December 2020 - finite-model-theory

[fm-announcements] CPP 2021: Call for Participation and Lightning Talks
by Munoz, Cesar (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

*** Call for Participation and Lightning Talks *** *** Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2021) *** #### Executive Summary * Conference dates: 17-19 January 2021 (extended to 3 days!) * Lightning talks submission deadline: 8 January 2021 (AoE) * Lightning talks session: 18 January 2021 at 20:00 CET * Registration: https://popl21.sigplan.org/attending/Registration - Early registration deadline: 10 January 2021 (!) - Discounted registration available (see below) * Long pre-recorded talks available by: 11 January 2021 (AoE) #### General Information Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal verification and certification as an essential paradigm. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education. CPP is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG. For more information please visit https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021 CPP 2021 will be co-located with POPL 2021 and will take place on 17-19 January 2021, as a virtual meeting, where all papers are presented online. For more information about virtual conference organization have a look here: https://popl21.sigplan.org/venue/POPL-2021-venue CPP will also have both long and short versions of presentations, just that for us the short versions are 10 minutes long (not 5). #### Call for Lightning Talks CPP 2021 will include a session of 5-minute talks where attendees can present work-in-progress, preliminary research results, and emerging topics. Submission of such lightning talks proposals is lightweight: all we need is a title, an abstract, and the author names, affiliations, and contact information. - Lightning talks submission deadline: 8 January 2021 (AoE) - Lightning talks session: 18 January 2021 at 20:00 CET - Submission information coming up in the next couple of days at: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#Call-for-Participation-and-Lightni… #### Discounted Registration We offer a $10 alternative registration fee for anyone for whom the normal registration fees could be an impediment to participation. #### Industrial Supporters Warm thanks to our generous industrial supporters: - Gold supporter: JetBrains - Silver supporters: Algorand, IOHK, and Nomadic Labs - Bronze supporters: Arm, BedRock Systems Inc, Digital Asset, Galois, Informal Systems Inc, and Zilliqa #### Invited Talks - Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universität München): Teaching Algorithms and Data Structures with a Proof Assistant - Peter Sewell (University of Cambridge): Underpinning the foundations: Sail-based semantics, testing, and reasoning, for production and CHERI-enabled architectures #### Accepted Papers, Program, and Distinguished Paper Awards The list of papers accepted at CPP 2021 is available at https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#event-overview A preliminary program is also available: https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021#program Starting with this edition we introduced the CPP Distinguished Paper Awards, aimed at accepted submissions that stand out with respect to originality, significance, and clarity. The three Distinguished Papers selected for CPP 2021 are: - A Minimalistic Verified Bootstrapped Compiler (Proof Pearl) by Magnus O. Myreen - Formalizing the Ring of Witt Vectors by Johan Commelin and Robert Y. Lewis - Machine-Checked Semantic Session Typing by Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen, Daniel Louwrink, Robbert Krebbers and Jesper Bengtson #### Contact For any questions please contact the chairs: Catalin Hritcu <catalin.hritcu(a)gmail.com<mailto:catalin.hritcu@gmail.com>>, Andrei Popescu <a.popescu(a)sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:a.popescu@sheffield.ac.uk>>, Lennart Beringer <eberinge(a)cs.princeton.edu<mailto:eberinge@cs.princeton.edu>> --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request(a)lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner(a)lists.nasa.gov

1 0

Invitation to celebrate the World Logic Day digitally - 14 January 2021 - Ambassadors of Logic and public Vienna Logic Day Lecture
by Rozman, Mihaela 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Dear colleagues, dear friends of logic, On 14 January 2021, you are cordially invited to celebrate the World Logic Day digitally with the community from the city of Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle. The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at Vienna University of Technology (VCLA at TU Wien) represents six research groups celebrating the World Logic Day 2021 (WLD) with: ---------------------------------------------------------- Vienna World Logic Day Lecture ---------------------------------------------------------- Vienna World Logic Day Lecture with Prof. Georg Gottlob on the future of logic in the world shaped by Artificial intelligence Date: 14 January 2021 Time: 8am PST | 11am EST | 1pm GMT-3 | 5pm CET Digital venue: Zoom or YouTube ---------------------------------------------------------- Ambassadors of Logic ---------------------------------------------------------- We asked renowned logicians from the fields of computer science, philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence to provide us with short statements on the WLD. This is what they have to say: https://logicday.vcla.at ---------------------------------------------------------- Celebrating World Logic Day 2021 around the globe ---------------------------------------------------------- We are featuring events celebrating World Logic Day 2021 around the globe. Send us an email, and we will include you on our website. Additionally, if you are organising an event and wish to be listed in the official list of the World Logic Day 2021 events and use the official WLD logo in your announcements, please submit your event as listed on the website of the WLD 2021. UNESCO proclaimed World Logic Day in 2019, in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), to enhance public understanding of logic and its implications for science, technology and innovation. "In the twenty-first century - indeed, now more than ever - the discipline of logic is a particularly timely one, utterly vital to our societies and economies. Computer science and information and communications technology, for example, are rooted in logical and algorithmic reasoning." - Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO ---------------------------------------------------------- Free access and non-obligatory registration on the website ---------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the website of Vienna World Logic Day at: https://logicday.vcla.at/

