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ESSLLI 2021: Call for participation
by Kontinen, Juha A 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Call For Participation =============================================================== 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2021 26 July -13 August, 2021, Online https://www.esslli.eu ESSLLI 2021 Official page of ESSLLI 2021 - the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Computation www.esslli.eu =============================================================== We are happy to announce that ESSLLI 2021 will be held as an online event in the period 26 July -13 August. The school offers an excellent program of courses and workshops and the well established Student Session. In view of the online format, the program is spread over three weeks so as to facilitate attendance. Details on the schedule will be posted on the website shortly. We plan to open the registration by the end of April 2021. Raffaella Bernardi, Diego Calvanese and Michael Moortgat =========================================================== Courses and Workshops (F: foundational, I: introductory, A: advanced, W: workshop) Language and Computation Stefan Evert and Gabriella Lapesa. Hands-on Distributional Semantics – From first steps to interdisciplinary applications F Mathias Winther Madsen. Information theory F Jose Camacho Collados and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. Embeddings in Natural Language Processing I Gregory Scontras. Probabilistic Language Understanding I Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Aleksandre Maskharashvili. Probabilistic Semantics and Inference Under Uncertainty in Natural Language I Lisa Beinborn and Willem Zuidema. Analyzing the Cognitive Plausibility of Deep Language Models A Michael Henry Tessler. Probabilistic models of world knowledge for language understanding A Adina Williams and Ryan Cotterell. Information Theory in Linguistics: Methods and Applications A Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Rainer Osswald. Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures W Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik. Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics W Ielka van der Sluis and James Pustejovsky. Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions II (AREA-II) W Logic and Language Bart Geurts. Commitment-based pragmatics F Philippe de Groote and Yoad Winter. Introduction to natural language formal semantics F Thomas Graf. The Computational Nature of Language F Andras Kornai. Unifying formulaic, geometric, and algebraic theories of semantics I Patrick Georg Grosz and Mélissa Berthet. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Animal Semantics: a Super Linguistic Introduction I Natasha Korotkova and Pranav Anand. An opinionated guide to the language of opinion I Yael Greenberg and Carla Umbach. Additivity, scalarity and the interactions between them: Beyond 'also' and 'even' I Joost Zwarts. The semantics of metaphor I Elsi Kaiser and Deniz Rudin. The semantics and psycholinguistics of subjective predicates I Jakub Dotlačil and Floris Roelofsen. Dynamic inquisitive semantics A Kristina Liefke and Ede Zimmermann. Intensionalism and Propositionalism in Linguistic Semantics A Davide Grossi and Carlo Proietti. Abstract Argumentation and Modal Logic A Lucas Champollion. Advanced mereology for linguists A Judith Degen, Benjamin Spector and Daniel Lassiter. Approaches to implicature: Rational choice and/or exhaustification W Mora Maldonado, Alexander Martin and Jennifer Culbertson. Experimental approaches to language universals in structure and meaning W Logic and Computation Pablo Barceló and Diego Figueira. Foundations of query languages for graph databases I Valentin Goranko. Temporal Logics I Réka Markovich and Leon van der Torre. Introduction to Deontic Logic and Its Applications I Pavel Naumov. Actions, Blames, and Regrets I Camillo Fiorentini. Semantics based proof-search methods for non-classical logics I Eric Pacuit. Probabilistic methods in social choice I Willem Heijltjes and Lutz Straßburger. From Proof Nets to Combinatorial Proofs — A new approach to Hilbert’s 24th problem A Phokion Kolaitis. Logic, Data, and Incomplete Information A Anuj Dawar and Gregory Wilsenach. Symmetric Computation A Fei Liang and Alessandra Palmigiano. Logical foundations of categorization theory A Tadeusz Litak and Albert Visser. Lewis meets Brouwer: Constructive strict implication A Jouko Väänänen and Fan Yang. Workshop on Logics of Dependence and Independence W Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan. Workshop on automated synthesis W ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen Bolzano) Virtual Infrastructure Chair: Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen Bolzano) Publicity Chair: Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chair: Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) Co-chair: Michael Moortgat (University of Utrecht) STUDENT SESSION Co-chairs: Alexandra Pavlova (TU Wien) Mina Young Pedersen (University of Bergen) ==============================================================

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Formal Methods Education Online - Call for Presentations
by Jan Křetínský 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

============================================== FOMEO'21 Formal Methods Education Online: Tips, Tricks & Tools Collocated with ICALP 2021 https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html ============================================== Online instruction of formal methods has been a challenge in the last year, including teaching of basics of logics and automata theory, formal verification, theorem proving etc. This workshop brings together instructors of formal methods as well as developers of teaching support systems for formal methods to 1. present tools supporting teaching of formal methods education, and 2. discuss tips, tricks & experiences in online instruction gained in the last year. For more details on the workshop, visit our website at https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html IMPORTANT DATES: - submission May 08, 2021 (AOE) - notification May 21, 2021 - workshop July 12, 2021 SUBMISSION: You can submit your contribution at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fomeo21 Submissions should contain a title, a short abstract (to be published as part of the program) as well as a short description of how you plan to present (e.g. talk/live demo and/or poster/demo exhibition booth). The time slots for presentations can vary, as we expect short presentations of tips&tricks but also some longer demos of tools. In the gather-town-like sessions, every presenter/project will have a presentation area where demos, poster presentation, etc. (presenters have complete freedom) are possible. Please feel very welcome to ask any questions! ORGANIZERS: Jan Křetínský (TU Munich, jan.kretinsky(a)tum.com) Maximilian Weininger (TU Munich, maxi.weininger(a)tum.de) Thomas Zeume (Ruhr University Bochum, thomas.zeume(a)rub.de)

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Women in Logic 2021 - Call for Participation
by Sandra Kiefer 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at LICS 2021? Please join us on June 27 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic! Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by April 30, 2021 via EasyChair. This will help us provide an interesting program, with only a light-weight selection procedure. More information below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions WiL 2021: 5th Women in Logic Workshop June 27, 2021 part of LICS 2021 https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women in Logic 2021 is a satellite event of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS’21) to be held virtually on June 29-July 2, 2021. The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Our aim is to: - provide a platform for female researchers to share their work and achievements; - increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty; - establish new connections and collaborations; - foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community. We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers. Previous versions of Women in Logic (Reykjavík, Iceland 2017, Oxford, UK 2018, Vancouver, Canada 2019, and Paris, France 2020) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for a recognition of the need for change in the community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. INVITED SPEAKERS Simona Ronchi Della Rocca Rineke Verbrugge IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2021 Notification: May 28, 2021 Workshop: June 27, 2021 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors). The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2021 Easychair page as a PDF file (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2021) before the submission deadline on April 30, 2021, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves (Co-chair, University of Porto) * Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Maribel Fernández (King's College London) * Helle Hansen (University of Groningen) * Delia Kesner (Université de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) * Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University) * Daniele Nantes (University of Brasília) * Aybüke Özgün (ILLC - University of Amsterdam) * Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) * Ana Sokolova (Co-chair, University of Salzburg)

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EXPRESS/SOS 2021: First Call for Papers
by Ornela Dardha 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

=========================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Combined 28th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 18th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2021) http://icetcs.ru.is/express-sos2021/ Paris (France) August 23, 2021, Affiliated with CONCUR 2021 Submission deadline (full and short papers): Monday, June 21, 2021 =========================================== == INVITED SPEAKERS Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University, USA) Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dave Parker (University of Birmingham, UK) == SCOPE AND TOPICS The EXPRESS/SOS workshop series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and in the expressiveness of computational models. Topics of interest for EXPRESS/SOS 2021 include, but are not limited to: - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between models of computation (process algebras, event structures, Petri nets, rewrite systems) - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between programming languages and models (distributed, component-based, object-oriented, service-oriented); - logics for concurrency (modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics and resource logics); - analysis techniques for concurrent systems; - theory of structural operational semantics (meta-theory, category-theoretic approaches, congruence results); - comparisons between structural operational semantics and other formal semantic approaches; - applications and case studies of structural operational semantics; - software tools that automate, or are based on, structural operational semantics. We especially welcome contributions bridging the gap between the above topics and neighbouring areas, such as, for instance: - computer security - multi-agent systems - programming languages - formal verification - reversible computation - knowledge representation == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We invite two types of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages, excluding references). * Short papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references, not included in the workshop proceedings) All submissions should adhere to the EPTCS format (http://www.eptcs.org). Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is only allowed for short papers; full papers must be unpublished. Submission is performed through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2021 The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will register to the workshop and give the talk. We are monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic to decide if the workshop will take place physically in Paris, online or hybrid. Whatever the decision, we will guarantee the possibility of an online participation. == SPECIAL ISSUE There is a long tradition of special issues of reputed international journals devoted to the very best papers presented in prior editions of the workshop. For instance, a special issue of Information and Computation with selected papers from EXPRESS/SOS 2019 and EXPRESS/SOS 2020 is currently in progress. We will consider organising a special issue for EXPRESS/SOS 2021. == IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 21, 2021 - Notification date: July 26, 2021 - Camera ready version: August 9, 2021 - Workshop: August 23, 2020 == WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, IS) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ahmed Bouajjani (IRIF and University of Paris Diderot, France) Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, Iceland), co-chair Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK), co-chair Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) David de Frutos-Escrig (Complutense Univeristy of Madird, Spain) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Paola Giannini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Karoliina Lehtinen (University of Liverpool, UK) Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America, USA, and University of Birmingham, UK) Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) Sabina Rossi (University Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) == CONTACT Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the co-chairs in case of questions at express-sos21(a)easychair.org

