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1st cfp of SEFM'24
by Alexandre Madeira 15 Mar '24

15 Mar '24

========= FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ============ 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods 4-8 November 2024 University of Aveiro, Portugal https://sefm-conference.github.io/2024/ ============================================ The 21st edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods will be held between 6 and 8 November 2024, with workshops taking place on 4 and 5 November 2024. *Important dates* Abstract submission: 7 June 2024 (AoE) Paper submission: 14 June 2024 (AoE) Author notification: 15 August 2024 Workshops: 4-5 November 2024 Conference: 6-8 November 2024 *Overview and Scope* The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods. -Software Development Methods .Formal modelling, specification, and design .Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse .Design Principles -Programming languages .Domain-specific languages .Type theory .Abstraction and refinement -Software Testing, Validation, and Verification .Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures .Testing and runtime verification .Statistical and probabilistic analysis .Synthesis .Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties .Other light-weight and scalable formal methods .Security and Safety -Security, privacy, and trust .Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems .Software certification .Applications and Technology Transfer -Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things .Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems .Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems .Intelligent systems and machine learning .Quantum systems .HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis .Education -Case studies, best practices, and experience reports *Paper submission* We solicit two categories of papers: .Regular papers - describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages). .Tool papers - that describe an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages. Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Papers can be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2024. *Artifact Evaluation* This edition of SEFM introduces an artifact evaluation (AE). An artifact contains any necessary material to support the claims made in the paper and ideally makes the results fully reproducible. Submission of an artifact is optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. The artifacts will be judged by the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). More details will be available soon. *Publication* All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer’s LNCS series. ------------------------------------------------------- Alexandre Madeira http://sweet.ua.pt/madeira/

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Joint CFP NLS and SLSS 2024
by Lauri Hella (TAU) 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Call for Participation – Fifth Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS 2024) Call for Abstracts – Twelfth Scandinavian Logic Symposium (SLSS 2024) Reykjavik University, Iceland Event Dates: NLS 2024: 10-13/6 SLSS 2024: 14-16/6 Website: https://scool24.github.io/ deadline for students to apply for ASL funding: March 19 https://aslonline.org/student-travel-awards/ The Nordic Logic Summer School (NLS) and Scandinavian Logic Symposium (SLSS) are respectively the Summer School and the Symposium organized by the Scandinavial Logic Society. This year, both events will take place this June 2024 in Reykjavik, Iceland. NLS will take place from June 10 to 13, and SLSS from June 14 to 16. NLS 2024 Call for Participation: The intended audience for NLS is advanced master students, PhD-students, postdocs and experienced researchers wishing to learn the state of the art in a particular subject. As usual, this year we have an exciting lineup of five lecturers on a wide spectrum of topics. Lecturers: Jandson Ribeiro (Philosophical logic) Sandra Kiefer (Learning and logic) Miika Hannula (Model theory) Greg Restall (Proof theory) Rineke Verbrugge (Logic, CS and AI) For updated information about the summer school and to register, please follow the link: https://scool24.github.io/NLS/ SLSS 2024 Call for Abstracts: The primary aim of the Symposium is to promote research in the field of logic (broadly conceived) carried out in research communities in Scandinavia. Moreover, it warmly invites the participation of logicians from all over the world. The meeting will include invited lectures and a forum for participants to present contributed talks. Suggested topics The scope of SLSS is broad, ranging over the whole areas of Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, as well as Logical Methods in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, among others. Major topics include (but are not limited to): Proof Theory Constructivism Model Theory Set Theory Computability Theory Algebra and Logic Categorical Logic Modal and Temporal Logics Dynamic Logics Logic and Computer Science Logic in AI and Multi-Agent Systems Logic and Linguistics Philosophical Logic Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Computation Programme Committee Antonios Achilleos (Reykjavik University, co-chair) Dag Westerståhl (Stockholm University, Tsinghua University, co-chair) Gaia Belardinelli (University of Copenhagen) Jens Classen (Roskilde University) Salvatore Florio (University of Oslo) Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki) Vera Koponen (Uppsala University) Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente (TU Wien) Mina Young Pedersen (University of Bergen) Esko Turunen (TU Wien) Invited Speakers Fausto Barbero (University of Helsinki) Sara Negri (University of Genoa) Aybüke Özgün (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Submissions Abstracts of contributed talks, in PDF format, not exceeding two A4 (11pt) pages, should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slss2024 by April 7 2024 (AoE).Abstracts should be typeset following the format of a LaTeX class file SLS2014.cls, or in a similar format if you prefer to not use LaTeX. Sponsorship by the Association for Symbolic Logic NLS 2024 and SLSS 2024 are sponsored by the ASL. This means that any student who wants to attend these events can apply for an ASL Student Travel Award, to partially cover their expenses. Please not that to do so, the student must be an ASL member and they must send their application to ASL by March 19 at the latest. For more information and to apply for an ASL award, please follow this link: https://aslonline.org/student-travel-awards/ Important dates Submission deadline: April 7 Notification: April 30 Final programme: TBA ASL travel award deadline: March 19 Conference: 14-16 June, 2024

