papers and regular tool papers of max 16 pp, tool demonstration papers of max 6 pp For definitions of the different paper types and specific instructions, where they are present, see the webpages of the individual conferences. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and have presentations during the conference. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. **Remote attendance and presentation will be possible if ETAPS 2021 goes ahead as a physical conference.** Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines of Springer's LNCS and be submitted electronically in pdf through the Easychair author interface of the respective conference. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. FASE will use double-blind reviewing. Authors are asked to omit their names and institutions; refer to own prior work in the third person; not to include acknowledgements that might identify them. Regular tool paper and tool demonstration paper submissions to TACAS must be accompanied by an artifact. The artifact will be evaluated and the outcome will be taken into account in the acceptance decision of the paper. ESOP and FoSSaCS will use an author rebuttal phase. TACAS will have rebuttal for selected papers. -- PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's LNCS series. The proceedings volumes will appear in gold open access, so the published versions of all papers will be available for everyone to download from the publisher's website freely, from the date of online publication, perpetually. The copyright of the papers will remain with the authors. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (27-28 March) -- A number of satellite workshops will take place before the main conferences. -- CITY AND HOST INSTITUTION -- Luxembourg is the capital of the small European nation of the same name. Built amid deep gorges cut by the Alzette and P?trusse rivers, it is famed for its ruins of medieval fortifications. The vast Bock Casemates tunnel network encompasses a dungeon, prison and the Archaeological Crypt, considered the city's birthplace. Along ramparts above, the Chemin de la Corniche promenade offers dramatic viewpoints. ETAPS 2021 is organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), Universit? du Luxembourg. -- ORGANIZERS -- General chair: Peter Y. A. Ryan (SnT & Universit? du Luxembourg) Workshops chair: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Organization chair: Peter Roenne (SnT Luxembourg) Event manager: Magali Martin (SnT Luxembourg) -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2021 at uni.lu . From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Tue Sep 22 15:17:12 2020 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:17:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2021 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <4a248cce-0be9-9e35-827f-85bd2d6ad3e5@ed.ac.uk> -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on PARTIAL EVALUATION AND PROGRAM MANIPULATION (PEPM) 2021 =============================================================================== * Website : https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/pepm-2021 * Time : 18th--19th January 2021 * Place : Online (co-located with POPL 2021) ** Deadline: 8th October ** ** Originally POPL 2021 was scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, but due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic POPL 2021 and all affiliated events will now be held online. ** The ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM), which has a history going back to 1991 and has co-located with POPL every year since 2006, originates in the discoveries of practically useful automated techniques for evaluating programs with only partial input. Over the years, the scope of PEPM has expanded to include a variety of research areas centred around the theme of semantics-based program manipulation ? the systematic exploitation of treating programs not only as subject to black-box execution, but also as data structures that can be generated, analysed, and transformed while establishing or maintaining important semantic properties. Scope ----- In addition to the traditional PEPM topics (see below), PEPM 2021 welcomes submissions in new domains, in particular: * Semantics based and machine-learning based program synthesis and program optimisation. * Modelling, analysis, and transformation techniques for distributed and concurrent protocols and programs, such as session types, linear types, and contract specifications. More generally, topics of interest for PEPM 2021 include, but are not limited to: * Program and model manipulation techniques such as: supercompilation, partial evaluation, fusion, on-the-fly program adaptation, active libraries, program inversion, slicing, symbolic execution, refactoring, decompilation, and obfuscation. * Techniques that treat programs/models as data objects including metaprogramming, generative programming, embedded domain-specific languages, program synthesis by sketching and inductive programming, staged computation, and model-driven program generation and transformation. * Program analysis techniques that are used to drive program/model manipulation such as: abstract interpretation, termination checking, binding-time analysis, constraint solving, type systems, automated testing and test case generation. * Application of the above techniques including case studies of program manipulation in real-world (industrial, open-source) projects and software development processes, descriptions of robust tools capable of effectively handling realistic applications, benchmarking. Examples of application domains include legacy program understanding and transformation, DSL implementations, visual languages and end-user programming, scientific computing, middleware frameworks and infrastructure needed for distributed and web-based applications, embedded and resource-limited computation, and security. This list of categories is not exhaustive, and we encourage submissions describing new theories and applications related to semantics-based program manipulation in general. If you have a question as to whether a potential submission is within the scope of the workshop, please contact the programme co-chairs, Sam Lindley and Torben Mogensen . Submission categories and guidelines ------------------------------------ Two kinds of submissions will be accepted: * Regular Research Papers should describe new results, and will be judged on originality, correctness, significance, and clarity. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages. * Short Papers may include tool demonstrations and presentations of exciting if not fully polished research, and of interesting academic, industrial, and open-source applications that are new or unfamiliar. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages. References and appendices are not included in page limits. Appendices may not be read by reviewers. Both kinds of submissions should be typeset using the two-column ?sigplan? sub-format of the new ?acmart? format available at: http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ and submitted electronically via HotCRP: https://pepm21.hotcrp.com/ Reviewing will be single-blind. Submissions are welcome from PC members (except the two co-chairs). Accepted regular research papers will appear in formal proceedings published by ACM, and be included in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted short papers do not constitute formal publications and will not appear in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted contribution must attend the workshop virtually to present the work. In the case of tool demonstration papers, a live demonstration of the described tool is expected. Important dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : **Thursday 8th October 2020 (AoE)** * Author notification : **Thursday 12th November 2020 (AoE)** * Workshop : **Monday 18th January 2021 to Tuesday 19th January 2021** Invited speakers ---------------- * Julia Lawall (Inria). Program manipulation of C code: from partial evaluation to semantic patches for the Linux kernel. * Mat?? Teji???k (Chordify). Erasure in dependently typed programming. Best paper award ---------------- PEPM 2021 continues the tradition of a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. Programme committee ------------------- * Guillaume Allais (St Andrews, UK) * Zena M. Ariola (Oregan, US) * Robert Atkey (Strathclyde, UK) * Lennart Augusstson (Google, US) * Casper Bach Poulsen (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Youou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) * Olivier Danvy (Yale NUS, Singapore) * Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute, Russia) * Sam Lindley (Heriot-Watt, UK) (Co-chair) * Torben Mogensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) (Co-chair) * J. Garrett Morris (Iowa, US) * Antonina Nepeivoda (Ailamazyan Pereslavl, Russia) * Gabriel Radanne (Inria, France) * Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku, Japan) * Niki Vazou (IMDEA, Spain) * Eelco Visser (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Jeremy Yallop (Cambridge, UK) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Tue Sep 22 17:19:45 2020 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:19:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NASA Formal Methods 1st CFP Message-ID: <1BC69979-5274-48DF-A181-BBEC9712D5A3@nasa.gov> ************************************************** ?? The Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium ????? https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/ ????????????????24-28 May 2021 ?????????????? Norfolk, VA, USA ************************************************** The symposium will be held in an in-person/virtual hybrid format in Norfolk, VA, USA, possibly transitioning to fully virtual depending on the COVID-19 situation. Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Research Group, comprised of researchers spanning six NASA centers. NFM2021 is being organized by the NASA Langley Formal Methods Team. Topics of Interest: ------------------- We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of formal methods: - Advances in formal methods: ? - Formal verification,?model checking, and static analysis techniques ? - Theorem proving: advances in interactive and automated theorem proving (SAT, SMT, etc.) ? - Program and specification synthesis, code transformation and generation ? - Run-time verification ? - Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods ? - Test case generation ? - Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques ? - Requirements generation, specification, and validation - Integration of formal methods techniques: ? - Use of machine learning techniques in formal methods ? - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practices? ? - Integration of diverse formal methods techniques ? - Combination of formal methods with simulation and analysis techniques - Formal methods in practice ? - Experience report of application of formal methods in industry ? - Use of formal methods in education ? - Verification of machine learning techniques ? - Applications of formal methods in the development of: ????? - autonomous systems, ????? - safety-critical systems, ????? - concurrent and distributed systems, ????? - cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems ????? - fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems ????? - human-machine interaction analysis Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract Submission: 27 November 2020 Paper Submission: 4 December 2020 Paper Notifications: 19 February 2021 Camera-ready Papers: 19 March 2021 Symposium: 24-28 May 2021 Submission Details: ------------------- There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages); 2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages). The submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained, as appendices will not be included in the published proceedings. In addition to appendices, authors are encouraged to make available any other supplementary material supporting the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data, as the availability and reproducibility of these artifacts may be considered by reviewers in scoring. All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee in a single-blind reviewing format. Papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCS style formatting (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2021 Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/11334). Organizers: ----------- ? Cesar Munoz, NASA, USA (General Co-Chair) ? Ivan Perez, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (General Co-Chair) ? Aaron Dutle, NASA, USA (PC Co-Chair) ? Mariano Moscato, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair) ? Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair) Program Committee: ------------------ Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Julia Badger, NASA, USA Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Jasmin Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Misty Davies, NASA, USA Gilles Dowek, INRIA / ENS Paris-Saclay, France Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France Gabriel Ebner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marco Feliu, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, USA John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Brian Jalaian, ARL / Virginia Tech, USA Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA Michael Lowry, NASA, USA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Anastasia Mavridou, SGT Inc. / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yannick Moy, AdaCore / INRIA, France Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA Laura Panizo, University of Malaga, Spain Corina Pasareanu, CMU / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah, USA Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia Nicolas Rosner, Amazon Web Services, USA Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Johann? Schumann, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA Tanner Slagel, NASA, USA Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Caterina Urban, INRIA, France Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Registration: ------------- Registration is required and free of charge. Contact: -------- Email: nfm2021 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 7429 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From freund at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Fri Sep 25 07:03:30 2020 From: freund at mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de (Anton Freund) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:03:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NEW: Proof Theory Virtual Seminar Message-ID: <1eaef47d563313fc57bdea31db4c3b45.squirrel@webmail.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de> Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Proof Theory Virtual Seminar, an online seminar series that presents talks by leading researchers from all areas of proof theory. It will be inaugurated with the following talks: 7 October, 17:00 UTC: Sam Buss Title: Propositional proof systems and bounded arithmetic for logspace and nondeterministic logspace 21 October, 09:00 UTC: Michael Rathjen Title: Far beyond Goodman's Theorem? 4 November, 17:00 UTC: Valeria de Paiva Title: Benchmarking Theorems of Implicational Intuitionistic Linear Logic 18 November, 09:00 UTC: Albert Visser Title: Fixed Points meet L"ob's Rule 2 December, 17:00 UTC: Ulrich Kohlenbach 16 December, 09:00 UTC: Matthias Baaz To attend, it suffices to click on a Zoom link, which you can find on our website: https://www.proofsociety.org/proof-theory-seminar/ If you would like to receive reminders, you can sign up to our email list by joining the following google group (no google account required): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/proof-theory-seminar/join For further information (including abstracts for the talks listed above), please visit the aforementioned website. We look forward to seeing you at the seminar! Best wishes, Lev Beklemishev, Yong Cheng, Anupam Das, Anton Freund, Thomas Powell, Sam Sanders, Monika Seisenberger, Andrei Sipos, Henry Towsner -- Anton Freund Postdoc in Mathematical Logic TU Darmstadt https://sites.google.com/view/antonfreund From michael.greenberg at pomona.edu Fri Sep 25 14:20:15 2020 From: michael.greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 11:20:15 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2021 - Student Research Competition - Call for Submissions (deadline: 2020-11-21) Message-ID: ======================================================================= ??????????????? ??? Principles of Programming Languages ?????????????????? ??? Student Research Competition ????????????????????????????? ??? -- ????????????????????? ??? January 17-22 2021 ???????????????????? ??? CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2021-Student-Research-Competition ======================================================================= Competition Format -------------------- POPL 2021 will host an ACM Student Research Competition, where undergraduate and graduate students can present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. This year?s competition will consist of three rounds: The competition will consist of three rounds: * Extended abstract round: All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract outlining their research. * Poster session at POPL 2021: Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in a virtual poster session which will take place online. In addition to an ?online poster? (that may include dynamic components), students who are selected for this second round are expected to submit a pre-recorded lightning talk. The judges and participants can then watch the talks offline. In the online poster session, students will have the opportunity to answer questions of judges and conference attendees. Three finalists in each category (graduate/undergraduate) will be selected to advance to the next round. * POPL presentation: The last round will consist of a short oral live presentation at POPL to compete for the final awards in each category. This round will also select an overall winner who will advance to the ACM SRC Grand Finals. Submission Details ------------------ * Abstract Submission : Saturday, November 21th, 2020 * Author Notification : Friday, December 11th, 2020 Submission is via HotCRP : https://popl21src.hotcrp.com/ Each extended abstract should address the following: * Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem. * Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work in the context of POPL areas of interest. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others. Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in addressing the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel. * Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to programming language design and implementation in particular and to computer science in general; explain the significance of those results. Submissions must be original research that is not already published at POPL or another conference or journal. One of the goals of the SRC is to give students feedback on ongoing, unpublished work. Furthermore, the abstract must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student?s role was and should focus on that portion of the work. The extended abstract should be up to three pages using ?\documentclass[acmsmall,nonacm]{acmart}?. Reference lists do not count towards the three page limit. Prizes ------ * The top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. * All six winners will receive award medals and a one complimentary ACM student membership, including a subscription to ACM?s Digital Library. * The names of the winners will be posted on the SRC web site. * The first place winners of the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of other conference-hosted SRCs. * If the COVID situation allows: Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing). * The ACM and our industrial partners provide financial support for students attending the SRC. You can find more information about this on the SRC website (https://src.acm.org/). Eligibility ----------- The SRC is open to both undergraduate (not in a PhD/master?s program) and graduate students (in a PhD/master?s program). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities and be current ACM student members. Furthermore, there are some constraints on what kind of work may be submitted: Previously published work: Submissions should consist of original work (not yet accepted for publication). If the work is a continuation of previously published work, the submission should focus on the contribution over what has already been published. We encourage students to see this as an opportunity to get early feedback and exposure for the work they plan to submit to the next POPL. Collaborative work: Graduate students are encouraged to submit work they have been conducting in collaboration with others, including advisors, internship mentors, or other students. However, graduate submissions are individual, so they must focus on the contributions of the student. Team submissions: Team projects will be only accepted from undergrads. One person should be designated by the team to make the oral presentation. If a graduate student is part of a group research project and wishes to participate in an SRC, they can submit and present their individual contribution to the group research project. Selection Committee ------------------- Martin Bodin, Imperial College London Emanuele D'Osualdo, MPI-SWS Ori Lahav, Tel Aviv University (Competition Co-chair) Hila Peleg, University of California, San Diego Azalea Raad, Imperial College London (Competition Co-chair) Thomas Reps, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ilya Sergey, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore From manuel.hermenegildo at imdea.org Sun Sep 27 06:10:51 2020 From: manuel.hermenegildo at imdea.org (Manuel Hermenegildo) Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:10:51 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track Faculty Positions at the IMDEA Software Institute Message-ID: <24432.25899.224182.726092@gazelle.local> TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITIONS AT THE IMDEA SOFTWARE INSTITUTE The IMDEA Software Institute invites applications for tenure-track (Assistant Professor) faculty positions. We are primarily interested in recruiting excellent candidates in the areas of Systems, including Distributed Systems, Embedded Systems, etc.; Data Science, including Machine Learning; Security and Privacy; Software Engineering; and Cyber-Physical Systems. Exceptional candidates in other topics within the general research areas of the Institute will also be considered. Tenured-level (Associate and Full Professor) applications are also welcome. The primary mission of the IMDEA Software Institute is to perform research of excellence at the highest international level in software development technologies. It is one of the highest-ranked institutions worldwide in its main topic areas. * Selection Process The main selection criteria are the candidate's demonstrated ability and commitment to research, the match of interests with the Institute's mission, and how the candidate complements areas of established strengths of the Institute. All positions require a doctoral degree in Computer Science or a closely related area, earned by the expected start date. Candidates for tenure-track positions will have shown exceptional promise in research and will have displayed an ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. Candidates for tenured positions must have an outstanding research record, recognized international stature, and demonstrated leadership abilities. Experience in graduate student supervision is also valued at this level. Applications should be completed using the application form at https://careers.software.imdea.org/ Please select the reference "2020-09-faculty-call" at the beginning of the form. For full consideration, complete applications must be received by December 1, 2020, although applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled. * Working at the IMDEA Software Institute The Institute is located in the vibrant area of Madrid, Spain. It offers an ideal working environment, combining the best aspects of a research center and a university department. Its researchers can focus on developing new ideas and projects, in collaboration with world-leading, international faculty, post-docs, and students. Researchers also have the opportunity (but no obligation) to teach university courses. The Institute offers institutional funding and also encourages its members to participate in national and international research projects. The working language at the Institute is English. Salaries at the Institute are internationally competitive and established on an individual basis. They include social security provisions in accordance with existing national Spanish legislation, and in particular access to an excellent public health care system. Further information about the Institute's current faculty and research can be found at http://www.software.imdea.org . The IMDEA Software Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from a diverse and international community and underrepresented groups. The Institute complies with the European Charter for Researchers. * Note on COVID-19 The Institute continues working and hiring during the pandemic, while strictly adopting all recommended health safety measures, including working remotely as needed. The Institute actively monitors the the evolution of the pandemic and interviews will be conducted remotely when necessary. From dom.orchard at gmail.com Mon Sep 28 04:20:26 2020 From: dom.orchard at gmail.com (Dominic Orchard) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:20:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Positions in Programming Languages at the University of Kent Message-ID: We are seeking to appoint two Lecturers in Computing in our Programming Languages and Systems research group based at our Canterbury campus, University of Kent. Job description / Additional Information / Please apply at https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=STM-202-20 Closing date for applications: 14 October 2020 The Programming Languages and Systems (PLAS) research group spans the breadth and depth of practical and theoretical aspects of programming languages and system building related to languages. Our work goes across paradigms (imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic) and is complemented by our systems research in concurrency, relaxed memory, verified compilation, verification, language prototypes, garbage collection, and tools. All our work is linked by a shared vision of the power and impact of programming languages on the rest of Computer Science. The PLAS group at Kent has a long history of contributions to the field and continues to be a hotbed of programming language research in the South East of England: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/plas/index.html The School of Computing [1] is a welcoming, supportive, and diverse environment whose commitment to gender equality has been recognised with a Bronze Athena SWAN [2] award. We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of the community within our School and would particularly encourage female candidates to apply for these posts. We are committed to delivering high quality research and education. The School?s five broad research areas are Programming Languages and Systems; Computer Security; Computational Intelligence; Data Science; and Computing Education. Full details can be found at: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research. The University of Kent has campuses in Canterbury and Medway, and specialist postgraduate centres in Athens, Brussels, Paris and Rome. Overlooking the city centre, and with 125 nationalities represented, the Canterbury campus has a very cosmopolitan feel. Canterbury is a small city that retains parts of its medieval walls. Famous for its heritage (Canterbury Cathedral; Chaucer?s Tales; etc), Canterbury is a vibrant community and UNESCO World Heritage site whose culture and leisure facilities are enhanced by hosting three universities. The city and surrounding region combines an attractive and affordable environment, excellent schools, and fast transport links to London and mainland Europe. Links: [1] https://cs.kent.ac.uk/ [2] http://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Mon Sep 28 08:31:24 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. 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URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Mon Sep 28 09:18:18 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:18:18 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on Linear Logic In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, everyone. There was a link issue with my original post; see below. The link is directing to an old talk. Must be a copy-and-paste error. The following is the correct location: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/dePaiva.html Thanks Elaine Pimentel for pointing this out to me. Sorry about the confusion. Best, Harley On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:31 AM Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > On Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 between 1pm and 2pm EDT, Dr. Valeria de Paiva will > be giving a presentation as part of the CS Colloquium Series at Augusta > University. > > Presentation details can be found here: > > https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/dePaiva.html > > > Valeria's talk will tell us about benchmarking linear logics which should > be fascinating! > > These talks are open to the general public via Zoom. I'll also be living > streaming it on Youtube. So if you are interested in attending the Zoom > meeting please RSVP with me before the talk. Questions will be only taken > from those on Zoom. > > If you care to watch via YouTube, please use the following link: > > https://youtu.be/1HVJLFysmHs > > I hope all of you, your family and friends are doing well! > > Very best, > Harley > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.greenberg at pomona.edu Mon Sep 28 15:45:30 2020 From: michael.greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:45:30 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2021 - Call for Tutorials (deadline 2020-10-28) Message-ID: CALL FOR TUTORIALS POPL 2021 48th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages POPL: 20 - 22 January 2021 Affiliated Events: 17-19 January 2021 Venue: Online https://popl21.sigplan.org/ The 48th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2021) will be held online. POPL provides a forum for the discussion of fundamental principles and important innovations in the design, definition, analysis, transformation, implementation and verification of programming languages, programming systems, and programming abstractions. Tutorials for POPL 2021 are solicited on any topic relevant to the POPL community. We are particularly encouraging submissions of introductory tutorials that make the research presented at POPL more accessible to the participants. Tutorials will be held on *Monday January 18, 2021* (two days before the main conference and the day before PLMW). The expected length of a tutorial is 3 hours, including questions and discussion (Q&A). Due to the pandemic and POPL being held online, the tutorials will be online only. The presenter should divide the tutorials into smaller parts, followed by a Q&A session after each such part to answer the questions from the audience. If a tutorial is prerecorded, participants will be given the opportunity to post questions; the presenter will answer these questions during the live Q&A session. The Q&A session will be recorded. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details * Deadline for submission: 28 October 2020 * Notification of acceptance: 4 November 2020 A tutorial proposal should provide the following information. * Tutorial title * Presenter(s), affiliation(s), and contact information * 1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include the objectives, topics to be covered, presentation approach, target audience, prerequisite knowledge, and if the tutorial was previously held, the location (i.e. which conference), date, and number of attendees if available. * 1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity. * 1 paragraph biography suitable for tutorial publicity. Proposal must be submitted in pdf or txt form by email to the associated events chairs Jan Hoffmann (jhoffmann at cmu.edu) and Ruzica Piskac (ruzica.piskac at yale.edu). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any query regarding POPL 2021 tutorial proposals should be addressed to the associated events chairs Jan Hoffmann (jhoffmann at cmu.edu) and Ruzica Piskac (ruzica.piskac at yale.edu). From dom.orchard at gmail.com Mon Sep 28 16:13:52 2020 From: dom.orchard at gmail.com (Dominic Orchard) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:13:52 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Positions in Programming Languages at the University of Kent In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies I sent the wrong link (to a job advert for lectureships at our school but in a different research group, not PL). 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It aspires to be a lively environment for presenting the latest research results, and other contributions. * 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. * TFP is co-located 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. Due to the covid pandemic, ? the event is online with a lot of attention to interaction and getting to ? socialize with the community. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline for pre-symposium review:???? 20th November, 2020 Submission deadline for draft papers:???????????? 15th January, 2021 Symposium dates:????????????????????????????????? 17-19th February, 2021 * We strongly encourage authors to submit their work for the first deadline. ? Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation, but not immediately for the ? proceedings in this first round, will have almost two months to address the ? reviewers' concerns. Papers submitted for the first deadline will also have ? priority for the presentation slots at the symposium. Visit tfp2021.org for more information. From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Tue Sep 29 10:49:02 2020 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:49:02 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFPIE'21] First Call For Papers: Trends in Functional Programming *in Education* 2021, 16 February (with Lambda Days 2021 & TFP 2021) Message-ID: <0900824f-4f25-cf94-01fb-f7c2d2d3a8ac@cs.ru.nl> -------------------------------- ?? TFPIE 2021 Call for papers -------------------------------- https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2021#TFPIE_2021 (February 16 2021, co-organized with TFP 2021 and Lambda Days 2021) The goal of the International Workshops on Trends in Functional Programming in Education is to gather researchers, professors, teachers, and all professionals that use or are interested in the use of functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas, and work in progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. TFPIE 2021 welcomes submissions in the above mentioned areas. This year many teaching programmes have had to make a rapid transition to online teaching, and we explicitly solicit papers that explore this area of teaching functional programming. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -? FP and beginning CS students -? FP and Computational Thinking -? FP and Artificial Intelligence -? FP in Robotics -? FP and Music -? Advanced FP for undergraduates -? FP in graduate education -? Engaging students in research using FP -? FP in Programming Languages -? FP in the high school curriculum -? FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics -? FP and Philosophy -? The pedagogy of teaching FP -? FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. -? Best Lectures - more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. The length of the presentation should be comparable to that of a paper. On top of the lecture itself, the presentation can also provide commentary on the lecture. Submissions Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 20 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2021 After the workshop, presenters are invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles. We plan to publish them in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Dates -? Submission deadline: January 11 2021, Anywhere on Earth. -? Notification: January 15 2021 -? Workshop: February 16 2021 -? Submission for formal review: April 20 2021, Anywhere on Earth. -? Notification of full article: June 7 2021 -? Camera ready: July 1st 2021 Program Committee (under construction) - Peter Achten,??? Radboud University, Netherlands (chair) - Edwin Brady,???? University of St Andrews, UK - Laura Castro,??? Universidade da Coru?a, Spain - Stephen Chang,?? University of Massachusetts Boston, USA - Youyou Cong,???? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Matthew Flatt,?? University of Utah, USA - Alex Gerdes,???? University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Prabhakar Ragde, University of Waterloo, Canada - Melinda T?th,??? E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary Registration TFPIE is part of Lambda Days. Please visit the Lambda Days 2021 pages when registration information becomes available. Registration is mandatory for at least one author of every paper that is presented at the workshop. Only papers that have been presented at TFPIE may be submitted to the post-reviewing process. Information on Lambda Days is available at https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 Information on TFP???????? is available at http://tfp2021.org From gadducci at di.unipi.it Tue Sep 29 16:32:11 2020 From: gadducci at di.unipi.it (Fabio Gadducci) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:32:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Science of Computer Programming: Special Issue on Application-Oriented Aspects of Graph Transformation Message-ID: <3D20A055-846B-4BF6-8DCF-2FD8FE1CC9B8@di.unipi.it> SCIENCE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Special Issue on APPLICATION-ORIENTED ASPECTS OF GRAPH TRANSFORMATION Important Dates: ----------------------- * Deadline for Submissions: December 20, 2020: * First Review Notification: March 31, 2021 Scope and Topics: ----------------------- 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. This special issue focuses on application-oriented aspects of graphs and graph transformation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems * Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages * 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 * 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) Guest Editors: ----------------------- * Timo Kehrer, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (Germany), timo.kehrer at informatik.hu-berlin.de * Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa (Italy), fabio.gadducci at unipi.it Paper Submission: ----------------------- Manuscripts should be submitted through the Editorial Manager: https://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp When submitting the manuscript for this special issue, please select "SI: ICGT 2020" as the article type. 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URL: From balzers at cs.cmu.edu Wed Sep 30 16:28:48 2020 From: balzers at cs.cmu.edu (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:28:48 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLMW@POPL 2021: Call for Applications Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (**DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 17**) ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, ONLINE Tuesday, January 21, 2021 Co-located with POPL 2021 which is also held virtually online Web page: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-2021 After the success of the first nine Programming Languages Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012-2020, we are announcing the 10th SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) to take place online, co-located with the virtual POPL 2021 and organised by Stephanie Balzer, Justin Hsu, Azalea Raad and Gabriel Scherer. The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will bring together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop will help students imagine how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students, and people with disabilities to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application. The workshop registration is open to all. APPLICATION for PLMW: The application can be accessed at the following URL: https://forms.gle/dzV8ELgQUx2xfEjm9 The deadline for full consideration of funding is Tuesday, November 17. Selected participants will be notified by December 1. Confirmed speakers (so far): Alastair Donaldon, Imperial College London and Google Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London Limin Jia, CMU Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics (Japan) Rupak Majumdar, MPI-SWS Amin Timany, Aarhus University Aaron Turon, Fastly Confirmed sponsors (so far): NSF ACM SIGPLAN Anonymous Donor Amazon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caterina.urban at ens.fr Thu Oct 1 05:01:52 2020 From: caterina.urban at ens.fr (Caterina Urban) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:01:52 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award - Call for Nominations Message-ID: ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award =========================== The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association has established a Doctoral Dissertation Award to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS). Doctoral dissertations are evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the quality of writing. The award winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the ETAPS Banquet. 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, 2020 to December 31st, 2020. 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=etapsdda2021 The deadline for nominations is January 17th, 2021. Award Committee ------------------------ Caterina Urban (chair) Luis Caires (representing ESOP) Perdita Stevens (representing FASE) Andrew Pitts (representing FoSSaCS) Dirk Beyer (representing TACAS) Marieke Huisman Oded Padon Contact ---------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the chair of the award committee, Caterina Urban . From saurabh_t at daiict.ac.in Sat Oct 3 06:48:51 2020 From: saurabh_t at daiict.ac.in (Saurabh Tiwari) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 16:18:51 +0530 Subject: [TYPES/announce] NLPaSE 2020@ 27th APSEC 2020: Extended Deadline Message-ID: Workshop on Natural Language Processing Advancements for Software Engineering (NLPaSE) @ 27th APSEC 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS: Extended Deadline Workshop on Natural Language Processing Advancements for Software Engineering (NLPaSE) co-located with the 27th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) 2020 calls for submission of position papers, experience reports and research papers. We are looking for contributions that enhance the knowledge towards NLP and their applications in Software Engineering and contribute to the workshop goals. We also encourage contributions that highlight challenges faced by the industry professionals while applying NLP techniques for generating/translating/processing the software artefacts. NLPaSE 2020 will be held virtually so that presentations and attendance will be on-line. Consequently, the submission deadline has been extended. Details of the types of submission, paper templates, and submission instructions can be found on the workshop web site: https://sites.google.com/view/nlpase2020/ Please note the revised submission deadline is now *11 Oct 2020 [firm deadline].* Looking forward to your submissions. Best regards, Saurabh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.mazzara at innopolis.ru Tue Oct 6 08:52:02 2020 From: m.mazzara at innopolis.ru (Manuel Mazzara) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:52:02 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open positions in Software Engineering at Innopolis University In-Reply-To: References: <6aa1eef7a2b044aba4695dd72ae354bc@innopolis.ru> <64eb1331084642ad8e4867058388c5fd@innopolis.ru> Message-ID: Assistant / Associate / Full Professor (Open Rank Faculty Positions) Institution: Innopolis University Location: Innopolis (satellite city of Kazan), Tatarstan, Russia Category: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Software Development and Engineering Application deadline: until the positions are filled Type: Full-time or special arrangement The Institute of Software Development and Engineering of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Innopolis University invites applications for professorships at all ranks. Candidates are being sought in all sub-fields of Software Engineering. The initial appointment is a 3-year contract, renewed after evaluation. Senior faculty members are also invited for sabbatical positions on negotiable conditions. POSITION Responsibilities include the following: * teaching three semester-long courses to undergraduate or graduate students during the academic year * curriculum and course development * leading relevant research activities * providing general program guidance * advising and mentoring students * contributing to community services and other activities related to developing and maintaining the intellectual and cultural environment of the University QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS Successful candidates must have the following qualifications: * an achieved doctoral degree from an internationally recognized educational and/or research institution * minimum 3 years teaching experience (including teaching assistantship) at an internationally recognized institution * industry experience is an advantage * excellent English communication skills (the language of instruction at IU is English) * active research interests in the field of interest for the institute with publications in recognized international venues COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS Innopolis University offers a competitive salary at par with North American educational institutions. Additionally, Russian residents enjoy a flat taxation rate currently at 13%. The benefits package includes paid vacation, housing allowance (based on the rank and family size), relocation allowance, home travel (twice per year), paid health care coverage. A start-up package is available for selected faculty and it includes funding for establishing a lab with up to two PhD students for the first year and additional discretionary funds for research. The University will provide assistance in searching and recruiting of PhD students within Russia and abroad, and with applications for national and international research grants. HOW TO APPLY Candidates should submit a full application package, consisting of cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching statement in pdf format by email to faculty at innopolis.ru Additionally, they should arrange to have three reference letters sent by email to the same address. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY Innopolis University is the first university in Russia focused on Information Technology and Robotics using English as the language of instruction. By 2023, it aims at joining the top-100 institutions under 50 years old worldwide. The Faculty of Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering is organized in four institutes (Software Development and Engineering; Cyber-physical Systems, Networks and Security; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Robotics and Computer Vision). It offers a Bachelor degree in Computer Science with four specializations (one per institute), four Master degree programs (Software Engineering, Data Science, AI and Robotics, and Secure Systems and Network Engineering) and a research-based doctoral program. The University actively collaborates with the largest local companies, including Gazprom, Sberbank, Kaspersky, Yandex, Parallels, etc. as well as with the world?s leading universities in the field of Computer Science. The University targets intellectually advanced youth with strong knowledge in Math and CS. The average student acceptance rate is about 3%. Innopolis University is located in Innopolis, a new Russian city designed to be a major IT hub of the country, just 40 kilometers away from Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. Tatarstan is rapidly developing region in Russia attracting investment in high-tech development, education and sport. Kazan, where the faculty members experience a unique mixture of western and traditional lifestyles is similar to any mid-sized North American or European cosmopolitan city, including a rich and vibrant atmosphere with easy access to excellent restaurants, theaters, concert halls, museums, professional and amateur sports, recreation and much more. