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LAST CALL CfP: FoIKS 2024, 13th Int. Symp. on Foundations of
by Lucia Gomez Alvarez 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

*Call for Papers* 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems – FoIKS 2024 https://foiks2024.github.io/ Extended Deadlines ================ (Extended) Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023 AoE ("anywhere on earth") (Extended) Paper submission deadline: 14.12.2023 AoE ("anywhere on earth") Invited Speakers ============== * Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford * Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research * Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester About ============= The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2024 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, (parameterized) complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation, among, of course, many others. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intensive discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research. Furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Suggested topics ============= The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Database Design: Formal models, dependencies and independencies * Big Data: Models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing * Dynamics of Information: Models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision * Information Fusion: Heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency * Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction * Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: Non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computational models of argument, argumentation systems * Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic * Mathematical Foundations: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, (parameterised) complexity theory, randomness * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management * Semi-Structured Data and XML: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange * Social Computing: Collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems * The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: Languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access * The WWW: Models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining Important Dates ================ All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE, "anywhere on earth"). (Extended) Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023 (Extended) Paper submission deadline: 14.12.2023 Acceptance notifications: 29.01.2024 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 08.02.2024 Early registration deadline: 08.03.2024 Late registration deadline: 01.04.2024 Conference: 8–11.04.2024 Submission Guidelines ==================== For long papers, the page limit is 16 plus additional pages of references. For short papers, the maximum number of pages is 10 plus additional pages of references. Missing proofs or details can be optionally added as an additional appendix read at the discretion of the program committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Resubmission of papers rejected in major conferences (e.g., AAAI, ICDT, STACS) is welcome. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks24. Publication ============= The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2024 special issue in the journal Knowledge Engineering Review (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineering-review). Further details will be provided on the conference website. Organisation ============= Program Committee Chairs: Arne Meier, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Magdalena Ortiz, TU Wien, Austria and Umeå University, Sweden Local Chair: Jonni Virtema, University of Sheffield, UK Local Organisers: Timon Barlag, University of Sheffield, UK Mike Cruchten, University of Sheffield, UK Nina Pardal, University of Sheffield, UK Max Sandström, University of Sheffield, UK Publicity Chair: Lucía Gómez Álvarez, TU Dresden, DE Contact ============= All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks24(a)easychair.org. https://foiks2024.github.io/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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FMBC 2024 – Fourth Call for Papers (deadline extension)
by Marmsoler, Diego 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

[ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ========================================================================= 5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains - Fourth Call (deadline extension) https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2024 April 07, 2024, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Co-located with the european joint conferences on theory and practice of software (ETAPS 2024) https://www.etaps.org/2024/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission (extended): January 31, 2024 Paper submission (extended): February 07, 2024 Notification: February 29, 2024 Camera-ready: March 15, 2024 Pre-Proceedings: March 31, 2024 Workshop: April 07, 2024 Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blockchain is a novel technology to store data in a decentralized way. Although the technology was originally invented to enable cryptocurrencies, it quickly found applications in several other domains. 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. Since blockchains are often used to store financial transactions, bugs may result in huge economic losses and thus it is now of utmost importance to have strong guarantees of the behaviour 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 is 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 2 pages (excluding 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=fmbc2024 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, which will be published as a volume of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) by Dagstuhl. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER -------------------------------- We are pleased to have Franck Cassez, Head of Research, Mantle ( https://www.mantle.xyz ) https://franck44.github.io/ as a keynote speaker which will talk about verification of smart contracts. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------- PC CO-CHAIRS * Bruno Bernardo (Nomadic Labs, France) (bruno(a)nomadic-labs.com<mailto:bruno@nomadic-labs.com>) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler(a)exeter.ac.uk<mailto:D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk>) PC MEMBERS * Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) * Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne University, France) * Bas Spitters (Aarhus University, Denmark) * Sophie Rain (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Gordon J. Pace (University of Malta, Malta) * Ron Van Der Meyden (University of New South Wales, Australia) * Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, US) * Vincent Rahli (University of Birmingham, UK) * Meng Sun (eking University, China) * Martin Ceresa (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) * Denisa Diaconescu (University of Bucharest) * Manuel Chakravarty (Tweag, France) * Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK) * Baoluo Meng (GE Research, US) * Albert Rubio (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) * Sylvain Conchon (Paris-Saclay University, France) * Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen)