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DLT 2024 - Final Call for Papers
by Manea, Florin 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

**FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS** **News: Deadline extension: 22 March 2024 AOE (Firm) 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY (DLT 2024) **The submission deadline for DLT 2024 has been extended to 22 March 2024 AOE. To aid the work of the PC, we encourage authors intending to submit a paper during the extension to also submit a title and an abstract of their paper as soon as possible.** 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** **NEW** Deadline for paper submission: 22 March 2024 (23:59 AOE, firm) Notification: 3 May 2024 Final Version: 17 May 2024 DLT 2024: 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, Joel Day (chair), Dora Giammarresi, Yo-Sub Han, Mika Hirvensalo, Markus Holzer, Tomohiro I, Zsuzsanna Liptak, Florin Manea (chair), Sebastian Maneth, Ian McQuillan, Robert Mercas, Cyril Nicaud, Svetlana Puzynina, Daniel Reidenbach, Arseny Shur, Manon Stipulanti, Bianca Truthe, Mikhail Volkov, Markus Whiteland, Georg Zetzsche **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 of DLT 2024 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer). Please submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2024 Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography, the title page (containing only the title, authors, affiliations, abstract), and a potential appendix (see below), and must follow the LNCS-style LaTex2e (available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Proofs omitted due to space constraints should be put into an appendix, to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Further 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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Learning and Automata (LearnAut) 2024 -- ICALP 2024 Workshop, first
by Sammartino, Matteo 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Call for papers Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- ICALP 2024 workshop July 7th - Tallinn, Estonia Website: https://learnaut24.github.io/ Deadline: April 18 Submission portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learnaut2024 Learning models defining recursive computations, like automata and formal grammars, are the core of the field called Grammatical Inference (GI). The expressive power of these models and the complexity of the associated computational problems are major research topics within mathematical logic and computer science. Historically, there has been little interaction between the GI and ICALP communities, though recently some important results started to bridge the gap between both worlds, including applications of learning to formal verification and model checking, and (co-)algebraic formulations of automata and grammar learning algorithms. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic who could benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in grammatical inference who could find in logic and verification new fruitful applications for their methods. We invite submissions of recent work, including preliminary research, related to the theme of the workshop. The Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to represent it at the workshop. Note that accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website but will not be part of formal proceedings (i.e., LearnAut is a non-archival workshop). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Computational complexity of learning problems involving automata and formal languages. - Algorithms and frameworks for learning models representing language classes inside and outside the Chomsky hierarchy, including tree and graph grammars. - Learning problems involving models with additional structure, including numeric weights, inputs/outputs such as transducers, register automata, timed automata, Markov reward and decision processes, and semi-hidden Markov models. - Logical and relational aspects of learning and grammatical inference. - Theoretical studies of learnable classes of languages/representations. - Relations between automata or any other models from language theory and deep learning models for sequential data. - Active learning of finite state machines and formal languages. - Methods for estimating probability distributions over strings, trees, graphs, or any data used as input for symbolic models. - Applications of learning to formal verification and (statistical) model checking. - Metrics and other error measures between automata or formal languages. ** Submission instructions ** Submissions in the form of anonymized extended abstracts must be at most 8 single-column pages long (plus at most four for bibliography and possible appendixes) and must be submitted in the JMLR/PMLR format. The LaTeX style file is available here: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr We do accept submissions of work recently published, currently under review or work-in-progress. - Submission url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learnaut2024 - Submission deadline: April 18 - Notification of acceptance: May 13 - Early registration: May 17 (ICALP) - Workshop: July 7 ** Organizers ** Sophie Fortz (King's College London, UK) Franz Mayr (Universidad ORT Uruguay, UY) Joshua Moerman (Open Universiteit, Heerlen, NL) Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 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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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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Ph.D. position in Theoretical CS @ King's College London
by Hubie Chen 28 Feb '24

28 Feb '24

## Ph.D. position in Theoretical CS @ King's College London * A funded Ph.D. position in theoretical computer science is available at King's College London. The successful candidate will be advised by Hubie Chen and will work on mutually agreeable topics in theoretical computer science. A primary criterion for this position is an undergraduate degree in mathematics with strong performance, or an equivalent experience. Key dates: please apply by the deadline of April 12, 2024 for full consideration; it is expected that the successful applicant would start in (or around) October 2024. Informal enquiries are very welcome (e-mail contact: hubie.chen(a)kcl.ac.uk); please send your CV when initiating correspondence. To apply, please send the following information to hubie.chen(a)kcl.ac.uk, by the deadline: (1) CV, including contact details for three persons who can be contacted for reference letters, (2) all available academic transcripts at the university level, (3) a brief statement of interest (which should explain how the primary criterion stated above is met), and (4) copies of any theses or research publications.

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DLT 2024 - 2nd Call for Papers
by Manea, Florin 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

**CALL FOR PAPERS** **News: Submission deadline approaching, Updated submission guidelines** 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, Joel Day (chair), Dora Giammarresi, Yo-Sub Han, Mika Hirvensalo, Markus Holzer, Tomohiro I, Zsuzsanna Liptak, Florin Manea (chair), Sebastian Maneth, Ian McQuillan, Robert Mercas, Cyril Nicaud, Svetlana Puzynina, Daniel Reidenbach, Arseny Shur, Manon Stipulanti, Bianca Truthe, Mikhail Volkov, Markus Whiteland, Georg Zetzsche **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 of DLT 2024 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer). Please submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2024. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography, the title page (containing only the title, authors, affiliations, abstract), and a potential appendix (see below), and must follow the LNCS-style LaTex2e (available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Proofs omitted due to space constraints should be put into an appendix, to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Further 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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CiE 2024: CALL FOR PAPERS
by acie＠acie.eu 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '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 24, 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 Kubyshkina 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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Call for Abstracts - WADT 2024
by WADT 2024 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ====================================================================== WADT 2024 - Call for Abstracts 27th International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques https://conf.researchr.org/home/wadt-2024 Part of the STAF 2024 multi-conference taking place Mon 8 – Fri 12 July 2024 in Enschede, the Netherlands ====================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE The algebraic approach to system specification encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. Originally born as a formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, it now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect-oriented, agent-oriented, logic and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed and mobile systems). The workshop will provide an opportunity to present recent and ongoing work, to meet colleagues, and to discuss new ideas and future trends. TOPICS OF INTEREST Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: – Foundations of algebraic specification – Other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurrent, distributed, and cyber-physical systems – Specification languages, methods, and environments – Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques – Model-driven development – Graph transformations, term rewriting, and proof systems – Integration of formal specification techniques – Theorem-proving technologies and integration with specification languages – Formal testing and quality assurance, validation, and verification – Algebraic approaches to knowledge representation and cognitive sciences WORKSHOP FORMAT AND LOCATION The workshop will be part of the STAF 2024 multi-conference at Twente, the Netherlands. Presentations will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 15 Apr 2024 Abstract notification: 29 Apr 2024 Full-paper submission: 16 Sep 2024 Full-paper notification: 25 Nov 2024 SUBMISSIONS The scientific programme of the workshop will include presentations of recent results or ongoing research as well as invited talks. The presentations will be selected by the Programme Committee on the basis of submitted abstracts according to originality, significance and general interest. Abstracts must not exceed two pages, including references, in LNCS format. If a longer version of the contribution is available, it can be made accessible on the web and referenced in the abstract. The abstracts will have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=staf2024. POST-PROCEEDINGS After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit full papers for the refereed proceedings. All submissions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. The selection of papers will be based on originality, soundness, and significance of the presented ideas and results. The post-proceedings will then be published by Springer as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. SPONSORSHIP The workshop takes place under the auspices of IFIP WG 1.3. STEERING COMMITTEE Andrea Corradini (Italy) José Fiadeiro (UK) Rolf Hennicker (Germany) Alexander Knapp (Germany) Hans-Jörg Kreowski (Germany) Till Mossakowski (Germany) Fernando Orejas (Spain) Leila Ribeiro (Brazil) Markus Roggenbach (UK) Grigore Roșu (USA) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mihai Codescu (Romania) Andrea Corradini (Italy) Tom van Dijk (Netherlands) Fabio Gadducci (Italy) Rolf Hennicker (Germany) Alex Kavvos (UK) Alexander Knapp (Germany) Leen Lambers (Germany) Alexandre Madeira (Portugal) Manuel A. Martins (Portugal) Narciso Martí-Oliet (Spain) Dominique Mery (France) Till Mossakowski (Germany) Renato Neves (Portugal) Peter Ölveczky (Norway) Fernando Orejas (Spain) Florian Rabe (Germany) Adrián Riesco (Spain) Markus Roggenbach (UK) Pierre Yves Schobbens (Belgium) Ionuț Țuțu (Romania) [chair] Uwe Wolter (Norway) CONTACT INFORMATION Email: wadt2024(a)outlook.com Homepage: https://conf.researchr.org/home/wadt-2024

