From genaim at gmail.com Sun Jan 3 04:44:48 2021 From: genaim at gmail.com (Samir Genaim) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 10:44:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WST 2021 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: ====================================================================== WST 2021 - Call for Papers 17th International Workshop on Termination http://costa.fdi.ucm.es/wst2021 July 16, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA, United States Co-located with CADE-28 ====================================================================== 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. IMPORTANT DATES: * submission deadline: April 18, 2021 * notification: May 23, 2021 * final version due: June 13, 2021 * workshop: July 16, 2021 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 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=wst2021 Please, use LaTeX and the LIPIcs style file http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz to prepare your submission. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Martin Avanzini - INRIA Sophia, Antipolis * 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? 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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. Begin forwarded message: From: "Gardner, Philippa A" > Subject: permanent academic positions, Imperial Date: 14 November 2020 at 14:12:29 GMT To: "types-announce at lists.seas.upenn.edu" > Dear all, [Sorry if you receive multiple postings of this email.] I would like to draw your attention to a current Imperial advert for several academic positions (roughly equivalent to assistant/associate professor) in the Department of Computing at Imperial; details can be found here. **Deadline: 7th January 2020** We seek excellent applicants from all areas of Computer Science. I would very much like to encourage PL, theory and verification experts to apply. Please don?t hesitate to contact me, or other academics in the Department, if you have any questions. In particular, there are some exciting plans for growth and interaction with industry that we would be happy to share with you. Best wishes, 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Mon Jan 4 12:08:16 2021 From: carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:08:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2021: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <7ad557ae-4b3b-74f6-ae6c-4ca82b4fdac6@dcs.bbk.ac.uk> (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== Updated information on: invited speakers, affiliated workshops ================================================================== 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 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~ariola/ - Nao Hirokawa, JAIST https://www.jaist.ac.jp/~hirokawa/ - Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte https://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ - Sam Staton, University of Oxford https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samuel.staton/main.html AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS -------------------- - HoTT/UF: 6th Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations - ITRS: 10th Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems - WPTE: 7th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation - UNIF: 35th International Workshop on Unification - LSFA: 16th Logical and Semantics Frameworks with Applications - IWC: 10th International Workshop on Confluence - IFIP WG 1.6: 24th meeting of the IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting 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 walther.neuper at jku.at Sun Jan 3 11:36:25 2021 From: walther.neuper at jku.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 17:36:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software at CADE-28 Message-ID: Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ************************************************************************** ThEdu'21 Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software July 2021 http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/ThEdu21 ************************************************************************** at CADE-28 The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States July 11-16, 2021 http://www.cade-28.info ************************************************************************** ThEdu'21 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: 25 April 2021 * Author Notification: 23 May 2021 * Workshop Day: July 2021 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=thedu21 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'21 and presents his/her extended abstract/demonstration. Contingency Plans (COVID19) If the pandemic status, at the time of the conference, should force CADE-28 to be implemented as an online event, ThEdu'21 will follow through, as a online workshop. 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 (tentative) 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'21 Web-page. 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Submission deadline: January 11 2021, Anywhere on Earth. *************************************************************** 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 gtan at cse.psu.edu Mon Jan 4 21:36:50 2021 From: gtan at cse.psu.edu (Gang (Gary) Tan) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:36:50 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: LangSec 2021 (affiliated with IEEE S&P) due on Jan 15th, 2021 Message-ID: <026b302f-1269-57f5-a5dc-83b4e44fa508@cse.psu.edu> Call for Papers 7th Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) Affiliated with 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) May 27th, 2021 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://langsec.org/spw21/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langsec2021 Important Dates: Research paper submissions due: January 15 2021, AOE Work-in-progress reports and panels submissions due: ? 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 A.Lisitsa at liverpool.ac.uk Tue Jan 5 06:38:27 2021 From: A.Lisitsa at liverpool.ac.uk (Lisitsa, Alexei) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:38:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Third CFP VPT 2021 Ninth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation Message-ID: THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation Devoted to the achievements of the research career of Professor Alberto Pettorossi http://www.iasi.cnr.it/~adp/ March 27th and 28th, 2021, Luxembourg, Luxembourg http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2021 Co-Located with the 24th European joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021) The VPT 2021 event will consist of two parts: Day 1: Invited and contributed presentations of the postponed VPT 2020 workshop devoted to the achievements of the research career of Professor Alberto Pettorossi http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2020 The Proceedings of VPT-2020 was published as EPTCS 320: http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/content.cgi?VPTHCVS2020 Day 2: new Invited and contributed presentations of VPT 2021 workshop. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** VPT-2020 Keynote Speaker: Professor Alberto Pettorossi, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata and Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica "A. Ruberti", Italy http://www.iasi.cnr.it/~adp/ *************************************************************** The VPT-2020 Invited Speakers: Alain Finkel, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS Universite Paris-Saclay, France http://www.lsv.fr/~finkel/ John P. Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain http://www.ruc.dk/~jpg/ Moa Johansson, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~jomoa/ Neil D. Jones, Professor emeritus at University of Copenhagen, Denmark http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~neil/ Michael Leuschel, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/software-engineering-and-programming-languages/our-team/team/michael-leuschel.html Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy http://www.iasi.cnr.it/~proietti/ Sophie Renault, European Patent Office - The Hague, The Netherlands Andrzej Skowron, Professor emeritus at University of Warsaw, Poland *************************************************************** *************************************************************** VPT-2021 Invited Speakers: Nikos Gorogiannis, Middlesex University, UK https://ngorogiannis.bitbucket.io/ Fritz Henglein, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~henglein/ .......................................................................... .................................. TBA ................................... *************************************************************** The Ninth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation (VPT 2021) aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of Program Verification and Program Transformation. The workshop will be held fully online mode by ETAPS decision, and remote participation and lectures and talks delivery will be possible. The previous workshops in this series were: VPT 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russia VPT 2014, Vienna, Austria VPT 2015, London, UK VPT 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands VPT 2017, Uppsala, Sweden MARS/VPT 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece VPT 2019, Genova, Italy VPT 2020, Dublin, Ireland The VPT-2020 Workshop was postponed in-line with ETAPS-2020, The Proceedings of VPT-2020 was published as EPTCS 320. The workshop solicits research, position, application, and system description papers with a special emphasis on case studies, demonstrating viability of the interactions between the research fields of program transformation and program verification in a broad sense. Also papers in related areas, such as program testing and program synthesis are welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Verification by Program Transformation * Verification Techniques in Program Transformation and Synthesis * Verification and Certification of Programs Transformations * Program Analysis and Transformation * Program Testing and Transformation * Verifiable Computing and Program Transformation * Case studies *Important Dates* * January 24th, 2021: Regular paper submission deadline (The deadline has been extended.) * January 24th, 2021: Extended abstracts and presentation-only papers submission deadline * February 16th, 2021: Acceptance notification * March 1st, 2021: Camera ready version (for the informal pre-proceedings) * March 27th and 28th, 2021: Workshop * May 10th, 2021: Revised paper submission for the formal proceedings in EPTCS deadline *Submission Guidelines* Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper in PDF, formatted in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science LaTeX Style (http://style.eptcs.org/), via the Easychair submission website for VPT 2021 : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2021 Regular papers must describe original work that has not been published, or currently submitted, to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Also papers that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords that will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. *Proceedings* Revised versions of all the accepted papers and accepted extended abstracts, taking into account the feedback received at the workshop, will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer (EPTCS) series after the workshop. If the workshop will attract sufficiently many high quality papers, a special issue of a journal on the topic of the workshop will be considered. The special issue will be open to high quality papers accepted for presentation in previous editions of the workshop. Program Committee: Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy Grigory Fedyukovich, Princeton University, USA Laurent Fribourg, CNRS & ENS Paris-Saclay, France John P. Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Geoff W. Hamilton, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland Alexei Lisitsa, The University of Liverpool, UK (co-Chair) Andrei P. Nemytykh, Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia (co-Chair) Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Peter Sestoft, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Organisers: Alexei Lisitsa (The University of Liverpool, UK) Andrei P. Nemytykh (Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia) Contacts E-mail: Alexei Lisitsa, a.lisitsa at csc.liv.ac.uk Andrei P. Nemytykh, nemytykh at math.botik.ru , nemytykh at gmail.com Web: http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2021/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu Tue Jan 5 10:05:45 2021 From: itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu (itp2021-workshops at easyconferences.eu) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:05:45 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITP2021: Second Call for Workshops (Deadline 11 January 2021) Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------- ITP2021: Interactive Theorem Proving, 12th International Conference 2021, June 29-July 1, Rome, Italy http://easyconferences.eu/itp2021/ [1] -------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND 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. 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TU Wien offers an outstanding research environment and numerous professional development opportunities. The Faculty of Informatics is the largest one in Austria and is consistently ranked among the best in Europe. Finally, Vienna has been consistently ranked by Mercer over the last years the best city for quality of life worldwide. The employment is full-time (40 hrs/week) and the salary is internationally competitive (the yearly entry-level gross salary is approx. 41.000 EUR, which roughly corresponds to 2.400 EUR net per month). Interested candidates should send at their earliest convenience - a motivation letter - transcripts of records (Bachelor and Master) - a curriculum vitae - contact information of two referees to matteo.maffei at tuwien.ac.at. More information on the application procedure and on additional hiring opportunities is available at https://secpriv.wien/work/ The working language in the group is English, knowledge of German is not required. --- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matteo Maffei Security and Privacy Group TU Wien Favoritenstrasse 9-11, Stiege 2, 1. Stock Wien, A-1040 Website: secpriv.tuwien.ac.at Phone: +43(1)58801184860 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The list of accepted papers can be found online: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/PADL-2021 Topics this year include gradual types, logic programming for repairing states, reversible debugging, fuzzing, validation, declarative debugging, server-side web programming, foundations of logic programming implementation, blockchain safety, concurrency primitives, and pattern matching. We have two keynotes: - Semantics-based Synthesis in miniKanren - William Byrd (University of Alabama at Birmingham) - SMT-based Constraint Answer Set Solver EZSMT - Yuliya Lierler (University of Nebraska) Participation is of course online and anyone can register either as part of POPL or just to attend PADL itself: https://popl21.sigplan.org/attending/Registration This year the registration price is modest ($100 for ACM members or $50 for ACM students, + $25 for non ACM members) and there is even a discount option of $10 for those who do not have a source of external funding, to further enable wide participation. Early registration rates end January 10th, after this the price goes up by $25 (but the discount rate remains $10). We do hope you will join us and/or catch the recorded videos which will be made available online. Dominic Orchard and Jose Morales -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Wed Jan 6 12:28:07 2021 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 17:28:07 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] fully funded PhD position on verification of industrial robots at University of Sheffield -- application deadline coming soon (Jan. 13) Message-ID: Greetings, This fast approaching deadline could be of interest to UK or EU residents currently looking for a PhD position and willing to start in mid February. It is an opportunity to do high impact verification research in an excellent academic environment. Background in robotics is not required. The program is for 3.5 years, with no teaching obligations. There is the possibility to work remotely until the pandemic is over. The PhD will be supervised by myself (https://www.andreipopescu.uk/) in collaboration with experts from Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (https://www.amrc.co.uk/). So far, my students have published in top tier conferences such as CAV, LICS, ICFP, IJCAR, POPL and Oakland S&P on the topics of their PhD and MSc dissertations. More details on the position can be found at: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/formal-specification-and-verification-of-the-safe-interaction-between-humans-and-industrial-robots/?p127388 Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Best wishes, Andrei From P.Achten at cs.ru.nl Fri Jan 8 03:11:48 2021 From: P.Achten at cs.ru.nl (Peter Achten) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 09:11:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [TFP'21] final call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming 2021, 17-19 February (online event with Lambda Days 2021 & TFPIE 2021) Message-ID: <010c7411-4929-929f-d738-d975402f226a@cs.ru.nl> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ????????????????????? Final call for papers ??????? 22nd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming ????????????????????????? tfp2021.org ?????????????????? *deadline: January 15 2021* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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:??????????????????????????????? 17-19th February, 2021 Visit http://tfp2021.org/ for more information. From m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk Fri Jan 8 05:07:49 2021 From: m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk (Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 10:07:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] UNESCO World Logic Day@UCL: Logical Journeys Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are organising a UNESCO World Logic Day (WLD) event in UCL, titled Logical Journeys! Details are available on our website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/events/2021/jan/logical-journeys-webinar-world-logic-day-event [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/sites/engineering/files/styles/medium_image/public/events/wld-logo-page-001_0.jpg?itok=ZJRzvp5D] Logical Journeys Webinar (World Logic Day Event) | UCL Engineering - UCL ? University College London Logical Journeys is a one day event organised by Renato Neves, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, and Alexandra Silva (UCL) for discussing the past use of logic in different domains and the challenges it faces from emerging paradigms, such as machine learning, probabilistic, cyber-physical, and quantum computing. The event is framed in the context of UNESCO?s World Logic Day, which was proclaimed (last ... www.ucl.ac.uk Logical Journeys will consist of a keynote talk by Samson Abramsky and a discussion session on ?the many facets of logic? which will be led by a panel of researchers with different backgrounds but with logic as a central pillar in their careers. Date: 14th January 2021. Start Time: 14h00 (UTC). End Time: 16h00 (UTC). The event will be hosted online, via Zoom. UCL uses third parties such as Zoom to administer virtual events and manage your personal information on our behalf. If you are happy for us to process your data solely for this purpose, please register for our webinar by clicking the booking link above. Outline of Programme * 14.00-15.00: Keynote talk by Prof. Samson Abramsky. * 15.00-15.30: Panelists' short talks/opinions about the discussion topics. * 15.30-16.00: Discussion amongst the panel members with questions from the audience. Panel The panel will consist of researchers working in different areas where logic is applied: * Samson Abramsky (Oxford University): Logic, quantum, and program semantics. * Robin Hirsch (University College London): Logic and mathematical foundations. * Nathan Klinedinst (University College London): Logic in linguistics. * Pasquale Minervini (University College London): Logic in machine learning. * Lavinia Picollo (National University of Singapore/UCL): Philosophical logic. * Alessandra Russo (Imperial College): Logic in symbolic reasoning. Discussion points 1- A CONTRARIAN ?EXPANSION? OF WORLD LOGIC DAY: THE WORLD IS NOISY AND UNCERTAIN: HAS LOGIC HAD ITS DAY? The idea here is the challenge we currently see to logic in CS and AI coming from the rise in machine learning and probabilistic methods. Of course, we will all want to rebut this, but it might be fun to tension our positive story against this challenge, rather than ignoring it! 2- EACH PANELIST'S PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF LOGIC: All panelists have experience in working with logic: some have enjoyed proving theorems in and about it, some have used machine learning and neural networks to automate the proofs. Some panelists have used the logic in exotic fields such as AI, linguistics, and philosophy. We would love to hear about each and everyone's stories. Please note, this webinar is open to all, but is aimed at an academic audience. Links on this page may lead to external sites. 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As usual, ICALP will be preceded by a series of workshops, which will take place on 12 July 2021. *** ICALP 2021 and its workshops will be online-only, hosted by the University of Glasgow, UK. *** =============== 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. ================ Invited Speakers ================ Unifying Invited Speakers: Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Toniann Pitassi, University of Toronto, Canada Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser University, Canada Track A Invited Speakers: Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel David Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Track B Invited Speaker: Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany =========================== 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 andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Fri Jan 8 12:52:48 2021 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 18:52:48 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] F-IDE 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From michael.greenberg at pomona.edu Fri Jan 8 14:19:11 2021 From: michael.greenberg at pomona.edu (Michael Greenberg) Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:19:11 -0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2021 - Talks are live! - Second 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 Talk videos: https://app.clowdr.org/conference/popl2021 LIVE and PUBLIC 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 # POPL videos are live Whether or not you register, you can watch all of the POPL talks on Clowdr: https://app.clowdr.org/conference/popl2021 Browse the five-minute "lightning" talks, watch the full thirty-minute talks, and check out the student videos in the SRC. All talks offer subtitles. # 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 (just two days from now). A discounted option is available on the registration page for those unable to pay the full registration fee. ## 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. Asynchronous chat will open no later than January 16th, and it will remain open after the conference for at least one month. 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). From Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk Fri Jan 8 14:45:44 2021 From: Sam.Lindley at ed.ac.uk (Sam Lindley) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 19:45:44 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PEPM 2021 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <4967aecb-84fc-1ea1-835e-5a658f8c69c9@ed.ac.uk> -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- 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) Registration ------------ https://popl21.sigplan.org/attending/Registration The registration fee for POPL and all associated events (including PEPM) is a nominal US$10 (or optionally, if you are willing and able to pay more, some other amount based on your status). Early registration deadline: **Sunday 10th January, 2021** Keynote speakers ---------------- Pat Hanrahan (Stanford) TBC 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 Preliminary Schedule -------------------- (All talks are live. All times are CET, i.e. UTC+1.) Monday 18th January 2021 1000--1030 A functional Abstraction of Type Trails Kenichi Asai, *Youyou Cong*, Chiaki Ishio 1030--1100 A Text-based Syntax Completion Method Using LR Parsing *Isao Sasano*, Kwanghoon Choi 1100--1130 break 1130--1200 Coq to C Translation with Partial Evaluation Akira Tanaka 1200--1230 Counterexample Generation for Program Verification based on Ownership Refinement Types *Hideto Ueno*, John Toman, Naoki Kobayashi, Takeshi Tsukada 1230--1330 break 1330--1400 Control Flow Obfuscation for Featherweight Java using Continuation Passing Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu 1400--1430 Efficient Fair Conjunction for Structurally-Recursive Relations Petr Lozov, Dmitri Boulytchev 1430--1500 break 1500--1600 keynote 1 Program manipulation of C code: from partial evaluation to semantic patches for the Linux kernel Julia Lawall (Inria) Tuesday 19th January 2021 1500--1600 keynote 2 Erasure in dependently typed programming Mat?? Teji???k (Chordify) 1600--1630 break 1630--1700 Staged Effects and Handlers for Modular Languages with Abstraction *Casper Bach Poulsen*, Cas van der Rest, Tom Schrijvers 1700--1730 Automatic Differentiation via Effects and Handlers: An Implementation in Frank Jesse Sigal 1730--1800 break 1800--1830 A Type-Safe Structure Editor Calculus Christian Godiksen, Thomas Herrmann, Hans H?ttel, Mikkel Korup Lauridsen, Iman Owliaie 1830--1900 Strictly Capturing Non-Strict Closures Zachary Sullivan, Paul Downen, Zena M. Ariola 1900--1930 break 1930--2030 keynote 3 TBC Pat Hanrahan (Stanford) Best paper award ---------------- PEPM 2021 continues the tradition of a Best Paper award. The winner will be announced at the workshop. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From dimitrova at cispa.de Sat Jan 9 07:58:17 2021 From: dimitrova at cispa.de (Dimitrova, Rayna) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 12:58:17 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ATVA 2021 - Call for Workshops Message-ID: <7BAE8C17-FEA8-4CC8-B055-956D1F55F494@cispa.de> ATVA 2021: The 19th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis October 18-22 2021, Gold Coast, Australia CALL FOR WORKSHOPS https://formal-analysis.com/atva/2021/workshop.html IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). PROPOSALS - Proposals are due by email to the Workshop chairs: 28 February 2021 - Organizers will be notified about the participation: 15 March 2021 CONFERENCE - Workshops: October 18, 2021 - Main conference: October 19-22, 2021 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION The ATVA 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops that will complement the main conference. The topics of the workshops should fall within the scope of ATVA. This encompasses all theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware and software systems. We particularly encourage submissions from workshops on topics related to testing, analysis, verification, and security (TAVS) of machine learning (ML) systems. ATVA 2021 Workshops will be held on October 18, before the main conference. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Workshop Chairs along with the program and general chairs. Proposals must consist of the following three parts: PART I: TECHNICAL INFORMATION A short (about 1 page) scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance and relevance to ATVA, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the ATVA community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). PART II: ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION - Contact information of the workshop organizers - Main contact for the workshop (i.e., a workshop chair) - Estimate of the audience size - Proposed format and agenda (e.g., demo sessions, tutorials, etc.) - Potential invited speakers (if known) - Procedures for selecting papers and participants - Plans for dissemination, if any (e.g., special issues of journals) - Special technical, AV, or USB stick needs - Links to a preliminary website of the workshop and call for papers (if possible) - Information if workshop has been previously held PART III: VIRTUAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION A paragraph describing how the workshop will proceed in the case that the conference meeting is virtual. This includes the form of participation (if different from the physical meeting), video conferencing requirements, time zone preferences, etc. EVALUATION CRITERIA The workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated on the following criteria: - Potential to advance the state of the art in automated verification and analysis technologies - Ability to break new ground and create bridges with other disciplines - Relevance to ATVA - Overlap of topics with other proposed workshops - Past successes of the workshop and association with previous conferences - Organizers' ability and experience to lead a successful workshop All accepted workshops will be asked to provide a webpage, call for papers, and a list of invited speakers. (The workshop participants will be required to register for the workshop through the ATVA main registration page.) CONTACT For any questions please contact the workshop chairs: Rayna Dimitrova (dimitrova at cispa.de) and Guy Katz (guykatz at cs.huji.ac.il). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.a.perez at rug.nl Mon Jan 11 01:03:00 2021 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:03:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD scholarship on Concurrency and Logic Message-ID: [Please share widely with potential candidates; apologies for any cross-postings.] PHD SCHOLARSHIP ON ?CONCURRENCY AND LOGIC? University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Posted: January 10, 2021) Supervisors: - Prof. Barteld Kooi (https://www.philos.rug.nl/~barteld/) - Prof. Jorge A. P?rez (https://www.jperez.nl) We seek excellent candidates for one four-year PhD scholarship on the topics of message-passing concurrency, modal logic, and type systems. The PhD scholarship concerns the interdisciplinary project "Knowledge is Power: Reliable Communicating Software by Epistemic Logics", supported by the Young Academy Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/research/young-academy/). Details on the PhD Scholarship program can be found here: https://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/phd-scholarship-programme/ The starting point of the proposed research is "propositions as sessions", a remarkable principle that connects concurrency and logic in the style of the well-known Curry-Howard correspondence. In this project, you will enhance the expressiveness of analysis techniques for message-passing programs by incorporating forms of knowledge and belief in formal specifications of communicating programs. To this end, you will develop new extensions of "propositions as sessions" by exploiting elements from epistemic logics and modal logics. - Qualifications You have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, (Philosophical) Logic, Mathematics, or Artificial Intelligence, with proven experience in at least two of the following: - Modal logics and (their) proof theory - Concurrency theory and/or process calculi - Semantics of programming languages - Program verification and type systems - The Curry-Howard correspondence - Application Details on the application procedure will be made available shortly at https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/ You will be asked to provide the following documents: 1. A brief letter of motivation 2. A CV, including contact details of two academic referees 3. A research proposal of max. 1500 words 4. A certified transcript of records 5. Scan of diploma/transcripts - Additional Information Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the supervisors for further details on the research project and also advice on how to prepare their applications: - Prof. Barteld Kooi (b.p.kooi[at]rug.nl) - Prof. Jorge A. P?rez (j.a.perez[at]rug.nl) From elaine.pimentel at gmail.com Mon Jan 11 06:20:41 2021 From: elaine.pimentel at gmail.com (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:20:41 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2021 - 1st call for papers Message-ID: ============================================================= Call for papers Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2021 Pittsburgh, USA, 16 July 2021 Affiliated with CADE-28 http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2021/ ============================================================= Abstract submission deadline: 19 April 2021 Paper submission deadline: 26 April 2021 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 2021 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following: * Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages, logical systems and related formally specified systems. * Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory * Graphical languages for building proofs, applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory. * New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory. * Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc. * Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml or Agda, and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog. LFMTP 2021 will hold a special session in honour of Frank Pfenning. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Monday April 19 Submission deadline: Monday April 26 Notification to authors: Monday May 31 Final version due: Monday June 14 Workshop date: Friday July 16 Submission In addition to regular papers, we welcome/encourage the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2021 Proceedings A selection of the presented papers will be published online in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Program Committee * David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris) * Alberto Ciaffaglione (University of Udine) * Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna) * Marina Lenisa (Universit? degli Studi di Udine) * Dennis M?ller (Friedrich-Alexander-University) * Michael Norrish (CSIRO) * Elaine Pimentel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) co-chair * Ulrich Sch?pp (fortiss GmbH) * Kathrin Stark (Princeton University) * Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) * Nora Szasz (Universidad ORT Uruguay) * Enrico Tassi (Inria) co-chair * Alwen Tiu (The Australian National University) * Tjark Weber (Uppsala University) Invited Speakers TBA -- Elaine. ------------------------------------------------- Elaine Pimentel - DMAT/UFRN Address: Departamento de Matem?tica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Campus Universit?rio - Av. Senador Salgado Filho, s/n? Lagoa Nova, CEP: 59.078-970 - Natal - RN Phone: +55 84 3215-3820 http://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3298246411086415 -------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fioravanti at unich.it Mon Jan 11 13:50:33 2021 From: fioravanti at unich.it (Fabio Fioravanti) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:50:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP HCVS 2021 @ ETAPS Message-ID: <2fb165c4-31a9-6711-86cc-e791d45583b8@unich.it> (apologies for multiple copies) Call for Papers *8th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) **Co-located with ETAPS 2021 https://etaps.org/ https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs21/ 28 March 2021 - virtual only Invited speakers: TBA. Please visit the webpage for updates. Submission deadlines: - Paper submission: Jan 28, 2021 - Paper notification: Feb 27, 2021 - Workshop: Mar 28, 2021 Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modelled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centred around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. This series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working in the two communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP), Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated Deduction (e.g., CADE, IJCAR), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification, and synthesis. Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these communities at different times and from different perspectives and HCVS is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences. The workshop follows seven previous meetings: HCVS 2020 in Dublin, Ireland (ETAPS 2020), 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). 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, transition systems, Petri-nets, smart contracts) -Program synthesis -Program testing -Program transformation -Constraint solving -Type systems -Machine learning and automated reasoning -CHC encoding of analysis and verification problems -Resource analysis -Case studies and tools -Challenging problems We solicit regular papers describing the 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 and posters that are of interest to the workshop. CHC Competition HCVS 2021 will host the 4th competition on constraint Horn clauses (CHC-COMP ), which will compare state-of-the-art tools for CHC solving for performance and effectiveness on a set of publicly available benchmarks. A report on the 4th CHC-COMP will be part of the workshop's proceedings. The report also contains tool descriptions of the participating solvers. Program Chairs Bishoksan Kafle, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain (co-chair) Hossein Hojjat, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA (co-chair) Program Committee Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy Gidon Ernst, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Pedro Lopez-Garcia, CSIC and IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain Grigory Fedyukovich, Florida State University, USA Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada Ranjit Jhala, University of California San Diego, USA David Monniaux, CNRS, VERIMAG, France Daniel Neider, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Steven Ramsay, University of Bristol, UK Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Martin Sch?f, SRI International, USA He Zhu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA The submission has to be done in one of the following formats: -Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS (http://www.eptcs.org/ ) format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. -Tool papers (up to 4 pages in EPTCS format), including the papers written by the CHC-COMP participants, which can outline the theoretical framework, the architecture, the usage, and experiments of the tool. -Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe work in progress or aim to initiate discussions. -Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any format, and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings. -Posters that are of interest to the workshop All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/ (provided that enough regular papers are accepted). Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2021 From nqd.lisa at gmail.com Tue Jan 12 10:48:38 2021 From: nqd.lisa at gmail.com (Lisa Nguyen Quang Do) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:48:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for workshops: 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'21) & 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'21) Message-ID: ================================================================== The 30th Edition of ISSTA and the 35th Edition of ECOOP Call for Workshops 12th-16th July 2021 Aarhus, Denmark https://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop-issta-2021/ecoop-issta-2021-workshops ================================================================== ECOOP is a conference about programming. Originally its primary focus was on object orientation, but now it looks at a much broader range of programming topics. Areas of interest include the design, implementation, optimization, analysis, testing, verification, and theory of programs, programming languages, and programming environments. Papers may focus on new tools (e.g., language implementations, program analyses, runtime systems), techniques (e.g., code organization approaches, methodologies), principles (e.g., semantics, proofs, paradigms), evaluations (e.g., experiments, corpora analyses, user studies), or some combination of the above. ECOOP solicits both innovative and creative solutions to real problems as well as evaluations of existing solutions that provide new insights. It also encourages the submission of reproduction studies. ISSTA is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test software systems. Both conferences will be co-located in Aarhus, Denmark, on July 12-16, 2021. Call for Workshops ================ ECOOP and ISSTA will host a diverse offering of workshops bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experiences. Topics for workshops may include, but are not limited to, the theory, design, implementation, optimization, testing, and analysis of programs and programming languages. Workshop organizers are encouraged to take advantage of the co-location of the two conferences to broaden participation and offer topics that may be of interest to multiple communities. To submit a proposal for an ECOOP/ISSTA workshop, please complete the online application form linked to below. After submitting, you will receive an automated email confirmation of your submission and, within four weeks, a formal response notifying you if the workshop has been accepted for ECOOP/ISSTA. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis until January 31, 2021. Link to Online Application Form: https://forms.gle/acnyGJTRaVKa9Rku5 Each workshop must conform to the following schedule constraints: - The workshop?s website must be live within two weeks of notification of the workshop?s acceptance and include relevant information about any call for papers. - The paper submission date for the workshop must be at least one week after the final technical paper notification date for both main conferences, i.e. the earliest workshop submission date can be April 26th, 2021. - Final notification dates for paper acceptance to workshops must be at least 3 days before the early registration period ends. More Information ================ For additional information, please visit the website [1] or contact the chairs Maria Christakis [2] and Marcel B?hme [3]. [1] https://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop-issta-2021/ecoop-issta-2021-workshops . 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Gda?sk, Poland and online* CALL FOR PAPERS QPL is an annual conference that brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. QPL 2021 will be held both virtually online and physically in Gdansk (COVID permitting). INVITED SPEAKERS Matty Hoban Flaminia Giacomini Anna Jencova Hl?r Kristj?nsson Ariel Bendersky Martha Lewis IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 12, 2021 Author notification: March 31, 2021 Early registration: May 14, 2021 Proceedings paper ready: May 28, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Recent work that is relevant to the conference is solicited in one (or more) of three tracks: * Proceedings submissions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract. Only proceedings-track submissions are eligible to be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. * Non-proceedings submissions consist of a 3 page extended abstract and a link to a separate published paper, pre-print, or an attached draft. * Poster submissions consist of a 1-3 page abstract and may contain a link to a separate published paper or pre-print. Submission of partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. Use of the EPTCS style is encouraged. Submission is done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl2021 BEST STUDENT PAPER There will be an award for the best student paper at the discretion of the programme committee. Papers eligible for the award are those where all the authors are students at the time of submission. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Antonio Acin Barbara Amaral Pablo Arrighi Miriam Backens (co-chair) Jonathan Barrett Alessandro Bisio Anne Broadbent Ulysse Chabaud Bob Coecke Alejandro Diaz-Caro Ross Duncan Yuan Feng Alexandru Gheorghiu Stefano Gogioso Teiko Heinosaari Chris Heunen (co-chair) Matthew Hoban Kohei Kishida Aleks Kissinger Ravi Kunjwal Ciaran Lee Matt Leifer Martha Lewis Shane Mansfield Simon Martiel Hector Miller-Bakewell Mio Murao Glaucia Murta Ognyan Oreshkov Prakash Panangaden Simon Perdrix Lidia del Rio Julien Ross Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Ana Bele?n Sainz John Selby Rui Soares Barbosa Rob Spekkens Isar Stubbe Benoit Valiron Jamie Vicary John van de Wetering Alexander Wilce Mingsheng Ying Vladimir Zamdzhiev Margherita Zorzi -- Dr Miriam Backens (they/them) Lecturer School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham From gtan at cse.psu.edu Wed Jan 13 19:45:47 2021 From: gtan at cse.psu.edu (Gang (Gary) Tan) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:45:47 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] (Deadline extended to Feb 7th, 2021) LangSec 2021, affiliated with IEEE S&P Message-ID: <524410e5-6b71-a983-a7a0-14b6597f9b1a@cse.psu.edu> We are extending the LangSec 2021 deadline to Feb 7th, 2021; apologies for multiple postings. Call for Papers 7th Workshop on Language-Theoretic Security (LangSec) Affiliated with 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) May 27th, 2021 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://langsec.org/spw21/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langsec2021 Important Dates: Research paper submissions due: Feb 7th 2021, AOE Work-in-progress reports and panels submissions due: ? Feb 7th 2021, AOE Notification to authors: Feb 28th 2021 Camera ready: March 15 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 nqd.lisa at gmail.com Thu Jan 14 04:38:42 2021 From: nqd.lisa at gmail.com (Lisa Nguyen Quang Do) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:38:42 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'21) Message-ID: ============================================================ The 30th Edition of ISSTA Call for Papers 12th-16th July 2021 Aarhus, Denmark https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2021 Co-located with ECOOP 2021 ============================================================ The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test software systems. ISSTA 2021 will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, on July 12-16, 2021, co-located with ECOOP 2021 [1]. 2021 will mark the 30th edition of ISSTA. Technical Papers =================== Authors are invited to submit research papers describing original contributions in testing or analysis of computer software. Papers describing original theoretical or empirical research, new techniques, methods for emerging systems, in-depth case studies, infrastructures of testing and analysis, or tools are welcome. Experience Papers =================== Authors are invited to submit experience papers describing a significant experience in applying software testing and analysis methods or tools and should carefully identify and discuss important lessons learned so that other researchers and/or practitioners can benefit from the experience. Of special interest are experience papers that report on industrial applications of software testing and analysis methods or tools. Reproducibility Studies =================== ISSTA would like to encourage researchers to reproduce results from previous papers. A reproducibility study must go beyond simply re-implementing an algorithm and/or re-running the artifacts provided by the original paper. It should at the very least apply the approach to new, significantly broadened inputs. Particularly, reproducibility studies are encouraged to target techniques that previously were evaluated only on proprietary subject programs or inputs. A reproducibility study should clearly report on results that the authors were able to reproduce as well as on aspects of the work that were irreproducible. In the latter case, authors are encouraged to make an effort to communicate or collaborate with the original paper?s authors to determine the cause for any observed discrepancies and, if possible, address them (e.g., through minor implementation changes). We explicitly encourage authors to not focus on a single paper/artifact only, but instead to perform a comparative experiment of multiple related approaches. In particular, reproducibility studies should follow the ACM guidelines on reproducibility (different team, different experimental setup): The measurement can be obtained with stated precision by a different team, a different measuring system, in a different location on multiple trials. For computational experiments, this means that an independent group can obtain the same result using artifacts which they develop completely independently. This means that it is also insufficient to focus on repeatability (i.e., same experiment) alone. Reproducibility Studies will be evaluated according to the following standards: - Depth and breadth of experiments - Clarity of writing - Appropriateness of conclusions - Amount of useful, actionable insights - Availability of artifacts We expect reproducibility studies to clearly point out the artifacts the study is built on, and to submit those artifacts to artifact evaluation (see below). Artifacts evaluated positively will be eligible to obtain the highly prestigious badges Results Replicated or Results Reproduced. Submissions Guideline =================== Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. More details are available at the Submission Policies page. Research and Experience Papers as well as Reproducibility Studies should be at most 10 pages in length, with at most 2 additional pages for references. Experience papers and reproducibility studies should clearly specify their category in the paper title upon submission, e.g., ?XXX (Experience Paper)?. All authors should use the official ?ACM Master article template?, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template pages [2]. Latex users should use the ?sigconf? option, as well as the ?review? (to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers) and ?anonymous? (omitting author names) options. To that end, the following latex code can be placed at the start of the latex document: \documentclass[sigconf,review, anonymous]{acmart} \acmConference[ISSTA 2021]{ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis}{12-16 July, 2021}{ Aarhus, Denmark} Submit your papers via the HotCRP ISSTA 2021 submission website [3]. Double-blind Reviewing =================== ISSTA 2021 will conduct double-blind reviewing. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. Authors should leave out author names and affiliations from the body of their submission. They should also ensure that any citations to related work by themselves are written in third person, that is, ?the prior work of XYZ? as opposed to ?our prior work?. Double-blind reviewing should not hinder the usual communication of results. But, during the review period, please don?t broadcast the work on social media. Also, to the extent to which this is possible, please avoid publishing the preprint of your work (e.g., on arXiv or on your website) until it is accepted for publication. In exceptional cases this might be required, but then please avoid spreading the paper more actively. Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the Program Chair by email. Supplementary Material =================== Authors are free to provide supplementary material if that material supports the claims in the paper. Such material may include proofs, experimental results, and/or data sets. This material should be uploaded at the same time as the submission. Any supplementary material must also be anonymized. Reviewers are not required to examine the supplementary material but may refer to it if they would like to find further evidence supporting the claims in the paper. Reviews and Responses =================== Each paper will receive three reviews, followed by an author response. After the response, some papers might receive additional reviews where necessary, to which authors can respond in a second author-response phase. 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URL: From jes at math.uminho.pt Mon Jan 18 12:54:36 2021 From: jes at math.uminho.pt (=?UTF-8?Q?Jos=c3=a9_Carlos_Esp=c3=adrito_Santo?=) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:54:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Hiring of researcher by University of Minho Message-ID: <008e338a-3ebb-5387-f060-16d967d0a436@math.uminho.pt> An international selection tender is open for recruitment of a researcher by the Centre of Mathematics, University of Minho, Portugal. One of the domains of interest is Logic. The Centre has a research group interested in proof theory, type theory and lambda-calculus. The researcher must hold a PhD degree completed at least 5 years ago. The contract has maximum duration of 4 years. The call is open until?the 28th of January 2021. The formal announcement is available at http://www.cmat.uminho.pt/Default.aspx?lang=en-US For further inquiries, please contact Jose Espirito Santo: jes AT math.uminho.pt From bishoksan at gmail.com Mon Jan 18 22:30:30 2021 From: bishoksan at gmail.com (bishoksan kafle) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:30:30 +1100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP HCVS 2021 Message-ID: (apologies for multiple copies) Call for Papers 8th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (HCVS) Co-located with ETAPS 2021 28 March 2021 - Virtual https://www.sci.unich.it/hcvs21/ Invited speakers: TBA. Please visit the webpage for updates. Submission deadlines: - Paper submission: Jan 28, 2021 - Paper notification: Feb 27, 2021 - Workshop: Mar 28, 2021 Many Program Verification and Synthesis problems of interest can be modelled directly using Horn clauses and many recent advances in the CLP and CAV communities have centred around efficiently solving problems presented as Horn clauses. This series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working in the two communities of Constraint/Logic Programming (e.g., ICLP and CP), Program Verification (e.g., CAV, TACAS, and VMCAI), and Automated Deduction (e.g., CADE, IJCAR), on the topic of Horn clause based analysis, verification, and synthesis. Horn clauses for verification and synthesis have been advocated by these communities at different times and from different perspectives and HCVS is organized to stimulate interaction and a fruitful exchange and integration of experiences. The workshop follows seven previous meetings: HCVS 2020 in Dublin, Ireland (ETAPS 2020), 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). 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, transition systems, Petri-nets, smart contracts) -Program synthesis -Program testing -Program transformation -Constraint solving -Type systems -Machine learning and automated reasoning -CHC encoding of analysis and verification problems -Resource analysis -Case studies and tools -Challenging problems We solicit regular papers describing the 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 and posters that are of interest to the workshop. CHC Competition: HCVS 2021 will host the 4th competition on constraint Horn clauses ( CHC-COMP ), which will compare state-of-the-art tools for CHC solving for performance and effectiveness on a set of publicly available benchmarks. A report on the 4th CHC-COMP will be part of the workshop's proceedings. The report also contains tool descriptions of the participating solvers. Program Committee: - Bishoksan Kafle , IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain (co-chair) - Hossein Hojjat , Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA (co-chair) - Gopal Gupta , University of Texas at Dallas, USA - John Gallagher , Roskilde University, Denmark - Philipp Ruemmer , Uppsala University, Sweden - Andrey Rybalchenko , Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - Pedro Lopez-Garcia , CSIC and IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain - Emanuele De Angelis , IASI-CNR, Italy - Fabio Fioravanti , University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy - Daniel Neider , Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - Arie Gurfinkel , University of Waterloo, Canada - Ranjit Jhala , University of California San Diego, USA - Martin Sch?f , SRI International, USA - He Zhu , Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA - Steven Ramsay , University of Bristol, UK - Grigory Fedyukovich , Florida State University, USA - Gidon Ernst , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany - David Monniaux , CNRS, VERIMAG, France - Jorge A. Navas , SRI International, USA The submission has to be done in one of the following formats: -Regular papers (up to 12 pages plus bibliography in EPTCS (http://www.eptcs.org/) format), which should present previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions of research, tools, and applications. -Tool papers (up to 4 pages in EPTCS format), including the papers written by the CHC-COMP participants, which can outline the theoretical framework, the architecture, the usage, and experiments of the tool. -Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages in EPTCS format), which describe work in progress or aim to initiate discussions. -Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or presented at a conference or another workshop. Such papers can be submitted in any format, and will not be included in the workshop post-proceedings. -Posters that are of interest to the workshop All submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee and will be selected for inclusion in accordance with the referee reports. Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be published electronically as a volume in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, see http://www.eptcs.org/ (provided that enough regular papers are accepted). Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hcvs2021 -- The race is not always won by the fastest runner, but sometimes by those who just keep running. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From acie at acie.eu Tue Jan 19 08:58:33 2021 From: acie at acie.eu (acie at acie.eu) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:58:33 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CfP. CiE 2021: Connecting with computability Message-ID: <0cacc1568e2143287eca59fd632dec0c@acie.eu> (Apologies for multiple postings.) ========================= FINAL 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 Warsa) _/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. Please note that article registration is not necessary for article 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. 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URL: From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Tue Jan 19 14:56:31 2021 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:56:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WTSC21 - workshop on trusted smart contracts @ financial crypto Message-ID: <40D2D3F9-6C35-4E46-A2F3-02EC3FC69677@cs.stir.ac.uk> [APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING / PLEASE DISSEMINATE] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest news >>> ONLINE: FC and WTSC will be held online >>> Close to the LAST SUBMISSION DEADLINE >>> Darren Tapp (Dash) invited speaker --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC?21) - https://fc21.ifca.ai/wtsc/ March 5, 2021 - Online - In Association with Financial Cryptography - https://fc21.ifca.ai/ ?????????????????????????????????????? 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 BedRock Systems, Inc. US 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 alcsc at dtu.dk Tue Jan 19 10:38:07 2021 From: alcsc at dtu.dk (Alceste Scalas) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:38:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant Professor in Formal Methods @ DTU Compute Message-ID: DTU Compute (Technical University of Denmark) is recruiting a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Formal Methods section: * details: https://www.dtu.dk/english/About/JOB-and-CAREER/vacant-positions/job?id=78af4617-2d83-4775-b7ed-f46dbbcac8ee (also below) * application deadline: 28 February 2021 (note: in the link above, in the "Apply for this job" box, you may see an earlier deadline --- it will be fixed soon) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Formal Methods If you are establishing your career as a scientist and you are looking for the best possible foundation for fulfilling your dreams and ambitions in the area of formal methods, it is right here in the section on Formal Methods at DTU. We are looking for a tenure-track assistant professor to join our vision of a safe and secure digital society supported by reliable and trustworthy IT-based systems with theoretically well-founded guarantees. You will help us lead the advancement of scientific knowledge in this area and to educate new generations of computer scientists and engineers. The position is part of DTU?s Tenure Track program. We offer a rewarding and challenging job in an international environment. We strive for academic excellence in an environment characterized by collegial respect and academic freedom tempered by responsibility. We develop talent by offering a career mentor, state-of-the-art research infrastructure, and postgraduate teacher training. DTU?s Tenure Track is an appointment of at most six years, during which you will receive career support in the form of professional and personal guidance. At the end of the tenure track appointment you will be evaluated by an external assessment committee, who will assess your appointment to a permanent Associate Professorship. Read more about the DTU Tenure Track program at DTU at this homepage . Responsibilities and qualifications You will be conducting high-quality scientific research at international level, publishing your results in highly-reputed venues, combining theoretical and practical aspects of formal methods, as well as leading and participating in collaborative research projects. You will take part in the development of research-based teaching at the bachelor, master, and PhD levels at DTU. Our teaching portfolio includes courses in topics tightly connected to our research expertise and activities: models of computation, programming languages, semantics, interpreters and compilers, formal methods, program analysis, model checking, security, and distributed and concurrent programming. You will be strengthening our research and research-based teaching competences within formal methods, and expanding them in new directions. You will be responsible for the teaching of courses. Master and PhD courses are taught in English, while bachelor courses are taught in Danish and in English. ?You will be expected to learn Danish and be able to teach in Danish after 3 years. DTU can provide Danish language courses. As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent). You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria: * Experience and quality of teaching * Research experience * Research vision and potential * International impact and experience * Societal impact * Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry * Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills * Communication skills Salary and terms of employment The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The salary for the position will be determined by the applicants qualifications and in agreement with the relevant union. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Ministerial Order on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities . The position is available from July 1st or according to mutual agreement. Further information Further information may be obtained from Head of Section Alberto Lluch Lafuente (albl at dtu.dk ). You are welcome to contact him before submitting the formal application. You can read more about DTU Compute?s section for Formal Methods at www.compute.dtu.dk/english/research/research-sections/formalmethods . If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU ? Moving to Denmark . Application procedure Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 28 February 2021 (Danish time). Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Apply online", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include: * Application (cover letter) * Vision for teaching and research for the tenure track period * CV including employment history, list of publications, H-index, and profiles in ORCID (see http://orcid.org/ ), Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/ ) and DBLP (https://dblp.uni-trier.de/) * Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience * Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD) All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. DTU Compute DTU Compute is a unique and internationally recognized academic environment spanning the science disciplines mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering. We conduct research, teaching and innovation of high international standard - producing new knowledge and technology-based solutions to societal challenges. 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URL: From duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt Tue Jan 19 13:07:45 2021 From: duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt (Duncan Paul Attard) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:07:45 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP DisCoTec 2021 [3rd Call] Message-ID: [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 Tue Jan 19 13:19:50 2021 From: duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt (Duncan Paul Attard) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 19:19:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFW DisCoTec 2021 [2nd 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). * Tutorials * The DisCoTec 2021 organising committee invites proposals for tutorials on topics related to those of the three main conferences of DisCoTec. The tutorials will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective speakers should contact the workshops chairs and provide 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) Important dates: - April 10, 2020: Tutorial proposal submission deadline - May 1, 2020: Notification of accepted tutorials - June 14-18, 2021: Conferences and tutorials * Tool Track * The DisCoTec 2021 organising committee invites proposals for tool demonstrations on topics related to those of the three main conferences of DisCoTec. This call is open to anyone. However, authors of the papers accepted at DisCoTec are strongly encouraged to present the tool accompanying their publication. The tool demos will be held in conjunction with the main events. Prospective speakers should contact the workshops chairs and provide the following information: - contact information of the speaker - title of the demo and tool - brief description of the actual demo (max. three A4 pages) Important dates: - April 24, 2020: Demo proposal submission deadline - May 8, 2020: Notification of accepted demos - June 14-18, 2021: Conferences and tool demos * DisCoTec 2021 Workshop Organisers * - Duncan Paul Attard (University of Malta, MT), duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt - Christian Bartolo Burl? (Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT), christian.bartolo at gssi.it To receive live, up-to-date information, follow us on Twitter @DisCoTecConf. From pangjun at gmail.com Wed Jan 20 02:43:18 2021 From: pangjun at gmail.com (Jun PANG) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:43:18 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Formal Methods 2021 -- 2nd call for workshop & tutorial proposals In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FM 2021 ? 