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Second Dali Workshop: First Call for Papers
by Renato Neves 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Dynamic Logic: New Trends and Applications workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt First Call for Papers Porto, 9 October, 2019 (part of the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods 2019) OVERVIEW Building on the pioneer intuitions of Floyd-Hoare logic, dynamic logic was introduced in the 70's as a suitable logic to reason about, and verify, classic imperative programs. Since then, the original intuitions grew to an entire family of logics, which became increasingly popular for assertional reasoning about a wide range of computational systems. Simultaneously, their object (i.e. the very notion of a program) evolved in unexpected ways. This lead to dynamic logics tailored to specific programming paradigms and extended to new computing domains, including probabilistic, continuous and quantum computation. Both its theoretical relevance and practical potential make dynamic logic a topic of interest in a number of scientific venues, from wide-scope software engineering conferences to modal logic specific events. However, no specific event is exclusively dedicated to it. This workshop aims at filling fill such a gap, joining an heterogeneous community of colleagues, from Academia to Industry, from Mathematics to Computer Science. Support: PT-FLAD Chair & DaLi - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016692 TOPICS Submissions are invited on the general field of dynamic logic, its variants and applications, including, but not restricted to Dynamic logic, foundations and applications Logics with regular modalities Modal/temporal/epistemic logics Kleene and action algebras and their variants Quantum dynamic logic Coalgebraic modal/dynamic logics Graded and fuzzy dynamic logics Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems Dynamic epistemic logic Complexity and decidability of variants of dynamic logics and temporal logics Model checking, model generation and theorem proving for dynamic logics SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Original papers (unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere), up to 15 pages in LNCS style. As in the previous edition, post-proceedings will be published by Springer in a Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume, and a special issue with extended, revised contributions is planed. Submit via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dali2019 INVITED SPEAKER Dexter Kozen, Cornell University IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 14, 2019 Notification: July 19, 2019 Camera Ready: September 2, 2019 Workshop: October 9, 2019 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Guillaume Aucher (IRISA, FR) Carlos Areces (U Cordoba, AR) Alexandru Baltag,Â (UvA, NL) - PC co-chair Luis S. Barbosa, (U Minho, PT) - PC co-chair Mario Benevides (UFRJ, BR) Johan van Benthem (U Stanford, USA) Patrick Blackburn, (U Roskilde, DK) Thomas Bolander (DTU, Denmark) Zoe Christoff (U Bayreuth, Germany) Fredrik Dahlqvist (UCL, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Nina Gierasimczuk (DTU, Denmark) Valentin Goranko (U Stockholm, SE) Davide Grossi (U Groningen, NL) Reiner Hahle (TU Darmstadt, DE) Rolf Hennicker (LMU, Munchen, DE) Andreas Herzig (U Toulouse, FR) Dexter Kozen (Cornell, USA) Clemens Kupke (U Strathclyde, UK) Alexandre Madeira (U Aveiro, PT) Manuel A. Martins (U Aveiro, PT) Paulo Mateus (IST, PT) Stefan Mitsch (CMU, USA) Renato Neves (U Minho, PT) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms, USA) Aybuke Ozgun (ILLC, NL) Fernando Velazquez-Quesada (ILLC, NL) Olivier Roy (U Bayreuth, DE) Lutz Schroeder (FAU, Erlangen-Nurenberg, DE) Alexandra Silva (UCL, UK) Sonja Smets (UvA, NL) Rui Soares Barbosa (U Oxford, UK) Tinko Tinchev (Sofia U, BG) Renata Wassermann (USP, BR)

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Second Dali Workshop: First Call for Papers
by Renato Neves 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Dynamic Logic: New Trends and Applications workshop.dali.di.uminho.pt First Call for Papers Porto, 9 October, 2019 (part of the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods 2019) OVERVIEW Building on the pioneer intuitions of Floyd-Hoare logic, dynamic logic was introduced in the 70's as a suitable logic to reason about, and verify, classic imperative programs. Since then, the original intuitions grew to an entire family of logics, which became increasingly popular for assertional reasoning about a wide range of computational systems. Simultaneously, their object (i.e. the very notion of a program) evolved in unexpected ways. This lead to dynamic logics tailored to specific programming paradigms and extended to new computing domains, including probabilistic, continuous and quantum computation. Both its theoretical relevance and practical potential make dynamic logic a topic of interest in a number of scientific venues, from wide-scope software engineering conferences to modal logic specific events. However, no specific event is exclusively dedicated to it. This workshop aims at filling fill such a gap, joining an heterogeneous community of colleagues, from Academia to Industry, from Mathematics to Computer Science. Support: PT-FLAD Chair & DaLi - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016692 TOPICS Submissions are invited on the general field of dynamic logic, its variants and applications, including, but not restricted to Dynamic logic, foundations and applications Logics with regular modalities Modal/temporal/epistemic logics Kleene and action algebras and their variants Quantum dynamic logic Coalgebraic modal/dynamic logics Graded and fuzzy dynamic logics Dynamic logics for cyber-physical systems Dynamic epistemic logic Complexity and decidability of variants of dynamic logics and temporal logics Model checking, model generation and theorem proving for dynamic logics SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Original papers (unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere), up to 15 pages in LNCS style. As in the previous edition, post-proceedings will be published by Springer in a Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume, and a special issue with extended, revised contributions is planed. Submit via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dali2019 INVITED SPEAKER Dexter Kozen, Cornell University IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 14, 2019 Notification: July 19, 2019 Camera Ready: September 2, 2019 Workshop: October 9, 2019 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Guillaume Aucher (IRISA, FR) Carlos Areces (U Cordoba, AR) Alexandru Baltag,Â (UvA, NL) - PC co-chair Luis S. Barbosa, (U Minho, PT) - PC co-chair Mario Benevides (UFRJ, BR) Johan van Benthem (U Stanford, USA) Patrick Blackburn, (U Roskilde, DK) Thomas Bolander (DTU, Denmark) Zoe Christoff (U Bayreuth, Germany) Fredrik Dahlqvist (UCL, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Nina Gierasimczuk (DTU, Denmark) Valentin Goranko (U Stockholm, SE) Davide Grossi (U Groningen, NL) Reiner Hahle (TU Darmstadt, DE) Rolf Hennicker (LMU, Munchen, DE) Andreas Herzig (U Toulouse, FR) Dexter Kozen (Cornell, USA) Clemens Kupke (U Strathclyde, UK) Alexandre Madeira (U Aveiro, PT) Manuel A. Martins (U Aveiro, PT) Paulo Mateus (IST, PT) Stefan Mitsch (CMU, USA) Renato Neves (U Minho, PT) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms, USA) Aybuke Ozgun (ILLC, NL) Fernando Velazquez-Quesada (ILLC, NL) Olivier Roy (U Bayreuth, DE) Lutz Schroeder (FAU, Erlangen-Nurenberg, DE) Alexandra Silva (UCL, UK) Sonja Smets (UvA, NL) Rui Soares Barbosa (U Oxford, UK) Tinko Tinchev (Sofia U, BG) Renata Wassermann (USP, BR)

