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FSCD 2021: Third Call for Workshop Proposals - Extended Deadline: 20 Dec 2020
by Carsten Fuhs 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

-------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Proposals FSCD 2021 - Extension 20th December 2020 - https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar Buenos Aires, Argentina Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021 Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation, deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July, before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to participants of parallel events. PROPOSALS -------------------- Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track) Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A description part including: - a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant); - a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and publicity material. 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organisers; - name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee member (*); - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of acceptance; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, or post main conference); - any other special requirements. (*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal. The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs and availability of space and facilities. The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to workshops, depending on the number of participants. The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on the main conference website; integration of the event's programme into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be provided by the FSCD organising committee. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- Submission of workshop proposals: 20 December, 2020 - Extended - Notification of success of proposals: 30 December, 2020 -------------------- Best regards, Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs

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FSCD 2021: Second Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline 6 Dec 2020)
by Carsten Fuhs 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

-------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Workshop Proposals FSCD 2021 https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar Buenos Aires, Argentina Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021 Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------- FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation, deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to tools and applications. Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July, before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to participants of parallel events. PROPOSALS -------------------- Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track) Each proposal should consist of the following two parts. 1) A description part including: - a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant); - a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website and publicity material. 2) An organisational part including: - contact information for the workshop organisers; - name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee member (*); - estimate of the number of workshop participants; - proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) - potential invited speakers; - procedures for selecting papers and participants; - tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of acceptance; - plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue); - duration (which may vary from one day to two days); - preferred period (pre, or post main conference); - any other special requirements. (*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal. The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs and availability of space and facilities. The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to workshops, depending on the number of participants. The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on the main conference website; integration of the event's programme into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be provided by the FSCD organising committee. IMPORTANT DATES -------------------- Submission of workshop proposals: 6 December, 2020 Notification of success of proposals: 20 December, 2020 -------------------- Best regards, Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs

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COORDINATION 2021 - First Call for Papers
by Ornela Dardha 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

