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27th WoLLIC 2021 - Call for Papers (DEADLINE APPROACHING: May 18th)
by Ruy Jose Guerra Barretto de Queiroz 11 May '21

11 May '21

(Deadline APPROACHING: May 18th) [Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.] CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC 2021 27th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation October 5 to 8, 2021 ORGANISATION Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil University College London, UK Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twenty-seventh WoLLIC will be held online from October 5 to 8, 2021. It is scientifically sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL). PAPER SUBMISSION Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection; foundations of mathematics; philosophy of mathematics; philosophical logic; philosophy of language. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by Springer (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). They must not exceed 12 pages, with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. (At least one author is required to pay the registration fee before granting that the paper will be published in the proceedings.) Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2021 EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wollic2021 ). PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of WoLLIC 2021, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published (after a new round of reviewing) as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2021 issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed). INVITED SPEAKERS Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) Santiago Figueira (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Andreas Herzig (IRIT, France) Cláudia Nalon (UnB - Brazil) Giselle Reis (CMU - Qatar) IMPORTANT DATES May 18, 2021: Full paper deadline June 29, 2021: Author notification July 30, 2021: Final version deadline (firm) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Carlos Areces (FaMAF - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) Arthur Azevedo de Amorim (Boston University, USA) Paul Brunet (University College London, UK) Nina Gierasimczuk (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Justin Hsu (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Fairouz Kamareddine (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Sandra Kiefer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Clemens Kupke (Strathclyde University, Scotland) Konstantinos Mamouras (Rice University, USA) Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Larry Moss (Indiana Univ, USA) Claudia Nalon (University of Brasília, Brazil) Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research, USA, and Univ Birmingham, UK) Elaine Pimentel (UFRN, Brazil) Revantha Ramanayake (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Christine Tasson (IRIF, France) Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Samson Abramsky, Anuj Dawar, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Lawrence Moss, Luke Ong, Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Johan van Benthem, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Angus Macintyre, Hiroakira Ono, Jouko Väänänen. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Renata Wassermann (Univ São Paulo) (Co-Chair) Alexandra Silva (Univ College London) (Co-Chair) Anjolina G. de Oliveira (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) Ruy de Queiroz (Univ Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil) (co-chair) SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL) The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL) SPECIAL SESSION: SCREENING OF MOVIES ABOUT MATHEMATICIANS It is planned to have a special session with the exhibition of a one-hour documentary film about a remarkable mathematician whose contributions were recognized with a Fields Medal just a few years before her untimely death. It is a joint production (still on its course) of The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and George Csicsery (Zala Films): ‘Secrets of the Surface - The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani’. “The biographical film is about Maryam Mirzakhani, a brilliant woman, and Muslim immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. The story of her life will be complemented with sections about Mirzakhani’s mathematical contributions, as explained by colleagues and illustrated with animated sequences. Throughout, we will look for clues about the sources of Mirzakhani’s insights and creativity." (http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/) FURTHER INFORMATION Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee. WEB PAGE http://wollic.org/

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QBF 2021: Call for papers
by HUBERT MING CHEN 10 May '21

