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Call for Nominations: VCLA International Student Awards 2021
by Traxler, Alexandra 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding theses and scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: -Outstanding Master Thesis Award* -Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (Bachelor thesis or equivalent, 1st cycle of the Bologna process)* *The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2019 and December 31st, 2020 (inclusive). ---------------------------------- The main areas of interest are: ---------------------------------- -Computational Logic, covering theoretical and mathematical foundations such as proof theory, model theory, computability theory, Boolean satisfiability (SAT), QBF, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability modulo theories, automated deduction (resolution, refutation, theorem proving), non-classical logics (substructural logics, multi-valued logics, deontic logics, modal and temporal logics). -Algorithms and Computational Complexity, including design and analysis of discrete algorithms, complexity analysis, algorithmic lower bounds, parameterized and exact algorithms, decomposition methods, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, algorithm engineering, as well as algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, parallel algorithms, graph drawing algorithms, and distributed algorithms. -Databases and Artificial Intelligence, concerned with logical methods for modeling, storing, and drawing inferences from data and knowledge. This includes subjects like query languages based on logical concepts (Datalog, variants of SQL, XML, and SPARQL), novel database-theoretical methods (schema mappings, information extraction and integration), logic programming, knowledge representation and reasoning (ontologies, answer-set programming, belief change, inconsistency handling, argumentation, planning). -Verification, concerned with logical methods and automated tools for reasoning about the behavior and correctness of complex state-based systems such as software and hardware designs as well as hybrid systems. This ranges from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems. ---------------------------------- Awards ---------------------------------- -The Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR -The Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award: 800 EUR -The winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony in Vienna, if the situation allows ---------------------------------- Eligibility ---------------------------------- -The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2019 and December 31st, 2020 (inclusive). -Submissions already submitted to the VCLA Awards 2020 cannot be re-submitted. -Students who obtained their degree at TU Wien are not eligible. ---------------------------------- Nomination Requirements ---------------------------------- Nominations must include: -A cover page that contains the name and contact details of the nominated person, the title of the work for which the person is being nominated, award category, the date on which the degree was awarded, and the name of the university -An English summary of the thesis of maximum 3 pages, excluding references (A4 or letter page size, 11pt font min). The summary must clearly state the main contribution of the work, its novelty, and its relevance to some of the aforementioned areas of interest -The CV of the nominated person, including publication list (if applicable) -An endorsement letter from a supervisor or another proposing person. The letter must clearly state the independent and novel contribution of the student, and why the proposer believes the student deserves the award. The endorsement letter may be provided after the submission deadline, and emailed directly to award (AT) logic-cs.at. -The full thesis All documents should be in English, with the exception of the thesis. In case the thesis is in a different language, it must be accompanied by a research report in English of at least 10 pages that should be sufficient for the committee to evaluate the merit and quality of the submitted work. ---------------------------------- Instructions for submitting self-nominations ---------------------------------- -Nominations should be submitted electronically by the applicants using the following link to EasyChair here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vclaawards2021> -Submissions consist of two pdf files. The first is a single pdf file containing all documents for the nomination except the full thesis; the documents should appear in the order they are listed above. The second pdf file is the full thesis -The endorsement letter may optionally be sent by email by the endorser and omitted from the Easychair submission. In this case, please email the letter as a pdf file, including the name of the nominated person in the subject, to award (AT) logic-cs DOT at -The submission must be accompanied by a plain text electronic abstract of the thesis of at most 400 words, and three keywords. -The nominated student must be listed as the only author in the submission form. ---------------------------------- Important dates ---------------------------------- -Submission deadline: April 30th, 2021 (anywhere on Earth) -Notification of decision: After July 15th, 2021 -Award ceremony: Depending on the COVID-19 situation ---------------------------------- Contact ---------------------------------- Please send all inquiries to award(a)logic-cs.at ---------------------------------- Website with the information on the award committee, and the previous awardees ---------------------------------- https://logic-cs.at/vcla-international-student-awards-2021