*********************************************************************************** 23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages COORDINATION 2021 14-18th of June, 2021 at the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination <https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination> COORDINATION 2021 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2021 *********************************************************************************** HIGHLIGHTS Deadlines January 29, 2021 — abstract submission February 5, 2021 — paper submission Keynote Speakers: Gilles Fedak, iExec, FR Mira Mezini, Technical University of Darmstadt, DE Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021> Types of contribution Following the success of previous years, we welcome a range of contributions other than regular full papers: survey papers, short papers and tool papers. Special topics We plan to have dedicated sessions in the program on the following three special topics (details below): Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era, Microservices, and Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts. SCOPE Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the complexity induced by the demands of today’s software development. Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development. Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference provides a well-established forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and implementation techniques for coordination. MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including (but not limited to) coordination related aspects of: - Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and probabilistic aspects of coordination, logic, emergent behaviour, types, semantics; - Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures: patterns and styles, verification of functional and non-functional properties, including performance and security aspects; - Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code, configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel, high-performance and cloud computing; - Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination; - Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models, languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation, distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging behaviour; - Coordination and modern distributed computing: web services, peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing; - Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emerging new application domains like IoT, fog- and edge-computing; - Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and environments for the development and verification of coordinated applications; - Tools, languages and methodologies for secure coordination; - Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures: programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures and coordination models, case studies; - Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination; - Industry-led efforts in coordination and case studies. SPECIAL TOPICS COORDINATION 2021 is seeking contributions that enable the cross-fertilisation with other research communities in computer science or in other engineering or scientific disciplines. Depending on the quality of the contributions, we plan to have dedicated sessions in the program, possibly together with a panel discussion. 1. Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era Highly configurable software systems, such as software product lines, call for automatic mechanisms that allow to tame the complexity and variability. DevOps have pushed forward the importance of automating every step of the software development process, including the management of configurable systems. In this special topic, we welcome submissions addressing novel techniques and methodologies for the COORDINATION of automatic configuration tasks or for the COORDINATION of the various phases from development to deployment supporting the continuous release of software/products. Moreover, given the relevance of the topic to industry and aligned with the main topics of COORDINATION, we encourage submissions of efforts carried out in collaboration with industry, including case studies. Contacts: Maurice ter Beek (maurice.terbeek(a)isti.cnr.it <mailto:maurice.terbeek@isti.cnr.it>) and Hugo Torres Vieira (hugo.torres.vieira(a)ubi.pt <mailto:hugo.torres.vieira@ubi.pt>) 2. Microservices (in collaboration with the Microservices Community) Microservices are a novel architectural style, taking to an extreme the ideas of service-oriented computing. In microservices, applications are composed by loosely coupled entities, the microservices. Beyond that, single microservices should be small enough to be easily managed, modified, and if needed removed and rewritten from scratch. Microservices aim at obtaining high flexibility, reconfigurability and scalability, thanks also to the exploitation of containerization technologies such as Docker. Given that microservice-based applications are composed of many loosely-coupled microservices, techniques allowing one to coordinate their execution in order to obtain the desired behaviour are of paramount importance. Contacts: Ivan Lanese (ivan.lanese(a)unibo.it <mailto:ivan.lanese@unibo.it>) and Larisa Safina (larisa.safina(a)inria.fr <mailto:larisa.safina@inria.fr>) 3. Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts With the rise of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, digital contracts have become popular in the form of smart contracts, which encode a financial transaction between possibly distrusting parties using a distributed consensus protocol. Although smart contracts bear the potential to benefit society quite fundamentally (e.g., equalize access to financial infrastructure, increase fairness), the benefits are shadowed by the existence of severe security vulnerabilities in deployed smart contracts and smart contract languages. In the 2021 edition of COORDINATION, we are soliciting contributions on new programming language paradigms and patterns for expressing digital contract interactions, verification and analysis techniques for checking safety and liveness properties and guaranteeing correctness of digital contracts, as well as compositionality and scalability of digital contract reasoning techniques. Contacts: Stephanie Balzer (balzers(a)cs.cmu.edu <mailto:balzers@cs.cmu.edu>) and Anastasia Mavridou (anastasia.mavridou(a)nasa.gov <mailto:anastasia.mavridou@nasa.gov>) TOOL PAPERS We welcome tool papers that describe experience reports, technological artefacts and innovative prototypes (including engines, APIs, etc.), for coordinating, modelling, analysing, simulating or testing systems, as well as educational tools in the scope of the research topics of COORDINATION. In addition, we welcome submissions promoting the integration of existing tools relevant to the community. Submissions to the tool track must include an extended abstract and a link to a demo video that previews the potential tool presentation at the conference. Both the abstract and the video will be decisive criteria in the selection process. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to produce a regular (full) paper to appear in the conference proceedings, which will be subject to a lightweight revision process. Interested authors can contact the tool track chairs: Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito(a)unito.it <mailto:giorgio.audrito@unito.it>) and Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa(a)ifi.uio.no <mailto:sltarifa@ifi.uio.no>) for details. SUBMISSIONS Important Dates January 29, 2021 — abstract submission February 5, 2021 — paper submission April 2, 2021 — notification April 23, 2021 — camera ready PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information and abstract must be completed according to the DisCoTec submission dates. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system, accessible from the conference web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021> Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP’s Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ <http://www.ifip.org/> under Publications/Links). The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit (see below) prepared using Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. Submission categories - Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references): describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports. - Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references): describing research in progress or opinion papers on the past of Coordination research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the years to come. - Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references): describing important results and successful stories that originated in the context of COORDINATION. - Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references): describing technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of COORDINATION. The paper must contain a link to a publicly downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes length. The authors of accepted papers (in any submission category) will be encouraged to make their artefacts publicly available using permanent repositories such as Zenodo etc. (for Tool papers, the tool should already be available at submission time for reviewing purposes, but not necessarily via a permanent archive with a DOI). The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. Special Issues Following the tradition of previous editions of COORDINATION, according to the quality and number of the submission, we will organise special issues of extended and selected Full/Short/Survey/Tool papers in reputable journals such as LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer Science) and SCP (Science of Computer Programming). Special issues for last year’s edition are under preparation and we will advertise them on the conference’s website as soon as they get published. COMMITTEES Program committee chairs Ferruccio Damiani (ferruccio.damiani(a)unito.it <mailto:ferruccio.damiani@unito.it>) (University of Turin, Italy) Ornela Dardha (ornela.dardha(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:ornela.dardha@glasgow.ac.uk>) (University of Glasgow, UK) Tool track chairs Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito(a)unito.it <mailto:giorgio.audrito@unito.it>) (University of Turin, Italy) Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa(a)ifi.uio.no <mailto:sltarifa@ifi.uio.no>) (University of Oslo, Norway) Program committee Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon, USA) Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde, UK) Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy) Stephanie Balzer (CMU, USA) Maurice H. ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Roberto Casadei (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy) Vashti Galpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran) Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Omar Inverso (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark) Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy) Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy) Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) Larisa Safina (Inria - Lille Nord Europe, France) Gwen Salaün (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) Meng Sun (Peking University, China) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway) Peter Thieman (Universität Freiburg, Germany) Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Steering committee Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands) Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France) Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) Rocco De Nicola, IMT (School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo (Université de Genève, Switzerland) Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium) Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy) Mieke Massink (ISTI CNR, Italy) - Chair) José Proença (CISTER, ISEP, Portugal) Rosario Pugliese (Università di Firenze, Italy) Hanne Riis Nielson (DTU, Denmark) Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden) Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA) Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Mirko Viroli (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy) Gianluigi Zavattaro (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)