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kutsia at risc.jku.at Wed Oct 7 07:16:30 2020 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:16:30 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: AMAI Special Issue on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Unification Message-ID: <169afa6c-59f2-4360-f555-ca1e7769f32c@risc.jku.at> Call for submissions Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Unification ------------------------------------------------- SCOPE -------- In 2020, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) celebrates its 30th anniversary. Over the years, the journal has promoted better understanding of the application of quantitative, combinatorial, logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to artificial intelligence areas as diverse as decision support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and planning. AMAI special issues are intended to be collections of original research papers reflecting the intersection of mathematics and a focussed discipline demonstrating how each has contributed greatly to the other. A further goal of the journal is to close the gaps between the fields even further. Papers should report on current research in the appropriate areas, as well as more retrospective papers in which progress has been ongoing over a period of time. The purpose of this special issue of AMAI is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of unification. Unification is concerned with the problem of making two terms equal, finding solutions for equations or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. The special issue is related to the topics of the 34th International Workshop on Unification - UNIF 2020. Participants of the workshop, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions. EXAMPLES OF TOPICS ------------------- This special issue focuses on advanced results on the topics of unification in a broad sense, which include, but are not limited to, the following: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Unification in modal, fuzzy, temporal and description logics - Anti-unification/generalization - Semi-unification - Narrowing - Matching problems - Unification in special theories - Higher-order unification - Combination problems - Constraint solving - Disunification - Complexity issues - Type checking and reconstruction - Admissibility of inference rules - Formalization of unification - Tools - Applications SUBMISSION ----------- This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor simultaneously submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using the standard refereeing procedure of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Submitted papers must be in English, prepared in LaTeX according to the guidelines of the journal: https://www.springer.com/journal/10472/submission-guidelines. PDF versions of papers should be uploaded at the submission page https://www.editorialmanager.com/amai by December 14, 2020. Please choose S704 - Unification - UNIF 2020 when you will be selecting the article type. GUEST EDITORS -------------------- Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Andrew M. Marshall (University of Mary Washington, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Temur Kutsia Andrew M. Marshall From fritz at henglein.com Thu Oct 8 11:36:35 2020 From: fritz at henglein.com (fritz at henglein.com) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 17:36:35 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VMCAI 2021 -- updated call for papers. Submission deadline: October 11 Message-ID: <59BC23CF-93A8-4964-B9A0-80561080B09E@henglein.com> [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ******************************************************************************* UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS 22nd International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation VMCAI 2021 January 17-19, 2021 https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/VMCAI-2021 ******************************************************************************* *Call for Papers* VMCAI 2021 is the 22nd International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. The conference will be held on January 17-19, 2021, in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a physical, virtual, or hybrid physical/virtual meeting depending on the COVID-19 situation. VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. *Scope* The program of VMCAI 2021 will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: Program Verification Model Checking Abstract Interpretation Abstract Domains Program Synthesis Static Analysis Type Systems Deductive Methods Program Logics First-Order Theories Decision Procedures Interpolation Horn Clause Solving Program Certification Separation Logic Probabilistic Programming and Analysis Error Diagnosis Detection of Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities Program Transformations Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems Concurrent and distributed Systems Analysis of numerical properties Analysis of smart contracts Analysis of neural networks Case Studies on all of the above topics Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. *Important Dates AoE (UTC-12)* October 11th, 2020 Paper submission November 10th, 2020 Notification November 16th, 2020 Camera-ready Conference Submission Link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2021 *Submissions* Submissions are required to follow Springerb s LNCS format. The page limit depends on the paperb s category (see below). In each category, additional material beyond the page limit may be placed in a clearly marked appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines . Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2021 Submissions will undergo a single-blind review process. Accepted papers will be published in Springerb s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. There will be three categories of papers: regular papers, tool papers and case studies. Papers in each category have a different page limit and will be evaluated differently. Regular papers clearly identify and justify an advance to the field of verification, abstract interpretation, or model checking. Where applicable, they are supported by experimental validation. Regular papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. Tool papers present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, and emphasize the design and implementation concerns, including software architecture and core data structures. A regular tool paper should give a clear account of the toolb s functionality, discuss the toolb s practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, describe experience with realistic case studies, and where applicable, provide a rigorous experimental evaluation. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool, preferably substantiated by data on enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available and submit an artifact. Tool papers are restricted to 12 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. Case studies are expected to describe the use of verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation techniques in new application domains or industrial settings. Papers in this category do not necessarily need to present original research results but are expected to contain novel applications of formal methods techniques as well as an evaluation of these techniques in the chosen application domain. Such papers are encouraged to discuss the unique challenges of transferring research ideas to a real-world setting and reflect on any lessons learned from this technology transfer experience. Case study papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. (Shorter case study papers are also welcome.) *Artifacts* VMCAI 2021 allows authors to submit an artifact along a paper. Artifacts are any additional material that substantiates the claims made in the paper, and ideally makes them fully replicable. Submitting an artifact is encouraged but not required. The artifact will be evaluated in parallel with the submission by the artifact evaluation committee (AEC). The AEC will read the paper and evaluate the artifact on the following criteria: - consistency with and replicability of results in the paper, - completeness, - documentation, and - ease of use. 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The successful candidate will teach in one or more areas of our core CS curriculum and will have opportunities to develop elective courses in their areas of expertise. See the full details at: https://jobs.bucknell.edu/en-us/job/496623/tenure-track-assistantassociate-professor-of-computer-science Unofficial note about COVID (my opinion): We are a university that cares about the health, wellbeing, and happiness of its faculty, staff, and students. We are currently open and teaching in-person classes BUT the university has allowed each faculty member and each student (and staff as applicable) to determine if in-person or remote is best for them individually. This is just one example of how the university supports us. 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This is however an **open call** for papers, therefore both participants of the workshop and other authors are encouraged to submit their contributions. ## Scope ## Applications today are built using numerous interacting services; soon off-the-shelf CPUs will host thousands of cores, and sensor networks will be composed from a large number of processing units. Many applications need to make effective use of thousands of computing nodes. At some level of granularity, computation in such systems is inherently concurrent and communication-centred. Effectively programming such applications is challenging; performance, correctness, and scalability are difficult to achieve. 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 (such as scientific computing) and case studies. Please visit the above website for more detailed topics of interest. ## Submission ## We expect original articles (roughly 20-30 pages) that present high-quality contributions that have not been previously published in another journal and that must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Extended versions of papers published in the workshop's proceedings are permitted. Longer papers will be considered if there is a clear justification for why additional pages are necessary; authors should contact the guest editors to discuss this. Each paper will undergo a thorough evaluation by at least two reviewers. The authors will have about one month to incorporate the comments of the reviewers and submit a revised version of their papers, which will be evaluated again by the reviewers to make a final decision. Contributions should be typeset in PDF format and must comply with JLAMP's author guidelines (see website for details). 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The post-proceedings volume will be published in LIPIcs, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics , an open-access series of conference proceedings. Submission to this post-proceedings volume is open to everyone, also to those who did not submit a contribution to the conference. We welcome high-quality descriptions of original work, as well as position papers, overview papers, and system descriptions. Submissions should be written in English, not overlapping with published or simultaneously submitted work to a journal or a conference with archival proceedings. We would like to invite all researchers that study and apply type systems to share their results. In particular, we welcome submissions on the following topics: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Homotopy type theory; * Applications of type theory; * Dependently typed programming; * Industrial uses of type theory technology; * Meta-theoretic studies of type systems; * Proof assistants and proof technology; * Automation in computer-assisted reasoning; * Links between type theory and functional programming; * Formalizing mathematics using type theory; * Type theory in linguistics. Important dates: * Paper submission: 19 October 31 October 2020 * Author notification: 18 January 2021 * Final version: ?15 February 2021 * Publication (presumably): end of March 2021 Details: * Papers have to be written in LaTex and adhere to the style requirements of LIPIcs . * The recommended length of a paper is 12-15 pages, excluding front-page(s) (authors, affiliation, keywords, abstract, ...), bibliography and an appendix of max 5 pages. 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URL: From shiloviis at mail.ru Sat Oct 10 07:12:17 2020 From: shiloviis at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?U2hpbG92IE5pa29sYXk=?=) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:12:17 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_short_submissions_-_PSSV-202?= =?utf-8?q?0=3A_XI_Workshop_Program_Semantics=2C_Specification_and_Verific?= =?utf-8?q?ation?= Message-ID: <1602328337.422674905@f430.i.mail.ru> Call for short submissions (abstracts of work in progress, position papers and posters) - PSSV-2020: XI Workshop Program Semantics, Specification and Verification?(Theory and Applications)? will be held ONLINE November 3-4, 2020. PSSV-2020 workshop' page: https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020 ? PSSV-2020 Program Committee solicits work in progress, position, poster and student papers (up to 4 pages), each of these submissions will be reviewed by a PC member. Submission server (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2020) for abstracts of work in progress, position papers and posters will be open October 12-19, 2020.? ? PSSV Scope and Topics Research, work in progress, position and student papers were welcome. List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): * formalisms for program semantics; * formal models and semantics of programs and systems; * semantics of programming and specification languages; * formal description techniques; * logics for formal specification and verification; * deductive program verification; * automatic theorem proving; * model checking of programs and systems; * static analysis of programs; * formal approach to testing and validation; * program analysis and verification tools. ? PSSV-2020 Program Committee: * Natasha Alechina (Utrecht University, Netherlands), * Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK), * Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia), * Igor Konnov (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France, to be confirmed), * Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia), * Andrei Klimov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia), * Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK), * Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia), * Sergey Staroletov (Polzunov Altai State Technical University, Barnaul, Russia), * Nina Yevtushenko (Tomsk State University and Institute for System Programming, RAS, Moscow, Russia). ? PSSV-2020 Program Co-Chairs: * Nikolay Shilov (Innopolis University, Russia, shiloviis(at)mail.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (Moscow State University, Russia, zakh(at)cs.msu.su) ? PSSV Steering Committee: * Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia, vnep(at)iis.nsk.su) * Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, valery-sokolov(at)yandex.ru) ? PSSV-2020 Local Organizing Committee (Higher School of Economics - National Research University) * Irina Lomazova (ilomazova(at)hse.ru) * Vladimir Zakharov (zakh(at)cs.msu.su) ? Invited Speakers and Talks * Natasha Alechina (Intelligent Software Systems, Information and computing sciences department, Utrecht University, The Netherlands): State of the Art in Logics for Verification of Resource-Bounded Multi-Agent System. * Ekaterina Komendantskaya (School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK): Refinement types for Verification of Neural Networks. * Samvel K. Shoukourian (IT Educational and Research Center, Yerevan State University, Armenia): Polynomial algorithm for equivalence problem of deterministic multitape finite automata. * Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore): Deductive Synthesis of Heap-Manipulating Programs: Sound, Expressive, Fast. (Please refer https://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/pssv2020 for more information about speakers and abstracts.)? ? In addition to academic invited talks (already announced on this page), there will be one invited industrial talk from Leading Research Center for Blockchain Technology of Innopolis University, which will be presented by Leonid Merkin. ? PSSV-2020 will host a panel discussion on (experimental and industrial) contemporary programming languages. Andrey Breslav (JetBrains), Aleksei Nedoria (Huawei), Antony Polukhin (Yandex), Alexey Nezvanov (The Hight School of Economics) and Evgene Zouev, Alexey Kanatov and Nikolai Kudasov (Innopolis University) have confirmed their participation as panelists. ? All accepted papers will be published before the workshop (format and venue TBD) Selected revised and extended papers have been published after the workshop in Russian peer-review journal Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems (https://www.mais-journal.ru). We expect (as it was in the previous years of the PSSV) that English translations of some of these selected papers will appear next year in Automatic Control and Computer Sciences(http://www.springer.com/computer/hardware/journal/11950) (indexed by WoS and Scopus). ? Forthcoming important dates: * short submissions (abstracts of work in progress, position papers and posters) - October 12(start)-19(end), 2020; * notification for ALL submissions - October 26, 2020; * final versions of regular research submissions (for pre-proceedings) - October 31, 2020; * worksop - November 3-4, 2020; * invitations of selected talks to post proceedings - November 5, 2020; * papers for the post-proceeding - November 15, 2020; * notification for the post-proceedings papers - soon after November 15, 2020. ? Dr. Nikolay Shilov Assistant Professor of?Innopolis University (Russia) ?? https://innopolis.university/professor/nikolay-shilov/ ,? personal web-page ??? http://persons.iis.nsk.su/en/person/shilov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From acie at acie.eu Mon Oct 12 12:07:50 2020 From: acie at acie.eu (acie at acie.eu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:07:50 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computability in Europe 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings.) ========================= FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: ========================= CiE 2021: Connecting with computability 5 - 9 July 2021 website: www.CiE2021.ugent.be [1] **Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference.** CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The /Computability in Europe/ conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/ [2]. CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest (2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017), Kiel (2018), Durham (2019) and virtually in Salerno (2020) PLENARY SPEAKERS ========================= * Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway) * Markus Lohrey (Universit?t Siegen. Germany) * Russell Miller (tutorial speaker, CUNY, US) * Joan Rand Moschovakis (UCLA, US) * Jo?l Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for software systems, Germany) * Christine Tasson (tutorial speaker, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) * Keita Yokoyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) * Henry Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada) SPECIAL SESSIONS ========================= _/Classical Computability theory: Open problems and solutions/_ Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin) _/Proof theory and computation/_ David Fern?ndez Duque (Ghent University, Belgium) and Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University, Belgium) _/Quantum computation and information/_ Harry Buhrman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Frank Verstraete (Ghent University, Belgium) /Church's thesis in constructive mathematics (HaPoC session)/ Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) and Alberto Naibo (Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne) _/Computational geometry/_ Maike Buchin (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany) and Maarten L?ffler (Utrecht University, Netherlands) /Computational Pangenomics/ Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY ========================= The Computability in Europe conference series has a long tradition in setting up a Women in Computability program. For CiE 2021 we plan a Women in Computability workshop combined with an online mentoring program. For more details on the Special Interest Group Women in Computability, see: https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [3] IMPORTANT DATES: ========================= Deadline for article registration (abstract submission): January 17, 2021 Deadline for article submission: February 5, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2021 Final versions due: April 27, 2021 Deadline for informal presentations submission: May 1, 2021 The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent a few days after submission. ORGANIZED BY: ========================= Department of Mathematics WE16, Ghent University Organizing Committee: Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University) David B?langer (Ghent University) Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Universit? de Lille) David Fern?ndez-Duque (chair, Ghent University) Fedor Pakhomov (Ghent University) Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University) CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: ========================= The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers building bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome. Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [4]) and should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional material. Authors should submit their papers electronically using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021 Abstracts should be submitted by January 17th 2021, followed by the full papers to be submitted by February 5 2021. Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance for the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference and should plan to present the paper. The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published with LNCS, Springer Verlag. INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: ========================= Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for informal presentations is May 1st, 2021. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ========================= Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Universit? Paris-Saclay) Christel Baier (TU Dresden) Nikolay Bazhenov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics) Marie-Pierre B?al (Universit? Paris-Est) Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University) David B?langer (Ghent University) Joel Day (Loughborough University) Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Universit? de Lille, PC co-chair) Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University, CNRS) J?r?me Durand-Lose (Universit? d'Orl?ans) David Fern?ndez-Duque (Ghent University) Zuzana Hanikov? (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) Florin Manea (University of G?ttingen) Ir?ne Marcovici (Universit? de Lorraine) Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) Ludovic Patey (Institut Camille Jordan) Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova) Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Paul Schafer (University of Leeds) Svetlana Selivanova (KAIST) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) Alexander Shen (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2) Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University) Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore) Peter Van Emde Boas (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Sergey Verlan (Universit? Paris Est - Cr?teil Val de Marne) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University, PC co-chair) Damien Woods (Maynooth University) Links: ------ [1] http://www.cie2021.ugent.be/ [2] https://www.acie.eu/ [3] https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [4] ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will bring together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop will help students imagine how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students, and people with disabilities to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application. The workshop registration is open to all. APPLICATION for PLMW: The application can be accessed at the following URL: https://forms.gle/EWxP2mTJ1CBbStdx8 The deadline for full consideration of funding is Tuesday, November 17. Selected participants will be notified by December 1. Confirmed speakers (so far): Alastair Donaldon, Imperial College London and Google Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London Limin Jia, CMU Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics (Japan) Rupak Majumdar, MPI-SWS Amin Timany, Aarhus University Aaron Turon, Fastly Confirmed sponsors (so far): NSF ACM SIGPLAN Anonymous Donor Amazon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Prospective authors should be aware of SIGPLAN?s Copyright policies. Proceedings will be made available online in the ACM digital library from one week before to one week after the conference. Full CfP: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers ARTIFACT EVALUATION Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for the Artifact Evaluation (AE). The Artifact Evaluation process begins after the acceptance notification, and is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. To ease the organization of the AE committee, we kindly ask authors to indicate at the time they submit the paper, whether they are interested in submitting an artifact. 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, but not required, to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as ?source materials? in the ACM Digital Library. CC AE web page: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/research-artifacts ORGANIZERS General Chair: Aaron Smith - Microsoft / University of Edinburgh Program Chairs: Delphine Demange - Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Rajiv Gupta - UC Riverside Artifact Evaluation Chairs: Bruno Bodin - Yale-NUS College Michel Steuwer - University of Glasgow Web Chair: Martin L?cke - University of Edinburgh Steering Committee: Bj?rn Franke (Chair) - University of Edinburgh Jose Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta Christophe Dubach - University of Edinburgh Sebastian Hack - Saarland University Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA Software Institute and T.U. of Madrid (UPM) Alexandra Jimborean - University of Murcia Milind Kulkarni - Purdue University Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Peng Wu - Futurewei Technologies Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Ayal Zaks - Intel Corporation and Technion Program Committee: Guillaume Baudart - IBM Research Walter Binder - University of Lugano Simone Campanoni - Northwestern University Albert Cohen - Google Caroline Collange - Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA Huimin Cui - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Christophe Dubach - McGill University Beno?t Dupont de Dinechin - Kalray Bernhard Egger - Seoul National University Christine Flood - Red Hat Laure Gonnord - University of Lyon and LIP Myoungsoo Jung - KAIST Andrew Kennedy - Facebook Dongyoon Lee - Stony Brook University Christian Lengauer - University of Passau Xavier Leroy - Coll?ge de France and Inria Yun Liang - Peking University Toby Murray - University of Melbourne and Data61 Biswabandan Panda - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Santosh Pande - Georgia Tech Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Gabriel Rodr?guez - Universidade da Coru?a Jan Vitek - Northeastern University Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Zhijia Zhao - UC Riverside From yegor256 at gmail.com Wed Oct 14 07:09:47 2020 From: yegor256 at gmail.com (Yegor Bugayenko) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:09:47 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP (2nd call): IEEE ICCQ Conference on Code Quality in Moscow Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICCQ 2021 IEEE International Conference on Code Quality March 27, 2021 Moscow, Russia https://www.iccq.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We believe that the quality of the source code that millions of programmers write every day could be much higher than it is now. We believe that the contribution computer science can make to improve this situation is greatly undervalued. We aim to solve this problem by gathering together cutting-edge researchers and letting them share their most recent ideas on static analysis, program verification, bug detection, and software maintenance. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the conference will be held in semi-online mode: speakers will be allowed to present their works remotely over Zoom. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 4 Dec 2020 (anywhere on Earth) Author notification: 5 Feb 2021 Camera-ready submissions: 19 Feb 2021 Conference: 27 Mar 2021 KEYNOTE SPEECH Anders M?ller, Aarhus University, Denmark STEERING COMMITTEE Zhang Yuxin, CTO of Huawei Cloud Yevgeny Kolbin, CEO of SberCloud PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sergey Zykov, HSE University, Russia (Chair) Anastasios Antoniadis, University of Athens, Greece Julia Belyakova, Northeastern University, USA Magiel Bruntink, SIG, The Netherlands Laura M. Castro, Universidade da Coru?a, Spain Yufei Ding, UCSB, USA Umar Farooq, UCR, USA Kiko Fernandez-Reyes, Uppsala University, Sweden Alexander Gerasimov, Huawei RRI, Russia Ben Hardekopf, UCSB, USA Christian Hammer, University of Potsdam, Germany Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA Robert Hirschfeld, University of Potsdam, Germany Hugh Leather, University of Edinburgh, UK Brandon Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Petr Maj, FIT CTU, Czech Republic Jens Palsberg, UCLA, USA Alexander K. Petrenko, ISP RAS, Russia Vladimir Rubanov, Huawei RRI, Russia Malavika Samak, MIT, USA Johannes Sp?th, University of Paderborn, Germany Yulei Sui, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jubi Taneja, University of Utah, USA Qianxiang Wang, Huawei, China Zheng Wang, University of Leeds, UK David West, US PUBLICATIONS Papers will be published in the Proceedings of ICCQ, will appear in IEEE Xplore?, and will be indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, and others. 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SPLASH includes the following co-located conferences: OOPSLA, Onward!, GPCE, SLE, DLS, ECOOP and SAS; as well as a large array of workshops and events. VIRTUAL SPLASH will run in three main streams: 1. OOPSLA/ECOOP will exclusively contain OOPSLA and ECOOP research papers; 2. REBASE will exclusively contain Rebase industry-oriented talks; 3. SPLASH will contain the major co-located events: GPCE/SLE on Sunday/Monday; Onward! Papers and Essays on Tuesday; SAS/DLS on Wednesday/Thursday; and OOPSLA research papers on Friday. All other events, such as workshops, will take place outside the main three stream six day event. Please consult their individual pages for specific details. SPLASH will do 12 hour mirroring where each of the six conference days will be exactly 12 hours long with every single talk scheduled to repeat with a 12 hour delay (a.k.a. mirror). 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Inference can be driven by probabilistic analysis and simulation, and through back-propagation and differentiation. Languages for inference offer built-in support for expressing probabilistic models and inference methods as programs, to ease reasoning, use, and reuse. The recent rise of practical implementations as well as research activity in inference-based programming has renewed the need for semantics to help us share insights and innovations. This workshop aims to bring programming-language and machine-learning researchers together to advance all aspects of languages for inference. Topics include but are not limited to: - design of programming languages for inference and/or differentiable programming; - inference algorithms for probabilistic programming languages, including ones that incorporate automatic differentiation; - automatic differentiation algorithms for differentiable programming languages; - probabilistic generative modeling and inference; - variational and differential modeling and inference; - semantics (axiomatic, operational, denotational, games, etc) and types for inference and/or differentiable programming; - efficient and correct implementation; - and last but not least, applications of inference and/or differentiable programming. Two years ago, we explicitly expanded the focus of the workshop from statistical probabilistic programming to encompass differentiable programming for statistical machine learning. This change seemed well-received by the community, and we want to continue it this year in an effort to extend the strong ties between programming language-based machine learning and the POPL community. We expect this workshop to be informal, and our goal is to foster collaboration and establish common ground. Thus, the proceedings will not be a formal or archival publication, and we expect to spend only a portion of the workshop day on traditional research talks. Nevertheless, as a concrete basis for fruitful discussions, we call for extended abstracts describing specific and ideally ongoing work on probabilistic and differential programming languages, semantics, and systems. ***** Submission guidelines ***** Submission deadline on October 30, 2020 (extended). Submission link: https://lafi21.hotcrp.com/ Extended abstracts are up to 2 pages in PDF format, excluding references. 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This year, MPLR will be held virtually. Registration and participation will be free: https://forms.gle/129RUhJCRmVQGpyj6 For up-to-date details, check out the conference website: https://mplr2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ and follow us on Twitter @MPLR_Conf. # Keynotes Garbage Collection: Implementation, Innovation, Performance and Security Steve Blackburn, Australian National University Hardware Support for Managed Languages: An Old Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come? Martin Maas, Google # Accepted Papers >From Causality to Stability: Understanding and Reducing Meta-Data in CRDTs Jim Bauwens and Elisa Gonzalez Boix Multi-language Dynamic Taint Analysis in a Polyglot Virtual Machine Jacob Kreindl, Daniele Bonetta, Lukas Stadler, David Leopoldseder, and Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck Efficient, Near Complete, and Often Sound Hybrid Dynamic Data Race Prediction Martin Sulzmann, and Kai Stadtm?ller Efficient Dispatch of Multi-object Polymorphic Call Sites in Contextual Role-Oriented Programming Languages Lars Sch?tze and Jeronimo Castrillon SymJEx: Symbolic Execution on the GraalVM Sebastian Kloibhofer, Thomas Pointhuber, Maximilian Heisinger, Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, Lukas Stadler, and David Leopoldseder Transparent Acceleration of Java-Based Deep Learning Engines Athanasios Stratikopoulos, Mihai-Cristian Olteanu, Ian Vaughan, Zoran Sevarac, Nikos Foutris, Juan Fumero and Christos Kotselidis You Can?t Hide You Can?t Run: A Performance Assessment of Managed Applications on a NUMA Machine Orion Papadakis, Foivos S. Zakkak, Nikos Foutris, and Christos Kotselidis trcview: Interactive Architecture Agnostic Execution Trace Analysis Daniel Pekarek and Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck # Participation To participate please register here: https://forms.gle/129RUhJCRmVQGpyj6 The talks will be streamed on Zoom. Questions will be taken from the discussions on Slack. We are looking forward to meeting you at MPLR 2020! From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Oct 19 04:34:36 2020 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 08:34:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2021 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <731DE23E-405E-4BDC-99D4-10B3725B70AF@cs.ox.ac.uk> 36TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2021) Call for Workshop Proposals http://easyconferences.eu/lics2021/ * The thirty-sixth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS'21) will be held in Rome, Italy, on June 29-July 2, 2021. The workshops will take place on June 27-28, 2021. * Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics relating logic - broadly construed - to computer science or related fields. Typically, LICS workshops feature a number of invited speakers and a number of contributed presentations. LICS workshops do not usually produce formal proceedings. However, in the past there have been special issues of journals based in part on certain LICS workshops. * Proposals should include: - A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed topic. This should include a discussion of the particular benefits of the topic to the LICS community. - The proposed duration, which is typically one day (two-day workshops can be accommodated too). - Expected number of participants, providing data on previous years if the workshop has already been organised in the past. - Procedures for selecting participants and papers. - Potential invited speakers. - A discussion of the proposed format, whether it should be a physical meeting only, a virtual meeting only, or a combination thereof, and whether you need special equipments or technologies. - An agenda. - Plans for dissemination (for example, special issues of journals). Proposals should be sent to Fr?d?ric Blanqui: frederic.blanqui at inria.fr * IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission deadline: December 6, 2020 - Notification: December 18, 2020 - Program of the workshops ready: May 27, 2021 - Workshops: June 27-28, 2021 - LICS conference: June 29-July 2, 2021 * The workshops selection committee consists of the LICS Workshops Chair, the LICS General Chair, the LICS PC Chairs and the LICS Conference Chairs. * COVID-19: the organisers are watching the evolution of the pandemic very closely and will make a decision later on whether or not the meeting can be held in-person in Rome or not. From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Mon Oct 19 12:17:45 2020 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:17:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] F-IDE 2021 - Call for Papers Message-ID: <20201019161745.GA1319374@tikki.lri.fr> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, knowledge representation and reasoning, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic programming, logical aspects of AI, 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. COVID-19 The organizers are carefully monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, and take guidance from the health authorities, to determine whether LICS 2021 will be held physically, virtually or in a hybrid manner. IMPORTANT DATES Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract of about 100 words in advance of submitting the extended abstract of the paper. The exact deadline time on these dates is given by anywhere on earth (AoE). Titles and Short Abstracts Due: 20 January 2021 Full Papers Due: 25 January 2021 Author Feedback/Rebuttal Period: 10-14 March 2021 Author Notification: 31 March 2021 Workshops: 27 June -- 28 June 2021 Conference: 29 June -- 2 July 2021 (tentative) Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. All submissions will be electronic via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lics2021. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Every paper must be submitted in the IEEE Proceedings 2-column 10pt format (IEEEtran.cls V1.8b) and may be at most 12 pages, excluding references. Paper selection will be merit-based, with no a priori limit on the number of accepted papers. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are not allowed. Please see the website for further formatting and submission instructions. LICS 2021 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. Please see the website for further details and requirements from the double-blind process. LICS DISTINGUISHED PAPERS (NEW) Starting 2021, around 10% of accepted LICS papers will be selected as distinguished papers. These are papers that, in the view of the LICS program committee, make exceptionally strong contribution to the field and should be read by a broad audience due their relevance, originality, significance and clarity. KLEENE AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER An award in honour of the late Stephen C. Kleene will be given for the best student paper(s), as judged by the program committee. SPECIAL ISSUES Full versions of up to three accepted papers, to be selected by the program committee, will be invited for submission to the Journal of the ACM. Additional selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. PUBLICATION The official publication date may differ from the first day of the conference. The official publication date may affect the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. We will clarify the official publication date in due course. From harley.eades at gmail.com Mon Oct 19 20:51:13 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:51:13 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar Talk on Category Theory and Secure Communication Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 between 1pm and 2pm EDT, Dr. Peter Hines will be giving a presentation as part of the CS Colloquium Series at Augusta University. Presentation details can be found here: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/Hines.html Peter will be giving an introduction to category theory and his new results in applying categorical concepts to secure communication. These talks are open to the general public via Zoom. I'll also be living streaming it on Youtube. So if you are interested in attending the Zoom meeting please RSVP with me before the talk. Questions will be only taken from those on Zoom. If you care to watch via YouTube, please use the following link: https://youtu.be/Njw5Aad-gBQ I hope all of you, your family and friends are doing well! 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If there is a physical component, remote participation for both speakers and attendees will also be an option. =============== Important dates ======================= Submission deadline: Friday 12 February 2021, 23:59 AoE Notification: Wednesday 28 April 2021 Camera-ready deadline: Friday 7 May 2021 Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. =========================== Submissions and Proceedings =========================== ICALP proceedings are published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. This is a series of high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics established in cooperation with Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics. LIPIcs volumes are published according to the principle of Open Access, i.e., they are available online and free of charge. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages, excluding references presenting original research on the theory of computer science. All submissions must be formatted in the LIPIcs style https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/) and submitted via Easychair to the appropriate track of the conference. The use of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style are mandatory: papers that deviate significantly from the required format may be rejected without consideration of merit. No prior publication and no simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. Technical details necessary for a proper scientific evaluation of a submission must be included in the 12-page submission or in a clearly labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. Authors are strongly encouraged to also make full versions of their submissions freely accessible in an on-line repository such as ArXiv, HAL, ECCC. Best Paper Awards ----------------- As in previous editions of ICALP, there will be best paper and best student paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be eligible for a best student paper award, a paper should be authored only by students and should be marked as such upon submission. Topics ====== Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are: Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games ----------------------------------------- * Algorithmic and Complexity Aspects of Network Economics * Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking * Algorithmic Aspects of Security and Privacy * Algorithms for Computational Biology * Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design * Approximation and Online Algorithms * Combinatorial Optimization * Combinatorics in Computer Science * Computational Complexity * Computational Geometry * Computational Learning Theory * Cryptography * Data Structures * Design and Analysis of Algorithms * Distributed and Mobile Computing * Foundations of Machine Learning * Graph Mining and Network Analysis * Parallel and External Memory Computing * Quantum Computing * Randomness in Computation * Theoretical Foundations of Algorithmic Fairness Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming ------------------------------------------------------------- * Algebraic and Categorical Models of Computation * Automata, Logic, and Games * Database Theory, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, and Finite Model Theory * Formal and Logical Aspects of Learning * Formal and Logical Aspects of Security and Privacy * Logic in Computer Science and Theorem Proving * Models of Computation: Complexity and Computability * Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems * Models of Reactive, Hybrid, and Stochastic Systems * Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages * Program Analysis, Verification, and Synthesis * Type Systems and Typed Calculi =============================== ICALP 2021 Programme Committees =============================== Track A: Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games --------------------------------------------------- * Nikhil Bansal (CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands), Chair * Yossi Azar (Tel Aviv University, Israel) * Luca Becchetti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) * Aleksander Belov (University of Latvia, Latvia) * Eric Blais (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Niv Buchbinder (Tel Aviv University, Israel) * Kevin Buchin (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands) * Parinya Chalermsook (Aalto University, Finland) * Vincent Cohen-Addad (Google Research, Switzerland) * Shahar Dobzinski (Weizmann Institute, Israel) * Ran Duan (Tsinghua University, China) * Vida Dujmovic (University of Ottawa, Canada) * Yuval Filmus (Technion, Israel) * Samuel Fiorini (Universit? libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) * Andreas Galanis (University of Oxford, UK) * Mika G??s (EPFL, Switzerland) * Inge Li G?rtz (TU Denmark, Denmark) * Heng Guo (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Prahladh Harsha (TIFR, Mumbai, India) * Sungjin Im (UC Merced, USA) * Stacey Jeffery (CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Iordanis Kerenidis (CNRS - Universit? Paris Diderot, France) * Michael Kapralov (EPFL, Switzerland) * Ravi Kumar (Google Research, USA) * Stefan Kratsch (HU Berlin, Germany) * Silvio Lattanzi (Google Research, Switzerland) * Shi Li (SUNY Buffalo, USA) * Konstantin Makarychev (Northwestern University, USA) * Marcin Mucha (University of Warsaw, Poland) * Wolfgang Mulzer (FU Berlin, Germany) * Jesper Nederlof (Utrecht University, Netherlands) * Aleksandar Nikolov (University of Toronto, Canada) * Neil Olver (LSE, UK) * Rasmus Pagh (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Merav Parter (Weizmann Institute, Israel) * Alexandros Psomas (Purdue University, USA) * Barna Saha (UC Berkeley, USA) * Thatchaphol Saranurak (University of Michigan, USA) * Rahul Savani (University of Liverpool, UK) * Mohit Singh (Georgia Tech, USA) * Sahil Singla (IAS/Princeton, USA) * Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (Cornell University, USA) * L?szl? V?gh (LSE, UK) * Meirav Zehavi (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming --------------------------------------------------------------- * James Worrell (University of Oxford, UK), Chair * Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden) * S. Akshay (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) * Nathalie Bertrand (Inria Rennes, France) * Michael Blondin (Universit? de Sherbrooke, Canada) * Olivier Carton (IRIF, Universit? de Paris, France) * Corina C?rstea (University of Southampton, UK) * Dana Fisman (Ben Gurion University, Israel) * Paul Gastin (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay, France) * Stefan G?ller (University of Kassel, Germany) * Radha Jagadeesan (DePaul University Chicago, USA) * Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, New Zealand) * Emanuel Kiero?ski (Wroc?aw University, Poland) * Bartek Klin (Warsaw University, Poland) * Barbara K?nig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna and Inria, Italy) * Christoph L?ding (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) * Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, Germany) * Richard Mayr (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, Australia) * Sophie Pinchinat (IRISA, Universit? de Rennes, France) * Cristian Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, Chile) * Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna and Inria, Italy) * Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) =============================== ICALP 2021 Organizing Committee =============================== Simon Gay, Conference Chair Oana Andrei Ornela Dardha Jessica Enright David Manlove Kitty Meeks Alice Miller Gethin Norman Sofiat Olaosebikan Michele Sevegnani From jnear at uvm.edu Tue Oct 20 15:54:02 2020 From: jnear at uvm.edu (Joe Near) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:54:02 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor position at University of Vermont (PL/security/privacy) Message-ID: <87blgwn06d.fsf@uvm.edu> University of Vermont CS is hiring this year in the area of programming languages, security, privacy, and/or fairness. Please forward to anyone who might be a good fit, and let me know if you have any questions. -- The Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with duties to start in late August of 2021. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas: programming languages and program analysis, system security and applied cryptography, data privacy, security in social networks, or fairness in AI and data science. Ideal candidates would show strong potential for contributing to the UVM Center for Computer Security and Privacy (http://compsec.w3.uvm.edu) and collaborating with the UVM research lab for programming languages, data privacy, and information security (http://plaid.w3.uvm.edu). -- See the full job posting here: https://www.uvmjobs.com/postings/41936 Joe From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Wed Oct 21 05:25:33 2020 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:25:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP 2021 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <5F9D79FD-09FF-4770-A793-90020CF9765E@gmail.com> ================================== ICALP 2021 Call for Workshops ================================== *** We are closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 pandemic. If it is not viable to hold ICALP 2021 as a physical conference, we will run it virtually on the same dates. We will decide in January 2021 at the latest. If ICALP 2021 can go ahead as a physical conference, accepted authors may still present remotely. *** ICALP 2021 (http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/ ) will take place on the 13th - 16th of July 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. The conference will be preceded by one day of workshops, held on July 12th. We invite proposals for workshops affiliated with ICALP 2021 on all topics covered by ICALP, as well as other areas of theoretical computer science. Proposals should be submitted no later than *** November 30th, 2020 *** by sending an email to the workshop selection committee (details at the end of the call). You should expect notification on the acceptance of your proposal by mid December 2020. A workshop proposal submission should consist of: - workshop's name and URL (if already available) - workshop's organisers 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 10th or 11th). As for the format, a standard option is a full one-day workshop consisting of invited talks by leading experts and of shorter contributed talks, either directly invited by the organisers 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. 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SCOPE AND TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nowadays, heterogeneous architectures are employed to limit the cost per function and boost energy efficiency in several computing domains, from high-performance computing (HPC) to embedded systems. Advanced heterogeneous systems-on-chip combine diverse processing elements, such as general-purpose processors (GPP), graphics processor units (GPU), digital signal processors (DSP), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), and many application-specific hardware accelerators. To fully exploit the power of these platforms and overcome the limits of conventional architectures, system and application designers need new tools and methodologies to address the increasing hardware/software complexity and achieve high productivity. This special issue aims to provide the targeted readers with the new advances and challenges in the area of compiler frameworks, hardware/software methodologies, and related tools to aid the design of complex heterogeneous systems. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Compiler frameworks and co-design workflows for heterogeneous hardware * End-to-end frameworks targeting heterogeneous specialized units * Application-specific co-design methodologies for heterogeneous platforms * Synergistic HW/SW techniques to promote parallelism in heterogeneous computing * Novel programming paradigms to promote heterogeneous design * Source-to-source translation and (semi-)automatic code generation for heterogeneous architectures * Methodologies to improve software portability across heterogeneous targets MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions to this Special Issue must represent original material that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal. All submitted manuscripts must follow the TCAD guidelines: https://ieee-ceda.org/publication/tcad-publication/tcad-paper-submission Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript Central website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcad On the first page of the submission form, select this special issue in the "Type" field choosing this option: "SI on Compiler Frameworks and Co-design Methodologies" GUEST EDITORS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Luca Benini, Full Professor, Universit? di Bologna / ETH Z?rich (lbenini at iis.ee.ethz.ch) * Luca Carloni, Full Professor, Columbia University (luca at cs.columbia.edu) * Giuseppe Tagliavini, Assistant Professor, University of Bologna (giuseppe.tagliavini at unibo.it) * Tobias Grosser, Associate Professor, University of Edinburgh (tobias.grosser at ed.ac.uk) TIMELINE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission Deadline: November 15, 2020 * Reviews Completed: January 15, 2021 * Major Revisions Due: February 15, 2021 * Reviews of Revisions Completed: March 15, 2021 * Notification of Final Acceptance: March 31, 2021 * Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: April 10, 2021 * Publication: May 2021 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From stourret at mpi-inf.mpg.de Wed Oct 21 07:37:45 2020 From: stourret at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Sophie Tourret) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:37:45 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CADE-28: Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1c179272-7300-62f8-8fcb-3ccdeb1d1c23@mpi-inf.mpg.de> CADE-28: Call for Papers, Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.? 11-16th July 2021. http://www.cade-28.info CADE will carefully monitor the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, and take guidance from the health authorities, to determine whether CADE-28 will be physical or online or hybrid. CALL FOR PAPERS =============== CADE is the major international forum for presenting research on all aspects of automated deduction. High-quality submissions on the general topic of automated deduction, including logical foundations, theory and principles, applications in and beyond STEM, implementations, and the use/contribution of automated deduction in AI, are solicited. CADE-28 aims to present research that reflects the broad range of interesting and relevant topics in automated deduction. Important Dates + Abstract deadline:??????? 15 February 2021 + Submission deadline:????? 22 February 2021 + Rebuttal phase:??????????? 2 April??? 2021 + Notification:???????????? 19 April??? 2021 + Final version:??????????? 31 May????? 2021 + Conference:??????????? 12-15 July???? 2021 Submissions can be made in two categories: + Regular papers. Up to 15 pages in LNCS style. Proofs of theoretical results ? that do not fit in the page limit may be provided in an appendix. Reviewers ? may consider additional material in appendices, but submissions must be self- ? contained within the page limit. + Short papers (including system descriptions, user experiences, domain models, ? etc.) Up to 10 pages in LNCS style. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. They will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, correctness, and readability. If software or data is relevant to a paper, a link that provides access to the software/data must be provided to enable reproduction of results. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at ??? http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be submitted to the CADE-28 track via ??? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade28 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ================== Workshop proposals for CADE-28 are solicited. The workshops will take place before (11th July) and after (16th July) the conference. Both well-established workshops and newer ones are encouraged. Similarly, proposals for workshops with a tight focus on a core automated reasoning specialization, as well as those with a broader, more applied focus, are welcome. Please provide the following information in your application: + Workshop title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Proposed workshop duration (from half a day to two days) and preferred day(s). + Brief description of the goals and the scope of the workshop. Why is the ? workshop relevant to CADE? + Is the workshop new or has it met previously? In the latter case information ? on previous meetings should be given (e.g., links to the program, number of ? submissions, number of participants). + What are the plans for publication? + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. CALL FOR TUTORIALS ================== Tutorial proposals for CADE-28 are solicited. The tutorials will take place before (11th July) and after (16th July) the conference. Tutorials are expected to be either half-day or full-day events, with a theoretical or applied focus, on a topic of interest to CADE-28. Please provide the following information in your application: + Tutorial title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Proposed tutorial duration (from half to one day) and the preferred day. + Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered. + Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously, and ? if/how the intended presentation differs. + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. Within reason, CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that would like this service. CALL FOR COMPETITIONS ===================== The CADE ATP System Competition (CASC), which evaluates automated theorem proving systems for classical logics, has become an integral part of the CADE conferences. Further competition proposals are solicited. The goal is to foster the development of automated reasoning systems and applications, in all areas relevant to automated deduction in a broad sense. Please provide the following information in your application: + Competition title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Duration and schedule of the competition. + Room/space requirements. + Description of the competition task and the evaluation procedure. + Is the competition new or has it been organized before? In the latter case ? information on previous competitions should be given. + What computing resources are required and how will they be provided? + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. Important Dates for Workshop/Tutorials/Competitions: + Submission deadline:?????????? 16 November 2020 + Notification:????????????????? 11 December 2020 + Workshops and tutorials:? 11 & 16 July???? 2021 Proposals for workshops, tutorials, and competitions must be submitted to the CADE-28-WTC track via ??? ??? https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade28 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From tolmach at pdx.edu Sun Oct 25 16:58:59 2020 From: tolmach at pdx.edu (Andrew Tolmach) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:58:59 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position at Portland State University Message-ID: Candidates in the areas of programming languages or formal methods are enthusiastically encouraged to apply for the following position: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant Professor of Computer Science The Department of Computer Science at Portland State University invites applications for several Assistant Professor positions. Exceptional candidates will also be considered for appointment at the rank of Associate Professor. Candidates in all areas of Computer Science will be considered, with a preference for applicants who will enhance or complement our existing areas of research expertise and/or whose work is aligned with the strategic visions of the department or the Maseeh College. The expected start date for these positions is September 2021, but earlier or later dates can be negotiated. Please see https://www.pdx.edu/computer-science/open-faculty-position for further information on applying. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simon.bliudze at inria.fr Mon Oct 26 06:23:47 2020 From: simon.bliudze at inria.fr (Simon Bliudze) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:23:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: FormaliSE 2021 Message-ID: ******************************************************************** Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2021 9th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering May 23-24, Madrid, Spain, co-located with ICSE 2021 http://www.formalise.org/ ******************************************************************** Overview -------- The software industry needs tools and methods to deliver high-quality software. Much progress has been achieved from the early days of software development; still, nowadays, even considering the state of the art of the technologies used, the success of software projects is often not guaranteed. Many of the approaches used for developing large, complex software systems are still not able to ensure the correct behavior ? and the general quality ? of the delivered product, despite the efforts of the (often very qualified and skilled) software engineers involved. This is where formal methods can play a significant role. Indeed, they have been developed to provide the means for greater precision and thoroughness in modeling, reasoning about, validating, and documenting the various aspects of software systems during their development. When carefully applied, formal methods can aid all aspects of software creation: user requirement formulation, design, implementation, verification/testing, and the creation of documentation. After decades of research though, and despite significant advancement, formal methods are still not widely used in industrial software development. We believe that closer integration of formal methods in software engineering can help increase the quality of software applications, and at the same time highlight the benefits of formal methods in terms also of the generated return on investment (ROI). The main objective of the conference is to foster the integration between the formal methods and the software engineering communities, to strengthen the ? still too weak ? links between them, and to stimulate researchers to share ideas, techniques, and results, with the ultimate goal to propose novel solutions to the fraught problem of improving the quality of software systems. Originally a successful satellite workshop of ICSE, since 2018 FormaliSE is organised as a conference co-located with ICSE. FormaliSE 2021 will take place on May 23-24, 2020, in Madrid, Spain (or online). Topics of interest ------------------ Areas of interest include but are not limited to: -? approaches and tools for verification and validation; -? application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous, ?? cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems; -? scalability of formal methods applications; -? integration of formal methods within the software development ?? lifecycle (e.g., change management, continuous integration and ?? deployment) -? requirements formalization and formal specification; -? model-based software engineering approaches; -? performance analysis based on formal approaches; -? formal methods in a certification context; -? formal approaches for safety and security-related issues; -? usability of formal methods; -? guidelines to use formal methods in practice; -? case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches; -? experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world ?? problems; Submission types ---------------- We invite you to submit: -? Full research papers that must describe the authors? original research ?? work and results. We encourage authors to include validation with ?? respect to a case study in the recommended themes. -? Case study papers that should identify lessons learned, validate ?? theoretical results (such as scalability of methods) or provide ?? specific motivation for further research and development. -? Research ideas: FormaliSE encourages the submissions of new research ?? ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the conference. For the case studies, we aim at having common domains and themes, which can facilitate the exchange of ideas during the conference. While all case study subjects are accepted, we are particularly interested in the following themes: autonomous vehicles and Covid contact tracing apps. Submission guidelines --------------------- FormaliSE 2021 will implement the following light-weight double-blind policy: 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 light-weight 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. Full papers are expected to be roughly 10 pages long including all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding the references (shorter papers are acceptable). However, we would like to avoid that the authors waste time fitting their papers into that limit at the expense of presentation clarity: *paper lengths slightly exceeding the stated limit will be tolerated provided that the presentation is of high quality*, which will be left at the appreciation of the reviewers. Research ideas papers are expected to be roughly 4 pages plus up to 1 additional page of references, with the same guiding principle as for the regular papers above. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions must conform to the IEEE formatting instructions IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type). LaTeX users must use `\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}` without including the `compsoc` or `compsocconf` options. Additionally, we recommend placing the following two lines in your LaTeX source right after the `\documentclass` command: ?? \usepackage[switch,columnwise]{lineno} ?? \linenumbers This adds line numbers, thereby allowing reviewers to refer to specific lines in their comments. Papers submitted to FormaliSE 2021 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for FormaliSE 2021. Submissions to FormaliSE 2021 that meet the above requirements can be made via EasyChair by the submission deadline. We would appreciate it if the authors intending to submit a paper were to inform us in advance. In particular, we invite them to submit an abstract as early as possible and, in any case, before the Abstract submission deadline below. Selection procedure ------------------- Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution to the field. FormaliSE 2021 will implement a light-weight rebuttal scheme: if all the reviewers of a given submission agree that a clarification from the authors regarding one specific question could move a borderline paper into the acceptable range, the chairs will ask that question to the authors by e-mail and post their reply on EasyChair for the benefit of the reviewers. The goal of such light-weight rebuttals is to eliminate ?coin-toss? decisions on borderline papers. Hence, it will clearly concern only a minority of submissions and most of the authors should not expect to receive such questions. However, we would ask the corresponding authors of all submissions to make sure that they are available to answer a question by email if the necessity were to arise. Publication ----------- All accepted publications are published as part of the ICSE 2021 Proceedings in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference ? physically or, if the circumstances warrant so, virtually ? and present the paper in person. Otherwise, the paper will be removed from the proceedings. Important dates --------------- ===================== =========== ==== Abstracts due:??????? 05 January? 2021 Submissions due:????? 12 January? 2021 Notifications:??????? 22 February 2021 Camera ready copies:? 22 March??? 2021 FormaliSE conference: 23-24 May?? 2021 ===================== =========== ==== Organization ------------ General Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -? Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy -? Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands Program Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -? Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille, France -? Laura Semini, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Social Media Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -? Lucia Nasti, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Program committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -? Dalal Alrajeh (Imperial College London, UK) -? Rab?a Ameur Boulifa (EURECOM, France) -? Toshiaki Aoki (JAIST, Japan) -? Kyungmin Bae (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South ?? Korea) -? Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Italy) -? Domenico Bianculli (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) -? Christiano Braga (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) -? Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) -? St?phanie Challita (University of Rennes 1 & Inria/IRISA, France) -? H?l?ne Coullon (IMT Atlantique, France) -? Nancy Day (University of Waterloo, Canada) -? Alessandro Fantechi (University of Florence, Italy) -? Marc Frappier (Universit? de Sherbrooke, Canada) -? Carlo A. Furia (Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) -? Ebru Aydin Gol (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) -? Roberta Gori (University of Pisa, Italy) -? Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The ?? Netherlands) -? Marie-Christine Jakobs (TU Darmstadt, Germany) -? Srdan Krstic (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) -? Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) -? Axel Legay (UC Louvain, Belgium) -? Malte Lochau (University of Siegen, Germany) -? Ant?nia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) -? Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and Lero, Ireland) -? Mieke Massink (ISTI-CNR, Italy) -? Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) -? Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) -? Peter ?lveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) -? Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology & University ?? of Gothenburg, Sweden) -? Gwen Sala?n (Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) -? Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig, Germany) -? Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) -? Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) -? Marcel Verhoef (European Space Agency, The Netherlands) Contact information ------------------- We can be reached at oc at formalise.org. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From cj-xu at outlook.com Mon Oct 26 09:10:40 2020 From: cj-xu at outlook.com (Chuangjie Xu) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:10:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research position at fortiss, Munich Message-ID: We invite applications for a one-year research position in the DFG-funded project "GuideForce: Type-based Enforcement of Secure Programming Guidelines". The GuideForce project develops tools for the automatic enforcement of secure programming guidelines for Java. It combines ideas from type systems and abstract interpretation to develop a scalable analysis method. While guidelines for secure programming are the first use-case, other applications are of interest too. We are looking for a research staff with a background in programming languages and with excellent programming skills in Java. Experience in one of the following areas is a plus: compiler construction, security, static program analysis, type systems and logic, implementation of programming languages. The position is available for a year with the possibility of extension, starting as soon as possible. The salary will be set at level TV-L 13 of the German public salary scale. The work will be carried out at fortiss, a research institute in Munich with close connections both to the Munich universities TUM and LMU and to industry. For any questions about the project or the position, please do not hesitate to contact Chuangjie Xu >. 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It will be replaced by a virtual event only using Zoom. Registration is now open. => IMPORTANT DATES 17 November, 2020: SBMF warm-up sessions 24 to 27 November, 2020: ETMF lectures and tutorials 25 to 27 November, 2020: SBMF keynote speeches and technical sessions => INTRODUCTION SBMF 2020 is the twenty-third of a series of events devoted to the development, dissemination, and use of formal methods for the construction of high-quality computational systems. It is now a well-established event, with an international reputation. In SBMF 2020, we are going to have three keynote speeches and four technical sessions. ETMF is a School of Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods that aims to bring together students and researchers to disseminate and promote theoretical aspects of computing. In ETMF 2020, we are going to have two lectures and three introductory tutorials on formal methods aimed at people unfamiliar with the subject. => AWARDS Sponsored by Springer, a physical book (see the list below) is going to be given to the recipients of the following awards: (I) Best SBMF paper, (II) Best SBMF reviewer, (III) Best SBMF technical presentation, (IV) Best ETMF lecture/tutorial, and (V) Most engaged attendee. Concise Guide to Formal Methods Author: O'Regan, Gerard https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319640204 Designing Reliable Distributed Systems Authors: ?lveczky, Peter Csaba https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781447166863 Formal Methods Authors: Nielson, Flemming, Riis Nielson, Hanne https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030051556 Logical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems Author: Platzer, Andre https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319635873 Software Languages Author: L?mmel, Ralf https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319907987 => SBMF 2020 ? WARM-UP SESSIONS The formal methods community in Brazil (Tiago Massoni ? Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil) A practical introduction to formal methods using Coq (Gustavo Carvalho ? Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) => ETMF 2020 ? LECTURES Application of formal methods in industry (S?rgio Campos ? Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Improving GUI programming and usability by formal thinking (Jaakko J?rvi ? University of Bergen, Norway) => ETMF 2020 ? TUTORIALS An introduction to formal models and languages An introduction to model checking An introduction to theorem proving => SBMF 2020 ? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS [FME?s lecture] Navigating the Universe of Z3 Theory Solvers (Nikolaj Bj?rner ? Microsoft Research, United States) Testing Refactoring Implementations (Rohit Gheyi ? Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil) Formal Verification of Neural Networks? (Martin Leucker ? University of L?beck, Germany) => SBMF 2020 ? ACCEPTED PAPERS Graphical Calculational proofs in Relational Linear Algebra (Joao Paixao and Pawel Soboci?ski) Merging cloned Alloy models with colorful refactorings (Chong Liu, Nuno Macedo and Alcino Cunha) Modeling Big Data Processing Programs (Jo?o Batista de Souza Neto, Anamaria Martins Moreira, Genoveva Vargas-Solar and Martin Alejandro Musicante) Optimization of Timed Scenarios (Neda Saeedloei and Feliks Klu?niak) Porting the Software Product Line Refinement Theory to the Coq proof assistant (Thayonara Alves, Leopoldo Teixeira, Vander Alves and Thiago Castro) Reversal Fuzzy Switch Graphs (Suene Duarte, Regivan Santiago, Manuel Martins and Daniel Figueredo) Safe Evolution of Product Lines using Configuration Knowledge Laws (Leopoldo Teixeira, Rohit Gheyi and Paulo Borba) Safety Assurance of a High Voltage Controller for an Industrial Robotic System (Yvonne Murray, David A. Anisi, Martin Sirev?g, Rabah Saleh Hagag, Pedro Ribeiro and Geir Hovland) Separation Logic-Based Verification Atop a Binary-Compatible Filesystem Model (Mihir Mehta and William R Cook) Statistical Model Checking in Drug Repurposing for Alzheimer's Disease (Herbert Fernandes, Antonio Carlos Oliveira and S?rgio Campos) ==================================================================== -- Volker Stolz / http://ict.hvl.no/people/volker-stolz/ From juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk Tue Oct 27 03:57:39 2020 From: juan.fumero at manchester.ac.uk (Juan Fumero) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:57:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL) 2020: Call For Participation Message-ID: ======================================================================= = Call for Participation Workshop on Virtual Machines and Language Implementations (VMIL?20) Co-located with SPLASH 2020 November 17, 2020, Virtual Conference https://2020.splashcon.org/tracks/vmil-2020 Follow us on Twitter @vmil20 ======================================================================= = The concept of virtual machines is pervasive in the design and implementation of programming systems. Virtual machines and the languages they implement are crucial in the specification, implementation and/or user-facing deployment of most programming technologies. The VMIL workshop is a forum for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners in language virtual machines, the intermediate languages they use and related issues. This year, VMIL will be held virtually. Registration is available on https://2020.splashcon.org/attending/Registration? # Invited Talks == Racket?s Intermediate Language for Control == Matthew Flatt, University of Utah == In Pursuit of Easy(er) JITs == Mark Stoodley, IBM, Canada == Understanding Graal IR == Chris Seaton, Shopify == 10 years of Dart == Vyacheslav Egorov, Google # Accepted Papers == Programming Microcontrollers through High-Level Abstractions == Steven Varoumas, Basile Pesin, Beno?t Vaugon, Emmanuel Chailloux # Participation To participate, please register here: https://2020.splashcon.org/attending/Registration The talks will be streamed on Clowdr and Zoom. We are looking forward to meeting you at VMIL 2020! From davide.sangiorgi at gmail.com Tue Oct 27 05:28:23 2020 From: davide.sangiorgi at gmail.com (Davide Sangiorgi) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:28:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2-year post-doctoral position in Bologna on coinduction/abstract interpretation Message-ID: <25cc4d82-87b9-a9d2-cf50-55d8ae61c02c@gmail.com> 2-year POST-DOC POSITION We are considering to fund a 2-year post-doc position at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bologna. The research themes will be coinductive proof techniques and abstract interpretation, with application to concurrent and/or functional languages. Types are expected to play a significant role. The funding comes from a project in which the other sites are Verona (R. Giacobazzi), Padova (F. Ranzato), and Pisa (F. Bonchi). The position should start sometimes in 2021, the exact date is negotiable. If you are interested, or you know someone interested, or for more details, do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks, Davide Sangiorgi http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/ davide.sangiorgi at gmail.com From amoeller at cs.au.dk Tue Oct 27 06:25:26 2020 From: amoeller at cs.au.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Anders_M=F8ller?=) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:25:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant/associate professor positions at Aarhus University, Denmark Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University (http://cs.au.dk/) is looking for excellent and visionary tenure track Assistant Professors or Associate Professors to push the frontiers of Computer Science research. Aarhus University - an international top-100 University - has made an ambitious strategic investment in a recruitment plan to radically expand the Department of Computer Science. Applicants within all areas of computer science are welcome, including Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Logic and Semantics. The application deadline is January 11th 2021. Additional details and instructions on how to apply are found at https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/aarhus-university-is-hiring-assistant-and-associate-professors-to-contribute-to-the-future-of-the-de/. From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Tue Oct 27 16:09:10 2020 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:09:10 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Second Call for Presentations: PriSC 2021 @ POPL 2021 In-Reply-To: <9526bec8-28a4-8fad-1f54-498fb975d429@gmail.com> References: <9526bec8-28a4-8fad-1f54-498fb975d429@gmail.com> Message-ID: I'm forwarding the following message on behalf of the PriSC 2021 chairs: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jonathan Protzenko Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 8:49 PM Subject: Second Call for Presentations: PriSC 2021 @ POPL 2021 (Apologies if you're getting this email multiple times.) Short version: PriSC is a fun, welcoming and exciting venue. Share updates, ideas, thoughts or send students for a friendly gathering that may lead to future collaborations and ideas. Submit now! All details are on the PriSC site and in this email. ================================================ Call for Presentations: PriSC 2021 @ POPL 2021 ================================================ The emerging field of secure compilation aims to preserve security properties of programs when they have been compiled to low-level languages such as assembly, where high-level abstractions don?t exist, and unsafe, unexpected interactions with libraries, other programs, the operating system and even the hardware are possible. For unsafe source languages like C, secure compilation requires careful handling of undefined source-language behavior (like buffer overflows and double frees). Formally, secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, thus enabling sound reasoning about security in the source language. A complementary goal is to keep the compiled code efficient, often leveraging new hardware security features and advances in compiler design. Other necessary components are identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess, devising efficient security mechanisms (both software and hardware), and developing effective verification and proof techniques. Research in the field thus puts together advances in compiler design, programming languages, systems security, verification, and computer architecture. 5th Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC 2021) ============================================================= The Workshop on Principles of Secure Compilation (PriSC) is a relatively new, informal 1-day workshop without any proceedings. The goal is to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation and to identify interesting research directions and open challenges. The 5th edition of PriSC will be held on January 17 online, together with the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), 2021. Important Dates =============== * Fri 30 Oct 2020: Submission deadline * Wed 25 Nov 2020: Notification * Sun 17 Jan 2021: Workshop Presentation Proposals and Attending the Workshop ================================================= Anyone interested in presenting at the workshop should submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages, details below) covering past, ongoing, or future work. 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. Presentations that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. This includes presentations on new attack vectors such as microarchitectural side-channels, whose defenses could benefit from compiler techniques. 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. Guidelines for Submitting Extended Abstracts ============================================ Extended abstracts should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 2 pages (references not including). They should be formatted in two-column layout, 10pt font, and be printable on A4 and US Letter sized paper. We recommend using the new acmart LaTeX style in sigplan mode. Submissions are not anonymous and should provide sufficient detail to be assessed by the program committee. Presentation at the workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere. Contact and More Information ============================ You can find more information on the workshop website: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/prisc-2021 For questions please contact the workshop chairs, Jonathan Protzenko and Deian Stefan. From carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Wed Oct 28 07:35:02 2020 From: carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:35:02 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2021: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Proposals FSCD 2021 https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar Buenos Aires, Argentina Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021 Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation, deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July, before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to participants of parallel events. PROPOSALS -------------------- Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track) Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A description part including: - a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant); - a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and publicity material. 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organisers; - name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee member (*); - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of acceptance; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, or post main conference); - any other special requirements. (*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal. The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs and availability of space and facilities. The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to workshops, depending on the number of participants. The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on the main conference website; integration of the event's programme into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be provided by the FSCD organising committee. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- Submission of workshop proposals: 6 December, 2020 Notification of success of proposals: 20 December, 2020 -------------------- Best regards, Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs From chair at afdp.xyz Sat Oct 31 14:38:16 2020 From: chair at afdp.xyz (chair at afdp.xyz) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:38:16 UTC Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP]Agile and Functional Data Pipelines workshop Message-ID: <20201031183816.e66a6172539943c9@migamake.com> Dear Friends, The emerging interest in the rigorous and agile data science and functional ETL pipelines has driven the developments of many new libraries, frameworks and methodologies. We invite industry practitioners and academics to present their latest work on agile functional data pipelines as a workshop at the EDI'2021 conference. Call for papers =============== The following would be accepted: - Exposures of methodologies for building agile functional data pipelines - Presentations of frameworks used for data pipelines in industry and academia - Experience reports from building of data pipelines in industry and academia - Benchmarks and optimization of agile data pipeline frameworks - Solutions to data integration and exchange problems within ETL pipelines. In particular, we encourage: - Agile functional data methodologists - Authors of ETL frameworks, streaming libraries and databases, reactive streaming, streaming benchmarks, high-performance workflow engines - Position papers on the use of agile and functional data methodologies - Descriptions of environments for interactive and live programming with data - Benchmarks of state-of-the-art solutions for agile functional data pipelines. Details at https://afdp.github.io Important dates =============== Abstract registration deadline : December 15th, 2020 Submission deadline : December 22nd, 2020 Acceptance notification : January 12th 2021 Final manuscripts : January 23rd, 2021 Presentation at the conference : March 23rd-26th 2021 Submission instructions ======================= Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the AFDP 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. For work-in-progress, we also solicit extended abstracts for presentations. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science. All accepted papers will be published in Procedia Computer Science. Location ======== This workshop will be held as a part of [The 4th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)](http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-21/) held on March 23 - 26, 2021 in Warsaw, Poland. -- Best regards MichaB From caterina.urban at ens.fr Sun Nov 1 05:05:19 2020 From: caterina.urban at ens.fr (Caterina Urban) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 11:05:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award - Second Call for Nominations Message-ID: <56BB896A-79DA-4D02-887E-DFDB8D830A4E@ens.fr> ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award ================================= The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association has established a Doctoral Dissertation Award to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS). Doctoral dissertations are evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the quality of writing. The award winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the ETAPS Banquet. 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, 2020 to December 31st, 2020. 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 a re 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=etapsdda2021 The deadline for nominations is January 17th, 2021. Award Committee --------------- Caterina Urban (chair) Luis Caires (representing ESOP) Perdita Stevens (representing FASE) Andrew Pitts (representing FoSSaCS) Dirk Beyer (representing TACAS) Marieke Huisman Oded Padon Contact ------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the chair of the award committee, Caterina Urban . From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Mon Nov 2 10:32:10 2020 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 15:32:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NASA Formal Methods Symposium - 2nd CFP Message-ID: ************************************************** 2nd Call for Papers The Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/ 24-28 May 2021 Norfolk, VA, USA ************************************************** The symposium will be held in an in-person/virtual hybrid format in Norfolk, VA, USA, possibly transitioning to fully virtual depending on the COVID-19 situation. Virtual presentation of papers is possible even if the conference is held in-person. Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract Submission: 27 November 2020 Paper Submission: 4 December 2020 Paper Notifications: 19 February 2021 Camera-ready Papers: 19 March 2021 Symposium: 24-28 May 2021 Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Research Group, comprised of researchers spanning six NASA centers. NFM2021 is being organized by the NASA Langley Formal Methods Team. Topics of Interest: ------------------- We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of formal methods: - Advances in formal methods: - Formal verification,?model checking, and static analysis techniques - Theorem proving: advances in interactive and automated theorem proving (SAT, SMT, etc.) - Program and specification synthesis, code transformation and generation - Run-time verification - Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods - Test case generation - Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques - Requirements generation, specification, and validation - Integration of formal methods techniques: - Use of machine learning techniques in formal methods - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practices? - Integration of diverse formal methods techniques - Combination of formal methods with simulation and analysis techniques - Formal methods in practice: - Experience report of application of formal methods in industry - Use of formal methods in education - Verification of machine learning techniques - Applications of formal methods in the development of: - autonomous systems, - safety-critical systems, - concurrent and distributed systems, - cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems - fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems - human-machine interaction analysis Submission Details: ------------------- There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages); 2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages). The submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained, as appendices will not be included in the published proceedings. In addition to appendices, authors are encouraged to make available any other supplementary material supporting the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data, as the availability and reproducibility of these artifacts may be considered by reviewers in scoring. All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee in a single-blind reviewing format. Papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCS style formatting (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2021. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/11334). Organizers: ----------- ? Cesar Munoz, NASA, USA (General Co-Chair) ? Ivan Perez, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (General Co-Chair) ? Aaron Dutle, NASA, USA (PC Co-Chair) ? Mariano Moscato, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair) ? Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair) Program Committee: ------------------ Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Julia Badger, NASA, USA Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Jasmin Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Misty Davies, NASA, USA Gilles Dowek, INRIA / ENS Paris-Saclay, France Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France Gabriel Ebner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marco Feliu, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, USA John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Brian Jalaian, ARL / Virginia Tech, USA Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA Michael Lowry, NASA, USA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Anastasia Mavridou, SGT Inc. / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yannick Moy, AdaCore / INRIA, France Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA Laura Panizo, University of Malaga, Spain Corina Pasareanu, CMU / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah, USA Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia Nicolas Rosner, Amazon Web Services, USA Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Johann Schumann, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA Tanner Slagel, NASA, USA Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Caterina Urban, INRIA, France Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Registration: ------------- Registration is required and free of charge. 