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods Beijing, China, November 20-26, 2021 http://formalmethods2021.csp.escience.cn ---------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL PROPOSALS --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for workshop & tutorial proposals: February 15, 2021 Notification of decision on workshops and tutorials: March 15, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT FM 2021 ============= FM 2021 is the 24th International Symposium in a series organised by Formal Methods Europe (FME), which focuses on the development and application of formal methods in a wide range of domains including software, cyber-physical systems, and integrated computer-based systems. 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 duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt Wed Jan 20 04:01:13 2021 From: duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt (Duncan Paul Attard) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:01:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFW DisCoTec 2021 [2nd Call, ERRATUM] Message-ID: <81CC4903-C3B9-4C14-95DC-F8117F99F258@um.edu.mt> [Apologies for multiple postings] ERRATUM: Please note that the DisCoTec tutorials will be organised via a different selection process. We would also like to announce that the workshop proposal submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2021. ************************************************************************ Call for Satellite Events: Workshops 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 27, 2021: Workshop proposal submission deadline - February 1, 2021: Notification of accepted workshop proposals - Mid April, 2021: Workshop paper submission deadline - Mid May, 2021: Notification of accepted workshop papers - June 18, 2021: Workshops The submission and notification deadlines of the workshops are at the discretion of the individual workshop chairs. However, the notification will 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), duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt - Christian Bartolo Burl? (Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT), christian.bartolo at gssi.it To receive live, up-to-date information, follow us on Twitter @DisCoTecConf. From i.hasuo at acm.org Wed Jan 20 20:46:06 2021 From: i.hasuo at acm.org (Ichiro Hasuo) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:46:06 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: 6th Workshop On Monitoring And Testing Of Cyber-physical Systems (MT-CPS 2021) In-Reply-To: <202101202204.10KM4ewc001506@easychair.org> References: <202101202204.10KM4ewc001506@easychair.org> Message-ID: [Sorry for multiple postings] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 6th Workshop on Monitoring And Testing Of Cyber-physical Systems MT-CPS 2021 May 18, 2021 - Online https://sites.google.com/virginia.edu/mt-cps2021 Part of CPS-IoT Week 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 on the website of the workshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: * Abstract submission deadline: March 18, 2021 23:59pm (AoE) * Notification: April 19, 2020 * Final version: May 4, 2020 * Workshop: May 18, 2020 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. 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The research group consists, besides Thierry and Andreas, of Nils Anders Danielsson, Peter Dybjer, Ulf Norell and Christian Sattler. PhD positions usually extend to 5 years, where every year you spend 80% of your time reading courses and working on your research, and 20% on teaching. Deadline for application: _February 14th 2021_ For information on how to apply and whom to contact if you have further questions please visit this link https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=18601 -------------- 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: 1st March 2021 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and computational languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The LSFA series' objective is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. See lsfa.cic.unb.br for more information. LSFA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated deduction * Applications of logical and semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Implementation of logical and semantic frameworks * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Logical frameworks * Process calculi * Proof theory * Semantic frameworks * Specification languages and meta-languages * Type theory Submissions Contributions should be written in English and submitted in full paper (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2021 The pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed out at event registration. After the meeting, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works for the post-proceedings publication. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. Presentations should be in English. According to the submissions' quality, the chairs will promote the further publication of journal revised versions of the papers. Previous LSFA Special Issues have been published in journals such as The Logical J. of the IGPL, Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Sciences (see the LSFA page http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). Important dates * Abstract: Monday 26th April * Submission: Sunday 2nd May * Notification: Friday 4th June * Preliminary proceedings version due: Monday 14th June * Submission for final proceedings: Sunday 19th October * Final version: Sunday 21st December Program Committee ? Mar?a Alpuente (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) ? Sandra Alves (Universidade de Porto, Portugal) ? Takahito Aoto (Niigata University) ? Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia) - Co-Chair ? Eduardo Bonelli (Stevens University) - Co-Chair ? Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay) ? Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham) ? Marcelo Finger (Universidade de S?o Paulo) ? Yannick Forster (Saarland University) ? Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca (UNAM) ? Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) ? Cynthia Kop (Radboud University) ? Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz) ? Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires) ? 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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 2021 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 (with the exception of 2020, because of COVID-19 outbreak). Information about the previous events is available at theITRS home page . Invited Speaker * Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Paper Submissions Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using theEPTCS macro package and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees. Important Dates * Paper submission: 12 April 2021 * Author notification: 24 May 2021 * Final version: 18 June 2021 * Workshop: 17 July 2021 Program Committee * Antonio Bucciarelli, Universit? de Paris, France * Daniel De Carvalho, Innopolis University, Russia * Andrej Dudenhefner, Saarland University, Germany * Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia * Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy (chair) * Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Bloomington, USA (co-chair) Organizers: Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy Riccardo Treglia, Universit? di Torino, Italy (riccardo.treglia at unito.it) Steering Committee * Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universit? di Torino, Italy * Jakob Rehof, TU University of Dortmund, Germany * Joe Wells, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland -- 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... 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P A R T I C I P A T I O N ?????????????????????????? 8th Lambda Days ????????????????????????????????? + ?10th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education ????????????????????????????????? + ?????????? 22nd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming ???????????????????????? 16 - 19 February 2021 ?????????????????? https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The programmes for Lambda Days, TFPIE, and TFP are online: - Lambda Days overall program at: https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 - TFPIE????? specific program at: https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2021 - TFP??????? specific program at: http://tfp2021.org/ (all times are in Central European Time Zone: 12.00:18.00 (CEST)) Lambda Days is a place where academia meets industry, where research and practical application collide. Once again Lambda Days joins forces with Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) and Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPiE) so that for four days you can be at the centre of the functional programming world. The program has a lot of interesting talks, possibilities for interaction, and a host of keynote presentations: Lambda Days keynote speakers: ----------------------------- Perdita Stevens, Pat Hannahan, Simon Peyton Jones, Andy Gordon, Philip Wadler. Trends in Functional Programming in Education keynote speakers: --------------------------------------------------------------- Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, and Bartosz Milewski. Trends in Functional Programming keynote speaker: ------------------------------------------------- Zhenjiang Hu. Thanks to a generous sponsor, TFP has a limited number of free tickets for PhD, Msc, Bsc students with an interest in functional programming. To apply, send a mail to the program chair of TFP, Vikt?ria Zs?k (zsv at elte.hu) with your name, university, 2-3 lines of motivation, and a valid student card photo to get the registration code. Tickets will be delivered in the order of application. From tyokoyama at acm.org Sun Jan 24 07:32:36 2021 From: tyokoyama at acm.org (Tetsuo Yokoyama) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:32:36 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reversible Computation 2021 2nd CfP Message-ID: <2d38377f-4d65-81b8-1060-45286bb01bdb@acm.org> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please distribute to anyone who may be interested. ======================================================================= 2nd Call for Papers 13th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2021) July 7th-8th, 2021, Nagoya, Japan (the conference will be held online) 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-Thu, July 7th-8th, 2021 (the conference will be held online) ===== Invited speakers ===== TBA ===== Paper submission ===== In order to submit a paper to Reversible Computation conference, please follow these guidelines: * You can submit full research papers (16 pages maximum), tutorials (16 pages maximum), as well as work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum). Please do not forget to clearly indicate the type of your submission by choosing the proper category on the submission page. * 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. * The paper submission will be accepted as a PDF file using the LNCS style. Further information on the style is available at http://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines * All accepted research papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). * Author(s) of accepted papers are expected to participate in the conference and to present their papers. We would appreciate if one person would not present more than two papers at the conference. If more than two papers are accepted by a group of authors, we kindly ask that the papers be presented by different co-authors, as far as possible. * PC chairs and general chairs are not permitted to submit papers to the conference. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask us (info at reversible-computation.org). ===== Submission system ===== The papers will be submitted via EasyChair. In order to submit your paper, please use EasyChair: 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 alexander.nadel at intel.com Mon Jan 25 02:11:16 2021 From: alexander.nadel at intel.com (Nadel, Alexander) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:11:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SMT 2021 Workshop CFP Message-ID: SMT 2021: 19th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 16-25, 2021 Conference website: http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smt2021 Submission deadline: April 30, 2021 ***Overview*** SMT 2021 will be co-located with CAV 2021 in Los Angeles. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: ? Decision procedures and theories of interest ? Combinations of decision procedures ? Novel implementation techniques ? Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies ? Applications and case studies ? Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, are especially encouraged. ***Important Dates*** ? Paper submission: April 30, 2021 ? Notification: May 28, 2021 ? Workshop: July 18-19, 2021 ***Submission Guidelines*** We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts, original papers, and presentation only-papers. We intend to publish open-access proceedings for SMT 2021 as a volume of the EPiC Series EasyChair Proceedings. Extended abstracts and original papers must not have been published or submitted elsewhere and will be included in the proceedings. ? Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. ? 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 and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. (The 10 page limit does not include references.) To submit, please go to the EasyChair page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smt2021 and follow the instructions there. ***Organizers and Program Committee*** See http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2021/committees.shtml ***Invited Speakers*** ? Karem Sakallah, University of Michigan ? Guy Katz, University of Jerusalem --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Israel (74) Limited This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. From Gethin.Norman at glasgow.ac.uk Tue Jan 26 02:21:09 2021 From: Gethin.Norman at glasgow.ac.uk (Gethin Norman) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:21:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICALP 2021 Second Call for Workshops Message-ID: ================================================== ICALP 2021 Second Call for Workshops and Tutorials ================================================== *** It has now been decided that ICALP 2021 and its workshops will be online-only, hosted by the University of Glasgow, UK. *** As the decision for online workshops has now been confirmed, we are sending out a second call for those that want to take advantage of the logistics of this format. 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 (or tutorials) 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 *** February 19th, 2021 *** 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 within one week. A workshop or tutorial 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. 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. If you plan a call for papers or for contributed talks followed by a selection procedure, the submission date should be scheduled after ICALP 2021 notification (April 28, 2021), while the notification should take place before the early registration deadline. In your submission please include details on the schedule, 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 2021 is not able to provide any financial support for publishing workshop proceedings. Important dates: Workshop Proposals Deadline: Friday February 19, 2021 Workshop Notification: Monday Friday February 26, 2021 Workshops: Monday July 12, 2021 Conference: Tuesday July 13 - Friday July 16, 2021 Workshop selection committee: Ornela Dardha ornela.dardha at glasgow.ac.uk Gethin Norman gethin.norman at glasgow.ac.uk From serge.autexier at dfki.de Wed Jan 27 03:19:21 2021 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:19:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021), First call for papers & Save-the-Conference-Date: July 26-31, 2021 Message-ID: <20210127081921.09C9914248C4@gigondas.localdomain> Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2021 - July 26-31, 2020 Timisoara, Romania http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2021 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2021 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 *** - Abstract deadline: March 15, 2021 - Full paper deadline: March 26, 2021 - Reviews sent to authors: May 4, 2021 - Rebuttals due: May 8, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2021 - Camera-ready copies due: May 29, 2021 - Conference: July 26-31, 2021 Informal submissions and doctoral programme - Submission deadline: May 15, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2021 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2021 proceedings with Springer LNCS. From harley.eades at gmail.com Thu Jan 28 11:12:23 2021 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:12:23 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on the semantics of bisimilarity Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 between 9am and 10am EST (2pm - 3pm UTC), Dr. Shin-ya Katsumata 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/Katsumata.html Shin-ya will discuss his work on a purely categorical characterization of bisimilarity. 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. 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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 2020. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021. Qualifications: - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or Information is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2021, if the degree was awarded between January 1st and December 31st, 2020. - 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 topics in the broad remit of ESSLLI, including 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 2022. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2022. 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=bodp2021. In case of any problems or questions please 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 Utrecht, August 2-13, 2021. Beth dissertation prize committee 2021: Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Cleo Condoravdi(Stanford University) Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai) Davide Grossi (Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam) Christoph Haase (University of Oxford) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Matthew Stone (Rutgers University) Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam) FoLLI is committed to diversity and inclusion and we welcomes dissertations from all under-represented groups -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From delphine.demange at irisa.fr Fri Jan 29 13:29:05 2021 From: delphine.demange at irisa.fr (Delphine Demange) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:29:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Compiler Construction (CC) 2021 - Call for Participation Message-ID: <377AFE6C-D9F9-49B2-AAD4-267E27666857@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 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. CC 2021 is the 30th edition of the conference. CC is now an ACM SIGPLAN conference, and implements guidelines and procedures recommended by SIGPLAN (https://www.sigplan.org). IMPORTANT INFORMATION Registration is now open! CC Conference date : 2-3 March 2021 CC 2021 will be held virtually and co-located with CGO, PPoPP, and HPCA, on the Whova platform. Any person registering for CC can attend any of the co-located workshops and conferences. Register for the conference at: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/CC-2021/registration PROGRAM and VENUE INFORMATION List of Accepted Papers: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers#event-overview Program: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers#program For more information, please visit the CC 2021 conference web site at: https://conf.researchr.org/home/CC-2021 SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS ACM - Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN - ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages The University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics ICSA - Institute for Computing Systems Architecture From johannp at appstate.edu Sun Jan 31 17:22:56 2021 From: johannp at appstate.edu (Patricia Johann) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:22:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc opening in categorical semantics Message-ID: Dear Folks, I have an opening for a postdoc, as described in the ad below. In addition to accepting applications, I will be very happy to respond to informal enquiries about any aspect of the position, from technical ones to ones about life in a beautiful, "alternative" mountain town in western North Carolina. Best wishes, -patricia -------- Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher position in the Computer Science Department at Appalachian State University. The position is part of an NSF-funded project on the categorical semantics of advanced data types, such as nested types, GADTs, and other higher-kinded data types. The project aims to build on recent work on higher-kinded data types to understand the categorical settings in which they have initial algebra semantics. One primary goal is to classify such types according to the complexity of the categorical settings in which they have well-defined initial algebra semantics. Another is to understand what parametricity means, practically speaking, for them. The ideal applicant will have a strong background in functional programming, type theory, and category theory, although more expertise in one area may, together with a commitment to developing the required competencies, compensate for less in another. The successful applicant will also be excited about working on fundamental research questions on the themes of categorical semantics of data types and parametricity. Interests in applications and/or formalizing computer science theory in, e.g., Agda, are also welcome. The successful hire will work on the funded project with Prof. Patricia Johann at Appalachian State University, her students, and collaborating researchers. (Due to COVID-19, remote work may be possible for some initial portion of the position.) The duration of the position is initially one year, with guaranteed continuation by mutual agreement. The position will start at a mutually agreeable date, ideally on or around 1 July 2021. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Interested persons should first contact Patricia Johann at johannp at appstate.edu, briefly outlining their academic background and research interests, and why they are interested in the position. A complete application will consist of a cover letter and CV, including contact information for three academic references. Complete applications should be made online at https://appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/27464 Review of applications will begin on 15 February 2021 and continue until the position is filled. Appalachian State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation. Individuals with disabilities may request accommodations in the application process by contacting Patricia Johann. Any offer of employment to a successful candidate will be conditioned upon the University's receipt of a satisfactory criminal background report. From Simon.Fowler at glasgow.ac.uk Mon Feb 1 11:54:35 2021 From: Simon.Fowler at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Fowler) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 16:54:35 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ProWeb21: Deadline Extension (8th February) Message-ID: We have decided to extend the deadline of ProWeb21, held online alongside '21; the new deadline is 8th February 2021. Please find the updated CfP below. === ProWeb21: 5th International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web https://2021.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2021-papers Co-located with the conference March 22nd - 26th, Online Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proweb21 ** DEADLINE EXTENSION: 8th February 2021 ** ================ 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 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 extended abstracts illustrating demonstrations of tools and prototypes. * **Presentation abstracts**: 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/). References are not counted in the page limits. If you have any questions or wonder whether your submission is in scope, please do not hesitate to contact the PC co-chairs. 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URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Mon Feb 1 12:50:09 2021 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:50:09 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COORDINATION'21: Last Call for Papers Message-ID: <7A57B293-8F28-49EB-AE2C-29664712DBBC@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 February 12, 2021 ? abstract submission (extended) February 19, 2021 ? paper submission (extended) 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 a tool paper and a link to a demo video that previews the potential tool presentation at the conference. Both the tool paper and the video will be decisive criteria in the selection process. Authors of accepted contributions will be able (and encouraged) to extend their tool paper to a (regular) full paper before appearance 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 , Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa sltarifa at ifi.uio.no ) for details. SUBMISSIONS Important Dates February 12, 2021 ? abstract submission February 19, 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. ATTENTION: if you believe that your submission is related to one of the three special topics (Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era, Microservices, Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts), then please indicate the name of the special topic as the first of the Author keywords in the online submission system. 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 (University of Turin, Italy) Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (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? 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URL: From duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt Mon Feb 1 14:18:05 2021 From: duncan.attard.01 at um.edu.mt (Duncan Paul Attard) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 20:18:05 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP DisCoTec 2021 [EXTENDED DEADLINE] Message-ID: <5D0CAF53-3A5E-48E5-95F2-526D5CE5B512@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): - February 12, 2021: Abstract submission deadline (EXTENDED) - February 19, 2021: Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED) - 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 * - Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, IT ? Chair) - Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, IT) - Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, DE) - Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, FR) - Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, IT) - Lu?s Veiga (INESC-ID, Universidade de Lisboa, PT) - Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, IT) - Manuel N??ez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES) - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, MT) To receive live, up-to-date information, follow us on Twitter @DisCoTecConf. From niki.vazou at imdea.org Tue Feb 2 04:24:13 2021 From: niki.vazou at imdea.org (niki.vazou) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:24:13 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position at IMDEA Software Institute Message-ID: Hey, ? Applications are invited for a PhD position at the IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain.?The selected candidate will work under my supervision?on the theory and practise of refinement types. Application deadline is March 15.?More?information are available here:?https://software.imdea.org/open_positions/2021-02-phd-refinements.html Best,? Niki Vazou From kutsia at risc.jku.at Tue Feb 2 06:19:58 2021 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:19:58 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: SCSS 2021 Message-ID: ========================= SCSS 2021 The 9th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science -- In the era of Computational and Artificial Intelligence -- September 8--10, 2021, virtual Organized by RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria https://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/scss2021/ ========================= 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 2021 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science, combined with modern artificial?intelligence?techniques. Scope ------ SCSS 2021 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 --------------- May 18: title and single-paragraph abstract submission deadline. May 25: paper submission deadline. July 12: notification deadline. July 30: final paper submission deadline. September 8-10, 2021: the symposium dates (virtual). Invited Speakers ------ Tateaki Sasaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) More speakers will be announced. General Chairs ----- Adel Bouhoula (Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Program Chair ----- Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Program Committee --------- David Cerna (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Changbo Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Grenoble, France) Seyed Hossein Haeri (UC Louvain, Belgium) 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 Linz, Austria) (Chair) Zied Lachiri (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University, USA) Mircea Marin ( West University of Timisoara, Romania) Yasuhiko Minamide (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Yoshihiro Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan) Julien Narboux (Strasbourg University, France) Micha?l Rusinowitch (INRIA, France) Wolfgang Schreiner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Sofiane Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) Dongming Wang (CNRS, Paris, France) To be extended. Submission ---------- Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2021 Original submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. We recommend to use the EPTCS Class format to prepare manuscripts. 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. Publication ----------- The proceedings of SCSS 2021 will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). A special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) will be organized after the symposium. Submitted full-length papers will be refereed according to the usual standards of the journal. From Hugo.Herbelin at inria.fr Tue Feb 2 06:27:06 2021 From: Hugo.Herbelin at inria.fr (Hugo Herbelin) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:27:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?Full_professor_and_associate_pro?= =?iso-8859-1?q?fessor_positions_available_at_IRIF_-_Universit=E9_de_Paris?= Message-ID: <20210202112706.dfvlh2yg5mr25nrj@yquem.inria.fr> Universit? de Paris is hiring a full professor in Computer Science in all research focuses of the IRIF lab (Institute for Research in Fundamental Computer Science) with a special attention on programming languages (design, analysis, certification, systems, logical/mathematical foundations). Two associate professor positions are also opened, one with a special attention given to programming languages and proofs. More details can be found here: https://www.irif.fr/postes/universite All these positions are tenured. Since teaching will be mostly in French, knowledge of the French language is mandatory. The deadline for application is 26 February 2021 From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Tue Feb 2 10:58:02 2021 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 10:58:02 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: PACMPL issue ICFP 2021 Message-ID: <6019768a626af_c46e221c2721@homer.mail> PACMPL Volume 5, Issue ICFP 2021 Call for Papers Accepted papers to be invited for presentation at The 26th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming To Be Held Virtualy http://icfp21.sigplan.org/ ### Important dates Submissions due: 2 March 2021 (Tuesday) Anywhere on Earth https://icfp21.hotcrp.com Author response: 20 April (Tuesday) - 23 April (Friday) 17:00 UTC Notification: 7 May (Friday) Final copy due: 30 June (Wednesday) Conference: 22 August (Sunday) - 27 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 2021 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 2021 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 associate 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 2, 2021**, 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 . 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 17:00 UTC on **Tuesday, April 20, 2021**, 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 2021. 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 PACMPL issue website to address common concerns. **PACMPL issue ICFP 2021 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. As a result of the review process, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on **May 7, 2021**. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews along with a set of mandatory revisions. After four weeks (June 4, 2021), 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 2021 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, and authors are encouraged to publish their work under a CC-BY license. Gold Open Access guarantees permanent free online access to the definitive version in the ACM Digital Library, and the recommended CC-BY option also allows anyone to copy and distribute the work with attribution. 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. * 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. * Authors of each accepted submission are invited to attend and be available for the presentation of that paper at the conference. The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. ### 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 Experience Report accepted to the PACMPL issue 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 the PACMPL issue, 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 associate editor will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, South Korea) Accessibility Co-Chairs: Lindsey Kuper (UC Santa Cruz, USA), Kathrin Stark (Princeton University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Gabriel Scherer (INRIA Saclay, France), Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Industrial Relations Co-Chairs: Alan Jeffrey (Roblox, USA), Simon Marlow (Facebook, England) Programming Contest Co-Organisers: Alex Lang, Jasper Van der Jeugt (Fugue, Switzerland) Publicity and Web Chair: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Anders Miltner (University of Texas, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chairs: Lily Bryant (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jaemin Hong (KAIST, South Korea), Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Video Co-Chairs: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA), Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University, USA) Workshops Co-Chairs: Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland, USA), Zoe Paraskevopoulou (Princeton University, USA) ### PACMPL Volume 5, Issue ICFP 2021 Associate Editor: Ronald Garcia, (University of British Columbia, Canada) Review Committee: Zena Ariola (University of Oregon, USA) Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Matteo Cimini (UMass Lowell, USA) Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Harley Eades (University of Augusta, USA) Andrew Gordon (Microsoft Research & University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Benjamin Greenman (Brown University, USA) Arjun Guha (Northeastern University, USA) Jurriaan Hage (Utrecht, The Netherlands) Favonia (University of Minnesota, USA) Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University, USA) Patricia Johann (Appalachian State University, USA) Ralf Jung (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Heriot-Watt, Scotland) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Maryland, USA) Kazutaka Matsuda (Tohoku University, Japan) Akimasa Morihata (Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan) Stefan Muller (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Max New (Wesleyan University, USA) Rishiyur Nikhil (Bluespec , USA) Cyrus Omar (University of Michigan, USA) Brigitte Pientka (McGill University, Canada) Norman Ramsey (Tufts University, USA) Christine Rizkallah (University of New South Wales, Australia) Taro Sekiyama (National Institute for Informatics, Japan) Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University, Japan) Amin Timany (Aarhus University, Denmark) Mitchell Wand (Northeastern University, USA) Steve Zdancewic (University of Pennsylvania, USA) From simone.martini at unibo.it Tue Feb 2 11:46:15 2021 From: simone.martini at unibo.it (Simone Martini) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 16:46:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] History and Philosophy of Computing 2021, CfP Message-ID: HaPoC 2021: Call for Abstracts 6th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing 27-29 October 2021 ETH Turing Centre, Zurich, Switzerland Website: https://hapoc2021.sciencesconf.org Email: hapoc2021 at sciencesconf.org While computing appears as a technological and scientific field in constant progression, our conception and knowledge of computers are also subject to change over time. In particular, digital machines of the 20th century were inspired by the biological individual, replacing with a solipsistic mental view the cultural and social aspects attached to the image of machines in the 19th century. However, the growing cultural import of computing practices has become ever more pressing in our days in all dimensions of social life. Not only have cultural phenomena increasingly become the object of computational analysis, but computational practices have also proved inseparable from the cultural environment in which they evolve. Therefore, it is urgent to critically address the entanglement of computing practices with the main cultural challenges our epoch is facing. The global and collective nature of such problems (e.g. climate change, global pandemics, systemic inequalities, resurgence of totalitarianism, to name a few) requires a comprehensive perspective on computing, where social and cultural aspects occupy a central position. For these reasons, thinking about machines asks today for an interdisciplinary approach, where art is as necessary as engineering, anthropological insights as important as psychological models, and the critical perspectives of history and philosophy as decisive as the axioms and theorems of theoretical computer science. For more than a decade, the ?History and Philosophy of Computing? Conference (HaPoC, www.hapoc.org) has contributed to building such an interdisciplinary community and environment. We aim to bring together historians, philosophers, computer scientists, social scientists, designers, manufacturers, practitioners, artists, logicians, mathematicians, each with their own experience and expertise, to take part in the collective construction of a comprehensive image of computing. Main Topics For HaPoC 2021, we welcome contributions from researchers from different disciplinary horizons who intend to participate in the debate on the impact of computers on culture, science, and society from the perspective of their area of expertise, and who are open to engage in interdisciplinary discussions across multiple fields. Topics include but are not limited to: - Historical and philosophical perspectives on computing knowledge, objects and practices - Social, cultural and pedagogical aspects of computing - Computing and the human sciences - Epistemological dimensions of computing - Impact of computing technologies - Computing and the arts The Program Committee is available at the conference website https://hapoc2021.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4 How to submit We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main topics of the Conference to submit a short abstract of 180-200 words and an extended abstract of at most 1000 words (references included) through EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2021 Accepted papers will be presented in 30-minute slots, including discussion. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the format of uploaded files must be in .pdf. Submissions without an extended abstract will not be considered. Important Dates Submission deadline: April 15, 2021 Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 15, 2021 Conference dates: October 27-29, 2021 Confirmed keynote speakers: Barbara Liskov (MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab) Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki) Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Publication A selection of revised contributions to the Conference will be published in a Special Issue of Minds and Machines (Springer), under the title ?Computing Cultures?. The call is already available at: https://www.springer.com/journal/11023/updates/18800754 Format and Fee Due to the current pandemic situation, HaPoC-6 will take place in a hybrid format, with attendance and contributions both on-site and online. The registration fee for contributors (both online and on-site) will be announced soon. Following previous HaPoC editions, a usual low fee is expected. Online contributions are expected to be in real time, although pre-recorded talks will be accepted on request. Attendance (both online and on-site) will be free of charge. Travel Grants The Turing Centre Zurich and the HaPoC Council will propose a limited amount of travel grants to participants with accepted papers who are not beneficiaries of institutional support. More information will be soon made available on the conference webpage and through the HaPoC website (www.hapoc.org). Organizers Chairs: Juan Luis Gastaldi (ETH Zurich, Turing Centre Zurich) Luc Pellissier (Universit? de Paris-Est Cr?teil) Organized by: Turing Centre Zurich (ETH) www.turing.ethz.ch In collaboration with: Collegium Helveticum (ETH-UZH-ZHdK) www.collegium.ethz.ch Chair of History and Philosophy of Mathematical Sciences (ETH Zurich, D-GESS) https://hpm.ethz.ch Under the auspices of DHST/DLMPST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) www.hapoc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anupamdotdas at gmail.com Tue Feb 2 15:06:43 2021 From: anupamdotdas at gmail.com (anupamdotdas at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 20:06:43 -0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TABLEAUX 2021 - Call for Papers. 6-9 September, 2021. Birmingham, UK. Message-ID: <003d01d6f99e$ed6cd550$c8467ff0$@gmail.com> TABLEAUX 2021 The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Birmingham, UK, September 6-9, 2021 Website: https://tableaux2021.org/ Submission deadlines: 19 April (abstract), 26 April 2021 (paper) GENERAL INFORMATION The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021) will be hosted by the University of Birmingham, UK, 6-9 September 2021. TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of tableaux-based reasoning and related methods is presented. The first TABLEAUX conference was held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992. Since then it has been organised on an annual basis (sometimes as a part of IJCAR). TABLEAUX 2021 will be co-located with the 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2021). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE Tableaux and other proof based methods offer convenient and flexible tools for automated reasoning for both classical and non-classical logics. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, linear, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * sequent, natural deduction, labelled, nested and deep calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning; * techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation; * theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the TABLEAUX community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions are invited in the following two categories: (A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references; (B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references. There will also be a later call inviting position papers and brief reports on work-in-progress. Details will be kept up to date on the website. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the committee and must be removed for the camera-ready version. For category (A) submissions, the reported results must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category (B) submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet. Authors are encouraged to publish the implementation under an open source license. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that people can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in categories (A) and (B) will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux21 For all accepted papers at least one author is required to register to the conference and present the paper. A title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at: http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 19 April 2021 (AoE) Paper submission: 26 April 2021 (AoE) Notification: 14 June 2021 Conference: 6-9 September 2021 CONFERENCE FORMAT AND COVID-19 TABLEAUX 2021 and FroCoS 2021 are intended to be *hybrid* conferences welcoming both physical and virtual participation. The organisers are closely monitoring the pandemic situation and may choose to make the conference virtual-only if it seems unreasonable to host any sort of physical event. A final decision will be taken before the notification date 14 June (12 weeks before the conference) to leave ample time for potential travel plans to be made. PUBLICATION The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS). BEST PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper; and, * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper by a Junior Researcher. Researchers will be considered "junior" if either they are students or their PhD degree date is less than two years from the first day of the meeting. The two awards will be presented at the conference. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS Some funding may be available to support students participating at TABLEAUX 2021. More details will be given on the conference website in due time. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bahareh Afshari (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Arnon Avron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Nick Bezhanishvili (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde, Denmark) Serenella Cerrito (Universit? Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, France) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria, France) Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) St?phane Demri (CNRS, France) Hans de Nivelle (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute Berkeley, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Manchester, UK) Christian Ferm?ller (TU Wien, Austria) Didier Galmiche (Universit? de Lorraine, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rajeev Gor? (Australian National University, Australia) Andrzej Indrzejczak (University of ??d?, Poland) Hidenori Kurokawa (Kanazawa University, Japan) Stepan Kuznetsov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Bj?rn Lellmann (SBA Research, Austria) St?phane Graham-Lengrand (SRI International, USA) George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) Neil Murray (University At Albany, USA) Cl?udia Nalon (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy) Nicola Olivetti (Aix-Marseille University, France) Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) Alessandra Palmigiano (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield, UK) Gian Luca Pozzato (University of Turin, Italy) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) Reuben Rowe (Royal Holloway, UK) Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho, Portugal) Lutz Stra?burger (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) PC CHAIRS Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy) From hossein.haeri at gmail.com Wed Feb 3 05:17:51 2021 From: hossein.haeri at gmail.com (Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein)) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 11:17:51 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fwd: Informatics at University of Leicester In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Simon Gay Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 10:21 Subject: Informatics at University of Leicester To: , Dear Colleagues, You might have heard that the University of Leicester is planning to shut down pure mathematics and make the academic staff redundant. That is only part of the story - the proposal is to merge mathematics and informatics, focus everything on AI, data science, computational modelling and "digitalisation", and make redundant 10 academic staff in informatics whose research does not align with those areas. The research being thrown out covers algorithm design and analysis, logic in computer science, foundations of software science, programming languages, concurrent systems, and testing and verification. Please consider signing this petition: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/foco-is-not-redundant/ I apologise if you receive many similar emails, but I think I am getting in early :-) Best wishes, Simon -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 m.backens at cs.bham.ac.uk Wed Feb 3 07:59:27 2021 From: m.backens at cs.bham.ac.uk (Miriam Backens) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 12:59:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second CFP: Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2021), submission deadline February 12 Message-ID: <8c1c724e-782b-65b1-0345-b166057e29ac@cs.bham.ac.uk> *18th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2021), June 7-11, 2021. Gda?sk, Poland and online* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS QPL is an annual conference that brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. QPL 2021 will be held both virtually online and physically in Gdansk (COVID permitting). More information at https://qpl2021.eu/ INVITED SPEAKERS Matty Hoban Flaminia Giacomini Anna Jencova Hl?r Kristj?nsson Ariel Bendersky Martha Lewis IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 12, 2021 Author notification: March 31, 2021 Early registration: May 14, 2021 Proceedings paper ready: May 28, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Recent work that is relevant to the conference is solicited in one (or more) of three tracks: * Proceedings submissions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract. Only proceedings-track submissions are eligible to be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. * Non-proceedings submissions consist of a 3 page extended abstract and a link to a separate published paper, pre-print, or an attached draft. * Poster submissions consist of a 1-3 page abstract and may contain a link to a separate published paper or pre-print. Submission of partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. Use of the EPTCS style is encouraged. Submission is done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl2021 BEST STUDENT PAPER There will be an award for the best student paper at the discretion of the programme committee. Papers eligible for the award are those where all the authors are students at the time of submission. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Antonio Acin Barbara Amaral Pablo Arrighi Miriam Backens (co-chair) Jonathan Barrett Alessandro Bisio Anne Broadbent Ulysse Chabaud Bob Coecke Alejandro Diaz-Caro Ross Duncan Yuan Feng Alexandru Gheorghiu Stefano Gogioso Teiko Heinosaari Chris Heunen (co-chair) Matthew Hoban Kohei Kishida Aleks Kissinger Ravi Kunjwal Ciaran Lee Matt Leifer Martha Lewis Shane Mansfield Simon Martiel Hector Miller-Bakewell Mio Murao Glaucia Murta Ognyan Oreshkov Prakash Panangaden Simon Perdrix Lidia del Rio Julien Ross Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Ana Bel?n Sainz John Selby Rui Soares Barbosa Rob Spekkens Isar Stubbe Benoit Valiron Jamie Vicary John van de Wetering Alexander Wilce Mingsheng Ying Vladimir Zamdzhiev Margherita Zorzi -- Dr Miriam Backens (they/them) Lecturer School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham From dspivak at gmail.com Wed Feb 3 11:08:14 2021 From: dspivak at gmail.com (David Spivak) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 11:08:14 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] announcing: March workshop on polynomial functors Message-ID: WORKSHOP ON POLYNOMIAL FUNCTORS At the Topos Institute and online via Zoom 2021 March 15?19 (UTC) https://topos.site/p-func-2021-workshop/ Participants will learn background material and hear the latest progress on polynomial functors, monads, and comonads, their algebras and coalgebras, as well as on operads, parametric right adjoints, and cofunctors, with applications to combinatorics, database theory, dynamical systems, higher category theory, logic, and type theory. Talks will be recorded for posterity. (This may be the first in a series of such workshops.) Speakers ------------ Thorsten Altenkirch Steve Awodey Michael Batanin Bryce Clarke Marcelo Fiore Richard Garner David Gepner Helle Hvid Hansen Rune Haugseng Bart Jacobs Andr? Joyal Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg Kristina Sojakova David Spivak Ross Street Tarmo Uustalu Organizers ------------ Joachim Kock and David Spivak Participation ------------ Anyone interested in participating is welcome. If you would like to attend, please fill out the online form https://forms.gle/44bfnbE2Yfgqxz7H9 A zoom link will be sent out to registered participants a few days before the workshop. For other questions, please contact David Spivak or Joachim Kock . Program ------------ The talks will take place in the following 4-hour window: 20:00h?00:00 UTC (Sydney (+1) 07:00?11:00; Barcelona 21:00?01:00+; Boston 15:00?19:00; Berkeley 12:00?16:00, etc.) (END ANNOUNCEMENT) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Feb 4 12:19:50 2021 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 17:19:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LICS 2021 Online and Call for Workshops Message-ID: <0B469770-010D-4C9F-87F5-4349B32D9A8E@cs.ox.ac.uk> It was recently decided that LICS 2021 will be held online. For this reason we?re making another call for workshop proposals: 36TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2021) 2nd 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 online on June 29-July 2, 2021. The workshops will be held online 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. - 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: - Workshop proposal submission deadline: February 28, 2020 - Notification: March 3, 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. From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Fri Feb 5 18:20:48 2021 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 23:20:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems 2021 CfP Message-ID: <27DB4C65-76BE-4CFC-BC8B-685D97852842@nasa.gov> **************************************************************** The 26th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS 2021) https://qonfest2021.lacl.fr/fmics21.php **************************************************************** About ------------------------- The aim of the FMICS conference series (http://fmics.inria.fr/) 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 2021 is part of the QONFEST umbrella conference comprising: - FMICS 2021: 26th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems - CONCUR 2021: 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory - FORMATS 2021: 19th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems - QEST 2021: 18th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems QONFEST takes place from August 23 to August 27, 2021. 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. New this year! Special track papers on Formal Methods for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts ------------------------- We invite submissions in topics related to the formal specification, analysis, and verification of blockchain-based smart contracts. For this occasion, the Program Committee has been enlarged with experts from the blockchain 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 2021 along with a panel on this topic, while they will be published in the conference proceedings together with papers accepted for the regular track. Submission and Publication ------------------------- We welcome contributions of different categories: - Regular papers that describe original research work and results. Length: 15 pages + 2 pages of references. - Short papers that describe work-in-progress, or positions on the future of formal methods. Length: 6 pages + 2 pages of references. - Tool papers that describe software artefacts. The paper must contain a link to a publicly available video of at most 10 minutes length. Length: 6 pages + 2 pages of references. - Journal-first papers that summarize a paper recently published in a journal and not yet presented in a conference. The main aim of this category is to allow authors present archived work in a public forum. The original journal paper should have been published between January 1st, 2020 and the date of submission. Length: 2 pages + 1 page of references. With the exception of the journal-first category, 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 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-Deastudy papers should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods) or provide specific motivation for further research and development. Submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS style (Springer). All submissions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee members 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 Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmics2021 The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Contributions of the journal-first category will not be included in the proceedings. Authors should consult Springer?s authors guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. 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 2021 Best Paper. Special issue: The Program Committee of FMICS 2021 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). Concerning the COVID-19 Pandemic: ------------------------- Due the pandemic situation, the organization committee of QONFEST 2021 decided that all conferences will take place online. Important Dates ------------------------- Abstract submission: May 7, 2021 Paper submission: May 14, 2021 (23:59:59 AoE) Author notification: June 28, 2021 Camera-ready version: July 5, 2021 Conference: August 23-27, 2021 NOTE: the actual conference dates will be announced on the webpage. Most likely, it will be 2-3 days within the QONFEST week (August 23-27, 2021) Keynote Speaker ------------------------- Joe Kiniry (Galois Inc. and Free & Fair, US) PC Chairs ------------------------- Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) Anastasia Mavridou (KBR/ NASA Ames Research Center, US) PC Members ------------------------- Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, IT) Simon Bliudze (INRIA, FR) Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica, TW) Silvia Crafa (University of Padova, IT) Hubert Garavel (INRIA, FR) Diego Garbervetsky (University of Buenos Aires/CONICET, AR) ?kos Hajdu (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HU) Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, US) Anne Haxthausen (Technical University of Denmark, DK) Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen/ Deon Digital , DK) Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Xiaoqing Jin (Apple Inc., US) Joe Kiniry (Galois Inc. and Free & Fair, US) Thierry Lecomte (ClearSy, FR) Tiziana Margaria (CSIS, Univ. of Limerick, and LERO, IE) Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) Radu Mateescu (INRIA, FR) Dejan Nickovic (Austrian Institute of Technology, AT) Corina Pasareanu (CMU/ NASA Ames Research Center, US) Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, CY) Jaco van de Pol (Aarhus University, DK) Clara Schneidewind (Vienna University of Technology, AT) Cristina Seceleanu (M?lardalen University, SE) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, US) Virginie Wiels (ONERA / DTIM, FR) Steering Committee ------------------------- Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, IT) Alessandro Fantechi (University of Florence, IT) Hubert Garavel (INRIA, FR) Tiziana Margaria (CSIS, Univ. of Limerick, and LERO, IE) Radu Mateescu (INRIA, FR) Jaco van de Pol (Aarhus University, DK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From ksk at riec.tohoku.ac.jp Sat Feb 6 22:05:07 2021 From: ksk at riec.tohoku.ac.jp (Keisuke Nakano) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 12:05:07 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WPTE 2021 (FIRST Call For Papers) Message-ID: <1C1EEF09-C8E5-4B47-BD93-F4D20630A347@riec.tohoku.ac.jp> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE 2021: 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Held online on July 18, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Web site: https://www.ipl.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/wpte2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021 Submission deadline: May 10, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2021) is affiliated with FSCD 2021, https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ List of Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence, and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis. * Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and rewriting. Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. All submissions will be electronic via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021. 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 selected 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 2021. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended abstracts: May 10, 2021 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2021 Final version for proceedings deadline: June 13, 2021 Workshop: July 18, 2021 Submission to post-proceedings: September 2021 Program Committees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keisuke Nakano, Tohoku University, Japan (Chair) Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. (co-Chair) ?tefan Ciob?c?, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Ia?i, Romania Makoto Hamana, Gunma University, Japan Akimasa Morihata, the University of Tokyo, Japan Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Koko Muroya, Kyoto University, Japan David Sabel, LMU, Germany Julia Sapi?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Janis Voigtl?nder, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to wpte2021 (at) easychair.org From j.a.perez at rug.nl Mon Feb 8 01:44:00 2021 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 07:44:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD scholarship on Concurrency and Logic (Updated) Message-ID: [Please share widely with potential candidates; apologies for any cross-postings.] PHD SCHOLARSHIP ON ?CONCURRENCY AND LOGIC? University of Groningen, The Netherlands Apply before March 19, 2021 (see below for details on application procedure) Supervisors: - Prof. Barteld Kooi (https://www.philos.rug.nl/~barteld/) - Prof. Jorge A. P?rez (https://www.jperez.nl) We seek excellent candidates for one four-year PhD scholarship on the topics of message-passing concurrency, modal logic, and type systems. The PhD scholarship concerns the interdisciplinary project "Knowledge is Power: Reliable Communicating Software by Epistemic Logics", supported by the Young Academy Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/research/young-academy/). Details on the PhD Scholarship program can be found here: https://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/phd-scholarship-programme/ The starting point of the proposed research is "propositions as sessions", a remarkable principle that connects concurrency and logic in the style of the well-known Curry-Howard correspondence. In this project, you will enhance the expressiveness of analysis techniques for message-passing programs by incorporating forms of knowledge and belief in formal specifications of communicating programs. To this end, you will develop new extensions of "propositions as sessions" by exploiting elements from epistemic logics and modal logics. - Qualifications You have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, (Philosophical) Logic, Mathematics, or Artificial Intelligence, with proven experience in at least two of the following: - Modal logics and (their) proof theory - Concurrency theory and/or process calculi - Semantics of programming languages - Program verification and type systems - The Curry-Howard correspondence - Application Details on the application procedure are available here: https://www.rug.nl/phd-scholarships?details=00347-02S000840P (see "Project 3") You will be asked to provide the following documents: 1. A brief letter of motivation 2. A CV, including contact details of two academic referees 3. A research proposal of max. 1500 words 4. A certified transcript of records 5. Scan of diploma/transcripts You can submit your application until 18 March 11:59pm / before 19 March 2021 Dutch local time (CET). - Additional Information Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the supervisors for further details on the research project and also advice on how to prepare their applications: - Prof. Barteld Kooi (b.p.kooi[at]rug.nl) - Prof. Jorge A. P?rez (j.a.perez[at]rug.nl) -- Jorge A. P?rez Associate Professor, Fundamental Computing group Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI University of Groningen, The Netherlands URL: http://www.jperez.nl From alcsc at dtu.dk Mon Feb 8 08:20:25 2021 From: alcsc at dtu.dk (Alceste Scalas) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:20:25 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: 14th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2021) Message-ID: <7eee0a50-b1eb-6958-7f5e-dd017e3e4264@dtu.dk> ICE 2021 14th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 18, 2021 University of Malta, Valletta and/or online Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2021 https://www.discotec.org/2021/ice Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2021/Workshop/ICE 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. === 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: TBA === IMPORTANT DATES === * 15 April 2021: abstract submission * 19 April 2021: paper submission * 18 May 2021: notification * 18 June 2021: ICE workshop * 12 July 2021: camera-ready for EPTCS post-proceedings === SCOPE === 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 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/2021/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. The submitted PDF can use any LaTeX style (but the post-proceedings will use the EPTCS style). * 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 on the ICE website. === ICECREAMERS === Julien Lange (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) - julien.lange at rhul.ac.uk Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov Larisa Safina (Inria, FR) - larisa.safina at inria.fr Alceste Scalas (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - alcsc at dtu.dk === PROGRAM COMMITTEE (under construction) === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) * Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit? C?te d?Azur, CNRS, I3S, FR) * Simon Fowler (University of Glasgow, UK) * Eva Graversen (University of Southern Denmark, DK) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Keigo Imai (Gifu University, JP) * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, NL) * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, US) * Wen Kokke (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Karoliina Lehtinen (CNRS - LIS, Aix-Marseille University, FR) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) * Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) * Maurizio Murgia (University of Trento, IT) * Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, DE) * Johannes ?man Pohjola (Data61/CSIRO, AU) * Ivan Prokic (University of Novi Sad, RS) * Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT) * Laura Voinea (University of Kent, UK) * Uma Zalakian (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://people.compute.dtu.dk/alcsc Assistant Professor @ DTU Compute - Section for Formal Methods Technical University of Denmark Richard Petersens Plads, Building 324, Room 180 2800 Kgs. Lyngby From harley.eades at gmail.com Mon Feb 8 13:20:07 2021 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:20:07 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on Relational Programming, Program Synthesis, Treating Rare Diseases, and More! Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 between 1pm and 2pm EST (6pm - 7pm UTC), Dr. William Byrd 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/Byrd.html William will as usual give a great talk on his work applying PL research to precision medicine. These talks are open to the general public via Zoom and Youtube. I'll be live streaming it on Youtube. 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. 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The abstract deadline is next week. /!\ The submission deadline is firm, there will be no extensions. /!\ The other dates (rebuttal, notification, final version) have changed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CADE-28: Final Call for Papers* The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. 11-16th July 2021. http://www.cade-28.info In cooperation with ACM SIGLOG CADE-28 will be *virtual* due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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 (AoE, no extensions) Rebuttal phase: 29-31 March 2021 Notification: 9 April 2021 Final version: 30 April 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 All questions about submissions should be emailed to Andr? Platzer (aplatzer at cs.cmu.edu) and Geoff Sutcliffe (geoff at cs.miami.edu). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From peterol at ifi.uio.no Tue Feb 9 04:25:20 2021 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=98lveczky?=) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 10:25:20 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in formal methods at the University of Oslo, Norway Message-ID: 3 (or 4) year PhD research fellowship available in formal methods at the University of Oslo: Rewrite-based methods for real-time and cyber-physical systems. ** Application deadline February 28, 2021 ** Competitive salary ** See https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/200007/phd-research-fellowship-in-formal-methods-for-real-time-and-cyber-physical-systems for details and on how to apply --------------- This PhD project is lead by Professor Peter ?lveczky and is part of the broader Real-Time Maude project, which aims at developing formal modeling languages and analysis methods that can be successfully applied to complex modern cyber-physical systems. In particular, Real-Time Maude is a rewriting-logic-based modeling language and formal analysis tool for real-time systems that has been applied to a wide range of systems, and as a semantic framework and analysis backend to other modeling languages, such as fragments of Ptolemy II and AADL. The goal of this PhD project is to integrate symbolic analysis methods, such as narrowing analysis and SMT solving, into rewriting-based analysis techniques for real-time and hybrid/cyber-physical systems, and into tools such as Real-Time Maude and Synchronous AADL. ** Apply online https://www.jobbnorge.no/jobseeker/#/application/apply/200007 *before February 28, 2021* --------------- Contact Professor Peter ?lveczky (peterol AT ifi.uio.no) for more information about the position, and HR Adviser Torunn Standal Guttormsen (t.s.guttormsen AT mn.uio.no) for administrative questions. From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Tue Feb 9 12:22:55 2021 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 17:22:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science: Call for Participation Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science MGS 21 12-16 April 2021, virtually https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html OVERVIEW The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation. Information about previous events can be found at the MGS web site http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS PROGRAMME MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events. Invited lectures: Monads and Interactions Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik Introductory courses: Category Theory Jacopo Emmenegger, Birmingham Type Theory Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham Proof Theory Anupam Das, Birmingham Advanced courses: Homotopy Type Theory Nicolai Kraus, Nottingham Inductive and Coinductive Reasoning with Isabelle/HOL Andrei Popescu, Sheffield Effects and Call-by-Push-Value Paul Levy, Birmingham Formal Modelling and Analysis of Concurrent Systems Mohammad Mousavi, Leicester In addition we are organising a session where participants can briefly present and discuss their own research. A call will be made in March. REGISTRATION Participation at MGS 21 is free of charge, but selective. Requests must be submitted online via https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html Registration deadline is April 1. ORGANISATION Please direct all queries about MGS 21 to Georg Struth. The Sheffield organisers are Harsh Beohar (H.Beohar at sheffield.ac.uk) Andrei Popescu (A.Popescu at sheffield.ac.uk) Georg Struth (G.Struth at sheffield.ac.uk) From willem.heijltjes at gmail.com Wed Feb 10 10:16:53 2021 From: willem.heijltjes at gmail.com (Willem Heijltjes) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:16:53 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD in Mathematical Foundations in Bath - deadline 21 Feb Message-ID: 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 carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk Thu Feb 11 04:06:28 2021 From: carsten at dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Carsten Fuhs) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:06:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FSCD 2021: Extended deadline (Abstract: February 16/ Submission: February 22) Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate.) ================================================================== Updated information on: Abstract and Submission dates ================================================================== 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 16, 2021 *** extended Submission: February 22, 2021 *** extended Rebuttal: April 2-5, 2021 Notification: April 19, 2021 Final version: May 3, 2021 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~ariola/ - Nao Hirokawa, JAIST https://www.jaist.ac.jp/~hirokawa/ - Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte https://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/ - Sam Staton, University of Oxford https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samuel.staton/main.html AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS -------------------- - HoTT/UF: 6th Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations - ITRS: 10th Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems - WPTE: 7th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation - UNIF: 35th International Workshop on Unification - LSFA: 16th Logical and Semantics Frameworks with Applications - IWC: 10th International Workshop on Confluence - IFIP WG 1.6: 24th meeting of the IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting 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 Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Feb 11 09:22:26 2021 From: Graham.Hutton at nottingham.ac.uk (Graham Hutton) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:22:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 10 PhD studentships in Nottingham Message-ID: <3AC69D59-038A-4A0A-9E78-F61397983BD3@nottingham.ac.uk> Dear all, The School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is seeking applications for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships: https://tinyurl.com/ten-phds-2021 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 15th March): Thorsten Altenkirch - constructive logic, proof assistants, homotopy type theory, category theory, lambda calculus. Graham Hutton - mathematics of program construction, category theory, program correctness and efficiency, Haskell. Nicolai Kraus - homotopy type theory, higher category theory, constructive mathematics, and related topics. Henrik Nilsson - functional reactive programming, domain- specific languages, generalised notions of computation. The studentships are open to applicants of any nationality. Best wishes, Graham +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK tinyurl.com/ten-phds-2021 Applications are invited for a number of fully funded PhD studentships offered by the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2021. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School?s research groups: Computational Optimisation and Learning Lab; Computer Vision Lab; Cyber Security; Functional Programming; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab and Uncertainty in Data and Decision Making. The studentships are for three and a half years and include a stipend of (minimum) ?15,609 per year and tuition fees. Applicants are normally expected to have a 2:1 Bachelor or Masters degree or international equivalent, in Computer Science or a related discipline, and must obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School prior to submitting their application. Please contact potential supervisors at least two weeks prior to the closing date for applications. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Tony Pridmore (tony.pridmore at nottingham.ac.uk). 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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 perelli at diag.uniroma1.it Thu Feb 11 11:13:22 2021 From: perelli at diag.uniroma1.it (Giuseppe Perelli) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:13:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LAMAS&SR Final CFP (Submission deadline extended) Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED) International Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems and Strategic Reasoning (LAMAS&SR) Satellite workshop of AAMAS 2021, Virtual, May 3-4, 2021 ?? ?https://lamassr.github.io/ Logics and strategic reasoning play a central role in multi-agent systems. Logics can be used, for instance, to express the agents' abilities, knowledge, and objectives. 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 specification, 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;Dear [*NAME*], ?? ?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 Online. 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: 14 Feb, 2021 (AoE) (EXTENDED!) Author Notification: 10 March, 2021 Camera Ready: 24 March, 2021 Workshop: May 3-4, 2021 ORGANIZERS: Bastien Maubert, University of Naples "Federico II" (bastien.maubert at gmail.com) Giuseppe Perelli, Sapienza University of Rome (perelli at diag.uniroma1.it) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Thomas Agotnes, University of Bergen, Norway Natasha Alechina, Utrecht University, Netherlands Suguman Bansal, University of Pennsylvania, USA Patricia Bouyer, CNRS & LSV, France Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA, Germany Nathana?l Fijalkow, CNRS & LaBRI, France Tim French, University of Western Australia, Australia Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University, Sweden Davide Grossi, University of Groningen, Netherlands Paul Harrenstein, Oxford University, UK Wojtek Jamroga, University of Luxembourg and Polish Academy of Sciences Sophia Knight, Duluth University, USA Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Vadim Malvone, Telecom Paris, France Sophie Pinchinat, Universit? de Rennes, France Ramanujam R, IMSc Chennai, India Sasha Rubin, The University of Sydney, Australia Abdallah Saffidine, University of New South Wales, Australia Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada From m.backens at cs.bham.ac.uk Thu Feb 11 13:02:46 2021 From: m.backens at cs.bham.ac.uk (Miriam Backens) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:02:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2021), new submission deadline 12 March Message-ID: *18th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2021), June 7-11, 2021. Online and Gda?sk, Poland* Given the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the main focus of QPL 2021 will now be the online component. The decision on the form that the on-site component of QPL 2021 will take, will be made a month prior to the conference. We understand that this may affect the travel options of the participants, especially visa applications, but unfortunately the impact on mobility that the pandemic has is beyond our control. As a result, the organisers and PC chairs have decided to extend the deadline for submissions by a month. CALL FOR PAPERS QPL is an annual conference that brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. QPL 2021 will be held both virtually online and physically in Gdansk (COVID permitting). More information at https://qpl2021.eu/ INVITED SPEAKERS Matty Hoban Flaminia Giacomini Anna Jencova Hl?r Kristj?nsson Ariel Bendersky Martha Lewis IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 12, 2021 Author notification: April 23, 2021 Early registration: May 14, 2021 Proceedings paper ready: May 28, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Recent work that is relevant to the conference is solicited in one (or more) of three tracks: * Proceedings submissions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract. Only proceedings-track submissions are eligible to be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. * Non-proceedings submissions consist of a 3 page extended abstract and a link to a separate published paper, pre-print, or an attached draft. * Poster submissions consist of a 1-3 page abstract and may contain a link to a separate published paper or pre-print. Submission of partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. Use of the EPTCS style is encouraged. Submission is done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl2021 BEST STUDENT PAPER There will be an award for the best student paper at the discretion of the programme committee. Papers eligible for the award are those where all the authors are students at the time of submission. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Antonio Acin Barbara Amaral Pablo Arrighi Miriam Backens (co-chair) Jonathan Barrett Alessandro Bisio Anne Broadbent Ulysse Chabaud Bob Coecke Alejandro Diaz-Caro Ross Duncan Yuan Feng Alexandru Gheorghiu Stefano Gogioso Teiko Heinosaari Chris Heunen (co-chair) Matthew Hoban Kohei Kishida Aleks Kissinger Ravi Kunjwal Ciaran Lee Matt Leifer Martha Lewis Shane Mansfield Simon Martiel Hector Miller-Bakewell Mio Murao Glaucia Murta Ognyan Oreshkov Prakash Panangaden Simon Perdrix Lidia del Rio Julien Ross Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Ana Bel?n Sainz John Selby Rui Soares Barbosa Rob Spekkens Isar Stubbe Benoit Valiron Jamie Vicary John van de Wetering Alexander Wilce Mingsheng Ying Vladimir Zamdzhiev Margherita Zorzi -- Dr Miriam Backens (they/them) Lecturer School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham From ehrhard at irif.fr Thu Feb 11 15:56:27 2021 From: ehrhard at irif.fr (Thomas Ehrhard) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 21:56:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 12 month postdoc positions in Paris and Marseille Message-ID: <8214de97-825b-3aa6-a04c-05e70ddf15db@irif.fr> The ANR Research Project PPS (Probabilistic Programming Semantics, ANR-19-CE48-0014) described here: https://www.irif.fr/anrpps offers two 12 month postdoc positions for the next academic year: ??? * one at IRIF (CNRS and Universit? de Paris) https://www.irif.fr/ ??? * one at I2M (CNRS and Universit? d'Aix-Marseille) https://www.i2m.univ-amu.fr/ Our goal is to develop formal methods for probabilistic computing (semantics, type systems, logical frameworks for program verification, abstract machines ,etc.), building on the many connections between Proof Theory, Linear Algebra and the Theory of Programming Languages which arise within Linear Logic. Acquaintance with probabilistic programming languages, their mathematical semantics and/or their implementation, is welcome but not mandatory, although we expect the applicant to be excited to work on this topic. Interested persons should contact as soon as possible Thomas Ehrhard (ehrhard at irif.fr) and Michele Pagani (pagani at irif.fr) briefly outlining their academic background and research interest and indicating if they have a preference as to the location (I2M or IRIF). As a second step, a complete application consisting of - a cover letter - a detailed CV including a list of publications and a summary of research - contact information for two or three academic references is expected to be sent by email to Thomas Ehrhard and Michele Pagani. The review of applications will begin on March 1st and continue until the position is filled. The positions are expected to start on October 1st 2021 at the latest. From s.lasota at uw.edu.pl Sun Feb 14 13:45:06 2021 From: s.lasota at uw.edu.pl (=?UTF-8?Q?S=C5=82awomir_Lasota?=) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:45:06 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Fundamenta Informaticae ---> OPEN ACCESS Message-ID: We are happy to announce that Fundamenta Informaticae, a journal with over four decades of tradition, has moved to the open-access episciences.org platform. The journal was established in 1977 by Helena Rasiowa, and has been publishing scientific works in theoretical foundations of Computer Science ever since. With the move to episciences.org, an established overlay journal platform, we are embracing open access as a necessity for modern academic publication venues. At the same time, we shall keep the production of printed issues distributed by the IOS publishing house. Please consider submitting your best work to us. We are also open for suggestions of special issues in the general field of Theoretical Computer Science. 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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. ## 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. More information can be found on the webpage of the conference: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/iwc2021 ## 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=iwc2021 EasyChair style: http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors ## IMPORTANT DATES - Title and Abstract: ? April 19, 2021 - Paper Submission: ? April 26, 2021 - Notification to authors: ? May 31, 2021 - Workshop date: ? July 23, 2021 ## INVITED SPEAKERS TBD ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Beniamino Accatolli (Inria & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique) - Sandra Alves (Universidade do Porto) - Cyrille Chenavier (Universit? de Limoges) - Alejandro D?az-Caro (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC/UBA-CONICET) - Samuel Mimram (LIX, ?cole Polytechnique), co-chair - Camilo Rocha (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), co-chair - Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University Amsterdam) - Sarah Winkler (University of Bolzano) ## FSCD 2021 ORGANISING COMMITTEE - FSCD/IJCAR Conference Chair: Alejandro D?az-Caro, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC (UBA/CONICET) - FSCD/IJCAR Workshop Chairs: Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, Universidade de Bras?lia Carlos L?pez Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires & ICC (UBA/CONICET) ## CONTACT - Samuel Mimram: samuel.mimram(at)lix.polytechnique.fr - Camilo Rocha: camilo.rocha(at)javerianacali.edu.co From florin.manea at informatik.uni-goettingen.de Mon Feb 15 08:31:50 2021 From: florin.manea at informatik.uni-goettingen.de (Manea, Florin) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:31:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CSL 2022 - call for papers Message-ID: <56749ca0c8324a2c9af4e683ab7c60a5@informatik.uni-goettingen.de> ===================================== First call for papers (CSL'22) ===================================== Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), see https://www.eacsl.org/. It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. CSL'22 will be held on February 14 - 19, 2022, in G?ttingen, Germany. Currently, we expect that the conference will be organized in a hybrid way: both with an in-presence component and an online component. Submission guidelines: ---------------------- Submitted papers must be in English and must provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC. The CSL 2022 conference proceedings will be published in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), see https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors. Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (not including references), presenting unpublished work fitting the scope of the conference. Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the PC are not allowed. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference and attend it in person or online, in order to present their papers. Important dates: ---------------- Abstract submission: July 5, 2021 (AoE), Paper submission: July 12, 2021 (AoE), Notification: September 30, 2021, Conference: February 14-19, 2022 List of topics: --------------- automated deduction and interactive theorem proving constructive mathematics and type theory equational logic and term rewriting automata and games, game semantics modal and temporal logic model checking decision procedures logical aspects of computational complexity finite model theory computability computational proof theory logic programming and constraints lambda calculus and combinatory logic domain theory categorical logic and topological semantics database theory specification, extraction and transformation of programs logical aspects of quantum computing logical foundations of programming paradigms verification and program analysis linear logic higher-order logic nonmonotonic reasoning Program Committee: ------------------ Thorsten Altenkirch (Nottingham, UK) Benedikt Bollig (Cachan, France) Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna, Austria) Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Anupam Das (Birmingham, UK) Claudia Faggian (Paris, France) Francesco Gavazzo (Bologna, Italy) Stefan G?ller (Kassel, Germany) Willem Heijltjes (Bath, UK) Sandra Kiefer (Aachen, Germany) Emanuel Kieronski (Wroclaw, Poland) Bartek Klin (Warsaw, Poland) Juha Kontinen (Helsinki, Finland) Anthony Lin (Kaiserslautern, Germany) Karoliina Lehtinen (Marseille, France) Florin Manea (G?ttingen, Germany, co-chair) Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg (Strathclyde, UK) Liat Peterfreund (Paris, France and Edinburgh, UK) Daniela Petrisan (Paris, France) Karin Quaas (Lepizig) Alex Simpson (Ljubljana, Slovenia, co-chair) Pawel Sobocinski (Tallin, Estonia) Anna Sokolova (Salzburg, Austria) Linda Brown Westrick (Connecticut, US) Organization Committee: ----------------------- Fundamentals of Computer Science Group (University of G?ttingen, Germany; Florin Manea, chair) Contact: -------- Please send all questions about submissions to the PC co-chairs: csl2022 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tyokoyama at acm.org Tue Feb 16 06:54:35 2021 From: tyokoyama at acm.org (Tetsuo Yokoyama) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:54:35 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reversible Computation 2021 3rd CfP (Extended deadlines) Message-ID: <0e24321a-d303-dca1-2433-e92e83376053@acm.org> ======================================================================= 3rd Call for Papers 13th Conference on Reversible Computation (RC 2021) July 7th-8th, 2021, Nagoya, Japan (the conference will be held online) Abstract Submission: Sun, February 28th, 2021 (EXTENDED) Submission Deadline: Sun, March 7th, 2021 (EXTENDED) 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 28th, 2021 (EXTENDED) - Submission Deadline: Sun, March 7th, 2021 (EXTENDED) - Notification to Authors: Sat, April 10th, 2021 - Final Version: Sat, May 1st, 2021 - Conference: Wed-Thu, July 7th-8th, 2021 (the conference will be held online) ===== Invited speakers ===== - Atsushi Matsuo (IBM Research - Tokyo) - TBA ===== Paper submission ===== In order to submit a paper to Reversible Computation conference, please follow these guidelines: * You can submit full research papers (16 pages maximum), tutorials (16 pages maximum), as well as work-in-progress or tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum). Please do not forget to clearly indicate the type of your submission by choosing the proper category on the submission page. * 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. * The paper submission will be accepted as a PDF file using the LNCS style. Further information on the style is available at http://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines * All accepted research papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). * Author(s) of accepted papers are expected to participate in the conference and to present their papers. We would appreciate if one person would not present more than two papers at the conference. If more than two papers are accepted by a group of authors, we kindly ask that the papers be presented by different co-authors, as far as possible. * PC chairs and general chairs are not permitted to submit papers to the conference. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask us (info at reversible-computation.org). ===== Submission system ===== The papers will be submitted via EasyChair. In order to submit your paper, please use EasyChair: 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 nick.hu at cs.ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 16 08:09:11 2021 From: nick.hu at cs.ox.ac.uk (Nick Hu) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:09:11 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALL FOR PAPERS -- APPLIED CATEGORY THEORY 2021, CAMBRIDGE UK, JULY 12-16 -- HYBRID CONFERENCE Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT 2021) 12 - 16 July, 2021, Cambridge, United Kingdom (and online) https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/act2021 * * * The Fourth International Conference on Applied Category Theory will take place at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge on 12-16 July, 2021, preceded by the Adjoint School 2021 on 5-9 July. This conference follows previous events at MIT, Oxford and Leiden. 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 series is to bring researchers together, disseminate the latest results, and facilitate further development of the field. We accept submissions of both original research papers, and work accepted/submitted/ published elsewhere. Accepted original research papers will be invited for publication in a proceedings volume. The keynote addresses will be drawn from the best accepted papers. The conference will include an industry showcase event. We hope to run the conference as a hybrid event, with physical attendees present in Cambridge, and other participants taking part online. However, due to the state of the pandemic, the possibility of in-person attendance is not yet confirmed. Please do not book your travel or hotel accommodation yet. ** IMPORTANT DATES (all in 2021) ** - Submission of contributed papers: Monday 10 May - Acceptance/rejection notification: Monday 7 June - Adjoint school: Monday 5 July to Friday 9 July - Main conference: Monday 12 July to Friday 16 July ** SUBMISSIONS ** The following two types of submissions are accepted: - Proceedings Track. Original contributions of high-quality work consisting of an extended abstract, up to 12 pages, 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 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 rigour of your work. Papers in the two tracks will be reviewed against the same standards of quality. Since ACT is an interdisciplinary conference, we use two tracks to accommodate the publishing conventions of different disciplines. For example, those from a Computer Science background may prefer the Proceedings Track, while those from a Mathematics, Physics or other background may prefer the Non-Proceedings Track. However, authors from any background are free to choose the track that they prefer, and submissions may be moved from the Proceedings Track to the Non-Proceedings Track at any time at the request of the authors. Contributions must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions to the Proceedings Track must be prepared with LaTeX, using the EPTCS style files available at . The submission link will soon be available on the ACT2021 web page: ** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ** Chair: Kohei Kishida, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The full programme committee will be announced soon. ** LOCAL ORGANIZERS ** Lukas Heidemann, University of Oxford Nick Hu, University of Oxford Ioannis Markakis, University of Cambridge Alex Rice, University of Cambridge Calin Tataru, University of Cambridge Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge ** STEERING COMMITTEE ** John Baez, University of California Riverside and Centre for Quantum Technologies Bob Coecke, Cambridge Quantum Computing David Spivak, Topos Institute From gabriel.scherer at gmail.com Wed Feb 17 00:52:44 2021 From: gabriel.scherer at gmail.com (Gabriel Scherer) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:52:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ICFP'21 Artifact Evaluation Committee: call for nominations Message-ID: Dear all, We are looking for motivated people to be members of the ICFP 2021 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC); students, researchers and people from the industry or the free-software community are all welcome. The artifact evaluation process aims to improve the quality and reproducibility of research artifacts for ICFP papers. You can either nominate yourself or nominate someone else (students, colleagues, etc; we will of course check later that this person is willing to be a committee member) by filling the nomination form. Nomination form: https://framaforms.org/icfp21-aec-nomination-form-1613482593 More information is available on the AEC webpage: https://icfp21.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2021-artifact-evaluation#advice-for-reviewers The primary responsibility of committee members is to review the artifacts submitted corresponding to the already accepted papers in the main research track. In particular, run the associated tool, check whether the results in the main paper can be reproduced, and inspect the tool and the data. We expect evaluation of one artifact to take about a full day, and each committee member to receive 2 to 3 artifacts to review. All of the AEC work will be done remotely/online. The ICFP AEC committee will start work in late spring of 2021, with the review work happening between May 26th and June 22nd. (The full schedule is on the AEC webpage.) Here are some reasons why we think nominee may like it: 1. Reviewing artifacts helps our community improve the quality of its artifacts, such as research software and mechanized proofs. Participating to this effort feels valuable and useful. 2. Nominees may learn some nice tricks by studying how other researchers implement, evaluate and document their ideas. 3. There is some evidence that members of the artifact-evaluation committee like the job: each year, more than half of them volunteer to be part of the committee again for the next year. (The cons: unpaid work, currently less prestigious than reviewing papers, the evaluation process is less clearly-defined and well-understood than for papers.) Come join us in improving the quality of research in our field! 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University of Lisbon -- Two Postdoctoral Positions We are looking to fill two postdoc positions at the University of Lisbon in one or more of the following topics. * Reliable Software Systems * Accessibility and Ageing * Cyber?physical Systems * Data and Systems Intelligence * Health and Biomedical Informatics * Resilient Distributed and Networked Systems The positions are 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 successful applicants will work at the LASIGE research unit in collaboration with one or more LASIGE researchers. (Due to current pandemic situation, work during initial portion of the position is likely to happen remotely.) The position will start at a mutually agreeable date, ideally in the Spring 2021. Applicants should hold a PhD degree in Computer Science or related area. The position is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology for an initial period of 32 months. Compensation, in the range of ?30.000 to ?41.500, will be commensurate with experience. Applications are open until March 31, 2021. Further information can be obtained from lasige at ciencias.ulisboa.pt or from any of the researchers at LASIGE (https://lasige.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/integrated-researchers, https://lasige.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/phd-collaborators). About the University of Lisbon and the LASIGE research lab The University of Lisbon (ULisboa) is the largest university in Portugal and a leading one within wider Europe. Comprising eighteen faculties, ULisboa offers 400 degree programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Each year it accepts more than 5,000 international students ? around 10% of its total cohort ? who represent 100 different countries. ULisboa leads the main international rankings, is amongst the 200 best universities worldwide according to the 2019 Shanghai Ranking. LASIGE is a research unit at ULisboa evaluated as Excellent by the Portuguese Science Agency (FCT) in 2018, with a perfect score of 15 points. LASIGE closely mentors more than 100 young researchers (at masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral level), continually stimulating excellence in research. LASIGE members teach MSc and PhD level courses in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at ULisboa, regularly publish in top venues, and enjoy top-notch bibliometric indices. LASIGE runs a large number of international projects, boasts three spin-offs, and multiple technology transfers. The high-level research conducted at LASIGE, the scientific background and international projection of its group leaders, the academic and industrial network to which it belongs, and the experience in advanced training of its members makes LASIGE the perfect research unit to work as a postdoc. If this was not enough, the city of Lisbon offers history and culture, shopping, restaurants, nearby beaches and a vibrant nightlife. From christian.doczkal at inria.fr Wed Feb 17 11:49:17 2021 From: christian.doczkal at inria.fr (Christian Doczkal) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:49:17 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [CFP] The Coq Workshop 2021 : Call for Talk Proposals Message-ID: <0834672c2246ba0e90f325d6a39f7638a1d3f0ec.camel@inria.fr> *********************************************************************** The Coq Workshop 2021: Call for Talk Proposals Colocated with the 12th conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2021) online *********************************************************************** Find this call online at: https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/2021/ We are pleased to invite you to submit talk proposals for the Coq Workshop 2021, which will be held online on July 2nd, 2021. The Coq Workshop is part of ITP 2021, which will also be held online (http://easyconferences.eu/itp2021/) The Coq Workshop 2021 is the 12th iteration of the Coq Workshop series (https://coq-workshop.gitlab.io/). The workshop brings together users, contributors, and developers of the Coq proof assistant (https://coq.inria.fr/). The Coq Workshop focuses on strengthening the Coq community (https://coq.inria.fr/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, rather than serving as a venue for traditional research papers, the workshop is organized around informal presentation and discussions, supplemented with invited talks. Important dates: - May 3rd, 2021 (AoE): Deadline for submission of talk proposals - May 31st, 2021: Notification to authors - July 2nd, 2021: Workshop Submission Instructions: Authors should submit extended abstracts through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coq2021). 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 Submission Format: Talk proposals should be no more than 2 pages in length including bibliographic references using the EasyChair style with the fullpage package. (https://easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip). All submissions must be in PDF format. Program Committee: - Evelyne Contejean (CNRS, LRI) - Christian Doczkal (INRIA) [chair] - Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) - Ga?tan Gilbert (INRIA) - Ralf Jung (MPI-SWS) - Marie Kerjean (CNRS, LIPN) - Jean-Marie Madiot (INRIA) [chair] - Kazuhiko Sakaguchi (University of Tsukuba) - Kathrin Stark (Princeton University) - Pierre-Yves Strub (?cole Polytechnique, LIX) Organisation contact (co-chairs): Christian Doczkal and Jean-Marie Madiot (coq2021 at easychair.org) From viktor at mpi-sws.org Thu Feb 18 04:59:02 2021 From: viktor at mpi-sws.org (Viktor Vafeiadis) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:59:02 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc positions @ MPI-SWS Message-ID: <15AAA678-AF9D-43FB-826D-A712EB9BB8B4@mpi-sws.org> Applications are invited for postdoc positions at MPI-SWS under the supervision of Viktor Vafeiadis (https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/). The positions are initially for two years with a possibility of an extension for another year, and are funded by the ERC consolidator grant PERSIST on the semantics and verification of non-volatile memory (NVM) programs. Postdoc candidates should have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD in computer science, and have expertise in one or more of the following topics: - NVM programming and/or semantics - weak memory models - ISA semantics - separation logic and/or other program logics - software model checking - Coq Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Viktor Vafeiadis and submit a formal application at https://apply.mpi-sws.org/ Application deadline: 7 March 2021 From marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Feb 18 10:45:10 2021 From: marta.kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk (Marta Kwiatkowska) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:45:10 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Researcher position on ERC project FUN2MODEL at Oxford In-Reply-To: <0971b245-48a7-acac-019f-2a465807c865@cs.ox.ac.uk> References: <0971b245-48a7-acac-019f-2a465807c865@cs.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: <3e63de4f-b7ed-0576-2cf0-2e41d7671e44@cs.ox.ac.uk> [Please forward to anyone interested. Apologies for multiple mailing.] *Senior Research Associate**on FUN2MODEL, fixed term for 3 years, with the possibility of extension** **Grade 8: Salary ?41,526 ? ?49,553 p.a. (note: post may be under-filled at grade 7: ?32,817 - ?40,322 p.a.)* *http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1890-full.html * We are looking for a motivated Senior Research Associate to play a key role in the ERC funded FUN2MODEL project (www.fun2model.org), which aims to develop novel probabilistic verification and synthesis techniques to enable robust AI. You will be responsible for carrying out research with an emphasis on automated verification and synthesis, applied to machine learning. This may include neuro-symbolic approaches; program synthesis; symbolic methods; probabilistic verification; statistical relational AI; robustness and certification. Suitably qualified candidates will have an opportunity for software implementation, liaising with Dave Parker to coordinate PRISM codebase extensions. The exact scope of the research will depend on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 12th March 2021. Interviews are expected to be held week commencing 29th March 2021. 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_version_4.display_form Our staff and students come from all over the world and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diversity groups and champions, for example http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/women-cs-oxford/index.html , as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example maternity leave. -- Professor Marta Kwiatkowska FRS Associate Head of MPLS Division Fellow of Trinity College Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Wolfson Building, Parks Road Oxford, OX1 3QD Tel: +44 (0)1865 283509 Email:Marta.Kwiatkowska at cs.ox.ac.uk URL:http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/marta.kwiatkowska/ PA and Project Officer: Anita Hancox Email:anita.hancox at cs.ox.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)1865 610754 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nqd.lisa at gmail.com Fri Feb 19 05:02:27 2021 From: nqd.lisa at gmail.com (Lisa Nguyen Quang Do) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:02:27 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for papers: 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'21) Message-ID: =============================================================== The 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State of the Art in Program Analysis (SOAP) Call for Papers June 2021 - Virtual https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/SOAP-2021 Co-located with PLDI 2021 =============================================================== Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for Java, and other programming languages, have received widespread attention for a long time. The application domains of these analyses range from core libraries to modern technologies such as web services and Android applications. Over time, various analysis frameworks have been developed to provide techniques for optimizing programs, ensuring code quality, and assessing security and compliance. SOAP 2021 aims to bring together the members of the program analysis community to share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis. For SOAP 2021, we invite contributions and inspirations from researchers and practitioners working with program analysis. We are particularly interested in exciting analysis framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results of work in progress. We will also focus on the state of the practice for program analysis by encouraging submissions by industrial participants, including tool demonstration submissions. The workshop agenda will continue its tradition of lively discussions on extensions of existing frameworks, development of new analyses and tools, and how program analysis is used in real-world scenarios. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to: - A report on a novel implementation of a program analysis, with a focus on practical details or optimization techniques for obtaining precision and performance. - A new research tool, data, and other artifacts, that showcase early implementations of novel program analysis concepts, as well as mature prototypes. - A description of a new analysis component, for example, front-ends or abstract domains. - A report describing an innovative tool built on top of an existing framework. - A compelling use case for a feature that is not yet supported by existing analysis tools, with good examples and an informal design of the proposed feature. - An idea paper proposing the integration of existing program analyses to answer interesting novel questions about programs, for example in IDEs. - An experience report on the use of a program analysis framework. - A description of a program analysis tool and screenshots of main parts of the demo. Submissions should be four to six-page papers and should be formatted according to the two-column ACM proceedings format. Each reference must list all authors of the paper. The citations should be in numerical style, e.g., [52]. Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX at [1]. The preprint template should be set to use 10pt font and ?numbers? to ensure numerical style citations, that is: \documentclass[10pt, numbers]{sigplanconf}. Submissions should be made on EasyChair [2]. More Information ================ For additional information, please visit the website [3], follow @SOAP_Workshop on Twitter [4], or contact the chairs Lisa Nguyen Quang Do [5] and Caterina Urban [6]. [1] http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author [2] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soap2021 [3] https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/SOAP-2021#Call-for-Papers [4] https://twitter.com/SOAP_Workshop [5] nqd.lisa at gmail.com [6] caterina.urban at inria.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bove at chalmers.se Fri Feb 19 11:44:44 2021 From: bove at chalmers.se (Ana Bove) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:44:44 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2-years postdoctoral position in HoTT Message-ID: The type theory group at Chalmers and Univ. of Gothenburg would like to announce a new postdoc position in homotopy type theory/univalent foundations. For details see https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=18963 The deadline for application is 2021-03-10. The call is primarily for people already working in homotopy type theory, but we are also open to considering applications from people working in nearby areas who would be interested in getting into the field. The position is for 2-years and includes up to 20% teaching duties. While our department is a joint department between Chalmers and Univ. of Gothenburg, you will get employed at the Univ. of Gothenburg with full employment benefits (health care, pension, etc). For further information please contact Thierry Coquand . -- -- Ana Bove, Docent email: bove(at)chalmers.se Phone: (46) (31) 772 10 20 http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bove Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers Univ. of Technology and Univ. of Gothenburg From walther.neuper at jku.at Fri Feb 19 12:36:34 2021 From: walther.neuper at jku.at (Walther Neuper) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:36:34 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP ThEdu'21 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ??? ??? 2nd Call for Extended Abstracts & Demonstrations ************************************************************************** ??????????????????????????????? ThEdu'21 ??????????? Theorem Proving Components for Educational Software ????????????????????????????? 11 July 2021 ?????????????? http://www.uc.pt/en/congressos/thedu/ThEdu21 ************************************************************************** ????????????????????????????? at CADE-28 ????????? The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction ???????? Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States ??????????????????????????? July 11-16, 2021 ???????????????????????? http://www.cade-28.info ************************************************************************** ??????????????????????? ThEdu'21 will be virtual ????????? (CADE28 will be virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic) ************************************************************************** ThEdu'21 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:? 25 April 2021 ?* Author Notification: 23 May 2021 ?* Workshop Day:??????? 11 July 2021 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=thedu21 ? 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'21 and presents his/her extended ? abstract/demonstration. Contingency Plans (COVID19) ? The 28th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-28) ? will be virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ? ThEdu'21 will be virtual, the exact details will be in the workshop ? Web-page as soon as possible. Program Committee (tentative) ? 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'21 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... URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Sat Feb 20 11:12:10 2021 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:12:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021), Invited Speakers Update & Second call for papers, Conference Date: July 26-31, 2021 Message-ID: <20210220161210.35DB317C35F6@gigondas.localdomain> 2nd Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2021 - July 26-31, 2020 Timisoara, Romania http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Invited Speakers * Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) * Michael Kohlhase (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) * Laura Kovacs (TU Vienna, Austria) * Angus McIntyre (London/Edinburgh, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2021 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2021 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 *** - Abstract deadline: March 15, 2021 - Full paper deadline: March 26, 2021 - Reviews sent to authors: May 4, 2021 - Rebuttals due: May 8, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: May 13, 2021 - Camera-ready copies due: May 29, 2021 - Conference: July 26-31, 2021 Informal submissions and doctoral programme - Submission deadline: May 15, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2021 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2021 proceedings with Springer LNCS. From harley.eades at gmail.com Tue Feb 23 13:45:23 2021 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:23 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on skew X categories and structural proof theory Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 between 1pm and 2pm EST (6pm - 7pm UTC), Dr. Tarmo Uustalu 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/Uustalu.html Tarmo will be telling us about coherence for several kinds of skew monoidal categories. As many of you know these have a number of interesting applications to type theories/type systems. I, for one, am super excited about this talk! These talks are open to the general public via Zoom and Youtube. I'll be live streaming it on Youtube. 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/HAyDVjybAFw 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 kedar.namjoshi at nokia-bell-labs.com Wed Feb 24 08:18:40 2021 From: kedar.namjoshi at nokia-bell-labs.com (Namjoshi, Kedar (Nokia - US/Murray Hill)) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:18:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2021 Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Apologies for multiple copies] SAS 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2021 The 28th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2021, will be held in Chicago (US) from October 17-22, 2021 in conjunction with SPLASH 2021.? 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. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). * Paper submission: ?????????????????? ?April 25, 2021 ? ?? * Artifact submission:???????????????? April 29, 2021 * Author response period: ???????? June 11-17 * Author notification:??????????????????July 4 * Final version due: ???????????????????? August 4 (approximate) * Conference:??????????????????????????????? Oct 17-22, 2021 ? PAPER SUBMISSION All paper submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas2021?? Regular papers (18 pages max., lightweight double-blind)? Short papers (10 pages max.) may focus on any of the following: * Experience with static analysis tools, Industrial Reports, and Case Studies (non-blind)? * Tool papers (lightweight double-blind) * Brief announcements of work in progress (lightweight double-blind) * Well-motivated discussion of new questions or new areas (lightweight double-blind) Radhia Cousot Award The program committee will select an accepted regular 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. ARTIFACTS As in previous years, we encourage authors to submit a virtual machine image containing any artifacts and evaluations presented in the paper. Artifact submission is optional. Artifact evaluation will be concurrent with paper review.?? The full CFP at ?https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2021 has additional details. From siddharth.krishna at nyu.edu Wed Feb 24 13:05:55 2021 From: siddharth.krishna at nyu.edu (Siddharth Krishna) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:05:55 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VerifyThis 2021: Call for Participation + Grants + Prizes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ******************************************************************************** VerifyThis Verification Competition 2021 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- GRANTS -- PRIZES Competition to be held at ETAPS 2021 (Virtual) http://verifythis.ethz.ch ******************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Registration deadline: March 13, 2021 Competition: March 26 and 27, 2021 ABOUT THE COMPETITION VerifyThis 2021 is a program verification competition taking place as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2021) on 26 and 27 March 2021. It is the 9th event in the VerifyThis competition series. Information on previous events and participants can be found at: http://verifythis.ethz.ch The aims of the competition are: - to bring together those interested in formal verification, and to provide an engaging, hands-on, and fun opportunity for discussion, and - to evaluate the usability of logic-based program verification tools in a controlled experiment that could be easily repeated by others. The competition will offer a number of challenges presented in natural language and pseudo code. Participants have to formalize the requirements, implement a solution, and formally verify the implementation for adherence to the specification. There are no restrictions on the programming language and verification technology used. The correctness properties posed in problems will have the input-output behaviour of programs in focus. Solutions will be judged for correctness, completeness and elegance. PARTICIPATION Participation is open for anybody interested. Teams of up to two people are allowed. VerifyThis will be a virtual event with some synchronous sessions via video call, and a 24 hour window for teams to solve problems at their own convenience. More details and a full program will be announced on the website. We particularly encourage participation of: - people from under-represented communities - student teams (this includes PhD students) - non-developer teams using a tool someone else developed - several teams using the same tool GRANTS The competition has funds for a limited number of registration grants, sponsored by Amazon AWS. Grants will cover the registration costs for ETAPS. To apply for a grant, fill out the relevant section of the registration form and, if you are a student, have your supervisor send a brief letter of support to the following address: verifythis at googlegroups.com PRIZES Thanks to our sponsors, VerifyThis typically offer team prizes such as the best overall team, the most distinguished tool features and the best student team. As VerifyThis 2021 will be a virtual event, we plan to increase the number of team prizes and the prize money amount this year. VerifyThis 2021 prizes are sponsored by Amazon AWS. REGISTRATION Please register by filling out the following form: https://forms.gle/kZpGKMVkRrRyidiq8 Deadline: March 13, 2021 ORGANIZERS * Siddharth Krishna, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK * Wytse Oortwijn, ESI (TNO), Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE * Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, the Netherlands * Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland * Peter M?ller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Mattias Ulbrich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany CONTACT Email: verifythis at googlegroups.com Web: http://verifythis.ethz.ch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrei.paskevich at lri.fr Wed Feb 24 15:28:39 2021 From: andrei.paskevich at lri.fr (Andrei Paskevich) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:28:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] F-IDE 2021 - Last Call for Papers - Extended Deadline Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From mauro.jacopo at gmail.com Thu Feb 25 05:14:50 2021 From: mauro.jacopo at gmail.com (Jacopo Mauro) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:14:50 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Assistant and Associate Professorship Positions in Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark Message-ID: The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, invites applications for assistant and associate professor positions in Computer Science. We are flexible with respect to the starting date, but expect this to be in 2021 or early 2022. Application deadline: 7 April 2021. We are interested in applicants from all fields in Computer Science who can either strengthen or complement the current Computer Science research conducted at IMADA. Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Danish is not a prerequisite for application. Link for application, including the call with full details: https://www.sdu.dk/da/service/ledige_stillinger/1140998?sc_lang=en The application must include the following: ? An application letter stating for which position the candidate wishes to be evaluated ? A curriculum vitae ? A list of publications ? A copy of the PhD certificate ? A teaching portfolio ? A research plan ? A list of references (i.e., two or three references including their contact information). For more information, please contact Jacopo Mauro (mauro at imada.sdu.dk) -- 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 unruh at ut.ee Thu Feb 25 07:41:42 2021 From: unruh at ut.ee (Dominique Unruh) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:41:42 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Postdoc/phd positions in ERC project "Certified Quantum Security" (formal verification of quantum crypto) Message-ID: <458745f2-33bf-a7db-cdfd-0772795d546e@ut.ee> Dear all, I would like to announce open postdoc and (fully-funded) phd positions. We are searching for candidates who are enthusiastic about driving forward the field of formal verification of quantum cryptography, either from the theory side, tool side, or the quantum languages side. For more information, see here: https://crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/PostdocInVerificationOfQuantumCryptography (postdoc) and https://crypto.cs.ut.ee/Main/PhdPositions (phd). Please forward this to anyone potentially interested, and do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, Dominique. From riccardo.treglia at unito.it Thu Feb 25 10:25:39 2021 From: riccardo.treglia at unito.it (Riccardo Treglia) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:25:39 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITRS 21 CfP Message-ID: ITRS 2021 Call for papersTenth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems - ITRS 2021 17 July 2021, Online Affiliated with FSCD , 17-24 July 2021, Buenos Aires Web page: http://www.di.unito.it/~deligu/ITRS2021/ 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 that 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 2021 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 (with the exception of 2020, because of COVID-19 outbreak). Information about the previous events is available on the ITRS home page . Invited Speaker - Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Paper Submissions Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees. 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URL: From publicityifl at gmail.com Fri Feb 26 04:02:38 2021 From: publicityifl at gmail.com (Publicity IFL) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:02:38 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers Haskell Symposium 2021 Message-ID: Dear all, This is the call for papers for the upcoming Haskell Symposium. Please forward to anyone that you believe might be interested. Apologies for receiving multiple copies of this announcement. Best regards, Jurriaan Hage Chair ================================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2021 ** virtual ** Thu 26 -- Fri 27 August, 2021 http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2021/ ================================================================================ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2021 will be co-located with the 2021 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). Due to COVID-19 it will take place **virtually** this year. Like last year, we will be using a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. See further information below. Different from last year is that we offer a new submission category: the tutorial. Details can be found 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; * Tutorials, to document how to use a particular language feature, programming technique, tool or library within the Haskell ecosystem; * 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. A new submission category for this year's Haskell Symposium is the tutorial. Like with the experience report and the functional pearl, the key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. What distinguishes a tutorial is that its focus is on explaining an aspect of the Haskell language and/or ecosystem in a way that is generally useful to a Haskell audience. Tutorials for many such topics can be found online; the distinction here is that by writing it up for formal review it will be vetted by experts and formally published. 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. If your contribution is not a research paper, please mark the title of your experience report, functional pearl, tutorial or system demonstration as such, by supplying a subtitle (Experience Report, Functional Pearl, Tutorial Paper, System Demonstration). 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, tutorials and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such. Lightweight Double-blind Reviewing ---------------------------------- Haskell Symposium 2021 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 Tutorial: 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: 19 March 2021 (Fri) Notification: 23 April 2021 (Fri) Regular track and demos: Submission deadline: 21 May 2021 (Fri) Notification: 23 June 2021 (Wed) 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://haskell21.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 can distinguish between 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 conference chair will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews. 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 permission-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 ================= Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Koen Claessen Chalmers University of Technology Dominique Devriese Vrije Universiteit Brussel Andy Gill University of Kansas Jurriaan Hage (chair) Universiteit Utrecht Zhenjiang Hu Peking University Ranjit Jhala University of California Patricia Johann Appalachian State University Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba George Karachalias Tweag Ralf Laemmel University of Koblenz-Landau Daan Leijen Microsoft Research Ben Lippmeier Ghost Locomotion Neil Mitchell Facebook Alberto Pardo Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Matt Roberts Macquarie University Janis Voigtlaender University of Duisburg-Essen Nicolas Wu Imperial College London If you have questions, please contact the chair at: j.hage at uu.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emilio.tuosto at gssi.it Fri Feb 26 06:51:00 2021 From: emilio.tuosto at gssi.it (Emilio Tuosto) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:51:00 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc position (2 years) on monitoring and verification of smart systems (deadline 18/3/21) Message-ID: A post-doctoral position funded by the IT MATTERS project (http://itmatters.imtlucca.it/) on methods and tools for trustworthy smart systems is available at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (https://cs.gssi.it). Duration: 2 years Annual gross salary: ? 36.000,00 Details at: https://www.gssi.it/communication/announcements/item/12047-postdoctoral-research-fellowship-2021 Short description of the position The successful candidate will develop runtime-monitoring and software model-checking techniques for ?smart systems?, that is, autonomous systems taking context-dependent decisions. The research activities will involve developing frameworks that can deal with the distributed nature of smart systems and will build on existing work on specification-based monitoring and software model-checking of cyber-physical systems. The postdoctoral researcher will also devise techniques to use information derived from the runtime analysis to guide the software-model-checking effort and to refine the models of the runtime environment used in model checking. Contacts Luca Aceto (luca.aceto at gssi.it) Omar Inverso (omar.inverso at gssi.it) Emilio Tuosto (emilio.tuosto at gssi.it) -- *************************************************************** Emilio Tuosto Computer Science Gran Sasso Science Institute Viale F. Crispi, 7 67100 L'Aquila (Italy) Office: Palazzo Mariani P1-N Phone: +39 0862 428 0312 L'Aquila Italy homepage -> https://cs.gssi.it/emilio.tuosto/ *************************************************************** From philip.wadler at gmail.com Fri Feb 26 08:06:58 2021 From: philip.wadler at gmail.com (Philip Wadler) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:06:58 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] The Plutus team is hiring Message-ID: IOG, formerly known as IOHK, is hiring two new members for the Plutus team, currently led by Manuel Chakravarty and Michael Peyton-Jones. One of the posts is for a new leader, but don't worry, Manuel and Michael are both staying; the other post is someone to work on developer relations and communications. People working with the Plutus team include myself, Simon Thompson, and John Hughes. Plutus is a library for Haskell that provides smart contracts for Cardano. Ada, the coin of Cardano, is (as of last week) the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, at USD$32 billion. Details below. Let me know if you have any questions. Go well, -- P Software Engineering Lead - Plutus We are searching for a Software Engineer to lead our Plutus team. The Plutus team is building the core of Cardano?s smart contract functionality on the bedrock of functional programming languages. We are an interdisciplinary team who do original R&D and turn it into production systems. In the past few years, the Plutus team has: - Published five peer-reviewed papers with top academic researchers - Designed and implemented three programming languages - Formalized the semantics of two of those languages using Agda - Helped to improve the ability of Agda to generate usable Haskell output - Created novel compilation techniques for data types - Written a GHC proposal, which is now being taken into implementation work - Implemented a compiler for a subset of Haskell as a GHC plug-in - Used statistical modeling to infer evaluation cost models - Participated in the design and implementation of the Cardano ledger extensions to support smart contracts. Such a heady and complex mixture of research, development, and design work needs a competent leader to keep it all working well. If that sounds like fun to you, drop us a line! https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/DC4A9703F1/ Developer Relations Specialist - Plutus The Cardano ecosystem is expanding and software developer interest is increasing rapidly, so we are looking for a Developer Relations Specialist for the Plutus smart contract programming platform. You will help build, nurture and manage new relationships within established blockchain and smart contract development communities, especially Ethereum. This role will put you at the forefront of an exciting developer ecosystem at a crucial time in its development, winning and onboarding partners, feeding any requirements and proposals back into the business, and helping rapidly expand a healthy, productive Cardano developer base. To enjoy this role you will be someone who is passionate about blockchain technologies and the real problems they can address. You will have a proactive, problem-solving attitude, and enjoy working with customers and representing IOG at conferences, meetups, podcasts, etc. https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/965433F163/ .\ Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science ./\ School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh / \ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eacsl.ls1 at cs.tu-dortmund.de Fri Feb 26 10:16:01 2021 From: eacsl.ls1 at cs.tu-dortmund.de (EACSL Mail-Account) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:16:01 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ACKERMANN AWARD 2021: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Message-ID: ACKERMANN AWARD 2021 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2021 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 2019 and 31 December 2020 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 1 July 2021. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 March 2021 and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: thomas.schwentick at tu-dortmund.de *** The Award The 2021 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2022, 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, * 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); it is recommended to not squeeze as much material as possible into these 20 pages, but rather to use them for a gentle introduction and overview, stressing the novel results obtained in the thesis and their impact; 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 matt.amy at dal.ca Fri Feb 26 13:35:42 2021 From: matt.amy at dal.ca (Matt Amy) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:35:42 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLanQC 2021 -- Call for Submissions Message-ID: <240fe783-1f9f-04ba-3dac-ee67555ec947@dal.ca> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** *PLanQC 2021: Programming Languages for Quantum Computing* * Call for Submissions We invite members of the programming languages (PL) and quantum computing (QC) communities to submit talk proposals for the Second International Workshop on Programming Languages for Quantum Computing (PLanQC 2021), co-located with PLDI virtually this June. PLanQC aims to bring together researchers from the fields of programming languages and quantum information, exposing the programming languages community to the unique challenges of programming quantum computers. It will promote the development of tools to assist in the process of programming quantum computers, as they exist today and as they are likely to exist in the near to distant future. Submissions to PLanQC should take the form of 2-5 page abstracts (single-column, 11pt acmsmall style, not including references), with links to larger preprints when appropriate. Work in progress is welcome. We hope to make PLanQC maximally accessible to the programming languages community. Thus, abstracts should cover cutting edge ideas and results, but not be opaque to new, potential entrants to QC coming from PL. Abstracts will be reviewed for quality and relevance to the workshop, and accepted authors will be invited to give talks or poster presentations. We will not be publishing formal proceedings, but the extended abstracts, along with links (where available) to full papers will be posted to the workshop?s website. Invited speakers: ????????? ? ? ? Michael Hicks, University of Maryland ????????? ? ? ? John van de Wetering, Radboud University Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): ????????? ? ? ? High-level quantum programming languages ????????? ? ? ? Verification tools for quantum programs ????????? ? ? ? Novel quantum programming abstractions ????????? ? ? ? Quantum circuit and program optimizations ????????? ? ? ? Hardware-aware circuit compilation and routing ????????? ? ? ? Error handling, mitigation, and correction ????????? ? ? ? Instruction sets for quantum hardware ????????? ? ? ? Other techniques from traditional programming languages (e.g., types, compilation/optimization, foreign function interfaces) applied to the domain of quantum computation. 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URL: From dom.orchard at gmail.com Sat Feb 27 11:15:57 2021 From: dom.orchard at gmail.com (Dominic Orchard) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:15:57 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lecturer (Assistant Professor) Position in Programming Languages at the University of Kent Message-ID: We are seeking to appoint yet 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-034-21 Closing date for applications: 14 March 2021 (Lecturer = Teaching+Research contract, equivalent of Assistant Professor) 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 four broad research areas are Programming Languages and Systems; Computer Security; Computational Intelligence; and Data Science. 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, many beaches nearby, 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 alexander.nadel at intel.com Sun Feb 28 01:58:26 2021 From: alexander.nadel at intel.com (Nadel, Alexander) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 06:58:26 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SMT 2021 Workshop: Second Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** SMT 2021: 19th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories *** Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 18-19, 2021 Conference website: http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smt2021 Submission deadline: April 30, 2021 *** Overview *** SMT 2021 will be co-located with CAV 2021 in Los Angeles. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: ? Decision procedures and theories of interest ? Combinations of decision procedures ? Novel implementation techniques ? Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies ? Applications and case studies ? Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, are especially encouraged. *** Important Dates *** ? Paper submission: April 30, 2021 ? Notification: May 28, 2021 ? Workshop: July 18-19, 2021 *** Submission Guidelines *** We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts, original papers, and presentation only-papers. We intend to publish open-access proceedings for SMT 2021 as a volume of the EPiC Series EasyChair Proceedings. Extended abstracts and original papers must not have been published or submitted elsewhere and will be included in the proceedings. ? Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. ? 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 and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. 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From Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk Mon Mar 1 05:51:32 2021 From: Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk (Simon Gay) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 10:51:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doc position in Programming Language Foundations at University of Glasgow Message-ID: University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering School of Computing Science Research Associate Ref: 051207 Grade 7: ?35,845 - ?40,322 per annum We have a position for a Research Associate to support the research of the Head of School, Professor Simon Gay, by collaboration on topics of mutual interest in the broad area of programming language foundations. 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 (PLUG) 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 Simon.Gay at glasgow.ac.uk. *Application details* Online advert at jobs.ac.uk: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CEK204/research-associate Glasgow University online application system: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=051207 Closing date: 25th March 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 tristanj at bc.edu Mon Mar 1 06:34:17 2021 From: tristanj at bc.edu (Jean-Baptiste Tristan) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 06:34:17 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Submissions: International Conference on Probabilistic Programming (PROBPROG 2021) Message-ID: Call for Submissions: International Conference on Probabilistic Programming (PROBPROG 2021) Conference Dates: Wed Oct 20 - Fri Oct 22, 2021 Deadline: Thu May 6, 2021 11:59 PM AOE Submissions: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROBPROG2021/ Instructions: https://probprog.cc/submissions/ The International Conference on Probabilistic Programming (PROBPROG 2021) will take place Oct 20 - 22, 2021, in a fully online format. The 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 at 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. Program Chairs - Guy Van den Broeck (UCLA) - Lawrence Murray (Uber) General Chairs - Jean-Baptiste Tristan (Boston College) - Jan-Willem van de Meent (Northeastern University) Program Information - Wed 20 October: Industry day and Tutorials - Thu 21 October: Main conference - Fri 22 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 wim.vanhoof at unamur.be Mon Mar 1 09:47:36 2021 From: wim.vanhoof at unamur.be (Wim Vanhoof) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 15:47:36 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2021 Call for Papers Message-ID: <0ECD1C34-7B41-41D5-A895-0D205B92B3E4@unamur.be> ============================================================ 31st International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2021 http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/lopstr21/ Tallinn, Estonia, September 7-9, 2021 (co-located with PPDP 2021) ============================================================ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 31st International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2021) will be held at the Teachers' House in Tallinn, Estonia. Previous symposia were held in Bologna (as a virtual meeting), Porto, Frankfurt am Main, Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2021 will be co-located with PPDP 2021 (International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, including, but not limited to: - synthesis - transformation - specialization - composition - optimization - inversion - specification - analysis and verification - testing and certification - program and model manipulation - machine learning for program development - verification and testing of machine learning systems - transformational techniques in SE - applications and tools Both full papers and extended abstracts describing foundations and applications in these areas are welcome. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective and papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chairs in case of questions). * Important Dates * Abstract submission (optional): May 1, 2021 (AoE) Paper/Extended abstract submission: May 15, 2021 Notification: July 1, 2021 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 20, 2021 Symposium: September 7-9, 2021 Revised paper submission: November 1, 2021 (AoE) Notification: December 1, 2021 Final version (for post-proceedings): January 16, 2022 * Submission Guidelines * Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in LNCS 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. Full papers cannot exceed 15 pages excluding references. Extended abstracts cannot exceed 8 pages excluding references. Additional pages may be used for appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2021 * Proceedings * All papers (extended abstracts and full papers) accepted for presentation at the symposium will be made available through electronic pre-proceedings. As is usual for LOPSTR, formal proceedings will be published only after the symposium. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium. 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. * Program Chairs * Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium * Local organisation * Niccol? Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Contact * For more information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs: emanuele.deangelis at iasi.cnr.it , wim.vanhoof at unamur.be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.guha at northeastern.edu Mon Mar 1 11:59:19 2021 From: a.guha at northeastern.edu (Guha, Arjun) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 16:59:19 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI 2021 Student Research Competition (SRC) Message-ID: Deadline: March 22 2021 Venue: Online More Information: https://pldi21.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2021-SRC The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research on programming language design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance at PLDI 2021. 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. Eligibility criteria -------------------- Participants must have current student status, either graduate or undergraduate, at the time of the submission deadline. Participants in the SRC must also be current ACM (student) members. Prizes ------ Winners of the three top places in each category receive prizes of $500 for the first place winner, $300 for the second place winner and $200 for the third place winner, respectively. The top three undergraduate and graduate winners receive an award medal and a one-year complimentary ACM student membership with a subscription to ACM's Digital Library. ACM SRC Grand Finals -------------------- First place winners in each category will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an online round of competition between first-place SRC winners from different ACM conferences held in 2021. Grand Finals will be judged by an ACM-appointed panel of judges. Winners of the three top Grand Finals places in each category will receive additional prizes of $500 for the first place winner, $300 for the second place winner and $200 for the third place winner, respectively. They will be also invited to the annual ACM Award Banquet along with prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award. From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Mon Mar 1 14:50:29 2021 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 16:50:29 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 27th WoLLIC 2021 - Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC 2021 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation October 5 to 8, 2021 ORGANISATION Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil University College London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021. 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 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, 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 2021 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) IMPORTANT DATES May 15, 2021: Full paper deadline June 23, 2021: Author notification June 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (Cordoba, Argentina) Arthur Amorim Azevedo (CMU, USA) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) 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 (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) 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 Renata Wassermann (Univ S?o Paulo) (Co-Chair) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 2 04:50:00 2021 From: m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk (Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 09:50:00 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Second Call for Nominations: Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021 Message-ID: Second Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021 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 2020. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021. Qualifications: - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or Information is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2021, if the degree was awarded between January 1st and December 31st, 2020. - 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 topics in the broad remit of ESSLLI, including 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 2022. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2022. 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, divided among the winners, should there be more than one winner - 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=bodp2021. In case of any problems or questions please 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, which will be based in Utrecht, but held online August 2-13, 2021. Beth dissertation prize committee 2021: Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Cleo Condoravdi(Stanford University) Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai) Davide Grossi (Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam) Christoph Haase (University of Oxford) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Matthew Stone (Rutgers University) Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam) FoLLI is committed to diversity and inclusion and we welcome dissertations from all under-represented groups -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Tue Mar 2 11:34:18 2021 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 11:34:18 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on Coupled Relational Symbolic Execution Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, March 5, 2021 between 2pm and 3pm EST (7pm - 8pm UTC), Dr. Marco Gaboardi 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/Gaboardi.html This will be an exciting talk on Marco's work on extending symbolic execution with the combination of relational reasoning and probabilistic coupling. These talks are open to the general public via Zoom and Youtube. I'll be live streaming it on Youtube. 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/0f-srpBeXAI Feel free to share this message with everyone you know. 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URL: From esparza at in.tum.de Thu Mar 4 09:08:26 2021 From: esparza at in.tum.de (Javier Esparza) Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:08:26 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2021 Alonzo Church Award In-Reply-To: <6ae6423621304c888cb54fd9cef1f18b@in.tum.de> References: <6ae6423621304c888cb54fd9cef1f18b@in.tum.de> Message-ID: <7e4923f577dc28e5916d435ccf264d8e@in.tum.de> ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 1 ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The 2021 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation INTRODUCTION An annual award, called the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation, was established in 2015 by the ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt G?del Society (KGS). The award is for an outstanding contribution represented by a paper or by a small group of papers published within the past 25 years. This time span allows the lasting impact and depth of the contribution to have been established. The award can be given to an individual, or to a group of individuals who have collaborated on the research. For the rules governing this award, see https://siglog.org/alonzo-church-award/, https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/church-award/, and https://eacsl.org/. The 2020 Alonzo Church Award was given jointly to Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Ren?e J. Miller, Lucian Popa, and Wang Chiew Tan for their ground-breaking work on laying the logical foundations for data exchange. Lists containing this and all previous winners can be found through the links above. ELIGIBILITY AND NOMINATIONS The contribution must have appeared in a paper or papers published within the past 25 years. Thus, for the 2021 award, the cut-off date is January 1, 1996. When a paper has appeared in a conference and then in a journal, the date of the journal publication will determine the cut-off date. In addition, the contribution must not yet have received recognition via a major award, such as the Turing Award, the Kanellakis Award, or the G?del Prize. (The nominee(s) may have received such awards for other contributions.) While the contribution can consist of conference or journal papers, journal papers will be given a preference. Nominations for the 2021 award are now being solicited. The nominating letter must summarize the contribution and make the case that it is fundamental and outstanding. The nominating letter can have multiple co-signers. Self-nominations are excluded. Nominations must include: a proposed citation (up to 25 words); a succinct (100-250 words) description of the contribution; and a detailed statement (not exceeding four pages) to justify the nomination. Nominations may also be accompanied by supporting letters and other evidence of worthiness. Nominations should be submitted to javier.esparza at in.tum.de by APRIL 1, 2021. PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD The 2021 award will be presented at the ACM SIGLOG/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2021, which is scheduled to take place in Rome in June/July 2021. The award will be accompanied by an invited lecture by the award winner, or by one of the award winners. The awardee(s) will receive a certificate and a cash prize of USD 2,000. If there are multiple awardees, this amount will be shared. AWARD COMMITTEE The 2021 Alonzo Church Award Committee consists of the following five members: Mariangiola Dezani, Thomas Eiter, Javier Esparza (chair), Radha Jagadeesan, and Igor Walukiewicz. -- Prof. Javier Esparza Faculty of Computer Science Technical University of Munich Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching From davide.sangiorgi at gmail.com Thu Mar 4 10:28:12 2021 From: davide.sangiorgi at gmail.com (Davide Sangiorgi) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:28:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3 Post-doc positions on semantics of PLs Message-ID: 3 POST-DOC POSITIONS on the semantics of programming languages We have 3 post-doc positions at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bologna. The research theme is coinductive proof techniques and abstract interpretation, with application to concurrent and/or functional languages. Types are expected to play a significant role. The position should start sometimes in 2021, the exact date is negotiable. Each position covers 1 year, with possibilities of extension for another year. The funding comes from a national project whose other sites are Verona (R. Giacobazzi), Padova (F. Ranzato), and Pisa (F. Bonchi). The work will be carried out in close connection with the ERC project DIAPASoN (led by Ugo Dal Lago, U. Bologna), which also focuses on semantics of programming languages, using tools and techniques based on logical relations, bisimulation, game semantics, and linear logic. If you are interested, or you know someone interested, or for more details, do not hesitate to contact me (deadline: 8 April 2021) Thanks, Davide Sangiorgi http://www.cs.unibo.it/~sangio/ davide.sangiorgi at gmail.com From a.guha at northeastern.edu Fri Mar 5 09:21:45 2021 From: a.guha at northeastern.edu (Guha, Arjun) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:21:45 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PLDI 2021 Co-located events Message-ID: PLDI 2021 Co-located events =========================== PLDI 2021 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 IV (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 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management) is a premier forum for research on a wide range of topics related to memory management. (Deadline 11 Mar; https://conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-2021) * 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 8 Mar; https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/LCTES-2021) =========================================== ... as well as six excellent workshops... =========================================== * 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 22 Mar; https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/SOAP-2021) * 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 2 Apr; https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/ARRAY-2021) * 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 5 May; https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/infer2021) * The Annual Symposium on Machine Programming (MAPS) workshop seeks papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning. It aims to bring together the programming languages and machine learning communities to encourage collaboration in areas of mutual benefit. (Deadline 2 Apr; https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/maps-2021) * 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. (https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-PLDI-2021) * The Workshop on Programming Languages for Quantum Computing (PLanQC) brings together researchers from the fields of programming languages and quantum information, exposing the programming languages community to the unique challenges of programming quantum computers. (Deadline 2 Apr; https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/planqc-2021) Enjoy! The PLDI 2021 Organizers From m.backens at cs.bham.ac.uk Fri Mar 5 11:55:39 2021 From: m.backens at cs.bham.ac.uk (Miriam Backens) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 16:55:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final CFP: Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2021), submission deadline March 12 Message-ID: *18th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2021), June 7-11, 2021. Online and Gda?sk, Poland* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS QPL is an annual conference that brings together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, and related areas, with a focus on structural perspectives and the use of logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods, and other computer science techniques applied to the study of physical behaviour in general. Work that applies structures and methods inspired by quantum theory to other fields (including computer science) is also welcome. QPL 2021 will be held both virtually online and physically in Gdansk (COVID permitting). More information at https://qpl2021.eu/ INVITED SPEAKERS Matty Hoban Flaminia Giacomini Anna Jencova Hl?r Kristj?nsson Ariel Bendersky Martha Lewis IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 12, 2021 Author notification: April 23, 2021 Early registration: May 14, 2021 Proceedings paper ready: May 28, 2021 Conference: June 7-11, 2021 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Recent work that is relevant to the conference is solicited in one (or more) of three tracks: * Proceedings submissions consist of a 5-12 page extended abstract. Only proceedings-track submissions are eligible to be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the conference. * Non-proceedings submissions consist of a 3 page extended abstract and a link to a separate published paper, pre-print, or an attached draft. * Poster submissions consist of a 1-3 page abstract and may contain a link to a separate published paper or pre-print. Submission of partial results of work in progress is encouraged. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be submitted in PDF format. Use of the EPTCS style is encouraged. Submission is done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl2021 BEST STUDENT PAPER There will be an award for the best student paper at the discretion of the programme committee. Papers eligible for the award are those where all the authors are students at the time of submission. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Antonio Acin Barbara Amaral Pablo Arrighi Miriam Backens (co-chair) Jonathan Barrett Alessandro Bisio Anne Broadbent Ulysse Chabaud Bob Coecke Alejandro Diaz-Caro Ross Duncan Yuan Feng Alexandru Gheorghiu Stefano Gogioso Teiko Heinosaari Chris Heunen (co-chair) Matthew Hoban Kohei Kishida Aleks Kissinger Ravi Kunjwal Ciaran Lee Matt Leifer Martha Lewis Shane Mansfield Simon Martiel Hector Miller-Bakewell Mio Murao Glaucia Murta Ognyan Oreshkov Prakash Panangaden Simon Perdrix Lidia del Rio Julien Ross Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Ana Bel?n Sainz John Selby Rui Soares Barbosa Rob Spekkens Isar Stubbe Benoit Valiron Jamie Vicary John van de Wetering Alexander Wilce Mingsheng Ying Vladimir Zamdzhiev Margherita Zorzi -- Dr Miriam Backens (they/them) Lecturer School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham From p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk Sun Mar 7 08:08:28 2021 From: p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk (Gardner, Philippa A) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 13:08:28 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in the analysis of concurrent or distributed programs, Imperial Message-ID: <54199D28-5E75-46F5-A2A9-4A53713B69A0@ic.ac.uk> Hello all, [Apologies for multiple postings.] I am looking for a PhD student who is interested in the analysis of concurrent or distributed programs, start date in October 2021. A summary of possible research projects is given below and details about my research group can be found here. The deadline to apply for a PhD position in the Department is **19th March 2021**. 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. Given these uncertain times, we will assess the situation about whether it is necessary to start the position remotely nearer the time. The good news is that accommodation rents are currently low due to covid, with people in my group recently getting some excellent accommodation, and so it is actually quite a good time to come to London. Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if interested, cc?ing my administrator Teresa Carbajo Garcia, cc'd. Best wishes, Philippa --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Philippa Gardner FREng Department of Computing Imperial College 180 Queen?s Gate London SW7 2AZ Your working day may not be the same as mine. Please do not feel obliged to reply to this email outside your normal working hours. ??????????????????????????????????????????? POSSIBLE PROJECTS Gillian: Concurrency Gillian [1,1a] is 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 unify 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. We have an ambitious project to design and implement Concurrent Gillian. It involves: changing the core of Gillian to handle concurrency; developing a Gillian instantiation for a small concurrent While language to explore different types of concurrency reasoning; developing a Gillian instantiation for concurrent Rust which will build on the current development of a Gillian instantiation for sequential Rust; and exploring symbolic testing and verification for real-world Rust programs. Concurrency We have worked for many years on the compositional reasoning about concurrent programs, introducing fundamental techniques which underpin modern concurrent separation logics [2,2a]: logical abstraction; logical atomicity; and logical environment liveness properties. We have applied our reasoning to verify some of the most advanced concurrent algorithms in the literature. There are several suitable PhD projects associated with this work: for example, continuing the work on the foundational theory; applying the work to real-world libraries; developing prototype analysis tools; or using the Coq-focused Iris project, whose foundations use some of our theory. Distribution We have recently begun to work on weak consistency models for distribution, developing an interleaving operational semantics for client-observational behaviour of atomic transactions [5]. Possible PhD projects include: creating a program logic for distributed atomic transactions (our original motivation for the work) inspired by our previous work on program logics for concurrency; or further developing the operational semantics with the aim to provide prototype tools for proving robustness results and discovering litmus tests. References [1] Gillian, Part 1: A Multi-language Platform for Symbolic Execution, Jose Fragoso Santos, Petar Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun and Philippa Gardner, PLDI'2020. Part 2 on verification and bi-abduction is being written now. We have given a talk on Gillian at the conference Rebase, associated with ECOOP/OOPSLA, in November 2020, and at Facebook's Testing and Verification Symposium (FaceTAV), in December 2020. [1a] Gillian Verification for JavaScript and C, Petar Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun, Jose Fragoso Santos and Philippa Gardner, submitted, draft available upon request. [2] 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. [2a] TaDA Live: Compositional Reasoning for Termination of Fine-grained Concurrent Programs, Emanuele D?Osualdo, Azadeh Farzan, Philippa Gardner and Julian Sutherland, submitted for journal publication 2020, draft available upon request. [3] Data Consistency in Transactional Storage Systems: a Centralised Approach, Shale Xiong, Andrea Cerone, Azalea Raad and Philippa Gardner, ECOOP'20. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk Sun Mar 7 08:09:50 2021 From: p.gardner at imperial.ac.uk (Gardner, Philippa A) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 13:09:50 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Post-doctoral research position on `Gillian; Concurrency', Imperial Message-ID: <8F662EC0-9584-4E54-AD5B-0B34F6D6D09C@ic.ac.uk> Hello all, [Apologies for multiple postings.] I have an opening for a post-doctoral research position at Imperial on `Gillian: Concurrency', funded by a national fellowship: details of the project are given below; details about my research group can be found here. [I have flexible funding and so also include brief descriptions of my more theoretical work on reasoning about concurrent and distributed programs in case it is of interest.] The position is for three years. The start date is flexible in these uncertain times, but two good times are September 2021 and January 2022. 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 low (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, cc?ing my administrator Teresa Carbajo Garcia, t.carbajo-garcia at imperial.ac.uk. Philippa --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Philippa Gardner FREng Department of Computing Imperial College 180 Queen?s Gate London SW7 2AZ Your working day may not be the same as mine. Please do not feel obliged to reply to this email outside your normal working hours. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE PROJECT Gillian: Concurrency Philippa Gardner Imperial College London Gillian [1,1a] is 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. The ambitious aim is to design and implement Concurrent Gillian. It involves: changing the core of Gillian to handle concurrency; developing a Gillian instantiation for a small concurrent While language to explore different types of concurrency reasoning; developing a Gillian instantiation for concurrent Rust which will build on the current development of a Gillian instantiation for sequential Rust; and exploring symbolic testing and verification for real-world Rust programs. We are also about to begin projects on `Gillian: Program Correctness and Incorrectness', funding by Facebook, and `The Coq-certification of Gillian'. The spirit of the group is to get the best fit between people and research, so there is much flexibility with working on these other projects as well. OTHER PROJECTS ON CONCURRENCY AND DISTRIBUTION Concurrency We have worked for many years on the compositional reasoning about concurrent programs, introducing fundamental techniques which underpin modern concurrent separation logics [2,2a]: logical abstraction; logical atomicity; and logical environment liveness properties. We have applied our reasoning to verify some of the most advanced concurrent algorithms in the literature. There are several suitable PhD projects associated with this work: for example, continuing the work on the foundational theory; applying the work to real-world libraries; developing prototype analysis tools; or using the Coq-focused Iris project, whose foundations use some of our theory. Distribution We have recently begun to work on weak consistency models for distribution, developing an interleaving operational semantics for client-observational behaviour of atomic transactions [5]. Possible PhD projects include: creating a program logic for distributed atomic transactions (our original motivation for the work) inspired by our previous work on program logics for concurrency; or further developing the operational semantics with the aim to provide prototype tools for proving robustness results and discovering litmus tests. References [1] Gillian, Part 1: A Multi-language Platform for Symbolic Execution, Jose Fragoso Santos, Petar Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun and Philippa Gardner, PLDI'2020. Part 2 on verification and bi-abduction is being written now. We have given a talk on Gillian at the conference Rebase, associated with ECOOP/OOPSLA, in November 2020, and at Facebook's Testing and Verification Symposium (FaceTAV), in December 2020. [1a] Gillian Verification for JavaScript and C, Petar Maksimovic, Sacha-Elie Ayoun, Jose Fragoso Santos and Philippa Gardner, submitted, draft available upon request. [2] 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. [2a] TaDA Live: Compositional Reasoning for Termination of Fine-grained Concurrent Programs, Emanuele D?Osualdo, Azadeh Farzan, Philippa Gardner and Julian Sutherland, submitted for journal publication 2020, draft available upon request. [3] Data Consistency in Transactional Storage Systems: a Centralised Approach, Shale Xiong, Andrea Cerone, Azalea Raad and Philippa Gardner, ECOOP'20. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk Thu Mar 4 11:50:40 2021 From: giles.reger at manchester.ac.uk (Giles Reger) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 16:50:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ATVA 2021 - Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <8D76F218-75AA-4A29-A9FD-77F89CD62D11@manchester.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - ATVA 2021 -------------------------------------------- The 19th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2021), 18 - 22 Oct 2021, Gold Coast, Australia. If the pandemic means that travelling is still an issue in October, we might change the plan and host the conference online. https://formal-analysis.com/atva/2021/ ATVA 2021 is the 19th in a series of symposia aimed at bringing together academics, industrial researchers and practitioners in the area of theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware, software, and machine learning (ML) systems. ATVA is a CORE Rank A conference. ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ Full paper submissions due: 9 April (AOE) 2021 Notification: 4 June 2021 Camera-ready due: 4 July 2021 Conference: 18 - 22 Oct 2021 ------------------------------ Scope ------------------------------ ATVA solicits high-quality submissions in the following suggestive list of topics: - Formalisms for modelling hardware, software and embedded systems - Testing, analysis, verification and security of machine learning systems - Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterised system - Program analysis and software verification - Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, system-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 - Analysis and verification of Machine Learning and AI systems ------------------------------ Submission and Publication ------------------------------ ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: 1) Regular research papers (16 pages, including references) 2) Tool papers (6 pages, including references) Submissions must be in Springer's LNCS format. Additional material may be placed in an 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. Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed online for evaluation. The URL must also contain a set of examples and a user manual that describes the usage of the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the URL must contain instructions for installation of the tool on Linux/Windows/macOS. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings_CS.pdf) and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. 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The LSFA series' objective is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. See lsfa.cic.unb.br for more information. LSFA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated deduction * Applications of logical and semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Implementation of logical and semantic frameworks * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Logical frameworks * Process calculi * Proof theory * Semantic frameworks * Specification languages and meta-languages * Type theory Submissions Contributions should be written in English and submitted in full paper (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2021 The pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed out at event registration. After the meeting, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works for the post-proceedings publication. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. Presentations should be in English. According to the submissions' quality, the chairs will promote the further publication of journal revised versions of the papers. Previous LSFA Special Issues have been published in journals such as The Logical J. of the IGPL, Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Sciences (see the LSFA page http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). Important dates * Abstract: Monday 26th April * Submission: Sunday 2nd May * Notification: Friday 4th June * Preliminary proceedings version due: Monday 14th June * Submission for final proceedings: Sunday 17th October * Final version: Sunday 19th December Invited Speakers ? Alejandro D?az-Caro (ICC-UBA/CONICET, UNQ) ? Alexandra Silva (University College London) ? Giulio Guerrieri (University of Bath) Program Committee ? Mar?a Alpuente (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) ? Sandra Alves (Universidade de Porto, Portugal) ? Takahito Aoto (Niigata University) ? Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia) - Co-Chair ? Eduardo Bonelli (Stevens University) - Co-Chair ? Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay) ? Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham) ? Marcelo Finger (Universidade de S?o Paulo) ? Yannick Forster (Saarland University) ? Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca (UNAM) ? Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) ? 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Essays * Call For Workshops * Call For Posters * Student Research Competition (SRC) * Co-located events: * APLAS * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * GPCE * SAS * SLE ======================================================================== The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now accepting submissions. We invite high-quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ** OOPSLA Research Papers ** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modelling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions Due: 16 April 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-oopsla ** Onward! Research 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: 8 May 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Onward-papers ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays conference is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community construed broadly. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavours, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions Due: 22 May 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Onward-Essays ** Workshops ** The SPLASH Workshops track 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. Early Phase Submissions Due: 19 March 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Workshops ** SPLASH Posters ** The SPLASH Posters track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: 15 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Posters ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research to a panel of judges and conference attendees at SPLASH. The SRC provides visibility and exposes up-and-coming researchers to computer science research and the research community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and sharpen their communication and networking skills. To participate in the competition, a student must submit a 2-page description of his or her original research project. The submitted project descriptions are peer-reviewed. Each student whose description is selected by a panel of reviewers is invited to attend the SRC competition at SPLASH and present their work. Winners of the SPLASH competition are invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. Submit your work and take part in the ACM Student Research Competition at SPLASH 2021! Submissions Due: 16 July 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-SRC ** SPLASH-E ** SPLASH-E is a forum for educators to make connections between programming languages research and the ways we educate computer science students. We invite work that could improve or inform computer science educators, especially work that connects with introductory computer science courses, programming languages, compilers, software engineering, and other SPLASH-related topics. Educational tools, experience reports, and new curricula are all welcome. Submissions Due: 16 July 2021 ======================================================================== *** Co-Located Events *** ======================================================================== ** Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS) ** The 19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS). APLAS 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 2021 will be held online and co-located with SPLASH 2021. Submissions Due: 16 June 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2021 ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages ? from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to JavaScript ? on real-world practice and research, continues to grow. We invite high-quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions Due: 2 June 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2021 ** 20th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) ** GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Submissions Due: 5th July 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2021 ** The 28th Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2021) ** 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. Submissions Due: 25th April 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2021 ** 13th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) ** SLE is the discipline of engineering languages and the 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 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. Submissions Due: 21 June 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2021 ======================================================================== SPLASH Information: ======================================================================== SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 17th September 2021 Website: https://2021.splashcon.org/ ======================================================================== Organizing Committee SPLASH 2021: ======================================================================== SPLASH General Chair: Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) GPCE General Chair: Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) GPCE Co-Chair: Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) GPCE Co-Chair: Erwan Bousse (University of Nantes) SLE General Chair: Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) SLE Program Co-Chair: Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) SLE Program Co-Chair: Emma S?derberg (Lund University) SLE Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Elias Castegren (KTH) SLE Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Andreas Wortmann (RWTH Aachen University) DLS Chair: Arjun Guha (Northeastern University) Onward! Papers Chair: Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Onward! Essays Chair: Elisa Baniassad (University of British Columbia) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Charlie Curtsinger (Grinnell College) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Tien N. Nguyen (University of Texas at Dallas) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Colin Gordon (Drexel University) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Anders M?ller (Aarhus University) Workshops Co-Chair: Mehdi Bagherzadeh (Oakland University) Workshops Co-Chair: Raffi Khatchadourian (City University of New York Hunter College) Student Research Competition Co-Chair: Julia Rubin (University of British Columbia) Publicity Chair: Juan Fumero (University of Manchester) Web Chair: Rangeet Pan (Iowa State University) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Breno Dantas Cruz (Virginia Tech) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Samantha Syeda Khairunnesa (Iowa State University) Sponsorship Co-Chair: Ganesha Upadhyaya (Harmony.one) Poster Co-Chair: Christos Dimoulas (PLT @ Northwestern University) Poster Co-Chair: Murali Krishna Ramanathan (Uber Technologies Inc.) 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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. # Submission Details Submissions should fall into one of two categories: * regular research papers (12 pages); * extended abstracts (3 pages). The bibliography will not be counted against the page limits for either category. Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results, and will be included in the formal proceedings. Extended abstracts should report work in progress that the authors would like to present at the workshop. Extended abstracts will be distributed to workshop attendees but will not be published in the formal proceedings. More details can be found on https://icfp21.sigplan.org/home/TyDe-2021 # Important Dates * May 19: Paper submission deadline * May 26: Extended abstract submission deadline * June 16: Author notification * July 1: Camera-ready deadline * August 22: Workshop (tentative) # Program Committee Chairs: * Hsiang-Shang ?Josh? Ko, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair) * Dominic Orchard, University of Kent, UK (co-chair) Programme Committee: * Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan * Jean-Philippe Bernardy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Liang-Ting Chen, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK * Martin Escardo, University of Birmingham, UK * Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA * Neel Krishnaswami, University of Cambridge, UK * Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Keiko Nakata, SAP Innovation Center Network, Potsdam, Germany * KC Sivaramakrishnan, IIT Madras, India * Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania, USA * James Wood, University of Strathclyde, UK * Beta Ziliani, FAMAF, UNC and CONICET, Argentina # 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mail at robbertkrebbers.nl Tue Mar 9 06:07:12 2021 From: mail at robbertkrebbers.nl (Robbert Krebbers) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 12:07:12 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD or postdoc position on program verification and Iris at Radboud University Nijmegen Message-ID: Dear all, I have an opening for a 4 year PhD position at Radboud University. In case of an exceptionally strong candidate, the PhD position can be turned into a postdoc position for 1.5 to 2 years. The project involves the development of automatic methods for program verification based on concurrent separation logic and type systems. You will apply the developed methods to verify security and correctness properties of a realistic hypervisor written in C, as part of an ongoing collaborative project with Google, MPI-SWS, Cambridge, SNU, and Aarhus. The foundations of this project will be developed on top of the Iris framework for concurrent separation logic in the Coq proof assistant. Iris has been developed over the last 5 years in collaboration with MPI-SWS and Aarhus, and has been used by (and received many contributions from) a large network of other institutes (including Boston College, Inria, CNRS, KU Leuven, ITU, UIC, CMU, MIT, and BedRock Systems). See https://iris-project.org/ for the many projects and papers that involve Iris. **Requirements**: You have a strong background in programming language theory and formal verification. You like to work on deep foundational research, and apply your research to verification of real-life software. You are required to have a master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science or mathematics (or you expect to obtain such a degree soon). Prior knowledge of Coq is preferred. **Application**: I will be considering applications until the position is filled (applications before April 1 are preferred). To apply for the position, please send a resume, grade transcript, motivation letter and research statement to me at robbert at cs.ru.nl. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact me. **Employment conditions**: Radboud University offers an attractive salary (the gross salary of a PhD student starts at 2.395 EUR per month, and increases to 3.061 EUR per month in the last year, based on a 38-hour working week) and excellent employment conditions (including 8% holiday allowance, 8% end-of-year bonus, assistance with family-related support such as child care). See https://www.ru.nl/phd/ for more information. The starting date is flexible, but I would prefer it if you could start as soon as possible. Best regards, Robbert Krebbers Assistant Professor in Computer Science Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands robbert at cs.ru.nl https://robbertkrebbers.nl From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Wed Mar 10 02:44:15 2021 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:44:15 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PxTP 2021: call for papers Message-ID: Call for Papers, PxTP 2021 The Seventh International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) https://pxtp.gitlab.io/2021 21 July 2021, online associated with the CADE-28 conference ## Background The PxTP workshop brings together researchers working on various aspects of communication, integration, and cooperation between reasoning systems and formalisms. The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automatic and interactive, during the past decades, has made it possible to build deduction tools that are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years, cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention. Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and collaboration of the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler conjecture. Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of theoretical formalisms and practical tools for exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration, translation, and communication methods, standards, protocols, and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols. We are interested both in success stories and descriptions of current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement. ## Topics Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or interactive. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * applications that integrate reasoning tools (ideally with certification of the result); * interoperability of reasoning systems; * translations between logics, proof systems, models; * distribution of proof obligations among heterogeneous reasoning tools; * algorithms and tools for checking and importing (replaying, reconstructing) proofs; * proposed formats for expressing problems and solutions for different classes of logic solvers (SAT, SMT, QBF, first-order logic, higher-order logic, typed logic, rewriting, etc.); * meta-languages, logical frameworks, communication methods, standards, protocols, and APIs related to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, transformation, migration, compression and optimization of proofs; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g., efficient proof representations); * (universal) libraries, corpora and benchmarks of proofs and theories; * alignment of diverse logics, concepts and theories across systems and libraries; * engineering aspects of proofs (e.g., granularity, flexiformality, persistence over time); * proof certificates; * proof checking; * mining of (mathematical) information from proofs (e.g., quantifier instantiations, unsat cores, interpolants, ...); * reverse engineering and understanding of formal proofs; * universality of proofs (i.e. interoperability of proofs between different proof calculi); * origins and kinds of proofs (e.g., (in)formal, automatically generated, interactive, ...) * Hilbert's 24th Problem (i.e. what makes a proof better than another?); * social aspects (e.g., community-wide initiatives related to proofs, cooperation between communities, the future of (formal) proofs); * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * application-oriented proof theory; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies. ## Submissions Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15 pages). Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the workshop. Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (http://style.eptcs.org). Papers will be submitted via EasyChair, at the PxTP'2021 workshop page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pxtp-7). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. ## Important Dates * Abstract submission: April 21, 2021 * Paper submission: April 28, 2021 * Notification: May 26, 2021 * Camera ready versions due: June 16, 2021 * Workshop: July 11, 2021 (online) ## Invited Speakers TBA ## Program Committee * Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil) * Denis Cousineau (Mitsubishi, France) * Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE, France) * Katalin Fazekas (TU Wien, Austria) * Mathias Fleury (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria), co-chair * Predrag Jani?i? (University of Belgrade, Serbia) * Chantal Keller (Universit? Paris-Saclay, France), co-chair * Aina Niemetz (Stanford University, USA) * Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) * Giselle Reis (CMU-Qatar, Qatar) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) * Fran?ois Thir? (Nomadic Labs, France) * Sophie Tourret (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Germany) * Josef Urban (Czech Institute of Informatics, Czech Republic) ## Previous PxTP Editions * PxTP 2019 (http://pxtp.gforge.inria.fr/2019), affiliated to CADE-27 * PxTP 2017 (https://pxtp.github.io/2017), affiliated to Tableaux 2017, FroCoS 2017 and ITP 2017 * PxTP 2015 (http://pxtp15.lri.fr), affiliated to CADE-25 * PxTP 2013 (http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13), affiliated to CADE-24 * PxTP 2012 (http://pxtp2012.inria.fr), affiliated to IJCAR 2012 * PxTP 2011 (http://pxtp2011.loria.fr), affiliated to CADE-23 From gorel.hedin at cs.lth.se Wed Mar 10 05:29:23 2021 From: gorel.hedin at cs.lth.se (=?utf-8?Q?G=C3=B6rel_Hedin?=) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:29:23 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD position in Programming Language Tooling - Lund University, Sweden Message-ID: <72075899-93C2-4F9B-8996-AB520FF5214E@cs.lth.se> We are offering one fully funded PhD position to a qualified candidate with an interest in programming languages (both textual and visual), program analysis, meta programming, and cloud solutions. The goal of the project is to develop general methods for constructing cloud tooling for textual and visual languages. The research will be based on reference attribute grammars, which is a high-level declarative formalism for specifying type analysis and other static analyses of languages, and for generating compilers and other tooling. For more information, see https://cs.lth.se/open-positions/phd-student-in-cloud-based-language-tooling/ *** The deadline for applications is March 30, 2021. *** Prof. G?rel Hedin Department of Computer Science Lund University Sweden From caterina.urban at ens.fr Thu Mar 11 06:54:29 2021 From: caterina.urban at ens.fr (Caterina Urban) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:54:29 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Ralf Jung wins the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2021 Message-ID: The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software Association is pleased to announce the outcome of the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award 2021. The purpose of the award is to promote and recognize outstanding dissertations in the research areas covered by the four main ETAPS conferences (ESOP, FASE, FoSSaCS, and TACAS). 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 2020 at a European academic institution. The winner of the second edition of the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation award is Dr. Ralf Jung (Saarland University) for his dissertation on Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language supervised by Prof. Derek Dreyer. 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. The committee found that Dr. Ralf Jung's dissertation is very well-written and makes several highly original contributions in the area of programming language semantics and verification. The committee was also particularly impressed by the dissertation for its technical depth, the quality and quantity of the associated published work, as well as its relevance and impact both in academia and industry. We offer Dr. Ralf Jung our congratulations and best wishes for his scientific career! The award ceremony will take place online on April 1st, 13h30 - 14h00 CEST, during the ETAPS conference. On that occasion, Ralf will give a presentation of his dissertation. All interested are invited to join! From fisman at seas.upenn.edu Mon Mar 8 03:34:44 2021 From: fisman at seas.upenn.edu (Dana Fisman) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 10:34:44 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] RV 2021 call for papers - RV 2021 the 21st international conference on runtime verification Message-ID: CFP for RV'21 (21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RUNTIME VERIFICATION) *Important Dates* - Abstract submission: May 13, 2021 - Paper submission: May 20, 2021 - Author notification: July 12, 2021 - Camera-ready version: Aug 2, 2021 - Conference date: Oct 11-14, 2021 (Location: Los Angeles or online, depending on COVID19 situation) Website: https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~rv21/ 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, among others. 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=rv21 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 register and attend RV 2021 to present. PapersThere 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. The Program Committee of RV 2021 will give a Springer-sponsored *Best Paper Award* to one eligible regular paper. *Special Journal Issue!* The Program Committee of RV 2021 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 biographies of the presenters. The proposal must not exceed 2 pages. *Program committee * Lu Feng, University of Virginia (co-Chair) Dana Fisman, Ben Gurion University (co-Chair) Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology Domenico Bianculli, SnT Centre - University of Luxembourg Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Michigan State University Radu Calinescu, University of York Chih-Hong Cheng, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University Yli?s Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS Chuchu Fan, MIT Thomas Ferr?re, Imagination Technologies Bernd Finkbeiner, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta Sylvain Hall?, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Chicoutimi Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Bettina K?nighofer, Technical University of Graz Morteza Lahijanian, University of Colorado, Boulder Axel Legay, UCLouvain Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck Chung-Wei Lin, National Taiwan University David Lo, Singapore Management University Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca Nicolas Markey, IRISA, CNRS & INRIA & University of Rennes Laura Nenzi, University of Trieste Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology Gordon Pace, University of Malta Nicola Paoletti, University of London Dave Parker, University of Birmingham Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University Violet Ka Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Giles Reger, The University of Manchester Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers University of Gothenburg Julien Signoles, CEA LIST Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst Hazem Torfah, University of California, Berkeley Dmitriy Traytel, University of Copenhagen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Fri Mar 12 06:29:16 2021 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:29:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] EXPRESS/SOS 2021: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <94504FDD-3864-4A38-AE16-ADD20B3D571C@gmail.com> =========================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Combined 28th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 18th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2021) http://icetcs.ru.is/express-sos2021/ Paris (France) August 23, 2021, Affiliated with CONCUR 2021 Submission deadline (full and short papers): Monday, June 21, 2021 =========================================== == INVITED SPEAKERS Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University, USA) Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dave Parker (University of Birmingham, UK) == 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 2021 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=expresssos2021 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. We are monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic to decide if the workshop will take place physically in Paris, online or hybrid. Whatever the decision, we will guarantee the possibility of an online participation. == 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 2019 and EXPRESS/SOS 2020 is currently in progress. We will consider organising a special issue for EXPRESS/SOS 2021. == IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 21, 2021 - Notification date: July 26, 2021 - Camera ready version: August 9, 2021 - Workshop: August 23, 2020 == WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, IS) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ahmed Bouajjani (IRIF and University of Paris Diderot, France) Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, Iceland), co-chair Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK), co-chair Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) David de Frutos-Escrig (Complutense Univeristy of Madird, Spain) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Paola Giannini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Karoliina Lehtinen (University of Liverpool, UK) Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America, USA, and University of Birmingham, UK) Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) Sabina Rossi (University Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) == CONTACT Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the co-chairs in case of questions at express-sos21 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kbh at umn.edu Fri Mar 12 20:14:59 2021 From: kbh at umn.edu (Favonia) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:14:59 -0600 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research Programmer in HoTT and Cubical Type Theory Message-ID: We are hiring a research programmer at University of Minnesota to work with us on building next-generation proof assistant technology (broadly defined) based on homotopy type theory and cubical type theory. The ideal candidate would have some knowledge and interest in homotopy and cubical type theory, combined with concrete experience implementing type theoretic proof assistants using modern algorithms, such as bidirectional type checking and normalization-by-evaluation. You will be exposed to the latest research in the field and can get involved in theoretical development of the research ideas. We welcome applicants who do not have a Ph.D. degree---a BA/BS degree is sufficient. The research project is funded by the AFOSR through their MURI program, and your official affiliation would be the University of Minnesota with Favonia being your supervisor. However, you will frequently meet and collaborate with other researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Wesleyan University, University of San Diego, and other institutions. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, most activities will be online, though you will have to be physically in the US. (We may be able to sponsor visas. Contact Favonia for details.) We are interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until a match is found. Candidates applying by the end of March (2021/3/31) would be given priority. Here is the official link for application: https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/339220 Please also drop an email to Favonia so that we can confirm that your application correctly enters the system. If you are a current employee of the University of Minnesota, please use https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/int/339220 instead. # Some further information - What is the annual salary? About $60,000 USD. - When is the expected start date? As soon as you are ready. - How long does this position last? The position will last as long as the project can support it and benefit from it. However, the expectation is that you will be in this position around 1-3 years (negotiable) and may choose to leave early (for example, to start a Ph.D.). Your official contract will be one-year but renewable. - I see that there?s a ?work experience? requirement. What counts as ?work experience?? This requirement exists to satisfy an administrative requirement of the job code at the University of Minnesota. We will recognize a wide range of activities as ?work experience?, such as contributions on GitHub during weekends. **Please document related activities in your CV.** If you are not sure if something counts as work experience, please ask Favonia . - I have more questions! Please send an email to Favonia . Best, Favonia they/them/theirs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Fri Mar 12 20:32:56 2021 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 01:32:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Lecturer in Verification position at University of Sheffield: deadline 29 March 2021 Message-ID: Greetings, The Department of Computer Science at University of Sheffield has an open position of Lecturer in Verification. Details can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CEF438/lecturer-in-verification Applicants doing research with and on proof assistants are most welcome. Female applicants are particularly encouraged. Best wishes, Andrei From peterol at ifi.uio.no Sat Mar 13 09:37:08 2021 From: peterol at ifi.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Peter_Csaba_=C3=98lveczky?=) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:37:08 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: ICTAC'21 (18th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing) Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ICTAC 2021 18th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, September 6-10, 2021 https://ictac2021.github.io/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- ** ICTAC'21 will most likely be a fully hybrid event due to covid-19 ** ** Springer LNCS proceedings and Theoretical Computer Science special issue ** Important dates: Submission deadline: May 7, 2021 Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2021 Overview and Scope: The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to present research and exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote research cooperation between developing and industrial countries. The conference concerns all aspect of theoretical computer science, including, but not limited to: * languages and automata * semantics of programming languages * logic in computer science * lambda calculus, type theory and category theory * domain-specific languages * theories of concurrency and mobility * theories of distributed computing * models of objects and components * coordination models * timed, hybrid, embedded and cyber-physical systems * security and privacy * static analysis * probabilistic and statistical verification * software verification * software testing * runtime verification * program generation and transformation * model checking and theorem proving * applications and case studies Call for Papers: We solicit submissions, related to the topics of ICTAC, in the following categories: * original research contributions (16 pages max, excluding references); * applications and experiences (16 pages max, excluding references); * short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas and emerging challenges (6 pages max, excluding references); and * tool papers (6 pages max, excluding references). 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=ictac2021. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs), without modifications of margins and other space-saving measures. Publication: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The authors of a subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. Program Chairs: Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Program Committee: Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Musab A. Alturki, Runtime Verification Inc., USA, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Etienne Andre, Universite de Lorraine, France Ebru Aydin Gol, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, Korea Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille, France Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Manuel Clavel, Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta Rob van Glabbeek, Data61, CSIRO, Australia Sergey Goncharov, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa Osman Hasan, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Axel Legay, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Larissa Meinicke, The University of Queensland, Australia Hans de Nivelle, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan Peter ?lveczky, University of Oslo, Norway Catuscia Palamidessi, Inria, France Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Jose Proenca, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal Riadh Robbana, INSAT, Carthage University, Tunisia Gwen Salaun, University Grenoble Alpes, France Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, Italy, and INRIA, France Lutz Schr?der, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Volker Stolz, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Georg Struth, The University of Sheffield, UK From elaine.pimentel at gmail.com Mon Mar 15 15:08:25 2021 From: elaine.pimentel at gmail.com (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:08:25 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2021 - 2nd call for papers Message-ID: ============================================================= Call for papers Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2021 Pittsburgh, USA, 16 July 2021 Affiliated with CADE-28 http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2021/ ============================================================= Abstract submission deadline: 19 April 2021 Paper submission deadline: 26 April 2021 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 2021 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following: * Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages, logical systems and related formally specified systems. * Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory * Graphical languages for building proofs, applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory. * New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory. * Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc. * Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml or Agda, and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Monday April 19 Submission deadline: Monday April 26 Notification to authors: Monday May 31 Final version due: Monday June 14 Workshop date: Friday July 16 Submission In addition to regular papers, we welcome/encourage the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2021 Proceedings A selection of the presented papers will be published online in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Invited Speakers * Giselle Reis (CMU-Qatar) * Matthieu Sozeau (Inria) Program Committee * David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris) * Roberto Blanco (MPI-SP) * Alberto Ciaffaglione (University of Udine) * Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna) * Marina Lenisa (Universit? degli Studi di Udine) * Dennis M?ller (Friedrich-Alexander-University) * Michael Norrish (CSIRO) * Elaine Pimentel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) co-chair * Ulrich Sch?pp (fortiss GmbH) * Kathrin Stark (Princeton University) * Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) * Nora Szasz (Universidad ORT Uruguay) * Enrico Tassi (Inria) co-chair * Alwen Tiu (The Australian National University) * Tjark Weber (Uppsala University) -- Enrico & Elaine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From serge.autexier at dfki.de Tue Mar 16 15:23:17 2021 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:23:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [TYPES/announce] 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021) Final call for papers, Conference Date: July 26-31, 2021 Message-ID: <20210316192317.F0D971A2145F@gigondas.localdomain> Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2021 - July 26-31, 2021 Timisoara, Romania http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2021 Invited Speakers: Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michael Kohlhase (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) Laura Kovacs (TU Vienna, Austria) Angus McIntyre (London/Edinburgh, UK) CICM 2021 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2021 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 *** - Abstract deadline: As soon as possible before the fullpaper submission deadline. - Full paper deadline: March 26 - Reviews sent to authors: May 4 - Rebuttals due: May 8 - Notification of acceptance: May 13 - Camera-ready copies due: May 29 - Conference: July 26-31 Informal submissions and doctoral programme - Submission deadline: May 15 - Notification of acceptance: June 1 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2021 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2021 proceedings with Springer LNCS. For the LNCS style files, see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines From andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com Wed Mar 17 07:15:39 2021 From: andrei.h.popescu at gmail.com (Andrei Popescu) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:15:39 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science: Final Call for Participation Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 21st Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science MGS 21 12-16 April 2021, virtually https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html OVERVIEW The annual Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS) offers an intensive programme of lectures on the mathematical foundations of computing. It addresses first of all PhD students in their first or second year, but is open to anyone interested in its topics, from academia to industry and around the world. The MGS has been run since 1999 and is hosted alternately by the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. MGS 21 is its 21st incarnation. Information about previous events can be found at the MGS web site http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/MGS PROGRAMME MGS 21 consists of eight courses, each with four or five hours of lectures and a similar number of exercise sessions. Three courses are introductory; one is given by an invited lecturer. These should be attended by all participants. The remaining more advanced courses should be selected based on interest. MGS 21 aims at a mix of livestreamed and prerecorded lectures and livestreamed exercise sessions, with additional social online events. Invited lectures: Monads and Interactions Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik Introductory courses: Category Theory Jacopo Emmenegger, Birmingham Type Theory Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham Proof Theory Anupam Das, Birmingham Advanced courses: Homotopy Type Theory Nicolai Kraus, Nottingham Inductive and Coinductive Reasoning with Isabelle/HOL Andrei Popescu, Sheffield Effects and Call-by-Push-Value Paul Levy, Birmingham Formal Modelling and Analysis of Concurrent Systems Mohammad Mousavi, Leicester In addition we are organising a session where participants can briefly present and discuss their own research. A call will be made in March. REGISTRATION Participation at MGS 21 is free of charge, but selective. Requests must be submitted online via https://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/G.Struth/mgs21.html Registration deadline is April 1. ORGANISATION Please direct all queries about MGS 21 to Georg Struth. The Sheffield organisers are Harsh Beohar (H.Beohar at sheffield.ac.uk) Andrei Popescu (A.Popescu at sheffield.ac.uk) Georg Struth (G.Struth at sheffield.ac.uk) From samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr Wed Mar 17 08:02:19 2021 From: samuel.mimram at lix.polytechnique.fr (Samuel Mimram) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:02:19 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2021): second call for papers Message-ID: --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- Second Call For Papers 10th International Workshop on Confluence http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/iwc2021 July 23, 2021 Collocated with FSCD 2021, July 17-24, 2021 --//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//----//-- The 10th International Workshop on Confluence (IWC 2021) 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. ## 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. More information can be found on the webpage of the conference: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/iwc2021 ## 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=iwc2021 EasyChair style: http://easychair.org/publications/for_authors ## IMPORTANT DATES - Title and Abstract: ? April 19, 2021 - Paper Submission: ? April 26, 2021 - Notification to authors: ? May 31, 2021 - Workshop date: ? July 23, 2021 ## INVITED SPEAKERS TBD ## PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Beniamino Accatolli (Inria & LIX, ?cole Polytechnique) - Sandra Alves (Universidade do Porto) - Cyrille Chenavier (Universit? de Limoges) - Francisco Dur?n (University of M?laga) - Alejandro D?az-Caro (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC/UBA-CONICET) - Samuel Mimram (LIX, ?cole Polytechnique), co-chair - Camilo Rocha (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), co-chair - Femke van Raamsdonk (VU University Amsterdam) - Sarah Winkler (University of Bolzano) ## FSCD 2021 ORGANISING COMMITTEE - FSCD Conference Chair: Alejandro D?az-Caro, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC (UBA/CONICET) - FSCD Workshop Chairs: Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n, Universidade de Bras?lia Carlos L?pez Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires & ICC (UBA/CONICET) ## CONTACT - Samuel Mimram: samuel.mimram(at)lix.polytechnique.fr - Camilo Rocha: camilo.rocha(at)javerianacali.edu.co From jay.mccarthy at gmail.com Wed Mar 17 09:39:45 2021 From: jay.mccarthy at gmail.com (Jay McCarthy) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 09:39:45 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two assistant professor faculty positions (tenure track) at UMass Lowell Message-ID: The University of Massachusetts Lowell Department of Computer Science invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor rank, to start in September 2021. We are looking to hire outstanding candidates in all areas of computer science. We will review candidates as they apply. Please visit https://careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/en-us/job/507538/assistant-professor-computer-science-multiple-positions to apply and view more details. Note for Types folks: We are very interested in hiring excellent candidates in PL. Matteo Cimini and I would love company. If you're interested in Cybersecurity, as well, then we have quite a few people in that research to collaborate with. I am very happy to answer any informal queries, Jay McCarthy -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io Vincit qui se vincit. From davide.bresolin at unipd.it Wed Mar 17 11:57:49 2021 From: davide.bresolin at unipd.it (Davide Bresolin) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:57:49 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: GandALF2021 - 12th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification In-Reply-To: <36285930-73e0-4123-8e76-66e32844bd34@Spark> References: <36285930-73e0-4123-8e76-66e32844bd34@Spark> Message-ID: <4ea56819-d70b-4eac-bd25-42ee8dd30bfd@Spark> ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - GandALF 2021 ***************************************************************************** The 12th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will be held in Padua (Italy) on September 20-22, 2021. This year, GANDALF will be organised together with the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and fOrmal VERification, Logic, Automata, and sYnthesis (OVERLAY 2021, https://overlay.uniud.it/). The OVERLAY workshop focuses on the relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods, and discusses on the opportunities and challenges at the border of the two areas. Both events will be hosted by the University of Padua, and will share some invited speakers. We encourage participation in both events. GANDALF 2021 is planned to be a hybrid conference. We aim at organizing an in-presence event, but there will be possibilities for virtual participation for delegates affected by travel restrictions. https://gandalf2021.math.unipd.it/ ***************************************************************************** The aim of GandALF 2021 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 (all dates are AoE) ***************************************************************************** Abstract submission: June 23, 2021 Paper submission: June 30, 2021 Notification: July 30, 2021 Camera-ready: August 30, 2021 Conference: September 20-22, 2021 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 an established international journal. 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, 2019 and 2020), and Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015). SUBMISSIONS ***************************************************************************** Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages (excluding references and clearly marked appendices) using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. Please use the LaTeX style provided at http://style.eptcs.org to format the paper. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2021 PROGRAM CHAIRS ***************************************************************************** Davide Bresolin, University of Padua (Italy) Pierre Ganty, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid (Spain) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***************************************************************************** Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Uppsala University (Sweden) Christel Baier, TU Dresden (Germany) Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG (France) Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA (France) Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna (Spain) Thomas Colcombet, CNRS (France) Wojciech Czerwi?ski, University of Warsaw (Poland) Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University (Israel) S?awomir Lasota, University of Warsaw (Poland) Konstantinos Mamouras, Rice University (USA) Roland Meyer, TU Braunschweig (Germany) Marco Montali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) Paritosh Pandya, TIFR (India) Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University (Israel) Guillermo Perez, University of Antwerp (Belgium) R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (India) Francesco Ranzato, University of Padua (Italy) Pierre-Alain Reynier, Aix-Marseille Universit? (France) Mark Reynolds, The University of Western Australia (Australia) Ashutosh Trivedi, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) 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) Jean-Fran?ois Raskin, Universit? libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) Martin Zimmermann, University of Liverpool (UK) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From einarj at ifi.uio.no Wed Mar 17 04:48:01 2021 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:48:01 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Position at U. Oslo: Formal Methods for Probabilistic Programs Message-ID: PhD position available at the University of Oslo Topic: Formal methods for probabilistic programs Application deadline 15 May 2021 We have a PhD position available on formal methods for probabilistic programs at Uni. Oslo with an all-star team of international collaborators including Andrzej Wasowski, Alexandra Silva and Ina Schaefer. This is an exciting position for candidates interested in combining logic, statistics and programming in their PhD research, and who have enjoyed topics such as foundations of programming languages, probability theory and statistics, executable models and operational semantics, formal methods and concurrency theory. More information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/202841/phd-research-fellowship-in-formal-methods-for-probabilistic-programs ??? Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway einarj at ifi.uio.no From albargah at gmail.com Tue Mar 16 13:00:05 2021 From: albargah at gmail.com (Aws Albarghouthi) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:00:05 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP: MAPS 21: 5th Annual Symposium on Machine Programming Message-ID: The 5th Annual Symposium on Machine Programming (previously Machine Learning and Programming Languages) # Call for Papers Due to recent algorithmic and computational advances, machine learning has seen a surge of interest in both research and practice. From natural language processing to self-driving cars, machine learning is creating new possibilities that are changing the way we live and interact with computers. However, the impact of these advances on programming languages remains mostly untapped. Yet, incredible research opportunities exist when combining machine learning and programming languages in novel ways. This symposium seeks to bring together programming language and machine learning communities to encourage collaboration and exploration in the areas of mutual benefit. The symposium will include a combination of rigorous peer-reviewed papers and invited events. The symposium will seek papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning including (and not limited to): Application of machine learning to compilation and run-time scheduling Collaborative human / computer programming (i.e., conversational programming) Deterministic and stochastic program synthesis Infrastructure and techniques for mining and analyzing large code bases Interoperability between machine learning frameworks and existing code bases Probabilistic and differentiable programming Programming language and compiler support for machine learning applications Programming language support and implementation of machine learning frameworks Neurosymbolic and intentional programming # Website https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/maps-2021#the-5th-annual-symposium-on-machine-programming # Evaluation Criteria As in previous years, reviewers will evaluate each contribution for its significance, originality, and clarity to the topics listed above. Submissions should clearly state how their novelty and how they improve upon existing work. Evaluation will be double-blind and papers must be properly anonymized. This means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if the submission refers to prior work done by the authors, that reference should be made in third person. These are firm submission requirements. If you have questions about making your paper double blind, please contact the Program Chair. Broader Impact. Due to the growing concerns regarding potential positive and negative impacts of any research work, this year, the authors of MAPS submissions are asked to include a section on the potential broader impact of their work. This section should highlight an evaluation of potential misuses and negative impacts of the presented technology on its users and those indirectly affected, such as their friends and families, communities, society, and the planet. Authors should ponder and discuss the negative outcomes of their research 1) using its current form, 2) if enhanced in the future with new capabilities. They should also discuss potential ways to mitigate those harms (policy, law, alternative design choice, etc.). The broader impact section will be outside the page limit of the original paper. This section should be at least one paragraph but should not exceed 1 page. Although this section is a must-have, this year, the decision to accept the paper will not be influenced by the discussed negative impacts. However, it might influence the acceptance decision in future MAPS. # Paper Submissions Submissions must be in English. Papers should be in PDF and format and no more than 8 pages in standard two-column SIGPLAN conference format including figures and tables but excluding references and appendices. Submissions must be made through the online submission site (TBD). All accepted papers will appear in the published proceedings and available on the ACM Digital Library. Authors will have the option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop website as well. Authors must be familiar with and abide by SIGPLAN?s republication policy, which forbids simultaneous submission to multiple venues and requires disclosing prior publication of closely related work. General Chair: Roopsha Samanta (Purdue University) Program Chair: Isil Dillig (University of Texas at Austin) Publicity Chair: Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin Madison) Ethics Chair: Jesmin Jahan Tithi (Intel Labs, ACM-FCA, ACM COPE) # Program Committee: Farhana Aleen (Nvidia) Dana Drachsler Cohen (Technion) Niranjan Hasabnis (Intel Labs) Rania Khalaf (IBM TJ Watson) Vinod Grover (Nvidia) Kuldeep Meel (National University of Singapore) Erik Meijer (Facebook) Sasa Misailovic (University of Illinois at Urbana?Champaign) Augustus Odena (Google) Alex Polozov (Microsoft Research) Alex Ratner (University of Washington) Calvin Smith (UT Austin) # Steering Committee: Raj Barik (Uber) Alvin Cheung (UC Berkeley) Stefano Ermon (Stanford University) Justin Gottschlich (Chair, Intel Labs and UPenn) Costin Iancu (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University) Tatiana Shpeisman (Google Brain) Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT) Mayur Naik (University of Pennsylvania) -- Aws From ruzica.piskac at yale.edu Wed Mar 17 13:15:22 2021 From: ruzica.piskac at yale.edu (Ruzica Piskac) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:15:22 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Papers - FMCAD 2021 Message-ID: <039b0e92-1e36-2317-2dcb-915607d4e7a1@yale.edu> ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - FMCAD 2021 ***************************************************************************** International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Yale University, 2021 https://fmcad.org/FMCAD21/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 7, 2021 Paper Submission: May 14, 2021 Author Response: June 23-25, 2021 Author Notification: July 2, 2021 Camera-Ready Version: August 16, 2021 Early registration: September 15, 2021 All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) FMCAD Tutorial Day: Oct. 19, 2021 Regular Program: Oct. 20-22, 2021 Part of the FMCAD 2021 program FMCAD Student Forum Co-located with FMCAD VSTTE 2021 CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION FMCAD 2021 is the twenty-first in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are published by TU Wien Academic Press under a Creative Commons license (the authors retain the copyright) and distributed through the IEEE XPlore digital library. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD). TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. * Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. * Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. * Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. * Application of formal methods to verifying safety, connectivity and security properties of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts, block chains, and IoT devices. SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference/?conf=fmcad21 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Papers in both categories can be either 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) in length not including references. Short papers that describe emerging results, practical experiences, or original ideas that can be described succinctly are encouraged. Authors will be required to select an appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide the reviewers access to their data at submission time, so that results can be independently verified. The review process is single blind. Authors of accepted contributions will be required to sign the FMCAD copyright transfer form found here: https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf . STUDENT FORUM Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2021 is hosting a Student Forum that provides a platform for graduate students at any career stage to introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods community, and solicit feedback. Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been previously published, will be considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in such cases. All submissions will be reviewed by a select group of FMCAD program committee members. FMCAD 2021 COMMITTEES *PROGRAM CHAIRS*: Ruzica Piskac Yale University Michael Whalen Amazon, Inc and the University of Minnesota *PC*: Erika Abraham RWTH Aachen University Jade Alglave University College London Pranav Ashar Real Intent Per Bjesse Synopsys Inc. Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Ivana Cerna Masaryk University Supratik Chakraborty IIT Bombay Sylvain Conchon Universite Paris-Sud Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Rayna Dimitrova CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Grigory Fedyukovich Florida State University Arie Gurfinkel University of Waterloo Liana Hadarean Amazon Web Services, Inc. Ziyad Hanna Cadence Design Systems Fei He Tsinghua University Marijn Heule Carnegie Mellon University Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Alexander Ivrii IBM Dejan Jovanovi? SRI International Alan Jovi? FER Zagreb Laura Kovacs??? ??? Vienna University of Technology Ton Chanh Le Stevens Institute of Technology Rebekah Leslie-Hurd Intel Kuldeep Meel National University of Singapore Elizabeth Polgreen University of California, Berkeley Andrew Reynolds University of Iowa Cristoph Scholl University of Freiburg Natasha Sharygina Universit? della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland) Anna Slobodova Centaur Technology Christoph Sticksel The Mathworks Murali Talupur Amazon Web Services, Inc. Jean-Baptiste Tristram Boston College Yakir Vizel Technion Thomas Wahl Northeastern University Georg Weissenbacher Vienna University of Technology Thomas Wies New York University Valentin W?stholz ConsenSys Lenore Zuck University of Illinois in Chicago *STUDENT FORUM CHAIR*: Mark Santolucito Barnard College *PUBLICATION CHAIR*: Georg Weissenbacher TU Wien *SPONSORSHIP CHAIR*: Daniel Schoepe Amazon Web Services, Inc. *FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE*: Clark Barrett Stanford University, CA, USA Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Georg Weissenbacher TU Vienna, Austria Anna Slobodova Centaur Technology, TX, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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. IMPORTANT DATES: * submission deadline: April 25, 2021 * notification: May 30, 2021 * final version due: June 13, 2021 * workshop: July 16, 2021 INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 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=wst2021 Please, use LaTeX and the LIPIcs style file http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz to prepare your submission. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Martin Avanzini - INRIA Sophia, Antipolis * 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? 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This work is focused primarily on defining security and trust goals, developing methods to verify that 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, vulnerability discovery and program verification, 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. Some sessions will be devoted to a set of talks on related topics, both with invited talks and submitted papers. We expect the session topics to be drawn from the following list: Privacy and information flow Properties of voting protocols Machine-learning for (and against) security Hardware basis of security Vulnerability discovery and program verification Distributed ledger technologies Cyber-physical systems 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 2021 proceedings. See submission instructions on our website: http://hotspot.compute.dtu.dk PC == Catherine Meadows Catuscia Palamidessi Jan Juerjens Jean-Jacques Quisquater Joshua Guttman Lucca Hirschi Mark D. Ryan Peter Y. A. Ryan Pierpaolo Degano Sebastian M?dersheim (co-chair) Steve Schneider Toby Murray (chair) Important Dates =============== Workshop papers submission: May 02, 2021 Workshop notification date: June 01, 2021 Workshop final papers: July 02, 2021 Workshop date: September 06, 2021 Submission instructions ======================= See http://hotspot.compute.dtu.dk From p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com Mon Mar 22 08:31:47 2021 From: p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com (Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:31:47 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2-year researcher position in HoTT, Stockholm University; deadline 9 April Message-ID: Dear all, I?m pleased to announce that we?re hiring for a researcher position in Homotopy Type Theory at Stockholm University. It?s a 2 year position, provisionally starting this August, in the logic group of the Mathematics Department, supported by the Wallenberg Foundation project grant ?Type Theory for Mathematics and Computer Science? (PI Thierry Coquand). The application deadline is 9 April. We welcome all applicants interested in working on homotopy type theory and related topics ? either with previous background in HoTT, or with background in related fields but interested in moving into HoTT. Full details and application at https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/work-at-su/available-jobs?rmpage=job&rmjob=14506&rmlang=UK Departmental webpage: https://www.math.su.se Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the position! Best, ?Peter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Mon Mar 22 09:47:40 2021 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:47:40 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2021: Call for Contributions Message-ID: <159dbeb4-a8c1-b3cd-e17f-9fc9a54dcfa2@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> Call for Contributions TYPES 2021 26th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs 14 - 19 June 2021 Virtual and possibly Leiden, The Netherlands https://types21.liacs.nl/ Background -------------- The TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and on-going work in all aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalised and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming. The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Applications of type theory (e.g., linguistics or concurrency); * 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; * Formalising mathematics using type theory; * Homotopy type theory and univalent mathematics. 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. Contributed Talks -------------------- TYPES solicits contributed talks to stimulate discussions. The contributed talks are selected on the base of extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages (excluding bibliography) formatted with the LaTeX EasyChair3.5 (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors) style. An abstract can be based on existing, submitted or novel work, and is not in conflict with any other forms of publication. Submissions are handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2021 Upon submission, authors have to select the category of their contribution: presentation-only talks and talks with the intent to contribute to the post-proceedings. Presentation-only talks will consist of a 5 minutes recorded video that is shown during the conference in combination with 5 minutes live discussion. The purpose of recording the talk beforehand is to avoid technical issues. Talks with the intent for post-proceedings submission get a slot for a 10 minutes live talk plus 5 minutes discussion during the conference. The idea is that in this case, an interactive discussion with more in-depth feedback will help to submit to the post-proceedings. Note that the selection at this stage only expresses an intent to submit to the post-proceedings, and that you are neither obliged to submit your work nor are you excluded from the submission to the post-proceedings should you not submit an intent at this stage. The idea is only to help you with more feedback during the conference. Please be fair in selecting this category because the time in a virtual conference is very limited and should be given to those authors who really need it. Important dates ------------------ * Submission of abstract 16 April 2021 AoE * Author notification 14 May 2021 * Camera-ready version of abstract 4 June 2021 AoE * Conference 14 - 18 June 2021 Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution during the conference. Venue ---------- This year?s TYPES will be held virtually (online), possibly in combination with a physical meeting in Leiden in the Netherlands if the political situation permits that. That the conference is held virtually constraints the time of talks, and complicates exchange and collaboration. TYPES 2021 will therefore not only consist of presentations, but also a setup of working groups that get together throughout the week. Every day will be split into a session of talks and tutorials, and a collaboration session during which the working groups will get together. The hope is that we can retain at least some of the exchange and chatter that is the heart of the TYPES conference series. Attendance and Fees ----------------------- Despite the difficulty that a virtual event brings, it also offers a chance. We will make TYPES as inclusive as possible, which means that attending virtually is free of charge, if you are not in the position to pay fees. For everyone else, the fees will be low and only to cover the costs of setting up the infrastructure and organisation. Should it be possible that we can have a hybrid virtual-physical meeting, then there will also be some costs for recording and streaming that will have to be shared between local and virtual attendees. However, we will keep these low in general and free for those who cannot afford to pay fees. About Types --------------- The TYPES meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), B?stad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), B?stad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), L?keberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy-en-Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014), Tallinn (2015), Novi Sad (2016), Budapest (2017), Braga (2018), Oslo (2019) and Turin (2020). Post-proceedings ------------------- Similarly to TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2020, a post-proceedings volume will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open to everyone. Tentative dates for post-proceedings: * Non-binding intent (abstract) 29 October 2021 * Paper submission 26 November 2021 * Author notification 25 March 2022 The formal call with binding dates for the post-proceedings will be issued after the conference. Contact ----------- Email: types21 at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Web form: https://types21.liacs.nl/contact/ Programme Committee --------------------- Henning Basold (LIACS -- Leiden University) (chair) Stefano Berardi (Universit? di Torino) Marc Bezem (University of Bergen) Fr?d?ric Blanqui (INRIA -- ENS Paris-Saclay) Sandrine Blazy (INRIA -- University of Rennes) Ana Bove (Chalmers / U. of Gothenburg) Paolo Caprotti (TU Darmstadt) Jesper Cockx (TU Delft) Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho) Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) Nicolai Kraus (U. of Nottingham) Sergue? Lenglet (Univ. de Lorraine) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA -- Nantes and VU Amsterdam) Ralph Matthes (IRIT -- CNRS and University of Toulouse) Keiko Nakata (Kyoto University) Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen) Gabriel Scherer (INRIA Saclay) Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) Niccol? Veltri (Tallin UT) Stephanie Weirich (U. of Pennsylvania) Organiser ------------ Henning Basold (LIACS -- Leiden University) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and constitutes a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. SBLP's first edition was in 1996. Since 2010, it has been part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. The symposium is planned to take place from September 27 to October 1, 2021, fully online. Submission Guidelines ___________________________________________ Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submissions in English are encouraged because only accepted papers written in English will appear in the proceedings indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. SBLP 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind review process. The manuscripts should be submitted for review anonymously (i.e., without listing the author?s names on the paper) and references to own work should be made in the third person. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2021 The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references and appendices): Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference format, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Full papers can be further specialized, at submission time, as Student papers (i.e., as papers describing research conducted mainly by a student at any level). Student papers will be subject to the exact same reviewing process and criteria, but may be entitled for an award (see below). Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses. Awards: Two best paper awards will be attributed, distinguishing full paper submissions of the best: ? student paper; ? non-student paper. List of Topics (related but not limited to the following) ___________________________________________ ? Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, distributed, and quantum programming ? Program generation and transformation ? Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical ? Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis, and abstract interpretation ? Programming language design and implementation, programming, language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques ? Programming languages for the blockchain technology: design and implementation of Smart Contract languages, implementation of consensus protocols, language-based security and cryptographic primitives Publication ___________________________________________ SBLP proceedings will be published in ACM's digital library. A selection of the best papers appearing in the 2019 and 2020 editions of SBLP have been invited to be extended and considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computer languages (COLA), by Elsevier. We will approach COLA for a similar special issue regarding the 2021 edition of SBLP. Important dates ___________________________________________ Abstract submission: 9 May, 2021 Paper submission: 16 May, 2021 Author notification: 09 July, 2021 Camera ready deadline: 23 July, 2021 Program Committee ___________________________________________ * Program Committee Chair: - Jo?o Paulo Fernandes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal * Publicity Chair: - M?rio Pereira, NOVA LINCS & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Program Committee: - Adrien Guatto, Universit? de Paris, CNRS, IRIF, France - Alberto Pardo, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Alcides Fonseca, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Alejandro D?az-Caro, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes & ICC (CONICET / UBA), Argentina - Alex Kavvos, University of Bristol, UK - Anderson Faustino da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Maring?, Brazil - Andrei Rimsa, Centro Federal de Educa??o Tecnol?gica de Minas Gerais, Brazil - Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Boston University, Brazil - Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Caterina Urban, INRIA & ?cole Normale Sup?rieure | Universit? PSL, France - Cl?udio Louren?o, Huawei Research, UK - Cristiano Vasconcellos, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil - Dalvan Griebler, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) / Sociedade Educacional Tr?s de Maio (Setrem), Brazil - Emmanuel Chailloux, Sorbonne Universit?, France - Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA - Fernando Castor, Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, Brazil - Fernando Pereira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil - Francisco Junior, Universidade Federal do Cear?, Brazil - Francisco Sant'anna, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Jean-Christophe Filli?tre, CNRS/Universit? Paris-Saclay, France - L?on Gondelman, University of Aarhus, Denmark - Lourdes Gonz?lez Huesca, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, Mexico - Luiz Fernandes, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - M?rio Pereira, NOVA LINCS & Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Mauro Jaskelioff, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina - Noemi Rodriguez, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Paul Leger, Universidad Cat?lica del Norte, Chile - Roberto Bigonha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil - Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Rodrigo Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil - Rui Pereira, HASLab/INESC Tec, Portugal - Samuel Feitosa, Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil - S?rgio Medeiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Sim?o Melo de Sousa, NOVA-LINCS & Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal - Stefania Dumbrava, ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure d'Informatique pour l'industrie et l'Entreprise, France - St?phane Lengrand, Stanford Research Institute, USA Contact ___________________________________________ All questions about submissions should be emailed to Jo?o Paulo Fernandes (jpaulo at fe.up.pt) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5 additional pages). Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3 pages (including bibliography) summarizing your ongoing work in the area of formal methods and blockchain. Authors of selected extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2021 Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and prepare their submissions according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided by Dagstuhl. Instructions for authors: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#oasics At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop as a registered participant. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- To be confirmed -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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 To be confirmed From pdownen at cs.uoregon.edu Mon Mar 22 20:02:44 2021 From: pdownen at cs.uoregon.edu (Paul Downen) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:02:44 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] OPLSS 2021 - Oregon Programming Languages Summer School Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the program of the 19th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held *online* from June 14th to June 26th, 2021. The theme for this year is "Foundations of Programming and Security." The registration deadline is April 30th, 2021. Full information on registration can be found here: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool This year, OPLSS will be a little different. The registration rates have been updated to reflect the fact that OPLSS will be fully virtual. In consideration of the current circumstances, there are now three categories for registration: * Students & Postdocs: Free * Professors & Industrial Professionals: $250 * Others: For those for which the professional registration fee would pose an economic burden, please contact us for more details. Some examples include: people on temporary hiatus due to the pandemic; unemployed or retired professionals. To help the online lectures and discussion sessions run smoothly, we request volunteers to contribute to one of these roles: * Scribe: Prepare written notes for certain lectures. * Lecture assistant: Gather & relay questions to the speaker. Please contact us during registration to indicate your interest in one of these roles. The speakers and topics include: Stephanie Balzer ? Carnegie Melon University Session-Typed Concurrent Programming Ugo Dal Lago ? University of Bologna >From Program Equivalences to Program Metrics Robert Harper ? Carnegie Melon University Principles of Programming Languages Justin Hsu ? University of Wisconsin?Madison Reasoning about Probabilistic Programs Patricia Johann ? Appalachian State University Semantics of Advanced Data Types Alejandro Russo ? Chalmers University Information-flow Control Libraries Alexandra Silva ? University College London Kleene Algebras and Applications Nikhil Swamy ? Microsoft Research Proof-oriented Programming in F* Tarmo Uustalu ? Reykjavik University Monads and Interaction More information about these topics can be found at: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer21/topics.php We hope you can join us for this excellent program! Zena Ariola, Marco Gaboardi, and Paul Downen [image: OPLSS_Logo.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. The program will contains a combination of invited talks and contributed talks. A detailed schedule is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/rustverify2021. Registration Please register via ETAPS at https://etaps.org/2021/registration. You will receive access information once you have registered. 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But the topic is not limited to the suggestions in the ad. Get in touch if you are interested in doing research on defining and implementing typed programming languages, modularly. https://www.academictransfer.com/en/298133/phd-position-dynamic-semantics-specification/ The deadline for application is 2 June 2021, and the ideal start date is around September. Best regards, Casper Bach Poulsen Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology http://casperbp.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.pym at ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 06:44:12 2021 From: d.pym at ucl.ac.uk (Pym, David) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:44:12 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position at UCL, London Message-ID: Open position at UCL: Lecturer or Associate Professor, Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification (PPLV). The Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL, https://www.ucl.ac.uk) invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer or Associate Professor) in the area of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification (PPLV, http://pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk/welcome/). The PPLV group (see http://pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk/welcome/) conducts world-leading research broadly in logic, semantics, and program and systems verification and their supporting mathematical and conceptual fields. The group contributes to the delivery of undergraduate and graduate programs and supports a lively and diverse community of PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. The group has very substantial research funding from a variety of sources and has excellent connections with the world-class tech community that is located close-by in London and elsewhere. For this position, we particularly welcome applications from candidates with interests in the theory or practice of program and systems verification. UCL is an elite institution that attracts students and staff of the highest quality. London is one of the world?s greatest cities and offers excellent quality of life. We seek world-class talent; candidates must have an outstanding research track record. UCL?s faculty are expected to carry world-class research, publish in top-tier venues, obtain research funding, deliver high-quality undergraduate and post-graduate teaching, supervise doctoral students, engage with the community, and contribute to the management of their department and the College. Candidates will be expected to carry out research, teaching, and administrative duties within the Department, especially in the areas of Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification. Enquiries: David Pym (Head of PPLV, d.pym at ucl.ac.uk, http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/) or Steve Hailes (Head of Computer Science, s.hailes at ucl.ac.uk) Closing date: 7 May 2021 UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk UCL CS: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/computer-science/ PPLV: http://pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk/welcome/ UCL HR page, including how to apply: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?amNvZGU9MTg3NTE5MSZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjYmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJnZhY194dHJhNTA0MTE3OC41MF81MDQxMTc4PTkyNzg2JnZhY3R5cGU9MTI3MSZwb3N0aW5nX2NvZGU9MjI0&jcode=1875191&vt_template=966&owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&brand_id=0&vac_xtra5041178.50_5041178=92786&vactype=1271&posting_code=224 From d.pym at ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 23 10:27:42 2021 From: d.pym at ucl.ac.uk (Pym, David) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:27:42 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Research position at UCL, London Message-ID: Research position at UCL, London: Research Fellow in Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification: Systems Security Modelling The PPLV group conducts world-leading research in logical and algebraic methods and their applications to program and systems modelling and verification. The Interface Reasoning for Interacting Systems (IRIS) project, led by Professor David Pym, uses logical and algebraic methods to understand the compositional structure of systems and their communications, seeking to develop analyses at all scales, from code through distributed systems to organizational structure, generically and uniformly. Applicants must hold, or be about to receive, a PhD in rigorous computer science, or a closely related area. The post holder will demonstrate the following criteria: - actively contribute to both the theory and implementation of interfaces and composition in a distributed systems modelling context, construction of models - possess a solid grounding and understanding of process algebras and modal logics coupled with a strong programming background, including experience with or the ability to learn the Julia language - demonstrable experience or ability to work with industrial partners (from HP labs and BT) and academic partners from UCL and other institutions as part of the project is essential. In addition the knowledge of or interest in learning about computer security, networks, and information systems management will be essential to succeeding in this post. This post will contribute to the EPSRC-funded IRIS project: Interface Reasoning for Interacting Systems. Part of the IRIS project is concerned with looking at organizational policy decisions and how they affect the performance of the organization in different dimensions, such as efficiency and security. Modelling tools can be used to help decision makers understand the behaviour of a system and how it will behave given different policy decisions. Organizations are complex systems, with technical, structural, human, and policy components that interact in complex ways. To deal with this complexity, compositional approaches are needed, where parts of the system can be modelled independently and combined together according to rigorously specified interfaces. The purpose of this job is to develop and apply the methodology and tools required to construct models that capture the structure, dynamics, and policy of organizations. This will involve working with companies, including BT and HP Labs, to create models to help them make decisions about their real-world challenges. Enquiries: David Pym (d.pym at ucl.ac.uk, http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Pym/) or Tristan Caulfield (t.caulfield at ucl.ac.uk, https://www.tristancaulfield.com) Closing date: 18 April 2021 UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk UCL CS: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/computer-science/ PPLV: http://pplv.cs.ucl.ac.uk/welcome/ Information Security: http://sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk/home/ UCL HR page, including how to apply: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTg3NTUwOCZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT05NjUmb3duZXI9NTA0MTE3OCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZicmFuZF9pZD0wJmpvYl9yZWZfY29kZT0xODc1NTA4JnBvc3RpbmdfY29kZT0yMjQ= From ifl21.publicity at gmail.com Wed Mar 24 11:59:09 2021 From: ifl21.publicity at gmail.com (Pieter Koopman) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:59:09 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IFL2021 First call for papers Message-ID: ================================================================================ IFL 2021 33rd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages venue: online 1 - 3 September 2021 https://ifl21.cs.ru.nl ================================================================================ 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 2021 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. Industrial track and topics of interest This year's edition of IFL explicitly solicits original work concerning *applications* of functional programming in industry and academia. These contributions will be reviewed by experts with an industrial background. 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 * testing and proofing * virtual/abstract machine architectures * validation, verification of functional programs * tools and programming techniques * applications of functional programming in the industry, including ** functional programming techniques for large applications ** successes of the application functional programming ** challenges for functional programming encountered ** any topic related to the application of functional programming that is interesting for the IFL community Post-symposium peer-review Following IFL tradition, IFL 2021 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 chairs 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. Moreover, the proceedings will also be made publicly available as open access. Important dates Submission deadline of draft papers: 17 August 2021 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 19 August 2021 Registration deadline: 30 August 2021 IFL Symposium: 1-3 September 2021 Submission of papers for proceedings: 6 December 2021 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2022 Camera-ready version: 15 March 2022 ### 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 2021 Chairs: Pieter Koopman and Peter Achten, Radboud University, The Netherlands IFL Publicity chair: Pieter Koopman, Radboud University, The Netherlands PC (under construction): Peter Achten (co-chair) - Radboud University, Netherlands Thomas van Binsbergen - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Edwin Brady - University of St. Andrews, Scotland Laura Castro - University of A Coru?a, Spain Youyou Cong - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Olaf Chitil - University of Kent, England Andy Gill - University of Kansas, USA Clemens Grelck - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands John Hughes - Chalmers University, Sweden Pieter Koopman (co-chair) - Radboud University, Netherlands Cynthia Kop - Radboud University, Netherlands Jay McCarthey - University of Massachussetts Lowell, USA Neil Mitchell - Facebook, England Jan De Muijnck-Hughes - Glasgow University, Scotland Keiko Nakata - SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Germany Jurri?n Stutterheim - Standard Chartered, Singapore Simon Thompson - University of Kent, England Melinda T?th - E?tvos Lor?nd University, Hungary Phil Trinder - Glasgow University, Scotland Meng Wang - University of Bristol, England Vikt?ria Zs?k - E?tvos Lor?nd University, Hungary Virtual symposium Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2021 will be an online event, consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings. 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URL: From james.cheney at gmail.com Wed Mar 24 12:29:16 2021 From: james.cheney at gmail.com (James Cheney) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:29:16 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CfP: International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2021) @ VLDB 2021 Message-ID: ****************************************************************************** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2021) In conjunction with VLDB 2021 August 16th, 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark Submission: May 2nd 2021 Web: https://sites.google.com/view/dbpl2021 ****************************************************************************** ** Important Message on Covid-19 ** We are monitoring the evolution of the covid-19 pandemic. Currently we plan to operate the workshop for 1/2 a day as a physical workshop and 1/2 a day as an online virtual event. ** Aims of the Workshop ** For over 30 years, DBPL has established itself as the principal venue for publishing and discussing new ideas and problems at the intersection of data management and programming languages. Many key contributions relevant to the formal foundations, design, implementation, and evaluation of query languages (e.g., for object-oriented, nested, or semi-structured data) were first announced at DBPL. As an established destination for such new ideas, DBPL aims to solicit submissions from researchers in databases, programming languages or any other community interested in the design, implementation or foundations of languages and systems for data-centric computation. Our main goal is to provide an interdisciplinary venue where current trends, and open problems as well as insights about research methodology for potential solutions can be shared and discussed between the two communities. ** Topics of Interest ** 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 ** Workshop Chairs ** - Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh - Norman May, SAP SE ** Program Comittee ** - Evelyne Contejean (Universit?? Paris-Sud) - Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen) - Jan Hidders (Birkbeck, University of London) - Vojin Jovanovic (Oracle) - Oleg Kiselyov (Tohoku University) - Thomas Neumann (TU Munich) - Nate Nystrom (RelationalAI) - Lionel Parreaux (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) - Manuel Rigger (ETH Zurich) - Maximilian Schleich (University of Washington) - Kai Zeng (Alibaba) ** Important Dates ** - Paper submission: May 2nd 2021 PT - Notification of acceptance: June 7th 2021 PT - Workshop: August 16th 2021 PT ** Submission ** Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be no more than 10 pages long using the ACM Standard proceedings template. Short papers of at most 4 pages using the ACM Standard proceedings template describing work in progress, demos, research challenges or visions are also welcome. Accepted short papers may be included or excluded from the formal proceedings, whichever the author(s) prefer. Each submission should begin with a succinct statement of the problem and a summary of the main results. Authors may provide more details to substantiate the main claims of the paper by including a clearly marked appendix at the end of the submission, which is not included in the page limit and is read at the discretion of the committee. Review is single-blind, so authors do not need to anonymize their submissions. PC submissions are allowed, except for the co-chairs. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present their work. Accepted papers will be included within the informal online proceedings at the website. Additionally, all accepted papers will be published online in the ACM digital library. Therefore, the papers must include the standard ACM copyright notice on the first page. 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Message-ID: <00b601d720e9$caccd7d0$60668770$@gmail.com> TABLEAUX 2021 The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Birmingham, UK, September 6-9, 2021 Website: https://tableaux2021.org/ Submission deadlines: 19 April (abstract), 26 April 2021 (paper) GENERAL INFORMATION The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021) will be hosted by the University of Birmingham, UK, 6-9 September 2021. TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of tableaux-based reasoning and related methods is presented. The first TABLEAUX conference was held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992. Since then it has been organised on an annual basis (sometimes as a part of IJCAR). TABLEAUX 2021 will be co-located with the 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2021). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE Tableaux and other proof based methods offer convenient and flexible tools for automated reasoning for both classical and non-classical logics. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, linear, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * sequent, natural deduction, labelled, nested and deep calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning; * techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation; * theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the TABLEAUX community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions are invited in the following two categories: (A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references; (B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references. There will also be a later call inviting position papers and brief reports on work-in-progress. Details will be kept up to date on the website. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the committee and must be removed for the camera-ready version. For category (A) submissions, the reported results must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category (B) submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet. Authors are encouraged to publish the implementation under an open source license. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that people can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in categories (A) and (B) will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux21 For all accepted papers at least one author is required to register to the conference and present the paper. A title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at: http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 19 April 2021 (AoE) Paper submission: 26 April 2021 (AoE) Notification: 14 June 2021 Conference: 6-9 September 2021 CONFERENCE FORMAT AND COVID-19 TABLEAUX 2021 and FroCoS 2021 are intended to be *hybrid* conferences welcoming both physical and virtual participation. The organisers are closely monitoring the pandemic situation and may choose to make the conference virtual-only if it seems unreasonable to host any sort of physical event. A final decision will be taken before the notification date 14 June (12 weeks before the conference) to leave ample time for potential travel plans to be made. PUBLICATION The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS). BEST PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper; and, * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper by a Junior Researcher. Researchers will be considered "junior" if either they are students or their PhD degree date is less than two years from the first day of the meeting. The two awards will be presented at the conference. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS Some funding may be available to support students participating at TABLEAUX 2021. More details will be given on the conference website in due time. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bahareh Afshari (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Arnon Avron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Nick Bezhanishvili (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde, Denmark) Serenella Cerrito (Universit? Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, France) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria, France) Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) St?phane Demri (CNRS, France) Hans de Nivelle (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute Berkeley, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Manchester, UK) Christian Ferm?ller (TU Wien, Austria) Didier Galmiche (Universit? de Lorraine, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rajeev Gor? (Australian National University, Australia) Andrzej Indrzejczak (University of ??d?, Poland) Hidenori Kurokawa (Kanazawa University, Japan) Stepan Kuznetsov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Bj?rn Lellmann (SBA Research, Austria) St?phane Graham-Lengrand (SRI International, USA) George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) Neil Murray (University At Albany, USA) Cl?udia Nalon (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy) Nicola Olivetti (Aix-Marseille University, France) Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) Alessandra Palmigiano (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield, UK) Gian Luca Pozzato (University of Turin, Italy) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) Reuben Rowe (Royal Holloway, UK) Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho, Portugal) Lutz Stra?burger (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) PC CHAIRS Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From riccardo.treglia at unito.it Thu Mar 25 05:15:47 2021 From: riccardo.treglia at unito.it (Riccardo Treglia) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:15:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ITRS 21 CfP Message-ID: ITRS 2021 Call for papersTenth Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems - ITRS 2021 17 July 2021, Online Affiliated with FSCD , 17-24 July 2021, Buenos Aires Web page: http://www.di.unito.it/~deligu/ITRS2021/ 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 that 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 2021 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 (with the exception of 2020, because of COVID-19 outbreak). Information about the previous events is available on the ITRS home page . Invited Speaker - Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Paper Submissions Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees. Important Dates - Paper submission: 12 April 2021 - Author notification: 24 May 2021 - Final version: 18 June 2021 - Workshop: 17 July 2021 Program Committee - Antonio Bucciarelli, Universit? de Paris, France - Daniel De Carvalho, Innopolis University, Russia - Andrej Dudenhefner, Saarland University, Germany - Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Giulio Guerrieri, University of Bath, UK - Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy (chair) - Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Bloomington, USA (co-chair) Organizers Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy Riccardo Treglia, Universit? di Torino, Italy (riccardo.treglia at unito.it) Steering Committee - Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Jakob Rehof, TU University of Dortmund, Germany - Joe Wells, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dom.orchard at gmail.com Thu Mar 25 09:05:40 2021 From: dom.orchard at gmail.com (Dominic Orchard) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:05:40 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reader (Associate Professor) Position in Programming Languages at the University of Kent Message-ID: We are seeking to appoint a Reader 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-046-21 (In the UK, the standard academic career titles, and their progression, are Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor. There is no tenure system here but Reader is roughly equivalent to a senior Associate Professor position). Closing date for applications: 30 April 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://research.kent.ac.uk/programming-languages-systems/ 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; and Data Science. Full details can be found at: https://www.kent.ac.uk/computing/research. The School of Computing is based in Canterbury, and the University of Kent has specialist postgraduate centres in Brussels and Paris. 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... URL: From harley.eades at gmail.com Thu Mar 25 11:45:49 2021 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:45:49 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Seminar talk on Extending Homotopy Type Theory with Linear Type Formers Message-ID: Hi, everyone. On Friday, March 26, 2021 between 9am and 10am EST (2pm - 3pm UTC), Mitchell Riley 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/Riley.html This will be an exciting talk on Mitchell's work as part of his PhD under the direction of Dan Licata on homotopy type theory and linearity. These talks are open to the general public via Zoom and Youtube. I'll be live streaming it on Youtube. 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/0f-srpBeXAI Feel free to share this message with everyone you know. 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The purpose of ICTCS is to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas stemming from different areas of theoretical computer science. In particular, ICTCS provides an ideal environment where junior researchers and PhD students can meet senior researchers. Contributions in any area of theoretical computer science are warmly invited from researchers of all nationalities. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: agents, algorithms, argumentation, automata theory, complexity theory, computational logic, computational social choice, concurrency theory, cryptography, discrete mathematics, distributed computing, dynamical systems, formal methods, game theory, graph theory, knowledge representation, languages, model checking, process algebras, quantum computing, rewriting systems, security and trust, semantics, specification and verification, systems biology, theorem proving, type theory. ================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Two types of contributions, written in English and formatted accordingto Springer LNCS style, are solicited. Regular papers: up to 12 pages PLUS bibliography, presenting original results not appeared or submitted elsewhere. To ease the reviewing process, the authors of regula papers may add an appendix, although reviewers are not required to consider it in their evaluation. Communications: up to 5 pages PLUS bibliography, suitable for extended abstracts of papers already appeared/submitted or to be submitted elsewhere, as well as papers reporting ongoing research on which the authors wish to get feedback and overviews of PhD theses or research projects. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2021 All accepted original contributions (regular papers and communications) will be published on CEUR-WS.org. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors is required to attend the conference and present the paper. ============================ TCS Special Issue ============================ Following the tradition, the authors of the very best papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their work in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science journal. Invitations will be sent out after the workshop. The target is to publish the special issue by the end of the year 2022. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract submission: 17 May 2021 Paper submission: 24 May 2021 Notification: 30 June 2021 Revised version for pre-proceedings: 19 July 2021 Conference: 13-15 September 2021 Final version for CEUR-WS proceedings: 31 October 2021 (tentative) ================== INVITED SPEAKERS ================== Luca Padovani (Universit? di Torino) Nadia Pisanti (Universit? di Pisa) ==================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==================== Program Committee: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (co-chair) (University of Bologna, Italy) Ivano Salvo (co-chair) (University of Roma ?Sapienza?, Italy) Franco Barbanera (University of Catania, Italy) Davide Bil? (University of Sassari, Italy) Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy) Davide Bresolin (University of Padua, Italy) Mattia D?Emidio (University of L?Aquila; Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Miriam Di Ianni (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) Diodato Ferraioli (University of Salerno, Italy) Roberta Gori (University of Pisa, Italy) Ruggero Lanotte (University of Insubria, Italy) Andrea Marino (University of Florence, Italy) Isabella Mastroeni (University of Verona, Italy) Marino Miculan (DMIF, University of Udine, Italy) Fabio Mogavero (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Manuela Montangero (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) Luca Roversi (University of Torino, Italy) Marinella Sciortino (University of Palermo, Italy) Francesca Scozzari (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy) Elena Zucca (DIBRIS ? University of Genova, Italy) Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, Italy) -- Prof. Claudio Sacerdoti Coen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Fri Mar 26 07:51:20 2021 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:51:20 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VEST'21 Workshop: First Call for Talks Message-ID: <27C1808A-59E8-4E9C-9DE3-DC399E03F75B@gmail.com> ********************************************************************* VEST 2021: 2nd Workshop on Verification of Session Types Online on July 12, 2021, co-located with ICALP 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home Submission: Monday, 3rd May 2021 Call for Talks ********************************************************************* * Presentation The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and build and strengthen a community working on verification of session types using various theorem provers such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. Session types are abstract representations of the sequences of operations that computational entities (such as channels or objects) must perform. Stateful entities offer services in a non-uniform way (one cannot pop from an empty stack); traditional type systems cannot guarantee that operations are only invoked when the entity is in the right state. Large-scale software systems rely on message-passing protocols: their correctness largely depends on sound protocol implementations. Session types can help in the specification of correct-by-construction systems, and in verifying that programs respect their intended protocols. Recent years have seen a steady stream of research on behavioural types: their foundations and their transfer to several programming languages. This has led to highly-cited papers in conferences such as POPL and journals such as TOPLAS. Research projects on behavioural types have advanced the theory and applications of behavioural types. Although the foundations of session types are now well established, and new works build on approaches that have become standard, there is still a lack of reusable libraries, namely machine-verified ones. As on one hand the basis of most works is common, and on the other hand the complexity of the formal systems is considerable and may lead to errors in the proofs of the soundness results, machine verifying the type systems proposed is vital. Libraries, or at least clear formalisations of common approaches, is crucial to avoid not only to repeat work but also to increase the confidence in the knowledge base. Moreover, as many of these systems have a goal to do static analysis to ensure some safety or liveness property, machine verification of these approaches leads to certified software for program analysis. The goal of the VEST workshop is to gather the researchers working on mechanisations of behavioural types using various theorem provers, such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. The workshop will be a platform to present both the now well-established efforts and the ongoing works the community has put on verification. The workshop will also be a forum to discuss strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, potential obstacles and to foster collaboration. * Types of Contributions We request two types of research contributions. Type 1: Short presentations (1 page) of work published elsewhere; Type 2: Presentations (2-5 pages) of ongoing original work. Submissions of Type 1 will consist of 1 page papers presenting the work, the publication venue and the significance of the results; the PC will select the submissions with a ranking system. Submissions of Type 2 will consist of 2 - 5 page papers submitted to a light reviewing process. There will be no proceedings of VEST'21, but rather the aim is to strengthen and further expand our community. * Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h) Submission: Monday, 3rd May 2021 Notification: Monday, 14th June 2021 Final Version: Monday, 5th July 2021 Workshop: Monday, 12th July 2021 * Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf= vest21 * Invited Speakers: - Jesper Bengtson (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Andreia Mordido (University of Lisbon, Portugal) *Tutorial, jointly delivered by: - David Castro-Perez (University of Kent, UK) - Francisco Ferreira-Ruiz (Imperial College, UK) - Lorenzo Gheri (Imperial College, UK) * Program Committee: - Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde, UK - Laura Bocchi, University of Kent, UK - Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK (Co-chair) - Cinzia Di Giusto, Universit? C?te d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, France - Wen Kokke, The University of Edinburgh, UK - Robbert Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Luca Padovani , Universit? di Torino, Italy - Kirstin Peters, TU Darmstadt, Germany - Ant?nio Ravara, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal (Co-chair) - Ivan Scagnetto, University of Udine, Italy - Peter Thiemann, Universit?t Freiburg, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please use the IWCS specific style-files or the Overleaf template , taken from ACL 2021. Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2021/SemSpace2021/user/ 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 SUBMISSIONS: We welcome two types of submission: - Archival papers of up to 8 pages should report on complete, original and unpublished research. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and appear in the ACL anthology. - Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) may report on work in progress or work that was recently published/accepted at a different venue. Extended abstracts will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Both accepted papers and extended abstracts are expected to be presented at the workshop. Authors must submit non-anonymized extended abstracts or papers by April 6th. Both extended abstracts and papers must be formatted according to the IWCS guidelines, and must be submitted via softconf (link: ?https://www.softconf.com/iwcs2021/SemSpace2021/user/ ). The extended abstracts should not contain an abstract section and may consist of up to 3 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Archival papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Camera-ready versions of papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers? comments can be taken into account. INVITED SPEAKERS Ellie Pavlick, Brown University Haim Dubossarsky, University of Cambridge PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Tai-Danae Bradley, X, the Moonshot Factory Bob Coecke, Cambridge Quantum Computing Gemma De Las Cuevas, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck Stefano Gogioso, University of Oxford Peter G?rdenfors, Lund University Peter Hines, University of York Antonio Lieto, University of Turin 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 of London Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London Pawel Sobocinski, Tallinn University of Technology Corina Stroessner, Ruhr University Bochum Dominic Widdows, Serendipity Now! 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URL: From Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk Sun Mar 28 13:51:07 2021 From: Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk (Ian Stark) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:51:07 +0100 (GMT Summer Time) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Morello: Edinburgh research posts on capability-based security technologies Message-ID: Morello: Digital Security by Design Technology Platform Prototype Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CEO974/research-associate *** Applications close 2 April 2021 at 1600 UTC *** We are recruiting two postdoctoral researchers to join the Innovate UK project "Digital Security by Design: Technology Platform Prototype". This is a research collaboration between Arm and the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh to develop the Morello platform, applying a novel capability-based architecture to a mainstream high-performance processor and software stack. Further information below: for full details and how to apply please follow the link above. If you would like to discuss informally then please contact Ian.Stark at ed.ac.uk, the project lead for Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh only take formal references after appointment: if you have individual letters of support then please submit these as part of your initial application. Follow these links for more about the wider project. Morello Platform: https://www.morello-project.org CHERI Architecture: http://www.cheri-cpu.org Sail Language: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/sail/ Detailed developer information from Arm https://developer.arm.com/architectures/cpu-architecture/a-profile/morello Video presentation of CHERI security architecture and Morello platform https://vimeo.com/486754830 The only essential requirement for these positions is that a PhD or equivalent research experience in computer science, informatics, mathematics, or a related discipline. This includes being close to PhD completion and submission. We are particularly interested to hear from candidates with any of the following. There is no requirement to demonstrate all of these together: this project crosses domains and the precise tasks followed will depend on each researcher's individual skills, experience, and interests. - Experience with machine-assisted reasoning tools and automated provers: such as Coq, Isabelle, HOL4; or SAT/SMT solvers - Experience with functional programming in OCaml - Knowledge of instruction-set architectures; specifically Arm A64, but RISC-V also relevant - Knowledge of programming-language semantics and type systems - Knowledge of program logics, program analysis, and specification -- Ian Stark Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/stark School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From michele.loreti at unicam.it Sun Mar 28 15:35:21 2021 From: michele.loreti at unicam.it (Michele Loreti) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:35:21 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CALCO 2021: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <96bfa384-17c9-4506-bf40-d327176d7818@Spark> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================= ?CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2021 ?9th International Conference on ?Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science ?31 Aug - 03 Sep 2021 ?Salzburg, Austria (if possible) ?Co-located with MFPS XXXV https://www.coalg.org/calco-mfps2021/ ========================================================== Paper submission: 3 June 2021 Author notification: 29 July 2021 Final version due: 12 August 2021 ========================================================== Scope ======================== Algebraic and coalgebraic methods and tools are a mainstay of computer science. From data types to development techniques and specification formalisms, both theoreticians and practitioners have benefited from the large body of research proposed and implemented since the pioneering works of the 1960s. CALCO aims to bring together researchers with interests in both foundational and applicative uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science, traditional as well as emerging ones CALCO is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science) and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009), Winchester (UK, 2011), Warsaw (Poland, 2013), Nijmegen (the Netherlands, 2015), Ljubljana (Slovenia,2017), and London (UK, 2019). The 9th edition will be held in Salzburg, Austria, colocated with MFPS XXXVII. Submission Categories ======================== CALCO invites papers relating to all aspects of algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications, and distinguishes between four categories of submissions. 1. Regular papers that report ?* results on theoretical foundations ?* novel methods and techniques for software development ?* experiences with the technology transfer to industry. 2. (Co)Algebraic Pearls papers that ?* present possibly known material in a novel and enlightening way. 3. Early ideas abstracts that lead to ?* presentations of work in progress ?* proposals for original venues of research. 4. Tool presentation papers that ?* report on the features and uses of algebraic/coalgebra-based tools. Topics of Interests ======================== All topics relating to algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications are of interest for CALCO, and among them * Models and logics ?- Automata and languages ?- Graph transformations and term rewriting ?- Modal logics ?- Proof systems ?- Relational systems * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics ?- Abstract data types ?- Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) ?- Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques ?- Semantics of programming languages * Methodologies in software and systems engineering ?- Development processes ?- Method integration ?- Usage guidelines * Specialised models and calculi ?- Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems ?- Concurrent, distributed, mobile, cyber-physical, ?and context-aware computational paradigms ?- Systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * System specification and verification ?- Formal testing and quality assurance ?- Generative programming and model-driven development ?- Integration of formal specification techniques ?- Model-driven development ?- Specification languages, methods, and environments * Tools supporting algebraic and coalgebraic methods for ?- Advances in automated verification ?- Model checking ?- Theorem proving ?- Testing * String diagrams and network theory ?- Theory of PROPs and operads ?- Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches ?- Automated reasoning with string diagrams ?- Applications of string diagrams * Quantum computing ?- Categorical semantics for quantum computing ?- Quantum calculi and programming languages ?- Foundational structures for quantum computing ?- Applications of quantum algebra Submissions Guidelines ======================== All submissions will be handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2021 The format for all submissions is specified by LIPIcs. Please use the latest version of the style: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Regular papers ======================== Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Regular papers should be maximum 15 pages long, excluding references. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org), containing extended versions of selected papers, is planned. (Co)algebraic pearls ======================== This is a new submission category in 2021. Explaining a known idea in a new way may make as strong a contribution as inventing a new idea. We encourage the submission of pearls: elegant essays that illustrate an idea in a beautiful or didactically clever way, perhaps by developing an application. Pearls are typically short and concise and so should not be longer than regular papers in the format specified by LIPIcs. Authors who feel they need a bit more space should consult with the PC co-chairs. The accepted papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. Early ideas abstracts ======================== Submissions should not exceed 2 pages in the format specified by LIPIcs. The volume of selected abstracts will be made available on arXiv and on the CALCO pages. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. Tool papers ======================== Submissions should not exceed 5 pages in the format specified by LIPIcs. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission for download and evaluation. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards ======================== This edition of CALCO will feature two awards: a Best Paper Award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a Best Presentation Award, elected by the participants. Programme Committee ======================== * Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon) * Paolo Baldan (University of Padova) * Rui Soares Barbosa (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory) * Luis Caires (NOVA University Lisbon) * Francisco Dur?n (University of M?laga) * Brendan Fong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Fabrizio Romano Genovese (University of Pisa) * Jules Hedges (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) * Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen) * Peter Jipsen (Chapman University) * Wolfram Kahl (McMaster University) * Marie Kerjean (CNRS -- Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord) * Jean Krivine (CNRS -- Universit? de Paris) * Michele Loreti (University of Camerino) * Sonia Marin (University College London) * Manuel A. Martins (University of Aveiro) * Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University) * Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires) * Koko Muroya (RIMS, Kyoto University) * Elaine Pimentel (UFRN) * Elvinia Riccobene (University of Milan) * Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana) * David I. Spivak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Christine Tasson (LIP6 - Sorbonne Universit?) * Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University/Tallinn U. of Technology) * Maaike Zwart (University of Oxford) * Rob van Glabbeek (Data61 - CSIRO) Chairs ======================== * Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) Organisers ======================== * Ana Sokolova (local) (University of Salzburg) Publicity Chair ======================== ?* Henning Basold (LIACS -- Leiden University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shankar at csl.sri.com Sun Mar 28 21:50:14 2021 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:50:14 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Tenth (Virtual) Summer School on Formal Techniques, May 22-28, 2021 In-Reply-To: <9eb14ee9-e10b-ccf6-b2b1-9b290df216c4@csl.sri.com> References: <5A9832E8.3020003@csl.sri.com> <0e5c7eb9-65d3-96fe-6ca9-4259841bf175@csl.sri.com> <9eb14ee9-e10b-ccf6-b2b1-9b290df216c4@csl.sri.com> Message-ID: Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques , May 22 - May 28, 2020 (http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT21) ? [Due to the pandemic, the Tenth Summer School on Formal Techniques that was ?? postponed from 2020 will be virtual this year.] 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 * Natasha Sharygina (University of Lugano, Switzerland) ? SMT-streamlined Software Model Checking * Warren A. Hunt, Jr. and J Strother Moore (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 24 and ?will be preceded by a background course on logic on Saturday May 22 and ?Sunday May 23: * Natarajan Shankar (SRI CSL) and Stephane Graham-Lengrand (Ecole Polytechnique) ? Speaking Logic ============================================================= 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/ ======================================================================= Registration is at the URL: http://fm.csl.sri.com/SSFT21 ? Those who already registered for the 2020 event need not re-register, and you will be contacted to check if you would like your registration to be processed. Although the summer school is virtual and there is no registration fee, attendance is restricted to registered participants. Attendees who complete the summer school will receive a certificate by mail. Applications should be submitted together with names of two references (preferably advisors, professors, or senior colleagues). ? Applicants are urged to submit their applications before April 30, 2021, since there are only a limited number of spaces available. We strongly encourage the participation of women and under-represented minorities in the summer school. From alcsc at dtu.dk Mon Mar 29 02:18:24 2021 From: alcsc at dtu.dk (Alceste Scalas) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:18:24 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: 14th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2021) Message-ID: <4e120b05-907f-5183-b731-5f6dbcd590c8@dtu.dk> ICE 2021 14th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 18, 2021 University of Malta, Valletta and/or online Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2021 https://www.discotec.org/2021/ice Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2021/Workshop/ICE 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. === 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: TBA === IMPORTANT DATES === * 15 April 2021: abstract submission * 19 April 2021: paper submission * 18 May 2021: notification * 18 June 2021: ICE workshop * 12 July 2021: camera-ready for EPTCS post-proceedings === SCOPE === 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 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/2021/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. The submitted PDF can use any LaTeX style (but the post-proceedings will use the EPTCS style). * 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 on the ICE website. === ICECREAMERS === Julien Lange (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) - julien.lange at rhul.ac.uk Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov Larisa Safina (Inria, FR) - larisa.safina at inria.fr Alceste Scalas (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - alcsc at dtu.dk === PROGRAM COMMITTEE === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Chiara Bodei (Universit? di Pisa, IT) * Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) * Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit? C?te d?Azur, CNRS, I3S, FR) * Simon Fowler (University of Glasgow, UK) * Eva Graversen (University of Southern Denmark, DK) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Keigo Imai (Gifu University, JP) * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, NL) * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, US) * Wen Kokke (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Karoliina Lehtinen (CNRS - LIS, Aix-Marseille University, FR) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) * Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) * Maurizio Murgia (University of Trento, IT) * Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, DE) * Johannes ?man Pohjola (Data61/CSIRO, AU) * Ivan Prokic (University of Novi Sad, RS) * Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT) * Laura Voinea (University of Kent, UK) * Uma Zalakian (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://people.compute.dtu.dk/alcsc Assistant Professor @ DTU Compute - Section for Formal Methods Technical University of Denmark Richard Petersens Plads, Building 324, Room 180 2800 Kgs. Lyngby From sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk Mon Mar 29 10:48:22 2021 From: sam.staton at cs.ox.ac.uk (Sam Staton) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:48:22 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Nominations: EiC of ACM TOCL journal Message-ID: <906CC0E8-12DF-4962-95EB-B2AA169C645B@cs.ox.ac.uk> Call for Nominations Editor-In-Chief ACM Transactions on Computational Logic The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL http://tocl.acm.org/) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for a three-year term as TOCL EiC, beginning on July 1, 2021. The EiC appointment may be renewed at most one time. This is an entirely voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate administrative support. Appointed by the ACM Publications Board, Editors-in-Chief (EiCs) of ACM journals are delegated full responsibility for the editorial management of the journal consistent with the journal's charter and general ACM policies. The Board relies on EiCs to ensure that the content of the journal is of high quality and that the editorial review process is both timely and fair. He/she has the final say on acceptance of papers, size of the Editorial Board, and appointment of Associate Editors. A complete list of responsibilities is found in the ACM Volunteer Editors Position Descriptions (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/position_descriptions). Additional information can be found in the following documents: - Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/roles-and-responsibilities - ACM's Evaluation Criteria for Editors-in-Chief http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation/ Nominations should include a vita along with a brief statement of why the nominee should be considered. Self-nominations are encouraged and should include a statement of the candidate's vision for the future development of TOCL. The deadline for submitting nominations is May 7, 2021, although nominations will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Please send all nominations to the search committee chair, Dale Miller (dale.miller at inria.fr). The search committee members are: - Dale Miller (Inria & LIX/IPP, France), Chair - Christel Baier (TU Dresden, Germany) - Prakash Panangaden (McGill University, Canada) - Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge, UK) - Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Turin, Italy) - Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) ACM Pubs Board Liaison From kutsia at risc.jku.at Mon Mar 29 09:47:57 2021 From: kutsia at risc.jku.at (Temur Kutsia) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:47:57 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 2nd CfP: SCSS 2021 Message-ID: ========================= SCSS 2021 The 9th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science -- In the era of Computational and Artificial Intelligence -- September 8--10, 2021, virtual Organized by RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria https://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/scss2021/ ========================= 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 that interact with humans naturally by reasoning, aiming at learning at scale. The purpose of SCSS 2021 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science, combined with modern artificial?intelligence?techniques. Scope ------ SCSS 2021 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 --------------- May 18: title and single-paragraph abstract submission deadline. May 25: paper submission deadline. July 12: notification deadline. July 30: final paper submission deadline. September 8-10, 2021: the symposium dates (virtual). Keynote speaker --------------- Bruno Buchberger (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Invited Speakers ------ Tateaki Sasaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Stephen M. Watt (University of Waterloo, Canada) General Chairs ----- Adel Bouhoula (Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Program Chair ----- Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Program Committee --------- David Cerna (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) 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 Linz, Austria) (Chair) Zied Lachiri (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University, USA) Mircea Marin (West University of Timisoara, Romania) Yasuhiko Minamide (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Yoshihiro Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan) Julien Narboux (Strasbourg University, France) Micha?l Rusinowitch (INRIA, France) Wolfgang Schreiner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Sofiane Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) Dongming Wang (CNRS, Paris, France) Submission ---------- Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2021 Original submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. We recommend using the EPTCS Class format to prepare manuscripts. 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. Publication ----------- The proceedings of SCSS 2021 will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). A special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) will be organized after the symposium. Submitted full-length papers will be refereed according to the usual standards of the journal. From serge.autexier at dfki.de Mon Mar 29 14:47:51 2021 From: serge.autexier at dfki.de (Serge Autexier) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:47:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline Extension: April 5th, 20201, 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2021) Message-ID: <20210329184751.833FF1BC743C@gigondas.localdomain> (Deadline Extension: April 5, 2021) Call for Papers formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2021 - July 26-31, 2020 Timisoara, Romania http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers * Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) * Michael Kohlhase (FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany) * Laura Kovacs (TU Vienna, Austria) * Angus McIntyre (London/Edinburgh, UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2021 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2021 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 *** - Abstract deadline: As soon as possible before the fullpaper submission deadline. - Full paper deadline: April 5, 2021 (extended deadline) - Reviews sent to authors: May 9, 2021 (extended deadline) - Rebuttals due: May 13, 2021 (extended deadline) - Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2021 (extended deadline) - Camera-ready copies due: May 31, 2021 (extended deadline) - Conference: July 26-31, 2021 Informal submissions and doctoral programme - Submission deadline: May 15, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2021 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2021 proceedings with Springer LNCS. From matt.amy at dal.ca Mon Mar 29 18:59:17 2021 From: matt.amy at dal.ca (Matt Amy) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:59:17 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Deadline extension: PLanQC 2021 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** *PLanQC 2021: Programming Languages for Quantum Computing* * Call for Submissions We invite members of the programming languages (PL) and quantum computing (QC) communities to submit talk proposals for the Second International Workshop on Programming Languages for Quantum Computing (PLanQC 2021), co-located with PLDI virtually this June. PLanQC aims to bring together researchers from the fields of programming languages and quantum information, exposing the programming languages community to the unique challenges of programming quantum computers. It will promote the development of tools to assist in the process of programming quantum computers, as they exist today and as they are likely to exist in the near to distant future. Submissions to PLanQC should take the form of 2-5 page abstracts (single-column, 11pt acmsmall style, not including references), with links to larger preprints when appropriate. Work in progress is welcome. We hope to make PLanQC maximally accessible to the programming languages community. Thus, abstracts should cover cutting edge ideas and results, but not be opaque to new, potential entrants to QC coming from PL. Abstracts will be reviewed for quality and relevance to the workshop, and accepted authors will be invited to give talks or poster presentations. We will not be publishing formal proceedings, but the extended abstracts, along with links (where available) to full papers will be posted to the workshop?s website. Invited speakers: ????????? ? ? ? Michael Hicks, University of Maryland ????????? ? ? ? John van de Wetering, Radboud University Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): ????????? ? ? ? High-level quantum programming languages ????????? ? ? ? Verification tools for quantum programs ????????? ? ? ? Novel quantum programming abstractions ????????? ? ? ? Quantum circuit and program optimizations ????????? ? ? ? Hardware-aware circuit compilation and routing ????????? ? ? ? Error handling, mitigation, and correction ????????? ? ? ? Instruction sets for quantum hardware ????????? ? ? ? Other techniques from traditional programming languages (e.g., types, compilation/optimization, foreign function interfaces) applied to the domain of quantum computation. Important dates (anywhere on earth): ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadlineFri 9 Apr 2021 (UPDATED) NotificationWed 5 May 2021 WorkshopTue 22 Jun 2021 (UPDATED) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website:https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/planqc-2021 Submission:https://planqc2021.hotcrp.com/ Program Committee: Matt Amy (chair)Dalhousie University Ross DuncanCambridge Quantum Computing Chris GranadeMicrosoft Research Yipeng HuangRutgers University Ali Javadi-AbhariIBM Giulia MeuliEPFL Jennifer PaykinGalois Inc Robert RandUniversity of Chicago Mathys RennelaINRIA Peter SelingerDalhousie University Dominique UnruhUniversity of Tartu Xiaodi WuUniversity of Maryland Nengkun YuUniversity of Technology Sydney Vladimir ZamdzhievINRIA Will ZengGoldman Sachs Margherita ZorziUniversity of Verona Organizing Committee: Matt AmyDalhousie University Ross DuncanCambridge Quantum Computing Robert RandUniversity of Chicago* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk Tue Mar 30 06:56:27 2021 From: m.sadrzadeh at ucl.ac.uk (Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:56:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Final Call for Nominations: Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Final Call for Nominations: E. W. Beth Outstanding Dissertation Prize 2021 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 2020. The deadline for nominations is the 15th of April 2021. Qualifications: - A Ph.D. dissertation on a topic concerning Logic, Language, or Information is eligible for the Beth Dissertation Prize 2021, if the degree was awarded between January 1st and December 31st, 2020. - 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 topics in the broad remit of ESSLLI, including 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 2022. The English translation must in such cases be submitted before the deadline of the call for nominations in 2022. 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, divided among the winners, should there be more than one winner - 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=bodp2021. In case of any problems or questions please 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, which will be based in Utrecht, but held online August 2-13, 2021. Beth dissertation prize committee 2021: Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Cleo Condoravdi(Stanford University) Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Sujata Ghosh (ISI, Chennai) Davide Grossi (Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam) Christoph Haase (University of Oxford) Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) Reinhard Muskens (University of Amsterdam) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London, chair) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Matthew Stone (Rutgers University) Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki and University of Amsterdam) FoLLI is committed to diversity and inclusion and we welcome dissertations from all under-represented groups -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davide.ancona at unige.it Thu Apr 1 08:38:54 2021 From: davide.ancona at unige.it (Davide Ancona) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 14:38:54 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VORTEX 2021: Call for Papers Message-ID: VORTEX 2021, online Workshop at ECOOP/ISSTA 2021, Monday 12 July International Workshop on Verification and mOnitoring at Runtime EXecution (https://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop-issta-2021/ecoop-issta-2021-vortex) ================================================================================ VORTEX brings together researchers working on all aspects of Runtime Monitoring (RM) with emphasis on integration with formal verification and testing. RM is concerned with the runtime analysis of software and hardware system executions in order to infer properties relating to system behaviour. Example applications include telemetry, log aggregation, threshold alerting, performance monitoring and adherence to correctness properties (more commonly referred to as Runtime Verification). RM has gained popularity as a solution to ensure software reliability, bridging the gap between formal verification and testing: on the one hand, the notion of event trace abstracts over system executions, thus favoring system agnosticism to better support reuse and interoperability; on the other hand, monitoring a system offers more opportunities for addressing error recovery, self-adaptation, and issues that go beyond software reliability. The goal of VORTEX is to bring together researchers contributing on all aspects of RM covering and possibly integrating both theoretical and practical aspects, with particular focus on hybrid approaches inspired by formal methods, program analysis, testing. Covid-19 -------- ECOOP 2021, ISSTA 2021, and all the affiliated events will take place virtually. Call for Papers --------------- Submissions are expected to be in English and to belong to one of the following two categories: * regular paper, page limit 8 in acmart style: unpublished self-contained work * extended abstract, page limit 4 in acmart style: original contribution, not yet fully developed Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones: * monitor construction and synthesis techniques * program adaptation * monitoring oriented programming * runtime enforcement, fault detection, recovery and repair * combination of static and dynamic analyses * specification formalisms for RM * specification mining * monitoring concurrent/distributed systems * RM for safety and security * RM for the Internet of Things * industrial applications * integrating RM, formal verification, and testing * tool development * instrumentation techniques for RM * surveys on different RM tools, formal frameworks or methodologies * presentations of RM tools Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair; the submission deadline is April 30 AoE. Authors should use the official ACM Master article template, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template pages. Latex users should use the sigconf option, as well as review to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers, as indicated by the following command: \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart} Important Dates --------------- * Submission deadline: Fri 30 Apr 2021 * Author notification: Mon 17 May 2021 * Camera ready submission: Fri 4 Jun 2021 * Virtual workshop: Mon 12 Jul 2021 Proceedings ----------- Accepted regular papers and extended abstracts will be included in the proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. Workshop Organizers ------------------- * Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Davide Ancona, Universit? di Genova, Italy * Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta From anupamdotdas at gmail.com Thu Apr 1 10:48:07 2021 From: anupamdotdas at gmail.com (anupamdotdas at gmail.com) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 15:48:07 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Call for Tutorials and Workshops: FroCoS 2021 & TABLEAUX 2021. 6-10 September, 2021. Birmingham, UK. Message-ID: <005701d72706$0763ff80$162bfe80$@gmail.com> FroCoS 2021 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems TABLEAUX 2021 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Birmingham, UK, September 6-10, 2021 Websites: https://frocos2021.github.io, https://www.tableaux2021.org Contact: frocos2021 at easychair.org , tableaux21 at easychair.org Proposal submission deadline: 19 April 2021 FroCoS and TABLEAUX are two of the main conferences on the theory and application of logical systems. Their 2021 editions will be hosted by the University of Birmingham, UK, from 6 to 10 September 2021. In keeping with the tradition of the two events, we invite proposals for colocated workshops and tutorials on all topics related to logical reasoning: from theoretical aspects, to applications, to tools for interactive or automated reasoning. Workshops and tutorials can target the logical systems community in general, or alternatively focus on a particular system, recent theoretical development or application. TABLEAUX 2021 and FroCoS 2021 are intended to be hybrid conferences welcoming both physical and virtual participation. The organisers are closely monitoring the pandemic situation and may choose to make the conference virtual-only if it seems unreasonable to host any sort of physical event. A final decision will be taken before 14 June (12 weeks before the conference) to leave ample time for potential travel plans to be made. If in-person participation is possible, colocated events should take place on 6 and 8 September 2021. Workshop/tutorial-only attendees will enjoy a significantly reduced registration fee. Detailed matters such as the paper submission and review process, or the publication of proceedings, are up to the organisers of individual events. All accepted workshops and tutorials will be expected to have their program ready by *10 August 2021*. Proposals are invited to be submitted by email to frocos2021 at easychair.org and tableaux21 at easychair.org , no later than *19 April 2021*. Selected events will be notified by *26 April 2021*. The workshop/tutorial selection committee consists of the FroCoS and TABLEAUX program chairs. TUTORIALS We expect tutorials to be delivered in hybrid mode, combining the use of pre-recorded lecture material and (online or face-to-face) synchronous sessions. 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URL: From mahsa at irif.fr Fri Apr 2 04:56:49 2021 From: mahsa at irif.fr (Mahsa) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 10:56:49 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] FORMATS 2021: 2nd CFP Message-ID: <36AB0F8C-D2FB-4905-8D9F-0C203BF86FD0@irif.fr> (Apologies for cross-posting) ================================================================ 2nd Call for Papers FORMATS 2021 (Virtual) 19th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems August 23rd-27th Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, France co-located with CONCUR, FMICS and QEST as part of QONFEST 2021 Webpage : https://qonfest2021.lacl.fr/formats21.php COVID-19 update: The conference will be online-only, hosted by the Laboratoire d'Algorithmique, Complexit? et Logique, Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil. ================================================================ FORMATS is an annual conference aimed at promoting the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and bringing together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in modelling, design, and analysis of timed computational systems. The conference aims to attract researchers interested in real-time issues in hardware design, performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and verification of real-timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems. We particularly encourage submissions concerning applications of real-time systems and on relevant topics in interdisciplinary areas, such as robot motion planning. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): (1) 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). (2) 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.). (3) Applications Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains such as real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication. Special Sessions: Control Synthesis and Motion Planning for Cyber-physical and Control Systems There will be a special session on control synthesis and motion planning for cyber-physical and control systems in FORMATS this year. Real-world systems often include physical components, which impose constraints on the time and space evolution of the system, e.g., robots, smart cities, and medical devices. In this session, we are interested in all approaches, including both model-based and data-driven, to analysis and control design for such systems with logical and temporal specifications. We welcome submissions on this topic and in relevant areas. Paper Submission: FORMATS 2021 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. 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=formats2021 The proceedings of FORMATS 2021 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 Note Concerning the COVID-19 Pandemic: As per common decision of the organizers and chairs of the QONFEST conferences, FORMATS will be organized as a virtual conference. We would do our best to maintain the usual quality of the program, and moreover to have a scheduling that accommodate attendance from different time zones. Important dates: Abstract submission: April 23, 2021 (extended) Paper submission: April 27, 2021 (extended) Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2021 Final version due: July 02, 2021 Conference: August 23rd-27th, 2021 Invited Speakers: Jana Tumova, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Daniele Magazzeni , King's College, London, & JP Morgan AI Research, UK Program Chairs Catalin Dima (France) Mahsa Shirmohammadi (France) QONFEST 2021 General Chair Beno?t Barbot (France) 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) Special-Session Chair Morteza Lahijanian (USA) Program Committee Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Sweden) Damien Busatto (Belgium) Thomas Chatain (France) Lorenzo Clemente (Poland) Liliana Cucu-Grosjean (France) Hugo Gimbert (France) Arnd Hartmanns (The Netherlands) Hsi-Ming Ho (UK) Sophia Knight (USA) Moez Krichen (Saudi Arabia) Engel Lefaucheux (Germany) Martina Maggio (Saarland University, Germany) Angelo Montanari (Italy) Igor Potapov (UK) Mickael Randour (Belgium) Mikhail Raskin (Germany) Cristian Riveros (Chile) Matteo Rossi (Italy) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (USA) Krishna S (India) Sadegh Soudjani (UK) Naijun Zhan (China) For any questions, feel free to contact the co-chairs Catalin Dima (dima at u-pec.fr ) and Mahsa Shirmohammadi (mahsa at irif.fr ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn Fri Apr 2 10:19:51 2021 From: songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn (songfu1983 at shanghaitech.edu.cn) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 22:19:51 +0800 Subject: [TYPES/announce] CFP SETTA 2021 -Symposiumon Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Message-ID: <2021040222194610377634@shanghaitech.edu.cn> (apologies for cross-posting) ======================================== SETTA 2021: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, November 25-27, 2021 Submission deadline: July 23rd, 2021 Conference website: https://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2021/ Colocated with FM'2021 ======================================== ************************ ABOUT SETTA 2021 ************************ The Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA) 2021 will be held in Beijing, China on November 25-27, 2021, co-located with FM'2021 and ChinaSoft 2021. 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. Latest News: A special issue for the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) has been confirmed. Authors of selected papers from SETTA2021 will be invited to submit an extended version of their SETTA2021 paper to this special issue. ************************ 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 2021 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 23, 2021 (AoE) Notification to authors: September 3, 2021 (AoE) Camera-ready versions: September 20, 2021 (AoE) Conference date: November 25-27, 2021 ------------------------ 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. ************************ JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS TRACK ************************ The journal first papers track of SETTA 2021 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 2021. Papers should be submitted electronically through the journal's submission web page . ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper Submission: May 31, 2021 (AoE) Tentative acceptance decision: July 16, 2021 (AoE) Acceptance decision: August 30, 2021 (AoE) Conference date: November 25-27, 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 2021 special issue. It is recommended that submitted papers follow the submission guidelines of JCST and do not exceed 15 pages including references. ************************ COMMITTEES ************************ General Chair: - Chen Zhao, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: - Shengchao Qin, Teesside University - Jim Woodcock, University of York - Wenhui Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Local Organisation Chair: - Zhilin Wu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Publicity Chair: - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University Program Committee Members: - TBA ************************ VENUE ************************ The conference will be held in Beijing, China. ************************ CONTACT ************************ All questions about submissions should be emailed to setta2021 at easy*chair.org (remove *). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gsilvia at uns.ac.rs Fri Apr 2 16:45:12 2021 From: gsilvia at uns.ac.rs (Silvia Ghilezan) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 22:45:12 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2021 Call for Papers Message-ID: <73D16F5B-564F-4FFF-A8F1-EB9AC0182647@uns.ac.rs> ====================== PPDP 2021 Call for Papers ====================== 23rd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming 6?8 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/PPDP2021 Collocated with LOPSTR 2021 =================================== Important Dates --------------------- - 08.05.2021 title and abstract submission - 15.05.2021 paper submission - 29.06.2021 rebuttal period (48 hours) - 09.07.2021 notification - 23.07.2021 final paper - 06.09.2021 conference starts About PPDP ---------- The PPDP 2021 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. Scope ----- 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. Submission web page --------------------- https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2021 Submission Categories --------------------- Submissions can be made in three categories: - Research Papers, - System Descriptions, - 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. 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. Formating Guidelines ---------------------------- We plan to use the same publication arrangements as PPDP has had in previous years. 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 1.75. 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 . 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. ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- Program committee co-chair: Nick Benton, Facebook Program committee co-chair: Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad & Mathematical Institute SASA Organising committee chair: Niccol? Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology Steering committee chair: James Cheney, Edinburgh University ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the program chair Silvia Ghilezan . All questions about local information should be emailed to the local organiser Niccol? Veltri . From anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at Sat Apr 3 07:28:37 2021 From: anas at cs.uni-salzburg.at (Ana Sokolova) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 13:28:37 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] MFPS 2021 -- Call for Papers Message-ID: ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: MFPS XXXVII https://www.coalg.org/calco-mfps-2021/mfps 37th Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics August 30 - September 2, 2021 Online or hybrid, from Salzburg Co-located with CALCO 2021 ========================================================== Paper submission: June 7, 2021 Author notification: August 2, 2021 Final version due: August 16, 2021 ========================================================== We are delighted to announce the 37th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS 2021). MFPS 2021 will be hosted by the University of Salzburg, Austria, and will take place on August 30???September 2, 2021. Due to the pandemic situation, the conference will take place online. Should the situation improve and allow some international travel, we will do our best to organize a small component of the meeting in Salzburg for those participants who wish to attend the meeting in person. 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; constructive mathematics; domain theory and categorical models; formal languages; formal methods; game semantics; lambda calculus; logic; probabilistic systems; process calculi; programming-language theory; quantum computation; security; topological models; 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. MFPS 2021 is co-located with the 9th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2021). ------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS: MFPS is known for an exciting group of invited speakers and organisers of special sessions. Stay tuned for more information! The list of invited speakers and special sessions for MFPS 2021 will be announced soon. ------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal Henning Basold, University of Leiden, Netherlands Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Stephen Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa, Italy Ichiro Hasuo, NII, Japan Helle Hvid Hansen, University of Groningen, Netherlands Justin Hsu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK Sandra Kiefer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany / University of Warsaw, Poland Barbara K?nig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA Koko Muroya, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan Joel Ouaknine, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Prakash Panangaden, McGill University Montreal, Canada Daniela Petrisan, IRIF, Paris 7, France Tatjana Petrov, University of Konstanz, Germany Jurriaan Rot, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, UCL, UK Lutz Schr?der, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria (PC chair) Valeria Vignudelli, CNRS/ENS Lyon, France ------------------------------------------------- MFPS ORGANIZERS: Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Stephen Brookes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Achim Jung, University of Birmingham, UK Catherine Meadows, NRL, USA Michael Mislove, Tulane University, USA Joel Ouaknine, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Prakash Panangaden, McGill University Montreal, Canada ------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be prepared using the ENTCS Macros, and should be up to 12 pages long excluding bibliography and appendices. 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URL: From davidl at binghamton.edu Sun Apr 4 16:49:54 2021 From: davidl at binghamton.edu (Yu David Liu) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2021 16:49:54 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] COP'21 Message-ID: Call for Papers The 13th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming and Advanced Modularity (COP'21) Co-located with ECOOP/ISSTA'21, online, July 2021 https://2021.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-issta-2021-cop COP invites submissions of high-quality papers reporting original research, or describing innovative contributions to, or experience with context-oriented programming, and broadly, programming ideas on modularity. Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Context-Oriented Programming (COP) and Contextual modeling in modern computer systems (mobile systems, IoTs, cloud/edge computing, autonomous systems, etc.); - Programming language abstractions for COP (e.g., dynamic scoping, roles, traits, prototype-based extensions); - Implementation issues for COP (e.g., optimization, VM support, JIT compilation); - COP applications in computer systems (e.g., mobile systems, IoTs, cloud/edge computing, security); - COP applications in autonomous systems (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles); - Configuration languages (e.g., feature description interpreters, transformational approaches); - Programming language abstractions for composition and modularization (e.g., modules, aspects, features, layers, plugins, libraries, components); - Theoretical foundations and reasoning support for COP and modular systems (e.g., semantics, type systems, mechanized proofs); - Software lifecycle support for modularization (e.g., requirements; architecture; synthesis; metrics; software product lines; economics; testing; patterns); - Tool support for modular software development (e.g., platform; refactoring; static and dynamic analysis; evolution; reverse engineering; mining); - Modular applications (e.g., data-intensive applications, micro-services, serverless computing); Important Dates Mon 19 Apr 2021, Submission Deadline Mon 17 May 2021, Notifications -- Yu David Liu Department of Computer Science SUNY Binghamton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com Mon Apr 5 06:31:32 2021 From: p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com (Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 11:31:32 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Reminder: 2-year position in HoTT at Stockholm, deadline this Friday Message-ID: Dear all, A quick reminder of the researcher position in HoTT that I advertised a couple of weeks ago, with deadline this Friday (9 April). One point a couple of people asked about: Yes, this is effectively a postdoc ? it?s formally called a ?researcher? position here for administrative reasons. We are interested in applicants at any post-PhD stage (or expecting to complete their PhD before the position starts). Application link: https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/work-at-su/available-jobs?rmpage=job&rmjob=14506&rmlang=UK Once again, let me know if you have any questions! Best wishes, ?Peter. On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:31 PM Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine < p.l.lumsdaine at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I?m pleased to announce that we?re hiring for a researcher position in Homotopy Type Theory at Stockholm University. It?s a 2 year position, provisionally starting this August, in the logic group of the Mathematics Department, supported by the Wallenberg Foundation project grant ?Type Theory for Mathematics and Computer Science? (PI Thierry Coquand). The application deadline is 9 April. > > We welcome all applicants interested in working on homotopy type theory and related topics ? either with previous background in HoTT, or with background in related fields but interested in moving into HoTT. > > Full details and application at > https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/work-at-su/available-jobs?rmpage=job&rmjob=14506&rmlang=UK > Departmental webpage: https://www.math.su.se > > Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about the position! > > Best, > ?Peter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elaine.pimentel at gmail.com Mon Apr 5 15:37:56 2021 From: elaine.pimentel at gmail.com (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 16:37:56 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TLLA 2021 - 1st cfp Message-ID: ================================================================ Call for Papers TLLA 2021 5th International Workshop on Trends in Linear Logic and Applications Rome, 27-28 June 2021 Affiliated with ACM/IEEE LICS https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA/2021/ ================================================================ Linear Logic is not only a proof theoretical tool to analyze or control 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, even if developed for studying Linear Logic syntax and semantics, have been applied in several other fields (analysis of lambda-calculus computations, game semantics, computational complexity, program verification, etc.). The TLLA international workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on Linear Logic or applying it or its tools. The main goal is to present and discuss trends in the research on Linear Logic and its applications by means of tutorials, invited talks, open discussions, and contributed talks. The purpose is to gather researchers interested in the connections between Linear Logic and various topics such as * theory of programming languages * implicit computational complexity * parallelism and concurrency * games and languages * proof theory * philosophy * categories and algebra * possible connections with combinatorics * linguistics * functional analysis and operator algebras ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributions are not restricted to talks presenting an original results, but open to tutorials, open discussions, and position papers. For this reason, we strongly encourage contributions presenting work in progress, open questions, and research projects. Contributions presenting the application of linear logic results, techniques, or tools to other fields, or vice versa, are most welcome. To propose a contributed talk submit a short abstract whose length is between 2 and 5 pages on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlla2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: 2 May 2021 * Notification to authors: 14 May 2021 * Final versions due: 24 May 2021 * Workshop date: 27-28 June 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Publication ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The abstracts of the contributed and invited talks will be published on the site of the conference. Possible other formats will be discussed at the workshop. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Tutorials ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Invited Speakers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TBA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Claudia Faggian, CNRS - University Paris Diderot, France * Giulio Guerrieri, University of Bath, UK * Naohiko Hoshino, Tojo University, Japan * Sonia Marin, University College London, UK * Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (co-chair) * Paolo Pistone, Universit? di Bologna, Italy * Myriam Quatrini, Universit? de la M?diterran?e * Christian Retor?, Universit? de Montpellier, France (co-chair) * Thomas Seiller, University of Paris 13, France * Lutz Strassburger, Inria Saclay, France ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Organization Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thomas Ehrhard, CNRS - University Paris Diderot, France * Stefano Guerrini, University of Paris 13, France * Lorenzo Tortora de Falco, University Roma Tre, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Contact ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chairs at elaine.pimentel at gmail.com -- Christian Retor? & Elaine Pimentel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it Tue Apr 6 12:29:46 2021 From: claudio.sacerdoticoen at unibo.it (Claudio Sacerdoti Coen) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 16:29:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 3 Post-doc positions on semantics of PLs References: Message-ID: 3? POST-DOC POSITIONS on the semantics of programming languages We have 3 post-doc positions at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bologna.? The research theme is coinductive proof techniques and abstract interpretation, with application to concurrent and/or functional languages. Types are expected to play a significant role.? The positions should start sometimes in 2021, the exact date is negotiable.? Each position covers 1 year, with possibilities of extension for another year. The funding? comes from a national project whose other sites are Verona (R. Giacobazzi), Padova (F. Ranzato), and Pisa (F. Bonchi). The work will be carried out in close connection with the ERC project DIAPASoN (led by Ugo? Dal Lago, U. Bologna), which also focuses on semantics of programming languages, using tools and techniques based on logical relations, bisimulation, game semantics, and linear logic. Instructions for applying may be found here: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=53293 (then, follow the link "Call for applications", in English, or "Bando", in Italian; you may ignore the "attachments" in the page) In case of problems, or for more information, do not hesitate to contact me or Davide Sangiorgi (deadline: 12 April 2021) Thanks, C.S.C. -- Prof. Claudio Sacerdoti Coen Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna From lmoss at indiana.edu Tue Apr 6 21:29:15 2021 From: lmoss at indiana.edu (Moss, Larry) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 01:29:15 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ESSLLI 2022 Call for Course and Workshop Proposals Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2022 8-19 August, 2022, Galway, Ireland https://2022.esslli.eu/ IMPORTANT DATES: 15 June 2021: Course Title submission deadline (mandatory) 22 June 2021: Final submission 14 September 2021: Notification Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, where the school will be virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both introductory and advanced levels, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. Since 1989, ESSLLI has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational opportunities in the fields of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and beyond. It comes from a community which recognizes that advances in our common areas require the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines. The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis in human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures. TOPICS AND FORMAT Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2022 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Sciences. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI program committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. CATEGORIES Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FOUNDATIONAL COURSES * Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. * WORKSHOPS * Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and they are presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2022 and include all of the following: a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) b. General proposal information: Title, category c. Contents information: Abstract of up to 150 words Motivation and description (up to two pages) Tentative outline Expected level and prerequisites Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) d. Information on the proposer and course: Will your course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? Include information on your experience in the intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting Include evidence that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer e. Information from workshop organizers: Include information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable Include information about potential external funding for participants SUBMISSION INFORMATION By June 15: You are asked to submit in EasyChair at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a short abstract. By June 22: Your submission must be completed by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. SUBMISSION PORTAL Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2022 CHILDCARE: If there is enough interest, ESSLLI will provide information on private child care services available during the summer school. EACSL SPONSORSHIP The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate so in your proposal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John P. McCrae (NUI Galway) Mihael Arcan (NUI Galway) Paul Buitelaar (NUI Galway) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Larry Moss (Indiana University) Local Co-chair: Matthias Nickles (NUI Galway) Area Chairs: Language and Computation (LaCo): Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp) Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta) Language and Logic (LaLo): Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart) Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University) Logic and Computation (LoCo): Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford) Franz Baader (TU Dresden) Christoph Benzm??ller (FU Berlin) ESSLLI STEERING COMMITTEE Darja Fiser (University of Ljubljana) (chair) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) (vice-chair) Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University) (secretary) Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 that 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 2021 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 (with the exception of 2020, because of COVID-19 outbreak). Information about the previous events is available on the ITRS home page . Invited Speaker - Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Paper Submissions Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees. Important Dates - Paper submission: 12 April *26 April 2021 (extended)* - Author notification: 24 May 2021 - Final version: 18 June 2021 - Workshop: 17 July 2021 Program Committee - Antonio Bucciarelli, Universit? de Paris, France - Daniel De Carvalho, Innopolis University, Russia - Andrej Dudenhefner, Saarland University, Germany - Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Giulio Guerrieri, University of Bath, UK - Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy (chair) - Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Bloomington, USA (co-chair) Organizers: Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy Riccardo Treglia, Universit? di Torino, Italy (riccardo.treglia at unito.it) Steering Committee - Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Jakob Rehof, TU University of Dortmund, Germany - Joe Wells, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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By default contributed talks are about 30 minutes long; proposals for shorter or longer talks will also be considered. Speakers may also submit supplementary material (e.g. a full paper, talk slides), which PC members are free (but not expected) to read. If you have any questions about the relevance of a particular topic, please contact the PC chairs, Oleg Kiselyov (oleg at okmij.org) and Ohad Kammar (ohad.kammar at ed.ac.uk). * Deadline for talk proposals: **May 6th, 2021** (Thursday) * Notification of acceptance: **June 14th, 2021** (Monday) * Workshop: **August 22nd, 2021** (Sunday) Program Committee Anton Bachin USA Eli Bingham Broad Institute, USA Liron Cohen Ben Gurion Univeristy, Israel Ohad Kammar (co-chair) University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Jeehoon Kang KAIST, South Korea Oleg Kiselyov (co-chair) Tohoku University, Japan Andreas Rossberg DFinity Foundation, Germany Kathrin Stark Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Simon Thompson University of Kent / IOHK, England, UK The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. 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Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Formal systems of classical and non-classical logic; - Category theory; - Proof theory; - Set theory; - Type theory; - Lambda calculus; - Process algebras and calculi; - Behavioural types; - Systems of reasoning in the presence of incomplete, imprecise and/or contradictory information; - Computational complexity; - Interactive theorem provers; - Security and Privacy. Student sessions will be organized. ------------------------------------------------- LAP is a series of conferences held at IUC - Inter University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia. The first conference Proof Systems was held on June 28, 2012, co-located with the conference LICS 2012, followed by LAP 2013, September 16-20, 2013 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2013) LAP 2014, September 22-26, 2014 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2014) LAP 2015, September 21-25, 2015 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2015) LAP 2016, September 19-23, 2016 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2016) LAP 2017, September 18-22, 2017 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2017) LAP 2018, September 24-28, 2018 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2018) LAP 2019, September 23-27, 2019 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2019) LAP 2020, September 21-25, 2020 (http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/math/cms/LAP2020) ------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: June 15, 2021 Author Notification: July 1, 2021 Final version: July 8, 2021 ------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Authors should submit an abstract in LaTeX format, not exceeding three pages, to vlp at mi.sanu.ac.rs (with the subject "LAP 2021"). ------------------------------------------------- LOCATION: IUC - Inter University Center Dubrovnik http://www.iuc.hr/ ------------------------------------------------- COURSE DIRECTORS - Zvonimir ?iki?, University of Zagreb - Andre Scedrov, University of Pennsylvania - Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad - Zoran Ognjanovi?, Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade - Thomas Studer, University of Bern ================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonathan.protzenko at gmail.com Fri Apr 9 15:46:38 2021 From: jonathan.protzenko at gmail.com (Jonathan Protzenko) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 12:46:38 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] ML Family Workshop 2021: first call for short abstracts and presentations Message-ID: (tl;dr) The ML family workshop is back, and will be held virtually along with ICFP 2021. The workshop does not have proceedings, making it the perfect venue to run some ideas with the community or present some work in progress within a friendly environment. The PC has a broad expertise and submissions are 3 pages long: when in doubt, just submit! (long version) We are happy to announce that the ML Family Workshop is back for its 2021 edition, which we will be held online on Thursday August 26th, in conjunction with ICFP 2021. 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. ## Submission details Submissions must be at most three pages long; see the full call for papers for details. Submission site: https://ml21.hotcrp.com/ ## Important dates Thu, May 27th 2021 (AoE): submission deadline Thu, Jun 17th 2021 (AoE): author notification Thu, Aug 26th: workshop (time slots TBD) ## Program committee Danel Ahman (University of Ljubljana) Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Fr?d?ric Bour (Tarides) Ezgi ?i?ek (Facebook London) Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Richard A. Eisenberg (Tweag I/O) Martin Elsman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Ohad Kammar (University of Edinburgh) Naoki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Beno?t Montagu (Inria) Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research) (Chair) Kristina Sojakova (INRIA Paris) Don Syme (Microsoft) Mat?as Toro (University of Chile) Katsuhiro Ueno (Tohoku University) From bruno.bernardo at tutanota.com Sat Apr 10 06:50:06 2021 From: bruno.bernardo at tutanota.com (Bruno Bernardo) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMBC 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ======================================================================== 3rd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) - Second Call https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2021 July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021 Co-located with the 33nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2021) http://i-cav.org/2021/ ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- Abstract submission: April 22, 2021 Full paper submission: April 29, 2021 Notification: June 10, 2021 Camera-ready: July 8, 2021 Workshop: July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021 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 page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5 additional pages). Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3 pages (including bibliography) summarizing your ongoing work in the area of formal methods and blockchain. Authors of selected extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2021 Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and prepare their submissions according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided by Dagstuhl. Instructions for authors: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#oasics At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop as a registered participant. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- David Dill, Lead Researcher, Blockchain, Novi/Facebook, USA https://research.fb.com/people/dill-david/ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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) * Joachim Breitner (Dfinity Foundation, Germany) * Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK) * Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, France) * J?r?mie Decouchant (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Dana Drachsler Cohen (Technion, Israel) * Ansgar Fehnker (University of Twente, Netherlands) * Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA) * Lars Hupel (INNOQ, Germany) * Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK) * Igor Konnov (Informal Systems, Austria) * Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset, Switzerland) * Sim?o Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) * Karl Palmskog (KTH, Sweden) * Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne Universit?, France) * Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity Foundation, Germany) * C?sar Sanchez (Imdea, Spain) * Clara Schneidewind (TU Wien, Austria) * Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College/NUS, Singapore) * Mark Staples (CSIRO Data61, Australia) * Meng Sun (Peking University, China) * Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK) * Josef Widder (Informal Systems, Austria) From ugo.dallago at unibo.it Sun Apr 11 06:00:05 2021 From: ugo.dallago at unibo.it (Ugo Dal Lago) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:00:05 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two Postdoc Positions within the DIAPASoN Project Message-ID: <3F228A33-33B6-403E-A9DB-F521EC988D0F@unibo.it> [Apologize for multiple postings.] ================================================================ Call for Expression of Interest for Two Postdoc positions in Programming Language Semantics ================================================================ We are looking for postdocs in the context of the ERC Consolidator Grant ?Differential Program Semantics?. Traditionally, program semantics is centered around the notion of program identity, that is to say of program equivalence: a program is identified with its meaning, and programs are considered as equal only if their meanings are the same. DIAPASoN's goal is rather to study differences between programs as a constitutive and informative concept. This is accomplished by generalizing four major frameworks of program semantics, namely logical relations, coinduction, game semantics, and linear logic. The ideal candidate would have experience in: ? Program Semantics ? Mathematical Logic ? Program Verification and in particular in the sub-areas of program semantics cited above. Expertise in all those sub-areas is rare, so candidates who are strong in just some of them are encouraged to apply. Please contact Ugo Dal Lago if you have more questions about the project, the required background, Italy, or the positions themselves. The first round of applications will be accepted until April 23rd 2021. Positions are for 2 years, and could start at any moment between August/September 2021 and February 2022. More information about the DIAPASoN project can be found here: http://diapason.unibo.it To apply, please send the following documents to ugo.dallago at unibo.it: ? Your CV; ? A brief research statement; ? The names and email addresses of at least two scientists able and willing to provide a reference for you. From elaine.pimentel at gmail.com Sun Apr 11 09:13:32 2021 From: elaine.pimentel at gmail.com (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:13:32 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LFMTP 2021 - 3rd cfp Message-ID: ============================================================= Call for papers Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages: Theory and Practice LFMTP 2021 Pittsburgh, USA, 16 July 2021 Affiliated with CADE-28 http://lfmtp.org/workshops/2021/ ============================================================= Abstract submission deadline: 19 April 2021 Paper submission deadline: 26 April 2021 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 2021 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following: * Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages, logical systems and related formally specified systems. * Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory * Graphical languages for building proofs, applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory. * New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory. * Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc. * Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml or Agda, and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Monday April 19 Submission deadline: Monday April 26 Notification to authors: Monday May 31 Final version due: Monday June 14 Workshop date: Friday July 16 Submission In addition to regular papers, we welcome/encourage the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2021 Proceedings A selection of the presented papers will be published online in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). 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URL: From eliasca at kth.se Sun Apr 11 15:07:32 2021 From: eliasca at kth.se (Elias Castegren) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:07:32 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] IWACO 2021 - Call for Papers Message-ID: 10th IWACO International Workshop on Aliasing, Capabilities and Ownership (IWACO) July 12, in connection with ECOOP/ISSTA. Due to Covid-19, IWACO will be fully virtual. All participation will be online. ## Important Dates Paper submission: 26 April, 2021 Notification: 17 May, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: 4 June, 2021 Workshop: 12 July, 2021 (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?21 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 2 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. 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URL: From shankar at csl.sri.com Mon Apr 12 03:14:03 2021 From: shankar at csl.sri.com (Natarajan Shankar) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:14:03 -0700 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Isaac Newton Institute Virtual Workshop on "Verified software: From Theory to Practice", 10th May 2021 to 14th May 2021 (Register by April 17) Message-ID: <476fea8a-b28a-73c8-1267-b9e711efab32@csl.sri.com> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Isaac Newton Institute Virtual Workshop ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Verified Software: From theory to Practice ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 10th May 2021 to 14th May 2021 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Registration Deadline: April 17, 2021 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? URL: https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/vsow03 WORKSHOP THEME Formal methods for the specification and verification of software-intensive systems bridge the gap between theory and applications.? Verification techniques have to be tuned to application areas such as concurrency, cyber-physical systems, distributed systems, machine learning, computer security, networks, and programming languages.?? The INI Virtual Workshop is a precursor event to the program on Verified Software.? It will involve an intensive exchange of ideas between researchers facing the challenges of cutting-edge applications and theoreticians armed with the conceptual tools to potentially address these challenges. SPEAKERS: Amal Ahmed (Northeastern), Jade Alglave (ARM/UCL), Rajeev Alur (Penn), Karthikeyan Bhargavan (INRIA), Ahmed Bouajjani (Paris 7), Adam Chlipala (MIT), Veronique Cortier (LORIA Nancy), Javier Esparza (TU Munich), Aarti Gupta (Princeton), Thomas Henzinger (IST Austria), Maurice Herlihy (Brown), Sir Tony Hoare, Justin Hsu (Wisconsin), Zachary Kincaid (Princeton), Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford), P. Madhusudhan (UIUC), Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute), Annabelle McIver (Macquarie), Anca Muscholl (Bourdeaux), Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas), Jean-Francois Raskin (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles), Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS), Sanjit Seshia (UC Berkeley), Alexandra Silva (UCL), Victor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS), Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich), Hongseok Yang (KAIST). From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Mon Apr 12 12:16:39 2021 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:16:39 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 7th International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) - Second CFP Message-ID: Call for Papers, PxTP 2021 The Seventh International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) https://pxtp.gitlab.io/2021 21 July 2021, online associated with the CADE-28 conference ## Background The PxTP workshop brings together researchers working on various aspects of communication, integration, and cooperation between reasoning systems and formalisms. The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automatic and interactive, during the past decades, has made it possible to build deduction tools that are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years, cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention. Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and collaboration of the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler conjecture. Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of theoretical formalisms and practical tools for exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration, translation, and communication methods, standards, protocols, and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols. We are interested both in success stories and descriptions of current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement. ## Topics Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or interactive. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * applications that integrate reasoning tools (ideally with certification of the result); * interoperability of reasoning systems; * translations between logics, proof systems, models; * distribution of proof obligations among heterogeneous reasoning tools; * algorithms and tools for checking and importing (replaying, reconstructing) proofs; * proposed formats for expressing problems and solutions for different classes of logic solvers (SAT, SMT, QBF, first-order logic, higher-order logic, typed logic, rewriting, etc.); * meta-languages, logical frameworks, communication methods, standards, protocols, and APIs related to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, transformation, migration, compression and optimization of proofs; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g., efficient proof representations); * (universal) libraries, corpora and benchmarks of proofs and theories; * alignment of diverse logics, concepts and theories across systems and libraries; * engineering aspects of proofs (e.g., granularity, flexiformality, persistence over time); * proof certificates; * proof checking; * mining of (mathematical) information from proofs (e.g., quantifier instantiations, unsat cores, interpolants, ...); * reverse engineering and understanding of formal proofs; * universality of proofs (i.e. interoperability of proofs between different proof calculi); * origins and kinds of proofs (e.g., (in)formal, automatically generated, interactive, ...) * Hilbert's 24th Problem (i.e. what makes a proof better than another?); * social aspects (e.g., community-wide initiatives related to proofs, cooperation between communities, the future of (formal) proofs); * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * application-oriented proof theory; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies. ## Submissions Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15 pages). Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the workshop. Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (http://style.eptcs.org). Papers will be submitted via EasyChair, at the PxTP'2021 workshop page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pxtp-7). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. ## Important Dates * Abstract submission: April 21, 2021 * Paper submission: April 28, 2021 * Notification: May 26, 2021 * Camera ready versions due: June 16, 2021 * Workshop: July 11, 2021 (online) ## Invited Speakers TBA ## Program Committee * Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil) * Denis Cousineau (Mitsubishi, France) * Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE, France) * Katalin Fazekas (TU Wien, Austria) * Mathias Fleury (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria), co-chair * Predrag Jani?i? (University of Belgrade, Serbia) * Chantal Keller (Universit? Paris-Saclay, France), co-chair * Aina Niemetz (Stanford University, USA) * Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) * Giselle Reis (CMU-Qatar, Qatar) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) * Fran?ois Thir? (Nomadic Labs, France) * Sophie Tourret (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Germany) * Josef Urban (Czech Institute of Informatics, Czech Republic) ## Previous PxTP Editions * PxTP 2019 (http://pxtp.gforge.inria.fr/2019), affiliated to CADE-27 * PxTP 2017 (https://pxtp.github.io/2017), affiliated to Tableaux 2017, FroCoS 2017 and ITP 2017 * PxTP 2015 (http://pxtp15.lri.fr), affiliated to CADE-25 * PxTP 2013 (http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13), affiliated to CADE-24 * PxTP 2012 (http://pxtp2012.inria.fr), affiliated to IJCAR 2012 * PxTP 2011 (http://pxtp2011.loria.fr), affiliated to CADE-23 From einarj at ifi.uio.no Mon Apr 12 03:30:48 2021 From: einarj at ifi.uio.no (Einar Broch Johnsen) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:30:48 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two PhD positions in Formal Methods for Underwater Robots available (RWTH Aachen, Uni Oslo) Message-ID: Two PhD positions in formal methods for underwater robots are available in the REMARO MSCA network. We are looking for excellent candidates with a background in formal methods, programming, logic and mathematics, who are curious how their knowledge can contribute to improve the quality of autonomous robots. As a PhD fellow in REMARO, you will work together with other PhD fellows in a scientific network with leading researchers from both academia and industry, with research stays and interaction across the network. The announced positions are ideal for students with an analytical mindset who enjoyed topics such as logic, concurrency theory, formal methods, executable models and model checking and software verification during their studies. REMARO (https://remaro.eu) is an interdisciplinary training network for PhD students which combines expertise in submarine AI, software reliability and formal methods, and marine safety certification to educate 15 PhD fellows in topics in the area of reliable autonomy for underwater applications. REMARO is funded by the EU as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) training network for PhD fellows 01/12/2020 ? 30/11/2024. *** Position at RWTH Aachen: System-level verification of an autonomous underwater robot *** Underwater pipeline inspection robots possess complex behavior involving e.g. AI-based learning, uncertainties in the environment, and the combination of the continuous evolution of physical quantities with the discrete nature of digital controllers. For their safety assessment, algorithms and tools for the analysis of these aspects in isolation are available, but their combination is scientifically as well as technically yet an interesting open problem. The goal of this project is to assess certain aspects of certain components and use these results to derive conclusions about the robot as a whole at system level, to be able to analyze complex behavior like autonomous navigation including obstacle detection and avoidance. * Prerequisites: Master degree or equivalent in computer science or informatics; fun with theoretical computer science and math; programming skills. A good command of spoken and written English is required. * The applicant must not have lived in Germany more than 12 months in the last 3 years. * Hiring institution: RWTH Aachen University * PhD Enrollment: PhD position at the Department of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University. The project involves collaboration with DFKI in Bremen, Ocean Scan in Porto, and ISEP in Porto. * Duration of the project: 36 months * Main Academic Supervisor: prof. Erika Abraham, contact: abraham at informatik.rwth-aachen.de * Co-supervisors: prof. Ana Maria Madureira (ISEP, Porto), Luis Madureira (OMST, Porto) *** Position at University of Oslo: Continuous quality assurance for cognitive control *** This PhD project aims to analyze the interaction between a control system and a dynamically evolving knowledge base for autonomous underwater robots. A knowledge-based component can be seen as a digital twin (a virtual model of the robot and its environment, based on perception) for representing and reasoning about the changing environment under water. The digital twin is used by controllers to plan, control, and adapt underwater missions. This project will develop new analysis techniques and tools to study how classes of changes in the knowledge base affect the robustness of the controllers. These new analysis techniques will be based on logic, formal methods (process calculi, automata theory, operational semantics, etc.) and concurrency theory. These techniques are particularly useful when studying the interactions of complex systems and analysing worst-case behavior. The focus of the PhD project will be on techniques to analyze how imprecisions and gaps of knowledge in the digital-twin may affect the behaviour of cognitive controllers. * Prerequisites: Master degree or equivalent in computer science or informatics with background in the following fields: concurrency theory, algorithms and distributed systems, logic, executable/formal models, formal methods. A good command of spoken and written English is required and needs to be documented (see https://www.mn.uio.no/english/research/phd/regulations/proficiency-requirements.html). * The applicant must not have lived in Norway more than 12 months in the last 3 years. * Hiring institution: University of Oslo * PhD Enrollment: PhD position at the Department of Informatics at University of Oslo. The project involves collaboration with DNV in Oslo, University of Bremen and ROSEN in Bremen * Duration of the project: 36 months * Main Academic Supervisor: prof. Einar Broch Johnsen (UiO, Norway), contact: einarj at ifi.uio.no * Co-supervisors: prof. Michael Beetz (UB, Germany), dr. Erik Stensrud (DNV, Norway) *** How to Apply *** We look forward to your application, containing a motivation letter (1-2 pages), your curriculum vitae and certificates of your studies, including course transcripts and grades. In your application, please state if you are interested in one or both positions. * Please send your application, including all documents, via email to Erika Abraham . * Application deadline: 15.05.2021 * Targeted starting time: between August 1 and September 30, 2021 From tobias.wrigstad at it.uu.se Tue Apr 13 03:58:36 2021 From: tobias.wrigstad at it.uu.se (Tobias Wrigstad) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:58:36 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] One PhD position in design and implementation of managed programming languages Message-ID: One PhD position in design and implementation of managed programming languages. We are looking for excellent candidates with a background in programming, programming languages, type systems, formal semantics, compilers, runtimes and computer architecture. Candidates will be working with experts in programming languages, computer architecture, and with close ties to companies developing and maintaining programming language implementations. 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The workshop includes mentoring sessions that cover effective habits for navigating the research landscape, technical sessions that cover core subfields within programming languages, and social sessions that create opportunities for students to interact with researchers in the field. PLMW @ PLDI 2021 will be held June 21-22, immediately before the Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI) conference. More details about the workshop are available at https://pldi21.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-PLDI-2021. PLMW @ PLDI 2021 will be a virtual event. Some parts of the workshop, including mentoring socials and panels, will be available only to participants who have applied and been accepted to PLMW. Submit your application using this form (https://forms.gle/on8P4mPGtkvfRSPB8). *Please complete the application by May 15 for full consideration*. Applications received after May 15 will be considered as space permits. 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URL: From alexander.nadel at intel.com Wed Apr 14 01:33:56 2021 From: alexander.nadel at intel.com (Nadel, Alexander) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 05:33:56 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SMT 2021 Workshop: Final Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: SMT 2021: 19th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 18-19, 2021 Conference website: http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smt2021 Submission deadline: April 30, 2021 Overview SMT 2021 will be co-located with CAV 2021 in Los Angeles. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: * Decision procedures and theories of interest * Combinations of decision procedures * Novel implementation techniques * Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies * Applications and case studies * Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, are especially encouraged. Important Dates * Paper submission: April 30, 2021 * Notification: May 28, 2021 * Workshop: July 18-19, 2021 Submission Guidelines We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts, original papers, and presentation only-papers. We intend to publish open-access proceedings for SMT 2021 as a volume of the EPiC Series EasyChair Proceedings. Extended abstracts and original papers must not have been published or submitted elsewhere and will be included in the proceedings. * Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. * 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 and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Original papers and extended abstracts should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. (The 10 page limit does not include references.) Presentation-only papers may be submitted as originally published, if published elsewhere, and should not exceed 10 pages otherwise. To submit, please go to the EasyChair page and follow the instructions there. Organizers and Program Committee See SMT 2021 Organizers and Program Committee. Invited Speakers * Karem Sakallah, University of Michigan * Guy Katz, University of Jerusalem --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Israel (74) Limited This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. 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These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and computational languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The LSFA series' objective is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. See lsfa.cic.unb.br for more information. LSFA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated deduction * Applications of logical and semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Implementation of logical and semantic frameworks * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Logical frameworks * Process calculi * Proof theory * Semantic frameworks * Specification languages and meta-languages * Type theory Submissions Contributions should be written in English and submitted in full paper (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2021 The pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed out at event registration. After the meeting, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works for the post-proceedings publication. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. Presentations should be in English. According to the submissions' quality, the chairs will promote the further publication of journal revised versions of the papers. Previous LSFA Special Issues have been published in journals such as The Logical J. of the IGPL, Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Sciences (see the LSFA page http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). Important dates * Abstract: Monday 26th April * Submission: Sunday 2nd May * Notification: Friday 4th June * Preliminary proceedings version due: Monday 14th June * Submission for final proceedings: Sunday 17th October * Final version: Sunday 19th December Invited Speakers ? Alejandro D?az-Caro (ICC-UBA/CONICET, UNQ) ? Alexandra Silva (University College London) ? Giulio Guerrieri (University of Bath) Program Committee ? Mar?a Alpuente (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) ? Sandra Alves (Universidade de Porto, Portugal) ? Takahito Aoto (Niigata University) ? Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia) - Co-Chair ? Eduardo Bonelli (Stevens University) - Co-Chair ? Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay) ? Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham) ? Marcelo Finger (Universidade de S?o Paulo) ? Yannick Forster (Saarland University) ? Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca (UNAM) ? Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) ? 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Essays -Workshops: - AGERE - BCNC - CONFLANG - DSM - HATRA - LIVE - REBLS - VMIL -Call For Posters -Student Research Competition (SRC) -Co-located events: - APLAS - Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) - GPCE - SAS - SLE ======================================================================== The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH is now accepting submissions. We invite high-quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. ** OOPSLA Research Papers ** Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modelling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions Due: 16 April 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-oopsla ** Onward! Research 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: 8 May 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Onward-papers ** Onward! Essays ** Onward! Essays conference is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community construed broadly. An essay can be an exploration of a topic, its impact, or the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps that by which the author reached an understanding of such a topic. The subject area should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavours, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions Due: 22 May 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Onward-Essays ** Workshops ** **** AGERE 2021 **** 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. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/agere-2021 **** BCNC 2021 **** The first international workshop on ?Beyond Code: No Code,? (BCNC 2021) targets one of the most engaging topics currently spanning the software engineering community.The No Code movement is making its way through all industries, saving time, empowering workers, and creating new possibilities. No Code is changing the software industry by accelerating development and opening up opportunities for less tech-savvy individuals to create life-changing products. BCNC 2021 brings together the best in the field to share their knowledge and expertise and raise that standard of what could be achieved. Industrial experts as well academics join to present the frontier and show us a glimpse of the future. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/bcnc-2021 **** CONFLANG 2021 **** CONFLANG is a new workshop on the design, the usage and the tooling of configuration programming languages. CONFLANG aims at uniting language designers, industry practitioners and passionate hobbyists to share knowledge in any form. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Infrastructure and configuration code maintenance and evolution - Specification learning and mining for configurations - Infrastructure and Configuration testing and verification - Infrastructure as Code and configuration repair - New languages for configuration - The application of language security and type theory to program configuration Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/conflang-2021 **** DSM?21 **** Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems and software development faster and easier. In DSM, the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive them-selves as working directly with domain concepts. Together with frameworks and platforms, DSM can automate a large portion of software production. The goals of the workshop are to share experiences and demonstrate the DSM solutions that have been developed by both researchers and practitioners, identify research questions and continuing to build the community. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/dsm-2021 **** HATRA 2021 **** 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. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/hatra-2021 **** LIVE 2021 **** Programming is cognitively demanding, and too difficult. LIVE is a workshop exploring new user interfaces that improve the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming. Whereas PL research traditionally focuses on programs, LIVE focuses more on the activity of programming. The LIVE 2021 workshop invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of 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 best-known example of live programming is the spreadsheet, but there are many others. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/live-2021 **** REBLS 2021 **** 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. 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. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/rebls-2021 **** VMIL 2021 **** 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. Submissions due: 6 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/home/vmil-2021 ** SPLASH Posters ** The SPLASH Posters track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: 15 August 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-Posters ** Student Research Competition ** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research to a panel of judges and conference attendees at SPLASH. The SRC provides visibility and exposes up-and-coming researchers to computer science research and the research community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and sharpen their communication and networking skills. To participate in the competition, a student must submit a 2-page description of his or her original research project. The submitted project descriptions are peer-reviewed. Each student whose description is selected by a panel of reviewers is invited to attend the SRC competition at SPLASH and present their work. Winners of the SPLASH competition are invited to participate in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. Submit your work and take part in the ACM Student Research Competition at SPLASH 2021! Submissions Due: 16 July 2021 https://2021.splashcon.org/track/splash-2021-SRC ** SPLASH-E ** SPLASH-E is a forum for educators to make connections between programming languages research and the ways we educate computer science students. We invite work that could improve or inform computer science educators, especially work that connects with introductory computer science courses, programming languages, compilers, software engineering, and other SPLASH-related topics. Educational tools, experience reports, and new curricula are all welcome. Submissions Due: 16 July 2021 ======================================================================== *** Co-Located Events *** ======================================================================== ** Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS) ** The 19th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS). APLAS 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 2021 will be held online and co-located with SPLASH 2021. Submissions Due: 16 June 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2021 ** Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) ** DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and research on dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. The influence of dynamic languages ? from Lisp to Smalltalk to Python to JavaScript ? on real-world practice and research, continues to grow. We invite high-quality papers reporting original research, innovative contributions, or experience related to dynamic languages, their implementation, and applications. Submissions Due: 2 June 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/dls-2021 ** 20th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) ** GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between software engineering and the programming languages research communities. Submissions Due: 5th July 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/gpce-2021 ** The 28th Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2021) ** 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. Submissions Due: 25th April 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2021 ** 13th International ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) ** SLE is the discipline of engineering languages and the 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 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. Submissions Due: 21 June 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/sle-2021 ======================================================================== SPLASH Information: ======================================================================== SPLASH Early Registration Deadline: 17th September 2021 Website: https://2021.splashcon.org/ ======================================================================== Organizing Committee SPLASH 2021: ======================================================================== SPLASH General Chair: Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University) OOPSLA Review Committee Chair: Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London) GPCE General Chair: Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) GPCE Co-Chair: Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) GPCE Co-Chair: Erwan Bousse (University of Nantes) SLE General Chair: Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology) SLE Program Co-Chair: Dimitris Kolovos (University of York) SLE Program Co-Chair: Emma S?derberg (Lund University) SLE Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Elias Castegren (KTH) SLE Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Andreas Wortmann (RWTH Aachen University) DLS Chair: Arjun Guha (Northeastern University) Onward! Papers Chair: Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Onward! Essays Chair: Elisa Baniassad (University of British Columbia) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Charlie Curtsinger (Grinnell College) SPLASH-E Co-Chair: Tien N. Nguyen (University of Texas at Dallas) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Colin Gordon (Drexel University) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Anders M?ller (Aarhus University) Workshops Co-Chair: Mehdi Bagherzadeh (Oakland University) Workshops Co-Chair: Raffi Khatchadourian (CUNY Hunter College) Student Research Competition Co-Chair: Julia Rubin (University of British Columbia) Publicity Chair: Juan Fumero (University of Manchester) Web Chair: Rangeet Pan (Iowa State University) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Breno Dantas Cruz (Virginia Tech) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Samantha Syeda Khairunnesa (Iowa State University) Sponsorship Co-Chair: Ganesha Upadhyaya (Harmony.one) Poster Co-Chair: Christos Dimoulas (PLT @ Northwestern University) Poster Co-Chair: Murali Krishna Ramanathan (Uber Technologies Inc.) 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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 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/2021/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. The submitted PDF can use any LaTeX style (but the post-proceedings will use the EPTCS style). * 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 on the ICE website. === ICECREAMERS === Julien Lange (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) - julien.lange at rhul.ac.uk Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - anastasia.mavridou at nasa.gov Larisa Safina (Inria, FR) - larisa.safina at inria.fr Alceste Scalas (Technical University of Denmark, DK) - alcsc at dtu.dk === PROGRAM COMMITTEE === * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT) * Chiara Bodei (Universit? di Pisa, IT) * Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) * Cinzia Di Giusto (Universit? C?te d?Azur, CNRS, I3S, FR) * Simon Fowler (University of Glasgow, UK) * Eva Graversen (University of Southern Denmark, DK) * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR) * Keigo Imai (Gifu University, JP) * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, NL) * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, US) * Wen Kokke (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT) * Karoliina Lehtinen (CNRS - LIS, Aix-Marseille University, FR) * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) * Hern?n Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR) * Maurizio Murgia (University of Trento, IT) * Kirstin Peters (TU Darmstadt, DE) * Johannes ?man Pohjola (Data61/CSIRO, AU) * Ivan Prokic (University of Novi Sad, RS) * Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT) * Laura Voinea (University of Kent, UK) * Uma Zalakian (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://people.compute.dtu.dk/alcsc Assistant Professor @ DTU Compute - Section for Formal Methods Technical University of Denmark Richard Petersens Plads, Building 324, Room 180 2800 Kgs. Lyngby From j.a.perez at rug.nl Thu Apr 15 11:13:00 2021 From: j.a.perez at rug.nl (Jorge A. Perez) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:13:00 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Two tenure-track positions - University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple postings of this email.] Dear colleagues, We have two vacancies for tenure-track assistant professors at the Bernoulli Institute of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. - One position concerns "Programming Languages and Systems", see here for details; - The other position concerns "Data Science and Systems", see here for details. Deadline: May 16, 2021. Both positions are broadly defined: we seek excellent applicants who aim at a tenure-track position with a special focus on education. Don't hesitate to contact me in case of questions about the working environment and our research institute. Best regards, Jorge -- Jorge A. 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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 series is to bring researchers together, disseminate the latest results, and facilitate further development of the field. We accept submissions of both original research papers, and work accepted/submitted/ published elsewhere. Accepted original research papers will be invited for publication in a proceedings volume. The keynote addresses will be drawn from the best accepted papers. The conference will include an industry showcase event. We hope to run the conference as a hybrid event, with physical attendees present in Cambridge, and other participants taking part online. However, due to the state of the pandemic, the possibility of in-person attendance is not yet confirmed. Please do not book your travel or hotel accommodation yet. ** FINANCIAL SUPPORT ** We are able to offer financial support to PhD students and junior researchers. Full guidance is on the webpage. ** IMPORTANT DATES (all in 2021) ** - Submission Deadline: Monday 10 May - Author Notification: Monday 7 June - Financial Support Application Deadline: Monday 7 June - Financial Support Notification: Tuesday 8 June - Priority Physical Registration Opens: Wednesday 9 June - Ordinary Physical Registration Opens: Monday 13 June - Reserved Accommodation Booking Deadline: Monday 13 June - Adjoint School: Monday 5 to Friday 9 July - Main Conference: Monday 12 to Friday 16 July ** SUBMISSIONS ** The following two types of submissions are accepted: - Proceedings Track. Original contributions of high-quality work consisting of an extended abstract, up to 12 pages, 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 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 rigour of your work. Papers in the two tracks will be reviewed against the same standards of quality. Since ACT is an interdisciplinary conference, we use two tracks to accommodate the publishing conventions of different disciplines. For example, those from a Computer Science background may prefer the Proceedings Track, while those from a Mathematics, Physics or other background may prefer the Non-Proceedings Track. However, authors from any background are free to choose the track that they prefer, and submissions may be moved from the Proceedings Track to the Non-Proceedings Track at any time at the request of the authors. Contributions must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions to the Proceedings Track must be prepared with LaTeX, using the EPTCS style files available at . The submission link will soon be available on the ACT2021 web page: ** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ** Chair: - Kohei Kishida, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Members: - Richard Blute, University of Ottawa - Spencer Breiner, NIST - Daniel Cicala, University of New Haven - Robin Cockett, University of Calgary - Bob Coecke, Cambridge Quantum Computing - Geoffrey Cruttwell, Mount Allison University - Valeria de Paiva, Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham - Brendan Fong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Jonas Frey, Carnegie Mellon University - Tobias Fritz, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - Fabrizio Romano Genovese, Statebox - Helle Hvid Hansen, University of Groningen - Jules Hedges, University of Strathclyde - Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh - Alex Hoffnung, Bridgewater - Martti Karvonen, University of Ottawa - Kohei Kishida, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (chair) - Martha Lewis, University of Bristol - Bert Lindenhovius, Johannes Kepler University Linz - Ben MacAdam, University of Calgary - Dan Marsden, University of Oxford - Jade Master, University of California, Riverside - Joe Moeller, NIST - Koko Muroya, Kyoto University - Simona Paoli, University of Leicester - Daniela Petrisan, Universit? de Paris, IRIF - Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College London - Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University - Michael Shulman, University of San Diego - David Spivak, MIT and Topos Institute - Joshua Tan, University of Oxford - Dmitry Vagner - Jamie Vicary, University of Cambridge - John van de Wetering, Radboud University Nijmegen - Vladimir Zamdzhiev, Inria, LORIA, Universit? de Lorraine - Maaike Zwart From p.oliva at qmul.ac.uk Fri Apr 16 10:41:46 2021 From: p.oliva at qmul.ac.uk (Paulo Oliva) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:41:46 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Faculty position in Theoretical CS @ QMUL, London Message-ID: <2110C4F7-4883-441A-95E8-3936ABA0F654@qmul.ac.uk> School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science Queen Mary University of London - Mile End Campus Salary: ?42,433 - ?53,833 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance (Grade 6) Location: Mile End Closing date: 25-Apr-2021 The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Computing Science to join our Theoretical Computer Science Research Group (http://theory.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/) in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Queen Mary University of London. 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URL: From h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Fri Apr 16 11:49:11 2021 From: h.basold at liacs.leidenuniv.nl (Henning Basold) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:49:11 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TYPES 2021: types for proofs & programs, Virtual, 14-19 Jun 2021 Message-ID: <9b5ed88f-872b-66cc-d036-b0c40a22f23e@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> Call for Contributions TYPES 2021 26th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs 14 - 19 June 2021 Virtual and possibly Leiden, The Netherlands https://types21.liacs.nl/ Note that the deadline for submission has been extended to 23 April. As the goal is to use TYPES as a forum for collaboration, you may also consider to submit an abstract based on your contribution that was planned to be presented during TYPES 2020, if you find that appropriate. Background -------------- The TYPES meetings are a forum to present new and on-going work in all aspects of type theory and its applications, especially in formalised and computer assisted reasoning and computer programming. The TYPES areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations of type theory and constructive mathematics; * Applications of type theory (e.g., linguistics or concurrency); * 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; * Formalising mathematics using type theory; * Homotopy type theory and univalent mathematics. 