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D-CON 2017: Last call for presentations
by Heike Wehrheim 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Liebe D-CONler! If someone is still interested in proposing a presentation, tutorial or discussion for D-CON 2017, please do so until *Wednesday, February, 8th, 2017. *We**currently have 11-12 talks and 1-2 tutorials, and could certainly find room for 2 to 3 talks more. If you still need to register, please do so *until Friday this week*, see http://cs.uni-paderborn.de/sms/d-con/registration/. Best wishes Heike & Jürgen

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D-CON 2017 Paderborn: Call for Contributions
by Heike Wehrheim 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Liebe D-CONler! On March 9th and 10th of 2017, the next edition of D-CON will take place in Paderborn (see our website http://cs.uni-paderborn.de/sms/d-con/). As usual, we will start in the morning of the first day. We will have two invited talks given by Prof. Anne Remke and Prof. Roland Meyer. With this email, we are asking for contributions to D-CON 2017: if you like to present your most recent work, organize a discussion or breakout session, give a tutorial or whatever else comes into your mind, please let me (wehrheim(a)upb.de) or Jürgen (jkoenig(a)mail.upb.de) know. We are looking forward to seeing you at D-CON 2017! Heike & Jürgen

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'Reactive Systems"
by Uwe Nestmann 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Liebe D-CONners, wer von Euch benutzt das Buch “Reactive Systems” von Aceto et al. in der Lehre? (Intensiv oder auch nur am Rande.) Der Hintergrund ist unser Ziel, e-Lerneinheiten für einige ausgewählte Kapitel zu entwickeln und die auch andernorts testen zu können. Interessant für uns sind dabei Bisimulation/Bisimilarität und Fixpunkttheorie à la Knaster/Tarski. Beste Grüße, == Uwe ==

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D-CON 2017
by Heike Wehrheim 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Dear Concurrency-Enthusiasts! This is to let you know that the next D-CON meeting will take place in Paderborn, March, 9th and 10th, 2017, and you are all invited to attend. The days are Thursday and Friday, and the plan is to start Thursday around 9.00. I am taking suggestions for presentations, discussions, tutorials, ... from now on, but will of course ask again end of the year. For now, save the date. Best wishes Heike Wehrheim

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PhD and PostDoc Openings - ERC Adv Grant POWVER
by Holger Hermanns 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

