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CiE 2019 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
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CiE 2019: Computing with Foresight and Industry
Durham, United Kingdom
July 15 - July 19, 2019
https://community.dur.ac.uk/cie.2019/http://www.computability.org.uk
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Deadline for abstract registration and article submission: 21
January 2019 AOENotification of acceptance: 18 March 2019
Final versions due: 4 April 2019
Deadline for informal presentations submission: 1 May 2019
(The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent
a few days after submission.)
Early registration before: 15 May 2019
CiE 2019 is the 15th conference organized by CiE (Computability in
Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer
scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new
developments in computability and their underlying significance for the
real world.
Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006),
Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010),
Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest
(2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017) and Kiel (2018).
TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:
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- Markus Holzer (JLU Giessen)
- Assia Mahboubi (University of Nantes)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
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- Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong)
- Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
- Alexander Schönhuth (CWI, Amsterdam)
- Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam)
- Linda Brown Westrick (Penn State)
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Algorithms and Complexity in Durham (ACiD), a research group in the
Department of Computer Science, Durham University
For questions please contact the organisers at the e-mail address
cie.2019(a)durham.ac.uk.
SPECIAL SESSIONS:
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Computational Neuroscience, organised by Noura Al Moubayed (Durham
University) and Jason Connolly (Durham University)
- Ulrik Beierholm (Durham University)
- Evelyne Sernagor (Newcastle University)
History and Philosophy of Computing, organised by the Council of the
HaPoC Commission
- Tony Hoare (University of Oxford, via Skype)
- Michael Jackson (Open University)
- Ray Turner (University of Essex)
Lowness Notions in Computability, organised by Johanna Franklin (Hofstra
University) and Joseph S. Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Kenshi Miyabe (Meiji University)
- Benoit Monin (LACL, Créteil University)
- Keng Meng Ng (Nanyang Technological University)
- Don Stull (LORIA)
Probabilistic Programming and Higher-Order Computation, organised by
Christine Tasson (Paris Diderot University)
- Thomas Ehrhard (IRIF, Paris Diderot University)
- Cameron Freer (MIT)
- Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen)
- Sam Staton (University of Oxford)
Smoothed and Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms, organised by Bodo
Manthey (University of Twente)
- Sophie Huiberts (CWI, Amsterdam)
- Stefan Klootwijk (University of Twente)
- Clemens Rösner (University of Bonn)
- Sebastian Wild (University of Waterloo)
Transfinite Computations, organised by Sabrina Ouazzani (Paris-Est
Créteil University)
- Lorenzo Galeotti (University of Hamburg)
- Benjamin Rin (Utrecht University)
- Philip Welch (University of Bristol)
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
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Contributed papers will be selected from submissions received by the
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consisting of:
Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen)
Merlin Carl (University of Konstanz)
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd University)
Walter Dean (University of Warwick)
Henning Fernau (University of Trier)
Gianluca Della Vedova (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Liesbeth De Mol (University of Lille)
Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications)
Alessandra Di Pierro (University of Verona)
Johanna Franklin (Hofstra University)
Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław)
Pinar Heggernes (University of Bergen)
Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA)
Peter Jonsson (Linköping University)
Dietrich Kuske (TU Ilmenau)
Stephane Le Roux (TU Darmstadt)
Benedikt Löwe (University of Amsterdam)
Florin Manea (Christian-Albrechts-University)
Barnaby Martin (Durham University)
Elvira Mayordomo (University of Zaragoza)
Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Dirk Nowotka (Christian-Albrechts-University)
Arno Pauly (Swansea University)
Daniel Paulusma (Durham University, co-chair)
Daniela Petrisan (Paris Diderot University)
Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan, co-chair)
Christine Tasson (Paris Diderot University)
Hélène Touzet (University of Lille)
Peter Van Emde Boas (University of Amsterdam)
Georg Zetzsche (Paris Diderot University)
The CiE conferences serve as an interdisciplinary forum for research in
all aspects of computability, foundations of computer science, logic,
and theoretical computer science, as well as the interplay of these
areas with practical issues in computer science and with other
disciplines such as biology, mathematics, philosophy, or physics.
THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and
non-European) to submit their papers in all areas related to the above
for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings of
CiE 2019 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2019 .
Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the LNCS style (available
at
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…)
and must have a maximum of 12 pages, including references but excluding
a possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional
material. Papers building bridges between different parts of the
research community are particularly welcome.
The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag.