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CiE 2024: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by acie＠acie.eu 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

CiE 2024: CALL FOR PAPERS Computability in Europe 2024 Twenty years of theoretical and practical synergies Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 08-12, 2024 https://events.illc.uva.nl/CiE/CiE2024/ Submission link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CiE2024 IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for article submission: February 10, 2024 (AOE) Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2024 Final versions due: May 1, 2024 Deadline for informal presentations submission: May 15, 2024 (The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent a few days after submission) Early registration before: May 20, 2024 Conference: July 08-12, 2024 GENERAL INFORMATION CiE 2024 will be an anniversary event. It is the 20th conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), in the same place as the first edition, Amsterdam. CiE is a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. 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), Salerno (2020, virtually), Ghent (2021, virtually), Swansea (2022) and Batumi (2023). TUTORIAL SPEAKERS Matthew Harrison-Trainor (University of Illinois Chicago) Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) INVITED SPEAKERS Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University) Rod Downey (Victoria University of Wellington) Elvira Mayordomo (University of Zaragoza) Alexandre Miquel (Universidad de la República) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison) SPECIAL SESSIONS There will be 6 special sessions: - Computable aspects of symbolic dynamics and tilings (chairs: Benjamin Hellouin and Ilkka Torma) - Algorithmic randomness and Kolmogorov complexity session (chairs: Rupert Hölzl abd Denis Hirschfeldt) - Quantum Computation (chairs: Delaram Kahrobaei and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh) - History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) (chairs: Ekaterina Koubychkina and Marianna Girlando) - Bio-inspired Computation (BiC) (chairs: Gianluca Della Vedova and Jasmijn Baaijens) - Computable Structure Theory (chairs: Stefan Vatev and Ekaterina Fokina) CONFERENCE TOPICS The CiE conferences serve as an interdisciplinary forum for research in all aspects of computability, foundations of computer science, logic, and theoretical computer science, as well as the interplay of these areas with practical issues in computer science and with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, philosophy, or physics. PAPER SUBMISSION THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers, European and non-European, to submit their papers in all areas related to the above for presentation at the conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - Regular papers describing solid new research results. Papers submitted to the conference proceedings should represent original work, not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference with formal proceedings. The Program Committee will rigorously review and select submitted papers. Regular papers must have a maximum of 12 pages, including references but excluding a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional material. Papers building bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome. - Informal presentations. Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, we invite researchers to present informal presentations of their recent work. A proposal for an informal presentation must be 1 page long; a brief description of the results suffices and an abstract is not required. Informal presentations will not be published in the LNCS conference proceedings. Results presented as informal presentations at CiE 2024 may appear or may have appeared in other conferences with formal proceedings and/or in journals. All submissions must be in PDF, formatted using the Springer LNCS style (available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), and submitted via EquinOCS: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CiE2024 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Accepted regular papers will be published as a proceedings volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series from Springer-Verlag. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the PROGRAM COMMITTEE consisting of: Bahareh Afshari (University of Amsterdam & University of Gothenburg) Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay) Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Gustave Eiffel) Benno van den Berg (University of Amsterdam) Sebastian Berndt (University of Lübeck) Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (CNRS) Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Barbara Csima (University of Waterloo) Gianluca Della Vedova (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Leah Epstein (University of Haifa) Gilda Ferreira (Universidade Aberta) Yannick Foster (INRIA, Nantes) Lorenzo Galeotti (Amsterdam University College) Mathieu Hoyrup (INRIA, LORIA, Nancy) Jarkko Kari (University of Turku) Julia Knight (University of Notre-Dame) Susana Ladra (Universidade da Coruña) Timo Lang (Technische Universität Wien) Karen Lange (Wellesley College) Florin Manea (University of Göttingen) Alexander Melnikov (Victoria University of Wellington) Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Ludovic Patey (CNRS, Université Paris-Cité co-Chair) Elaine Pimentel (University College London co-chair) Cristóbal Rojas (Universidad Católica) Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano) Paul Shafer (University of Leeds) Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Andreas Weiermam (Ghent University) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY We are very happy to announce that within the framework of the Women in Computability program, we are able to offer some grants for junior women researchers who want to participate in CiE 2024. Applications for this grant should be sent to Lorenzo Galeotti <l.galeotti(a)uva.nl>, before May 15, 2024 and include a short cv (at most 2 pages) and contact information for an academic reference. Preference will be given to junior women researchers who are presenting a paper (including informal presentations) at CiE 2024. HOSTED BY The event will be held in the Amsterdam University College academic building located at Amsterdam Science Park. We are grateful for support from the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) Luis Aguilar Suarez (Amsterdam University College) Benno van den Berg (University of Amsterdam) Andrea De Domenico (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Tamara Dobler (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Lorenzo Galeotti (Amsterdam University College -- chair) Yurii Khomskii (Amsterdam University College) Mattia Panettiere (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Benjamin Rin (Universiteit Utrecht)