POWVER PhD and PostDoc openings at Saarland University, Saarbrücken ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.powver.org/open-positions/ As part of the ERC Advanced Investigators Grant awarded to Prof. Holger Hermanns, the five-year project POWVER seeks excellent applicants for PhD student positions, Postdoc positions, and expert engineer positions. Embedded software innovations boost our society. But at the same time, proprietary embedded software locks us out of the products we own. A modern electronic device can only be controlled and maintained to the extent enabled by the proprietary embedded software running the device. POWVER addresses this problem as its central concern. It will break open the (by now) traditional embedded software development process, so as to empower device users to gain back control over their devices. To make this possible, POWVER provides them with quantitative verification technology for system level correctness, safety, dependability and performability of open embedded software. In this endeavour, it focusses on embedded software for electric power management, because electric power is vital for mobile devices and their longevity. The spearhead application focus will be on light electric vehicles, set up as a blueprint for other battery-powered appliances. To arrive at these objectives, we look for excellent PhD students, Postdocs, and expert engineers with a solid background in software verification and quality assurance, in quantitative formal methods, in embedded software design, in systems engineering of battery-powered appliances, or in development or project management related to electric vehicles. The POWVER project is carried out at the Chair for Dependable Systems and Software in the Department of Computer Science of Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, on Saarland Informatics Campus, where the department joins forces with the Max-Planck-Institutes for Informatics and for Software Systems, the German Excellence Cluster ``Multimodal Computing and Interaction'', the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, the Intel Visual Computing Institute and several other research institutes, all in all with some 500 researchers, and spanned by the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science. Thus, successful applicants will get the possibility to work in a highly creative international environment and to conduct very competitive research on a global scale. PostDoc positions ----------------- Successful candidates hold a PhD degree with a top performance and have a proven track record in conducting original competitive scientific research and publishing the results in reputable conferences and scientific journals. Maturity, self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and as a team player in local and international research teams are expected. Besides a strong theoretical background, interest and experience with software development, for example verification/analysis tool prototypes, is very welcome. Good English language skills are mandatory. The positions are offered for a default period of three years, starting as soon as possible. A competitive salary and social benefits will be offered. PhD positions ------------- Successful candidates hold an M.Sc. equivalent degree with top performance in a field that is closely related to computer science, mathematics or embedded systems engineering. The candidates should have interest in performing original highly competitive scientific research, publishing the results in top conferences and scientific journals. Self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and as a team player in local and international research teams are expected. Good English language skills are mandatory. The positions are offered for a period of three years, starting as soon as possible. Expert Engineer positions ------------------------- Successful candidates hold an academic degree in a field that is closely related to computer science or systems engineering and should have a proven track-record in industrial application areas such as embedded software for electric vehicles, automotive embedded software, embedded battery management, or electric motor control. Candidates with management experiences in projects related to electrified cycling or bike component development are especially encouraged to apply. Self-motivation and the ability to work both independently and as a team player in local and international research teams are expected. Good English language skills are mandatory. The positions are offered for a default period of three years, starting as soon as possible. A competitive salary and social benefits will be offered. Candidates interested in any of these positions are asked to send further enquiries together with a short statement of research interests and a short CV to the POWVER principal investigator Holger Hermanns (hermanns(a)cs.uni-saarland.de) before July 6, 2016. Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of employment, the university actively encourages applications from women. Among persons with equal qualification, preference will be given to people with physical disabilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Power to the people. Verified. powver.org

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Call for Participation: UPMARC summer school 2016
by Mohamed Faouzi Atig 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Call for PARTICIPATION ** THE 2016 UPMARC SUMMER SCHOOL ** The 2016 UPMARC Summer School on Multicore Computing focuses on research trends for scalable and correct multicore programs and systems and will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden during 7-10 June, 2016. The school is sponsored by the UPMARC research programme of Uppsala University (see upmarc.se<http://upmarc.se/>). In particular, attendance of the summer school is *free*. (There is only a cancellation fee.) Courses The school offers lectures given by leading researchers in the area, including: * Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA * Marko Bertogna, University of Modena, Italy * Sebastian Burchardt, Microsoft Research Redmond , USA * Pontus Ekberg, Uppsala University, Sweden * Christoph Kirsch, University of Salzburg, Austria * Roland Meyer, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Vijay Nagarajan, University of Edinburgh, UK * Daniel J. Sorin, Duke University, USA * Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden In addition, the school will include a session where students will be given the opportunity to present their own research in the area of multicore/parallel computing. School Objective The lecturers will both cover foundations and several emerging areas including the design of scalable data structures, building and maintaining large actor systems, understanding replication and consistency models, and the analysis of real-time multi-core systems. We aim to attract graduate students, scientists and young scientists both from academia and industry. Lectures will help in identifying and addressing fundamental challenges that will enable programmers to leverage the potential performance from the ongoing shift to multi-core programming and cloud computing. Our goal is to provide a stimulating environment for participants to meet and establish contacts with other participants, world-class researchers from academia and industry, local faculty, and other senior scientists. For more information about the school, please see: http://www.it.uu.se/research/upmarc/events/SS2016/ss2016/Start.html We strongly encourage people interested in participating to register as soon as possible. Deadlines: • May 2nd for Registration to the Summer School. Best regards, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Kostis Sagonas and Roland Grönroos