Call for Papers - Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020)
13-16 January 2020, Barcelona, Spain
Paper Submission: 4 July 2019
https://easychair.org/cfp/CSL2020
Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an interdisciplinary conference, spanning across both basic and application oriented research in mathematical logic and computer science.
Submission Guidelines:
Submitted papers must be in English and must provide sufficient detail to allow the Programme Committee to assess the merits of the paper. Full proofs may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the reviewers' discretion. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a well written introduction which is directed at all members of the PC.
The CSL 2020 conference proceedings will be published by LIPIcs. Authors are invited to submit contributed papers of no more than 15 pages in LIPIcs style (not including references), presenting unpublished work fitting the scope of the conference. Papers may not be submitted concurrently to another conference with refereed proceedings. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or a journal. Papers authored or co-authored by members of the PC are not allowed.
Dates:
paper submission: 4 July 2019
notifications: 14 October 2019
Program Committee
Sandra Alves, University of Porto, Portugal
Takahito Aoto, Niigata University, Japan
Albert Atserias, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Manuel Bodirsky, TU Dresden, Germany
James Brotherston, University College London, UK
Rohit Chadha, University of Missouri, USA
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Arnaud Durand, University Paris Diderot, France
Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK (co-chair)
Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany
Masahito Hasegawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Dietrich Kuske, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Kamal Lodaya, IMSc Chennai, India
Salvador Lucas, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Angelo Montanari, University of Udine, Italy
Anca Muscholl, University of Bordeaux, France (co-chair)
Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada
Elaine Pimentel, University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Damien Pous, CNRS - ENS Lyon, France
Femke van Raamsdonk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Torino, Italy
Manfred Schmidt-Schauss, Goethe University, Germany
Lutz Schröder, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Lidia Tendera, Opole University, Poland
Szymon Torunczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Glynn Winskel, University of Cambridge, UK
Organizing committee
Albert Atserias, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Juan Carlos Martínez, University of Barcelona, Spain
Venue
The conference will be held in the University of Barcelona, Spain.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC co-chairs:
Maribel Fernandez Maribel.Fernandez(a)kcl.ac.uk
Anca Muscholl anca(a)labri.fr
The Computer Science department of the University Koblenz-Landau
(Campus Koblenz) invites applications for the position of a
research assistant
(wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Mitarbeiterin)
(1,0 EGr. 13 TV-L)
at PhD or postdoc level, in the research groups ``Formal methods and
theoretical computer science'' (Prof. Dr. Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans)
and ``Computer Networks'' (Prof. Dr. Hannes Frey).
The position is available for 2 years. A further extension is planned.
The prospective scientific assistant will study theoretical modelling and
verification of wireless networked automatic assistant systems like
driver assistant systems, self-organizing fleet management, air traffic
management, or UAV swarm robotics.
Such systems will be modelled as graphs with certain structural
properties which are typically satisfied by wireless networks
(e.g. limited communication range, spatial correlated communication links).
In this project such properties will be described by graph axioms.
Based on the axioms local algorithms for structuring wireless graphs
will be developed. Objectives are for example intersection free drawings,
limited degree, connectivity, or spanner property.
The project covers three areas:
(1) based on automatic verification, correctness of local algorithms shall
either be verified or falsified (in the latter case, counterexamples
have to be generated),
(2) local algorithms are to be designed which are correct or correct with
high probability under the considered graph axioms,
(3) validity of the graph axioms for describing wireless networks has to
be investigated by stochastic analysis or by means of simulation.
Focus of the three areas will be decided depending on the skills of
the candidate.
Besides participation in research the position includes teaching
obligations in theoretical and technical fields of computer science.
Application letters (including a CV) must be sent by e-mail
as a single .pdf file to:
bewerbung(a)uni-koblenz-landau.de
with Cc to sofronie(a)uni-koblenz.de.
*** In the subject line please indicate your name and the
position number 140/2018 ***
To receive full consideration, applications should be received
by ** January 31, 2019 **. Applications sent after this date will
be considered until the position is filled.
Informal enquiries are welcome and may be sent to
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (sofronie(a)uni-koblenz.de).
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Position code number: 140/2018
Application deadline: 31 January 2019
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ACKERMANN AWARD 2019 - THE EACSL OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD FOR
LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations are now invited for the 2019 Ackermann Award.
PhD dissertations in topics specified by the CSL and LICS
conferences, which were formally accepted as PhD theses at a
university or equivalent institution between 1.1.2017 and 31.12.2018
are eligible for nomination for the award. The deadline for submission
is 1 April 2019. Submission details follow below.