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Call for Nominations: EiC of ACM TOCL journal
by Sam Staton 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Call for Nominations Editor-In-Chief ACM Transactions on Computational Logic The term of the current Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL http://tocl.acm.org/) is coming to an end, and the ACM Publications Board has set up a nominating committee to assist the Board in selecting the next EiC. Nominations, including self-nominations, are invited for a three-year term as TOCL EiC, beginning on July 1, 2021. The EiC appointment may be renewed at most one time. This is an entirely voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate administrative support. Appointed by the ACM Publications Board, Editors-in-Chief (EiCs) of ACM journals are delegated full responsibility for the editorial management of the journal consistent with the journal's charter and general ACM policies. The Board relies on EiCs to ensure that the content of the journal is of high quality and that the editorial review process is both timely and fair. He/she has the final say on acceptance of papers, size of the Editorial Board, and appointment of Associate Editors. A complete list of responsibilities is found in the ACM Volunteer Editors Position Descriptions (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/position_descriptions). Additional information can be found in the following documents: - Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/roles-and-responsibilities - ACM's Evaluation Criteria for Editors-in-Chief http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation/ Nominations should include a vita along with a brief statement of why the nominee should be considered. Self-nominations are encouraged and should include a statement of the candidate's vision for the future development of TOCL. The deadline for submitting nominations is May 7, 2021, although nominations will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. Please send all nominations to the search committee chair, Dale Miller (dale.miller(a)inria.fr). The search committee members are: - Dale Miller (Inria & LIX/IPP, France), Chair - Christel Baier (TU Dresden, Germany) - Prakash Panangaden (McGill University, Canada) - Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge, UK) - Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Turin, Italy) - Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany) ACM Pubs Board Liaison

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CFP: ESSLLI Workshop on Logics of Dependence & Independence (LoDE 2021), virtual, August 9-13, 2021
by Yang, Fan 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI Workshop on Logics of Dependence and Independence (LoDE 2021) https://sites.google.com/view/lode2021/ Online (virtual), during August 9-13, 2021 ===================================== Organized as part of the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2021) https://www.esslli.eu<https://www.esslli.eu/> ===================================== ===================================== *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2021 *** ===================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ======================= Logics of dependence and independence are novel extensions of classical logics aiming at characterizing dependence and independence notions in sciences. This field of research has grown rapidly in recent years. The framework of the logics has found applications also in fields like database theory, linguistics, social choice, quantum physics and so on. This 2-day workshop will bring together researchers from all these relevant areas and provide a snapshot of the state of the art of logics of dependence and independence. SUBMISSION DETAILS =================== We invite submissions of 1-page abstracts of contributed talks. The submission deadline is **June 1, 2021**. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lode2021. IMPORTANT DATES ====================== + June 1, 2021: Deadline for paper submission + June 30, 2021: Notification of acceptance + August 9-13, 2021: Workshop dates (The workshop has a 2-day program. The exact dates will be announced soon, see ESSLLI homepage for updates.) INVITED SPEAKERS ================= Maria Aloni (Amsterdam) [TBC] Erich Grädel (Aachen) Lauri Hella (Tampere) WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ====================== Jouko Väänänen (Helsinki and Amsterdam) Fan Yang (Helsinki) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==================== Pietro Galliani (Bolzano) Juha Kontinen (Helsinki) Jouko Väänänen (Helsinki and Amsterdam) Jonni Virtema (Hannover) Heribert Vollmer (Hannover) Fan Yang (Helsinki) CONTACT ======== For any questions regarding the workshop, please contact the organizers at jouko.vaananen(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:jouko.vaananen@helsinki.fi> or fan.yang(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:fan.yang@helsinki.fi>.