10 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS QBF 2021 -------- International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond To be held virtually as a 1/2-day event, during SAT 2021 (July 5-9, 2021) https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/qbf2021 Affiliated to and co-located with: Int. Conf. on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2021) July 5-9, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------- Quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) are an extension of propositional logic which allows for explicit quantification over propositional variables. The decision problem of QBF is PSPACE-complete, compared to the NP-completeness of the decision problem of propositional logic (SAT). Many problems from application domains such as model checking, formal verification or synthesis are PSPACE-complete, and hence could be encoded in QBF in a natural way. Considerable progress has been made in QBF solving throughout the past years. However, in contrast to SAT, QBF is not yet widely applied to practical problems in academic or industrial settings. For example, the extraction and validation of models of (un)satisfiability of QBFs has turned out to be challenging, given that state-of-the-art solvers implement different solving paradigms. The goal of the International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF Workshop) is to bring together researchers working on theoretical and practical aspects of QBF solving. In addition to that, it addresses (potential) users of QBF in order to reflect on the state-of-the-art and to consolidate on immediate and long-term research challenges. The workshop also welcomes work on reasoning with quantifiers in related problems, such as dependency QBF (DQBF), quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSP), and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) with quantifiers. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== May 31: Submission June 7: Notification of acceptance June 21: Final versions of accepted papers due July 5-9: Workshop (actual date depends on SAT Conference schedule) Please see the workshop webpage for any updates: https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/qbf2021 ====================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ====================== The workshop is concerned with all aspects of current research on all formalisms enriched by quantifiers, and in particular QBF. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Applications, encodings and benchmarks with quantifiers QBF Proof theory and complexity results Experimental evaluations of solvers or related tools Case studies illustrating the power of quantifiers Certificates and proofs for QBF, QCSP, SMT with quantifiers, etc. Formats of proofs and certificates Implementations of proof checkers and verifiers Decision procedures Calculi and their relationships Data structures, implementation details and heuristics Pre- and inprocessing techniques Structural reasoning ========== SUBMISSION ========== Submissions of extended abstracts are invited and will be managed via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qbf2021 In particular, we invite the submission of extended abstracts on work that has been published already, novel unpublished work, or work in progress. The following forms of submissions are solicited: - Proposals for short tutorial presentations on topics related to the workshop. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the PC. The number of accepted tutorials depends on the overall number of accepted papers and talks, with the aim to set up a balanced workshop program. - Talk abstracts reporting on already published work. Such an abstract should include an outline of the planned talk, and pointers to relevant bibliography. - Talk proposals presenting work that is unpublished or in progress. - Submissions which describe novel applications of QBF or related formalisms in various domains are particularly welcome. Additionally, this call comprises known applications which have been shown to be hard for QBF solvers in the past as well as new applications for which present QBF solvers might lack certain features still to be identified. Each submission should have an overall length of 1-4 pages in LNCS format. Authors may decide to include an appendix with additional material. Appendices will be considered at the reviewers' discretion. The accepted extended abstracts will be published on the workshop webpage. The workshop does not have formal proceedings. Authors of accepted contributions are expected to give a talk at the workshop. ======= CONTACT ======= qbf2021(a)easychair.org ================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Hubie Chen, Birkbeck, University of London Florian Lonsing, Stanford University Martina Seidl, JKU Linz Friedrich Slivovsky, TU Wien

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Logica Universalis Webinar - May 12 - Graded Structures of Opposition in Fuzzy Natural Logic by Petra Murinová
by Antje Herbst 10 May '21

10 May '21

Join the Logica Universalis Webinar! The Logica Universalis Webinar is a World Seminar Series connected to the journal Logica Universalis<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/>, the book series Studies in Universal Logic<https://www.springer.com/series/7391> and the Universal Logic Project<https://logica-universalis.org/>. It is an open platform for all scholars interested in the many aspects of logic. (See the full program here<https://www.springer.com/journal/11787/updates/18988758>.) The sessions take place on Wednesdays at 4pm CEST (click here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Logica+Universali…> to convert to your timezone). They are held via Zoom and are free to attend. Please register in advance. Registration is now open!<https://springer.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdu6vrzMiHda_iDhjxw9vA9d7we9gT…> Each session of the webinar is chaired by a member of the editorial board of the journal Logica Universalis (LU), the book series Studies in Universal Logic (SUL) or an organizer of an event of the Universal Logic Project (ULP). Sessions will start with a short presentation of a logical organization related to the region of the speaker or the topic of the talk. The talk (30 min) will focus on a recently published paper in LU, on a book in SUL, on an event or on the ULP. Talks are followed by a discussion (15 min). The next session will be held on Wednesday, May 12 at 4pm CEST with the talk Graded Structures of Opposition in Fuzzy Natural Logic<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-020-00265-y> by Petra Murinová<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.osu.eu_petra-2Dmur…>, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Chair: Sergei Odintsov<http://math.nsc.ru/~spodintsov/> Member of the Editorial Board of LU Associate Organization: Working Group on Mathematical Fuzzy Logic<http://www.mathfuzzlog.org/> presented by its president, Tommaso Flaminio<https://tomflaminio.wordpress.com/> Video recordings of the seminars are uploaded on the YouTube channel Universal Logic Project<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPS1c5ApuwjuCV9UjXHUN4w>. -- Antje Herbst Associate Editor Mathematics Journals Springer Nature Tiergartenstraße 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany T +49 62214878984 antje.herbst(a)springernature.com<mailto:antje.herbst@springernature.com> www.springernature.com<http://www.springernature.com/> -- Springer Nature is a leading research, educational and professional publisher, providing quality content to our communities through a range of innovative platforms, products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people - helping researchers, students, teachers & professionals to discover, learn and achieve. -- Branch of Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany Registered Office: Berlin / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 91881 B Directors: Martin Mos, Dr. Ulrich Vest, Dr. Niels Peter Thomas