Nominations can be submitted from 1 January 2019 and should be sent
to the chair of the Jury, Thomas Schwentick, by e-mail: thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de
The Award
The 2019 Ackermann award will be presented to the recipient(s) at CSL
2020, the annual conference of the EACSL, 13-16 January 2020, in Barcelona.
The award consists of
* a certificate,
* an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference,
* the publication of the laudatio in the CSL proceedings, and
* financial support to attend the conference.
The jury is entitled to give the award to more (or less) than one
dissertation in a year.
Jury
The jury consists of:
* Christel Baier (TU Dresden);
* Michael Benedikt (Oxford University);
* Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw);
* Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Paris-Saclay);
* Dexter Kozen (Cornell University);
* Dale Miller (INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique), ACM SigLog representative;
* Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (University of Torino), the vice-president of EACSL;
* Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund) , the president of EACSL.
How to submit
The candidate or his/her supervisor should submit
1. the thesis (ps or pdf file);
2. a detailed description (not longer than 20 pages) of the thesis
in ENGLISH (ps or pdf file);
3. a supporting letter by the PhD advisor and two supporting letters
by other senior researchers (in English);
supporting letters can also be sent directly to Thomas Schwentick
(thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de);
4. a short CV of the candidate;
5. a copy of the document asserting that the thesis was accepted as
a PhD thesis at a recognized University (or equivalent institution) and
that the candidate has received his/her PhD within the specified period.
The submission should be sent by e-mail as attachments to the chairman
of the jury, Thomas Schwentick:
thomas.schwentick(a)tu-dortmund.de
With the following subject line and text:
* Subject: Ackermann Award 2019 Submission
* Text: Name of candidate, list of attachments
Submission can be sent via several e-mail messages. If this is the case,
please indicate it in the text.
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EPIT 2019 - Spring school on databases, logic and automata
CIRM - Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques - Marseille Luminy - France
April 7-12, 2019
https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html
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**** NEWS ****
*** Pre-registration deadline approaching ! (January 13, 2019)
Please pre-register at https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html
IMPORTANT : Note that registration will be finalised only after receiving confirmation from us, and paying registration fees.
*** Registration fees are fixed to 50 Euros per participant. Registration is free for CNRS agents.
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EPIT (École de Printemps d'Informatique Théorique, https://epit.irif.fr/) is a French recurrent spring school in theoretical computer science, initiated by Maurice
Nivat in 1973. It has since then spanned many exciting topics in foundational computer science, and has become a major event for the research community in France and beyond.
The 2019 edition of the EPIT will cover the foundations of data management.
It will in particular focus on the fruitful interaction between database theory and two other main areas of theoretical computer science : logic and automata - as well as other closely related fields, such as finite model theory, descriptive complexity, game theory, and inference.
Programme
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Sunday
* Arrival before dinner
Monday
* Morning: Introduction to database theory (Pierre Senellart, ENS Paris)
* Afternoon :
- Optimal joins (Szymon Toruńczyk, Warsaw)
- Poster session
Tuesday
* Morning: Logic and automata for semi-structured data (Diego Figueira, Bordeaux)
* Afternoon:
- Logic-based distributed query processing (Frank Neven, Hasselt)
- Incremental query evaluation (Thomas Schwentick, Dortmund)
Wednesday
* Morning: Graph data management (Wim Martens, Beyreuth)
Thursday
* Morning: Databases and descriptive complexity (Nicole Schweikardt, Humboldt)
* Afternoon:
- View-based query processing (Nadime Francis, Marne la Vallée)
- Incomplete data management (Leonid Libkin, Edinburgh)
Friday
* Morning : Ontologies and rules (Meghyn Bienvenu, Montpellier)
Poster sessions will be organised, so that participants who are willing to, will be able to present their work.
All courses will be given in English.
A detailed schedule of activities is available here https://www.cirm-math.fr/ProgWeebly/2019/Renc1934/Prog1934.pdf.
Audience
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Lectures are intended to be accessible to a wide audience. No prior knowledge of database theory will be assumed, but some familiarity with basic automata theory and logic is recommended.
The EPIT 2019 Spring School is primarily addressed to PhD students and young researchers, but more senior participants are also encouraged to join.
Date and Venue
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The EPIT 2019 Spring School will take place from Monday, April 8th to Friday, April 12th, 2019 in France, at CIRM, the International Center for Mathematical Meetings (https://www.cirm-math.fr/) in Luminy, Marseille.