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finite-model-theory@lists.rwth-aachen.de
by Peter Leupold 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

* PhD researcher position (f/m/d) * At the University of Bremen in the department of mathematics and informatics there is a full-time PhD position available (under the condition of job release), commencing at the earliest convenience. The position is at the level of Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (f/m/d) Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L within the group "databases" headed by Prof. Sebastian Maneth. * Job description * The position is for a duration 3 years. This position is research only (= no teaching obligations) within a project that is funded by the DFG. The topic of the project is "definability of tree transformations". The time limitation is based on § 2 (1) WissZeitVG (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, i.e. temporary science employment act). Therefore, candidates may only be considered who dispose of the respective scope of qualification periods according to § 2 (1) WissZeitVG. Example questions addressed by the project are: - Given a functional bottom-up tree transducer, is it decidable whether or not its translation can be realized by a deterministic top-down tree transducer? - Given an attributed tree transducer, is it decidable whether or not it is equivalent to a deterministic top-down tree transducer? These questions are difficult and open research problems. * Requirements * We are looking for a doctoral researcher (f/m/d) with a completed master’s degree and an excellent track record in automata theory or formal language theory and with the will and enthusiasm to crack these hard problems. * General hints * We specifically support the employment of women and encourage qualified female researchers to apply. In case of equal personal aptitudes and qualification, disabled persons will be given priority. Applicants with a migration background are welcome. Applications (consisting of a cover letter stating the name of a referee who is willing to write a letter of recommendation, your CV, your motivation to work in this area, your master's thesis, copies of transcripts showing your courses and grades) have to be submitted by December 22th, 2020, quoting the reference number A242/20, to Universitaet Bremen Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik Prof. Dr. Sebastian Maneth Bibliothekstrasse 1 28359 Bremen GERMANY or in electronic form (one PDF file) to maneth(a)uni-bremen.de For further questions please contact Prof. Dr. Maneth, using the above mentioned e-mail address. https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-v…

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PhD positions at University of Glasgow in Programming Languages
by Ornela Dardha 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering up to 17 studentships to support PhD research for students starting in 2021. Funding is available to support tuition fees for both home and international students, and in most cases to support living expenses at the recommended UKRI rate (currently £15,285 per annum) in addition. Whilst the above funding is open to students in all areas of computing science, applications in the area of programming languages are welcomed. Available supervisors in this area at the School include (check the PL theme website https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/pl-theme/ <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/pl-theme/> for further details) * Dr Ornela Dardha (programming language foundations, logic, session types for concurrent/distributed systems), email ornela.dardha(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:ornela.dardha@glasgow.ac.uk> * Prof Simon Gay (programming language theory, verification techniques based on session types for concurrent/distributed systems), email simon.gay(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:simon.gay@glasgow.ac.uk> * Dr Jeremy Singer (compilers, cloud, managed run-times, parallelism, resource management), email Jeremy.singer(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:Jeremy.singer@glasgow.ac.uk> * Prof Phil Trinder (programming languages, functional programming, parallel/distributed systems), email phil.trinder(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:phil.trinder@glasgow.ac.uk> * Prof Wim Vanderbauwhede (programming languages, compilation, heterogeneous & FPGA computing), email wim.vanderbauwhede(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:wim.vanderbauwhede@glasgow.ac.uk> Students can apply for admission to PhD study at any time, but to be considered for the studentships we are offering at this round, we must receive your application by 31 January 2021. For more information about how to apply, see https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu… <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu…>. This web page includes information about the research proposal, which is required as part of your application. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact a potential supervisor and discuss an application before the submission deadline. See https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu… <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu…> and https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu… <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu…> for more details about the funding available. Information session: we will be running an information session for potential applicants on Friday 11 December from 1100-1200 GMT. The session is intended to give you an insight into the research currently undertaken in the School of Computing Science, scholarships and other sources of funding available, and how to make your application. The event will take place via Zoom; to obtain a link, you must sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgr-information-session-tickets-129903562051 <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgr-information-session-tickets-129903562051>.