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DLT 2024 - Call for Papers
by Manea, Florin 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

**CALL FOR PAPERS** 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY (DLT 2024) DLT is an event organized to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages, automata theory, and related areas (list of topics below). This iteration of the DLT conference will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of Automata and Applications (NCMA 2024) in Göttingen, Germany in August 2024. Alongside the regular programme of contributed talks and social events, there will also be four invited talks (see below), a mentoring workshop, highlights talks, and an evening lecture on linguistics by Anke Holler (Göttingen). The conference will also see the 2024 Salomaa Prize (https://math.utu.fi/salomaaprize/) awarded, named to honour the scientific achievements and influence of Academician Arto Salomaa, a founder of the DLT symposium. The prize consists of a diploma and 2000 euros, funded by the University of Turku, Finland, the home university of Arto Salomaa. **Important Dates** Deadline for paper submission: 8 March 2024 Notification: 3 May 2024 Final Version: 17 May 2024 DLT 2023: 12-16 August 2024 **Invited Speakers** Laura Ciobanu (Edinburgh, UK) Sandra Kiefer (Oxford, UK) Pawel Gawrychowski (Wroclaw, Poland) Martin Kutrib (Gießen, Germany) **Program Committee** Marie-Pierre Béal (Paris) Joel Day (Loughborough, chair) Dora Giammarresi (Roma) Yo-Sub Han (Seoul) Markus Holzer (Gießen) Mika Hirvensalo (Turku) Tomohiro I (Kyushu) Zsuzsanna Liptak (Verona) Sebastian Maneth (Bremen) Florin Manea (Göttingen, chair) Ian McQuillan (Saskatchewan) Robert Mercas (Loughborough) Cyril Nicaud (Paris) Svetlana Puzynina (Saint Petersburg) Daniel Reidenbach (Keele) Arseny Shur (Bar Ilan) Manon Stipulanti (Liège) Bianca Truthe (Gießen) Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg) Markus Whiteland (Liège) Georg Zetzsche (Kaiserslautern) **Venue** The conference will be held at the historic University of Göttingen in Germany, hosted by the TCS research group of Florin Manea. For more information, see https://dlt2024.uni-goettingen.de/. **Publication** The Proceedings of DLT 2024 will be published in the Springer LNCS series. **Submission Guidelines** Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series by Springer. Simultaneous submission to journals or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography and must follow the LNCS-style LaTeX2e (available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). In order to facilitate the review process, all proofs omitted due to page limitations can be given in an appendix or made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic preprint. Please note that the paper should be self-contained; reviewers are not required to read any additional pages, thus consulting the appendix is up to the reviewer. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2024. Questions about submissions should be emailed to dlt2024(a)easychair.org. Typical topics include, but are not limited to: grammars, acceptors, and transducers for words, trees, and graphs algebraic theories of automata algorithmic, combinatorial, and algebraic properties of words and languages relations between formal languages and artificial neural networks computational linguistics variable length codes symbolic dynamics cellular automata groups and semigroups generated by automata polyominoes and multidimensional patterns decidability questions image manipulation and compression efficient text algorithms relationships to cryptography, concurrency, complexity theory, and logic bio-inspired computing quantum computing **Sponsors** The German Research Foundation (DFG).

