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[Vardi-list] ICLA 2025
by Moshe Vardi 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

As you may know, the Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is a biennial international conference conducted by the Association for Logic in India (ALI; https://logicindia.org). The conference spans a wide range of themes in logic as pursued in Mathematics, Philosophy and Computer Science. Here are the links to the previous two editions of ICLA: https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ (ICLA '23) and https://www.isichennai.res.in/~sujata/icla2021/ (ICLA '21). The forthcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference which will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata during Feb 3 -- 5, 2025. We have included various special features in the conference this time, and have also broadened the set of submission topics to include many new themes in all three disciplines of math, philosophy, and CS. Please find below the links to the ICLA webpage and its EasyChair CFP page. ICLA 2025 webpage: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 EasyChair CFP page: https://easychair.org/cfp/icla2025 _______________________________________________ Vardi-list mailing list Vardi-list(a)mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/vardi-list

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Fully funded PhD position in computer science (inc. combinatorics,
by Jonni T Virtema 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this open position ** A fully funded research and teaching position with the opportunity of undertaking a PhD at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield is available. Candidates within the scope of the Foundation of Computation (FOX) Group are in particular encouraged to apply: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/foundations-computation The FOX research group at Sheffield is growing rapidly. This post provides excellent opportunities for a graduate student (UK and overseas) to obtain a PhD in any active research area of the group (see below the research interests of potential supervisors). The post is a fully funded salaried position for six years, 60% of your time will be dedicated to research, with the remaining 40% allocated to teaching. For more detailed information (including roles and responsibilities), please see https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIZ683/research-and-teaching-assistant For details on possible supervisors, research projects, and any informal enquiries, please contact the respective faculty members by email: Dr. Charles Grellois (c.grellois(a)sheffield.ac.uk) Dr. Maksim Zhukovskii (m.zhukovskii(a)sheffield.ac.uk) Dr. Jonni Virtema (j.t.virtema(a)sheffield.ac.uk) Dr. Harsh Beohar (h.beohar(a)sheffield.ac.uk) Dr. Charles Grellois is mainly interested in the verification of functional programs, would they be deterministic or probabilistic. He has worked on higher-order model-checking in the deterministic case, and on higher-order termination analysis in the probabilistic case. These approaches use techniques from linear logic and its models, category theory, (intersection) type theory, tree automata theory, probabilistic semantics, realizability… Several interesting questions are still open so that several different PhD projects could be discussed on these topics; but he is also open to other research topics in this area, to be discussed with the prospective student. Dr. Maksim Zhukovskii is interested in combinatorics, probability, logic, computational and descriptive complexity. Currently Maksim is working on variety of topics including extremal combinatorics (Turan-type questions, saturation, colourings, etc), random graphs (thresholds, limiting distributions, logical limit laws, almost sure theories), average-case complexity (canonical labelling of random graphs, search problems in random graphs, reconstruction problems), enumerative combinatorics (random regular graphs, degree sequences), algebraic combinatorics (Cayley graphs, isomorphism problem for abelian groups, matroids), random walks, first order logic and expressive power of its fragments, second order logic and modal logic. See https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sd_xBDQAAAAJ for the list of publications. Dr. Jonni Virtema is keen to supervise students in any area of his current research, which relate to the interplay of logic and complexity theory. Current topics include logics and complexity theory related to numerical data, and temporal logics designed to express so-called hyperproperties, which are important in information flow and security. A further emerging topic is to study foundations of neural networks using the machinery of logics and complexity theory related to numerical data. See http://www.virtema.fi/ for further details. Dr. Harsh Beohar is broadly interested in comparative concurrency semantics and in the interplay of category theory, logic, and semantics. Current topics include expressive modal logics, behavioural equivalence games, synthesising distinguishing/characteristic formulae all at the level of coalgebras. See https://dblp.org/pid/13/7482.html for an uptodate list of publications.