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TbiLLC 2019: Call for Papers
by Alex Simpson 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

The thirteenth TbiLLC may be of interest to finite model theorists. This second call for papers has added information on location and workshops. --- THE THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION Second Call for Papers 16-20 September, 2019 Batumi, Georgia http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2019/ *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation will be held 16-20 September 2019 in Batumi, Georgia. The Programme Committee invites submissions for contributions on all aspects of logic, language, and computation. Work of an interdisciplinary nature is particularly welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language syntax, semantics, and pragmatics * Linguistic typology and semantic universals * Language evolution and learnability * Historical linguistics, history of logic * Natural logic, inference and entailment in natural language * Logic, games, and formal pragmatics * Logics for artificial intelligence and computer science * Constructive, modal and algebraic logic * Categorical logic * Algorithmic game theory * Computational social choice * Formal models of multiagent systems * Information retrieval, query answer systems * Distributional and probabilistic models of information, meaning and computation * Models of computation Authors can submit an abstract of three pages (including references) at the EasyChair conference system here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tbillc2019 PROGRAMME The programme will include tutorials and a series of invited lectures. Tutorials: Logic: Graham Leigh (University of Gothenburg) Language: Fabian Bross (University of Stuttgart) Computation: Daniela Petrisan (CNRS, Université Paris Diderot) Invited speakers: Logic: Philippe Balbiani (CNRS, Université Toulouse III), Adam Bjorndahl (Carnegie Mellon University) Language: Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin), Thomas Ede Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt) Computation: Libor Barto (Charles University Prague), Elham Kashefi (CNRS, University of Edinburgh) WORKSHOPS There will be two workshops: "Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Aspect Across Modalities (SSPAM)" Conveners: Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin) and Fabian Bross (University Stuttgart) For more details see the workshop webpage https://sites.google.com/view/sspam2019/call-for-papers and "Topology and Modal Logic" Convener: Adam Bjorndahl (Carnegie Mellon University) More information will be available on the TbiLLC website: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2019/ Programme Committee Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) Rusiko Asatiani (Tbilisi State University) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Nick Bezhanishvili (University of Amsterdam) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications) David Gabelaia (TSU Rasmadze Mathematical Institute) Katharina Hartmann (University of Frankfurt/Main) Jules Hedges (University of Oxford) Daniel Hole (co-chair, University of Stuttgart) Sebastian Löbner (University of Düsseldorf) Matteo Mio (CNRS/ENS-Lyon) Sara Negri (University of Helsinki) Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart) Alessandra Palmigiano (Technical University of Delft) Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam) Martin Schäfer (University of Anglia Ruskin) Lutz Schröder (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Kerstin Schwabe (Leibniz-ZAS Berlin) Alexandra Silva (UC London) Alex Simpson (co-chair, University of Ljubljana) Luca Spada (University of Salerno) Ronnie B. Wilbur (Purdue University) Fan Yang (University of Helsinki) PUBLICATION INFORMATION Post-proceedings of the symposium will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 1 April 2019 Notification: 3 June 2019 Final abstracts due: 1 July 2019 Registration deadline: 1 August 2019 Symposium: 16-20 September 2019 Programme and submission details can be found at: http://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2019/ LOCATION Castello Mare Hotel & Wellness Resort - Tsikhisdziri, Batumi, Georgia http://castellomare.com

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Ackermann Award 2019: Final Call for Nominations
by EACSL Mail-Account 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

ACKERMANN AWARD 2019 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FINAL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Nominations are now invited for the 2019 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 1.1.2017 and 31.12.2018 are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission is 1 April 2019. Submission details follow below. Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2019 and should be sent to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de The Award The 2019 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL 2020, the annual conference of the EACSL, 13-16 January 2020, in Barcelona. 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. Jury The jury consists of: * Christel Baier (TU Dresden); * Michael Benedikt (Oxford University); * Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw); * Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay); * Dexter Kozen (Cornell University); * Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), ACM SigLog representative; * Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL; * Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL. 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); 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 2019 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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