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VEST'21 Workshop: First Call for Talks
by Ornela Dardha 26 Mar '21

26 Mar '21

********************************************************************* VEST 2021: 2nd Workshop on Verification of Session Types Online on July 12, 2021, co-located with ICALP 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home <https://sites.google.com/view/vest21/home> Submission: Monday, 3rd May 2021 Call for Talks ********************************************************************* * Presentation The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and build and strengthen a community working on verification of session types using various theorem provers such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. Session types are abstract representations of the sequences of operations that computational entities (such as channels or objects) must perform. Stateful entities offer services in a non-uniform way (one cannot pop from an empty stack); traditional type systems cannot guarantee that operations are only invoked when the entity is in the right state. Large-scale software systems rely on message-passing protocols: their correctness largely depends on sound protocol implementations. Session types can help in the specification of correct-by-construction systems, and in verifying that programs respect their intended protocols. Recent years have seen a steady stream of research on behavioural types: their foundations and their transfer to several programming languages. This has led to highly-cited papers in conferences such as POPL and journals such as TOPLAS. Research projects on behavioural types have advanced the theory and applications of behavioural types. Although the foundations of session types are now well established, and new works build on approaches that have become standard, there is still a lack of reusable libraries, namely machine-verified ones. As on one hand the basis of most works is common, and on the other hand the complexity of the formal systems is considerable and may lead to errors in the proofs of the soundness results, machine verifying the type systems proposed is vital. Libraries, or at least clear formalisations of common approaches, is crucial to avoid not only to repeat work but also to increase the confidence in the knowledge base. Moreover, as many of these systems have a goal to do static analysis to ensure some safety or liveness property, machine verification of these approaches leads to certified software for program analysis. The goal of the VEST workshop is to gather the researchers working on mechanisations of behavioural types using various theorem provers, such as Agda, Coq, Isabelle or any other. The workshop will be a platform to present both the now well-established efforts and the ongoing works the community has put on verification. The workshop will also be a forum to discuss strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, potential obstacles and to foster collaboration. * Types of Contributions We request two types of research contributions. Type 1: Short presentations (1 page) of work published elsewhere; Type 2: Presentations (2-5 pages) of ongoing original work. Submissions of Type 1 will consist of 1 page papers presenting the work, the publication venue and the significance of the results; the PC will select the submissions with a ranking system. Submissions of Type 2 will consist of 2 - 5 page papers submitted to a light reviewing process. There will be no proceedings of VEST'21, but rather the aim is to strengthen and further expand our community. * Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h) Submission: Monday, 3rd May 2021 Notification: Monday, 14th June 2021 Final Version: Monday, 5th July 2021 Workshop: Monday, 12th July 2021 * Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf= <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=beat2019>vest21 * Invited Speakers: - Jesper Bengtson (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Andreia Mordido (University of Lisbon, Portugal) *Tutorial, jointly delivered by: - David Castro-Perez (University of Kent, UK) - Francisco Ferreira-Ruiz (Imperial College, UK) - Lorenzo Gheri (Imperial College, UK) * Program Committee: - Robert Atkey, University of Strathclyde, UK - Laura Bocchi, University of Kent, UK - Ornela Dardha, University of Glasgow, UK (Co-chair) - Cinzia Di Giusto, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, France - Wen Kokke, The University of Edinburgh, UK - Robbert Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - Luca Padovani , Università di Torino, Italy - Kirstin Peters, TU Darmstadt, Germany - António Ravara, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal (Co-chair) - Ivan Scagnetto, University of Udine, Italy - Peter Thiemann, Universität Freiburg, Germany