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[fm-announcements] NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM2021) -- Final CFP (Extended Deadline)
by Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

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Faculty positions at the University of Sydney
by Sasha Rubin 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

The School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney is searching for full-time faculty members at all ranks. Advert: https://tinyurl.com/y4djckaq Closing date: 11:30pm, Monday 30 November 2020 (Sydney Time) Although the advert mentions specific areas of interest, exceptional candidates in all areas are sought. Informal enquiries are welcome, and can be made to Sasha Rubin (sasha.rubin(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:sasha.rubin@sydney.edu.au>)

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CSL 2021 - Call for Participation
by Alex Simpson 16 Nov '20

16 Nov '20

Finite model theorists may be interested in the online CSL conference, which takes place from Jan 25-28 2021 --- The European Association for Computer Science Logic invites you to participate in the 2021 edition of CSL, which will be held online from Mon Jan 25 to Thu Jan 28, 2021, organised by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana # The Conference Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference spanning both basic and application-oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science. CSL 2021 will be the 29th edition in the series. CSL moved away from its former August/September slot in 2020. CSL 2021 is the second conference in the series that takes place in January. ## Invited Speakers - Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, Rennes, France - Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, UK - Linda Westrick, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA - Sylvain Schmitz, Université de Paris, Paris, France - Bartek Klin, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsawa, Poland ## Programme Thirty-four contributed papers have been selected for presentation at CSL 2021; see the [list of accepted papers](https://csl2021.fmf.uni-lj.si/accepted-papers/) ## Registration To register, please follow the link and information provided on the [CSL website](https://csl2021.fmf.uni-lj.si) The registration deadlines are: - *14th December 2020*: deadline for speaker registration. At least one author of every contributed paper must register as a speaker. - *11th January 2021*: deadline for non-speaker registration. All participants must register. Note that student non-speaker registration is free of charge. If you have any questions, please contact the local organisers <csl2021(a)fmf.uni-lj.si>.

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FSCD 2021: First Call for Papers
by Carsten Fuhs 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021) July 17 - July 24, 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ In-cooperation with ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN NOTE: Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered. Abstract: February 12, 2021 Submission: February 15, 2021 Rebuttal: April 2-5, 2021 Notification: April 19, 2021 Final version: May 3, 2021 FSCD (http://fscd-conference.org/) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation, semantics and verification in new challenging areas. The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is: 1. Calculi: - Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.); - Lambda calculus; - Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.); - Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.); - Type theory and logical frameworks; - Homotopy type theory; - Quantum calculi. 2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: - Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.); - Induction, coinduction; - Matching, unification, completion, orderings; - Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.); - Tree automata; - Model building and model checking; - Proof search and theorem proving; - Constraint solving and decision procedures. 3. Semantics: - Operational semantics and abstract machines; - Game Semantics and applications; - Domain theory and categorical models; - Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, etc.); - Quantum computation and emerging models in computation. 4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems: - Type Inference and type checking; - Abstract Interpretation; - Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity; - Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties; - Symbolic computation. 5. Tools and Applications: - Programming and proof environments; - Verification tools; - Proof assistants and interactive theorem provers; - Applications in industry; - Applications of formal systems in other sciences. 6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas: - Certification; - Security; - Blockchain protocols; - Data Bases; - Deep learning and machine learning algorithms; - Planning. PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access. SPECIAL ISSUE ------------- Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- The submission site is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages (including references) and must present new software tools in which FSCD topics play an important role, or significantly new versions of such tools. An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be provided. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site: https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ One author of an accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS -------------------------------------- The program committee will select a paper in which at least one author is a junior researcher, i.e. either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. Other authors should declare to the PC Chair that at least 50% of contribution is made by the junior researcher(s). PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR ----------------------- Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo fscd2021(a)easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- M. Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília S. Berardi, University of Torino F. Blanqui, INRIA E. Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology É. Contejean, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay T. Coquand, University of Gothenburg T. Ehrhard, Université de Paris, CNRS S. Escobar, Univ. Politècnica de València J. Espírito Santo, University of Minho C. Faggian, Université de Paris, CNRS A. Felty, University of Ottawa S. Figueira, Universidad de Buenos Aires M. Fiore, University of Cambridge M. Gaboardi, Boston University S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad I. Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics D. Kesner, Université de Paris R. Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen T. Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University Linz B. König, University of Duisburg-Essen M. Lenisa, University of Udine N. Nishida, Nagoya University L. Ong, University of Oxford P. Parys, University of Warsaw J. Rehof, TU Dortmund University C. Rocha, Pontificia Univ. Javeriana Cali A. Silva, University College London N. Szasz, Universidad ORT Uruguay A. Tiu, Australian National University S. Winkler, University of Verona H. Yang, KAIST, South Korea CONFERENCE CHAIR ---------------- Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Quilmes Univ. & ICC/CONICET WORKSHOP CHAIRS -------------- Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília Carlos López Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR -------------------------------- Jamie Vicary, Oxford University PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------- Z. Ariola, University of Oregon M. Ayala-Rincón, University of Brasilia C. Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London H. Geuvers, Radboud University S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad S. Guerrini, University of Paris 13 D. Kesner (Chair), University of Paris Diderot H. Kirchner, Inria C. Kop, Radboud University D. Mazza, University of Paris 13 L. Ong, Oxford University J. Rehof, TU Dortmund J. Vicary, Oxford University

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[fm-announcements] NASA Formal Methods Symposium - 2nd CFP
by Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

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