Directions for reaching CIRM are available here https://www.cirm-math.com/getting-to-cirm.html.
Consider arriving at CIRM on Sunday April 7th before dinner and leaving on Friday April 12th after lunch.
Registration
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Pre-registration is open on the Webpage of the event https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html until January 13th 2019.
IMPORTANT : after pre-registration you will have to wait for our confirmation before proceeding to the payment of registration fees. Only then the registration will be finalised.
We plan to enable registration a week after the pre-registration deadline at the latest.
Registration fees, including accommodation and meals at CIRM, will be 50 Euros per participant (much less than initially announced). Registration will be free for CNRS agents.
Organisation
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The school is organised by :
Amélie Gheerbrant <amelie(a)irif.fr>
Leonid Libkin <libkin(a)inf.ed.ac.uk>
Luc Segoufin <luc.segoufin(a)inria.fr>
Pierre Senellart <pierre(a)senellart.com>
Cristina Sirangelo <cristina(a)irif.fr>
For any further information please contact the organisers.
[Please circulate. Apologies for multiple copies.]
CALL FOR PAPERS
WoLLIC 2019
26th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
July 2nd to 5th, 2019
Utrecht, The Netherlands
ORGANISATION
Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities, The Netherlands (host university)
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-fifth WoLLIC will be held at
Utrecht University, The Netherlands, from July 2nd to 5th, 2019. It is
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), the European Association for Computer Science Logic
(EACSL), ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG)
(TBC), the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the Sociedade
Brasileira de Lógica (SBL).
Just before and after the main WoLLIC 2019 event, Utrecht University will
host two satellite workshops:
-Proof Theory in Logic on July 1-2, 2019. This workshop on the role of
structural proof theory in the study of logics will consist of invited
talks by researchers in that area.
-Compositionality in formal and distributional models of natural language
semantics, on July 6, 2019.
The workshop programs will be announced end of December 2018 via the WoLLIC
2019 website (https://wollic2019.sites.uu.nl). Attendance of these
satellite workshops is free, but registration is required.
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
2019 EasyChair website. (Please go to
http://wollic.org/wollic2019/instructions.html for instructions.) A title
and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Feb 22, 2019, and the
full paper by Feb 26, 2019 (firm date). Notifications are expected by April
5, 2019, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by April 15, 2019
(firm date).
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2019, 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 2019 issue of a scientific journal (to be
confirmed).
INVITED SPEAKERS
(TBA)
STUDENT GRANTS
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2019 will permit ASL student members to apply for
a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2019). See
http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.
IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 22, 2019: Paper title and abstract deadline
Feb 26, 2019: Full paper deadline
April 5, 2019: Author notification
Apr 15, 2019: Final version deadline (firm)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento)
Nick Bezhanishvili (University of Amsterdam)
Ivano Ciardelli (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
Giuseppe Greco (Utrecht University)
Philippe de Groote (INRIA Nancy)
Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht University) (Co-CHAIR)
Roberto Maieli (Department of Mathematics and Physics, University "Roma
Tre”)
Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University) (Co-CHAIR)
Richard Moot (CNRS (LIRMM) & University of Montpellier)
Larry Moss (Indiana University Bloomington)
Sara Negri (University of Helsinki)
Carlo Nicolai (King's College London)
Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Comms and University of Birmingham)
Alessandra Palmigiano (Delft University of Technology)
Ruy de Queiroz (Centro de Informatica, Univ Federal de Pernambuco)
Yde Venema (University of Amsterdam)
Fan Yang (University of Helsinki)
STEERING COMMITTEE
Samson Abramsky, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid
Hodges, Juliette Kennedy, Ulrich Kohlenbach, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin,
Angus Macintyre, Lawrence Moss, Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Valeria de Paiva,
Ruy de Queiroz, Jouko Väänänen. (Former Member: Grigori Mints (deceased).)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Giuseppe Greco (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) (Local 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)
European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM-SIGLOG) (TBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL)
FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.
WEB PAGE
http://wollic.org/wollic2019/
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STACS 2019
36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
March 13—16, 2019, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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The accepted papers and more information can be found via
https://stacs2019.akt.tu-berlin.de/
The scientific program consists of three invited talks, two tutorial
talks, and presentations of 54 contributed papers (selected from more
than 260 submitted papers).
It will start on March 13 early afternoon with the two tutorials and it
will end on March 16 early afternoon.
More details concerning program arrangements etc. will be added soon.