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Call for Nominations: VCLA International Student Awards 2021
by Traxler, Alexandra 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding theses and scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories: -Outstanding Master Thesis Award* -Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (Bachelor thesis or equivalent, 1st cycle of the Bologna process)* *The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2019 and December 31st, 2020 (inclusive). ---------------------------------- The main areas of interest are: ---------------------------------- -Computational Logic, covering theoretical and mathematical foundations such as proof theory, model theory, computability theory, Boolean satisfiability (SAT), QBF, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability modulo theories, automated deduction (resolution, refutation, theorem proving), non-classical logics (substructural logics, multi-valued logics, deontic logics, modal and temporal logics). -Algorithms and Computational Complexity, including design and analysis of discrete algorithms, complexity analysis, algorithmic lower bounds, parameterized and exact algorithms, decomposition methods, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, algorithm engineering, as well as algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, parallel algorithms, graph drawing algorithms, and distributed algorithms. -Databases and Artificial Intelligence, concerned with logical methods for modeling, storing, and drawing inferences from data and knowledge. This includes subjects like query languages based on logical concepts (Datalog, variants of SQL, XML, and SPARQL), novel database-theoretical methods (schema mappings, information extraction and integration), logic programming, knowledge representation and reasoning (ontologies, answer-set programming, belief change, inconsistency handling, argumentation, planning). -Verification, concerned with logical methods and automated tools for reasoning about the behavior and correctness of complex state-based systems such as software and hardware designs as well as hybrid systems. This ranges from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems. ---------------------------------- Awards ---------------------------------- -The Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR -The Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award: 800 EUR -The winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony in Vienna, if the situation allows ---------------------------------- Eligibility ---------------------------------- -The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2019 and December 31st, 2020 (inclusive). -Submissions already submitted to the VCLA Awards 2020 cannot be re-submitted. -Students who obtained their degree at TU Wien are not eligible. ---------------------------------- Nomination Requirements ---------------------------------- Nominations must include: -A cover page that contains the name and contact details of the nominated person, the title of the work for which the person is being nominated, award category, the date on which the degree was awarded, and the name of the university -An English summary of the thesis of maximum 3 pages, excluding references (A4 or letter page size, 11pt font min). The summary must clearly state the main contribution of the work, its novelty, and its relevance to some of the aforementioned areas of interest -The CV of the nominated person, including publication list (if applicable) -An endorsement letter from a supervisor or another proposing person. The letter must clearly state the independent and novel contribution of the student, and why the proposer believes the student deserves the award. The endorsement letter may be provided after the submission deadline, and emailed directly to award (AT) logic-cs.at. -The full thesis All documents should be in English, with the exception of the thesis. In case the thesis is in a different language, it must be accompanied by a research report in English of at least 10 pages that should be sufficient for the committee to evaluate the merit and quality of the submitted work. ---------------------------------- Instructions for submitting self-nominations ---------------------------------- -Nominations should be submitted electronically by the applicants using the following link to EasyChair here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vclaawards2021> -Submissions consist of two pdf files. The first is a single pdf file containing all documents for the nomination except the full thesis; the documents should appear in the order they are listed above. The second pdf file is the full thesis -The endorsement letter may optionally be sent by email by the endorser and omitted from the Easychair submission. In this case, please email the letter as a pdf file, including the name of the nominated person in the subject, to award (AT) logic-cs DOT at -The submission must be accompanied by a plain text electronic abstract of the thesis of at most 400 words, and three keywords. -The nominated student must be listed as the only author in the submission form. ---------------------------------- Important dates ---------------------------------- -Submission deadline: April 30th, 2021 (anywhere on Earth) -Notification of decision: After July 15th, 2021 -Award ceremony: Depending on the COVID-19 situation ---------------------------------- Contact ---------------------------------- Please send all inquiries to award(a)logic-cs.at ---------------------------------- Website with the information on the award committee, and the previous awardees ---------------------------------- https://logic-cs.at/vcla-international-student-awards-2021

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TABLEAUX 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers. 6-9 September, 2021. Birmingham, UK.
by anupamdotdas＠gmail.com 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