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ICLA 2025: Deadline Extension
by Abhisekh Sankaran 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 EasyChair CFP page: https://easychair.org/cfp/icla2025 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 Abstract registration deadline: Aug 25, 2024 AoE Submission deadline: Aug 29, 2024 AoE ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata during February 3 -- 5, 2025. —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [3]. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [3] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… ===================================== Events: Main conference and co-located workshops ===================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [4] - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Co-located workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ [4] https://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ ================= Important dates ================= All dates below are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Deadline for abstract of submission: Aug 25, 2024 (earlier: Aug 11, 2024) - Submission deadline: Aug 29, 2024 (earlier: Aug 15, 2024) - Rebuttal period: Oct 7 -- Oct 11, 2024 (earlier: Sep 23 -- Sep 28, 2024) - Notification to authors: Oct 25, 2024 (earlier: 18 Oct, 2024) ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 —-------------------------------------------- Common guidelines for all submissions —-------------------------------------------- 1) A submission must either be an extended abstract or a short abstract. 2) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 3) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 4) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 5) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. 6) For an accepted submission, one of the authors must commit to presenting it at the conference either in person or online. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL and ECCC. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information [FoL], a sub-series of Springer LNCS. [FoL] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They will however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, first order modal logic, formal epistemology, imperative logics, logic and artificial intelligence, logic in decision and game theory, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, modal logic – algebraic, algorithmic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, multi-agent systems, normative reasoning, provability logics + Automata theory and logic, category theory in computer science, logic and algebraic methods, logic and concurrency, logic and games, logic and quantum computing, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, transductions, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Automated reasoning, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic in industrial applications, logic in security and privacy, programming language semantics, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic + Algorithmic meta theorems, comonads in finite model theory, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, logic and computational complexity, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and graph structure theory, logic and machine learning, many valued logics in finite model theory, proof complexity, stability theory over finite structures + History of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, many valued logics and their applications, non-monotonic logics, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic + General tools and frameworks for logical systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic in education, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic in law, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Huimin Dong (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Roman Kuznets (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University, China) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) More members are expected to join. ================= Invited Speakers ================= Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) More speaker confirmations are awaited. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ========= Contact ========= For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com. More information and updates about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/.

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ICLA 2025: Second Call for Papers
by Abhisekh Sankaran 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ EasyChair CFP link: https://easychair.org/cfp/icla2025/ ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata during February 3 -- 5, 2025. —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [3]. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [3] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… ===================================== Events: Main conference and co-located workshops ===================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [4] - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Co-located workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ [4] https://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ ================= Important dates ================= All dates below are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Deadline for abstract of submission: Aug 11, 2024 - Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2024 - Rebuttal period: Sep 23 -- Sep 28, 2024 - Notification to authors: 18 Oct, 2024 ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 —-------------------------------------------- Common guidelines for all submissions —-------------------------------------------- 1) A submission must either be an extended abstract or a short abstract. 2) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 3) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 4) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 5) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. 6) For an accepted submission, one of the authors must commit to presenting it at the conference either in person or online. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL and ECCC. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information [FoL], a sub-series of Springer LNCS. [FoL] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They will however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, first order modal logic, formal epistemology, imperative logics, logic and artificial intelligence, logic in decision and game theory, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, modal logic – algebraic, algorithmic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, multi-agent systems, normative reasoning, provability logics + Automata theory and logic, category theory in computer science, logic and algebraic methods, logic and concurrency, logic and games, logic and quantum computing, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, transductions, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Automated reasoning, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic in industrial applications, logic in security and privacy, programming language semantics, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic + Algorithmic meta theorems, comonads in finite model theory, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, logic and computational complexity, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and graph structure theory, logic and machine learning, many valued logics in finite model theory, proof complexity, stability theory over finite structures + History of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, many valued logics and their applications, non-monotonic logics, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic + General tools and frameworks for logical systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic in education, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic in law, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) More members are expected to join. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ========= Contact ========= For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com. More information and updates about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/.