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Overlay 2021: Call For Papers
by Gian Luca Pozzato 07 May '21

07 May '21

*** We apologize for possible cross posting *** *********** CALL FOR PAPER *********** OVERLAY 2021 September 22, 2021 Padova, Italy (unless held online, depending on the pandemic emergency situation) https://overlay.uniud.it/workshop/2021/ The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence techniques in safety-critical systems, employed in real world scenarios, requires the design of reliable, robust, and verifiable methodologies. Artificial Intelligence systems employed in such applications need to provide formal guarantees about their safety, increasing the need for a close interaction between the Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods scientific communities. To witness this increasing need, tools and methodologies integrating Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence solutions are getting more and more attention. The workshop is the main official initiative supported by the OVERLAY group (https://overlay.uniud.it/). The event aims at establishing a stable, long-term scientific forum on relevant topics connected to the relationships between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods, by providing a stimulating environment where researchers can discuss about opportunities and challenges at the border of the two areas. Important goals of the workshop are (i) to encourage the ongoing interaction between the formal methods and artificial intelligence communities, (ii) to identify innovative tools and methodologies, and (iii) to elicit a discussion on open issues and new challenges. This year edition will be held on September 22, 2021, and will be co-located with GandALF 2021 (https://gandalf2021.math.unipd.it/), which is scheduled to be held in Padova, Italy (unless it will be an online event, depending on the pandemic emergency situation). *** Invited speaker *** Roderick Bloem, professor at Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications - Graz, Austria https://www.iaik.tugraz.at/person/roderick-bloem/ *** Call for contributions *** We accept extended abstracts (4 pages + references) focusing on the interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods. Invited talks will complement the presentations of contributed papers. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): automata theory automated reasoning automated planning and scheduling controller synthesis formal specification languages formal verification game theory hybrid and discrete systems logics in computer science reactive synthesis runtime verification and monitoring specification and verification of machine learning systems tools and applications Contributed papers can present recent results at the border of the two fields, new research directions, challenges and perspectives. Presentation of results recently published in other scientific journals or conferences is also welcome. We plan on including all papers in the Proceedings of the event, published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR WS proceedings are archival proceedings indexed by DBLP and Scopus. Submitted papers should not exceed four (4) pages plus references. Authors are asked to use CEUR's LaTeX style, available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=overlay21. *** Important dates *** - Paper submission: July 11th, 2021 - Acceptance notification: July 23rd, 2021 - Camera-ready submission: August 31st, 2021 - Workshop: September 22nd, 2021 *** COVID-19 Information *** Taking into account the emergency situation, the organizers of OVERLAY 2021 will closely monitor the evolution of the pandemic and will take all the necessary actions to guarantee a successful event. In the case that an in-person event will not be possible, OVERLAY 2021 will be a hybrid or fully virtual conference. Updates on the organization mode will be published and advertised in due time. In any case, OVERLAY 2021 will be a no-fee event. *** Program Committee *** Chairs Dario Della Monica - Università di Udine, Italy Gian Luca Pozzato - Università di Torino, Italy Enrico Scala - Università di Brescia, Italy PC Members Alessandro Artale - Libera Università di Bolzano Davide Bresolin - Università di Padova Luca Geatti - Università di Udine Nicola Gigante - Libera Università di Bolzano Laura Giordano - Università del Piemonte Orientale Ivan Lanese - Università di Bologna Federico Mari - Università di Roma Foro Italico Andrea Micheli - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Fabio Mogavero - Università di Napoli Federico II Laura Nenzi - Università di Trieste AndreA Orlandini - ISTC-CNR, Roma Gennaro Parlato - Università del Molise Adriano Peron - Università di Napoli Federico II Gabriele Puppis - Università di Udine Guido Sciavicco - Università di Ferrara Stefano Tonetta - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Enrico Tronci - Università di Roma La Sapienza Tiziano Villa - Università di Verona Enea Zaffanella - Università di Parma Matteo Zavatteri - Università di Verona *** Contacts *** For more information email overlay21(a)easychair.org.