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D-CON 2016 - Call for Contributions
by Holger Hermanns 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Liebe D-CONdianer, In about two months from now we are hoping to welcome you to *D-CON 2016* in Saarbrücken: March 7/8 are the dates. We are most happy to announce that the D-CON 2016 invited speaker will be *Rupak Majumdar* from MPI-SWS. All relevant information concerning D-CON 2016 is being assembled at: https://depend.cs.uni-sb.de/index.php?id=598 We are now asking for contributions to the programme, be it topics for presentations or for general discussion. Please *send us your suggestions* within a month from now, at the latest on Monday, Feb 8. Registration is already open, and is performed by sending a brief note to either myself or to Alexander Graf-Brill <grafbrill(a)depend.uni-saarland.de>. Hotel accomodation will be on a *book-your-own* basis. Contact Christa Schäfer <schaefer(a)cs.uni-saarland.de> if you need assistance with room bookings. Be advised to book your hotel as soon as possible. See the website for hotel suggestions and travel information. For your travel scheduling: We plan to start D-CON on Monday, March 7 at 09:00, and finish at 15:30 (at the latest) on Tuesday, March 8, so that presumably all participants are able to get home the same day. We suggest to plan your arrival for Sunday, March 6 (or earlier, sure). We are looking forward to seeing you at D-CON 2016 in Saarbrücken! Beste Grüße, Holger und Alexander -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Hermanns :::::::::: :::::::::: Dependable Systems & Software : :::: : Department of Computer Science ::::::: ::::::: Saarland University 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany depend.cs.uni-saarland.de Phone:+49 681 302-5630 Fax:-5636

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Save the date: D-CON 2016 on March 7-8 in Saarbrücken
by Holger Hermanns 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Liebe D-CONdianer, this is an advance note that the 2016 meeting of D-CON will take place March 7th and 8th, 2016 in Saarbrücken, on the premises of our campus. The workshop will tentatively follow the established format of previous years. I invite suggestions of any kind now, just send them to me. More info follows soon. Beste Grüße, Holger -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Hermanns :::::::::: :::::::::: Dependable Systems & Software : :::: : Department of Computer Science ::::::: ::::::: Saarland University 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany depend.cs.uni-saarland.de Phone:+49 681 302-5630 Fax:-5636

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PhD/PostDoc-Position at the University of Duisburg-Essen
by Barbara Koenig 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

The Theoretical Computer Science Group (Prof. Barbara Koenig) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) has one open PhD position paid according to TV-L 13 (full-time). Candidates at post-doc level can also be considered (and will start with a higher salary level within TV-L 13). For more information have a look at our web pages: http://www.ti.inf.uni-due.de/ Our current main research areas are: * Verification of graph transformation systems * Behavioural equivalences and behavioural metrics Requirements ------------ You should have or should be in the process of obtaining a MSc or equivalent degree. We prefer applicants with prior experience in some of the following topics: graph transformation systems, Petri nets, verification, concurrency theory, behavioural equivalences, coalgebra, logic and/or process mining. Good English speaking and writing skills are demanded, as well as the willingness to learn German. Applicants for the post-doc position should have or should be in the process of obtaining a PhD. They should be working on at least one of the topics mentioned above. Your Application ---------------- You can obtain further information by adressing your enquiries to: Barbara Koenig barbara_koenig(a)uni-due.de tel.: ++49-203-3793397 If you are interested in the position, please send your e-mail application to the address given above until 10 April 2015. Your application should include: * A description of your interest in the topics listed above, including your motivation and specific qualifications. * A curriculum vitae, including an abstract of your graduate thesis and the name of your supervisor. * If you are applying for a post-doc position, please include a list of your publications and the names of possible referees.

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D-CON 15: Pre-Workshop Dinner & Guided Abbey Tour
by D-CON 2015 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Dear colleague, D-CON '15 is approaching fast and finally we fixed the workshop schedule. It can now be found on the D-CON webpage: http://moves.rwth-aachen.de/d-con2015/program/ Following the tradition of previous D-CON workshops we would like to organise an (informal) dinner on Wednesday evening starting around 7 p.m. It will take place at Restaurant China, located in the city of Kerkrade, Markt 20. Moreover, the Rolduc team offers a guided tour (about half an hour) through the abbey if we can gather a small group of people. Please let us know by *23rd of February* whether you would like to join the dinner and/or the guided tour. Regards, Christina & Thomas — D-CON 2015 Organisers d-con2015(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de

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