TABLEAUX 2021 The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods Birmingham, UK, September 6-9, 2021 Website: <https://tableaux2021.org/> https://tableaux2021.org/ Submission deadlines: 19 April (abstract), 26 April 2021 (paper) GENERAL INFORMATION The 30th International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2021) will be hosted by the University of Birmingham, UK, 6-9 September 2021. TABLEAUX is the main international conference at which research on all aspects -- theoretical foundations, implementation techniques, systems development and applications -- of tableaux-based reasoning and related methods is presented. The first TABLEAUX conference was held in Lautenbach near Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992. Since then it has been organised on an annual basis (sometimes as a part of IJCAR). TABLEAUX 2021 will be co-located with the 13th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2021). The conferences will provide a rich programme of workshops, tutorials, invited talks, paper presentations and system descriptions. SCOPE OF CONFERENCE Tableaux and other proof based methods offer convenient and flexible tools for automated reasoning for both classical and non-classical logics. Areas of application include verification of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and its required inference engines, teaching, and system diagnosis. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * tableau methods for classical and non-classical logics (including first-order, higher-order, modal, temporal, description, hybrid, intuitionistic, linear, substructural, fuzzy, relevance and non-monotonic logics) and their proof-theoretic foundations; * sequent, natural deduction, labelled, nested and deep calculi for classical and non-classical logics, as tools for proof search and proof representation; * related methods (SMT, model elimination, model checking, connection methods, resolution, BDDs, translation approaches); * flexible, easily extendable, light-weight methods for theorem proving; novel types of calculi for theorem proving and verification in classical and non-classical logics; * systems, tools, implementations, empirical evaluations and applications (provers, proof assistants, logical frameworks, model checkers, etc.); * implementation techniques (data structures, efficient algorithms, performance measurement, extensibility, etc.); * extensions of tableau procedures with conflict-driven learning; * techniques for proof generation and compact (or humanly readable) proof representation; * theoretical and practical aspects of decision procedures; * applications of automated deduction to mathematics, software development, verification, deductive and temporal databases, knowledge representation, ontologies, fault diagnosis or teaching. We also welcome papers describing applications of tableau procedures to real-world examples. Such papers should be tailored to the TABLEAUX community and should focus on the role of reasoning and on logical aspects of the solution. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions are invited in the following two categories: (A) research papers reporting original theoretical research or applications, with length up to 15 pages excluding references; (B) system descriptions, with length up to 9 pages excluding references. There will also be a later call inviting position papers and brief reports on work-in-progress. Details will be kept up to date on the website. Submissions will be reviewed by the PC, possibly with the help of external reviewers, taking into account readability, relevance and originality. Any additional material (going beyond the page limit) can be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the committee and must be removed for the camera-ready version. For category (A) submissions, the reported results must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. For category (B) submissions, a working implementation must be accessible via the internet. Authors are encouraged to publish the implementation under an open source license. The aim of a system description is to make the system available in such a way that people can use it, understand it, and build on it. Accepted papers in categories (A) and (B) will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be edited in LaTeX using the llncs style and must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tableaux21 For all accepted papers at least one author is required to register to the conference and present the paper. A title and a short abstract of about 100 words must be submitted before the paper submission deadline. Formatting instructions and the LNCS style files can be obtained at: http://www.springer.com/br/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 19 April 2021 (AoE) Paper submission: 26 April 2021 (AoE) Notification: 14 June 2021 Conference: 6-9 September 2021 CONFERENCE FORMAT AND COVID-19 TABLEAUX 2021 and FroCoS 2021 are intended to be *hybrid* conferences welcoming both physical and virtual participation. The organisers are closely monitoring the pandemic situation and may choose to make the conference virtual-only if it seems unreasonable to host any sort of physical event. A final decision will be taken before the notification date 14 June (12 weeks before the conference) to leave ample time for potential travel plans to be made. PUBLICATION The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS). BEST PAPER AWARDS The program committee will select * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper; and, * the TABLEAUX 2021 Best Paper by a Junior Researcher. Researchers will be considered "junior" if either they are students or their PhD degree date is less than two years from the first day of the meeting. The two awards will be presented at the conference. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS Some funding may be available to support students participating at TABLEAUX 2021. More details will be given on the conference website in due time. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bahareh Afshari (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Carlos Areces (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) Arnon Avron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Nick Bezhanishvili (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde, Denmark) Serenella Cerrito (Université Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, France) Kaustuv Chaudhuri (Inria, France) Liron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Stéphane Demri (CNRS, France) Hans de Nivelle (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan) Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute Berkeley, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Manchester, UK) Christian Fermüller (TU Wien, Austria) Didier Galmiche (Université de Lorraine, France) Silvio Ghilardi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Rajeev Goré (Australian National University, Australia) Andrzej Indrzejczak (University of Łódź, Poland) Hidenori Kurokawa (Kanazawa University, Japan) Stepan Kuznetsov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Björn Lellmann (SBA Research, Austria) Stéphane Graham-Lengrand (SRI International, USA) George Metcalfe (University of Bern, Switzerland) Neil Murray (University At Albany, USA) Cláudia Nalon (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy) Nicola Olivetti (Aix-Marseille University, France) Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jens Otten (University of Oslo, Norway) Alessandra Palmigiano (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dirk Pattinson (Australian National University, Australia) Frank Pfenning (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Elaine Pimentel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield, UK) Gian Luca Pozzato (University of Turin, Italy) Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar) Reuben Rowe (Royal Holloway, UK) José Espírito Santo (University of Minho, Portugal) Lutz Straßburger (Inria, France) Josef Urban (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic) PC CHAIRS Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Sara Negri (University of Genoa, Italy)