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. Venue ---------- This year?s TYPES will be held virtually (online), possibly in combination with a physical meeting in Leiden in the Netherlands if the political situation permits that. That the conference is held virtually constrains the time of talks, and complicates exchange and collaboration. TYPES 2021 will therefore not only consist of presentations, but also a setup of working groups that get together throughout the week. Every day will be split into a session of talks and tutorials, and a collaboration session during which the working groups will get together. The hope is that we can retain at least some of the exchange and chatter that is the heart of the TYPES conference series. Invited Talks and Tutorials ----------------------------- Stephanie Balzer (Carnegie Mellon University) Ulrik Buchholtz (Technical University Darmstadt) Sara Negri (University of Genova) Pierre-Marie P?drot (INRIA -- Inria Rennes-Bretagne-Atlantique) Contributed Talks -------------------- TYPES solicits contributed talks to stimulate discussions. The contributed talks are selected on the base of extended abstracts/short papers of 2 pages (excluding bibliography) formatted with the LaTeX EasyChair3.5 (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors) style. An abstract can be based on existing, submitted or novel work, and is not in conflict with any other forms of publication. Submissions are handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=types2021 Upon submission, authors have to select the category of their contribution: presentation-only talks and talks with the intent to contribute to the post-proceedings. Presentation-only talks will consist of a 5 minutes recorded video that is shown during the conference in combination with 5 minutes live discussion. The purpose of recording the talk beforehand is to avoid technical issues. Talks with the intent for post-proceedings submission get a slot for a 10 minutes live talk plus 5 minutes discussion during the conference. The idea is that in this case, an interactive discussion with more in-depth feedback will help to submit to the post-proceedings. Note that the selection at this stage only expresses an intent to submit to the post-proceedings, and that you are neither obliged to submit your work nor are you excluded from the submission to the post-proceedings should you not submit an intent at this stage. The idea is only to help you with more feedback during the conference. Please be fair in selecting this category because the time in a virtual conference is very limited and should be given to those authors who really need it. Important dates ------------------ * Submission of abstract 23 April 2021 AoE * Author notification 14 May 2021 * Camera-ready version of abstract 4 June 2021 AoE * Conference 14 - 18 June 2021 Camera-ready versions of the accepted contributions will be published in an informal book of abstracts for distribution during the conference. Attendance and Fees ----------------------- Despite the difficulty that a virtual event brings, it also offers a chance. We will make TYPES as inclusive as possible, which means that attending virtually is free of charge, if you are not in the position to pay fees. For everyone else, the fees will be low and only to cover the costs of setting up the infrastructure and organisation. Should it be possible that we can have a hybrid virtual-physical meeting, then there will also be some costs for recording and streaming that will have to be shared between local and virtual attendees. However, we will keep these low in general and free for those who cannot afford to pay fees. About Types --------------- The TYPES meetings from 1990 to 2008 were annual workshops of a sequence of five EU funded networking projects. From 2009 to 2015, TYPES has been run as an independent conference series. From 2016, TYPES is partially supported by COST Action EUTypes CA15123. Previous TYPES meetings were held in Antibes (1990), Edinburgh (1991), B?stad (1992), Nijmegen (1993), B?stad (1994), Torino (1995), Aussois (1996), Kloster Irsee (1998), L?keberg (1999), Durham (2000), Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (2002), Torino (2003), Jouy-en-Josas near Paris (2004), Nottingham (2006), Cividale del Friuli (2007), Torino (2008), Aussois (2009), Warsaw (2010), Bergen (2011), Toulouse (2013), Paris (2014), Tallinn (2015), Novi Sad (2016), Budapest (2017), Braga (2018), Oslo (2019) and Turin (2020). Post-proceedings ------------------- Similarly to TYPES 2011 and TYPES 2013-2020, a post-proceedings volume will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series. Submission to that volume will be open to everyone. Tentative dates for post-proceedings: * Non-binding intent (abstract) 29 October 2021 * Paper submission 26 November 2021 * Author notification 25 March 2022 The formal call with binding dates for the post-proceedings will be issued after the conference. Contact ----------- Email: types21 at liacs.leidenuniv.nl Web form: https://types21.liacs.nl/contact/ Programme Committee --------------------- Henning Basold (LIACS -- Leiden University) (chair) Stefano Berardi (Universit? di Torino) Marc Bezem (University of Bergen) Fr?d?ric Blanqui (INRIA -- ENS Paris-Saclay) Sandrine Blazy (INRIA -- University of Rennes) Ana Bove (Chalmers / U. of Gothenburg) Paolo Capriotti (TU Darmstadt) Jesper Cockx (TU Delft) Jos? Esp?rito Santo (University of Minho) Herman Geuvers (Radboud University Nijmegen) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad) Nicolai Kraus (U. of Nottingham) Sergue? Lenglet (Univ. de Lorraine) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA -- Nantes and VU Amsterdam) Ralph Matthes (IRIT -- CNRS and University of Toulouse) Keiko Nakata (Kyoto University) Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg (University of Strathclyde) Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen) Gabriel Scherer (INRIA Saclay) Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) Niccol? Veltri (Tallin UT) Stephanie Weirich (U. of Pennsylvania) Organiser ------------ Henning Basold (LIACS -- Leiden University) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It will consist of presentations by the PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended and ongoing research. Application Students at any stage of their PhD can apply and should submit the following documents: * A two-page abstract of your thesis describing your research questions, research plans, completed and remaining research, evaluation plans and publication plans; * A two-page CV that includes background information (name, university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status of degree, previous degrees), employments, relevant research experience (publications, presentations, attended conferences or workshops, etc.) All submissions should be made via https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cicm2021 until 15 May 2021. The doctoral program will be held online. More details here: https://cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=general From anupamdotdas at gmail.com Mon Apr 19 05:52:47 2021 From: anupamdotdas at gmail.com (anupamdotdas at gmail.com) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:52:47 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] =?utf-8?q?TABLEAUX_2021_=E2=80=93_Final_Call_fo?= =?utf-8?q?r_Papers=2E_**Extended_deadlines**=2E_6-9_September=2C_2?= =?utf-8?q?021=2E_Birmingham=2C_UK=2E?= Message-ID: <006601d73501$c12955b0$437c0110$@gmail.com> TABLEAUX 2021 The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Birmingham, UK, September 6-9, 2021 Website: https://tableaux2021.org/ ***EXTENDED DEADLINES***: 26 April (abstract), 30 April 2021 (paper) GENERAL INFORMATION The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021) will be hosted by the University of Birmingham, UK, 6-9 September 2021. TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of tableaux-based reasoning and related methods is presented. The first TABLEAUX conference was held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992. Since then it has been organised on an annual basis (sometimes as a part of IJCAR). TABLEAUX 2021 will be co-located with the 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2021). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE Tableaux and other proof based methods offer convenient and flexible tools for automated reasoning for both classical and non-classical logics. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, linear, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * sequent, natural deduction, labelled, nested and deep calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning; * techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation; * theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the TABLEAUX community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution. INVITED SPEAKERS TABLEAUX 2021 is pleased to confirm the following the invited speakers: Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University, Israel) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Greg Restall (University of Melbourne, Australia / University of St Andrews, UK) Renate Schmidt (joint with FroCoS) (University of Manchester, UK) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions are invited in the following two categories: (A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references; (B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references. There will also be a later call inviting position papers and brief reports on work-in-progress. Details will be kept up to date on the website. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the committee and must be removed for the camera-ready version. For category (A) submissions, the reported results must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category (B) submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet. Authors are encouraged to publish the implementation under an open source license. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that people can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in categories (A) and (B) will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux21 For all accepted papers at least one author is required to register to the conference and present the paper. A title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at: http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines IMPORTANT DATES **Extended abstract submission:** 26 April 2021 (AoE) **Extended paper submission:** 30 April 2021 (AoE) Notification: 14 June 2021 Conference: 6-9 September 2021 CONFERENCE FORMAT AND COVID-19 TABLEAUX 2021 and FroCoS 2021 are intended to be *hybrid* conferences welcoming both physical and virtual participation. The organisers are closely monitoring the pandemic situation and may choose to make the conference virtual-only if it seems unreasonable to host any sort of physical event. A final decision will be taken before the notification date 14 June (12 weeks before the conference) to leave ample time for potential travel plans to be made. PUBLICATION The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS). BEST PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper; and, * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper by a Junior Researcher. Researchers will be considered "junior" if either they are students or their PhD degree date is less than two years from the first day of the meeting. The two awards will be presented at the conference. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS Some funding may be available to support students participating at TABLEAUX 2021. More details will be given on the conference website in due time. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bahareh Afshari (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) Arnon Avron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Nick Bezhanishvili (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde, Denmark) Serenella Cerrito (Universit? Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, France) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria, France) Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) St?phane Demri (CNRS, France) Hans de Nivelle (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute Berkeley, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Manchester, UK) Christian Ferm?ller (TU Wien, Austria) Didier Galmiche (Universit? de Lorraine, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Universit? degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rajeev Gor? (Australian National University, Australia) Andrzej Indrzejczak (University of ??d?, Poland) Hidenori Kurokawa (Kanazawa University, Japan) Stepan Kuznetsov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Bj?rn Lellmann (SBA Research, Austria) St?phane Graham-Lengrand (SRI International, USA) George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) Neil Murray (University At Albany, USA) Cl?udia Nalon (Universidade de Bras?lia, Brazil) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy) Nicola Olivetti (Aix-Marseille University, France) Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) Alessandra Palmigiano (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield, UK) Gian Luca Pozzato (University of Turin, Italy) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) Reuben Rowe (Royal Holloway, UK) Jos? 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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. LFMTP 2021 will provide researchers a forum to present state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the following: * Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming languages, logical systems and related formally specified systems. * Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning about, datatypes defined from binding signatures. * Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and associated reasoning techniques, including inductive types of higher dimension in homotopy type theory * Graphical languages for building proofs, applications in geometry, equational reasoning and category theory. * New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks, contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders, functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy and cubical type theory. * Applications of logical frameworks: proof-carrying architectures, proof exchange and transformation, program refactoring, etc. * Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml or Agda, and logic programming languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog. Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: Monday April 26 (extended) Submission deadline: Monday May 03 (extended) Notification to authors: Monday May 31 Final version due: Monday June 14 Workshop date: Friday July 16 Submission In addition to regular papers, we welcome/encourage the submission of "work in progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report fully polished research results, but should be of interest for the community at large. Submitted papers should be in PDF, formatted using the EPTCS style guidelines. The length is restricted to 15 pages for regular papers and 8 pages for "Work in Progress" papers. Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfmtp2021 Proceedings A selection of the presented papers will be published online in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Invited Speakers * Giselle Reis (CMU-Qatar) * Matthieu Sozeau (Inria) Program Committee * David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris) * Roberto Blanco (MPI-SP) * Alberto Ciaffaglione (University of Udine) * Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna) * Marina Lenisa (Universit? degli Studi di Udine) * Dennis M?ller (Friedrich-Alexander-University) * Michael Norrish (CSIRO) * Elaine Pimentel (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) co-chair * Ulrich Sch?pp (fortiss GmbH) * Kathrin Stark (Princeton University) * Aaron Stump (The University of Iowa) * Nora Szasz (Universidad ORT Uruguay) * Enrico Tassi (Inria) co-chair * Alwen Tiu (The Australian National University) * Tjark Weber (Uppsala University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 (Reykjav?k, Iceland 2017, Oxford, UK 2018, Vancouver, Canada 2019, and Paris, France 2020) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for a 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 Simona Ronchi Della Rocca Rineke Verbrugge IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2021 Notification: May 28, 2021 Workshop: June 27, 2021 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 2021 Easychair page as a PDF file (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2021 ) before the submission deadline on April 30, 2021, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves (Co-chair, University of Porto) * Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Maribel Fern?ndez (King's College London) * Helle Hansen (University of Groningen) * Delia Kesner (Universit? de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) * Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University) * Daniele Nantes (University of Bras?lia) * Ayb?ke ?zg?n (ILLC - University of Amsterdam) * Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) * Ana Sokolova (Co-chair, University of Salzburg) _______________________________________________ women-in-logic mailing list -- women-in-logic at lists.rwth-aachen.de To unsubscribe send an email to women-in-logic-leave at lists.rwth-aachen.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruy at cin.ufpe.br Sun Apr 18 11:50:39 2021 From: ruy at cin.ufpe.br (Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:50:39 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 27th WoLLIC 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC 2021 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation October 5 to 8, 2021 ORGANISATION Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brazil University College London, UK Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021. 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 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, 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 2021 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) IMPORTANT DATES May 15, 2021: Full paper deadline June 23, 2021: Author notification June 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (Cordoba, Argentina) Arthur Amorim Azevedo (CMU, USA) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) 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 (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) 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 Renata Wassermann (Univ S?o Paulo) (Co-Chair) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wim.vanhoof at unamur.be Mon Apr 19 14:38:36 2021 From: wim.vanhoof at unamur.be (Wim Vanhoof) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:38:36 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LOPSTR 2021 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <53E0582F-D5F7-4ECA-B596-FA27424E84F5@unamur.be> =========================================================================== 31st International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2021 http://saks.iasi.cnr.it/lopstr21/ Tallinn, Estonia, September 7-9, 2021 (co-located with PPDP 2021) =========================================================================== The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 31st International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2021) will be held at the Teachers' House in Tallinn, Estonia. Previous symposia were held in Bologna (as a virtual meeting), Porto, Frankfurt am Main, Namur, Edinburgh, Siena, Canterbury, Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2021 will be co-located with PPDP 2021 (International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large, including, but not limited to: - synthesis - transformation - specialization - composition - optimization - inversion - specification - analysis and verification - testing and certification - program and model manipulation - machine learning for program development - verification and testing of machine learning systems - transformational techniques in SE - applications and tools Both full papers and extended abstracts describing foundations and applications in these areas are welcome. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective and papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chairs in case of questions). * Important Dates * Abstract submission (optional): May 1, 2021 (AoE) Paper/Extended abstract submission: May 15, 2021 Notification: July 1, 2021 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 20, 2021 Symposium: September 7-9, 2021 Revised paper submission: November 1, 2021 (AoE) Notification: December 1, 2021 Final version (for post-proceedings): January 16, 2022 * Submission Guidelines * Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in LNCS 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. Full papers cannot exceed 15 pages excluding references. Extended abstracts cannot exceed 8 pages excluding references. Additional pages may be used for appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lopstr2021 * Proceedings * The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as in previous years. 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 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 500 EUR prize each) will be given at LOPSTR 2021. The program committee will select the winning papers based on relevance, originality and technical quality but may also take authorship into account (e.g. a student paper). * Invited Speaker * TBA * Program Committee * Roberto Amadini, University of Bologna, Italy Sabine Broda, University of Porto, Portugal Maximiliano Cristi?, CIFASIS-UNR, Argentina W?odzimierz Drabent, IPI PAN, Poland & Link?ping University, Sweden Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, UK Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Geoff Hamilton, Dublin City University, Ireland Michael Hanus, Kiel University, Germany Bishoksan Kafle, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Maja Kirkeby, Roskilde University, Denmark Temur Kutsia, RISC J. Kepler University of Linz, Austria Michael Leuschel, University of D?sseldorf, Germany Pedro L?pez-Garc?a, IMDEA Software Institute & CSIC, Spain Jacopo Mauro, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Fred Mesnard, Universit? de la R?union, France Alberto Momigliano, University of Milano, Italy Jorge A. Navas, SRI International, USA Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University, Japan Alicia Villanueva, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain * Program Chairs * Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium * Local organisation * Niccol? Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia * Contact * For more information, please contact the Program Committee Chairs: emanuele.deangelis at iasi.cnr.it, wim.vanhoof at unamur.be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.lasota at uw.edu.pl Mon Apr 19 15:47:40 2021 From: s.lasota at uw.edu.pl (=?UTF-8?Q?S=C5=82awomir_Lasota?=) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:47:40 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata 2021: 1st Call for Presentations Message-ID: ******************************************************** HIGHLIGHTS 2021: 9th annual conference on Highlights of LOGIC, GAMES, and AUTOMATA 15-17 September 2021, Aachen (but most probably online) http://highlights-conference.org We invite submissions for contributed talks (around 10 minutes). IMPORTANT DATES: + Submission deadline: 4 JUNE, 7pm GMT + Notification: 18 JUNE, 7pm GMT Submission instructions and more detailed information about the conference to be found at http://highlights-conference.org ******************************************************** HIGHLIGHTS 2021 is the 9th conference on Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata that aims to integrate the diverse research community working in the areas of Logic, Finite Model Theory, Automata Theory, Games and Verification. Individual papers are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them challenging to follow. Participating in the annual Highlights conference offers a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet and interact with most of the members of the research community. The speakers are encouraged to present their best recent work at Highlights, whether already published elsewhere or not. There will be a tutorial day (14 September) and three days for the conference (15-17 September). This year's edition will be most probably held online, with no registration fees. TUTORIAL (September 14) + Christoph Haase + Micha? Pilipczuk KEYNOTES + Rajeev Alur + Balder ten Cate + Karoliina Lehtinen + Nutan Limaye + Joel Ouaknine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kedar.namjoshi at nokia-bell-labs.com Mon Apr 19 17:03:27 2021 From: kedar.namjoshi at nokia-bell-labs.com (Namjoshi, Kedar (Nokia - US/Murray Hill)) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:03:27 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SAS 2021 CFP Extended Deadline Message-ID: SAS 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS ################## Extended Deadline ################## Paper submission: April 30, 2021 Artifact submission: May 6, 2021 Full CFP: https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2021 ################## Extended Deadline ################## The 28th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2021, will be held in Chicago (US) from October 17-22, 2021 in conjunction with SPLASH 2021. 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. PAPER SUBMISSION All paper submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sas2021 Regular papers (18 pages max., lightweight double-blind) Short papers (10 pages max.) may focus on any of the following: * Experience with static analysis tools, Industrial Reports, and Case Studies (non-blind) * Tool papers (lightweight double-blind) * Brief announcements of work in progress (lightweight double-blind) * Well-motivated discussion of new questions or new areas (lightweight double-blind) Radhia Cousot Award The program committee will select an accepted regular 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. 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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 that 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 2021 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 (with the exception of 2020, because of COVID-19 outbreak). Information about the previous events is available on the ITRS home page . Invited Speaker - Jeremy Siek (Indiana University Bloomington) Paper Submissions Papers must be original and not previously published, nor submitted elsewhere. Papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package and should be in the range of 3-16 pages, plus at most 2 pages of references. Submissions will be collected via EasyChair and reviewed by anonymous referees. Important Dates - Paper submission: 12 April *26 April 2021 (extended)* - Author notification: 24 May 2021 - Final version: 18 June 2021 - Workshop: 17 July 2021 Program Committee - Antonio Bucciarelli, Universit? de Paris, France - Daniel De Carvalho, Innopolis University, Russia - Andrej Dudenhefner, Saarland University, Germany - Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Giulio Guerrieri, University of Bath, UK - Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy (chair) - Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Bloomington, USA (co-chair) Organizers: Ugo de' Liguoro, Universit? di Torino, Italy Riccardo Treglia, Universit? di Torino, Italy (riccardo.treglia at unito.it) Steering Committee - Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Universit? di Torino, Italy - Jakob Rehof, TU University of Dortmund, Germany - Joe Wells, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ornela.dardha at gmail.com Tue Apr 20 09:03:22 2021 From: ornela.dardha at gmail.com (Ornela Dardha) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:03:22 +0100 Subject: [TYPES/announce] VEST'21 Workshop: Second Call for Talks (Deadline Approaching) Message-ID: ********************************************************************* VEST 2021: 2nd Workshop on Verification of Session Types Online on July 12, 2021, co-located with ICALP 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home Submission: Monday, 3rd May 2021 Call for Talks ********************************************************************* * Presentation The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and build and strengthen a community working on verification of session types using various theorem provers such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. Session types are abstract representations of the sequences of operations that computational entities (such as channels or objects) must perform. Stateful entities offer services in a non-uniform way (one cannot pop from an empty stack); traditional type systems cannot guarantee that operations are only invoked when the entity is in the right state. Large-scale software systems rely on message-passing protocols: their correctness largely depends on sound protocol implementations. Session types can help in the specification of correct-by-construction systems, and in verifying that programs respect their intended protocols. Recent years have seen a steady stream of research on behavioural types: their foundations and their transfer to several programming languages. This has led to highly-cited papers in conferences such as POPL and journals such as TOPLAS. Research projects on behavioural types have advanced the theory and applications of behavioural types. Although the foundations of session types are now well established, and new works build on approaches that have become standard, there is still a lack of reusable libraries, namely machine-verified ones. As on one hand the basis of most works is common, and on the other hand the complexity of the formal systems is considerable and may lead to errors in the proofs of the soundness results, machine verifying the type systems proposed is vital. Libraries, or at least clear formalisations of common approaches, is crucial to avoid not only to repeat work but also to increase the confidence in the knowledge base. Moreover, as many of these systems have a goal to do static analysis to ensure some safety or liveness property, machine verification of these approaches leads to certified software for program analysis. The goal of the VEST workshop is to gather the researchers working on mechanisations of behavioural types using various theorem provers, such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. The workshop will be a platform to present both the now well-established efforts and the ongoing works the community has put on verification. The workshop will also be a forum to discuss strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, potential obstacles and to foster collaboration. * Types of Contributions We request two types of research contributions. Type 1: Short presentations (1 page) of work published elsewhere; Type 2: Presentations (2-5 pages) of ongoing original work. Submissions of Type 1 will consist of 1 page papers presenting the work, the publication venue and the significance of the results; the PC will select the submissions with a ranking system. Submissions of Type 2 will consist of 2 - 5 page papers submitted to a light reviewing process. There will be no proceedings of VEST'21, but rather the aim is to strengthen and further expand our community. * Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h) Submission: Monday, 3rd May 2021 Notification: Monday, 14th June 2021 Final Version: Monday, 5th July 2021 Workshop: Monday, 12th July 2021 * Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf= vest21 * Invited Speakers: - Jesper Bengtson (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Andreia Mordido (University of Lisbon, Portugal) *Tutorial, jointly delivered by: - David Castro-Perez (University of Kent, UK) - Francisco Ferreira-Ruiz (Imperial College, UK) - Lorenzo Gheri (Imperial College, UK) * Program Committee: - Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde, UK - Laura Bocchi, University of Kent, UK - Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK (Co-chair) - Cinzia Di Giusto, Universit? 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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 and mixed-criticality systems and software -Architecture and system design for dependability -Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols -Dependability and security in web and mobile applications -Cloud computing resiliency, security and privacy -(Industrial) Internet of things dependability, security and privacy -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 and Industry 4.0 -Dependability issues in socio-technical systems -Dependability and security in AI and 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 conference 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=prdc2021 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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Important Dates: Thu 8 Jul 2021: Submission deadline Sat 4 Sep 2021: Start of rebuttal period Wed 8 Sep 2021: End of rebuttal period Wed 29 Sep 2021: Notification Sun 16 - Fri 21 Jan 2022: Conference Location: Westin Hotel, Philadelphia, USA General chair: Rajeev Alur PC chair: Hongseok Yang PC members: https://popl22.sigplan.org/committee/POPL-2022-popl-research-papers-program-committee # 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 should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience. 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. They must not be overly long and should not try to introduce new technical results. Reviewers will write a short reaction to these author responses. Following the precedent set by POPL 2018, 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. Unlike in recent years, there will be no formal External Review Committee, though experts outside the committee will be consulted when their expertise is needed. Reviews will be accompanied by a short summary of the reasons behind the committee?s decision. It is the goal of the program committee to make it clear to the authors why each paper was or was not accepted. # 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 2020 will be published as part of the new ACM journal Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL). 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URL: From giselle.mnr at gmail.com Fri Apr 23 06:27:13 2021 From: giselle.mnr at gmail.com (Giselle Reis) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:27:13 +0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] 7th International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) - DEADLINE EXTENSION: May 5 Message-ID: Call for Papers, PxTP 2021 The Seventh International Workshop on Proof eXchange for Theorem Proving (PxTP) https://pxtp.gitlab.io/2021 21 July 2021, online associated with the CADE-28 conference ## Background The PxTP workshop brings together researchers working on various aspects of communication, integration, and cooperation between reasoning systems and formalisms. The progress in computer-aided reasoning, both automatic and interactive, during the past decades, has made it possible to build deduction tools that are increasingly more applicable to a wider range of problems and are able to tackle larger problems progressively faster. In recent years, cooperation of such tools in larger verification environments has demonstrated the potential to reduce the amount of manual intervention. Examples include the Sledgehammer tool providing an interface between Isabelle and (untrusted) automated provers, and collaboration of the HOL Light and Isabelle systems in the formal proof of the Kepler conjecture. Cooperation between reasoning systems relies on availability of theoretical formalisms and practical tools for exchanging problems, proofs, and models. The PxTP workshop strives to encourage such cooperation by inviting contributions on suitable integration, translation, and communication methods, standards, protocols, and programming interfaces. The workshop welcomes developers of automated and interactive theorem proving tools, developers of combined systems, developers and users of translation tools and interfaces, and producers of standards and protocols. We are interested both in success stories and descriptions of current bottlenecks and proposals for improvement. ## Topics Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of cooperation between reasoning tools, whether automatic or interactive. More specifically, some suggested topics are: * applications that integrate reasoning tools (ideally with certification of the result); * interoperability of reasoning systems; * translations between logics, proof systems, models; * distribution of proof obligations among heterogeneous reasoning tools; * algorithms and tools for checking and importing (replaying, reconstructing) proofs; * proposed formats for expressing problems and solutions for different classes of logic solvers (SAT, SMT, QBF, first-order logic, higher-order logic, typed logic, rewriting, etc.); * meta-languages, logical frameworks, communication methods, standards, protocols, and APIs related to problems, proofs, and models; * comparison, refactoring, transformation, migration, compression and optimization of proofs; * data structures and algorithms for improved proof production in solvers (e.g., efficient proof representations); * (universal) libraries, corpora and benchmarks of proofs and theories; * alignment of diverse logics, concepts and theories across systems and libraries; * engineering aspects of proofs (e.g., granularity, flexiformality, persistence over time); * proof certificates; * proof checking; * mining of (mathematical) information from proofs (e.g., quantifier instantiations, unsat cores, interpolants, ...); * reverse engineering and understanding of formal proofs; * universality of proofs (i.e. interoperability of proofs between different proof calculi); * origins and kinds of proofs (e.g., (in)formal, automatically generated, interactive, ...) * Hilbert's 24th Problem (i.e. what makes a proof better than another?); * social aspects (e.g., community-wide initiatives related to proofs, cooperation between communities, the future of (formal) proofs); * applications relying on importing proofs from automatic theorem provers, such as certified static analysis, proof-carrying code, or certified compilation; * application-oriented proof theory; * practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies. ## Submissions Researchers interested in participating are invited to submit either an extended abstract (up to 8 pages) or a regular paper (up to 15 pages). Submissions will be refereed by the program committee, which will select a balanced program of high-quality contributions. Short submissions that could stimulate fruitful discussion at the workshop are particularly welcome. We expect that one author of every accepted paper will present their work at the workshop. Submitted papers should describe previously unpublished work, and must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (http://style.eptcs.org). Papers will be submitted via EasyChair, at the PxTP'2021 workshop page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pxtp-7). Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS volume. ## Important Dates * Abstract submission: *April 28*, 2021 * Paper submission: *May 5*, 2021 * Notification: May 26, 2021 * Camera ready versions due: June 16, 2021 * Workshop: July 11, 2021 (online) ## Invited Speakers TBA ## Program Committee * Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil) * Denis Cousineau (Mitsubishi, France) * Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE, France) * Katalin Fazekas (TU Wien, Austria) * Mathias Fleury (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria), co-chair * Predrag Jani?i? (University of Belgrade, Serbia) * Chantal Keller (LRI, Universit? Paris-Saclay, France), co-chair * Aina Niemetz (Stanford University, USA) * Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) * Giselle Reis (CMU-Qatar, Qatar) * Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA) * Fran?ois Thir? (Nomadic Labs, France) * Sophie Tourret (Max-Planck-Institut f?r Informatik, Germany) * Josef Urban (Czech Institute of Informatics, Czech Republic) ## Previous PxTP Editions * PxTP 2019 (http://pxtp.gforge.inria.fr/2019), affiliated to CADE-27 * PxTP 2017 (https://pxtp.github.io/2017), affiliated to Tableaux 2017, FroCoS 2017 and ITP 2017 * PxTP 2015 (http://pxtp15.lri.fr), affiliated to CADE-25 * PxTP 2013 (http://www.cs.ru.nl/pxtp13), affiliated to CADE-24 * PxTP 2012 (http://pxtp2012.inria.fr), affiliated to IJCAR 2012 * PxTP 2011 (http://pxtp2011.loria.fr), affiliated to CADE-23 From genaim at gmail.com Sun Apr 25 09:19:41 2021 From: genaim at gmail.com (Samir Genaim) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:19:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WST 2021: deadline extension (9 May, 2021) Message-ID: ====================================================================== WST 2021 - Call for Papers 17th International Workshop on Termination http://costa.fdi.ucm.es/wst2021 July 16, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA, United States Co-located with CADE-28 **** The workshop will be virtual **** ====================================================================== *[The submission deadline was extended to May 9, 2021].* 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. IMPORTANT DATES: * * submission deadline: May 9, 2021* (extended) * notification: June 6, 2021 * final version due: June 20, 2021 * workshop: July 16, 2021 INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 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=wst2021 Please, use LaTeX and the LIPIcs style file http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz to prepare your submission. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Martin Avanzini - INRIA Sophia, Antipolis * 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? 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URL: From ksk at riec.tohoku.ac.jp Sun Apr 25 22:25:18 2021 From: ksk at riec.tohoku.ac.jp (Keisuke Nakano) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:25:18 +0900 Subject: [TYPES/announce] WPTE 2021 (FINAL Call For Papers) Message-ID: <81C78620-838F-4D94-978D-200838AB4D2A@riec.tohoku.ac.jp> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE 2021: 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Held online on July 18, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Web site: https://www.ipl.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/wpte2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021 Submission deadline: May 10, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2021) is affiliated with FSCD 2021, https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ List of Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence, and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis. * Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and rewriting. Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. All submissions will be electronic via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021. 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 selected 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 2021. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended abstracts: May 10, 2021 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2021 Final version for proceedings deadline: June 13, 2021 Workshop: July 18, 2021 Submission to post-proceedings: September 2021 Program Committees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keisuke Nakano, Tohoku University, Japan (Chair) Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. (co-Chair) ?tefan Ciob?c?, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Ia?i, Romania Makoto Hamana, Gunma University, Japan Akimasa Morihata, the University of Tokyo, Japan Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Koko Muroya, Kyoto University, Japan David Sabel, LMU, Germany Julia Sapi?a, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Janis Voigtl?nder, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to wpte2021 (at) easychair.org From elaine.pimentel at gmail.com Mon Apr 26 06:47:45 2021 From: elaine.pimentel at gmail.com (Elaine Pimentel) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 07:47:45 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] TLLA 2021 - 2nd cfp Message-ID: ============================================================== Call for Papers TLLA 2021 5th International Workshop on Trends in Linear Logic and Applications Rome, 27-28 June 2021 Affiliated with ACM/IEEE LICS https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/TLLA/2021/ ============================================================== Linear Logic is not only a proof theoretical tool to analyze or control 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, even if developed for studying Linear Logic syntax and semantics, have been applied in several other fields (analysis of lambda-calculus computations, game semantics, computational complexity, program verification, etc.). The TLLA international workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on Linear Logic or applying it or its tools. The main goal is to present and discuss trends in the research on Linear Logic and its applications by means of tutorials, invited talks, open discussions, and contributed talks. The purpose is to gather researchers interested in the connections between Linear Logic and various topics such as * theory of programming languages * implicit computational complexity * parallelism and concurrency * games and languages * proof theory * philosophy * categories and algebra * possible connections with combinatorics * linguistics * functional analysis and operator algebras ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributions are not restricted to talks presenting an original results, but open to tutorials, open discussions, and position papers. For this reason, we strongly encourage contributions presenting work in progress, open questions, and research projects. Contributions presenting the application of linear logic results, techniques, or tools to other fields, or vice versa, are most welcome. To propose a contributed talk submit a short abstract whose length is between 2 and 5 pages on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlla2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Important dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Submission deadline: 2 May 2021 * Notification to authors: 14 May 2021 * Final versions due: 24 May 2021 * Workshop date: 27-28 June 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Publication ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The abstracts of the contributed and invited talks will be published on the site of the conference. 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We believe that bridging this divide is a major issue in Computer Science, and may hold the key to fundamental advances in the field. The aim this workshop is to attract investigators at the boundary of the two strands, and those on either side of the divide interested on establishing new connections. This workshop is a part of LICS 2021 workshops series. The even will be held entirely online. Important dates --------------- Abstract submission: 20 May 2021 Author notification: 5 June 2021 Registration: 20 June 2021 Invited speakers ---------------- * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw) * Laura Mancinska (University of Copenhagen) * Daniela Petrisan (Universite Paris Diderot) Submissions ----------- Those wishing to speak at the workshop are invited to submit an Extended Abstract of up to three pages (including references) describing the content of the contributed presentation. Submissions should only have a single author -- the speaker. The co-authors are required to be clearly indicated in the abstract and later also in the slides. For submissions please use the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smp2021 We encourage talks of all levels of progress, including novel contributions, already published results, work in progress, as well as survey-type contributions. However, original contributions might be considered for a subsequent special issue, consisting of journal versions of selected extended abstracts. Depending on the number of submissions, contributed talks will be 20-30 minutes long. Registration ------------ Registration is free of charge and is mandatory in order to access the workshop. Closer to the date you will receive a password and link to access the online meeting rooms. Those who register early will receive notifications about upcoming deadlines. The registration form can be found here: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/conference/structure-meets-power-2021/registration Organising and Programme Committee: ----------------------------------- * Samson Abramsky * Anuj Dawar * Tomas Jakl * Dan Marsden From bruno.bernardo at tutanota.com Tue Apr 27 03:21:39 2021 From: bruno.bernardo at tutanota.com (Bruno Bernardo) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:21:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [TYPES/announce] FMBC 2021 - 3rd Call for Papers (Deadline extensions) Message-ID: [ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ======================================================================== 3rd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) - Third Call https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2021 July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021, *online* Co-located with the 33nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2021) http://i-cav.org/2021/ ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- Abstract submission: May 6, 2021 (extended) Paper submission: May 13, 2021 (extended) Notification: June 24, 2021 (extended) Camera-ready: July 8, 2021 Workshop: July 18 or 19 (TBA), 2021 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 page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5 additional pages). Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3 pages (including bibliography) summarizing your ongoing work in the area of formal methods and blockchain. Authors of selected extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2021 Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and prepare their submissions according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided by Dagstuhl. Instructions for authors: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#oasics At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop as a registered participant. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------- David Dill, Lead Researcher, Blockchain, Novi/Facebook, USA https://research.fb.com/people/dill-david/ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- 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) * Joachim Breitner (Dfinity Foundation, Germany) * Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK) * Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, France) * J?r?mie Decouchant (TU Delft, Netherlands) * Dana Drachsler Cohen (Technion, Israel) * Ansgar Fehnker (University of Twente, Netherlands) * Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA) * Lars Hupel (INNOQ, Germany) * Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK) * Igor Konnov (Informal Systems, Austria) * Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset, Switzerland) * Sim?o Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) * Karl Palmskog (KTH, Sweden) * Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne Universit?, France) * Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity Foundation, Germany) * Albert Rubio (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) * C?sar Sanchez (Imdea, Spain) * Clara Schneidewind (TU Wien, Austria) * Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College/NUS, Singapore) * Mark Staples (CSIRO Data61, Australia) * Meng Sun (Peking University, China) * Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK) * Josef Widder (Informal Systems, Austria) From ayala at unb.br Tue Apr 27 11:42:19 2021 From: ayala at unb.br (Mauricio Ayala-Rincon) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:42:19 -0300 Subject: [TYPES/announce] LSFA 2021 - extended deadline - Affiliated to FSCD 2021 Message-ID: <9ce9017c-613e-9d71-025e-d73ec759258d@unb.br> [Extended deadline] ??????????????????//?????????????????? ??????? 16th Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications - LSFA 2021 ??????????????????????????? 23-24 July 2021 ?????????????????????? https://mat.unb.br/lsfa2021 ????????????? Affiliated to FSCD 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Online) ???????????????????????????? Third Call For Papers [Extended deadline] ??????????????????//?????????????????? 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 computational languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The LSFA series' objective is to put together theoreticians and practitioners to promote new techniques and results, from the theoretical side, and feedback on the implementation and use of such techniques and results, from the practical side. See lsfa.cic.unb.br for more information. LSFA topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Automated deduction * Applications of logical and semantic frameworks * Computational and logical properties of semantic frameworks * Formal semantics of languages and systems * Implementation of logical and semantic frameworks * Lambda and combinatory calculi * Logical aspects of computational complexity * Logical frameworks * Process calculi * Proof theory * Semantic frameworks * Specification languages and meta-languages * Type theory Submissions Contributions should be written in English and submitted in full paper (with a maximum of 16 pages) or short papers (with a maximum of 6 pages). They must be unpublished and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. The papers should be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS style. The submission should be in the form of a PDF file uploaded to Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsfa2021 The pre-proceedings, containing the reviewed extended abstracts, will be handed out at event registration. After the meeting, the authors will be invited to submit full versions of their works for the post-proceedings publication. At least one of the authors should register for the conference. Presentations should be in English. According to the submissions' quality, the chairs will promote the further publication of journal revised versions of the papers. Previous LSFA Special Issues have been published in journals such as The Logical J. of the IGPL, Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Sciences (see the LSFA page http://lsfa.cic.unb.br). Important dates * Abstract: [Extended deadline] Sunday 2nd May * Submission: [Extended deadline] Sunday 9nd May * Notification: Friday 4th June * Preliminary proceedings version due: Monday 14th June * Submission for final proceedings: Sunday 17th October * Final version: Sunday 19th December Invited Speakers ? Alejandro D?az-Caro (ICC-UBA/CONICET, UNQ) ? Alexandra Silva (University College London) ? Giulio Guerrieri (University of Bath) Program Committee ? Mar?a Alpuente (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia) ? Sandra Alves (Universidade de Porto, Portugal) ? Takahito Aoto (Niigata University) ? Mauricio Ayala-Rinc?n (Universidade de Bras?lia) - Co-Chair ? Eduardo Bonelli (Stevens University) - Co-Chair ? Evelyne Contejean (LRI, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay) ? Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham) ? Marcelo Finger (Universidade de S?o Paulo) ? Yannick Forster (Saarland University) ? Lourdes del Carmen Gonz?lez Huesca (UNAM) ? Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) ? Cynthia Kop (Radboud University) ? Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz) ? Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires) ? Alexandre Miquel (Universidad de La Rep?blica) ? Barbara Morawska (Ahmedabad University) ? Mariano Moscato (National Institute of Aerospace) ? Cesar Mu?oz (NASA LaRC) ? Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (U. de Bras?lia) ? Carlos Olarte (U. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte) ? Federico Olmedo (Universidad de Chile) ? Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la Rep?blica) ? Jorge A. P?rez (University of Groningen) ? Camilo Rocha (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali) ? Aleksy Schubert (University of Warsaw) ? Ren? Thiemann (University of Innsbruck) ? Renata Wassermann (Universidade de S?o Paulo) Organisers ?? Daniele Nantes (UnB, Brasil) ?? Cristian F. Sottile (UBA, Argentina) ??????????????????//?????????????????? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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/AEthjg2k718 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 harley.eades at gmail.com Wed Apr 28 10:58:48 2021 From: harley.eades at gmail.com (Harley D. Eades III) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:58:48 -0400 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PhD Student Opportunity in the Granule Project Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Harley Eades of the Granule Project and Augusta University's ForML Lab is actively seeking applications for a PhD student starting Fall 2021. The successful applicant will be funded--including tuition, salary, and (international) conference travel--for the first three years of their appointment through a new NSF funded project: "Semantically and Practically Generalizing Graded Modal Types" A short overview of the main goals of this project is as follows: "We propose to investigate the theory and practice of graded modal types with the goal of combining and generalizing type-based software verification and data-usage tracking, thereby extending the verification abilities of type systems. To carry out this research we plan to: 1. investigate a new foundational theory for graded modal types based on the underlying theory of constructive modal logics that will support several new kinds of data-usage tracking making them more applicable to real-world problems. 2. design and implement Tenli; a general purpose functional programming language with graded modal types that supports general type-based software verification; 3. design new pedagogical materials for teaching resourceful software verification at both the undergraduate and graduate levels using Tenli, and other tools." The successful applicant will be advised by Harley Eades, but also collaborate with Dominic Orchard and his students in the Granule Project. In addition, they will have the opportunity to help mentor summer undergraduate research assistants through new collaborations with: - Clark Atlanta: A historically black university, and - Wesleyan College: An all women's school in Georgia. This is also an exciting time to join the ever growing Augusta University who has made Computer Science one of the main pillars of their university. We have successfully recruited ten new faculty (at all ranks) per year for the last three years. Fall 2021 marks the inaugural year of our PhD program (shorturl.at/gDTU9) and the successful applicant will be among the first PhD students in Computer Science at our university. Even though this is the inaugural year of our PhD program Harley Eades has mentored and collaborated with several PhD students over the course of the last six years. As part of a different NSF funded project Harley Eades recruited and collaborated with three PhD students from other universities through stipends. In addition, he actively collaborates with and has helped mentor PhD students working with Dominic Orchard. Finally, Harley Eades is an active SIGPLAN Mentor (https://www.sigplan.org/LongTermMentoring/) of one PhD student. Interested students should meet the following properties: - Be interested in the overall project as stated above. - Have or are about to complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field (Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, etc.). - Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale. - Both national and International applicants are welcome. If you are interested in applying for this opportunity please begin by contacting Harley Eades (harley.eades at gmail.com) with the following information: - A brief introduction of yourself and if you've done any research already. - CV/Resume More information: - Harley Eades: https://metatheorem.org/ - Granule Project: https://granule-project.github.io/ - ForML Lab: https://the-au-forml-lab.github.io/index.html - AU PhD Program: https://www.augusta.edu/ccs/phd-ccs.php Thanks, Harley Eades -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov Mon Apr 26 12:39:31 2021 From: fm-announcements at lists.nasa.gov (Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:39:31 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] Call for (Virtual) Participation - NFM 2021 Message-ID: *********************************************************************** ???????????? ?????????CALL FOR (VIRTUAL) PARTICIPATION??????? ???????? 13th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021) ?????????????????????????????????May 24-28, 2021 ?????????????? https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021 ?????????? NFM 2021 is a virtual event organized by ?????????? ??????the Formal Methods Team at ???????NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA ???????????????????? ** Free Registration ** *********************************************************************** Virtual Symposium ----------------- Due to concerns about COVID-19, NFM 2021 is going virtual. We invite the formal methods and aligned communities to use this opportunity of a virtual symposium to participate and engage in a very exciting set of paper presentations and keynote talks. 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) Steering Committee, comprised of researchers spanning several NASA centers. NFM 2021 is being organized by the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. More information about past NFM Symposiums can be found here: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM. Registration ------------ There is no registration fee charged to participants.? All interested individuals are welcome to attend; however, all attendees must register here: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/#loc-registration. Keynote Speakers ---------------- * Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Cristina Cifuentes (Oracle Labs, Australia) * Matthew B. Dwyer (University of Virginia, USA) * Azadeh Farzan (University of Toronto, Canada) * Rob Manning (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) NFM2021 Program & F-IDE 2021 Workshop -------------------------- The complete program is available here: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/program.html. This year the 6th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE 2021) will be virtually hosted with NFM 2021. 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You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From gsilvia at uns.ac.rs Wed Apr 28 12:57:41 2021 From: gsilvia at uns.ac.rs (Silvia Ghilezan) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:57:41 +0200 Subject: [TYPES/announce] PPDP 2021 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: =========================== PPDP 2021 Second Call for Papers =========================== 23rd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming 6?8 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia http://imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs/PPDP2021 Collocated with LOPSTR 2021 http://cs.ioc.ee/ppdp-lopstr21/ =================================== Important Dates --------------------- - 08.05.2021 title and abstract submission - 15.05.2021 paper submission - 29.06.2021 rebuttal period (48 hours) - 09.07.2021 notification - 23.07.2021 final paper - 06.09.2021 conference starts About PPDP ---------- The PPDP 2021 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. Scope ----- 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. Submission web page --------------------- https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2021 Submission Categories --------------------- Submissions can be made in three categories: - Research Papers, - System Descriptions, - 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. 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. Formating Guidelines ---------------------------- We plan to use the same publication arrangements as PPDP has had in previous years. 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 1.75. 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 . 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. Program Committee ----------------------------- Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, USA Nick Benton, Facebook, UK Ma?gorzata Biernacka, University of Wroclaw, Poland James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh, UK Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE Paris-Evry, France Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad & Mathematical Institute SASA, Serbia Hugo Herbelin, INRIA, France Cosimo Laneve, University of Bologna, Italy Pierre Lescanne, ENS de Lyon, France Ugo de?Liguoro, University of Torino, Italy Francesca A. Lisi, University of Bari, Italy Yanhong Annie Liu, Stony Brook University, USA Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Yukiyoshi Kameyama, University of Tsukuba, Japan Petar Maksimovi?, Imperial College, London, UK Yutaka Nagashima, Yale-NUS College, Singapore & University of Innsbruck, Austria Aleksandar Nanevski, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Vivek Nigam, fortiss GmbH, Germany & Federal University of Para?ba, Brazil Jorge A. P?rez, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Alexis Saurin, CNRS, Universit? de Paris & INRIA , France Tom Schrijvers , KU Leuven, The Netherlands Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Island & Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- Program committee co-chair: Nick Benton, Facebook, UK Program committee co-chair: Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad & Mathematical Institute SASA, Serbia Organising committee chair: Niccol? Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Steering committee chair: James Cheney, Edinburgh University, UK ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to the program chair Silvia Ghilezan . All questions about local information should be emailed to the local organiser Niccol? Veltri . From loris at cs.wisc.edu Thu Apr 29 10:15:13 2021 From: loris at cs.wisc.edu (Loris D'Antoni) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:15:13 -0500 Subject: [TYPES/announce] POPL 2022 Call for Papers [REVISED, apologies for multiple emails] Message-ID: Please help us forward the following call for papers to the relevant mailing lists and groups. POPL 2022 Call for Papers (https://popl22.sigplan.org/) PACMPL Issue POPL 2022 seeks contributions on all aspects of programming languages and programming systems, both theoretical and practical. Authors of papers published in PACMPL Issue POPL 2022 will be invited to present their work in the POPL conference in January 2022, which is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGACT and ACM SIGLOG. # Important Dates Thu 08 Jul 2021: Submission deadline Sat 04 Sep 2021: Start of rebuttal period Wed 08 Sep 2021: End of rebuttal period Wed 29 Sep 2021: Notification Mon 08 Nov 2021: Camera Ready Deadline Sun 16 - Fri 21 Jan 2022: Conference Location: Westin Hotel, Philadelphia, USA General chair: Rajeev Alur PC chair: Hongseok Yang Review Committee members: https://popl22.sigplan.org/committee/POPL-2022-popl-research-papers-program-committee # Scope 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. # Evaluation Criteria The Review 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 Review Committee will discuss papers entirely electronically rather than at a physical 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 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 Review 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 Review Committee by the requested deadline or risk rejection. # 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 2022 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. # Artifact Evaluation Authors of accepted papers will be invited to formally submit supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. 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The selection of the distinguished papers will be made based on the final version of the paper and through a second review process. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexander.nadel at intel.com Fri Apr 30 16:30:49 2021 From: alexander.nadel at intel.com (Nadel, Alexander) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:30:49 +0000 Subject: [TYPES/announce] SMT 2021 Workshop: Deadline Extension to May 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: SMT 2021: 19th International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories ONLINE July 18-19, 2021 Conference website: http://smt-workshop.cs.uiowa.edu/2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smt2021 Submission deadline: May 7, 2021 Overview SMT 2021 is affiliated with CAV 2021. Both events will be virtual. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of SMT tools and techniques. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: * Decision procedures and theories of interest * Combinations of decision procedures * Novel implementation techniques * Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies * Applications and case studies * Theoretical results Papers on pragmatic aspects of implementing and using SMT tools, as well as novel applications of SMT, are especially encouraged. Important Dates * Paper submission: ?A?p?r?i?l? ?3?0? May 7, 2021 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) * Notification: June 4, 2021 * Workshop: July 18-19, 2021 Submission Guidelines We invite researchers to submit extended abstracts, original papers, and presentation only-papers. We intend to publish open-access proceedings for SMT 2021 as a volume of the EPiC Series EasyChair Proceedings. Extended abstracts and original papers must not have been published or submitted elsewhere and will be included in the proceedings. * Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. They may range in length from very short (a couple of pages) to the full 10 pages and they will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the SMT community. * 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 and will not be included in the proceedings. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that SMT Workshop attendees may be unaware of. Papers in all three categories will be peer-reviewed. Original papers and extended abstracts should not exceed 10 pages and should be in standard-conforming PDF. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion. Final versions should be prepared in LaTeX using the easychair.cls class file. (The 10 page limit does not include references.) Presentation-only papers may be submitted as originally published, if published elsewhere, and should not exceed 10 pages otherwise. To submit, please go to the EasyChair page and follow the instructions there. Organizers and Program Committee See SMT 2021 Organizers and Program Committee. Invited Speakers * Karem Sakallah, University of Michigan * Guy Katz, University of Jerusalem --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Israel (74) Limited This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. 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APLAS 2021 will be co-located with SPLASH 2021. 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,