1 0

Computability in Europe 2021 - Second CALL FOR PAPERS
by acie＠acie.eu 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

(Apologies for multiple postings.) ========================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: ========================= CiE 2021: Connecting with computability 5 - 9 July 2021 website: www.CiE2021.ugent.be [1] **Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual conference.** CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association Computability in Europe. The /Computability in Europe/ conference (CiE) series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/ [2]. CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually by Ghent University. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest (2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017), Kiel (2018), Durham (2019) and virtually in Salerno (2020) PLENARY SPEAKERS ========================= * Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway) * Markus Lohrey (Universität Siegen. Germany) * Russell Miller (tutorial speaker, CUNY, US) * Joan Rand Moschovakis (UCLA, US) * Joël Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for software systems, Germany) * Christine Tasson (tutorial speaker, Université Paris Diderot, France) * Keita Yokoyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) * Henry Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada) SPECIAL SESSIONS ========================= /Church's thesis in constructive mathematics (HaPoC session)/ Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) and Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) _/Classical Computability theory: Open problems and solutions/_ Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin) Speakers: Marat Faizrakhmanov (Kazan Federal University), Andrea Sorbi (University of Siena), Liang Yu (Nanjing University), Ning Zhong (University of Cincinnati) _/Computational geometry/_ Maike Buchin (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Maarten Löffler (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Speakers: Wolfgang Mulzer (Free University Berlin)_, _Tillmann Miltzow (Utrecht University), Esther Ezra (Bar-Ilan University), Karl Bringmann (Saarland University) /Computational Pangenomics/ Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Speakers: Francesca Ciccarelli (King's College London, UK), Benedict Paten (University of California Santa Cruz, USA), Brona Brejova (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia), Rayan Chikhi (Pasteur Institute, France) _/Proof theory and computation/_ David Fernández Duque (Ghent University, Belgium) and Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University, Belgium) Speakers: Lorenzo Carlucci (University of Rome I "La Sapienza"), Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Yue Yang (National university of Singapore), Leszek Kolodziejczyk (University of Warsaw) _/Quantum computation and information/_ Harry Buhrman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Frank Verstraete (Ghent University, Belgium) WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY ========================= The Computability in Europe conference series has a long tradition in setting up a Women in Computability program. For CiE 2021 we plan a Women in Computability workshop combined with an online mentoring program. For more details on the Special Interest Group Women in Computability, see: https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [3] IMPORTANT DATES: ========================= Deadline for article registration (abstract submission): January 17, 2021 Deadline for article submission: February 5, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2021 Final versions due: April 27, 2021 Deadline for informal presentations submission: May 1, 2021 The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent a few days after submission. ORGANIZED BY: ========================= Department of Mathematics WE16, Ghent University Organizing Committee: David Fernández-Duque, chair (Ghent University) Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University) David Belanger (Ghent University) Ana Borges (University of Barcelona) Liesbeth De Mol (University of Lille) Andreas Debrouwere (Ghent University) Lorenz Demey (Catholic University of Leuven) Eduardo Hermo-Reyes (University of Barcelona) Christian Michaux (University of Mons) Fedor Pakhomov (Ghent University) Pawel Pawlowski (Ghent University) Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University) Peter Verdée (Catholic University of Louvain) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University) CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: ========================= The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers building bridges between different parts of the research community are particularly welcome. Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [4]) and should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional material. Authors should submit their papers electronically using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021 [5] Abstracts should be submitted by January 17th 2021, followed by the full papers to be submitted by February 5 2021. Each submitted paper will be peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance for the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register for the conference and should plan to present the paper. The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published with LNCS, Springer Verlag. INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS: ========================= Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly before the conference and inform the participants about current research and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for informal presentations is May 1st, 2021. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ========================= Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay) Christel Baier (TU Dresden) Nikolay Bazhenov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics) Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Paris-Est) Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University) David Bélanger (Ghent University) Joel Day (Loughborough University) Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Université de Lille, PC co-chair) Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University, CNRS) Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans) David Fernández-Duque (Ghent University) Zuzana Haniková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA) Assia Mahboubi (INRIA) Florin Manea (University of Göttingen) Irène Marcovici (Université de Lorraine) Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) Ludovic Patey (Institut Camille Jordan) Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova) Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan) Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Università di Torino) Paul Schafer (University of Leeds) Svetlana Selivanova (KAIST) Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University) Alexander Shen (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2) Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University) Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore) Peter Van Emde Boas (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Sergey Verlan (Université Paris Est - Créteil Val de Marne) Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University, PC co-chair) Damien Woods (Maynooth University) Links: ------ [1] http://www.cie2021.ugent.be/ [2] https://www.acie.eu/ [3] https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/ [4] ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [5] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021

1 0

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

1 0

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

1 0

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)

1 0