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Nov 3 04:52:19 2020 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:52:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts Message-ID: <8C3FB908-F501-4AC7-88B1-FD032F9E86D8@nottingham.ac.uk> Dear all, If you or one of your students recently completed a PhD in the area of functional programming, please submit the dissertation abstract for publication in JFP: simple process, no refereeing, open access, 200 published to date, deadline 30th November 2020. Please share! Best wishes, Graham Hutton ============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 30th November 2020 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton by 30th November 2020: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law. From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Wed Nov 4 21:56:32 2020 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:56:32 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Workshop Proposals: ICFP 2021 Message-ID: <5fa369e0b35c7_5b58f2943053@homer.mail> CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2021 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming August 22 - 27, 2021 Daejon, Korea https://icfp21.sigplan.org/ The 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held in Daejon, Korea on August 22-27, 2021, with the possibility of a virtual conference. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. Proposals are invited for workshops (and other co-located events, such as symposiums) to be affiliated with ICFP 2021 and sponsored by SIGPLAN. These events should be less formal and more focused than ICFP itself, include sessions that enable interaction among the attendees, and foster the exchange of new ideas. The preference is for one-day events, but other schedules can also be considered. The workshops are scheduled to occur on August 22rd (the day before ICFP) and 26-27th of August (the two days after ICFP). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission details Deadline for submission: November 27, 2020 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2020 Prospective organizers of workshops or other co-located events are invited to submit a completed workshop proposal form in plain text format to the ICFP 2021 workshop co-chairs (Leonidas Lampropoulos and Zoe Paraskevopoulou) via email to icfp-workshops-2021 at googlegroups.com by November 27, 2020. (For proposals of co-located events other than workshops, please fill in the workshop proposal form and just leave blank any sections that do not apply.) Please note that this is a firm deadline. Organizers will be notified if their event proposal is accepted by December 15, 2020, and if successful, depending on the event, they will be asked to produce a final report after the event has taken place that is suitable for publication in SIGPLAN Notices. The proposal form is available at: http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2021-files/icfp21-workshops-form.txt Further information about SIGPLAN sponsorship is available at: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Proposals/Sponsored/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Selection committee The proposals will be evaluated by a committee comprising the following members of the ICFP 2021 organizing committee, together with the members of the SIGPLAN executive committee. Workshop Co-Chair: Zoe Paraskevopoulou (Northeastern University) Workshop Co-Chair: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland) General Chair: Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST) Program Chair: Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information Any queries should be addressed to the workshop co-chairs (Zoe Paraskevopoulou and Leonidas Lampropoulos), via email to icfp-workshops-2021 at googlegroups.com. From russo at chalmers.se Thu Nov 5 10:36:58 2020 From: russo at chalmers.se (Alejandro Russo) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 15:36:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc position at Chalmers University of Technology Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post-doc position in using Functional Languages for Secure Programming of IoT devices at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chalmers University of Technology is hiring: Post-doc position (2 years) * Important dates: Dec 19th - Deadline January 24 - 29 - Tentative week for interviews (via Zoom or similar tool) Chalmers is aiming to actively increase our gender balance. The CSE department is working broadly with the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Candidates from minority groups are especially encouraged to apply! * Expected starting date: preferably March 2021. For details, including employment conditions and how to apply, see: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=8918 --------------------- Detailed description: --------------------- The position is within the recently project Octopi: Secure Programming for the Internet of Things (IoT). Octopi is dedicated to contributing and further research on (i) utilizing high-level languages to program constraint devices, (ii) finding suitable programming models for IoT, and (iii) developing security mechanisms to obtain system-wide guarantees. The programming language of the project is Haskell (https://www.haskell.org/). Applicant's work is expected to range from establishing new theoretical foundations to building mature prototypes. Octopi presents many research tracks dedicated to tackling ambitious challenges: - Programming model This track focuses on developing programming models which capture the common coding patterns (and architecture) of IoT applications. Our latest publication (HASKELL'20): https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3406088.3409027 - Compilation and runtime This track focuses on the design and implementation of languages and their runtime which are tuned to run on low power, memory-constrained microcontrollers. It also explores techniques to guarantee both safety and security measures about the runtime as well as programs. Our latest publication (PPDP'20): https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3414080.3414092 - Hardware support This task is aimed at the endpoints of IoT systems. It plans on creating a processor aimed specifically at executing functional languages directly and efficiently. This entails both creating an efficient graph reduction engine as well as built-in support for garbage collection. Our latest publications on Cephalopode and Stately are to appear at MEMCODE'20: https://iitjammu.ac.in/conferences/memocode2020/listofacceptedpapers.html - Penetration testing High-level languages prevent developers from introducing a wide class of security-related bugs that plague low-level ones. Nevertheless, programs written in a high-level language interacts, via bindings, with the underlying OS. The binding code is responsible to bridge the semantic gap across both languages, which constitutes a door for security bugs. This task plans to provide a smart fuzzing tool to test such binding code for vulnerabilities. Our latest publication (IFL'19): http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~mista/assets/pdf/ifl19.pdf The post-doc will join high-profile groups of researchers on security and functional programming with a rich network of collaborators and visibility across several research communities. Octopi's faculty members have a strong tradition in successfully applying the functional programming Haskell to different domains: protection of privacy of data (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lio), testing (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck), SAT-solving and theorem proving (https://github.com/nick8325/equinox), and digital signal processing (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/feldspar-language). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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MPIs have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities. The institutes offer a unique environment that combines the best aspects of a university department and a research laboratory: Faculty enjoy full academic freedom, lead a team of doctoral students and post-docs, and have the opportunity to teach university courses; at the same time, they enjoy ongoing institutional funding in addition to third-party funds, a technical infrastructure unrivaled for an academic institution, as well as internationally competitive compensation. We maintain an international and diverse work environment and seek applications from outstanding researchers worldwide. The working language is English; knowledge of the German language is not required for a successful career at the institutes. Qualified candidates should apply on our application website ( apply.cis.mpg.de). 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URL: From carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Fri Nov 6 08:39:37 2020 From: carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 13:39:37 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2021: First Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021) July 17 - July 24, 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ In-cooperation with ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN NOTE: Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract: February 12, 2021 Submission: February 15, 2021 Rebuttal: April 2-5, 2021 Notification: April 19, 2021 Final version: May 3, 2021 FSCD (http://fscd-conference.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 (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.); - Induction, coinduction; - Matching, unification, completion, orderings; - Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.); - Tree automata; - Model building and model checking; - Proof search 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 systems 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 --------------------- The submission site is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages (including references) and must present new software tools in which FSCD topics play an important role, or significantly new versions of such tools. 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: https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ One author of an accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference 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 ----------------------- Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo fscd2021 at easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- M. Ayala-Rinc?n, Universidade de Bras?lia S. Berardi, University of Torino F. Blanqui, INRIA E. Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology ?. Contejean, CNRS, Universit? Paris-Saclay T. Coquand, University of Gothenburg T. Ehrhard, Universit? de Paris, CNRS S. Escobar, Univ. Polit?cnica de Val?ncia J. Esp?rito Santo, University of Minho C. Faggian, Universit? de Paris, CNRS A. Felty, University of Ottawa S. Figueira, Universidad de Buenos Aires M. Fiore, University of Cambridge M. Gaboardi, Boston University S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad I. Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics D. Kesner, Universit? de Paris R. Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen T. Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University Linz B. K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen M. Lenisa, University of Udine N. Nishida, Nagoya University L. Ong, University of Oxford P. Parys, University of Warsaw J. Rehof, TU Dortmund University C. Rocha, Pontificia Univ. Javeriana Cali A. Silva, University College London N. Szasz, Universidad ORT Uruguay A. Tiu, Australian National University S. Winkler, University of Verona H. Yang, KAIST, South Korea CONFERENCE CHAIR ---------------- Alejandro D?az-Caro, Quilmes Univ. & ICC/CONICET WORKSHOP CHAIRS -------------- Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, Universidade de Bras?lia Carlos L?pez Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------------------------- Jamie Vicary, Oxford University PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------- Z. Ariola, University of Oregon M. Ayala-Rinc?n, University of Brasilia C. Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London H. Geuvers, Radboud University S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad S. Guerrini, University of Paris 13 D. Kesner (Chair), University of Paris Diderot H. Kirchner, Inria C. Kop, Radboud University D. Mazza, University of Paris 13 L. Ong, Oxford University J. Rehof, TU Dortmund J. Vicary, Oxford University From delphine.demange at irisa.fr Sun Nov 8 13:35:15 2020 From: delphine.demange at irisa.fr (Delphine Demange) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 19:35:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline - Compiler Construction (CC) 2021 Message-ID: <9426F4F9-B448-4A63-BF3A-79F1CDEFD88A@irisa.fr> ACM SIGPLAN 2021 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2021) Co-located with CGO, HPCA and PPoPP Tue 2 - Wed 3 March 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/CC-2021 CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. The abstract and full paper submission is now November 13, 2020. = IMPORTANT DATES = Abstract & Full Paper Submission: November 13, 2020 (EXTENDED) Author Response Period: December 7 - 9, 2020 Author Notification: December 22, 2020 Artifact Submission: January 5, 2021 AE Notification: January 20, 2021 Final Papers due: January 22, 2021 Conference: March 2 - 3, 2021 Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation, optimization, and synthesis; the verification thereof - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers - Techniques, ranging from programming languages to micro-architectural support, for specific domains such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments - Design and implementation of novel language constructs, programming models, and domain-specific languages CC is an ACM SIGPLAN conference, and implements guidelines and procedures recommended by SIGPLAN (https://www.sigplan.org). Prospective authors should be aware of SIGPLAN?s Copyright policies. Proceedings will be made available online in the ACM digital library from one week before to one week after the conference. Full CfP: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers ARTIFACT EVALUATION Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for the Artifact Evaluation (AE). The Artifact Evaluation process begins after the acceptance notification, and is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. To ease the organization of the AE committee, we kindly ask authors to indicate at the time they submit the paper, whether they are interested in submitting an artifact. 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, but not required, to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as ?source materials? in the ACM Digital Library. CC AE web page: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/research-artifacts ORGANIZERS General Chair: Aaron Smith - Microsoft / University of Edinburgh Program Chairs: Delphine Demange - Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA Rajiv Gupta - UC Riverside Artifact Evaluation Chairs: Bruno Bodin - Yale-NUS College Michel Steuwer - University of Glasgow Web Chair: Martin L?cke - University of Edinburgh Steering Committee: Bj?rn Franke (Chair) - University of Edinburgh Jose Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta Christophe Dubach - University of Edinburgh Sebastian Hack - Saarland University Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA Software Institute and T.U. of Madrid (UPM) Alexandra Jimborean - University of Murcia Milind Kulkarni - Purdue University Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Peng Wu - Futurewei Technologies Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Ayal Zaks - Intel Corporation and Technion Program Committee: Guillaume Baudart - IBM Research Walter Binder - University of Lugano Simone Campanoni - Northwestern University Albert Cohen - Google Caroline Collange - Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA Huimin Cui - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Christophe Dubach - McGill University Beno?t Dupont de Dinechin - Kalray Bernhard Egger - Seoul National University Christine Flood - Red Hat Laure Gonnord - University of Lyon and LIP Myoungsoo Jung - KAIST Andrew Kennedy - Facebook Dongyoon Lee - Stony Brook University Christian Lengauer - University of Passau Xavier Leroy - Coll?ge de France and Inria Yun Liang - Peking University Toby Murray - University of Melbourne and Data61 Biswabandan Panda - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Santosh Pande - Georgia Tech Louis-No?l Pouchet - Colorado State University Gabriel Rodr?guez - Universidade da Coru?a Jan Vitek - Northeastern University Jingling Xue - UNSW Sydney Zhijia Zhao - UC Riverside From vmvasconcelos at fc.ul.pt Mon Nov 9 11:26:11 2020 From: vmvasconcelos at fc.ul.pt (Vasco Thudichum Vasconcelos) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:26:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions at the University of Lisbon Message-ID: Dear All, We are looking to fill two PhD positions at the University of Lisbon from early 2021 on one of the following topics * Accessibility and Ageing * Cyber?physical Systems * Data and Systems Intelligence * Health and Biomedical Informatics * Reliable Software Systems * Resilient Distributed and Networked Systems The position is associated with LASIGE (https://lasige.ciencias.ulisboa.pt), a research unit at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. LASIGE was evaluated as excellent in the last nationwide evaluation process. The position is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology for a period of up to four years, includes the tuition fee and financial support for activities related to the prosecution of the degree. Requirements. Applicants should hold an MSc degree (5 years, 300 ECTS) in Computer Science or in a related area. Applications are open until December 15, 2020. Further information can be obtained from lasige at ciencias.ulisboa.pt or from any of the researchers at LASIGE (https://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/integrated-researchers, https://www.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/phd-collaborators). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From michael.greenberg at pomona.edu Tue Nov 10 12:10:26 2020 From: michael.greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:10:26 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2021 -- Call for Student Volunteers Message-ID: POPL 2021 Call for Student Volunteers (https://popl21.sigplan.org/) Important Dates: Mon 20 Nov 2020: 1st round deadline Fri 04 Dec 2020: 1st round notification Wed 16 Dec 2020: 2nd round deadline Sat 19 Dec 2020: 2nd round notification Sun 17 - Fri 22 Jan 2021: Conference Application Form: https://forms.gle/vruV2mkT7yXotZRw8 Sign up to be a Student Volunteer and help us make POPL 2021 a unique experience for all attendants! POPL 2021 is pleased to offer a number of opportunities for student volunteers, who are vital to the efficient operation and continued success of the conference each year. The student volunteer program is a chance for students from around the world to participate in the conferences whilst assisting us in preparing and running the event. Even though the conference will be held online, we will still need student volunteers to help with the conference organization. In exchange for a fixed number of work hours (usually from 12 to 15) helping with the conference organization, you will be able to closely interact with researchers, mentors, and other students at POPL 2021. You will also be able to boast that you volunteered in the first-ever virtual POPL! # Eligibility Applicants can be undergraduate, Master?s, Ph.D. full- or part-time students, of computer science or related fields. # Duration Applicants must be available for at least four (4) full days between January 17th and January 22nd, 2021, and will be expected to provide up to 12-15 hours of volunteering work in that time. # About Volunteering The skills, talents, and dedication of the Student Volunteers contribute to the overall quality of the Conference. The Student Volunteer role this year will mainly involve preparing for the conference by reviewing pre-recorded videos from speakers, managing online Q&A sessions and supporting active communication in our online environment. You can send questions about student volunteering to sv.popl21 at gmail.com. More info: https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2021-student-volunteers#About From matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at Wed Nov 11 04:58:19 2020 From: matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at (Maffei, Matteo) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:58:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 10 PhD positions at TU Wien on Security and Privacy, Formal Methods, and Machine Learning Message-ID: As part of the newly established SecInt Doctoral College (?Secure and Intelligent Human-Centric Technologies"), TU Wien is offering ten PhD positions for 4 years in the areas of Security and Privacy, Formal Methods, and Machine Learning. Each position is supervised by at least two professors from the respective research areas. Additional details on the individual projects can be found at https://secint.visp.wien/projects. We offer: * Diverse and exciting tasks, with lots of interdisciplinary collaboration * Continuing personal and professional education and flexible working hours * Central location with very good accessibility in a city regularly ranked first worldwide for life quality * Possibility of an internship with one of our international research partners * Very competitive salary Your profile: * Completion of a master or diploma curriculum in computer science or another related field * Experience in Mathematical Modeling, Computational Logic, Formal Methods, Security and Privacy, Robotics and/or Machine Learning * Very good skills in English communication and writing. * Readiness for interdisciplinary collaboration * Team competences, problem-solving skills and innovative ability A predoctoral researcher at TU Wien currently receives a minimum of EUR 2.929,00/month, 14 times/year for 40 hours/week (about EUR 28.675/year net). Relevant working experience may increase the monthly income. 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From gaboardi at bu.edu Thu Nov 12 23:49:46 2020 From: gaboardi at bu.edu (Gaboardi, Marco) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:49:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD student positions at Boston University Message-ID: The Boston University Programming Languages and Verification group (POPV) is looking for PhD students. http://www.bu.edu/cs/research/popv/ The group consists of several faculty, postdocs and students with interests in different aspects of programming languages, verification, type theories and proof assistants. Members of the POPV group actively collaborate with other groups at Boston University, including the Boston University Security group (https://www.bu.edu/cs/groups/busec/), and at other universities in the Boston area. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact one of the faculty in the group. The deadline for applications is December 15. The official application information can be found here: http://www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/ Application fees can be waived, if needed. All admitted PhD students will receive a 5-year fellowship offer, which may be a combination of a non-service fellowship, teaching fellowship or doctoral research assistant. Boston University is a large private University on the west side of Boston with a rich tradition of inclusion and social justice. We are proud that we were the first American university to award a PhD to a woman (1877) and that Martin Luther King Jr. received his PhD here (1955). The Boston area is home to a vibrant academic environment formed by multiple universities with a strong tradition in programming languages and verification, and it is also home to several startups and tech industries related to these research areas. From p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk Fri Nov 13 13:48:01 2020 From: p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk (Gardner, Philippa A) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:48:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions available Message-ID: <3FA48616-0D49-443A-939F-89684CC39C56@ic.ac.uk> Hello all, [Sorry for multiple postings.] I am looking for one or two PhD students, start date in October 2021, to join my Verified Software research group. A summary of possible research projects is given below. The deadlines to apply for a PhD position in the Department are 8th January 2021 and 19th March 2021. The Department advises all students requiring funding to apply by the January deadline, although there may still be some funding available for applications received after January. Further details can be found here. A successful UK student will probably be funded through the standard Departmental competition for funds. A successful EU/overseas student will probably be funded by a combination of Departmental funding and my funding. In particular, I have additional funding which means that the EU/overseas students are able to go into the same competition for funding as the UK students. Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if interested, cc?ing my administrator Teresa Carbajo Garcia, t.carbajo-garcia at imperial.ac.uk. Best wishes, Philippa Research in the Verified Software Group, Imperial My group is involved with a wide range of theoretical and practical projects on symbolic testing and verification in particular, and on formal methods in general. They are summarised below. All have many opportunities for PhD projects. Gillian: a multi-language platform for compositional symbolic analysis The Verified Software Group has recently introduced Gillian [1], a multi-language platform for compositional symbolic analysis. It currently supports three flavours of analysis: whole-program symbolic testing; full verification based on separation logic; and automatic compositional testing based on bi-abduction. It is underpinned by a core symbolic execution engine, parametric on the memory model of the target language, with strong mathematical foundations that unifies symbolic testing and verification. Gillian has been instantiated to C and JavaScript, obtaining results on real-world code that demonstrate the viability of our unified, parametric approach. Possible projects include: incorporating ideas from incorrectness separation logic to Gillian [2]; extending Gillian with events and concurrency [3]; underpinning Gillian with Coq certification; instantiating Gillian with C (we have just started, [1]) and Rust (we have hardly begun); and using the Gillian instantiations for symbolic testing and verification of real-world programs. Concurrency The Verified Software Group has worked on compositional reasoning about concurrent programs, introducing fundamental techniques underpinning modern concurrent separation logics [4]: logical abstraction; logical atomicity; and logical environment liveness properties. We have applied our reasoning to verify some of the most advanced concurrent algorithms. There is still much to understand: for example, working with the fundamental theory; applying the work to real-world libraries; developing prototype analysis tools; or moving to the Coq-focused Iris project, whose foundations use some of our theory. Distribution The Verified Software Group has recently begun to work on weak consistency models for distribution, developing an interleaving operational semantics for client-observational behaviour of atomic transactions [5]. We would be interested in finding someone to work in this area: for example, developing further the operational semantics and providing prototype tools to prove robustness results and discover litmus tests; or creating a program logic for distributed atomic transactions (our original motivation for the work) inspired by our previous work on program logics for concurrency. References [1] Gillian, Part 1: A Multi-language Platform for Symbolic Execution, Jose Fragoso Santos, Peter Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun and Philippa Gardner, PLDI'2020. Part 2 on verification and bi-abduction is being written now! We are giving a talk on Gillian at the conference Rebase, associated with ECOOP and OOPSLA, on 16th and 17th November, and at Facebook's Testing and Verification Symposium (FaceTAV), in December 2020. [2] Local Reasoning about the Presence of Bugs: Incorrectness Separation Logic, Azalea Raad (Imperial), Josh Berdine, Hoang-Hai Dang, Derek Dreyer, Peter O'Hearn and Jules Villard, CAV'20. [3] A Trusted Infrastructure for Symbolic Analysis of Event-Driven Web Applications, Gabriela Sampaio, Jose Fragoso Santos, Petar Maksimovic and Philippa Gardner, ECOOP'20 [4] A Perspective on Specifying and Verifying Concurrent Modules, Thomas Dinsdale-Young, Pedro da Rocha Pinto and Philippa Gardner, Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, 2018 [5] Data Consistency in Transactional Storage Systems: a Centralised Approach, Shale Xiong, Andrea Cerone, Azalea Raad and Philippa Gardner, ECOOP'20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Philippa Gardner Department of Computing Imperial College 180 Queen?s Gate London SW7 2AZ My working day may not be the same as yours. Please do not feel obliged to reply to this email outside your normal working hours. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdc at uwo.ca Fri Nov 13 16:55:01 2020 From: jdc at uwo.ca (Dan Christensen) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:55:01 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoctoral positions at the University of Western Ontario Message-ID: <87d00gexca.fsf@uwo.ca> [Please forward as appropriate.] The Math Department at Western will be hiring one or more postdocs to start in summer 2021. The application deadline is December 4, 2020. The full ad is available at https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/UWO/PDF and I have included the text of it below. The Math Department has large research groups working in topology, (higher) category theory, homotopy type theory and related areas. Applicants in these and other areas represented in the department are particularly encouraged to apply. Our department has an active postdoctoral program and a busy seminar schedule. More information about the department and the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences are available at https://www.math.uwo.ca/ and https://uwo.ca/smss/ The positions have a reduced teaching load of just two half-courses. A "half-course" is a 13-week course meeting for 3 or 4 hours each week. Note also that the cost of living in (this) London is quite low. Feel free to contact me with questions, or to use math-pos at uwo.ca Dan ------------- The Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario has several postdoctoral positions available, in any area of Mathematics that is represented within the Department. Information about the Department can be found at https://www.math.uwo.ca. Each position has a two-year term with a flexible start date of July 1, 2021. The salary will be $52,000 CDN per year, plus a tax-free research fund of $1,500 per year. The positions will involve teaching two half-courses per year, in addition to research. Candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in July 2018 or later. The filling of these positions is subject to budgetary considerations. All applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae (including publication list), a research statement, teaching statement, and at least three letters of reference. At least one letter of reference should comment on the teaching abilities of the applicant. E-mail inquiries may be sent to math-pos at uwo.ca. Screening of applications will begin on December 5th, 2020, and will continue until all positions are filled. Western University is committed to employment equity and welcomes applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ persons. From p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk Sat Nov 14 07:36:14 2020 From: p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk (Gardner, Philippa A) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:36:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RA positions, Imperial Message-ID: Hello all, [Sorry for multiple postings.] I have openings for two post-doctoral research positions in my Verified Software research group at Imperial on `Gillian: Program Correctness and Incorrectness', funded by Facebook, and `Gillian: Coq-Certified Compositional Symbolic Analysis', funded by a national fellowship. Details of these projects are given below. These positions are for three years. The start date is flexible in these uncertain times, up to September 2021. It is possible to start the positions remotely, although we are able to meet at Imperial when necessary so it might make sense to be in London. In fact, accommodation rents are currently very good (due to covid) so it is actually quite a good time to come to London. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact me. Philippa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Philippa Gardner Department of Computing Imperial College 180 Queen?s Gate London SW7 2AZ My working day may not be the same as yours. Please do not feel obliged to reply to this email outside your normal working hours. ------------- Gillian: Program Correctness and Incorrectness Philippa Gardner Imperial College London We have introduced Gillian [1], a multi-language platform for compositional symbolic analysis. It supports three flavours of analysis: whole-program symbolic testing; full verification based on separation logic; and automatic compositional testing based on bi-abduction. It is underpinned by a core symbolic execution engine, parametric on the memory model of the target language, with strong mathematical foundations that unifies symbolic testing and verification. Gillian has been instantiated to the real-world languages C and JavaScript, obtaining results on real-world code that demonstrate the viability of our unified, parametric approach. Meanwhile, O?Hearn [2] has observed that program correctness for describing the absence of bugs and program incorrectness for describing the presence of bugs are two sides of the same coin. He, Azalea Raad (Imperial) and others [3] have recently introduced incorrectness separation logic for reasoning about program incorrectness, in contrast with Hoare logic and separation logic for reasoning about program correctness. The underlying theory of Gillian resonates with the fundamental ideas of incorrectness logic, suggesting that Gillian has an unexplored potential for reasoning about both program correctness and incorrectness. Our goal is to establish Gillian as a leading academic platform for integrated analysis of program correctness and incorrectness, by advancing the development of its existing analyses and incorporating the new ideas arising from incorrectness logic. This research position is for three years. It would suit someone with a strong background in formal methods (theory and/or practice), especially someone with experience in program analysis, testing or verification. It is funded by Facebook. References [1] Gillian, Part 1: A Multi-language Platform for Symbolic Execution, Jose Fragoso Santos, Peter Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun and Philippa Gardner, PLDI'2020. Part 2 on verification and bi-abduction is being written now! We are giving a talk on Gillian at the conference Rebase, associated with ECOOP and OOPSLA, on 16th and 17th November, and at the Facebook Testing and Verification Symposium in December, 2020. [2] Incorrectness Logic, Peter O'Hearn, POPL'20. [3] Local Reasoning about the Presence of Bugs: Incorrectness Separation Logic, Azalea Raad, Josh Berdine, Hoang-Hai Dang, Derek Dreyer, Peter O'Hearn and Jules Villard, CAV'20. --------- Gillian: Coq-Certifiction of Compositional Symbolic Analysis Philippa Gardner Imperial College London We have introduced Gillian [1], a multi-language platform for compositional symbolic analysis. It supports three flavours of analysis: whole-program symbolic testing; full verification based on separation logic; and automatic compositional testing based on bi-abduction. Gillian has been instantiated to the real-world languages C (using the Coq-verified CompCert compiler) and JavaScript (using our own compiler), obtaining results on real-world code that demonstrate the viability of our unified, parametric approach. The goal is to provide Coq-certification for the Gillian platform. Gillian is underpinned by a core symbolic execution engine, parametrised by the memory model of the target language, with strong mathematical foundations that unifies symbolic testing and verification. This core is ripe for Coq mechanisation since it has a general correctness result that depends on lemmas associated with particular Gillian instantiations. The challenge is to understand how to link this Coq mechanisation of the core engine to the Gillian platform: either by replacing the Gillian implementation with extracted Coq code; or by using Gillian to generate proof terms that can be certified by Coq in order to retain the Gillian optimisations. This position is for three years, funded by Gardner's UKRI national fellowship. It would suit someone with strong experience with the Coq theorem prover, to enhance the current Coq expertise in the group. In particular, my PhD student Rao Xlaojia is part of the Imperial and Cambridge team doing WasmCert, a Coq-specification of Wasm [2]. There is also an opportunity to get involved with this WasmCert project if interested. References [1] Gillian, Part 1: A Multi-language Platform for Symbolic Execution, Jose Fragoso Santos, Peter Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun and Philippa Gardner, PLDI'2020. Part 2 on verification and bi-abduction is being written now! We are giving a talk on Gillian at the conference Rebase, associated with ECOOP and OOPSLA, on 16th and 17th November, and at the Facebook Testing and Verification Symposium in December, 2020. [2] WasmCert-Coq, M. Bodin, P. Gardner, J. Pichon, C. Watt and R. Xiaojia, https://github.com/WasmCert/WasmCert-Coq -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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February 1 2021, AOE Notification to authors: February 15 2021 Camera ready: March 5 2021 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 7th installation of the workshop will continue the tradition and further focus on research that apply the language-theoretic perspective to policy mechanisms, such as treating policy formulation and enforcement as language definition and language recognition problems. The following is a 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 Professor, Penn State CSE and ICDS W358 Westgate Building http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29 Tel:814-8657364 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tassarot at bc.edu Sun Nov 15 23:22:31 2020 From: tassarot at bc.edu (Joseph Tassarotti) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 23:22:31 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc position at Boston College Message-ID: A postdoctoral position is available in the Computer Science department at Boston College as part of an NSF-supported project on formal verification of machine learning algorithms. Candidates should have an interest in formal verification and/or semantics of probabilistic programs. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. The starting date is flexible, and may be as early as January 2021. Please contact me for further information. Applications may be submitted here: https://bc.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/4223?c=bc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lists at fniephaus.com Mon Nov 16 05:04:11 2020 From: lists at fniephaus.com (Fabio Niephaus) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:04:11 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Events for 2021 Message-ID: 2021 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming March 22-26, 2021, Online, United Kingdom http://2021.programming-conference.org ******************************************************** CALL FOR EVENTS ******************************************************** https://2021.programming-conference.org/track/programming-2021-workshops To build a community and to foster an environment where participants can exchange ideas and experiences related to practical software development, ?Programming? will host a number of workshops. As is online this year, the main goal of workshops is to promote social gathering and lively discussions amongst participants. This edition?s workshops will replace the social experience of a physical event and as such, their topics and organization may deviate from their physical counterparts. So they should be the main events in the conference week. A workshop can be intended as a collaborative forum to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They can also be regarded as a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, progress, or practical experience on programming and applied software development in general for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. This year, we would like to encourage organizers to be creative and experiment with all kinds of events including hallways discussions, academic parties besides the more traditional workshops. Possible types of workshops include a meeting like a Dagstuhl Seminar or Shonan meeting, a gathering for an international research project, a tool demo/tutorial, hands-on workshops in which participants experience one or several aspects of practical software development, social gathering around a particular topic and so on. Open meetings are preferable but closed ones could be accepted. We are flexible and welcome innovative social gatherings; if you have any ideas or questions, please contact the workshops co-chairs. The duration of workshops is in general one day, but we encourage the submission of half-day workshop proposals on focused topics as well. If desired, the workshop proceedings can be published in the post-conference Companion Proceedings, in the ACM Digital Library. ### Submission Deadlines Deadline: December 3rd, 2020 Notifications will go out as soon as possible, within a week after the deadline. ### Workshop Selection Committee Shigeru Chiba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) ### Submission and Workshop Process Please submit your workshop proposal electronically via the submission system: https://2021.programming-conference.org/createProposal/ccc82a7e-eabb-40db-ad98-7c7b761adc1d Please adhere to the workshop proposal guidelines given below and provide all requested information about the proposed workshop. Please keep it brief and use the provided form. The intention is not to spend time on proposal writing, but on preparing the organization of the workshop. To coordinate with the deadlines of the main conference, the following deadlines have to be respected by workshops: **Workshop web page/site and CFP:** December 11th 2020 **Deadline for submissions to the workshops:** - possibly after January 7th 2021 (final notification issue 3) - no later than February 1th 2021 **Notification of authors:** March 1st, 2021, the latest, to be before the early registration deadline. **Deadline for Camera-Ready Papers (Companion Proceedings at ACM DL):** May 1st 2021 **Workshop dates:** March 22nd to 26th 2021 ### Workshop Proposal Guidelines Please include the following information either directly in the proposal, or CFP. The submission system has a form that includes an abstract (for the website), the CFP, and the remaining proposal. CFPs often cover the same information, duplication is not necessary for such cases. Organizers of a workshop previously co-located at are allowed to submit a minimal proposal including information for the questions marked with (*). 1. What is the motivation for the workshop? - Objectives - Intended audience - Relevance (with respect to the topics of the conference) 2(*). Who organizes the workshop? - Organizers and primary contact (name / affiliation / email) - Brief details on the organizers (previous workshop organizing experience, etc.) - Data on potential previous iterations of the workshop - How many participants do you expect (please make at least an educated guess) - What kind of software do you expect to use to run the workshop (e.g. slack, Zoom, Teams, etc.) - Advertisement: Planed advertisement strategy to ensure participation 3. Is there going to be a workshop program committee? - if so, please list the members (indicated as finalized or expected) 4. What is the planned workshop format? - Planned deadlines - Intended submission format (e.g. intended format for articles, posters, abstracts, or any other kind of submission requested to participate in the workshop) - Evaluation process for submissions - Intended workshop format (including duration, number of presentations/talks, planned invited talks/keynotes, etc.) 5(*). What is the intended publication of accepted submissions? - ACM DL post companion proceedings and/or website pre/post-proceedings ### Notes on Companion Proceedings Workshops that wish to have their proceedings published in the ACM DL will have the opportunity to have post proceedings. However, chairs will be responsible for making sure that camera ready deadlines are respected so that final copies and metadata are collected on time. The deadlines mentioned above are **strict**. Please consider them carefully when determining your deadlines for the workshop. From d.pym at ucl.ac.uk Mon Nov 16 08:23:36 2020 From: d.pym at ucl.ac.uk (Pym, David) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:23:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research Fellow Positions at UCL PPLV, London Message-ID: <67D7F44C-5288-4D84-ACC3-61E080924942@ucl.ac.uk> [Apologies for cross-postings, but please share freely. Thank you.] Two Research Fellow positions at UCL?s Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification group. I am looking two Research Fellows to be associated with the UK EPSRC-funded IRIS project, Interface Reasoning for Interacting Systems, https://uclirisproject.wordpress.com. The positions are available for 12 months initially, with possible extension to 36 months. The closing date is 11 December. 1. A post in logic, to work in these areas: - the semantics and proof theory of modal and substructural logics - program and systems verification, and - modelling and reasoning about distributed and multi-agent systems. Details at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCK032/research-fellow-in-programming-principles-logic-and- verification The post will involve collaboration with Didier Galmiche's group at Nancy. 