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[SIAS 2021, Last Call] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
by Symposium IAS 07 May '21

07 May '21

Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (SIAS 2021) Virtual. June 21-23, 2021. <https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/> https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/ SIAS 2021 CFP The needs of our daily life push forward modern systems to be well connected more user independent, autonomous, and smart. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS), that support IoT and CPS, facilitate difficult daily tasks in large eras of applications, especially in industry where a large amount of collected data should be efficiently analyzed in order to be optimally exploited. IAS offer a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on a society safety, productivity, and development. The difficulty arises on both sides of either developing new IAS or enhancing the deployed ones with the needed features and capabilities. IAS run on different environments and should follow different standards that make it difficult to ensure IAS requirements. Many solutions were developed in academia and applied by industrial to build a smart and autonomous system. Some of them rely on formal methods and system engineering whereas others look forward on big data and data analysis using mainly artificial intelligence techniques, in addition to other research areas such as networking, security, resiliency, etc. SIAS2021 provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing challenges facing IAS. IAS design and architecture · IAS modeling (formal models, SysML, UML, etc) · Correct-by-construction in IAS · MBSE, MDA and DDA for IAS · Virtualization and digital twins for IAS · Blockchains and decentralized architecture for IAS · IAS smart Networking · Communication protocols for IAS · Edges, Fog, and Cloud in IAS · Distributed database for IAS · Web services for IAS · Social aspects and human interaction in IAS IAS Analysis · Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in IAS · Model checking and theorem proving for IAS · Abstraction and compositional verification for IAS · Optimization and SAT solvers for IAS · Dynamic and static analysis for IAS · Statistical analysis for IAS · Testing for IAS · Smart decision making in IAS · Fog and edge computing for IAS IAS Assurance · Security specification, requirements, and management in IAS · Security in distributed IAS · Modeling, analysis and detection of attacks in IAS · Data mining for cybersecurity in IAS · Security protocols for IAS · Safety policies for IAS · Safety reinforcement models in IAS · Safety standard analysis for IAS · Resilience metrics and models for IAS · Resilience strategies and plans for IAS · Recovery systems for IAS resiliency · Recommendation guided decisions for IAS resiliency IAS Applications, Implementations, and Use cases · Applications and Software Platforms for IAS · IoT and CPS for IAS · Smart cities · IAS for industrial and production CPS · Autonomous robots and vehicles · Human-Robot Interaction · Smart logistics (transportation, supply chain, etc) Important Dates · Submission Date : 09th May,2021 · Notification to Authors: 25 May, 2021 · Camera Ready Submission: 4 June, 2021 Submission System · <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021

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Formal Methods Education Online - Final Call for Presentations (Deadline for submissions: May 15 AOE)
by Thomas Zeume 05 May '21

05 May '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 15, 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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VEST 2021 Last Call for Talks (deadline in 3 weeks)
by Ornela Dardha 04 May '21

04 May '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, 24th May 2021 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vest21 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vest21> 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, 24 May 2021 Notification: Monday, 21st June 2021 Final Version: Monday, 5th July 2021 Workshop: Monday, 12th July 2021 * Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vest21 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=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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Reasoning Web Summer School 2021
by Ivan José Varzinczak 01 May '21