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Paraconsistent Newsletter Winter-Summer 2021
by jean-yves beziau 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

The Paraconsistent Newsletter Winter-Summer 2021 is now released, including papers, books, events, videos of interest for paraconsistentists: http://www.paraconsistency.org/2021winter-summer In the present edition there is an interview with Peter Schotch, father of preservationism. And in the video section there is the full version of the movie "The Spirit of Contradiction" about Newton da Costa. Moreover, as always, you can win free holidays to the island of inconsistency if you find the author of the seasonal declaration. Enjoy ! JYB

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[SIAS 2021] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
by Symposium IAS 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (SIAS 2021) Tallinn, Estonia. June 21-23, 2021. <https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/> https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/ in conjunction with " <https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/> 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021)" SIAS 2021 CFP The needs of our daily life push forward modern systems to be well connected more user independent, autonomous, and smart. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS), that support IoT and CPS, facilitate difficult daily tasks in large eras of applications, especially in industry where a large amount of collected data should be efficiently analyzed in order to be optimally exploited. IAS offer a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on a society safety, productivity, and development. The difficulty arises on both sides of either developing new IAS or enhancing the deployed ones with the needed features and capabilities. IAS run on different environments and should follow different standards that make it difficult to ensure IAS requirements. Many solutions were developed in academia and applied by industrial to build a smart and autonomous system. Some of them rely on formal methods and system engineering whereas others look forward on big data and data analysis using mainly artificial intelligence techniques, in addition to other research areas such as networking, security, resiliency, etc. SIAS2021 provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing challenges facing IAS. IAS design and architecture . IAS modeling (formal models, SysML, UML, etc) . Correct-by-construction in IAS . MBSE, MDA and DDA for IAS . Virtualization and digital twins for IAS . Blockchains and decentralized architecture for IAS . IAS smart Networking . Communication protocols for IAS . Edges, Fog, and Cloud in IAS . Distributed database for IAS . Web services for IAS . Social aspects and human interaction in IAS IAS Analysis . Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in IAS . Model checking and theorem proving for IAS . Abstraction and compositional verification for IAS . Optimization and SAT solvers for IAS . Dynamic and static analysis for IAS . Statistical analysis for IAS . Testing for IAS . Smart decision making in IAS . Fog and edge computing for IAS IAS Assurance . Security specification, requirements, and management in IAS . Security in distributed IAS . Modeling, analysis and detection of attacks in IAS . Data mining for cybersecurity in IAS . Security protocols for IAS . Safety policies for IAS . Safety reinforcement models in IAS . Safety standard analysis for IAS . Resilience metrics and models for IAS . Resilience strategies and plans for IAS . Recovery systems for IAS resiliency . Recommendation guided decisions for IAS resiliency IAS Applications, Implementations, and Use cases . Applications and Software Platforms for IAS . IoT and CPS for IAS . Smart cities . IAS for industrial and production CPS . Autonomous robots and vehicles . Human-Robot Interaction . Smart logistics (transportation, supply chain, etc) Important Dates . Submission Date: 25 April,2021 . Notification to Authors: 25 May, 2021 . Camera Ready Submission: 4 June, 2021 Submission System . <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021

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Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata: Save the date 15--17 September 2021
by Nathanaël Fijalkow 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear all, The next edition of the Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata will be over the three days **15, 16, and 17 September 2021**. It'll either be a physical meeting in Aachen, Germany, or an online event. The deadlines and preliminary information can be found on the website: http://highlights-conference.org/

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27th WoLLIC 2021 - Call for Papers
by Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