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ESSLLI 2021: Call for participation
by Kontinen, Juha A 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Call For Participation =============================================================== 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2021 26 July -13 August, 2021, Online https://www.esslli.eu ESSLLI 2021 Official page of ESSLLI 2021 - the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Computation www.esslli.eu =============================================================== We are happy to announce that ESSLLI 2021 will be held as an online event in the period 26 July -13 August. The school offers an excellent program of courses and workshops and the well established Student Session. In view of the online format, the program is spread over three weeks so as to facilitate attendance. Details on the schedule will be posted on the website shortly. We plan to open the registration by the end of April 2021. Raffaella Bernardi, Diego Calvanese and Michael Moortgat =========================================================== Courses and Workshops (F: foundational, I: introductory, A: advanced, W: workshop) Language and Computation Stefan Evert and Gabriella Lapesa. Hands-on Distributional Semantics – From first steps to interdisciplinary applications F Mathias Winther Madsen. Information theory F Jose Camacho Collados and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. Embeddings in Natural Language Processing I Gregory Scontras. Probabilistic Language Understanding I Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Aleksandre Maskharashvili. Probabilistic Semantics and Inference Under Uncertainty in Natural Language I Lisa Beinborn and Willem Zuidema. Analyzing the Cognitive Plausibility of Deep Language Models A Michael Henry Tessler. Probabilistic models of world knowledge for language understanding A Adina Williams and Ryan Cotterell. Information Theory in Linguistics: Methods and Applications A Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Rainer Osswald. Workshop on Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures W Shane Steinert-Threlkeld and Jakub Szymanik. Computational and Experimental Explanations in Semantics and Pragmatics W Ielka van der Sluis and James Pustejovsky. Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions II (AREA-II) W Logic and Language Bart Geurts. Commitment-based pragmatics F Philippe de Groote and Yoad Winter. Introduction to natural language formal semantics F Thomas Graf. The Computational Nature of Language F Andras Kornai. Unifying formulaic, geometric, and algebraic theories of semantics I Patrick Georg Grosz and Mélissa Berthet. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Animal Semantics: a Super Linguistic Introduction I Natasha Korotkova and Pranav Anand. An opinionated guide to the language of opinion I Yael Greenberg and Carla Umbach. Additivity, scalarity and the interactions between them: Beyond 'also' and 'even' I Joost Zwarts. The semantics of metaphor I Elsi Kaiser and Deniz Rudin. The semantics and psycholinguistics of subjective predicates I Jakub Dotlačil and Floris Roelofsen. Dynamic inquisitive semantics A Kristina Liefke and Ede Zimmermann. Intensionalism and Propositionalism in Linguistic Semantics A Davide Grossi and Carlo Proietti. Abstract Argumentation and Modal Logic A Lucas Champollion. Advanced mereology for linguists A Judith Degen, Benjamin Spector and Daniel Lassiter. Approaches to implicature: Rational choice and/or exhaustification W Mora Maldonado, Alexander Martin and Jennifer Culbertson. Experimental approaches to language universals in structure and meaning W Logic and Computation Pablo Barceló and Diego Figueira. Foundations of query languages for graph databases I Valentin Goranko. Temporal Logics I Réka Markovich and Leon van der Torre. Introduction to Deontic Logic and Its Applications I Pavel Naumov. Actions, Blames, and Regrets I Camillo Fiorentini. Semantics based proof-search methods for non-classical logics I Eric Pacuit. Probabilistic methods in social choice I Willem Heijltjes and Lutz Straßburger. From Proof Nets to Combinatorial Proofs — A new approach to Hilbert’s 24th problem A Phokion Kolaitis. Logic, Data, and Incomplete Information A Anuj Dawar and Gregory Wilsenach. Symmetric Computation A Fei Liang and Alessandra Palmigiano. Logical foundations of categorization theory A Tadeusz Litak and Albert Visser. Lewis meets Brouwer: Constructive strict implication A Jouko Väänänen and Fan Yang. Workshop on Logics of Dependence and Independence W Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan. Workshop on automated synthesis W ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen Bolzano) Virtual Infrastructure Chair: Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen Bolzano) Publicity Chair: Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chair: Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) Co-chair: Michael Moortgat (University of Utrecht) STUDENT SESSION Co-chairs: Alexandra Pavlova (TU Wien) Mina Young Pedersen (University of Bergen) ==============================================================