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SALOME 1 - celebration of the 6th edition of the World Logic Day -
by Jean-Yves Beziau 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

LUA celebration of the 6th edition of the World Logic Day within SALOME 1 : the first South American LOgic MEeting https://www.salome2024.org/ from Cusco, Peru at 4pm CET Sunday January14 Round Table with Luis Felipe Alegre, Jasmin Özel, Juan Redmond, Philip Welch Everybody is welcome to attend, register here: cassyni.com/events/8F3t2AJXMw4H8ioiuRgFkq >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Yves Beziau President of LUA and creator of the World Logic Day

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2 Lecturer Positions in Computer Science at Royal Holloway University
by Sammartino, Matteo 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

Salary: £47,719 per annum - including London Allowance ( This is the expected starting salary for this post however appointment at a higher point may be made for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience relevant to the role.) Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Monday 22 January 2024 Link to application: https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=1223-539 # The School and Department The School of Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences (EPMS) at Royal Holloway, University of London comprises the Departments of Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Information Security, Mathematics and Physics. We are pleased to announce that the School is embarking on an ambitious period of expansion in data science, artificial intelligence, computing, information security, digital engineering and physical science and, as part of this expansion, applications are invited for two Lectureships within the Department of Computer Science. The Department of Computer Science has a record of outstanding research and was ranked 17th overall among UK computer science departments in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021, Times Higher Education ranking). We have very strong research groups in the areas of Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning, Algorithms and Complexity, and Programming Languages and Systems. There are also strong collaborations with the Information Security Department. The Department of Computer Science is committed to delivering excellent teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and consistently achieves excellent results in graduate prospects metrics (92% graduates in employment or further study in 15 months, Guardian 2023). Our software engineering teaching has been hailed as a ‘best practice’ example by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. The Department of Computer Science is committed to reducing gender inequality, as recognised by an Athena SWAN Bronze award, and strongly welcomes applications from groups under-represented in academic posts. Royal Holloway recognises the importance of helping its employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements. We are happy to consider a request for flexible working for this post including part time, job share or compressed working hours. # The ideal applicant The Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway University of London is seeking to appoint two lecturers in Computer Science and welcome applications that would complement and/or strengthen our existing areas of research. Applicants should either have, or have the potential for producing, high quality publications and attracting significant research funding. Applicants will have a track record demonstrated excellence, or will show the potential for excellence, in delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and the supervision of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The post holder will be expected to contribute strongly to the development of research impact, and the successful applicant will have, or have the potential to have, a strong track record in this area. The Department plays an active part in inter-disciplinary activities and benefits from a number of University led initiatives including the ‘Transformative Digital Technologies, Security and Society’, ‘Advanced Quantum Science and Technologies’ and ‘Living Sustainably’ research catalysts and the School will be leading the establishment of a new Centre of Applied AI. In addition to the opportunities with the Department of Computer Science, the post holder(s) will have the opportunity to play a full role in the growth of Applied AI within the School, and across the University more generally. # Benefits and location Royal Holloway offers a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including: * Generous annual leave entitlement * Training and Development opportunities * Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution * Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing. * Free parking The posts are primarily based in Egham, Surrey where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London. The University also has a Central London Campus, based in Bloomsbury, and there may be an opportunity/requirement to deliver teaching at that location. # Contact for enquiries For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Carlos Matos, at Carlos.Matos(a)rhul.ac.uk. Best wishes, Matteo Sammartino This email, its contents and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. In certain circumstances, it may also be subject to legal privilege. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, or copying is not permitted. If you have received this email in error, please notify us and immediately and permanently delete it. Any views or opinions expressed in personal emails are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Royal Holloway, University of London. It is your responsibility to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus free.

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IJCAR 2024: Final Call for Papers
by Peter Lammich 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