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SAT 2024: Early bird registration closes in 7 days
by Abhisekh Sankaran 20 Jul '24

20 Jul '24

=================================================== SAT 2024 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2024 August 21 - 24, 2024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Organizers: TCS Research and IIT Bombay Early bird registration deadline: *July 26, 2024, 23:59 AoE* Register now!: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php =================================================== Important dates - SAT 2024 conference: August 21 - 24, 2024 - Workshops: August 20, 2024 - Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18 - 19, 2024 Place: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/ About the conference SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024 includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. SAT 2024 is the *first time* that SAT will take place in India. There will be co-located schools and workshops prior to the conference. The events are being organized by TCS Research and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Keynote Speakers - Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Awards - A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be announced during the conference. - The "Fahiem Bacchus PhD Award in Satisfiability" will also be announced. This new award established by the SAT Association distinguishes one outstanding PhD thesis from the past two years in the field of Satisfiability, broadly construed. The award is named after Fahiem Bacchus who made significant contributions to the theory and practice of SAT as well as to the SAT community and the SAT Association. About the venue The venue of SAT 2024 is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune. Surrounded by the rolling hills of the Sahyadri ranges on three sides, this campus is a scenic and well-equipped setting for hosting SAT 2024. The campus has shared conference rooms, breakout areas, training rooms and a 500-seater multi-purpose auditorium. Pune is the second largest city after Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is well-known for its salubrious climate, rich culture, a vibrant theatre and classical music scene, and its automotive and information technology industries. The city of Mumbai, with its associated tourist attractions, is a 3-hour pleasant drive from Pune. Registration The registrations for the conference, and the co-located schools and workshops, are open. - Early bird registration deadline: July 26, 2024, 23:59 AoE - Registration link: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Grants & Travel Support Grants and travel support are available for student participants. The details can be found on the conference website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php. Co-located Schools and Workshops - Indian SAT+SMT school + Website: https://sat-smt.in/ + Dates: Aug 18 - 19, 2024 - Pragmatics of SAT + Website: http://www.pragmaticsofssat.org/2024/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond + Website: https://qbf24.pages.sai.jku.at/qbf/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis + Website: https://mccompetition.org + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 Competitions Results of the 2024 editions of SAT competition, Pseudo-Boolean Solver competition and Model Counting competition will be announced at the conference. Sponsors - Diamond sponsors: TCS Research - Platinum sponsors: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Amazon Web Services - Gold sponsors: Cadence, Synopsis - Bronze sponsors: Google, Microsoft Partners - ACM India Council - Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) - Association for Logic in India (ALI) For more information, please visit https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/. We look forward to seeing you in Pune! Best regards, SAT 2024 Organizing Committee

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SAT 2024: Early bird registration deadline extended to July 26 AoE
by Abhisekh Sankaran 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

=================================================== SAT 2024 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2024 August 21 - 24, 2024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Organizers: TCS Research and IIT Bombay Early bird registration deadline: *July 26, 2024, 23:59 AoE* Register now!: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php =================================================== Important dates - SAT 2024 conference: August 21 - 24, 2024 - Workshops: August 20, 2024 - Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18 - 19, 2024 Place: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/ About the conference SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024 includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. SAT 2024 is the *first time* that SAT will take place in India. There will be co-located schools and workshops prior to the conference. The events are being organized by TCS Research and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Keynote Speakers - Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Awards - A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be announced during the conference. - The "Fahiem Bacchus PhD Award in Satisfiability" will also be announced. This new award established by the SAT Association distinguishes one outstanding PhD thesis from the past two years in the field of Satisfiability, broadly construed. The award is named after Fahiem Bacchus who made significant contributions to the theory and practice of SAT as well as to the SAT community and the SAT Association. About the venue The venue of SAT 2024 is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune. Surrounded by the rolling hills of the Sahyadri ranges on three sides, this campus is a scenic and well-equipped setting for hosting SAT 2024. The campus has shared conference rooms, breakout areas, training rooms and a 500-seater multi-purpose auditorium. Pune is the second largest city after Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is well-known for its salubrious climate, rich culture, a vibrant theatre and classical music scene, and its automotive and information technology industries. The city of Mumbai, with its associated tourist attractions, is a 3-hour pleasant drive from Pune. Registration The registrations for the conference, and the co-located schools and workshops, are open. - Early registration deadline: July 15, 2024, 23:59 AoE - Registration link: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Grants & Travel Support Grants and travel support are available for student participants. The details can be found on the conference website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php. Co-located Schools and Workshops - Indian SAT+SMT school + Website: https://sat-smt.in/ + Dates: Aug 18 - 19, 2024 - Pragmatics of SAT + Website: http://www.pragmaticsofssat.org/2024/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond + Website: https://qbf24.pages.sai.jku.at/qbf/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis + Website: https://mccompetition.org + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 Competitions Results of the 2024 editions of SAT competition, Pseudo-Boolean Solver competition and Model Counting competition will be announced at the conference. Sponsors - Diamond sponsors: TCS Research - Platinum sponsors: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Amazon Web Services - Gold sponsors: Cadence, Synopsis - Bronze sponsors: Google, Microsoft Partners - ACM India Council - Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) - Association for Logic in India (ALI) For more information, please visit https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/. We look forward to seeing you in Pune! Best regards, SAT 2024 Organizing Committee