2. A post in systems security modelling, with expertise in these areas: - experience and expertise in modelling or simulation - good technical understanding of systems and networks - familiarity with computer security and organizational security policy. Details at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCM470/research-fellow-in-systems-security-modelling The post will involve collaboration with HP Labs and BT, and will be jointly supervised by Dr. Tristan Caulfield. Contacts: d.pym at ucl.ac.uk, t.caulfield at ucl.ac.uk ? Prof. David J. Pym Professor of Information, Logic, and Security Head of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification University College London Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of London Director, UCL Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity Editor-in-Chief, OUP Journal of Cybersecurity d.pym at ucl.ac.uk www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/D.Pym.html www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/ Assistant: Julia Savage, j.savage at ucl.ac.uk, +44 (0)20 7679 0327 From Alex.Simpson at fmf.uni-lj.si Mon Nov 16 16:17:38 2020 From: Alex.Simpson at fmf.uni-lj.si (Alex Simpson) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:17:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2021 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <3231d932-8292-b389-2aba-0bee4d5902a5@fmf.uni-lj.si> Types readers may be interested in the online CSL conference, which takes place from Jan 25-28 2021 --- The European Association for Computer Science Logic invites you to participate in the 2021 edition of CSL, which will be held online from Mon Jan 25 to Thu Jan 28, 2021, organised by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana # The Conference Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference spanning both basic and application-oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. CSL 2021 will be the 29th edition in the series. CSL moved away from its former August/September slot in 2020. CSL 2021 is the second conference in the series that takes place in January. ## Invited Speakers - Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, Rennes, France - Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, UK - Linda Westrick, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA - Sylvain Schmitz, Universit? de Paris, Paris, France - Bartek Klin, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsawa, Poland ## Programme Thirty-four contributed papers have been selected for presentation at CSL 2021; see the [list of accepted papers](https://csl2021.fmf.uni-lj.si/accepted-papers/) ## Registration To register, please follow the link and information provided on the [CSL website](https://csl2021.fmf.uni-lj.si) The registration deadlines are: - *14th December 2020*: deadline for speaker registration. At least one author of every contributed paper must register as a speaker. - *11th January 2021*: deadline for non-speaker registration. All participants must register. Note that student non-speaker registration is free of charge. If you have any questions, please contact the local organisers . From brunocdsoliveira at googlemail.com Tue Nov 17 00:46:15 2020 From: brunocdsoliveira at googlemail.com (Bruno Oliveira) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:46:15 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] APLAS 2020 Call for Participation Message-ID: Dear all, CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 18th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2020) Online, November 30th-December 2nd, 2020 (JST) (JST = Japan Standard Time = UTC+09) https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2020 APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming languages community. APLAS 2020 will be held online from Mon, November 30th to Wed, December 2nd, 2020. The three-day event includes, three keynote talks, six regular sessions, and one poster session. The registration is now open at: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/aplas-2020/registration The registration deadline is: Tue, November 24th, 2020 (AoE). There is no registration fee; no payment information is required. The registration covers all online activities (in Slack and/or Zoom). Keynote Speakers: * Luca Cardelli (University of Oxford) "Integrated Scientific Modeling and Lab Automation" * Hidehiko Masuhara (Tokyo Institute of Technology) "Object Support for GPU Programming: Why and How" * Nadia Polikarpova (University of California at San Diego) "Generating Programs from Types" For the detailed conference program, see https://conf.researchr.org/program/aplas-2020/program-aplas-2020 Best Regards, Bruno Oliveira -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While trading correctness for efficiency has been part of computing since the early days, it has seen renewed interest in the past decade under the name Approximate Computing, a variety of techniques have been developed for applying and controlling approximations and the errors they introduce at different levels of the compute stack, from circuit to architectures and applications. However, most of these techniques have been applied in isolation at one level of the stack, making simplified assumptions about the other levels. This special issue on Approximate Systems will focus on concepts and methods for applying approximate computing principles end-to-end across the compute stack. We invite proposed solutions that cover cross-layer techniques, including languages that expose nondeterminism or flexibility and associated compiler techniques to translate specifications into concrete implementations; hardware architectures that exploit nondeterminism exposed at the software layer or which expose hardware correctness versus resource usage tradeoffs to the layers above; as well as new devices and circuits that exploit or expose nondeterminism and correctness versus resource usage tradeoffs to higher layers in an integrated manner. Submitted papers should take a broader systems perspective beyond a single isolated domain and propose cross-layer approaches for end-to-end approximate system design. Papers should address research at the intersection of traditional topics that include, but are not restricted to: * Programing languages, compilers and runtime systems for approximation computing * Cross-layer, end-to-end error modeling, analysis and abstraction techniques * Approximate computer architectures, circuit and system design * Design automation tools for approximate system design * Evaluation platforms and error metrics * Domain-specific end-to-end approximate system design * Application case studies and benchmarks with approximation tolerance SUBMISSION -------------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality original research contributions that will not require major revisions. Please identify clearly the additional material from any original conference paper in your submitted manuscript. Submissions of relevant original work not previously presented at any conference are especially welcome. Concurrent submission to any other conference or journal is a ground for rejection of a manuscript without review. All papers will be fully refereed to the usual journal standards. Submissions should be made through the ACM TODAES submission site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/todaes) and formatted according to TODAES author guidelines at: https://dl.acm.org/journal/todaes/author-guidelines. DATES -------------------------------- Paper submission 18 February Notification First Round 22 April Submission of Revision 20 May Final Notification 24 June Camera-ready 15 July GUEST EDITORS -------------------------------- Armin Alaghi (Facebook Reality Labs/University of Washington) Andreas Gerstlauer (The University of Texas at Austin) Eva Darulova (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Phillip Stanley-Marbell (University of Cambridge) From harley.eades at gmail.com Tue Nov 17 16:06:32 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:06:32 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on Resource Constrained Programming with Full Dependent Types Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 between 1pm and 2pm EST, Dr. Robert Atkey will be giving a presentation as part of the CS Colloquium Series at Augusta University. Presentation details can be found here: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/Atkey.html Bob will discuss resource constraints within a full dependently-typed setting. I for one am greatly excited for the talk. These talks are open to the general public via Zoom. I'll also be living streaming it on Youtube. So if you are interested in attending the Zoom meeting please RSVP with me before the talk. Questions will be only taken from those on Zoom. If you care to watch via YouTube, please use the following link: https://youtu.be/-NO0iquBnyo Feel free to share this message with everyone you know. 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The formal ad and application procedure is here: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=8926&rmlang=UK Cheers Dave ps. The department also have an open postdoc position in "taking functional languages to embedded devices" which you may have missed in an earlier announcement by Alejandro Russo - also very relevant to the types community. https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=8918 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owre at csl.sri.com Wed Nov 18 17:21:03 2020 From: owre at csl.sri.com (Sam Owre) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:21:03 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Announcing the release of PVS 7.1. Message-ID: Hi All, We are pleased to announce the release of PVS version 7.1. This has many new features; read the release notes for details. Here we list a summary of the highlights. - The http://pvs.csl.sri.com web site has been updated, with a more modern look, and simplified access to the downloads, manuals, etc. - A new API is under development, based on XML-RPC. - NASA has developed a new VSCode GUI (https://github.com/nasa/vscode-pvs), using the XML-RPC API. This is still a work in progress, but is already usable for those who prefer an alternative to Emacs. This is not a replacement, the Emacs GUI works as usual, and will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future. - The library mechanism has been simplified and improved, allowing changes to be made to libraries without the need to change contexts, which makes development and use of libraries much easier and faster. - Theory interpretations have been significantly improved. - Yices 1 and 2 have now been included in PVS 7.1, so the yices and yices2 proof commands work out of the box. - There are a number of minor language changes, e.g., "0 < x <= n" is a valid expression. - TCCs have been cleaned up. In general, all TCCs have an associated location, even when terms have been created for typechecking purposes. TCCs have also been "normalized", and are presented in a more natural form. Please enjoy! From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Fri Nov 20 08:30:26 2020 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:30:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] two posts of Lecturer in Cybersecurity at University of Sheffield: deadline 3rd December 2020 Message-ID: Greetings, University of Sheffield has opened two posts of Lecturer in Cybersecurity. Details can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCG201/lecturer-in-cybersecurity-two-posts Please note that "formalisation and proof of system security properties" is listed first under "suitable areas". Best wishes, Andrei From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Fri Nov 20 14:54:51 2020 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:54:51 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] Release of NASA PVS Library v7.1 Message-ID: <8E67D50F-F784-4F14-8A47-23AF67FC9A80@nasa.gov> The Formal Methods Team at NASA Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace is pleased to announce the release of the NASA PVS Library (NASALib) v7.1 (https://github.com/nasa/pvslib). NASALib v7.1 is fully compatible with PVS 7.1 (https://pvs.csl.sri.com), the recently released version of the Prototype Verification System (PVS). NASALib is a continuing collaborative effort that has spanned over 3 decades, to aid in research related to theorem proving sponsored by NASA (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/pvs/). It consists of a collection of formal developments written in PVS, contributed by SRI, NASA, NIA, and the PVS community, and maintained by the NASA/NIA Formal Methods Team at LaRC. Currently, NASALib v7.1 includes 53 developments and almost 30k formally proved lemmas and theorems. In addition to NASALib v7.1, the following developments have been updated to PVS 7.1 and are publicly available under NASA's Open Source Agreement: * vscode-pvs (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/VSCode-PVS/): A Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) extension that provides a modern integrated development environment for PVS. * PRECiSA (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/PRECiSA): A static analysis tool that generates provably correct round-off error bounds of floating-point programs. * PolyCARP (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/PolyCARP): A collection of formally verified algorithms for computations with polygons. * CPR* (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/CPR): Formally verified implementations in C (fixed-point and floating-point) of ADS-B's Compact Position Reporting algorithms. CPR* is the reference implementation of CPR in the international standard ED-102B/DO-260C. * DAIDALUS (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/DAIDALUS): A collection of formally verified algorithms for a detect and avoid concept that supports the integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). DAIDALUS is the reference implementation of functional requirements for Detect and Avoid of UAS in the US standard DO-365A. Enjoy, The NASA/NIA Formal Methods Team at LaRC https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 7429 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From dom.orchard at gmail.com Sat Nov 21 05:18:07 2020 From: dom.orchard at gmail.com (Dominic Orchard) Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:18:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Position in Programming Languages at the University of Kent Message-ID: Subject: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Position in Programming Languages at the University of Kent We are seeking to appoint another new lecturer in Computing in our Programming Languages and Systems research group based at our Canterbury campus, University of Kent. Job description / Additional Information / Please apply at https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-003-20 Closing date for applications: 10 January 2021 The Programming Languages and Systems (PLAS) research group spans the breadth and depth of practical and theoretical aspects of programming languages and system building related to languages. Our work goes across paradigms (imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic) and is complemented by our systems research in concurrency, relaxed memory, verified compilation, verification, language prototypes, garbage collection, and tools. All our work is linked by a shared vision of the power and impact of programming languages on the rest of Computer Science. The PLAS group at Kent has a long history of contributions to the field and continues to be a hotbed of programming language research in the South East of England: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research/groups/plas/index.html The School of Computing [1] is a welcoming, supportive, and diverse environment whose commitment to gender equality has been recognised with a Bronze Athena SWAN [2] award. We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of the community within our School and would particularly encourage female candidates to apply for these posts. We are committed to delivering high quality research and education. The School?s five broad research areas are Programming Languages and Systems; Computer Security; Computational Intelligence; Data Science; and Computing Education. Full details can be found at: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/research. The University of Kent has campuses in Canterbury and Medway, and specialist postgraduate centres in Athens, Brussels, Paris and Rome. Overlooking the city centre, and with 125 nationalities represented, the Canterbury campus has a very cosmopolitan feel. Canterbury is a small city that retains parts of its medieval walls (with Roman foundations). Famous for its heritage (Canterbury Cathedral; Chaucer?s Tales; etc), Canterbury is a vibrant community and UNESCO World Heritage site whose culture and leisure facilities are enhanced by hosting three universities. The city and surrounding region combines an attractive and affordable environment, excellent schools, and fast transport links to London and mainland Europe. Links: [1] https://cs.kent.ac.uk/ [2] http://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Tutorials are expected to be either half-day or full-day events, with a theoretical or applied focus, on a topic of interest to CADE-28. Please provide the following information in your application: + Tutorial title. + Names and affiliations of organizers. + Proposed tutorial duration (from half to one day) and the preferred day. + Brief description of the tutorial's goals and topics to be covered. + Whether or not a version of the tutorial has been given previously, and if/how the intended presentation differs. + Short statement regarding plans in case of an online conference. Within reason, CADE will take care of printing and distributing notes for tutorials that would like this service. Important Dates for Tutorials: + Submission deadline: 07 December 2020 + Notification: 18 December 2020 + Tutorials: 11 & 16 July 2021 Proposals for tutorials must be submitted to the CADE-28-WTC track via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cade28 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5242 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: From niki.vazou at imdea.org Wed Nov 25 05:13:59 2020 From: niki.vazou at imdea.org (niki.vazou) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:13:59 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI AEC is looking for members In-Reply-To: <094366bac4aa281b35f8ee288f03cc3c@imdea.org> References: <094366bac4aa281b35f8ee288f03cc3c@imdea.org> Message-ID: Hey, We are looking for motivated students and researchers to be members of the PLDI 2021 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/bkxWPWm456yDzYc5A You can also nominate other people (e.g., students, colleagues) at: https://forms.gle/grXCAdRN1LywS6By8 The instructions for committee members are available here: https://pldi21.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2021-PLDI-Research-Artifacts#Info-for-Reviewers 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 8 and March 25. Each artifact will take about 8h to review, and reviewers will be assigned 3 to 4 reviews. Come join us in improving the quality of research in our field! Niki Vazou and Lu?s Pina From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Wed Nov 25 12:40:17 2020 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:40:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM2021) -- Final CFP (Extended Deadline) Message-ID: ************************************************** ??????? Final Call for Papers -- Extended Deadline ?? The Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium ????? https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/ ????????????????May 24-28, 2021 ?????????? Virtual / Norfolk, VA, USA ************************************************** Currently, the symposium is planned to be held in an in-person/virtual hybrid format in Norfolk, VA, USA, highly likely transitioning to fully virtual if the COVID-19 situation persists. Virtual presentation of papers will be possible even if the conference is also held in-person. Important Dates (Extend Deadline): ----------------------------- Abstract Submission: December 7, 2020 (extended) Paper Submission:? December 14, 2020 (extended) Paper Notifications: February 19, 2021 Camera-ready Papers: March 19, 2021 Symposium: May 24-28, 2021 Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements.? The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems.? New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems.? The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Research Group, comprised of researchers spanning six NASA centers. NFM2021 is being organized by the NASA Langley Formal Methods Team. Topics of Interest: ------------------- We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others.? Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of formal methods: - Advances in formal methods: ? - Formal verification,?model checking, and static analysis techniques ? - Theorem proving: advances in interactive and automated theorem ???? proving (SAT, SMT, etc.) ? - Program and specification synthesis, code transformation and generation ? - Run-time verification ? - Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods ? - Test case generation ? - Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques ? - Requirements generation, specification, and validation - Integration of formal methods techniques: ? - Use of machine learning techniques in formal methods ? - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practices? ? - Integration of diverse formal methods techniques ? - Combination of formal methods with simulation and analysis techniques - Formal methods in practice: ? - Experience report of application of formal methods in industry ? - Use of formal methods in education ? - Verification of machine learning techniques ? - Applications of formal methods in the development of: ??? - autonomous systems, ??? - safety-critical systems, ??? - concurrent and distributed systems, ??? - cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems ??? - fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems ??? - human-machine interaction analysis Submission Details: ------------------- There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results ??? (maximum 15 pages); 2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with ??? preliminary results (maximum 6 pages). The submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices.? The papers should be self-contained, as appendices will not be included in the published proceedings.? In addition to appendices, authors are encouraged to make available any other supplementary material supporting the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data, as the availability and reproducibility of these artifacts may be considered by reviewers in scoring.? All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere.? All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee in a single-blind reviewing format. Papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCS style formatting (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2021. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/11334). Organizers: ----------- ? Cesar Munoz, NASA, USA (General Co-Chair) ? Ivan Perez, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (General Co-Chair) ? Aaron Dutle, NASA, USA (PC Co-Chair) ? Mariano Moscato, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair) ? Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair) Program Committee: ------------------ Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Julia Badger, NASA, USA Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Jasmin Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Misty Davies, NASA, USA Gilles Dowek, INRIA / ENS Paris-Saclay, France Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France Gabriel Ebner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Marco Feliu, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, USA John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Brian Jalaian, ARL / Virginia Tech, USA Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA Michael Lowry, NASA, USA Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Anastasia Mavridou, SGT Inc. / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yannick Moy, AdaCore / INRIA, France Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA Laura Panizo, University of Malaga, Spain Corina Pasareanu, CMU / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah, USA Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia Nicolas Rosner, Amazon Web Services, USA Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Johann? Schumann, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA Tanner Slagel, NASA, USA Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Caterina Urban, INRIA, France Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Registration: ------------- Registration is required and free of charge. Contact: -------- Email: nfm2021 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 7429 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From pavlogiannis at cs.au.dk Thu Nov 26 05:33:59 2020 From: pavlogiannis at cs.au.dk (Andreas Pavlogiannis) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 10:33:59 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions at Aarhus University on Algorithmic Verification & Programming Languages Message-ID: The Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark, offers several fully funded PhD positions in the areas of Algorithmic Verification & Programming Languages. The department has a strong presence in the areas of formal methods and programming languages and we are looking for talented students to work in the area. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact the respective faculty for details. Andreas Pavlogiannis (algorithmic & computational foundations of model checking, quantitative verification, concurrency, static & dynamic analysis) 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) Next deadline: Feb 1st, 2020. Refer here for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From saurabh_t at daiict.ac.in Thu Nov 26 07:08:42 2020 From: saurabh_t at daiict.ac.in (Saurabh Tiwari) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:38:42 +0530 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Natural Language Processing Advancements for Software Engineering (NLPaSE) @ 27th APSEC 2020 Message-ID: Hi, You are invited to participate in NLPaSE 2020 workshop colocated with 27th APSEC 2020 conference (1-3 December, Singapore). The workshop will be held VIRTUALLY on 1st December 2020. *Time:* 13.30 Hrs to 16.45 Hrs (UTC+5.30) - Keeping the local time for different parts of the world, and to attract maximum participation. *Website:* https://sites.google.com/view/nlpase2020/ NLPaSE aims to identify the areas where NLP was applied (limitation, challenges), can be applied (possible directions), and bring out the researchers/industry practitioners in a platform to interact, share their experiences and collaborate. We look forward to your contribution and participation in NLPaSE 2020. The detailed program can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SI3PPcJS8brYnrsXaqfW2RxRaf9mwmvJ/view If you would like to attend workshop virtual sessions, please register at the following link for participation. Please also look into the APSEC 2020 registration rules. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyhhPaj9boiYeQ8duXMcrKavUzpmgaVzuLkoS7Bnkfjzlphw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&gxids=7628 NLPaSE 2020 workshop will be run using the video platform Cisco WebEx. You will receive an email with the respective WebEx meeting link and the password that is needed to join in your email ID. We ask you to appropriately set up and test your computer equipment (camera, microphone)! Saurabh Tiwari, PhD Assistant Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Contact: +91-79-68261618 (O), +91-8224009398 (M) https://sites.google.com/site/saurabhiiitdmj/ *"Creating New Knowledge"* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions of papers related to aspects of confluence such as commutation, ground confluence, nominal confluence, completion, CP criteria, decidability, complexity, system and tool descriptions, certification, and applications of confluence, are welcome. All submissions will pass a thorough and rigorous reviewing process, according to the standards of MSCS. The reviewing process of each paper will start as soon as it is submitted, and? accepted papers will undergo production before being published online in MSCS. Submissions should be submitted to the ScholarOne system here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mscs When submitting your paper please select the Special Issue on "Confluence" from the drop-down list on the ScholarOne system, as thisis the only way the papers can be correctly tagged for this special issue. 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It gathers conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects ? from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques, testing and verification methods, to language design and system implementation approaches. * Main Conferences * - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination ) 23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages PC Chairs: Ferruccio Damiani (University of Turin, IT) and Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2021/dais ) 21st International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems PC Chairs: Fab?ola Greve (Federal University of Bahia, BR) and Miguel Matos (University of Lisboa & INESC-ID, PT) - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2021/forte ) 41st International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems PC Chairs: Kirstin Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) and Tim Willemse (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) * Important Dates (for all main conferences) * - February 3, 2021: Abstract submission - February 12, 2021: Paper submission - April 9, 2021: Notification of accepted papers - April 23, 2021: Camera-ready papers - June 14-18, 2021: Conferences and Workshops * Keynote Speakers * - Gilles Fedak (iExec, FR) - Mira Mezini (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) * 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 + 10 minute 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 (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) - Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) - ?Journal First? papers (up to 4 pages, including references) * Proceedings * The proceedings of DisCoTec 2021 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 a reputable journal such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and the 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. The registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before February 3, 2021. Submission of the manuscript is due by no later than February 12, 2021. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2021 - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte21 - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ under Publications/Links). The submissions ? prepared using Springer?s LNCS style ? must not exceed the total page limit, including figures and references. Submissions not adhering to the above-specified constraints may be rejected without review. For each accepted paper, one of the authors must register to DisCoTec 2021, and attend the corresponding conference to present the paper. * Satellite Events * DisCoTec also features workshops, tutorials, and a tool track. Workshops, tutorials, and tools demonstrations should fall in the areas of the DisCoTec conferences. For more information refer to the website: http://www.discotec.org/2021#satellite-events * Organising Committee * - Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT ? General Chair) - Caroline Caruana (University of Malta, MT ? Publicity Chair) - Jasmine Xuereb (University of Malta, MT ? Publicity Chair) - Duncan Paul Attard (University of Malta, MT ? Workshops Chair) - Christian Bartolo Burlo (Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT ? Workshops Chair) - Lucienne Bugeja (University of Malta, MT ? Logistics) * Steering Committee * - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Pascal Felber (University of Neuch?tel, CH) - Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT) - Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, DE) - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, GR) - Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, FR) - Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES) - Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, PT) - Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, FR) - Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, IT ? Chair) To receive live, up to date information, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisCoTecConf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr Fri Nov 27 04:59:05 2020 From: Thomas.Jensen at inria.fr (Thomas Jensen) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:59:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenure-track assistant professor in Systems Level Security at University of Copenhagen Message-ID: <9B6A041A-796E-4AB5-B4E9-85CDC40D0633@inria.fr> University of Copenhagen invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Systems Level Security. The researcher will be part of the newly formed Security and Privacy Group spanning several research sections at the department. People working at the intersection of systems-level security and formal aspects of computer science (e.g., verification, type systems, programming languages, language-based security, formal methods and logic,) are encouraged to apply. Relevant research areas include hardware-assisted security, OS and hypervisor-level security, secure compilation, security aspects of IoT, cryptographic engineering, security engineering. The full announcement is available at : https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18971&ProjectId=152982&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=false. Deadline: Sunday 10 January 2021. For further information contact Professor Jakob Grue Simonsen, simonsen at di.ku.dk or Head of Department: Professor Mads Nielsen, madsn at di.ku.dk. I can also provide information about the position. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions are welcome from all scientists on topics in the entire spectrum from logic to algorithms including, but not limited to: Exact real number computation, Correctness of algorithms on infinite data, Computable analysis, Complexity of real numbers, real-valued functions, etc. Effective descriptive set theory, Constructive topological foundations, Scott's domain theory, Constructive analysis, Category-theoretic approaches to computation on infinite data, Weihrauch degrees, Randomness and computable measure theory, Other related areas. EDITORS: Daniel Gra?a (Faro, Portugal) Alex Simpson (Ljubljana, Slovenia) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 31 March 2021 If you intend to submit a paper for the special issue, please inform us by sending an email to: dgraca at ualg.pt (Daniel Gra?a) or alex.simpson at fmf.uni-lj.si (Alex Simpson) by 31 January 2021 You will then receive concrete submission instructions about how to submit your paper to this special issue. 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ITP will carefully monitor the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, and take guidance from the health authorities, to determine whether ITP21 will be held physically, virtually or in a hybrid manner. http://easyconferences.eu/itp2021/ ******************************************************************************************** The ITP conference series is concerned with all aspects of interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and the formalization of mathematics. This will be the 12th conference in the ITP series, while predecessor conferences from which it has evolved have been going since 1988. ITP welcomes submissions describing original research on all aspects of interactive theorem proving and its applications. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ? formalizations of computational models ? improvements in theorem prover technology ? formalizations of mathematics ? integration with automated provers and other symbolic tools ? verification of security algorithms ? industrial applications of interactive theorem provers ? formal aspects of hardware and software ? user interfaces for interactive theorem provers ? use of theorem provers in education ? concise and elegant worked examples of formalizations (proof pearls) **Paper Submission** Submissions will undergo single-blind peer review. They should be no more than 16 pages in length excluding bibliographic references and are to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itp202 We also welcome short papers, which can be used to describe interesting work that is still ongoing and not fully mature. Such a preliminary report is limited to 6 pages and may consist of an extended abstract. Each of these papers should bear the phrase ?(short paper)? beneath the title. Accepted submissions in this category will be published in the main proceedings and will be presented as short talks. All submissions are expected to be accompanied by verifiable evidence of a suitable implementation, such as the source files of a formalization for the proof assistant used. **Important Dates** ? Abstract submission deadline: January 25, 2021 ? Paper submission deadline: February 1, 2021 ? Author notification: March 25, 2021 ? Camera-ready copy due: April 20, 2021 ? Conference: June 29-July 1, 2021 **Publication Details** The conference proceedings will be published in the LIPIcs series (?Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics?). This was chosen in large part because of its commitment to free and open access to all papers. For more information on the series see https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics and for more detailed instructions for authors on document preparation: https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ **Program Committee Chairs** Liron Cohen, Ben-Gurion University Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck itp2021 at easychair.org **Program Committee** Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University June Andronick, CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW Jes?s Aransay, Universidad de La Rioja Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University Christoph Benzm?ller, Freie Universit?t Berlin Jasmin Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Valeria de Paiva, Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham Gilles Dowek, INRIA and ENS Paris-Saclay Amy Felty, University of Ottawa Hugo Herbelin, INRIA Shachar Itzhaky, Technion Chantal Keller, LRI, Universit? Paris-Sud Michael Kohlhase, Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg Peter Lammich, Institut fuer Informatik, TU Munich Assia Mahboubi, INRIA Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy C?sar Mu?oz , NASA Cl?udia Nalon, University of Bras?lia Adam Naumowicz, Institute of Informatics, University of Bialystok, Poland Tobias Nipkow, Technical University of Munich Michael Norrish, CSIRO John O?Leary, Intel Lawrence Paulson, University of Cambridge Damien Pous, CNRS ? 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URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Mon Nov 30 07:17:12 2020 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:17:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions at University of Glasgow in Programming Languages Message-ID: <50B8A1A3-F175-4978-8BA5-4867CD5187F0@gmail.com> The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering up to 17 studentships to support PhD research for students starting in 2021. Funding is available to support tuition fees for both home and international students, and in most cases to support living expenses at the recommended UKRI rate (currently ?15,285 per annum) in addition. Whilst the above funding is open to students in all areas of computing science, applications in the area of programming languages are welcomed. Available supervisors in this area at the School include (check the PL theme website https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/pl-theme/ for further details) * Dr Ornela Dardha (programming language foundations, logic, session types for concurrent/distributed systems), email ornela.dardha at glasgow.ac.uk * Prof Simon Gay (programming language theory, verification techniques based on session types for concurrent/distributed systems), email simon.gay at glasgow.ac.uk * Dr Jeremy Singer (compilers, cloud, managed run-times, parallelism, resource management), email Jeremy.singer at glasgow.ac.uk * Prof Phil Trinder (programming languages, functional programming, parallel/distributed systems), email phil.trinder at glasgow.ac.uk * Prof Wim Vanderbauwhede (programming languages, compilation, heterogeneous & FPGA computing), email wim.vanderbauwhede at glasgow.ac.uk Students can apply for admission to PhD study at any time, but to be considered for the studentships we are offering at this round, we must receive your application by 31 January 2021. For more information about how to apply, see https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestudents/ . This web page includes information about the research proposal, which is required as part of your application. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact a potential supervisor and discuss an application before the submission deadline. See https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestudents/studentshipinformation/ and https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestudents/phd-projects for more details about the funding available. Information session: we will be running an information session for potential applicants on Friday 11 December from 1100-1200 GMT. The session is intended to give you an insight into the research currently undertaken in the School of Computing Science, scholarships and other sources of funding available, and how to make your application. 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URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Tue Dec 1 04:21:20 2020 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:21:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION 2021 - First Call for Papers Message-ID: <6972AFFA-1FE7-4060-B766-918D2684D53B@gmail.com> *********************************************************************************** 23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages COORDINATION 2021 14-18th of June, 2021 at the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination COORDINATION 2021 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2021 *********************************************************************************** HIGHLIGHTS Deadlines January 29, 2021 ? abstract submission February 5, 2021 ? paper submission Keynote Speakers: Gilles Fedak, iExec, FR Mira Mezini, Technical University of Darmstadt, DE Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 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 the following three special topics (details below): Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era, Microservices, and 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 2021 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. Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era Highly configurable software systems, such as software product lines, call for automatic mechanisms that allow to tame the complexity and variability. DevOps have pushed forward the importance of automating every step of the software development process, including the management of configurable systems. In this special topic, we welcome submissions addressing novel techniques and methodologies for the COORDINATION of automatic configuration tasks or for the COORDINATION of the various phases from development to deployment supporting the continuous release of software/products. Moreover, given the relevance of the topic to industry and aligned with the main topics of COORDINATION, we encourage submissions of efforts carried out in collaboration with industry, including case studies. Contacts: Maurice ter Beek (maurice.terbeek at isti.cnr.it ) and Hugo Torres Vieira (hugo.torres.vieira at ubi.pt ) 2. 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 of 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 Larisa Safina (larisa.safina at inria.fr ) 3. 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 2021 edition 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: Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito at unito.it ) and Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa at ifi.uio.no ) for details. SUBMISSIONS Important Dates January 29, 2021 ? abstract submission February 5, 2021 ? paper submission April 2, 2021 ? notification April 23, 2021 ? camera ready PUBLICATION 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=coordination2021 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 authors of accepted papers (in any submission category) will be encouraged to make their artefacts publicly available using permanent repositories such as Zenodo etc. (for Tool papers, the tool should already be available at submission time for reviewing purposes, but not necessarily via a permanent archive with a DOI). The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Special Issues Following the tradition of previous editions of COORDINATION, according to the quality and number of the submission, we will organise special issues of extended and selected Full/Short/Survey/Tool papers in reputable journals such as LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer Science) and SCP (Science of Computer Programming). Special issues for last year?s edition are under preparation and we will advertise them on the conference?s website as soon as they get published. COMMITTEES Program committee chairs Ferruccio Damiani (ferruccio.damiani at unito.it ) (University of Turin, Italy) Ornela Dardha (ornela.dardha at glasgow.ac.uk ) (University of Glasgow, UK) Tool track chairs Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito at unito.it ) (University of Turin, Italy) Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa at ifi.uio.no ) (University of Oslo, Norway) Program committee Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon, USA) Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde, UK) Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy) Stephanie Balzer (CMU, USA) Maurice H. ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Roberto Casadei (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Vashti Galpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran) Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 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) Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) Larisa Safina (Inria - Lille Nord Europe, France) Gwen Sala?n (Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) Meng Sun (Peking University, China) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway) Peter Thieman (Universit?t Freiburg, Germany) Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Steering committee Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) Rocco De Nicola, IMT (School for Advanced Studies Lucca, 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) - Chair) Jos? Proen?a (CISTER, ISEP, Portugal) Rosario Pugliese (Universit? di Firenze, Italy) Hanne Riis Nielson (DTU, Denmark) Marjan Sirjani (M?lardalen University, Sweden) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Mirko Viroli (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit? di Bologna, Italy) Gianluigi Zavattaro (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit? di Bologna, Italy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tue Dec 1 08:16:26 2020 From: carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:16:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2021: Second Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline 6 Dec 2020) Message-ID: <90186a8b-698f-022d-bf02-a79631414cb9@dcs.bbk.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Workshop Proposals FSCD 2021 https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar Buenos Aires, Argentina Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021 Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation, deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July, before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to participants of parallel events. PROPOSALS -------------------- Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track) Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A description part including: - a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant); - a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and publicity material. 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organisers; - name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee member (*); - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of acceptance; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, or post main conference); - any other special requirements. (*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal. The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs and availability of space and facilities. The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to workshops, depending on the number of participants. The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on the main conference website; integration of the event's programme into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be provided by the FSCD organising committee. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- Submission of workshop proposals: 6 December, 2020 Notification of success of proposals: 20 December, 2020 -------------------- Best regards, Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs From kutsia at risc.jku.at Tue Dec 1 08:59:48 2020 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:59:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: AMAI Special Issue on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Unification Message-ID: <1674644f-a96c-c9f1-fd7d-b5fc677d5091@risc.jku.at> Call for submissions Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Unification ------------------------------------------------- SCOPE -------- In 2020, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) celebrates its 30th anniversary. Over the years, the journal has promoted better understanding of the application of quantitative, combinatorial, logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to artificial intelligence areas as diverse as decision support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and planning. AMAI special issues are intended to be collections of original research papers reflecting the intersection of mathematics and a focussed discipline demonstrating how each has contributed greatly to the other. A further goal of the journal is to close the gaps between the fields even further. Papers should report on current research in the appropriate areas, as well as more retrospective papers in which progress has been ongoing over a period of time. The purpose of this special issue of AMAI is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of unification. Unification is concerned with the problem of making two terms equal, finding solutions for equations or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. The special issue is related to the topics of the 34th International Workshop on Unification - UNIF 2020. Participants of the workshop, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions. EXAMPLES OF TOPICS ------------------- This special issue focuses on advanced results on the topics of unification in a broad sense, which include, but are not limited to, the following: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Unification in modal, fuzzy, temporal and description logics - Anti-unification/generalization - Semi-unification - Narrowing - Matching problems - Unification in special theories - Higher-order unification - Combination problems - Constraint solving - Disunification - Complexity issues - Type checking and reconstruction - Admissibility of inference rules - Formalization of unification - Tools - Applications SUBMISSION ----------- This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor simultaneously submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using the standard refereeing procedure of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Submitted papers must be in English, prepared in LaTeX according to the guidelines of the journal: https://www.springer.com/journal/10472/submission-guidelines. PDF versions of papers should be uploaded at the submission page https://www.editorialmanager.com/amai by December 14, 2020. Please choose S704 - Unification - UNIF 2020 when you will be selecting the article type. GUEST EDITORS -------------------- Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Andrew M. Marshall (University of Mary Washington, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Temur Kutsia Andrew M. Marshall From tyokoyama at acm.org Wed Dec 2 04:00:31 2020 From: tyokoyama at acm.org (Tetsuo Yokoyama) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:00:31 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reversible Computation 2021 1st CfP Message-ID: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ======================================================================= 1st Call for Papers 13th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2021) July 7th-9th, 2021, Nagoya, Japan Abstract Submission: Sun, February 14th, 2021 Submission Deadline: Sun, February 21st, 2021 http://www.reversible-computation.org ======================================================================= 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: Sun, February 14th, 2021 - Submission Deadline: Sun, February 21st, 2021 - Notification to Authors: Sat, March 27th, 2021 - Final Version: Sat, April 17th, 2021 - Conference: Wed-Fri, July 7th-9th, 2021 (Wed-Thu, July 7th-8th, 2021, if online) ===== Invited speakers ===== TBA ===== 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. Papers can be submitted electronically in PDF via the RC 2021 interface of the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rc2021 ===== Organizers ===== * General Chair Shoji Yuen Nagoya University, Japan * Program co-chairs Shigeru Yamashita Ritsumeikan University, Japan Tetsuo Yokoyama Nanzan University, Japan ===== Program Committee ===== Gerhard Dueck (University of New Brunswic, Canada) Michael P. Frank (Sandia National Laboratories, US) Robert Gl?ck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Eva Graversen (Imperial College London, UK) James Hoey (University of Leicester, UK) Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) Jean Krivine (CNRS, France) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy) Martin Lukac (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) Claudio Antares Mezzina (Universit? di Urbino, Italy) Claudio Moraga (TU Dortmund University, Germany) Keisuke Nakano (Tohoku University, Japan) Luca Paolini (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Krzysztof Podlaski (University of Lodz, Poland) Mariusz Rawski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Markus Schordan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US) Mathias Soeken (Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Milena Stankovic (University of Nis, Serbia) Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky, US) Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester, UK) Rodney Van Meter (Keio University, Japan) Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) info at reversible-computation.org http://www.reversible-computation.org From wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Wed Dec 2 05:53:00 2020 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 10:53:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Combinator Centenary Message-ID: I received the below from Stephen Wolfram, which may be of interest. Go well, -- P Combinators: A 100-Year Celebration Livestreamed Event On December 7, 1920, at 6pm German time, Moses Sch?nfinkel gave the talk that introduced combinators. We are celebrating its 100th anniversary with a public livestream about the history and future of combinators, and their significance for computation. December 7, 2020, at 6pm CET/12 noonEST/9am PST JOIN LIVE EITHER OF: youtube.com/user/WolframResearch twitch.tv/Stephen_Wolfram . \ Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, . /\ School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh . / \ and Senior Research Fellow, IOHK . http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Wed Dec 2 14:15:45 2020 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:15:45 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on RustBelt and the Iris Framework In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, everyone. I included the wrong YouTube link in the email, but it is correct if you follow the link to the talk details. Just in order to be complete here is the correct one: https://youtu.be/z1Z4-AAIWQA Best, Harley On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:16 PM Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > On Friday, Dec. 4, 2020 between 1pm and 2pm EST, Dr. Derek Dreyer will be > giving a presentation as part of the CS Colloquium Series at Augusta > University. > > Presentation details can be found here: > > https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/colloquium_talks/Dreyer.html > > Derek will discuss his work on Rustbelt and the Iris Framework for > verification of system programs. > It's going to be a great talk! > > These talks are open to the general public via Zoom. I'll also be living > streaming it on Youtube. So if you are interested in attending the Zoom > meeting please RSVP with me before the talk. Questions will be taken from > those on Zoom and YouTube. > > If you care to watch via YouTube, please use the following link: > > https://youtu.be/-NO0iquBnyo > > Feel free to share this message with everyone you know. > > I hope all of you, your family and friends are doing well! > > Very best, > Harley > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alex.summers at ubc.ca Wed Dec 2 17:07:11 2020 From: alex.summers at ubc.ca (Alex Summers) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:07:11 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Funded MSc, PhD and postdoc positions in Program Reasoning and Verification at The University of British Columbia (Vancouver) Message-ID: <009801d6c8f7$7c67c0e0$753742a0$@ubc.ca> I have a number of positions available on research topics connected with program correctness and (deductive) verification techniques and tools; these topics touch on programming language design and semantics, formal proof systems, logic and SMT solving in various combinations. Three representative topics are: 1. A large ongoing effort to build verification support for the Rust language: the Prusti project. 2. Formalising, explaining and debugging logical encodings suitable for automated SMT solving. 3. Static analysis techniques for inferring formal specifications for partially-specified programs. I plan to hire a combination of MSc and PhD students, for a start in September 2021; I may also hire up to one excellent postdoc candidate for a similar timeframe. MSc students at UBC perform research (and sometimes teaching) throughout their studies, and are paid a stipend in return; PhD student positions are also fully funded. For both MSc and PhD students, the application process is to the department directly (naming one or more potential supervisors is encouraged), and the deadline for this year is December 15th. Details of the programmes and application process can be found here: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/graduate-degree-programs/master -of-science-computer-science https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/graduate-degree-programs/phd-co mputer-science In case you have any questions or would like more information about my research, you can check out my new webpage here: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~alexsumm/ and are welcome to email me on alex.summers at ubc.ca Best wishes, Alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Wed Dec 2 18:33:27 2020 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:33:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?Int=27al_Workshop_on_Trusted_Smart_Co?= =?utf-8?b?bnRyYWN0cyAoV1RTQ+KAmTIxKSAgIFtjZnBd?= Message-ID: <49A7B324-C3C3-44F1-9A20-48DB164A1B33@cs.stir.ac.uk> [APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING / PLEASE DISSEMINATE] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC?21) - https://fc19.ifca.ai/wtsc/ March 5, 2021 Radisson Grenada Beach Resort Grenada In Association with Financial Cryptography 19 (FC 2019) - https://fc19.ifca.ai/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [PLANNED IN GRANADA WITH A BACK-UP PLAN TO TURN ON-LINE IF NEEDED] CALL FOR PAPERS Smart contracts, an highly transformational technology, are self-enforcing agreements in the form of executable programs that are deployed to and run on top of blockchains. Several proposals have developed the idea of algorithmic validation of decentralised trust, along Szabo's intuition. The first significant example was the Ethereum blockchain. A myriad of possible further directions have been proposed, many of them are in active development. These technologies introduce a novel programming framework and execution environment, which are not satisfactorily understood at the moment. Multidisciplinary and multifactorial aspects affect correctness, safety, privacy, authentication, efficiency, sustainability, resilience and trust in smart contracts. Existing frameworks, which are competing for their market share, adopt different solutions to issues like the above ones. Merits of proposed solutions are still to be fully evaluated and compared by means of systematic scientific investigation, and further research is needed towards laying the foundations of Trusted Smart Contracts. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest, open problems and future directions includes: - validation and definition of the programming abstractions and execution model, - verification of the properties expected to be enforced by smart contracts, - incentives, governance, participatory models, and implications on smart contracts, - resilience of the consensus/validation/mining/execution model, - fairness and decentralisation of contracts and their management, - rewards, economics and sustainability/stability of the framework, - on- and off-chain interaction modalities, protocols and context, - (smart-contract supported) multi-chain interoperability - (smart-contract supported) decentralised exchanges - sharding, concurrency, and parallelism in smart contracts, - effects of consensus mechanisms and proof-of mechanisms on smart contracts, - game-theoretic approaches for security and validation, - digital and ring signatures - multiparty computation and homomorphic encryption for the privacy of smart contract execution - privacy and privacy-preserving contracts, - authentication and anonymity management, - oblivious transfer, - data provenance, - access rights, - foundations of software engineering for smart contracts, - blockchain data analysis, - comparison of the permissioned and non-permissioned scenarios, - use cases and killer applications of smart contracts, - regulation and law enforcement, - future outlook on smart contract technologies, WTSC focuses on smart contracts as an application layer on top of blockchains, however aspects of the underlying supporting blockchains clearly become relevant in so much as they affect properties of the smart contracts, and are of great interest for WTSC. WTSC aims to gather together researchers from both academia and industry interested in the many facets of Trusted Smart Contract engineering, and to provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussing open problems, proposed solutions and the vision on future developments. Associated to Financial Cryptography, a recognised premiere conference for the blockchain world, WTSC aims to become a reference venue for the discussion of cutting-edge smart contracts and associated blockchain technologies. Experts in fields including (but not limited to): - programming languages, - verification, - security, - software engineering, - decision and game theory, - cryptography, - finance and economics, - monetary systems, - finance and economics, - regulation and law, as well as, practitioners and companies interested in blockchain technologies, are invited to submit their findings, case studies and reports on open problems for presentation at the workshop, to take part in this third edition of WTSC and make it a lively forum. INVITED SPEAKERS (TBC) Continuing on WTSC tradition (slides on the web) ? Buterin (Ethereum) 2017, - Breitman (Tezos) and Mishra (NYU) 2018, ? Artamonov (Splix - Ethereum Classic) and Ian Grigg (www.iang.org) 2019, ? Gutmann (University of Auckland, with Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance) 2020, we are defining the 2021 list, including: ? Darren Tapp (Arizona State University) - TBC IMPORTANT DATES WTSC adopts for the second year a submission schedule ** with double deadline **. A first deadline will allow authors to plan their participation well in advance. A second deadline will allow authors who need extra time to develop their contributions, to have a further opportunity to participate. Selected borderline papers from the first deadline will be considered for and also allowed to resubmit to the second deadline. Abstract registration is kindly requested in advance. Abstract Registration: 16 December 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: 23 December Early Author Notification: 12 January 2021 Late Submission Deadline: 5 February Late Author Notification: 21 February Early registration deadline: TBA Final Papers: TBA WTSC: 5 March 2021 Financial Cryptography: 1-5 March 2021 Final Papers TBA (Springer post-proceeding) SUBMISSION WTSC solicits submissions of manuscripts that represent significant and novel research contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format and should be no more than 15 pages including references and appendices. Papers may also be in a short format, no more than 8 pages including references and appendices. In-progress work and developing ideas can be submitted as a poster. Also "Systemisation of Knowledge" papers will be accepted and have a page limit of 20 pages but *excluding* references. These should be marked "SoK: ? ?. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their works to journals may opt-out by publishing an extended abstract only. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. SUBMISSION PAGE Contributions can be submitted at this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wtsc2021 PROGRAM CHAIRS Andrea Bracciali University of Stirling, UK Massimiliano Sala University of Trento, IT PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC) Monika di Angelo Vienna University of Technology, AT Igor Artamonov Ethereum Classic Dev, UK Daniel Augot INRIA, FR Surya Bakshi University of Illinois, USA Fadi Barbara University of Turin, IT Massimo Bartoletti University of Cagliari, IT Devraj Basu Strathclyde University, UK Stefano Bistarelli University of Perugia, IT Christina Boura Versailles SQT Univ., FR Andrea Bracciali University of Stirling, UK Daniel Broby Strathclyde University, UK James Chapman IOHK, UK Martin Chapman King?s College London, UK Nicola Dimitri University of Siena, IT Nadia Fabrizio Cefriel, IT Murdoch Gabbay Heriot-Watt University, UK Oliver Giudice Banca d'Italia, IT Davide Grossi University of Groningen, NL Yoichi Hirai brainbot technologies AG, DE Lars R. Knudsen Technical University of Denmark, DK Ioannis Kounelis Joint Research Centre, European Commission, IT Pascal Lafourcade University Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR Andrew Lewis-Pye London School of Economics, UK Carsten Maple Warwick University, UK Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari, IT Fabio Martinelli IIT-CNR, IT Akaki Mamageishvili ETHZ, CH Luca Mazzola Lucerne University, CH Sihem Mesnager University of Paris VIII, FR Philippe Meyer Avaloq, CH Bud Mishra NYU, USA Carlos Molina-Jimenez University of Cambridge, UK Massimo Morini Algorand Foundation, SP Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade University of Warwick, UK Alex Norta Tallin University of Technology, EE Akira Otsuka Institute of Information Security, JP Federico Pintore University of Oxford, UK Massimiliano Sala University of Trento, IT Darren Tapp Arizona State University, US Jason Teutsch Truebit, USA Roberto Tonelli University of Cagliari, IT Philip Wadler University of Edinburgh, UK Yilei Wang Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Tim Weing?rtner Lucerne University, CH Ales Zamuda University of Maribor, SLO Santiago Zanella-Beguelin Microsoft, UK Dionysis Zindros University of Athens, GR From itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu Thu Dec 3 11:16:36 2020 From: itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu (itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu) Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:16:36 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITP2021: Call for Workshops Message-ID: <3b3b20320f61dc79df0a7a12b1afd6b1@easyconferences.eu> -------------------------------------------------------------------- ITP2021: Interactive Theorem Proving, 12th International Conference 2021, June 29-July 1, Rome, Italy http://easyconferences.eu/itp2021/ [1] -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS The ITP conference series is concerned with all topics related to interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in system verification, security, and formalization of mathematics. The 12th ITP conference, ITP 2021, will be held in Rome between 29 June and 1 July. It will be co-located with LICS and ICTCS conferences. ITP will carefully monitor the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, and take guidance from the health authorities to determine whether ITP21 will be held physically, virtually, or in a hybrid manner. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for co-located workshops on topics relating to interactive theorem proving. Workshops can target the ITP community in general, focus on a particular ITP system, or highlight more specific issues or recent developments. Proposals for in-depth tutorials or tool introductions are also welcome. Co-located events will take place on 28 June and 2 July and will be held on the same premises as the main conference. In case of needs, we are ready to discuss and try to accommodate requests for two-day workshops. Conference facilities are offered free of charge to one of the organizers and one of the invited speakers. Workshop-only attendees will enjoy a significantly reduced registration fee. Detailed organizational matters such as paper submission and review process, or publication of proceedings, are up to the organizers of individual workshops. All accepted workshops will be expected to have their program ready by 4 June, 2021. Proposals for workshops should contain at least the following pieces of information: * name and contact details of the main organizer(s) * (if applicable:) names of additional organizers * title and organizational style of the workshop (tutorial, public workshop, project workshop, etc.) * preferred length of the workshop (half day or full day) * estimated number of attendees * short (up to one page) description of the topic * (if applicable:) pointers to previous editions of the workshop, or to similar events * (if applicable:) special needs for an online event Proposals should be submitted by email to itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu, no later than 11 January, 2021. Selected workshops will be notified by 15 January, 2021. Links: ------ [1] http://easyconferences.eu/itp2021/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal is to bring together researchers interested in secure compilation and to identify interesting research directions and open challenges. PriSC 2021 will be held on Saturday January 17th, 2021 online. It will be co-located with POPL 2021, also online. For more information about this edition and the PriSC series, please visit https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/prisc-2021 ### Invited Speakers Hugo Vincent (ARM) ### Accepted papers The list of accepted talks is available at https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/prisc-2021#event-overview ### Call for Short Talks We also have a short talks session, where participants get 5 minutes to present intriguing ideas, advertise ongoing work, etc. If you're interested in giving a short 5-minute talk, please submit an abstract. Any topic that could be of interest to the emerging secure compilation community is in scope. Presentations that provide a useful outside view or challenge the community are also welcome. - Deadline: January 11th, 2021 - More details: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/prisc-2021#Call-for-Short-Talks - Submit here: https://forms.gle/wkCyK4fN3i11nbyD7 ### Workshop summary The emerging field of secure compilation aims to preserve security properties of programs when they have been compiled to low-level languages such as assembly, where high-level abstractions don?t exist, and unsafe, unexpected interactions with libraries, other programs, the operating system and even the hardware are possible. For unsafe source languages like C, secure compilation requires careful handling of undefined source-language behavior (like buffer overflows and double frees). Formally, secure compilation aims to protect high-level language abstractions in compiled code, even against adversarial low-level contexts, thus enabling sound reasoning about security in the source language. A complementary goal is to keep the compiled code efficient, often leveraging new hardware security features and advances in compiler design. Other necessary components are identifying and formalizing properties that secure compilers must possess, devising efficient security mechanisms (both software and hardware), and developing effective verification and proof techniques. Research in the field thus puts together advances in compiler design, programming languages, systems security, verification, and computer architecture. ### Contact For any questions please contact the workshop chairs, Jonathan Protzenko (jonathan.protzenko at gmail.com) and Deian Stefan (deian at cs.ucsd.edu). To make sure you receive PriSC announcements in the future please subscribe to the following low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/prisc-announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk Thu Dec 3 14:39:41 2020 From: c.cadar at imperial.ac.uk (Cristian Cadar) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 19:39:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral position in Program Analysis/Systems at Imperial College London Message-ID: <5fb0b0d7-8b0c-8f18-f842-46af6e1280ca@imperial.ac.uk> We are looking for motivated applicants with expertise in program analysis and/or software systems for a postdoctoral position in Cristian Cadar's Software Reliability Group at Imperial College London. 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. More details about this position can be found at https://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/vacancies/postdoc-pass-21/ From jgerling at mpi-inf.mpg.de Fri Dec 4 08:01:36 2020 From: jgerling at mpi-inf.mpg.de (Jennifer Gerling) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 14:01:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Positions at the International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing Message-ID: The International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing (IMPRS-TRUST) is a graduate program jointly run by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarland University, and TU Kaiserslautern. The IMPRS-TRUST offers a PhD program upon successful completion of which students receive a Doctoral Degree in Computer Science from Saarland University or TU Kaiserslautern. The program is open to students with a bachelor?s or master?s degree in computer science (or an equivalent degree). Successful candidates will typically have ranked at or near the top of their classes, have engaged in research, and be highly proficient in spoken and written English. Admitted students receive full funding to cover their living expenses and tuition fees. Students admitted to IMPRS-TRUST can enroll at either Saarland University or at TU Kaiserslautern. PhD projects are jointly supervised by scientists of the two Max Planck Institutes and their colleagues at the computer science departments at Saarland University and TU Kaiserslautern. Applications are accepted all year round; the current round closes on December 31st, 2020. 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Strategic reasoning refers to algorithmic methods that allow for developing good behavior for the agents of the system. At the intersection, we find logics that can express existence of strategies or equilibria, and can be used to reason about them. The LAMAS&SR workshop merges two international workshops: LAMAS, which focuses on all kinds of logical aspects of multi-agent systems from the perspectives of artificial intelligence, computer science, and game theory, and SR, devoted to all aspects of strategic reasoning in formal methods and artificial intelligence. Over the years the communities and research themes of both workshops got closer and closer. LAMAS&SR unifies LAMAS and SR under the same flag, formally joining the two communities in order to expose each of them to a wider range of work relevant to their research. LAMAS&SR is thus interested in all topics related to logics and strategic reasoning in multi-agent systems, from theoretical foundations to algorithmic methods and implemented tools. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: ??? Logical systems for specificanews-AILA at googlegroups.comtion, analysis, and reasoning about multi-agent systems; ??? Logic-based modeling of multi-agent systems; ??? Dynamical multi-agent systems; ??? Deductive systems and decision procedures for logics for multi-agent systems; ??? Development and implementation of methods for formal verification in multi-agent systems; ??? Logic-based tools for multi-agent systems; ??? Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities; ??? Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis; ??? Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems; ??? Strategic reasoning in formal verification; ??? Automata theory for strategy synthesis; ??? Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning; ??? Robust planning and optimization in multi-agent systems; ??? Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems; ??? Quantitative aspects in strategic reasoning. LAMAS&SR 2021 will be held with AAMAS 2021 in London, England. SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of 2 pages plus 1 page for references in the AAMAS format. Both published and unpublished works are welcome. Submissions are subject to a single-blind review process (submissions should not be anonymous). There will be no formal proceedings, but accepted extended abstracts will be made available on the workshop's website. We envisage that extensions of selected papers will be invited to a journal. Authors are invited to submit their manuscript via EasyChair. Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lamassr21# IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: 10 Feb, 2021 (AoE) Author Notification: 10 March, 2021 Camera Ready: 24 March, 2021 Workshop: May 3 or 4, 2021 (TBA) ORGANIZERS: Bastien Maubert, University of Naples "Federico II" (bastien.maubert at gmail.com) Giuseppe Perelli, Sapienza University of Rome (perelli at diag.uniroma1.it) From peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch Fri Dec 4 15:56:08 2020 From: peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch (Mueller Peter) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 20:56:08 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Rust Verification Workshop at ETAPS 2021: Call for Talk and Demo Proposals Message-ID: <0da9287d0eb1470f8ad645b66330092a@inf.ethz.ch> Call for Talk and Demo Proposals 1st Rust Verification Workshop Co-located with ETAPS 2021 Luxembourg Sunday, 28 March, 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/rustverify2021 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 proposals by email to peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch. Important Dates: ? 15 January, 2021: Abstract Submission Deadline ? 25 January, 2021: Notification of Acceptance ? 28 March, 2021: Workshop Note: In the event that ETAPS is held virtually, the workshop will be held virtually as well. We'll update the web site as we learn more. Workshop web site: https://sites.google.com/view/rustverify2021 Organizers: * Rajeev Joshi, Amazon Web Services > * Nicholas Matsakis, Mozilla nmatsakis at mozilla.com * Peter M?ller, ETH Zurich > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From balzers at cs.cmu.edu Sat Dec 5 19:02:39 2020 From: balzers at cs.cmu.edu (Stephanie Balzer) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 19:02:39 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLMW@POPL 2021: Extension - December 10 Message-ID: <8D9F5396-069B-49F0-84F7-AA70A80DC4C5@cs.cmu.edu> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (**EXTENDED DEADLINE: DECEMBER 10 AOE**) ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, ONLINE Tuesday, January 21, 2021 Co-located with POPL 2021 which is also held virtually online Web page: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-2021 After the success of the first nine Programming Languages Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012-2020, we are announcing the 10th SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) to take place online, co-located with the virtual POPL 2021 and organised by Stephanie Balzer, Justin Hsu, Azalea Raad and Gabriel Scherer. The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will bring together world leaders in programming languages research and teaching from academia and industry to provide (a) technical sessions on cutting-edge PL research and (b) mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. The workshop will help students imagine how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students, and people with disabilities to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application. The workshop registration is open to all. APPLICATION for PLMW: Fill in application form at https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-2021 by December 10 (AoE). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kyrozier at iastate.edu Sat Dec 5 21:26:11 2020 From: kyrozier at iastate.edu (Kristin Yvonne Rozier) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 20:26:11 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc and PhD Positions @ Iowa State University Message-ID: <50486a6b-dd67-70fd-2fbd-68739ca60962@iastate.edu> **************************************************** ????????? Postdoc & PhD positions available: ?????????? Laboratory for Temporal Logic, ???????? directed by Kristin Yvonne Rozier http://laboratory.tempoallogic.org ?????? Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA **************************************************** Multiple fully-funded PhD positions and Postdoc positions are available in the Lab for Temporal Logic, which spans the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, and the Virtual Reality Application Center. Application links are below. About the Lab: --------------- The Laboratory for Temporal Logic focuses on foundational advances to formal methods that carry through to really fly. The lab has developed techniques to enable better system specification and model-checking algorithms that scale to verify large, complex systems including NASA's automated air traffic control system and industrial verification problems at IBM. The lab's R2U2 verification engine is the only flight-certifiable RV tool capable of embedding in tight spaces post-deployment for real-time anomaly detection and mitigation triggering. R2U2 has flown on UAS, checked ATC ground stations, launched on rockets and small satellites, and embedded into NASA's Robonaut2 humanoid robot on-board the International Space Station. See a news article about the lab's recent projects here: http://laboratory.temporallogic.org/research/blog/?p=300 See award abstracts for NSF grants funding the research here: Symbolic Model Checking: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2016592&HistoricalAwards=false Specification and Runtime Verification: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2038903&HistoricalAwards=false Postdoc Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: ----------------------------------------------- Candidate(s) will conduct world-class research in the area of formal methods, including design-time and/or runtime verification. Topics include defining new specification logic variants, formal requirements elicitation, proving algorithmic complexity and correctness, formal modeling, and algorithmic advances contributing to industrial-shaped instances of symbolic model checking, proving properties of runtime verification, and assuring development and operation of autonomous systems. Candidate is expected to contribute his/her own research ideas and collaborate with the laboratory to conduct independent research. Teaching and/or research-in-education opportunities are available if the candidate desires, but not required. Program & College Description: ------------------------------- The postdoc(s) and PhD students will have offices in Howe Hall, a $50 million state-of-the-art teaching and research complex including a Virtual Reality Application Center (vrac.iastate.edu). The College of Engineering consists of 8 departments, with 250+ faculty members and annual research expenditures exceeding $88 million. ISU hosts a booming formal methods community, including many large research groups and prominent researchers working in various areas of formal verification across three departments: computer science, aerospace engineering, and electrical and computer engineering. About Iowa State University and the Ames Community: ---------------------------------------------------- Iowa State University is classified as a Carnegie Foundation Doctoral/Research University-Extensive, a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top public universities in the nation. Over 36,000 students are enrolled, and served by over 6,200 faculty and staff (see www.iastate.edu). Ames, Iowa is a progressive community of 60,000, located approximately 30 minutes north of Des Moines, and recently voted the best college town in the nation (see www.visitames.com). Ames, Iowa has a legendary standing as a great place to live, regularly topping lists for e.g., opportunities for work-life balance, green living, and great infrastructure for cycling. Postdoc Application Instructions: -------------------------- To apply for this position, please: * send an email to Dr. Kristin Yvonne Rozier (kyrozier at iastate.edu) and attaching a detailed CV with references * fill in the application: https://isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJobs/job/Ames-IA/Post-Doc-Research-Associate_R3029-1 The start date is flexible, but we aim to fill the positions as soon as possible. Applicants must have a PhD in Computer Science or a related subject at the time they start the position, be fluent in English, have good abilities to work in an international setting. The position is initially offered for one or two years, with opportunities for extensions. Salary and benefits at ISU are competitive and commiserate with experience. There are flexible options for remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If desired, there are several opportunities for growing the teaching section of the postdoc's CV; please specify if you want to explore this option. Possible courses for teaching experiences include a junior-level undergraduate C programming course on robust software engineering practices, numerical algorithms, and good code documentation in LaTeX; or an advanced course in Applied Formal Methods. ISU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers many opportunities for postdocs to learn state-of-the-art teaching best-practices. The ISU Center for Communication Excellence offers individualized training in written and oral communication skills to improve the quality of papers, proposals, and oral presentations. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance a CV for future academic positions. PhD Application Instructions: ----------------------------------------------------- (1) Apply to the department of choice, where you would like the PhD to be granted: Computer Science (Deadline Feb 1): https://www.grad-college.iastate.edu/academics/programs/apresults.php?id=32 Computer Engineering (Deadline Feb 2): https://www.ece.iastate.edu/admissions/graduate-admissions/ Aerospace Engineering (Deadline Jan 15): https://www.grad-college.iastate.edu/academics/programs/apresults.php?id=2 Mathematics (Deadline Feb 1): https://math.iastate.edu/academics/graduate/math-and-applied-math-graduate-program/gradapply/ (2) Send an email to kyrozier at iastate.edu letting me know which department you applied to. -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Asst Professor, Iowa State University / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ Departments of Aerospace Engineering, |______| ~~ |______| Computer Science, Mathematics, and (__||__) Electrical and Computer Engineering /_\ /_\ Virtual Reality Applications Center !!! !!!http://temporallogic.org/kyr From lasse at blaauwbroek.eu Sun Dec 6 15:10:16 2020 From: lasse at blaauwbroek.eu (Lasse Blaauwbroek) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 21:10:16 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Announcing Tactician 1.0 beta In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <15a15385-5eb5-c44c-f278-4b7f673149fd@blaauwbroek.eu> We would like to announce Tactician 1.0 beta1, the first official release of Tactician. See the website here https://coq-tactician.github.io and an online demo here https://coq-tactician.github.io/demo.html Tactician is a tactic learner and prover for the Coq Proof Assistant. The system will help users make tactical proof decisions while they retain control over the general proof strategy. To this end, Tactician will learn from previously written tactic scripts, and either gives the user suggestions about the next tactic to be executed or altogether takes over the burden of proof synthesis. Tactician?s goal is to provide the user with a seamless, interactive, and intuitive experience together with strong, adaptive proof automation. Even though a lot still remains to be done, with this version we believe that the system is mature enough to be used in real developments. We would like to solicit any feedback on the system you might have. Tactician is available for Coq v8.11, v8.12, v8.13 and master and on Linux, macOS and Windows. Installation instructions can be found in the manual (https://coq-tactician.github.io/manual). Tactician has first-class support for Opam (Coq's package manager), and can automatically learn from almost any Coq package. For the exceptions, special support can be added. Currently, special support exists for the HoTT homotopy type theory library. If tactician cannot instrument your favorite package and you would like to see support, please open an issue. -- Future direction -- This release of Tactician is aimed at providing Coq users with an easy to use system that can be used in real Coq developments. The next step in our grand plan is to transform Tactician into a machine learning platform, where AI-researchers can add agents to Tactician (a plugin for a plugin) using an easy-to-use API. The goal of this API is to take away the hard Coq engineering problems and only leave the hard machine learning problems. This API is still under heavy development. We are therefore not yet inviting the wider AI-community to work with Tactician. However, we are looking for collaborators/beta-testers. So if you have a good machine learning idea that you would like to implement on top of Tactician, please get in touch. From michael.kohlhase at fau.de Mon Dec 7 08:57:37 2020 From: michael.kohlhase at fau.de (Michael Kohlhase) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:57:37 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Unesco World Logic Day January 18. 2020 Message-ID: <598eb88d-f647-981f-cd8e-431f4bee9b27@fau.de> Dear Types Community, You may have heard that UNESCO has instituted the World Logic Day on January 18. 2020, see [1]. Maybe Types should so something to celebrate WLD? I will make sure that the SIGMathLing Seminar [2] is logic-heavy on that day and announce it at [3]. Michael [1] http://wld.cipsh.international/wld.html [2] https://sigmathling.kwarc.info/seminar/ [3] http://wld.cipsh.international/organise_event.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gabriel.scherer at gmail.com Mon Dec 7 09:28:46 2020 From: gabriel.scherer at gmail.com (Gabriel Scherer) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:28:46 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Leeds Message-ID: Dear types-announce, I am forwarding below an announcement I received from Nicola Gambino on the hott-list. --- The School of Mathematics of the University of Leeds is offering a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship to work on the EPSRC-funded project "?Monoidal bicategories, linear logic and operads? with Marcelo Fiore (University of Cambridge) and me. Further particulars are at http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/EPSMA1027 The deadline for applications is January 8th, 2021. If you have any queries, please contact us. With best regards, Nicola -- Dr Nicola Gambino Associate Professor in Pure Mathematics and Director of Research and Innovation School of Mathematics, University of Leeds http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~pmtng/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The symposium is planned to take place during November 20-26, 2021, at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The organisers are monitoring closely the COVID-19 situation; although hoping for an in-person event, they are also planning carefully for a virtual event or a hybrid virtual/in-person event, in case there will be travel restrictions or health advisories following the global COVID-19 crisis. A decision on the nature of the meeting will be announced in due course. PROPOSALS ========= For this major event, we are now inviting proposals for workshops, tutorials, or other similar events that will complement the main FM Symposium. The general purpose of workshops and tutorials is to provide an informal setting for participants to discuss technical issues, exchange research ideas and educational approaches, and to discuss and/or demonstrate applications. These may be driven by fundamental academic interests or by needs from specific application domains. A workshop is an event with an open call for contributions. A tutorial is an event based entirely on invited talks by the organizers or by other speakers. Events that mix open and invited presentations will also be considered. We encourage a diversity of topics relating to different ways of developing and using formal methods. Workshops and tutorials will take place on November 20-21, 2021. Each event (workshop or tutorial) should typically run for 1/2 or 1 day, but 2-day events will also be considered. The FM 2021 organising committee aims to contribute to at least partial support for one invited speaker per event. SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== Researchers and practitioners wishing to organise a workshop or tutorial are invited to submit proposals by e-mail to the Workshops & Tutorials Chairs: Tutorial chairs: Luigia Petre (lpetre at abo.fi) and Tim Willemse (t.a.c.willemse at tue.nl) Workshop chairs: Carlo A. Furia (furiac at usi.ch) and Lijun Zhang (zhanglj at ios.ac.cn) A proposal should not exceed three pages and should include the following information: * Title and brief technical description of the event, specifying its goals and formal methods focus, and whether the event is a workshop, tutorial, or any other kind of event. * The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the organisers. The organisers of a workshop will also be its Programme Committee (PC) chairs; in this case, the proposal may also list prospective international PC members. * Pointers to information about past editions of the event, if applicable. Workshop proposals should specify whether it has taken place before; how often it has been co-located with FM or with other conferences, and the number of participants in the most recent instalments. * A discussion of the proposed format and agenda (for example: paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc). The organisers are encouraged to describe their vision for an online event, should the need occur in light of the current global pandemic crisis. * The proposed duration: half or one day. Exceptionally, two days events may be considered. * Potential invited speaker(s). * Procedures for selecting papers and participants and plans for the publication of proceedings, if any. * A tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of acceptance. The organisers of the proposed events are expected to create and maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing and acceptance; draw up a programme of talks; advertise their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any post-proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of proposals: February 15, 2021 Notification of success of proposals: March 15, 2021 FM 2021: November 20-26, 2021 Workshop/Tutorial dates: November 20-21, 2021 Best Wishes, Carlo A. Furia (furiac at usi.ch) Luigia Petre (lpetre at abo.fi) Tim Willemse (t.a.c.willemse at tue.nl) Lijun Zhang (zhanglj at ios.ac.cn) From j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk Tue Dec 8 05:16:41 2020 From: j.wickerson at imperial.ac.uk (Wickerson, John P) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:16:41 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] postdoc @ Imperial College London Message-ID: <4248D0B0-C3DF-486F-95D2-CB4EF0DDF13C@imperial.ac.uk> There's a 2.5-year postdoc position now open at Imperial College London, working with Dr John Wickerson and Prof Alastair Donaldson. We're pretty flexible regarding the topic, but if you have an interest in: - formal verification for heterogeneous systems, - reliable software-to-hardware compilation (aka "high-level synthesis"), or - empirical testing for persistent memory models, or something similar, then we'd love to hear from you. Deadline is 9 January 2021. More details are at: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG01486/research-associate and please don't hesitate to drop us an email if you have any informal questions. Thanks for your attention, and do please pass this message on to anybody who might be interested. Best wishes, John -- Dr John Wickerson Lecturer Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College London https://johnwickerson.github.io From wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk Tue Dec 8 07:15:49 2020 From: wadler at inf.ed.ac.uk (Philip Wadler) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:15:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Verifying smart contracts for Blockchain Message-ID: Verifying smart contracts for Blockchain Supervisor: Professor Philip Wadler The following PhD project is open for recruitment. UK/EU/International applicants welcome. https://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/cdt/cyber-security-privacy-and-trust-dtc/projects-open-for-recruitment This work will develop techniques for specifying and verifying smart contracts written in Plutus, the smart contract language of the Cardano Blockchain. Ada, the cryptocurrency of Cardano, is a leading cryptocurrency, in the top ten by market capitalisation. Blockchain based technologies are a large and growing area underpinning the rapid growth in digital finance and distributed ledger technologies and markets. However, fundamental obstacles with transaction time, trust and cost remain which restricts their widespread adoption. One of the key problem areas to be addressed is the verification of smart contracts. This PhD will develop techniques for specifying and verifying smart contracts written in Plutus and incorporated into a proof of concept prototype. This development of this technology may have wider impact on other Blockchain variants that support smart contracts, of which there are dozens. The work will build on top of existing tools for specification and verification, such as Agda or Coq. It is recognised by the industry that there is little existing work on verification of smart contracts. One of the most crucial questions is to understand what are the most important properties to verify. Proposed properties include preservation, ensuring that no currency is lost, and progress, ensuring that the contract can always take a step (this last has also been called liquidity). This research will seek to answer these questions. Please write to me , explaining your interest and your background in functional programming and formal methods. == About the University of Edinburgh and LFCS == The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics brings together world-class research groups in theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The Informatics Forum, opened in 2008, is located in central Edinburgh, Scotland's capital and one of the best places to live in the UK. In the 2014 REF, the School ranked as having produced more world-leading and internationally excellent research (4* and 3*) than any other UK university. We welcome applications from members of groups traditionally underrepresented in the field. In 2013 and 2016, the School of Informatics received an Athena Swan Silver Award, in recognition of its commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research. The Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science was established by Burstall, Milner, and Plotkin in 1986, and is recognized worldwide for groundbreaking research on topics in programming languages, cryptography, semantics, type theory, proof theory, algorithms and complexity, databases, security, and systems biology. We participate in a thriving PL research community across Scotland, with Scottish Programming Languages Seminars hosted every 3-4 months by PL groups at Glasgow, Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt, St. Andrews, Dundee and Edinburgh. . \ Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, . /\ School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh . / \ and Senior Research Fellow, IOHK . http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Tue Dec 8 11:01:54 2020 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:01:54 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP'21] second call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming 2021, 18-19 February (online event with Lambda Days 2021 & TFPIE 2021) Message-ID: <4abc6d1d-fb3c-7b14-9dcd-48eb189036b4@cs.ru.nl> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ???????????????????? Second call for papers ??????? 