IJCAR 2024: Final Call for Papers IJCAR <https://ijcar.org/>is the premier international joint conference on all aspects of automated reasoning. IJCAR 2024 will be hosted by the Inria Nancy Research Center and LORIA in Nancy, France, from July 1-6, 2024. IJCAR 2024 is the merger conference of leading events in automated reasoning: * CADE <http://cadeinc.org/>– Conference on Automated Deduction * FroCoS <http://frocos.cs.uiowa.edu/>– Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems * TABLEAUX <http://www.tableaux-ar.org/>– Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Topics IJCAR 2024 invites submissions related to all aspects of automated or interactive logical reasoning, including foundations, implementations, and applications. Original research papers and descriptions/evaluations of working automated deduction systems or proof assistant systems are solicited. IJCAR topics include the following: * Logics of interest include: propositional, first-order, classical, equational, higher-order, non-classical, constructive, modal, temporal, many-valued, substructural, description, type theory. * Methods of interest include: tableaux, sequent calculi, resolution, model-elimination, inverse method, paramodulation, term rewriting, induction, unification, constraint solving, decision procedures, model generation, model checking, semantic guidance, interactive theorem proving, logical frameworks, AI-related methods for deductive systems, proof presentation, automated theorem proving, combination of decision or proof procedures, SAT and SMT solving, machine learning and theorem proving, integration of automated provers/proof assistants in automated test generators, program synthesisers, verified compilers, intelligent systems, agent based systems, knowledge processing systems, formal methods tools and other symbolic tools, etc. * Applications of interest include: verification, formal methods, program analysis and synthesis, computer mathematics, declarative programming, deductive databases, knowledge representation and processing/engineering, education, formalization of mathematics, trusted AI, etc. Important Dates * |29 Jan 2024|Abstract submission * |5 Feb 2024|Paper submission * |28 Mar 2024|Notification of paper decisions * |28 Apr 2024|Camera-ready papers due * |1-2 Jul 2024|Workshops, competitions, and tutorials * |3-6 Jul 2024|Conference, including CASC Co-located Events IJCAR 2024 will have numerous co-located events. Please seehere <https://merz.gitlabpages.inria.fr/2024-ijcar/page/satellites/>for an up-to-date list. Submission Guidelines IJCAR 2024 invites submissions related to the topics of interest mentioned above. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another peer-reviewed journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: * |Regular papers|describing solid new research results. They can be up to 15 pages in LNCS style, including figures but excluding references and appendices. Where applicable, regular papers are supported by experimental validation. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are strongly invited as regular papers. * |Short papers|describing implemented systems, user experiences, case studies and domain models, etc. They can be up to 7 pages in LNCS style, excluding references and appendices. All submissions will be judged on relevance, originality, significance, correctness, and readability. Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit in the page limit, executables of systems, and input data of experiments should be made available, e.g., via a reference to a website or in an appendix of the paper. 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. All submissions must be formatted using the Springer LNCS styles and submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcar2024 The IJCAR 2024 proceedings will be published in the Springer seriesLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence <https://link.springer.com/conference/ijcar>(LNAI/LNCS) as Gold Open Access, and will be available online during the conference. At least one person must register for each accepted paper, and this registration must also cover the Gold Open Access processing fee of 200 Euro net per paper. Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will participate in the conference and present the work. The papers delivered to us will be processed according to the regular workﬂow, meaning Springer will generate both full-text HTML and PDF versions of the papers, to be made available in SpringerLink, and the full book will be available in PDF and ePub formats. The papers will be published under the CC-BY-4.0-license. Best Paper Award IJCAR 2024 will recognize the most outstanding submissions with a best paper award and a best student paper award at the conference. Student Travel Award Woody Bledsoe Travel Awards will be available to support selected students in attending the conference.

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FSCD 2024: Second Call for Papers
by Carsten Fuhs 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

===================================================== Updated information on: co-location, invited speakers ===================================================== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024) July 10-13, 2024, Tallinn, Estonia https://fscd-conference.org/2024 FSCD 2024 will be co-located with ICALP 2024 and LICS 2024. https://compose.ioc.ee/icalp2024/ https://lics.siglog.org/lics24/ IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 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 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- Delia Kesner, Université Paris Cité Stephanie Weirich, UPenn (joint w/ ICALP and LICS) Sebastian Ullrich, LEAN Focused Research Organisation N.N. (TBA) OVERVIEW -------- FSCD (https://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 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 ----------- 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, or to TheoretiCS. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- The submission site is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2024 Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author) 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 -------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------- Jakob Rehof, TU Dortmund University Email: fscd2024 at easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- 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 ---------------- Niccolò Veltri, Tallinn University of Technology WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------- Luigi Liquori, Inria STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------------------------- Cynthia Kop, Radboud University Nijmegen PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------- 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

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