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THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS
18th International Conference on
Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science
RAMiCS 2020
08. April to 11. April 2020, Palaiseau, France
URL: http://ramics18.gforge.inria.fr/
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission: 06. October 2019
Paper Submission: 13. October 2019
Author Notification: 15. December 2019
Final Version: 16. January 2020
RAMiCS 2020: 08. April to 11. April 2020
INVITED TALKS:
Christel Baier, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
Manfred Droste, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany
Daniela Petrisan, Universite Paris Diderot, France
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Since 1994, the RAMiCS conference series has been the main venue for
research on relation algebras, Kleene algebras and similar algebraic
formalisms, and their applications as conceptual and methodological
tools in computer science and beyond.
TOPICS:
We invite submissions in the general fields of algebras relevant to
computer science and applications of such algebras. Topics include but
are not limited to:
* Theory
- algebras such as semigroups, residuated lattices, semirings,
Kleene algebras, relation algebras and quantales
- their connections with program logics and other logics
- their use in the theories of automata, concurrency, formal languages,
games, networks and programming languages
- the development of algebraic, algorithmic, category-theoretic,
coalgebraic and proof-theoretic methods for these theories
- their formalisation with theorem provers
* Applications
- tools and techniques for program correctness, specification and
verification
- quantitative and qualitative models and semantics of computing
systems and processes
- algorithm design, automated reasoning, network protocol analysis,
social choice, optimisation and control
- industrial applications
WATA 2020
WATA 2020, the 10th International Workshop on Weighted Automata: Theory and
Applications, will take place just after RAMICS, from 14 to 17 April, in
Marseille. We encourage participants to combine the two events.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Submission is via EasyChair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ramics2020
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. The
proceedings will be published in an LNCS volume by Springer, ready at
the conference. Submissions must not be published or under review for
publication elsewhere. Submissions must be in English using a PDF not
exceeding 16 pages in LNCS style. Submissions must provide sufficient
information to judge their merits. Additional material may be provided
in a clearly marked appendix or by a reference to a manuscript on a web
site. Experimental data, software or mathematical components for theorem
provers must be available in sufficient detail for referees. Deviation
from these requirements may lead to rejection.
One author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at
the conference. Accepted papers must be produced with LaTeX. Formatting
instructions and LNCS style files are available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
As for earlier RAMiCS conferences, we intend to publish a journal
special issue with revised and extended versions of a selection of the
best papers.
COMMITTEES:
Organising Committee
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Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Peter Jipsen, Chapman University, USA
Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Uli Fahrenberg, École polytechnique, France
Conf. & PC Co-Chair: Michael Winter, Brock University, Canada
Programme Committee
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Roland Backhouse University of Nottingham, UK
Rudolf Berghammer Kiel University, Germany
Manuel Bodirsky TU Dresden, Germany
Jules Desharnais Laval University, Canada
Amina Doumane PPS, France
Uli Fahrenberg École polytechnique, France
Hitoshi Furusawa Kagoshima University, Japan
Mai Gehrke LIAFA, France
Walter Guttmann University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Robin Hirsch University College London, UK
Peter Höfner CSIRO, Australia
Marcel Jackson La Trobe University, Australia
Jean-Baptiste Jeannin University of Michigan, USA
Peter Jipsen Chapman University, USA
Stef Joosten Open Universiteit, Netherlands
Wolfram Kahl McMaster University, Canada
Dexter Kozen Cornell University, USA
Tadeusz Litak FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Wendy MacCaull St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Roger Maddux Iowa State University, USA
Annabelle McIver Macquarie University, Australia
Szabolcs Mikulas University of London, UK
Ali Mili NJIT, USA
Jose Oliveira University of Minho, Portugal
Alessandra Palmigiano Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
Damien Pous CNRS - ENS Lyon, France
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh University College London, UK
Luigi Santocanale LIS, Aix-Marseille Université, France
John Stell University of Leeds, UK
Georg Struth University of Sheffield, UK
Michael Winter Brock University, Canada
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14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
LATA 2020
Milan, Italy
March 2-6, 2020
Co-organized by:
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
and
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London
https://lata2020.irdta.eu
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AIMS:
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
VENUE:
LATA 2020 will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe.
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
STRUCTURE:
LATA 2020 will consist of:
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization
Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata
Artur Jeż (University of Wrocław), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data
Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?
Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT)
Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL)
Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE)
Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT)
Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław, PL)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US)
Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US)
Marcin Jurdziński (University of Warwick, UK)
Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US)
François Le Gall (Kyoto University, JP)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO)
Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US)
Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Jiří Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Tomáš Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
James Worrell (University of Oxford, UK)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2020
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
https://lata2020.irdta.eu/registration
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
Paper submission: October 18, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2019
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2019
Early registration: December 2, 2019
Late registration: February 17, 2020
Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2020
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david (at) irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
There is an opening for a postdoc position at the Algorithms and Complexity
group at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Vienna, Austria.
- The position is for two years with the possibility of an extension.
- The position is research-only, but interested candidates have the
opportunity get involved in teaching.
- The employment is full-time (40 hrs/week) and the salary is
internationally competitive (the yearly entry-level gross salary is approx.
53K for postdocs).
- The working language at the university is English, knowledge of German is
not required.
REQUIREMENTS
Required are a PhD degree in Computer Science or related area and excellent
knowledge of algorithms and complexity, preferably in the setting of
parameterized complexity and fixed-parameter tractability.
Some background in graph theory, combinatorics, satisfiability,
computational logic, or constraint satisfaction is of advantage.
APPLICATION
-Applications must be made by September 27, 2019.
-The application should include the candidate's CV, an abstract of their PhD
thesis, a motivation letter, and a list of three references.
INFORMAL INQUIRES
- Informal inquires by email (Stefan Szeider, <sz[AT]ac.tuwien.ac.at>) are
welcome.