[TYPES/announce] FSCD 2024: First Call for Papers

[Carsten Fuhs]

                             CALL FOR PAPERS
                    Ninth International Conference on
       Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)
                    July 10-13, 2024, Tallinn, Estonia
                     https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fscd-conference.org/2024__;!!IBzWLUs!T174KEanIhON1doXiJlqFizRUu3gQI1HGrjycMBgxPufYbS9ACypPKSYXSAVd-8tqemOWYNE-oOjgHASzc6rysn-HPMb_-Y$ 


IMPORTANT DATES
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All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions 
will not be considered.

         Abstract:       February 5, 2024
         Submission:     February 12, 2024
         Rebuttal:       April 2-6, 2024
         Notification:   April 22, 2024
         Final version:  May 6, 2024



OVERVIEW
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FSCD (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fscd-conference.org/__;!!IBzWLUs!T174KEanIhON1doXiJlqFizRUu3gQI1HGrjycMBgxPufYbS9ACypPKSYXSAVd-8tqemOWYNE-oOjgHASzc6rysn-IgqQwkk$ ) 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 logic, 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;
  - Process algebras (synchronous, asynchronous, static and dynamic 
semantics with and without time, etc.);
  - 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;
  - Applications of formal systems in education.

6. Formal Systems for Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas:
  - Certification;
  - Security;
  - Blockchain protocols;
  - Data bases;
  - Deep learning and machine learning algorithms;
  - Planning.

PUBLICATION
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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
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version 
to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science, or to TheoretiCS.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The submission site is:

    https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2024__;!!IBzWLUs!T174KEanIhON1doXiJlqFizRUu3gQI1HGrjycMBgxPufYbS9ACypPKSYXSAVd-8tqemOWYNE-oOjgHASzc6rysn-mn2CDC4$ 

Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files 
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5*author__;Iw!!IBzWLUs!T174KEanIhON1doXiJlqFizRUu3gQI1HGrjycMBgxPufYbS9ACypPKSYXSAVd-8tqemOWYNE-oOjgHASzc6rysn-wsicfBg$ ) and submitted 
via EasyChair.

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, excluding 
references. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal 
consideration.
A system description must present new software tools, or significantly 
new versions of such tools, in which FSCD topics play an important role. 
An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the 
tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be 
experimented with should be provided.

One author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present 
the work in person at the conference. Alternatively to in-person 
presentation, also online presentation is possible, but in-person 
registration by at least one author will still be required.


BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS
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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. When submitting 
the paper, other authors should declare to the PC Chair that at least 
50% of contribution is made by the junior researcher(s).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Jakob Rehof, TU Dortmund University
Email: fscd2024 at easychair.org

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham
Sandra Alves, University of Porto
Takahito Aoto, Niigata University
Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Brasilia University
Stephanie Balzer, CMU
Thierry Coquand, University of Gothenburg
Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Quilmes National University & CONICET-Buenos Aires 
University
Claudia Faggian, CNRS, Université de Paris
Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad
Simon Gay, University of Glasgow
Cezary Kaliszyk, University of Innsbruck
Ambrus Kaposi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Dexter Kozen, Cornell University
Dominique Larchey-Wendling, CNRS, Loria
Marina Lenisa, University of Udine
Sonia Marin, University of Birmingham
Naoki Nishida, Nagoya University
Christine Paulin-Mohring, Paris-Saclay University
Pierre-Marie Pédrot, Inria Rennes-Bretagne-Atlantique
Elaine Pimentel, University College London
Jakob Rehof (Chair), TU Dortmund University
Simona Ronchi della Rocca, University of Torino
Sylvain Schmitz, Université Paris Cité
Aleksy Schubert, University of Warsaw
Jakob Grue Simonsen, University of Copenhagen
Kathrin Stark, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Lutz Straßburger, Inria Saclay
Tachio Terauchi, Waseda University
Sarah Winkler, Free University of Bolzano


CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Niccolò Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology

WORKSHOP CHAIR
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Luigi Liquori, Inria

STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR
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Cynthia Kop, Radboud University Nijmegen

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London

FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE
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Herman Geuvers (Chair), Radboud University Nijmegen
Patrick Baillot, CNRS, Université de Lille
Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Quilmes National University & CONICET-Buenos Aires 
University
Amy Felty, University of Ottawa
Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
Marco Gaboardi, Boston University
Jürgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen University
Delia Kesner, Université Paris Cité
Naoki Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
Cynthia Kop, Radboud University Nijmegen
Luigi Liquori, Inria
Giulio Manzonetto, Université Paris-Nord
Daniele Nantes, Imperial College London / University of Brasilia
Femke van Raamsdonk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam