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Call for Papers: 8th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages (WAPL'21)
by Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein) 22 May '21

22 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* 8th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages (WAPL'21) https://www.fedcsis.org/2021/sew-iwcps Organized within 2021 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS'21; IEEE #52320) ***************************** COVID-19 Information **************************** While we have planned the 2021 conference to take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, slow progress in fighting the global pandemic has forced us to switch to the fully online mode. Therefore, we plan to organize FedCSIS 2022 in Sofia, and hope that by that time COVID will be over, and we will be able to meet in person. FedCSIS organizers ******************************************************************************* FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINES SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE Programming languages (PLs) are programmers' most basic tools. With appropriate programming languages one can drastically reduce the cost of building new applications as well as maintaining existing ones. In the last decades there have been many advances in PL technology in traditional programming paradigms such as functional, logic, and object-oriented programming, as well as the development of new paradigms such as aspect-oriented programming. The main driving force was and will be to better express programmers' ideas. Therefore, research in programming languages is an endless activity and the core of computer science. New language features, new programming paradigms, and better compile-time and run-time mechanisms can be foreseen in the future. The aim of this session is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience in topics concerned with programming languages and systems. Original papers and implementation reports are invited in all areas of programming languages. This year, a special attention will be given to submissions on programming research in mainstream languages. That can include, but is not limited to: • porting existing results from research languages to mainstream ones to examine their interplay with other features than those carefully cherry-picked for the targeted research. And, • gauging generality of research results by studying their obtainability using different sets of features than originally thought of. Such submission needs to clarify the added value of performing their research in a mainstream language (over a lab one). Topics: Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: • Software language engineering • Interplay between languages and machine learning (and other branches of AI), especially for Code Repair and Code Smells • Interplay between languages and security • Automata theory and applications • Compiling techniques • Context-oriented programming languages to specify the behavior of software systems and dynamic adaptations • Domain-specific languages • Formal semantics and syntax • Generative and generic programming • Grammarware and grammar based systems • Knowledge engineering languages, integration of knowledge engineering and software engineering • Languages and tools for trustworthy computing • Language theory and applications • Language concepts, design and implementation • Markup languages (XML) • Metamodeling and modeling languages • Model-driven engineering languages and systems • Practical experiences with programming languages • Program analysis, optimization and verification • Program generation and transformation • Programming paradigms (aspect-oriented, functional, logic, object-oriented, etc.) • Programming tools and environments • Proof theory for programs • Specification languages • Type systems • Virtual machines and just-in-time compilation • Visual programming languages ZDZISŁAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD The Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards are given in two categories: Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Each award carries a prize of 300 EUR founded by the Mazowsze Chapter of the Polish Information Processing Society. The awards have been originally associated with the International Symposium on Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (AAIA) held every year as a part of FedCSIS. Currently, all papers accepted to FedCSIS are eligible to be considered as the award winners. This award will be awarded independently from awards given by individual FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions). Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/2021/zp_award PAPER PUBLICATION: • Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file). • The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here. • Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop. • Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. • Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database. • Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site. • Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for indexation in: Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index, SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar • Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions. • Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s). IMPORTANT DATES: + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 24, 2021, 23:59:59 (UCT-12; there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 14, 2021 + Author notification: July 5, 2021 + Final paper submission and registration: July 26, 2021 + Conference date: September 2-5, 2021 Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. STEERING COMMITTEE: • Janousek, Jan, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic • Luković, Ivan, University of Novi Sad, Serbia • Mernik, Marjan, University of Maribor, Slovenia • Slivnik, Boštjan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Rangel Henriques, Pedro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal • Varanda Pereira, Maria Joao, Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE: • Barisic, Ankica, Université Côte d'Azur, France • Blasband, Darius, RainCode Labs, Belgium • Falcou, Joel, Univeristé Paris Sud, France • Fernandes, Joao • Horváth, Zoltán, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary • Kardas, Geylani, Ege University, Turkey • Keir, Paul, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom • Kosar, Tomaz, University of Maribor, Slovenia • Mandreoli, Federica, DII - University of Modena, Italy • Milašinović, Boris, University of Zagreb, Hungary • Papaspyrou, Nikolaos S., National Technical University of Athens, Greece • Porubän, Jaroslav, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia • Ramezanian, Rasoul, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran • Saraiva, Joao, Universidade do Minho, Portugal • Sierra, Jose Luis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain • Singer, Jeremy, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom • Varanda Pereira, Maria Jo?o, Instituto Politecnico de Braganca, Portugal • Zaytsev, Vadim, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIR: • Seyed Hossein Haeri, IOHK and University of Bergen, Norway Contact: hossein.haeri(a)gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seyed H. HAERI (Hossein), Dr. Software Scientist Formal Methods Team IOHK Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Informatics University of Bergen, Norway ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ICALP 2021: Call for Student Volunteers
by Simon Gay 21 May '21

21 May '21

ICALP 2021 is offering a student volunteer programme which offers free registration in exchange for technical assistance with running the sessions. Please check http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/registration/ for details. The main duties of a student volunteer: - To provide support in technical sessions, either for the main conference or workshops or both. This mainly consists of helping presenters to work with the online conference platform. Training will be given. - To help with social sessions, in as-yet-unspecified ways – for example, helping to assign people to groups, or technical troubleshooting. - To answer queries from conference participants, passing such queries to members of the organising committee if necessary. The dates when you will be needed are as follows: - Morning of the 1st and afternoon of the 2nd July for conference rehearsal and training. - Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th July inclusive for the main conference - though you will only be asked to volunteer over two of these days. We will do our best to accomodate preferences in our scheduling. The benefits of volunteering: - Helping with a major event. - Experience for your CV. - Free registration for the conference, including access to social events and invited talks. However, you will not have a free choice of technical sessions because you will be assigned to certain sessions as a volunteer. - Camaraderie with fellow volunteers, and our gratitude - we are planning appreciation events for our student volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, please see the draft job description, and email Dr Jess Enright (jessica.enright(a)glasgow.ac.uk) to register your interest, including “ICALP Student Volunteer” in the subject line. Applications are open until sufficient volunteers are recruited, or until June 18th at the latest. You should be notified of the outcome of your application within 5 business days of your application.

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Logica Universalis Webinar - May 19 - A Bunch of Diagrammatic Methods for Syllogistic by Frank Sautter
by Antje Herbst 18 May '21

18 May '21

Join the Logica Universalis Webinar! The next session will be held on Wednesday, May 19 at 4pm CEST with the talk A Bunch of Diagrammatic Methods for Syllogistic<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-019-00220-6> by Frank Sautter<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ufsm.academia.edu_Fran…> (Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil) Chair: Itala D'Ottaviano<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pt.wikipedia.org_wiki_…> Member of the Editorial Board of LU Associate Organization: Brazilian Logic Society<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sbl.org.br_&d=DwMG-g&c=…> presented by its president, Cezar Mortari<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__fil.cfh.ufsc.br_cezar-…> The Logica Universalis Webinar is a World Seminar Series connected to the journal Logica Universalis<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/>, the book series Studies in Universal Logic<https://www.springer.com/series/7391> and the Universal Logic Project<https://logica-universalis.org/>. It is an open platform for all scholars interested in the many aspects of logic. (See the full program here<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/updates/18988758>.) The sessions take place on Wednesdays at 4pm CEST (click here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Logica+Universali…> to convert to your timezone). They are held via Zoom and are free to attend. Please register in advance. Registration is now open!<https://springer.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdu6vrzMiHda_iDhjxw9vA9d7we9gT…> Each session of the webinar is chaired by a member of the editorial board of the journal Logica Universalis (LU), the book series Studies in Universal Logic (SUL) or an organizer of an event of the Universal Logic Project (ULP). Sessions will start with a short presentation of a logical organization related to the region of the speaker or the topic of the talk. The talk (30 min) will focus on a recently published paper in LU, on a book in SUL, on an event or on the ULP. Talks are followed by a discussion (15 min). Video recordings of the seminars are uploaded on the YouTube channel Universal Logic Project<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPS1c5ApuwjuCV9UjXHUN4w>. --- To unsubscribe from these notifications for the Logica Universalis Webinar send a message with 'Unsubscribe' to this e-mail address (antje.herbst(a)springernature.com<mailto:antje.herbst@springernature.com>). -- Antje Herbst Associate Editor Mathematics Journals Springer Nature Tiergartenstraße 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany T +49 62214878984 antje.herbst(a)springernature.com<mailto:antje.herbst@springernature.com> www.springernature.com<http://www.springernature.com/> -- Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, providing quality content to our communities through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people - helping researchers, students, teachers & professionals to discover, learn and achieve. -- Branch of Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany Registered Office: Berlin / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 91881 B Directors: Martin Mos, Dr. Ulrich Vest, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas

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27th WoLLIC 2021 - Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 25th)
by Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz 17 May '21

17 May '21

(DEADLINE EXTENDED: *May 25th*) [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC 2021 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation October 5 to 8, 2021 ORGANISATION Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil University College London, UK Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021. It is scientifically sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. (At least one author is required to pay the registration fee before granting that the paper will be published in the proceedings.) Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2021 EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2021 issue of the Journal of Logic and Computation (Oxford Univ Press). INVITED SPEAKERS Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) Santiago Figueira (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, France) Cláudia Nalon (UnB - Brazil) Giselle Reis (CMU - Qatar) IMPORTANT DATES *May 25, 2021: Full paper deadline * June 29, 2021: Author notification July 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) Arthur Azevedo de Amorim (Boston University, USA) Paul Brunet (University College London, UK) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Justin Hsu (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandra Kiefer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Clemens Kupke (Strathclyde University, Scotland) Konstantinos Mamouras (Rice University, USA) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Larry Moss (Indiana Univ, USA) Claudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research, USA, and Univ Birmingham, UK) Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Christine Tasson (IRIF, France) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Anuj Dawar, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Lawrence Moss, Luke Ong, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Angus Macintyre, Hiroakira Ono, Jouko Väänänen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) SPECIAL SESSION: SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT MATHEMATICIANS It is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death. It is a joint production (still on its course) of The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and George Csicsery (Zala Films): ‘Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani’. “The biographical film is about Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant woman, and Muslim immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. The story of her life will be complemented with sections about Mirzakhani’s mathematical contributions, as explained by colleagues and illustrated with animated sequences. Throughout, we will look for clues about the sources of Mirzakhani’s insights and creativity." (http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/

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ICALP 2021 Call for Participation
by Simon Gay 14 May '21

14 May '21

==================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming ICALP 2021 online from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, 13-16 July 2021 https://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/ ==================================================================== ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). * Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games (PC Chair: Nikhil Bansal, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming (PC Chair: James Worrell, University of Oxford, UK) ================ Invited Speakers ================ Unifying Invited Speakers: Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Toniann Pitassi, University of Toronto, Canada Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Track A Invited Speakers: Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel David Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Track B Invited Speaker: Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany ================== Contributed papers ================== http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/accepted/ ================= Conference format ================= * Afternoons, European time, 13-16 July * Full-length invited talks * Contributed papers have 5-minute live talk, live Q&A, 25-minute video available in advance * Workshops: full day, European time, 11-12 July =========================== Workshops - 11-12 July 2021 =========================== * Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs IV Organisers: George B. Mertzios, Paul G. Spirakis, Eleni C. Akrida, Viktor Zamaraev http://community.dur.ac.uk/george.mertzios/Workshops/ICALP-21-Satellite/Tem… * VEST: Verification of Session Types Organisers: Ornela Dardha, António Ravara https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home * 2nd Workshop on Programming Research in Mainstream Languages (PRiML 2021) Organisers: Seyed Hossein, Paul Keir * Graph Width Parameters: from Structure to Algorithms (GWP 2021) Organisers: Flavia Bonomo, Nick Brettell, Andrea Munaro, Daniel Paulusma * Combinatorial Reconfiguration Organisers: Takehiro Ito, Jun Kawahara, Yoshio Okamoto https://core.dais.is.tohoku.ac.jp/en/report/event/detail/---id-27.html * Formal Methods Education Online: Tips, Tricks & Tools Organisers: Jan Křetínský, Maximilian Weininger, Thomas Zeume https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html * Flavours of Uncertainty in Verification, Planning and Optimization (FUNCTION) Organisers: Moritz Hahn, Nils Jansen, Gethin Norman https://function-2021.cs.ru.nl ============ Registration ============ http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/registration/ * Author registration until 15 June * Standard registration until 30 June * Late registration from 1 July * Low-cost registration for non-authors * Free registration for PhD students at Scottish universities, sponsored by SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance). Free registrations are limited to 2 author registrations and 30 non-author registrations, and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. ================== Student volunteers ================== We have a student volunteer programme which offers free registration in exchange for technical assistance with running the sessions. Please check http://easyconferences.eu/icalp2021/registration/ for details. =============================== ICALP 2021 Organizing Committee =============================== Simon Gay, Conference Chair Oana Andrei Ornela Dardha Jessica Enright David Manlove Kitty Meeks Alice Miller Gethin Norman Sofiat Olaosebikan Michele Sevegnani ========== Contact us ========== For enquiries on academic programme please contact: Local Organizing Committee Email: icalp2021(a)glasgow.ac.uk For enquiries, registration support, travel and logistics please contact: Easy Conferences Email: info(a)easyconferences.eu Tel: +357 22 591 900 =============== Twitter Account =============== @ICALPconf https://twitter.com/ICALPconf

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RAMiCS 2021 - Deadline Extension
by luigi.santocanale＠lis-lab.fr 12 May '21

12 May '21

Apologies for multiple copies of this email; please re-distribute as you see fit. DEADLINE EXTENSION We have decided to extend the deadlines for RAMiCS 2021 by *two weeks*, please see below for the new deadlines and the CfP. 19th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science RAMiCS 2021 2 to 5 November 2021, CIRM, Marseille, France https://ramics19.lis-lab.fr/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Submission: 28 May 2021 Paper Submission: 4 June 2021 Author Notification: 23 July 2021 Final Version: 12 August 2021 RAMiCS 2021: 2 to 5 November 2021 INVITED TALKS: Marcelo Frias, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina Barbara König, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Dmitriy Zhuk, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia GENERAL INFORMATION: Since 1994, the RAMiCS conference series has been the main venue for research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodological tools in computer science and beyond. RAMiCS 2021 will take place at CIRM, the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques at the beautiful Luminy campus close to Marseille. Depending on the Covid-19 situation, it will take the form of a physical conference, a virtual conference, or a hybrid between the two. There will be no registration fees to the conference. A limited number of grants, covering lodging and catering, are supplied by CIRM and the Archimède Institute. TOPICS: We invite submissions in the general fields of algebras relevant to computer science and applications of such algebras. Topics include but are not limited to: * Theory - algebras such as semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings, Kleene algebras, relation algebras and quantales - their connections with program logics and other logics - their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages, games, networks and programming languages - the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic, coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories - their formalisation with theorem provers * Applications - tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and verification - quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing systems and processes - algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis, social choice, optimisation and control - industrial applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submission is via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramics2021 All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. The proceedings will be published in an LNCS volume by Springer, ready at the conference. Submissions must not be published or under review for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be in English using a PDF not exceeding 16 pages in LNCS style. Submissions must provide sufficient information to judge their merits. Additional material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix or by a reference to a manuscript on a web site. Experimental data, software or mathematical components for theorem provers must be available in sufficient detail for referees. Deviation from these requirements may lead to rejection. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Accepted papers must be produced with LaTeX. Formatting instructions and LNCS style files are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html As for earlier RAMiCS conferences, we intend to publish a journal special issue with revised and extended versions of a selection of the best papers. COMMITTEES: Organising Committee -------------------- Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Mai Gehrke, LJAD CNRS, France Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole polytechnique, France Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Luigi Santocanale, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, France Programme Committee ------------------- Bahareh Afshari, University of Amsterdam, Holland Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Manuel Bodirsky, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Ignacio Fábregas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Uli Fahrenberg, Ecole polytechnique, France Hitoshi Furusawa, Kagoshima University, Japan Mai Gehrke, LJAD CNRS, France Silvio Ghilardi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roland Glueck, German Aerospace Center, Germany Walter Guttmann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Peter Höfner, Australian National University, Australia Ali Jaoua, Qatar University, Qatar Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA Sebastiaan Joosten, Dartmouth College, USA Laura Kovacz, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Tadeusz Litak, Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Germany Roger Maddux, Iowa State University, USA Dale Miller, Ecole polytechnique, France Martin Mueller, University of Augsburg, Germany Daniela Petrisan, IRIF, University Paris 7, France Damien Pous, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France David Pym, University College, London, UK Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University College, London, UK Luigi Santocanale, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, France Georg Struth, University of Sheffield, UK Sam van Gool, IRIF, University Paris 7, France Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada

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CfP: Extended deadline: CompLingInfoReasAI'21 / Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI 2021
by Roussanka Loukanova 11 May '21

11 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI 2021 (CompLingInfoReasAI'21) Salamanca, Spain, 6th-8th October, 2021, HYBRID https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/clirai ** Extended Deadline for paper submissions: 28th May, 2021 ** SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, agents, and context dependency, which 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 thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive 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 - Theory of computation - Theory 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 - Computational approaches of computational linguistics for 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 languages - 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 == - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language and reasoning - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written or spoken language - Logic for information integrations of diagrams, with written and / or spoken language == - Formal models of argumentations - Interactive computation, reasoning, argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog, interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory - Argumentation in AI applications, e.g., to business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences == - Language processing based on biological fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submissions: 28th May, 2021 Notification of acceptance: 18th June, 2021 Camera-ready papers: 2st July, 2021 Conference: 6th-8th October, 2021 PAPER SUBMISSION https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions https://www.dcai-conference.net/submission The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CompLingInfoReasAI'21. SUBMITTING PAPERS DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Springer AISC Template, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page. PUBLICATION All accepted, registered, and presented papers will be published by Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, AISC, series of Springer Verlag. 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 Ana Bove, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Roussanka Loukanova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and Stockholm University, Sweden Sara Rodríguez, University of Salamanca, Spain ======

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27th WoLLIC 2021 - Call for Papers (DEADLINE APPROACHING: May 18th)
by Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz 11 May '21

11 May '21

(Deadline APPROACHING: May 18th) [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC 2021 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation October 5 to 8, 2021 ORGANISATION Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil University College London, UK Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021. It is scientifically sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. (At least one author is required to pay the registration fee before granting that the paper will be published in the proceedings.) Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2021 EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2021 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) Santiago Figueira (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, France) Cláudia Nalon (UnB - Brazil) Giselle Reis (CMU - Qatar) IMPORTANT DATES May 18, 2021: Full paper deadline June 29, 2021: Author notification July 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) Arthur Azevedo de Amorim (Boston University, USA) Paul Brunet (University College London, UK) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Justin Hsu (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandra Kiefer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Clemens Kupke (Strathclyde University, Scotland) Konstantinos Mamouras (Rice University, USA) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Larry Moss (Indiana Univ, USA) Claudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research, USA, and Univ Birmingham, UK) Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Christine Tasson (IRIF, France) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Anuj Dawar, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Lawrence Moss, Luke Ong, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Angus Macintyre, Hiroakira Ono, Jouko Väänänen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) SPECIAL SESSION: SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT MATHEMATICIANS It is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death. It is a joint production (still on its course) of The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and George Csicsery (Zala Films): ‘Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani’. “The biographical film is about Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant woman, and Muslim immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. The story of her life will be complemented with sections about Mirzakhani’s mathematical contributions, as explained by colleagues and illustrated with animated sequences. Throughout, we will look for clues about the sources of Mirzakhani’s insights and creativity." (http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/

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QBF 2021: Call for papers
by HUBERT MING CHEN 10 May '21

10 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS QBF 2021 -------- International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond To be held virtually as a 1/2-day event, during SAT 2021 (July 5-9, 2021) https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/qbf2021 Affiliated to and co-located with: Int. Conf. on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2021) July 5-9, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------- Quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) are an extension of propositional logic which allows for explicit quantification over propositional variables. The decision problem of QBF is PSPACE-complete, compared to the NP-completeness of the decision problem of propositional logic (SAT). Many problems from application domains such as model checking, formal verification or synthesis are PSPACE-complete, and hence could be encoded in QBF in a natural way. Considerable progress has been made in QBF solving throughout the past years. However, in contrast to SAT, QBF is not yet widely applied to practical problems in academic or industrial settings. For example, the extraction and validation of models of (un)satisfiability of QBFs has turned out to be challenging, given that state-of-the-art solvers implement different solving paradigms. The goal of the International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF Workshop) is to bring together researchers working on theoretical and practical aspects of QBF solving. In addition to that, it addresses (potential) users of QBF in order to reflect on the state-of-the-art and to consolidate on immediate and long-term research challenges. The workshop also welcomes work on reasoning with quantifiers in related problems, such as dependency QBF (DQBF), quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSP), and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) with quantifiers. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== May 31: Submission June 7: Notification of acceptance June 21: Final versions of accepted papers due July 5-9: Workshop (actual date depends on SAT Conference schedule) Please see the workshop webpage for any updates: https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/qbf2021 ====================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ====================== The workshop is concerned with all aspects of current research on all formalisms enriched by quantifiers, and in particular QBF. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Applications, encodings and benchmarks with quantifiers QBF Proof theory and complexity results Experimental evaluations of solvers or related tools Case studies illustrating the power of quantifiers Certificates and proofs for QBF, QCSP, SMT with quantifiers, etc. Formats of proofs and certificates Implementations of proof checkers and verifiers Decision procedures Calculi and their relationships Data structures, implementation details and heuristics Pre- and inprocessing techniques Structural reasoning ========== SUBMISSION ========== Submissions of extended abstracts are invited and will be managed via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qbf2021 In particular, we invite the submission of extended abstracts on work that has been published already, novel unpublished work, or work in progress. The following forms of submissions are solicited: - Proposals for short tutorial presentations on topics related to the workshop. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the PC. The number of accepted tutorials depends on the overall number of accepted papers and talks, with the aim to set up a balanced workshop program. - Talk abstracts reporting on already published work. Such an abstract should include an outline of the planned talk, and pointers to relevant bibliography. - Talk proposals presenting work that is unpublished or in progress. - Submissions which describe novel applications of QBF or related formalisms in various domains are particularly welcome. Additionally, this call comprises known applications which have been shown to be hard for QBF solvers in the past as well as new applications for which present QBF solvers might lack certain features still to be identified. Each submission should have an overall length of 1-4 pages in LNCS format. Authors may decide to include an appendix with additional material. Appendices will be considered at the reviewers' discretion. The accepted extended abstracts will be published on the workshop webpage. The workshop does not have formal proceedings. Authors of accepted contributions are expected to give a talk at the workshop. ======= CONTACT ======= qbf2021(a)easychair.org ================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Hubie Chen, Birkbeck, University of London Florian Lonsing, Stanford University Martina Seidl, JKU Linz Friedrich Slivovsky, TU Wien

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Logica Universalis Webinar - May 12 - Graded Structures of Opposition in Fuzzy Natural Logic by Petra Murinová
by Antje Herbst 10 May '21

10 May '21

Join the Logica Universalis Webinar! The Logica Universalis Webinar is a World Seminar Series connected to the journal Logica Universalis<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/>, the book series Studies in Universal Logic<https://www.springer.com/series/7391> and the Universal Logic Project<https://logica-universalis.org/>. It is an open platform for all scholars interested in the many aspects of logic. (See the full program here<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/updates/18988758>.) The sessions take place on Wednesdays at 4pm CEST (click here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Logica+Universali…> to convert to your timezone). They are held via Zoom and are free to attend. Please register in advance. Registration is now open!<https://springer.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdu6vrzMiHda_iDhjxw9vA9d7we9gT…> Each session of the webinar is chaired by a member of the editorial board of the journal Logica Universalis (LU), the book series Studies in Universal Logic (SUL) or an organizer of an event of the Universal Logic Project (ULP). Sessions will start with a short presentation of a logical organization related to the region of the speaker or the topic of the talk. The talk (30 min) will focus on a recently published paper in LU, on a book in SUL, on an event or on the ULP. Talks are followed by a discussion (15 min). The next session will be held on Wednesday, May 12 at 4pm CEST with the talk Graded Structures of Opposition in Fuzzy Natural Logic<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-020-00265-y> by Petra Murinová<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.osu.eu_petra-2Dmur…>, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Chair: Sergei Odintsov<http://math.nsc.ru/~spodintsov/> Member of the Editorial Board of LU Associate Organization: Working Group on Mathematical Fuzzy Logic<http://www.mathfuzzlog.org/> presented by its president, Tommaso Flaminio<https://tomflaminio.wordpress.com/> Video recordings of the seminars are uploaded on the YouTube channel Universal Logic Project<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPS1c5ApuwjuCV9UjXHUN4w>. -- Antje Herbst Associate Editor Mathematics Journals Springer Nature Tiergartenstraße 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany T +49 62214878984 antje.herbst(a)springernature.com<mailto:antje.herbst@springernature.com> www.springernature.com<http://www.springernature.com/> -- Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, providing quality content to our communities through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people - helping researchers, students, teachers & professionals to discover, learn and achieve. -- Branch of Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany Registered Office: Berlin / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 91881 B Directors: Martin Mos, Dr. Ulrich Vest, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas

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