22nd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming ????????????????????????? tfp2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you miss the deadline to submit a paper to Trends in Functional Programming http://tfp2021.org/? No worries -- it's not too late! Submission is open until January 15th 2021, 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 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. * TFP is co-located 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. Due to the covid pandemic, the event is online ? with a lot of attention to interaction and getting to socialize with the community. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline for pre-symposium review:?? 20th November, 2020? -- passed -- Submission deadline for draft papers:?????????? 15th January, 2021 Symposium dates:??????????????????????????????? 18-19th February, 2021 Visit http://tfp2021.org/ for more information. From james.cheney at gmail.com Tue Dec 8 11:08:30 2020 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 16:08:30 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions in programming languages in LFCS/University of Edinburgh Message-ID: LFCS and the School of Informatics more broadly is home to academic staff members with interests across the range of PL research topics. Recently several new academic staff members working on programming languages topics have joined the School and are actively seeking PhD students for funded projects starting in the 2021-22 academic year (or earlier subject to discussion). A representative sample of our current research interests and (where available) funded projects is listed below. * Dr. Ohad Kammar (ohad.kammar at ed.ac.uk) - My research is in programming language theory, and applications of logic and category theory. I'm also interested in the intersection of programming language foundations and statistical modelling and data science, sometimes known as probabilistic programming or differentiable programming. * Dr. Sam Lindley (Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk) - interests: effect handlers, session-typing, meta programming, programming language design, functional programming, type systems, semantics - funded project: effect handler oriented programming * Dr. Elizabeth Polgreen (elizabeth.polgreen at ed.ac.uk) - interests: synthesis engines, especially syntax-guided; applications of synthesis, for example in software engineering, verification, robotics, or other engineering disciplines * Dr. Amir Shaikhha (amir.shaikhha at ed.ac.uk) - interests: Compilation-based systems for universal data analytics (machine learning and analytical databases), using domain-specific languages, differentiable, and probabilistic programming. * Dr. Michel Steuwer (https://michel.steuwer.info/) - Interests: Domain Specific Compilers, Compilers for Machine Learning, Machine Learning for Compilers, Programming Languages for GPUs and Accelerators, Program Optimizations via Rewriting * Prof. Phil Wadler: - funded project: Verifying smart contracts for Blockchain ( http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/cdt/cyber-security-privacy-and-trust-dtc/projects-open-for-recruitment ) * Dr. James Cheney (jcheney at inf.ed.ac.uk) - databases, language-integrated query, type inference, metaprogramming, provenance, verification In addition to funded projects listed above, funding is potentially available centrally from the School, from doctoral training centres such as the School's Cyber Security and trust DTC. 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The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the formulation and submission of research funding proposals, in order to further develop the activity of the Programming Languages research theme within the School of Computing Science. The position is full time with funding up to 31st July 2024 in the first instance. You should have a PhD in some aspect of programming language foundations, or have equivalent research experience. You should have a track record of publication and communication of research results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): type systems, session types, mechanised metatheory, effect systems, semantic typing, formal semantics, design and implementation of experimental programming languages or tools. 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. Programming language research in the School of Computing Science spans the FATA (Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms) and GLASS (Glasgow Systems Section) research sections and involves five academic staff with a current portfolio of five funded research projects. We have our own seminar series as well as contributing to FATA and GLASS seminars and the Scottish Programming Languages Seminar. *Coronavirus / COVID-19* Considering the current travel restrictions, interviews will be held remotely. We will also be flexible about the starting date and working practices. *Further information* For informal enquiries or further information, please contact Professor Simon Gay . *Application details* https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=045925 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CDA606/research-associate Closing date: 18th January 2021 Interviews: 10th February 2021 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 equality. The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401. From carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Wed Dec 9 08:48:09 2020 From: carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:48:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2021: Third Call for Workshop Proposals - Extended Deadline: 20 Dec 2020 Message-ID: <35548689-6a9b-a5bb-4bdb-8d9d8aaeeee5@dcs.bbk.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Proposals FSCD 2021 - Extension 20th December 2020 - https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar Buenos Aires, Argentina Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021 Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation, deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July, before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to participants of parallel events. PROPOSALS -------------------- Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track) Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A description part including: - a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant); - a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and publicity material. 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organisers; - name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee member (*); - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of acceptance; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, or post main conference); - any other special requirements. (*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal. The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs and availability of space and facilities. The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to workshops, depending on the number of participants. The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on the main conference website; integration of the event's programme into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be provided by the FSCD organising committee. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- Submission of workshop proposals: 20 December, 2020 - Extended - Notification of success of proposals: 30 December, 2020 -------------------- Best regards, Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs From acie at acie.eu Wed Dec 9 09:55:22 2020 From: acie at acie.eu (acie at acie.eu) Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:55:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Computability in Europe 2021 - Second CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <93a07b1ccd212b7e9e5df4cab427f848@acie.eu> (Apologies for multiple postings.) ========================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: ========================= CiE 2021: Connecting with computability 5 - 9 July 2021 website: www.CiE2021.ugent.be [1] **Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference.** CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The /Computability in Europe/ conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/ [2]. CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest (2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017), Kiel (2018), Durham (2019) and virtually in Salerno (2020) PLENARY SPEAKERS ========================= * Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway) * Markus Lohrey (Universit?t Siegen. Germany) * Russell Miller (tutorial speaker, CUNY, US) * Joan Rand Moschovakis (UCLA, US) * Jo?l Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for software systems, Germany) * Christine Tasson (tutorial speaker, Universit? Paris Diderot, France) * Keita Yokoyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) * Henry Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada) SPECIAL SESSIONS ========================= /Church's thesis in constructive mathematics (HaPoC session)/ Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) and Alberto Naibo (Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne) _/Classical Computability theory: Open problems and solutions/_ Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin) Speakers: Marat Faizrakhmanov (Kazan Federal University), Andrea Sorbi (University of Siena), Liang Yu (Nanjing University), Ning Zhong (University of Cincinnati) _/Computational geometry/_ Maike Buchin (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany) and Maarten L?ffler (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Speakers: Wolfgang Mulzer (Free University Berlin)_, _Tillmann Miltzow (Utrecht University), Esther Ezra (Bar-Ilan University), Karl Bringmann (Saarland University) /Computational Pangenomics/ Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Speakers: Francesca Ciccarelli (King's College London, UK), Benedict Paten (University of California Santa Cruz, USA), Brona Brejova (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia), Rayan Chikhi (Pasteur Institute, France) _/Proof theory and computation/_ David Fern?ndez Duque (Ghent University, Belgium) and Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University, Belgium) Speakers: Lorenzo Carlucci (University of Rome I "La Sapienza"), Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne), Yue Yang (National university of Singapore), Leszek Kolodziejczyk (University of Warsaw) _/Quantum computation and information/_ Harry Buhrman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Frank Verstraete (Ghent University, Belgium) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY ========================= The Computability in Europe conference series has a long tradition in setting up a Women in Computability program. For CiE 2021 we plan a Women in Computability workshop combined with an online mentoring program. For more details on the Special Interest Group Women in Computability, see: https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [3] IMPORTANT DATES: ========================= Deadline for article registration (abstract submission): January 17, 2021 Deadline for article submission: February 5, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2021 Final versions due: April 27, 2021 Deadline for informal presentations submission: May 1, 2021 The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent a few days after submission. ORGANIZED BY: ========================= Department of Mathematics WE16, Ghent University Organizing Committee: David Fern?ndez-Duque, chair (Ghent University) Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University) David Belanger (Ghent University) Ana Borges (University of Barcelona) Liesbeth De Mol (University of Lille) Andreas Debrouwere (Ghent University) Lorenz Demey (Catholic University of Leuven) Eduardo Hermo-Reyes (University of Barcelona) Christian Michaux (University of Mons) Fedor Pakhomov (Ghent University) Pawel Pawlowski (Ghent University) Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University) Peter Verd?e (Catholic University of Louvain) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University) CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: ========================= The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers building bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome. Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [4]) and should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional material. Authors should submit their papers electronically using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021 [5] Abstracts should be submitted by January 17th 2021, followed by the full papers to be submitted by February 5 2021. Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance for the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference and should plan to present the paper. The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published with LNCS, Springer Verlag. INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: ========================= Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for informal presentations is May 1st, 2021. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ========================= Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Universit? Paris-Saclay) Christel Baier (TU Dresden) Nikolay Bazhenov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics) Marie-Pierre B?al (Universit? Paris-Est) Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University) David B?langer (Ghent University) Joel Day (Loughborough University) Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Universit? de Lille, PC co-chair) Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University, CNRS) J?r?me Durand-Lose (Universit? d'Orl?ans) David Fern?ndez-Duque (Ghent University) Zuzana Hanikov? (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) Florin Manea (University of G?ttingen) Ir?ne Marcovici (Universit? de Lorraine) Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) Ludovic Patey (Institut Camille Jordan) Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova) Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universit? di Torino) Paul Schafer (University of Leeds) Svetlana Selivanova (KAIST) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) Alexander Shen (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2) Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University) Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore) Peter Van Emde Boas (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Sergey Verlan (Universit? Paris Est - Cr?teil Val de Marne) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University, PC co-chair) Damien Woods (Maynooth University) Links: ------ [1] http://www.cie2021.ugent.be/ [2] https://www.acie.eu/ [3] https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [4] ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [5] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Dec 9 13:11:14 2020 From: Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Sewell) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:11:14 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc and research engineer positions in Semantics and Verification for Secure Systems Software Message-ID: Postdoc and research engineer positions in Semantics and Verification for Secure Systems Software Advert: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28012/ Closing date: 13 January 2021 Are you interested in developing and applying semantics and verification techniques to radically improve the foundations and security of mainstream computer systems? We are looking for postdoctoral researchers and research assistants to do exactly that, in a wide range of topics. In recent years, working with Arm, IBM, RISC-V International, the CHERI team, the C and C++ standards committees, and others, we have shown how one can develop and use authoritative semantics for full-scale architecture and language definitions, including instruction-set architectures of ARMv8-A, RISC-V, and CHERI in our Sail metalanguage ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/sail/), our Cerberus C semantics ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/), and relaxed-memory concurrency models at the architecture and C/C++ language levels. These use a combination of semantic definitions made executable as test oracles, test generation, symbolic execution, and mechanised proof; they have resolved many questions about what these fundamental abstractions are or should be; and they can enable both lightweight formal engineering and full verification of key parts of real systems. We now aim to build above this in two related projects, for CHERI and Arm system software. (1) CHERI verification. CHERI ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-941.pdf, https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/) extends conventional hardware Instruction-Set Architectures (ISAs) with new architectural features, using capabilities, to enable fine-grained memory protection and highly scalable software compartmentalization. The CHERI project is led by Robert Watson, Simon Moore, and Peter Sewell at the University of Cambridge and Peter Neumann at SRI International. CHERI allows historically memory-unsafe programming languages such as C and C++ to be adapted to protect against many currently widely exploited security vulnerabilities, and enables the fine-grained decomposition of operating-system (OS) and application code, to limit the effects of security vulnerabilities. CHERI is a hardware/software/semantics co-design project, bringing together computer architecture, systems software, security, and semantics. In October 2019, Arm announced Morello ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri-morello.html), an experimental CHERI-extended, multicore, superscalar ARMv8-A processor, System-on-Chip (SoC), and prototype board. Morello is a part of the UKRI ?187M Digital Security by Design Challenge (DSbD), supported by the UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, including a commitment of over ?50M by Arm. Morello will support industrial-scale evaluation of CHERI, with a view to mass-market adoption - which would transform the security landscape. We have previously developed rigorous engineering methods ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri-formal.html) to precisely define the CHERI ISA, for CHERI-MIPS and CHERI-RISC-V variants, and to prove (in Isabelle) that they satisfy key intended security properties (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/pes20/cheri-formal.pdf). We are now collaborating with Arm and researchers at the University of Edinburgh to do the same for the full Morello CHERI ARMv8 ISA, building on our Sail ARMv8-A ISA semantics, and to study the semantics and security of higher-level languages and system software above CHERI, building also on our Cerberus C semantics (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/). Morello and this verification aim to improve the security of all Arm mobile device software. (2) Arm system software verification. This ongoing project, in collaboration with Google and with researchers at MPI-SWS, Radboud, SNU, and Aarhus, aims to establish correctness and security properties of key hypervisor system software above the ARMv8-A ISA semantics mentioned above, integrated with the ARMv8-A concurrency architecture (including both the previous "user-mode" models and the system concurrency semantics, being developed in collaboration with Arm) ( https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/armv8-mca/). The Cambridge work is led by Peter Sewell, Neel Krishnaswami, and Robert Watson. Here too, there is the prospect of the resulting system being very widely deployed. We are looking for postdocs and research assistants to contribute to all aspects of both projects. You should have a strong background in semantics and verification, the motivation and flexibility to develop practical ways to use them at scale for real systems, and experience in one or more of: - interactive theorem proving, in Coq and/or Isabelle (we use both) - program logics (especially separation logics and Iris) - relaxed-memory concurrency - low-level system software - programming language semantics and type systems - program analysis - model checking - computer security - functional programming We are also seeking candidates with a research engineering focus, to assist in the development of robust and widely usable tools based on the above. For this, you should have experience in functional programming, especially OCaml. For more details of our recent work, see (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/), and especially the REMS (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/rems/index.html) and CHERI (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/) projects, which are both lively and effective collaborations. The positions are available to start as soon as possible. For candidates with substantial relevant expertise, we may be able to appoint at the Senior Research Associate level. Research Assistant (without PhD): ?26,715-?30,942, Research Associate (with PhD): ?32,816-?40,322, or Senior Research Associate: ?41,526-?52,559. Appointment to Senior Research Associate will be considered for exceptional candidates. Fixed-term: The funds for these posts are available for 2 years in the first instance. Further details may be obtained from Prof. Peter Sewell, email Peter.Sewell at cl.cam.ac.uk You will need to upload a full curriculum vitae (CV) and a covering letter outlining your interests, potential contributions to the project, and relevant past experience; both in pdf format. You should also include the contact details for 2 referees who will be able to promptly provide letters if requested. If you upload any additional documents which haven't been requested we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. Due to the current circumstances, there may be a possibility for remote working in the first instance. Please contact the HR Manager to discuss the finer details. Please quote reference NR25056 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy. Apply online: http://hrsystems.admin.cam.ac.uk/recruit-ui/apply/NR25056 The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society. 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A Max Planck CS internship is an excellent way for Bachelor's and Master's students to start or extend their research experience and embark on a research career! Students looking for Bachelor's or Master's thesis projects may also apply. We particularly welcome applications from women and individuals belonging to groups that are underrepresented in science and technology. Eligibility ----------- The eligibility criteria for an internship are an exceptional academic record and knowledge of Computer Science equivalent to the first three years of a standard university Bachelor's (undergraduate) program in CS. Internship projects are individually customized to suit the existing knowledge and experience of every intern. Intern positions are limited and admissions are very competitive. Period and Duration of Internships ---------------------------------- Internships are typically 12-14 weeks long and held during the summer months (May-August), but internships at other times or those of longer duration are possible. Funding ------- All interns receive a monthly stipend, free (shared) housing, and travel to and from the institute hosting the internship. Application Deadlines for 2021 ------------------------------ - Early Deadline: 31 December, 2020 (for internships starting in May or June 2021) - Late Deadline: 31 January, 2021 (for internships starting in July or August 2021) For an internship starting at any other time of the year, apply at least 4 months before your intended started date. How to Apply ------------ Internship applications must be submitted online at https://cis.mpg.de/internships To apply, you will need to provide your CV, transcripts, contact information for at least one reference, and an optional motivation letter. You can also optionally indicate faculty members at the participating institutes (see below) with whom you would like to work and the period during which you would like to intern. Which MPIs participate? Where will the internships be? ------------------------------------------------------ The internship is held at one of the participating institutes. The participating institutes are: - Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Saabruecken) - Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Kaiserslautern and Saarbruecken) - Max Planck Institute for Security & Privacy (Bochum) We understand that travel restrictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may prevent interns from traveling to Germany right now. In such a case, after an intern is selected, the intern and the mentor may agree mutually to complete the internship remotely. The intern will still be paid the monthly stipend. Further Details? 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URL: From mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at Thu Dec 10 10:48:29 2020 From: mihaela.rozman at tuwien.ac.at (Rozman, Mihaela) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:48:29 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Invitation to celebrate the World Logic Day digitally - 14 January 2021 - Ambassadors of Logic and public Vienna Logic Day Lecture In-Reply-To: <1607615241098.99628@tuwien.ac.at> References: <1607599369858.53819@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607599465850.57543@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607599726151.25463@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609014213.91058@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609127663.94110@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609210451.95766@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609228102.31652@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609303172.44132@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609454920.24271@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609618061.69080@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609754453.25371@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607609849778.67989@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610026889.21552@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610270104.36065@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610340353.72380@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610395649.66189@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610542553.68908@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610613392.85833@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610789942.32111@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607610918422.81880@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611066108.21473@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611181220.92276@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611285625.60315@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611474118.93704@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611485940.17091@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611653416.76697@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611709037.85631@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611784506.12324@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607611! 825327.49 082@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607612000760.19626@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607612108584.6827@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607614855040.33030@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607615157976.54221@tuwien.ac.at>, <1607615241098.99628@tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: <1607615308666.99810@tuwien.ac.at> Dear colleagues, dear friends of logic, On 14 January 2021, you are cordially invited to celebrate the World Logic Day digitally with the community from the city of Kurt G?del, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle. The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at Vienna University of Technology (VCLA at TU Wien) represents six research groups celebrating the World Logic Day 2021 (WLD) with: ---------------------------------------------------------- Vienna World Logic Day Lecture ---------------------------------------------------------- Vienna World Logic Day Lecture with Prof. Georg Gottlob on the future of logic in the world shaped by Artificial intelligence Date: 14 January 2021 Time: 8am PST | 11am EST | 1pm GMT-3 | 5pm CET Digital venue: Zoom or YouTube ---------------------------------------------------------- Ambassadors of Logic ---------------------------------------------------------- We asked renowned logicians from the fields of computer science, philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence to provide us with short statements on the WLD. This is what they have to say: https://logicday.vcla.at ---------------------------------------------------------- Celebrating World Logic Day 2021 around the globe ---------------------------------------------------------- We are featuring events celebrating World Logic Day 2021 around the globe. Send us an email, and we will include you on our website. Additionally, if you are organising an event and wish to be listed in the official list of the World Logic Day 2021 events and use the official WLD logo in your announcements, please submit your event as listed on the website of the WLD 2021. UNESCO proclaimed World Logic Day in 2019, in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), to enhance public understanding of logic and its implications for science, technology and innovation. "In the twenty-first century - indeed, now more than ever - the discipline of logic is a particularly timely one, utterly vital to our societies and economies. Computer science and information and communications technology, for example, are rooted in logical and algorithmic reasoning." - Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO ---------------------------------------------------------- Free access and non-obligatory registration on the website ---------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the website of Vienna World Logic Day at: https://logicday.vcla.at/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From csg63 at drexel.edu Thu Dec 10 11:59:07 2020 From: csg63 at drexel.edu (Gordon,Colin) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:59:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Open Faculty Positions at Drexel University Message-ID: Drexel University is hiring *multiple* tenured/tenure-track faculty this cycle at the Assistant or Associate Professor levels. The search is open to all areas, but has priority areas of Software Engineering, Security & Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Sciece. Candidates whose primary area may not be exactly one of the areas above, but related (e.g., programming languages or formal methods, especially applied to security/ML/etc.) are more than welcome to apply. Anyone interested in applying is welcome to reach out to me with questions. The full text of the ad is at https://drexel.edu/cci/about/jobs-at-cci/faculty-positions/ and follows below for quick reference. -Colin ?????????????.. Tenure-Track Positions in Computer Science and Information Science The College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) invites applications for multiple tenure-track and tenured faculty positions at the Assistant Professor and Associate Professor levels. Preference will be given to applicants in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Privacy/Security, and Software Engineering. We welcome applicants with an interest in using these areas of expertise to solve socially relevant problems. The positions are open in both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science. Candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related field by the time of appointment, as well as a record of high-quality scholarly activities. Applicants for senior positions are expected to have demonstrated exceptional leadership in large-scale, multidisciplinary research programs. The College of Computing and Informatics (CCI) is uniquely positioned as an interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial research and education leader for the 21st century. The two departments complement each other to offer trailblazing research and education to drive innovation to the digital future. CCI has seen substantial enrollment growth to over 2000 students, and has introduced new programs in Data Science and in AI and Machine Learning. Over the past year, CCI has relocated to a brand new state-of-the-art building and successfully recruited 10 new faculty. With a commitment to further expand the college and grow the faculty in key areas of strength, CCI seeks intellectually curious and rigorous candidates to engage in cutting-edge research and teaching. Successful applicants will be expected to establish strong sponsored research programs, teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, advise and mentor PhD students, and engage in service to the college, the university, and the global academic community. Candidates must be able to work with individuals across disciplines both internal and external to the College. Drexel is a private university committed to research with real-world applications. The University has over 24,000 students in 15 colleges and schools, and offers one of the largest and best-known cooperative education programs in the country, with over 1,600 co-op employers. Drexel is located on Philadelphia?s ?Avenue of Technology? in the University City district, a hub of the academic, cultural, and historical resources of the nation?s eighth-largest metropolitan region. Evaluation of applications will be conducted on a rolling basis. Applicants should apply by February 1, 2021, for full consideration. Please apply online at https://careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job/495299 for Computer Science or https://careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job/495300 for Information Science. If both areas are relevant, please apply to the one you see as the best fit and include your preferences for consideration in the cover letter. Applicants should submit the following materials: a cover letter, CV/resume, list of references, and statements describing their research program and teaching interests. Applications must be submitted online at Drexel Careers to be considered. The College of Computing & Informatics is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. Drexel University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and believes that an inclusive and respectful environment enriches the University community and the educational and employment experience of its members. The University prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, status as a veteran or special disabled veteran, gender identity or expression, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and any other prohibited characteristic. Background investigations are required for all new hires as a condition of employment, after the job offer is made. 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URL: From simon.bliudze at inria.fr Thu Dec 10 20:09:15 2020 From: simon.bliudze at inria.fr (Simon Bliudze) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:09:15 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FormaliSE 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <25c11ea6-e07f-f4ea-f617-c970036c4c61@inria.fr> [Apologies for cross-posting] ******************************************************************** Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2021 9th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering May 17-21, on-line, co-located event of ICSE 2021 https://www.formalise.org/ ******************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Abstracts due: ?? ??? 05 January 2021 Submissions due:????? 12 January 2021 Notifications: ?? ??? 22 February 2021 Camera ready copies:? 22 March 2021 FormaliSE conference: 17-21 May 2021 Overview -------- The software industry needs tools and methods to deliver high-quality software. Much progress has been achieved from the early days of software development; still, nowadays, even considering the state of the art of the technologies used, the success of software projects is often not guaranteed. Many of the approaches used for developing large, complex software systems are still not able to ensure the correct behavior ? and the general quality ? of the delivered product, despite the efforts of the (often very qualified and skilled) software engineers involved. This is where formal methods can play a significant role. Indeed, they have been developed to provide the means for greater precision and thoroughness in modeling, reasoning about, validating, and documenting the various aspects of software systems during their development. When carefully applied, formal methods can aid all aspects of software creation: user requirement formulation, design, implementation, verification/testing, and the creation of documentation. After decades of research though, and despite significant advancement, formal methods are still not widely used in industrial software development. We believe that closer integration of formal methods in software engineering can help increase the quality of software applications, and at the same time highlight the benefits of formal methods in terms also of the generated return on investment (ROI). The main objective of the conference is to foster the integration between the formal methods and the software engineering communities, to strengthen the ? still too weak ? links between them, and to stimulate researchers to share ideas, techniques, and results, with the ultimate goal to propose novel solutions to the fraught problem of improving the quality of software systems. Originally a successful satellite workshop of ICSE, since 2018 FormaliSE is organised as a conference co-located with ICSE. FormaliSE 2021 will take place May 17-21, 2021, online. Topics of interest ------------------ Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - approaches and tools for verification and validation; - application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous, cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems; - scalability of formal methods applications; - integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle (e.g., change management, continuous integration and deployment) - requirements formalization and formal specification; - model-based software engineering approaches; - performance analysis based on formal approaches; - formal methods in a certification context; - formal approaches for safety and security-related issues; - usability of formal methods; - guidelines to use formal methods in practice; - case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches; - experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world problems; Submission types ---------------- We invite you to submit: - Full research papers that must describe the authors? original research work and results. We encourage authors to include validation with respect to a case study in the recommended themes. - Case study papers that should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods) or provide specific motivation for further research and development. - Research ideas: FormaliSE encourages the submissions of new research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the conference. For the case studies, we aim at having common domains and themes, which can facilitate the exchange of ideas during the conference. While all case study subjects are accepted, we are particularly interested in the following themes: autonomous vehicles and Covid contact tracing apps. Submission guidelines --------------------- FormaliSE 2021 will implement the following light-weight double-blind policy: 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 light-weight 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. Full papers are expected to be roughly 10 pages long including all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding the references (shorter papers are acceptable). However, we would like to avoid that the authors waste time fitting their papers into that limit at the expense of presentation clarity: *paper lengths slightly exceeding the stated limit will be tolerated provided that the presentation is of high quality*, which will be left at the appreciation of the reviewers. Research ideas papers are expected to be roughly 4 pages plus up to 1 additional page of references, with the same guiding principle as for the regular papers above. All submissions must be in English and in PDF format. Submissions must conform to the IEEE formatting instructions IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type). LaTeX users must use `\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran}` without including the `compsoc` or `compsocconf` options. Additionally, we recommend placing the following two lines in your LaTeX source right after the `\documentclass` command: \usepackage[switch,columnwise]{lineno} \linenumbers This adds line numbers, thereby allowing reviewers to refer to specific lines in their comments. Papers submitted to FormaliSE 2021 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere whilst under consideration for FormaliSE 2021. Submissions to FormaliSE 2021 that meet the above requirements can be made via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formalise2021) by the submission deadline. We would appreciate it if the authors intending to submit a paper were to inform us in advance. In particular, we invite them to submit an abstract as early as possible and, in any case, before the Abstract submission deadline below. Selection procedure ------------------- Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution to the field. FormaliSE 2021 will implement a light-weight rebuttal scheme: if all the reviewers of a given submission agree that a clarification from the authors regarding one specific question could move a borderline paper into the acceptable range, the chairs will ask that question to the authors by e-mail and post their reply on EasyChair for the benefit of the reviewers. The goal of such light-weight rebuttals is to eliminate ?coin-toss? decisions on borderline papers. Hence, it will clearly concern only a minority of submissions and most of the authors should not expect to receive such questions. However, we would ask the corresponding authors of all submissions to make sure that they are available to answer a question by email if the necessity were to arise. Publication ----------- All accepted publications are published as part of the ICSE 2021 Proceedings in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference (virtually) and present the paper in person. Otherwise, the paper will be removed from the proceedings. Organization ------------ General Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy - Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands Program Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille, France - Laura Semini, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Social Media Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Lucia Nasti, Universit? di Pisa, Italy Virtualisation Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Larisa Safina, INRIA Lille, France Program committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Dalal Alrajeh (Imperial College London, UK) - Rab?a Ameur Boulifa (EURECOM, France) - Toshiaki Aoki (JAIST, Japan) - Kyungmin Bae (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea) - Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - Domenico Bianculli (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) - Christiano Braga (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) - Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) - St?phanie Challita (University of Rennes 1 & Inria/IRISA, France) - H?l?ne Coullon (IMT Atlantique, France) - Nancy Day (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Alessandro Fantechi (University of Florence, Italy) - Marc Frappier (Universit? de Sherbrooke, Canada) - Carlo A. Furia (Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) - Ebru Aydin Gol (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) - Roberta Gori (University of Pisa, Italy) - Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Marie-Christine Jakobs (TU Darmstadt, Germany) - Srdan Krstic (ETH Z?rich, Switzerland) - Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) - Axel Legay (UC Louvain, Belgium) - Malte Lochau (University of Siegen, Germany) - Ant?nia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) - Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and Lero, Ireland) - Mieke Massink (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Peter ?lveczky (University of Oslo, Norway) - Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - Gwen Sala?n (Universit? Grenoble Alpes, France) - Ina Schaefer (TU Braunschweig, Germany) - Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland) - Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA) - Marcel Verhoef (European Space Agency, The Netherlands) Contact information ------------------- We can be reached at oc at formalise.org. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP requests 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 are increasingly distributed and traditional dichotomies such as ?client vs. server? and ?offline vs. online? are fading. ** Call for Contributions ** The ProWeb21 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) and formalisms 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: * Applications of AI to web software development: code models, code prediction, change impact analysis, automated testing * Web App Quality: 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: new languages and runtimes, tier-splitting compilers, type systems * Principles and practice of Web UI programming: data binding, reactive programming, virtual DOM * 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, WebRTC, Angular.js, React and React Native, TypeScript, Proxies, PureScript, 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 three types of submission: * **Full papers, position papers, and experience reports**: 8-page papers describing novel research, which, when accepted, will be included in the ACM Digital Library. * **Demo papers**: 4-page illustrating demonstrations of tools and prototypes. * **Presentation abstracts**: 2-page extended abstracts. 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Over the years, the journal has promoted better understanding of the application of quantitative, combinatorial, logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to artificial intelligence areas as diverse as decision support, automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and planning. AMAI special issues are intended to be collections of original research papers reflecting the intersection of mathematics and a focussed discipline demonstrating how each has contributed greatly to the other. A further goal of the journal is to close the gaps between the fields even further. Papers should report on current research in the appropriate areas, as well as more retrospective papers in which progress has been ongoing over a period of time. The purpose of this special issue of AMAI is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of unification. Unification is concerned with the problem of making two terms equal, finding solutions for equations or making formulas equivalent. It is a fundamental process used in a number of fields of computer science, including automated reasoning, term rewriting, logic programming, natural language processing, program analysis, types, etc. The special issue is related to the topics of the 34th International Workshop on Unification - UNIF 2020. Participants of the workshop, as well as other authors are invited to submit contributions. EXAMPLES OF TOPICS ------------------- This special issue focuses on advanced results on the topics of unification in a broad sense, which include, but are not limited to, the following: - Unification algorithms, calculi and implementations - Equational unification and unification modulo theories - Unification in modal, fuzzy, temporal and description logics - Anti-unification/generalization - Semi-unification - Narrowing - Matching problems - Unification in special theories - Higher-order unification - Combination problems - Constraint solving - Disunification - Complexity issues - Type checking and reconstruction - Admissibility of inference rules - Formalization of unification - Tools - Applications SUBMISSION ----------- This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor simultaneously submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Submissions will be peer-reviewed using the standard refereeing procedure of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Submitted papers must be in English, prepared in LaTeX according to the guidelines of the journal: https://www.springer.com/journal/10472/submission-guidelines. PDF versions of papers should be uploaded at the submission page https://www.editorialmanager.com/amai by January 31, 2021. Please choose S704 - Unification - UNIF 2020 when you will be selecting the article type. GUEST EDITORS -------------------- Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Andrew M. Marshall (University of Mary Washington, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Temur Kutsia Andrew M. Marshall From caterina.urban at ens.fr Mon Dec 14 05:10:00 2020 From: caterina.urban at ens.fr (Caterina Urban) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:10:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award - Third Call for Nominations Message-ID: ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award ================================= The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association has established a Doctoral Dissertation Award to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS). Doctoral dissertations are evaluated with respect to originality, relevance, and impact to the field, as well as the quality of writing. The award winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the ETAPS Banquet. 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, 2020 to December 31st, 2020. 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 a re 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=etapsdda2021 The deadline for nominations is January 17th, 2021. Award Committee --------------- Caterina Urban (chair) Luis Caires (representing ESOP) Andrzej Wasowski (representing FASE) Andrew Pitts (representing FoSSaCS) Dirk Beyer (representing TACAS) Marieke Huisman Oded Padon Contact ------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the chair of the award committee, Caterina Urban . From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Dec 18 11:02:07 2020 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:02:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFPIE'21] Second Call For Papers: Trends in Functional Programming *in Education* 2021, 16 February 2021 (with Lambda Days 2021 & TFP 2021) Message-ID: <3026945e-01b9-ce8b-24b9-5a46b0a528f9@cs.ru.nl> ----------------------------------- ?? TFPIE 2021 2nd Call for papers ----------------------------------- https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2021#TFPIE_2021 (February 16 2021, co-organized with TFP 2021 and Lambda Days 2021) Because of the covid pandemic, the events are online this year. The goal of the International Workshops on Trends in Functional Programming in Education is to gather researchers, professors, teachers, and all professionals that use or are interested in the use of functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas, and work in progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. TFPIE 2021 welcomes submissions in the above mentioned areas. This year many teaching programmes have had to make a rapid transition to online teaching, and we explicitly solicit papers that explore this area of teaching functional programming. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -? FP and beginning CS students -? FP and Computational Thinking -? FP and Artificial Intelligence -? FP in Robotics -? FP and Music -? Advanced FP for undergraduates -? FP in graduate education -? Engaging students in research using FP -? FP in Programming Languages -? FP in the high school curriculum -? FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics -? FP and Philosophy -? The pedagogy of teaching FP -? FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. -? Best Lectures - more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. The length of the presentation should be comparable to that of a paper. On top of the lecture itself, the presentation can also provide commentary on the lecture. Submissions Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 20 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2021 After the workshop, presenters are invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Dates -? Submission deadline: January 11 2021, Anywhere on Earth. -? Notification: January 15 2021 -? Workshop: February 16 2021 -? Submission for formal review: April 20 2021, Anywhere on Earth. -? Notification of full article: June 7 2021 -? Camera ready: July 1st 2021 Program Committee - Peter Achten,??? Radboud University, Netherlands (chair) - Edwin Brady,???? University of St Andrews, UK - Laura Castro,??? Universidade da Coru?a, Spain - Stephen Chang,?? University of Massachusetts Boston, USA - Youyou Cong,???? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Matthew Flatt,?? University of Utah, USA - Seth Fogarty,??? Trinity University, USA - Alex Gerdes,???? University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Gabriele Keller, Utrecht University, Netherlands - Prabhakar Ragde, University of Waterloo, Canada - Melinda T?th,??? E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Budapest, Hungary Registration TFPIE is part of Lambda Days. Please visit the Lambda Days 2021 pages when registration information becomes available. Only papers that have been presented at TFPIE may be submitted to the post-reviewing process. Information on Lambda Days is available at https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 Information on TFP???????? is available at http://tfp2021.org From n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk Fri Dec 18 11:08:00 2020 From: n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk (Yoshida, Nobuko) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:08:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research assistant/associate position at Imperial College London Message-ID: Department of Computing, Imperial College London Research Assistant/Associate Position (Full Time) ?36,045 -- ?48,340 per annum Reference: ENG01520 Fixed-term: 2 years (with a possible 24 month extension) Starting date: as soon as possible (the starting date is flexible) Contact: Nobuko Yoshida (n.yoshida at imperial.ac.uk) The Research Assistant will work under the EPSRC Established Career Fellowship Project, POST: Protocols, Observabilities and Session Types. Imperial College London provides a flexible arrangement to be able to start and work remotely until we re-open the campus. It is also flexible for the starting date. 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. Details: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG01520/research-assistant-research-associate ------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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URL: From michael.greenberg at pomona.edu Fri Dec 18 13:55:08 2020 From: michael.greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:55:08 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2021 - Call for Participation Message-ID: POPL 2021 Call for Participation (https://popl21.sigplan.org/) Important Dates: Sun 10 Jan 2021 Early registration ends Sun 17 - Tue 19 Jan 2021 Co-located events Wed 20 - Fri 22 Jan 2021 POPL General chair: Andreas Podelski Program chair: Azadeh Farzan Organizing committee: https://popl21.sigplan.org/committee/POPL-2021-organizing-committee PC members: https://popl21.sigplan.org/committee/POPL-2021-research-papers-program-committee Accepted papers: https://popl21.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2021-research-papers#event-overview Program: https://popl21.sigplan.org/program/program-POPL-2021 Registration: https://regmaster.com/2021conf/POPL21/register.php # How to POPL in 2021 Detailed information: https://popl21.sigplan.org/venue/POPL-2021-venue POPL 2021 was set to be in Copenhagen, Denmark. Instead, it?ll be on the Clowdr virtual conference platform. You can register now, with early registration until January 10th. Note that a discounted option is available on the registration page. ## When does the conference take place? POPL 2021 will take place from Wednesday, January 20th through Friday, January 22nd. Co-located events will start on Sunday, January 17th. Live events (including social times) will take place in a narrow time band: 15:15 through 20:00 in Copenhagen?s timezone, Central European Time (CET), which is GMT+1.. Co-located events will also use this time band (from 15:30 to 20:00, to be precise). Each day of the conference, you can attend dedicated social times, plenary sessions (invited talks, awards, etc.), and parallel sessions (two tracks at a time). The plenary and parallel sessions will be broadcast (i.e., a livestream). In addition, you can discuss and ask questions for each paper (each paper has a chat channel). A lot of stuff will be going on in this (asynchronous, distributed) interaction between authors and other participants. The chat channels will be open during, before, and after the three days of the conference. From chair at afdp.xyz Sat Dec 19 20:47:04 2020 From: chair at afdp.xyz (chair at afdp.xyz) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:47:04 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP]Agile and Functional Data Pipelines workshop Message-ID: <20201220014703.1.D54089F5A6B542F2@migamake.com> Dear Friends, The emerging interest in the rigorous and agile data science and functional ETL pipelines has driven the developments of many new libraries, frameworks and methodologies. We invite industry practitioners and academics to present their latest work on agile functional data pipelines as a workshop at the EDI'2021 conference. Call for papers =============== The following would be accepted: - Exposures of methodologies for building agile functional data pipelines - Presentations of frameworks used for data pipelines in industry and academia - Experience reports from building of data pipelines in industry and academia - Benchmarks and optimization of agile data pipeline frameworks - Solutions to data integration and exchange problems within ETL pipelines. In particular, we encourage: - Agile functional data methodologists - Authors of ETL frameworks, streaming libraries and databases, reactive streaming, streaming benchmarks, high-performance workflow engines - Position papers on the use of agile and functional data methodologies - Descriptions of environments for interactive and live programming with data - Benchmarks of state-of-the-art solutions for agile functional data pipelines. Details at http://email.afdp.xyz/c/eJwNzTkOwyAQAMDXmC4IlrugcBT5H1y2UQJGAYr8Ppamn2i1ZDKgbIEAoQCEUK4IwxS_BCfabGKVT8Fhg4WTkg9X3DvhcBV0WqP3AMobITVT0SgVufTJK6eD8SAVKpYKIxg36GPPMVpf2LrAdnN7bPjI45we5wt97fi11B-u1mvWkO7rk_vouCfX8WypVpzi_APvXjOE Important dates =============== Abstract registration deadline : December 27th, 2020 (extended) Submission deadline : January 3rd, 2020 (extended) Acceptance notification : January 12th 2021 Final manuscripts : January 23rd, 2021 Presentation at the conference : March 23rd-26th 2021 Submission instructions ======================= Original, unpublished papers are solicited for presentation at the AFDP 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. For work-in-progress, we also solicit extended abstracts for presentations. The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science. All accepted papers will be published in Procedia Computer Science. Location ======== This workshop will be held as a part of [The 4th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)](http://email.afdp.xyz/c/eJwNjjuOwzAMBU9jdRYo6hcVKhxkDewxCJpKjMSyEdnF3n4FvGKAmeIt-RZsYLVmBASDCGBcBKuNfngHtzT7Kdy9wxkHB9v6pI3eonnf1CtHHyIUsCyFo0kU0EQqBl0il3gpasvGJ29dUp_8Os9jsNOAcx-3kfda5CuVpWliWla6NFN3P49fByOajuqbz79D2ki17ldP-4fP2s6mm1DT1yG1almuf8mROkI) held on March 23 - 26, 2021 in Warsaw, Poland. -- Best regards Micha? To unsubscribe click: From willem.heijltjes at gmail.com Mon Dec 21 10:12:18 2020 From: willem.heijltjes at gmail.com (Willem Heijltjes) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:12:18 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD positions in Mathematical Foundations of Computation at University of Bath Message-ID: <2C02BD01-3360-40A0-BD6E-D0C392114B66@gmail.com> We are recruiting for 2 PhD positions Funding: Competition funded Deadline: Sunday 21 February 2021 Start: October 2021 (anticipated) Mathematical Foundations Group Department of Computer Science University of Bath ===== The Mathematical Foundations group ===== Our group explores some of the deepest topics in logic and their relation to the theory of computation. We establish bridges between proof theory, category theory, semantics and complexity, so that the methods of each discipline enrich the others. We design new theories and solve old problems. For example, we defined a new proof formalism, called 'open deduction', that allowed us to describe one of the most efficient known notions of computation for the lambda-calculus. That was made possible by introducing ideas from complexity theory and category theory into proof theory and its computational interpretations. Our research programme, in a nutshell, is to help develop the mathematics of computation. This matters at least for two reasons. The first is that computing, at present, is art, not engineering. Indeed, because of the lack of mathematics, software correctness is not guaranteed the same way a bridge is guaranteed to stand, for example. The second reason is that the theory of computation is rapidly becoming one of the most important intellectual achievements of civilisation. For example, it is now helping physics and biology create new models in their domain. Because of all that, our doctoral graduates have embarked on excellent academic careers in some of the most intellectually rewarding and innovative branches of research, and will continue to do so. Our webpage: https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/mathematical-foundations-of-computation/ Please see at the end of this email for a list of projects and supervisors. ===== Contact ===== For questions about the project or the application process, please contact us, Alessio Guglielmi A.Guglielmi at bath.ac.uk Willem Heijltjes W.B.Heijltjes at bath.ac.uk or one of the supervisors of the projects at the end of this email. ===== How to apply ===== Applicants should hold, or expect to gain, a First Class or good Upper Second Class Honours degree in Mathematics or Computer Science, or the equivalent from an overseas university. A master?s level qualification would be advantageous. Formal applications should be made via the University of Bath?s online application form for a PhD in Computer Science: http://samis.bath.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_app&code1=RDUCM-FP01&code2=0015 You would apply to a specific project and supervisor from the list at the end of this email. More information on the general applications process is here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/how-to-apply-for-doctoral-study/ Non-UK applicants will also be required to have met the English language entry requirements of the University of Bath: http://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/postgraduate-english-language-requirements-for-international-students/ Anticipated start date: Monday 4 October 2021 ===== Funding ===== Candidates applying for this project may be considered for a 3.5-year studentship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC DTP). Funding covers tuition fees, a stipend (?15,285 per annum, 2020/21 rate) and research/training expenses (?1,000 per annum). EPSRC DTP studentships are open to both Home and International students; however, in line with guidance from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the number of awards available to International candidates will be limited to 30% of the total. We advise checking our funding webpages before applying: https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/funding-for-doctoral-research-in-science/ ===== Projects and Supervisors ===== VERIFICATION FOR REAL POLYNOMIAL ARITHMETIC Russell Bradford | R.J.Bradford at bath.ac.uk | http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrjb/ James Davenport | J.H.Davenport at bath.ac.uk | http://people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/ Many problems in building verified software systems in the real world (e.g. air traffic control) involve the proof of statements about real polynomial arithmetic, often including inequalities. In principle we have known how to solve such systems for many years, but the theoretical, and too often the practical, complexity is excessive. There has been much work, at Bath, Coventry and elsewhere, in reducing the cost for important special cases, notably the cases when there are equations as well as inequalities. However, this leads to a large piece of software, resting on fairly complicated theorems. Recent research by Bath, Coventry and RWTH has produced a method (http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04034) which converts such a problem into a sequence of simpler statements, which may be much easier to verify with a more conventional theorem prover. This has yet to be checked in practice, which is the goal of this project. As a PhD student, you would be working alongside the joint Bath-Coventry EPSRC-funded project, which would provide several colleagues and a large software base to start from. NEW FOUNDATIONS OF PROOF THEORY FROM A NOVEL NOTION OF SUBSTITUTION Alessio Guglielmi | A.Guglielmi at bath.ac.uk | http://alessio.guglielmi.name What is a proof? What is an algorithm? We understand much of WHAT can be proved and computed but we do not have yet a good theory of HOW this is done. For example, we cannot say when two given proofs or algorithms are the same, in the sense that they prove or compute something using the same method. It is a somewhat embarrassing problem to have, given that, in most branches of mathematics, we can compare objects. For instance, we can reduce two polynomials to some canonical form, like maximal factorisation, and use that for a comparison. The source of the problem is the languages in which proofs and algorithms are represented because they model their underlying mathematical structure. In traditional proof theory, the mathematical properties of those structures are too poor. To address the problem, for the past two decades we have been building a new proof theory, called 'deep inference', whose emphasis is in HOW proofs, and by extension algorithms, are composed. That requires new languages and new design principles. One current focus of research is developing a notion of substitution for proofs, which, among other properties, should enable a powerful form of factorisation. We propose PhD projects contributing to this effort. These are foundational problems for proof theory, meaning that talent for algebra and combinatorics is more important than knowledge of logic. A NEW APPROACH TO COMPUTATIONAL EFFECTS IN LAMBDA-CALCULUS Willem Heijltjes | W.B.Heijltjes at bath.ac.uk | http://willem.heijltj.es A key property of the lambda-calculus, as a model of computation, is confluence: it means that we can reason about the *outcome* of a computation separately from the *process*; in other words, we can separate the *denotational* from the *operational*. When computational effects are introduced, as would be essential for a real-world functional programming language, confluence is however lost, and the outcome of a computation becomes dependent on the chosen reduction strategy. In this project we are working towards a new way of incorporating effects into the lambda-calculus. Rather than adding new primitives, we decompose the existing constructs of the lambda-calculus, which can then be used to encode various imperative features such as sequencing, state update and retrieval, and input and output. The approach preserves confluence and gives a new way of typing computational effects, which opens up new denotational and operational perspectives. As a PhD student, you would contribute to the development and extension of this promising new paradigm. Your work would draw on ideas from type theory, proof theory including deep inference and categorical logic, and denotational semantics as well as lambda calculus. QUANTITATIVE GAME SEMANTICS Jim Laird | J.D.Laird at bath.ac.uk | http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jl317/ Denotational semantics builds abstractions of computer programs and concurrent systems, which allows us to look past their syntax and represent them using mathematical structures from a range of fields such as algebra and topology. These come with powerful theorems and techniques which we can use to prove that programs and protocols are correct, secure and efficient. Moving beyond binary properties: ?Does this program terminate?? ?Might it deadlock?? to quantitative ones: ?What is its evaluation cost in time or space?? ?What is the probability of returning a value?? requires models which can capture program behaviour - on which these properties depend - in a way which is abstract, structured and precise. Game semantics provides such a representation by modelling computation as a two-player game between a program or agent and its environment. It is intuitively appealing and has profound connections with fields from category theory to automata theory. This project will use these connections to investigate the relationship between games and quantitative properties of programs, and use these foundations to build new models and discover new theories. INTERSECTION-TYPE SEMANTICS OF IMPERATIVE PROGRAMMING Guy McCusker | G.A.McCusker at bath.ac.uk | http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~gam23/ Imperative programming offers fast programs and fine control over execution, but is hard to verify, mainly due to the difficulty of giving a good semantics. In this project you would investigate a new approach based on intersection types, expressed in open deduction. Intersection types can be seen from a programming-language perspective as a type system, providing static information about program behaviour, and from a semantic perspective as a presentation of a relation-based mathematical model of programs and proofs. The novelty of this project is to use non-commutative types to model sequential computation. Expressing such types effectively is made possible by the open-deduction formalism, an approach to proof theory that can alternatively be viewed as a presentation of category-theory-based semantics. The project builds on our recent work exploring intersection types in this proof formalism. A background that includes lambda-calculus or category theory would help you make a good start on it. PROOF MINING: ALGORITHMS FROM PROOFS IN MATHEMATICS Tom Powell | trjp20 at bath.ac.uk | http://t-powell.github.io Many mathematical theorems are based on the statement that something exists. For example, Euclid's theorem on the infinitude of prime numbers says that for any number N there exists some prime number p greater than N. For such statements it is natural to ask: Can we produce an algorithm for computing the thing that we claim to exist? The proof of Euclid's theorem implicitly contains an algorithm* for finding the next prime number, and we call such proofs "constructive". Unfortunately, Turing's famous discovery that the Halting problem is undecidable highlights the fact that not all proofs are constructive, and that in general one cannot always produce algorithms for witnessing existential statements. After all, for any Turing machine M on input u there exists a boolean truth value which tells us whether or not it halts, but a general algorithm which on inputs M and u returns such a boolean is not possible by Turing's result. The question of whether or not we can produce an algorithm for a given existential theorem is complex, and requires a deep understanding of the nature of mathematical proofs as objects in their own right. The last 20-30 years has seen the growth of an exciting research area - colloquially known as "proof mining" - which addresses this question and explores the limits of what is algorithmically possible in mathematics. It turns out that by applying techniques from proof theory, it is often possible to obtain surprising algorithms from proofs that appear to be nonconstructive. In the process, one is typically required to tackle more general challenges, such as "how should mathematical objects be represented?" and "what is the fundamental structure of this proof?", and the end result is often an abstract framework which generalises and unifies classes of mathematical theorems. Proof mining has already achieved impressive results several areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, ergodic theory and commutative algebra. As a PhD student, you would explore developing this research program in a new direction. *Take the number N! + 1, which is not divisible by any number from 2 to N, and search for its smallest prime factor, which must therefore by greater than N. NOTE: This project is available through a separate funding stream - please see here for funding and eligibility details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/proof-mining-algorithms-from-proofs-in-mathematics/?p128254 From ineamtiu at njit.edu Mon Dec 21 10:14:09 2020 From: ineamtiu at njit.edu (Iulian Neamtiu) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:14:09 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position in Programming Languages/Software Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Message-ID: <4B026B19-1432-4EB9-A054-360E2A94F0CC@njit.edu> The CS Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions; one of the areas is Programming Languages/Software Engineering. Please see below for the full ad, and feel free to contact me with any questions. Thank you, Iulian Neamtiu Professor Dept. of Computer Science New Jersey Institute of Technology https://web.njit.edu/~ineamtiu/ ============================================================================= Tenure-track Faculty Positions in the Department of Computer Science at NJIT ============================================================================= The Computer Science Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions starting in Fall 2021. Areas of special interest are: ? Cybersecurity ? Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence ? Programming Languages and Software Engineering Exceptional candidates in other areas will also be considered. While we are interested in hiring at the rank of Assistant Professor, exceptional candidates at higher ranks will also be considered. Senior candidates in the area of Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence will be expected to play a leadership role as the Associate Director of the new NJIT Institute for Data Science, whose Director is Distinguished Professor David Bader. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree by Summer 2021 in a relevant discipline, and outstanding academic credentials that demonstrate their ability to conduct independent world-class research and attract external funding. The successful candidate is also expected to show a commitment to both undergraduate and graduate education. NJIT is designated a Carnegie R1 Research University, with $161M research expenditures in FY19. The Computer Science Department is ranked 77 nationally (by CSRankings) and has 33 tenured/tenure track faculty, with seven NSF CAREER awards and one DARPA Young Investigator award. The department conducts research to solve real-world grand challenges in computer and data science such as FinTech, Health, and Cybersecurity and plays a key role in the NJIT Institute for Data Science and the NJIT Cybersecurity Research Center. The department has strong connections with local industry and works closely with many companies through student Capstone projects, internships, co-ops and joint R&D projects. The Computer Science Department enrolls approximately 1,800 students at all levels across nine programs of study and participates alongside NJIT?s Informatics Department in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC). The College comprises 28% of the NJIT enrollment, educating more than 3,000 students in computing disciplines, and graduating close to 800 computing professionals every year. As such, it is the largest generator of computing talent in the tri-state (NY, NJ, CT) area. The Computer Science Department is housed in a state-of-the art facility renovated in 2018. The department resides within the Ying Wu College of Computing, which is undergoing significant growth as a priority area for NJIT. This growth is an integral part of NJIT?s five-year strategic plan, which calls for consolidating NJIT as a world-class institution of higher education and research. Applied research, collaboration with industry, innovation and entrepreneurship are encouraged and supported. Performance and tenure expectations are aligned with those of the broader academic computing community, with an emphasis on grant funding and publishing in top conferences and journals. NJIT is located in Newark's University Heights, a vibrant sprawling downtown campus close to Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey Innovation Institute, Essex Community College, New Jersey Medical School, University Hospital, and Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. NJIT is just a 30-minute train ride from New York City and its burgeoning Silicon Alley tech sector. NJIT has recently expanded its graduate Data Science programs to Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from the financial district of Lower Manhattan in New York City, where it serves the many working professionals in that region. To Apply Applications received by December 31, 2020 will receive full consideration. However, applications are welcome until the position is filled. 1. Go to: https://njit.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=2541 2. Create your application, and upload your cover letter, CV, Research Statement, and Teaching Statement on that site. The CV must include at least three names along with contact information for references. The applications will be evaluated as they are received and accepted until the positions are filled. Contact address for inquiries: cs-faculty-search at njit.edu. To build a diverse workforce, NJIT encourages applications from individuals with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women. NJIT is an EEO employer From duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt Mon Dec 21 12:17:25 2020 From: duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt (Duncan Paul Attard) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:17:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP DisCoTec 2021 [2nd Call] Message-ID: <80AA8D1E-2A3B-45AE-8809-5F6A2EECA05A@um.edu.mt> [Apologies for multiple postings] ************************************************************************ Joint Call for Papers 16th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2021 Valletta, Malta, 14-18 June 2021 https://www.discotec.org/2021 ************************************************************************ DisCoTec 2021 is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS). It gathers conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects ? from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques, testing and verification methods, to language design and system implementation approaches. * Main Conferences * - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination) 23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages PC Chairs: Ferruccio Damiani (University of Turin, IT) and Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2021/dais) 21st International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems PC Chairs: Fab?ola Greve (Federal University of Bahia, BR) and Miguel Matos (University of Lisboa & INESC-ID, PT) - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2021/forte) 41st International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems PC Chairs: Kirstin Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) and Tim Willemse (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) Important dates (for all main conferences): - January 29, 2021: Abstract submission deadline - February 5, 2021: Paper submission deadline - April 2, 2021: Notification of accepted papers - April 23, 2021: Camera-ready papers deadline - June 14-18, 2021: Conferences and workshops * Keynote Speakers * - Gilles Fedak (iExec, FR) - Mira Mezini (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) - Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK) * 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 + 10 minute 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 (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) - Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) - ?Journal First? papers (up to 4 pages, including references) * Proceedings * The proceedings of the DisCoTec 2021 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 a reputable journal such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. More information is available on the conference website. * Submission Instructions * Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically in PDF using a two-phase online submission process. The registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before January 29, 2021. Submission of the manuscript is due by no later than February 5, 2021. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2021 - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte21 - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ under Publications/Links). The submissions ? prepared using Springer?s LNCS style ? must not exceed the total page limit, including figures and references. Submissions not adhering to the above-specified constraints may be rejected without review. For each accepted paper, one of the authors must register to DisCoTec 2021, and attend the corresponding conference to present the paper. * Satellite Events * DisCoTec also features workshops, tutorials, and a tool track. Workshops, tutorials, and tools demonstrations should fall in the areas of the DisCoTec conferences. For more information refer to the website. * Organising Committee * - Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT ? General Chair) - Caroline Caruana (University of Malta, MT ? Publicity Chair) - Jasmine Xuereb (University of Malta, MT ? Publicity Chair) - Duncan Paul Attard (University of Malta, MT ? Workshops Chair) - Christian Bartolo Burl? (Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT ? Workshops Chair) - Lucienne Bugeja (University of Malta, MT ? Logistics) * Steering Committee * - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Pascal Felber (University of Neuch?tel, CH) - Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT) - Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, DE) - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, GR) - Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, FR) - Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES) - Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, PT) - Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, FR) - Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, IT ? Chair) To receive live, up-to-date information, follow us on Twitter @DisCoTecConf. From duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt Mon Dec 21 12:25:06 2020 From: duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt (Duncan Paul Attard) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:25:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFW DisCoTec 2021 [1st Call] Message-ID: ************************************************************************ Call for Satellite Events: Workshops, Tutorials and Tool Tracks 16th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2021 Valletta, Malta, 14-18 June 2021 https://www.discotec.org/2021 ************************************************************************ DisCoTec 2021 is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS). It gathers conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects ? from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques, testing and verification methods, to language design and system implementation approaches. * Main Conferences * - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination) 23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages PC Chairs: Ferruccio Damiani (University of Turin, IT) and Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2021/dais) 21st International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems PC Chairs: Fab?ola Greve (Federal University of Bahia, BR) and Miguel Matos (University of Lisboa & INESC-ID, PT) - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2021/forte) 41st International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems PC Chairs: Kirstin Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) and Tim Willemse (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) * Workshops * The DisCoTec 2021 organising committee invites proposals for workshops to complement the three main 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 focussed audience. The workshops will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective workshop chairs should contact the organisers and provide the following information: - contact information of the workshop chairs - name of the workshop - number of (expected) participants - brief description of the topic of the event (max. 500 words) - any other relevant information (e.g., invited speakers) Important dates (for all workshops): - January 20, 2021: Workshop proposal submission deadline - January 31, 2021: Notification of accepted workshop proposals - Mid April 2021: Workshop paper submission deadline - Mid May 2021: Notification of accepted workshop papers - June 14-18, 2021: Conferences and workshops The submission and notification deadlines of the workshops are at the discretion of the individual workshop chairs. However, the notification must be no later than the early registration deadline for DisCoTec 2021 (to be announced). * DisCoTec 2021 Workshop Organisers * - Duncan Paul Attard (University of Malta, MT) - Christian Bartolo Burl? (Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT) * Further Information * For further information please contact the workshops chairs at . To receive live, up-to-date information, follow us on Twitter @DisCoTecConf. From catalin.hritcu at gmail.com Tue Dec 22 05:49:32 2020 From: catalin.hritcu at gmail.com (Catalin Hritcu) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:49:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CS@max planck doctoral program applications by 31 December Message-ID: Looking for a top PhD program in English that you can start after BSc or MSc? CS at max planck is a highly selective doctoral program that grants admitted students full financial support to pursue research in the broad area of computer and information science, with faculty at Max Planck Institutes and some of the best German universities. To qualify for the program, students must hold a Bachelor?s or Master?s degree in computer science (or a related field) and have an outstanding academic record. We especially encourage applications from students who wish to explore research across the CS spectrum before committing to a topic and advisor. For more information about CS at max planck, see here: https://www.cis.mpg.de/graduate-programs/cs-max-planck The next upcoming application deadline is 31 December 2020. From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Tue Dec 22 13:45:49 2020 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:45:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CPP 2021: Call for Participation and Lightning Talks Message-ID: Subject: CPP 2021: Call for Participation and Lightning Talks *** Call for Participation and Lightning Talks *** *** Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2021) *** #### Executive Summary * Conference dates: 17-19 January 2021 (extended to 3 days!) * Lightning talks submission deadline: 8 January 2021 (AoE) * Lightning talks session: 18 January 2021 at 20:00 CET * Registration: https://popl21.sigplan.org/attending/Registration - Early registration deadline: 10 January 2021 (!) - Discounted registration available (see below) * Long pre-recorded talks available by: 11 January 2021 (AoE) #### General Information Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal verification and certification as an essential paradigm. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education. CPP is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG. For more information please visit https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021 CPP 2021 will be co-located with POPL 2021 and will take place on 17-19 January 2021, as a virtual meeting, where all papers are presented online. For more information about virtual conference organization have a look here: https://popl21.sigplan.org/venue/POPL-2021-venue CPP will also have both long and short versions of presentations, just that for us the short versions are 10 minutes long (not 5). #### Call for Lightning Talks CPP 2021 will include a session of 5-minute talks where attendees can present work-in-progress, preliminary research results, and emerging topics. Submission of such lightning talks proposals is lightweight: all we need is a title, an abstract, and the author names, affiliations, and contact information. - Lightning talks submission deadline: 8 January 2021 (AoE) - Lightning talks session: 18 January 2021 at 20:00 CET - Submission information coming up in the next couple of days at: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#Call-for-Participation-and-Lightning-Talks #### Discounted Registration We offer a $10 alternative registration fee for anyone for whom the normal registration fees could be an impediment to participation. #### Industrial Supporters Warm thanks to our generous industrial supporters: - Gold supporter: JetBrains - Silver supporters: Algorand, IOHK, and Nomadic Labs - Bronze supporters: Arm, BedRock Systems Inc, Digital Asset, Galois, Informal Systems Inc, and Zilliqa #### Invited Talks - Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universit?t M?nchen): Teaching Algorithms and Data Structures with a Proof Assistant - Peter Sewell (University of Cambridge): Underpinning the foundations: Sail-based semantics, testing, and reasoning, for production and CHERI-enabled architectures #### Accepted Papers, Program, and Distinguished Paper Awards The list of papers accepted at CPP 2021 is available at https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#event-overview A preliminary program is also available: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#program Starting with this edition we introduced the CPP Distinguished Paper Awards, aimed at accepted submissions that stand out with respect to originality, significance, and clarity. The three Distinguished Papers selected for CPP 2021 are: - A Minimalistic Verified Bootstrapped Compiler (Proof Pearl) by Magnus O. Myreen - Formalizing the Ring of Witt Vectors by Johan Commelin and Robert Y. Lewis - Machine-Checked Semantic Session Typing by Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen, Daniel Louwrink, Robbert Krebbers and Jesper Bengtson #### Contact For any questions please contact the chairs: Catalin Hritcu , Andrei Popescu , Lennart Beringer From tgivenwilson at hotmail.com Thu Dec 31 05:32:27 2020 From: tgivenwilson at hotmail.com (Thomas Given-Wilson) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:32:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc in Statistical Model Checking at UCLouvain -- Belgium Message-ID: Vacancy terms: Full time, fixed term 2 years contract (can be extended up to 4 years) Salary: Around 29 000 euros Net + Social security. ====================================================== ============ About the role ============ You will work in the cyber security and formal verification lab of Axel Legay. ? Your main objective will be to develop new algorithms to verify hyper properties with Statistical Model Checking. You will focus on rare event and on non-deterministic stochastic systems. ? The position takes place is a new research project on Statistical Model Checking. You will work with one other postdoc and with international collaborators. ? Lab members include three postdoc and four PhD students working on cyber security and formal verification. ? The lab is located in the computer science department of UCLouvain: Universit? catholique de Louvain | UCLouvain ? The university is located in the beautiful university of Louvain-La-Neuve. The city is one train and 40 minutes away from Brussels. ? =========== About you ============ ? With a PhD in Computer Science or a closely related field, you will have an affinity with software engineering, and particularly testing, validation or verification. ? Knowledge of Statistical Model Checking and/or Statistics is a plus. ? Language: English and/or French. ? ====================== How to apply ====================== ? 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