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FSCD 2024: Free online participation, 10 - 13 July 2024
by Carsten Fuhs 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

The organisers of FSCD 2024 are delighted to announce that there is free best-effort online participation in the 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024), colocated with ICALP and LICS in Tallinn, 10 - 13 July 2024. Please register your email in advance in order to receive Zoom login info on Monday evening. For details, please see the conference website: https://fscd-conference.org/2024

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ICLA 2025: First Call for Papers
by Abhisekh Sankaran 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and features the following: * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * The conference will take place in offline in-person mode; * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. ===================================== Events: Main conference and co-located workshops ===================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: ISI Kolkata - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Co-located workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Submission dates: All dates below are AOE (Anywhere on Earth). - Deadline for abstract of submission: Aug 11, 2024 - Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2024 - Rebuttal period: Sep 23 -- Sep 28, 2024 - Notification to authors: 18 Oct, 2024 - Camera-ready version: TBA - Registration: TBA Easychair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. Listed below are common guidelines for all submissions. A submission is either an extended abstract or a short abstract. 1) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 2) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 3) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 4) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL, ECCC and the like. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information [FoL], a sub-series of Springer LNCS. [FoL] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They might however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The list of topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, first order modal logic, formal epistemology, imperative logics, logic and artificial intelligence, logic in decision and game theory, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, modal logic – algebraic, algorithmic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, multi-agent systems, normative reasoning, provability logics + Automata theory and logic, category theory in computer science, logic and algebraic methods, logic and concurrency, logic and games, logic and quantum computing, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, transductions, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Automated reasoning, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic in industrial applications, logic in security and privacy, programming language semantics, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic + Algorithmic meta theorems, comonads in finite model theory, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, logic and computational complexity, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and graph structure theory, logic in machine learning, many valued logics in finite model theory, proof complexity, stability theory over finite structures + History of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, many valued logics and their applications, non-monotonic logics, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic + General tools and frameworks for logical systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic in education, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic in law, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Saarbrücken, Germany) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) More members are expected to join. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ More information and updates about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/. For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com.

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Precall "Bilateral AI" (50 PhDs, 10 Postdocs), fall 2024
by Hackl, Andrea 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

Cluster of Excellence Bilateral Artificial Intelligence Pre-Call for Applications For the recently established Cluster of Excellence CoE Bilateral Artificial Intelligence (BILAI), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we are looking for more than 50 PhD students and 10 Post-Doc researchers (m/f/d) to join our team at one of the six leading research institutions across Austria (see below). In BILAI, major Austrian players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are teaming up to work towards Broad AI. As opposed to Narrow AI, which is characterized by task-specific skills, Broad AI seeks to address a wide array of problems, rather than being limited to a single task or domain. To develop its foundations, BILAI employs a Bilateral AI approach, effectively combining sub-symbolic AI (neural networks and machine learning) with symbolic AI (logic, knowledge representation, and reasoning) in various ways. Harnessing the full potential of both symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches can open new avenues for AI, enhancing its ability to solve novel problems, adapt to diverse environments, improve reasoning skills, and increase efficiency in computation and data use. These key features enable a broad range of applications for Broad AI, from drug development and medicine to planning and scheduling, autonomous traffic management, and recommendation systems. Prioritizing fairness, transparency, and explainability, the development of Broad AI is crucial for addressing ethical concerns and ensuring a positive impact on society. The research team is committed to cross-disciplinary work in order to provide theory and models for future AI and deployment to applications. CoE Research Institutions: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU Linz) Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz) Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Wien) Board of directors: Sepp Hochreiter (JKU Linz) Agata Ciabattoni (TU Wien) Thomas Eiter (TU Wien) Gerhard Friedrich (AAU) Christoph Lampert (ISTA) Robert Legenstein (TU Graz) Axel Polleres (WU Wien) Martina Seidl (JKU Linz) The call for applications will open on *** September 1,*** 2024. For more information, see http://www.bilateral-ai.net. Stay tuned!