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CfP: CLIRAI Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI
by Roussanka Loukanova 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

CfP: CLIRAI Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI ================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI (CLIRAI) (previously: CompLingInfoReasAI) at 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) 2024 University of Salamanca (Spain) 26th-28th June, 2024 https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions/clirai ==== SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to the phenomena of partiality, underspecification, perspectives of agents, and context dependency. These phenomena are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of language, thought, reasoning, and other related processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications: - Theorem Provers and Assistants - Model Checkers - Theories of Computation - Theories of Information - Computational Methods of Inferences in Natural Language - Computational Theories and Systems of Reasoning in Natural Language - Transfer of reasoning in natural language to theorem provers, or vice versa - Transfer of reasoning between natural language, theorem provers, model checkers, and various computational assistants - Translations between natural language of mathematics and formal languages of proof and verification systems - Controlled Languages of Mathematics == - Computational approaches of Computational Linguistics, e.g., in domain specific areas - Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Type Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Computational Grammar - Computational Syntax - Computational Semantics of Natural Language - Computational Syntax-Semantics Interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual Processing - Large-Scale Grammars of Natural Languages - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics, natural language processing, argumentation - Computational Models of Partiality, Underspecification, and Context-Dependency - Models of Situations, Contexts, and Agents, for Applications to Computational Linguistics - Information about Space and Time in Language Models and Processing == - Interdisciplinary Methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written, spoken, and other modes of language - Logic for information integrations of diagrams with language == - Computational Models of Argumentations - Large Language Models (LLM) - Data Science in Language Processing - Machine Learning of Language and Reasoning == - Interactive Computation, Reasoning, Argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog and other Interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory - Computational processing of information and languages in various specific areas and domains, e.g., in forensics, medical sciences, healthcare, jurisdiction, law, etc. - Applications, e.g., to governing, education, business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences, etc. == - Computational processing language based on natural fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline 15th March, 2024 Notification of acceptance 26th April, 2024 Camera-Ready papers 17th May, 2024 Conference 26th-28th June, 2024 PAPER SUBMISSION at EasyChair of DCAI https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished, sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CLIRAI. SUBMITTING PAPERS and PAPER FORMAT DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Template of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNNS template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page: https://www.dcai-conference.net/tracks/special-sessions PUBLICATION All accepted, registered, and presented papers will be published by the series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. CHAIRS Roussanka Loukanova Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain CONTACT: Roussanka Loukanova <rloukanova(a)gmail.com> ====

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