[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 2020 EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2021 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) Santiago Figueira (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, France) Cláudia Nalon (UnB - Brazil) Giselle Reis (CMU - Qatar) IMPORTANT DATES May 15, 2021: Full paper deadline June 23, 2021: Author notification June 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (Cordoba, Argentina) Arthur Amorim Azevedo (CMU, USA) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Justin Hsu (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandra Kiefer (Aachen University, Germany) Clemens Kupke (Strathclyde University, Scotland) Konstantinos Mamouras (Rice University, USA) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Larry Moss (Indiana Univ, USA) Claudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research, USA) Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Christine Tasson (IRIF, France) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Renata Wassermann (Univ 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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[SIAS 2021] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
by Symposium IAS 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

De : Symposium IAS <sias(a)sscc.fr> Envoyé : lundi 22 février 2021 09:34 Objet : [SIAS 2021] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (SIAS 2021) Tallinn, Estonia. June 21-23, 2021. <https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/> https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/ in conjunction with " <https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/> 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021)" SIAS 2021 CFP The needs of our daily life push forward modern systems to be well connected more user independent, autonomous, and smart. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS), that support IoT and CPS, facilitate difficult daily tasks in large eras of applications, especially in industry where a large amount of collected data should be efficiently analyzed in order to be optimally exploited. IAS offer a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on a society safety, productivity, and development. The difficulty arises on both sides of either developing new IAS or enhancing the deployed ones with the needed features and capabilities. IAS run on different environments and should follow different standards that make it difficult to ensure IAS requirements. Many solutions were developed in academia and applied by industrial to build a smart and autonomous system. Some of them rely on formal methods and system engineering whereas others look forward on big data and data analysis using mainly artificial intelligence techniques, in addition to other research areas such as networking, security, resiliency, etc. SIAS2021 provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing challenges facing IAS. IAS design and architecture · IAS modeling (formal models, SysML, UML, etc) · Correct-by-construction in IAS · MBSE, MDA and DDA for IAS · Virtualization and digital twins for IAS · Blockchains and decentralized architecture for IAS · IAS smart Networking · Communication protocols for IAS · Edges, Fog, and Cloud in IAS · Distributed database for IAS · Web services for IAS · Social aspects and human interaction in IAS IAS Analysis · Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in IAS · Model checking and theorem proving for IAS · Abstraction and compositional verification for IAS · Optimization and SAT solvers for IAS · Dynamic and static analysis for IAS · Statistical analysis for IAS · Testing for IAS · Smart decision making in IAS · Fog and edge computing for IAS IAS Assurance · Security specification, requirements, and management in IAS · Security in distributed IAS · Modeling, analysis and detection of attacks in IAS · Data mining for cybersecurity in IAS · Security protocols for IAS · Safety policies for IAS · Safety reinforcement models in IAS · Safety standard analysis for IAS · Resilience metrics and models for IAS · Resilience strategies and plans for IAS · Recovery systems for IAS resiliency · Recommendation guided decisions for IAS resiliency IAS Applications, Implementations, and Use cases · Applications and Software Platforms for IAS · IoT and CPS for IAS · Smart cities · IAS for industrial and production CPS · Autonomous robots and vehicles · Human-Robot Interaction · Smart logistics (transportation, supply chain, etc) Important Dates · Submission Date: 25 April,2021 · Notification to Authors: 25 May, 2021 · Camera Ready Submission: 4 June, 2021 Submission System · <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021

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ACKERMANN AWARD 2021: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
by EACSL Mail-Account 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

ACKERMANN AWARD 2021 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2021 Ackermann Award. PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a university or equivalent institution between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 1 July 2021. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 March 2021 and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de *** The Award The 2021 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2022, the annual conference of the EACSL. The award consists of * a certificate, * an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, * the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings, * an invitation to the winner to publish the thesis in the FoLLI subseries of Springer LNCS, and * financial support to attend the conference. The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one dissertation in a year. *** The Jury The jury consists of: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Michael Benedikt (Oxford University); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay); * Prakash Panangaden (McGill University); * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL; * Alexandra Silva, (University College London), ACM SigLog representative. *** How to submit The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit 1. the thesis (ps or pdf file); 2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file); it is recommended to not squeeze as much material as possible into these 20 pages, but rather to use them for a gentle introduction and overview, stressing the novel results obtained in the thesis and their impact; 3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters by other senior researchers (in English); supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick (thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de); 4. a short CV of the candidate; 5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period. The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman of the jury, Thomas Schwentick: thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de With the following subject line and text: * Subject: Ackermann Award 20 Submission * Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments Submission can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case, please indicate it in the text.

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