November 2024 - D-CON - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Save the date: D-Con 2025 March 06 and 07 in Augsburg
by Kirstin Peters 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

Dear all, D-Con 2025 will take place *March 06 and 07 at Augsburg University* (with the usual in-official dinner March 05). The D-Con was founded as a forum of German researchers on Concurrency Theory to meet, collaborate, and exchange ideas. One of its main tasks is to connect the younger researchers in the field. Therefore, the meeting consists of several talks mostly from younger scientists that can talk about their research agenda, new ideas on ongoing work, or recent research results. The programme is enhanced with talks and tutorials from experienced researchers as well as invited talks. In 2025 we will have an *Invited Talk by Jorge A. Perez* from the University of Groningen (https://www.jperez.nl/). More details on the workshop, the registration, and the call for contributions will follow. Of course, we already *welcome proposals for talks*. We favour standard student talks (20min + questions and answers) but are open to other formats (talks by groups, tutorials, etc.). To propose a talk please send an email to kirstin.peters(a)uni-a.de. Best wishes, Kirstin

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SPIN 2025: Call for Papers
by Rozier, Kristin-Yvonne [AER E] 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

********************************************************** SPIN 31st International Symposium on Model Checking Software https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/ 7 - 8 May 2025 co-located with ETAPS 2025, Hamilton, Canada ********************************************************* Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software but does not exclude the analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation. The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the SPIN model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly-scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: https://spinroot.com/spin/Workshops/. Topics of Interest: ------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of (concurrent) software/hardware, including: -- Model checking -- Deductive verification -- Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT -- Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques -- Static analysis and abstract interpretation -- Modular and compositional verification techniques -- Verification of timed and probabilistic systems -- Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques -- Program synthesis -- Derivation of specifications, test cases etc. via formal analysis -- Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract -- Formal analysis of learned systems -- Any combination of the above * Application and/or engineering of verification tools, including: -- Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results -- Implementation of novel verification tools -- Benchmarks and comparative studies for verification tools -- Verification tools using modern hardware, e.g.: multi-core CPU, GPU, TPU, cloud, and quantum Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission: 13 Feb 2025 Artifact Submission (Tool Papers): 27 Feb 2025 Paper/Artifact Notifications: 24 Mar 2025 Artifact Submission (Other Papers): 12 Mar 2025 Non-tool Paper Artifact Notification: 1 May 2025 Symposium: 7-8 May 2025 Submission Details: ------------------- We are soliciting three categories of papers: * Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (16 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices); * Full Tool Papers, accompanied by a *Mandatory Artifact*, describing work that is closely-related to the development or the evaluation of a verification tool or similar (16 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices); * Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods (6 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices). Note: Artifact evaluation is optional for short papers but highly recommended for those with a focus on tools. If you want to have the accompanying artifact of your short paper evaluated, please submit it to the mandatory AE on February 27. Papers submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2025 -- in the track Research Papers, select the respective paper category. All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, the importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. The proceedings of SPIN 2025 will be published as part of post-conference proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format; see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. Please take into account Springer’s Book authors code of conduct when preparing submissions: https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct. Artifact Evaluation: -------------------- SPIN 2025 will feature artifact evaluation, performed by an Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). The AEC evaluates artifacts based on documentation, availability, reproducibility of results, and tool reusability (if applicable). Artifact submission is mandatory for Full Tool Papers. While artifact submission is optional for papers in other categories, we highly encourage authors of papers involving tool development and empirical evaluation to submit an artifact for evaluation. Papers with an accompanying artifact may be awarded one or more badges from the EAPLS artifact badging scheme (https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/). More details can be found at: https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/artifacts Keynote Speakers: ----------------- Alexandre Duret-Lutz (EPITA Research Laboratory (LRE)) Orna Grumberg (Technion, Israel) PC Chairs: ---------- Gidon Ernst (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University) Artifact Evaluation Chairs: --------------------------- Julie Cailler (University of Lorraine & Inria, France) Nian-Ze Lee (LMU Munich / National Taiwan University) ***************** This edition of SPIN will include artifact evaluation, cf. https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/artifacts. We are now forming an Artifact Evaluation Committee headed by our artifact evaluation chairs: Julie Cailler, University of Lorraine & Inria, France (julie.cailler(a)loria.fr) Nian-Ze Lee, LMU Munich / National Taiwan University (nian-ze.lee(a)sosy.ifi.lmu.de) If you have experience in artifact creation and evaluation or a passion for tools and empirical experiments, you are welcome to nominate yourself via an email to the AEC chairs. ***************** -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Associate Professor, Iowa State Univ / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ Departments of Aerospace Engineering, |______| ~~ |______| Computer Science, Mathematics, and (__||__) Electrical and Computer Engineering /_\ /_\ !!! !!! laboratory.temporallogic.org

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Ursula Goltz
by Kirstin Peters 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

*** English version below *** Liebe Fachgruppe, mit großer Bestürzung und Trauer informiere ich Euch über den Tot von unserer geschätzten Kollegin Ursula Goltz. Wie sicher bereits einige von Euch auf den Mailing-Listen erfahren haben, ist sie am vergangen Mittwoch in Hildesheim verstorben. Ulla hat Ihre Forschung leidenschaftlich und außerordentlich erfolgreich dem Thema Concurrency Theory gewidmet. Sie war in der Community nicht nur fachlich anerkannt, sondern aufgrund ihrer herzlichen, zugewandten Art auch außerordentlich beliebt. Sie war maßgeblich an der Gründung und Gestaltung der GI-Fachgruppe beteiligt. Mit ihrer Lebendigkeit war sie eine wichtige Gestalterin der Community in Deutschland und darüber hinaus. Menschen zusammen zu bringen und zu fördern, war ihr immer ein Herzensanliegen, das sie so intuitiv gemeistert hat, wie das Zusammenspiel ihres Familien- und Berufslebens. Sie hat sich immer für die Förderung des Nachwuchs eingesetzt und wird daher unsere Fachgruppe und das Forschungsgebiet Concurrency Theory noch auf lange Sicht hin prägen. Wir werden sie schmerzlich vermissen. ****************************************************************************** Dear Fachgruppe, It is with great dismay and sadness that I inform you of the death of our esteemed colleague Ursula Goltz. As I am sure some of you have already heard on the mailing lists, she passed away last Wednesday in Hildesheim. Ulla dedicated her research passionately and extraordinarily successfully to the topic of concurrency theory. She was not only professionally recognized in the community, but also extremely popular due to her warm, approachable nature. She was instrumental in founding and shaping the GI-Fachgruppe. With her vitality, she was an important shaper of the community in Germany and beyond. Bringing people together and promoting them was always a matter close to her heart, which she mastered as intuitively as the interplay of her family and professional life. She was always committed to promoting young talent and will therefore continue to shape our group and the research field of Concurrency Theory for a long time to come. We will sorely miss her.

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