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Formal Methods Education Online - Call for Presentations
by Jan Křetínský 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

============================================== FOMEO'21 Formal Methods Education Online: Tips, Tricks & Tools Collocated with ICALP 2021 https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html ============================================== Online instruction of formal methods has been a challenge in the last year, including teaching of basics of logics and automata theory, formal verification, theorem proving etc. This workshop brings together instructors of formal methods as well as developers of teaching support systems for formal methods to 1. present tools supporting teaching of formal methods education, and 2. discuss tips, tricks & experiences in online instruction gained in the last year. For more details on the workshop, visit our website at https://www7.in.tum.de/~kretinsk/fomeo.html IMPORTANT DATES: - submission May 08, 2021 (AOE) - notification May 21, 2021 - workshop July 12, 2021 SUBMISSION: You can submit your contribution at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fomeo21 Submissions should contain a title, a short abstract (to be published as part of the program) as well as a short description of how you plan to present (e.g. talk/live demo and/or poster/demo exhibition booth). The time slots for presentations can vary, as we expect short presentations of tips&tricks but also some longer demos of tools. In the gather-town-like sessions, every presenter/project will have a presentation area where demos, poster presentation, etc. (presenters have complete freedom) are possible. Please feel very welcome to ask any questions! ORGANIZERS: Jan Křetínský (TU Munich, jan.kretinsky(a)tum.com) Maximilian Weininger (TU Munich, maxi.weininger(a)tum.de) Thomas Zeume (Ruhr University Bochum, thomas.zeume(a)rub.de)