01 May '21

* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call * ============================== Call for Participation Reasoning Web Summer School (RW) 2021 (Part of Declarative AI 2021) https://declarativeai2021.net/reasoning-web Venue: Online event Dates: 8-10 September 2021 ============================== The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to deepen their knowledge. As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics relevant to the school (see below). The summer school is part of Declarative AI 2021 and is co-located with RuleML+RR 2021 and DecisionCAMP 2021. The students attending the RW school are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral Consortium of RuleML+RR. -- Chairs -- - Mantas Simkus, Institute of Logic and Computation, TU Wien, Austria - Ivan Varzinczak, CRIL, Univ. Artois & CNRS, France -- Lectures -- - Claudia d'Amato: Mining the Semantic Web: main issues that need to be known - Leopoldo Bertossi: Explanations in Data Management and Classification in Machine Learning via Counterfactual Interventions Specified by Answer-Set-Programs - Pedro Cabalar: Temporal ASP: from logical foundations to practical use with telingo - Diego Figuera: Foundations of query languages on graph databases - Matthias Knorr: On Combining Ontologies and Rules - Paolo Pareti: SHACL: From Data Validation to Schema Reasoning for RDF Graphs - Steven Schockaert and Victor G. Basulto: Modelling Rules and Knowledge Graphs with Embeddings - Renata Wassermann: Belief Revision and Ontology Repair -- Participation -- Although no specific background knowledge is required for attending the summer school, basics of knowledge representation and reasoning will be helpful for benefiting from the lectures of the school. Students are also committed to a full participation for the whole duration of the school. The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process. Please check the school website regularly for information on the registration process and updates. Please note that as a result of the undergoing COVID-19 pandemic, RW 2021 will be held as an ONLINE event. -- Important dates -- - 10 July 2021: Registration opens - 25 August 2021: Registration closes - 8-10 September 2021: RW Summer School -- Further Information -- Please visit the school website (https://declarativeai2021.net/reasoning-web) for further information and regular updates. -- Ivan Varzinczak - https://www.ijv.ovh <https://www.ijv.ovh/> CRIL, Université d'Artois & CNRS, France

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[SIAS 2021, Extended deadline] Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
by Symposium IAS 01 May '21

01 May '21

Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (SIAS 2021) Virtual. June 21-23, 2021. <https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/> https://www.sscc.fr/SIAS2021/ SIAS 2021 CFP The needs of our daily life push forward modern systems to be well connected more user independent, autonomous, and smart. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS), that support IoT and CPS, facilitate difficult daily tasks in large eras of applications, especially in industry where a large amount of collected data should be efficiently analyzed in order to be optimally exploited. IAS offer a great importance and promising outcomes with a direct impact on a society safety, productivity, and development. The difficulty arises on both sides of either developing new IAS or enhancing the deployed ones with the needed features and capabilities. IAS run on different environments and should follow different standards that make it difficult to ensure IAS requirements. Many solutions were developed in academia and applied by industrial to build a smart and autonomous system. Some of them rely on formal methods and system engineering whereas others look forward on big data and data analysis using mainly artificial intelligence techniques, in addition to other research areas such as networking, security, resiliency, etc. SIAS2021 provides a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing challenges facing IAS. IAS design and architecture · IAS modeling (formal models, SysML, UML, etc) · Correct-by-construction in IAS · MBSE, MDA and DDA for IAS · Virtualization and digital twins for IAS · Blockchains and decentralized architecture for IAS · IAS smart Networking · Communication protocols for IAS · Edges, Fog, and Cloud in IAS · Distributed database for IAS · Web services for IAS · Social aspects and human interaction in IAS IAS Analysis · Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning in IAS · Model checking and theorem proving for IAS · Abstraction and compositional verification for IAS · Optimization and SAT solvers for IAS · Dynamic and static analysis for IAS · Statistical analysis for IAS · Testing for IAS · Smart decision making in IAS · Fog and edge computing for IAS IAS Assurance · Security specification, requirements, and management in IAS · Security in distributed IAS · Modeling, analysis and detection of attacks in IAS · Data mining for cybersecurity in IAS · Security protocols for IAS · Safety policies for IAS · Safety reinforcement models in IAS · Safety standard analysis for IAS · Resilience metrics and models for IAS · Resilience strategies and plans for IAS · Recovery systems for IAS resiliency · Recommendation guided decisions for IAS resiliency IAS Applications, Implementations, and Use cases · Applications and Software Platforms for IAS · IoT and CPS for IAS · Smart cities · IAS for industrial and production CPS · Autonomous robots and vehicles · Human-Robot Interaction · Smart logistics (transportation, supply chain, etc) Important Dates · Submission Date : 09th May,2021 · Notification to Authors: 25 May, 2021 · Camera Ready Submission: 4 June, 2021 Submission System · <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sias2021

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