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FTfJP 2024 - Deadline extension
by Di Stefano, Luca 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION FTfJP 2024 26th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs 20 September 2024, Vienna, Austria https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-ecoop-2024/FTfJP-2024 =========================================================== === Important dates === - Paper submission: 26 June 2024 (AoE, extended) - Paper notification: 24 July 2024 (AoE) - Workshop date: 20 September 2024, colocated with ISSTA/ECOOP 2024 (16-20 September 2024) Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2024 === Objectives and scope === Formal techniques can help analyse programs, precisely describe program behaviour, and verify program properties. Modern programming languages are interesting targets for formal techniques due to their ubiquity and wide user base, stable and well-defined interfaces and platforms, and powerful (but also complex) libraries. New languages and applications in this space are continually arising, resulting in new programming languages research challenges. Work on formal techniques and tools and on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. FTfJP is an established workshop which has run annually since 1999 alongside ECOOP, with the goal of bringing together people working in both fields. The workshop has a broad PL theme; the most important criterion is that submissions will generate interesting discussions within this community. The term 'Java-like' is somewhat historic and should be interpreted broadly: FTfJP solicits and welcomes submission relating to programming languages in general, beyond Java. Past editions of FTfJP have featured work on C++, JavaScript, Rust, and other languages and calculi. The term 'formal techniques' has a similarly broad interpretation. Example topics of interest include: - Language design and semantics - Type systems - Concurrency and new application domains - Specification and verification of program properties - Program analysis (static or dynamic) - Program synthesis - Security - Pearls (programs or proofs) FTfJP welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, tools, and position papers. Webpages for previous workshops in this series are available at https://ftfjp.github.io/. === Paper Categories === Contributions are sought in two categories: - Full Papers (6 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. We welcome both complete and incomplete technical results; ongoing work is particularly welcome, provided it is substantial enough to stimulate interesting discussions. - Short Papers (2 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, or otherwise present a position likely to stimulate discussion at the workshop. We encourage e.g. established researchers to set out a personal vision, and beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD. Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. Reviewing will be single blind, i.e, submissions need not be anonymized. The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students. === Submission guidelines === All submissions and reviews will be managed within EasyChair. Submissions should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2024. There is no need to indicate the paper category (long/short). Submissions should be in acmart/sigplan style, 10pt font. Formatting requirements are detailed on the SIGPLAN Author Information page (https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author). We plan that, as in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At least one author of an accepted paper must register to the conference by the early registration date and attend the workshop to present the work and participate in the discussions. === Steering Committee === Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada Radu Grigore, Facebook, United Kingdom Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, United States Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland (SC chair) Alexander J. Summers, University of British Columbia, Canada === Program Committee === Vincenzo Arceri, University of Parma, Italy Avik Chaudhuri, Facebook, United States Luca Di Stefano, TU Wien, Austria (chair) Claire Dross, AdaCore, France Madalina Erascu, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Marie-Christine Jakobs, LMU Munich, Germany Kenny Lu Zhuo Ming, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada Henrique Rebelo, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa, University of Oslo, Norway Oksana Tkachuk, Amazon Web Services, United States Luca Di Stefano TU Wien Informatics https://www.lucadistefano.eu

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