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Women in Logic 2021 - Call for Participation
by Sandra Kiefer 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at LICS 2021? Please join us on June 27 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic! Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by April 30, 2021 via EasyChair. This will help us provide an interesting program, with only a light-weight selection procedure. More information below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions WiL 2021: 5th Women in Logic Workshop June 27, 2021 part of LICS 2021 https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women in Logic 2021 is a satellite event of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS’21) to be held virtually on June 29-July 2, 2021. The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Our aim is to: - provide a platform for female researchers to share their work and achievements; - increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty; - establish new connections and collaborations; - foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community. We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers. Previous versions of Women in Logic (Reykjavík, Iceland 2017, Oxford, UK 2018, Vancouver, Canada 2019, and Paris, France 2020) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for a recognition of the need for change in the community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. INVITED SPEAKERS Simona Ronchi Della Rocca Rineke Verbrugge IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2021 Notification: May 28, 2021 Workshop: June 27, 2021 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors). The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2021 Easychair page as a PDF file (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2021) before the submission deadline on April 30, 2021, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves (Co-chair, University of Porto) * Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Maribel Fernández (King's College London) * Helle Hansen (University of Groningen) * Delia Kesner (Université de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) * Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University) * Daniele Nantes (University of Brasília) * Aybüke Özgün (ILLC - University of Amsterdam) * Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) * Ana Sokolova (Co-chair, University of Salzburg)

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EXPRESS/SOS 2021: First Call for Papers
by Ornela Dardha 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

=========================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Combined 28th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 18th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics (EXPRESS/SOS 2021) http://icetcs.ru.is/express-sos2021/ Paris (France) August 23, 2021, Affiliated with CONCUR 2021 Submission deadline (full and short papers): Monday, June 21, 2021 =========================================== == INVITED SPEAKERS Amal Ahmed (Northeastern University, USA) Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Dave Parker (University of Birmingham, UK) == SCOPE AND TOPICS The EXPRESS/SOS workshop series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and in the expressiveness of computational models. Topics of interest for EXPRESS/SOS 2021 include, but are not limited to: - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between models of computation (process algebras, event structures, Petri nets, rewrite systems) - expressiveness and rigorous comparisons between programming languages and models (distributed, component-based, object-oriented, service-oriented); - logics for concurrency (modal logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics and resource logics); - analysis techniques for concurrent systems; - theory of structural operational semantics (meta-theory, category-theoretic approaches, congruence results); - comparisons between structural operational semantics and other formal semantic approaches; - applications and case studies of structural operational semantics; - software tools that automate, or are based on, structural operational semantics. We especially welcome contributions bridging the gap between the above topics and neighbouring areas, such as, for instance: - computer security - multi-agent systems - programming languages - formal verification - reversible computation - knowledge representation == SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We invite two types of submissions: * Full papers (up to 15 pages, excluding references). * Short papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references, not included in the workshop proceedings) All submissions should adhere to the EPTCS format (http://www.eptcs.org). Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is only allowed for short papers; full papers must be unpublished. Submission is performed through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expresssos2021 The final versions of accepted full papers will be published in EPTCS. It is understood that for each accepted submission one of the co-authors will register to the workshop and give the talk. We are monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic to decide if the workshop will take place physically in Paris, online or hybrid. Whatever the decision, we will guarantee the possibility of an online participation. == SPECIAL ISSUE There is a long tradition of special issues of reputed international journals devoted to the very best papers presented in prior editions of the workshop. For instance, a special issue of Information and Computation with selected papers from EXPRESS/SOS 2019 and EXPRESS/SOS 2020 is currently in progress. We will consider organising a special issue for EXPRESS/SOS 2021. == IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: June 21, 2021 - Notification date: July 26, 2021 - Camera ready version: August 9, 2021 - Workshop: August 23, 2020 == WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, IS) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK) == PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ahmed Bouajjani (IRIF and University of Paris Diderot, France) Valentina Castiglioni (Reykjavik University, Iceland), co-chair Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK), co-chair Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) David de Frutos-Escrig (Complutense Univeristy of Madird, Spain) Silvia Ghilezan (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) Paola Giannini (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy) Karoliina Lehtinen (University of Liverpool, UK) Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America, USA, and University of Birmingham, UK) Tatjana Petrov (University of Konstanz, Germany) Sabina Rossi (University Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) == CONTACT Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the co-chairs in case of questions at express-sos21(a)easychair.org

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