The registration (via webpage above) is open.
Early registration deadline: January 31, 2019, AoE.
CALL FOR PAPERS
23rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT 2020)
Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30 - April 2, 2020
* About ICDT
ICDT is an international conferences series that addresses the
principles and theory of data management. Since 2009, it is annually
and jointly held with EDBT, the international conference on extending
database technology. See also https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages.
* Broadening Scope
As ICDT strives to broaden its scope, ICDT 2020 will have a Reach Out
Track that calls for
- novel formal frameworks or directions for database theory and/or
- connections between principles of data management and other
communities.
The aim of the Reach Out track is to present novel and important
directions for database theory and to expand the scope and impact of
ICDT towards neighboring communities such as Database Systems,
Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning,
Programming Languages, Distributed Computing, and Operating Systems.
It is reasonable for articles submitted to this track to be be shorter
than regular ICDT submissions. Submissions will be judged mainly in
terms of their potential to lead to valuable and impactful theoretical
developments. We encourage authors to illustrate the potential impact
via convincing examples, preliminary results, and clearly specified
open problems.
* Topics of Interest
Every topic related to the principles of data management is relevant
to ICDT. Particularly welcome are contributions that connect data
management to theoretical computer science, and those that connect
database theory and database practice.
Examples of relevant topics include:
- Data mining, information extraction, information retrieval, and
database aspects of machine learning
- Data models, design, structures, semantics, query languages,
and algorithms for data management
- Distributed and parallel databases, cloud computing
- Databases and knowledge representation
- Graph databases, (semantic) Web data, and Web services
- Data streams and sketching
- Data-centric (business) process management and workflows
- Data and knowledge integration and exchange, data provenance, views,
and data warehouses
- Domain-specific databases (multimedia, scientific, spatial, etc)
- Data privacy and security, concurrency, and recovery
* Submission Cycles and Dates
ICDT has two submission cycles, the first providing the possibility
of a revision.
First cycle abstract deadline: March 27, 2019
Full paper submission deadline: April 3, 2019
Notification: May 29, 2019
Second cycle abstract deadline: September 15, 2019
Full paper submission deadline: September 23, 2019
Notification: December 5, 2019
* Program Committee
Program Committee Chair:
Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen)
Program Committee Members:
Marcelo Arenas (PUC, Santiago de Chile)
Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford)
Christoph Berkholz (HU Berlin)
Angela Bonifati (University Lyon 1)
Pierre Bourhis (University of Lille)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh)
Graham Cormode (University of Warwick)
Victor Dalmau (UPF, Barcelona)
Claire David (University Paris-Est)
Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)
Bas Ketsman (EPFL, Lausanne)
Daniel Kifer (Penn State University)
Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh)
Sebatian Maneth (University of Bremen)
Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)
Reinhard Pichler (TU Vienna)
Andreas Pieris (University of Edinburgh)
Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden)
Thomas Schwentick (University of Dortmund)
Uri Stemmer (Ben-Gurion University, Negev)
Domagoj Vrgoc (PUC, Santiago de Chile)
Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool)
* Submission Instructions
Submissions will be electronic via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2020.
Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow
the program committee to assess their merits. The results must be
unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including
the proceedings of other symposia, workshops, and journals.
Papers must be submitted as a PDF document and use the LIPIcs style
(http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors).
Paper length is limited to 15 pages excluding references, both for
regular submissions and for the Reach Out Track. Additional details
may be included in a clearly marked appendix which will be read at the
discretion of the program committee. Online appendices are not
allowed. Papers that do not conform to these requirements may be
rejected without further consideration.
The proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International Proceedings
in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This
guarantees that the proceedings will be available under the gold open
access model, that is, online and free of charge while the authors
retain the rights over their work.
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register at
the conference and to present the paper.
* Awards
An award will be given to the Best Paper and to the Best Newcomer
Paper where `newcomer' refers to the field of database theory. The
latter award will preferentially be given to a paper authored only by
students and in that case be called Best Student-Paper Award. The
program committee reserves the right to not give any award and to
split an award among several papers. Papers co-authored by program
committee members are not eligible for an award.
The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA) at TU Wien seeks
nominations for the VCLA International Student Awards 2019. The annually
awarded VCLA International Student Awards for Outstanding Master and
Undergraduate Research (Bachelor) Theses (or equivalent) recognize authors
of scientific works across the wide spectrum of Logic and Computer Science.
Final Submission Deadline: 15.3.2019
AWARD
*Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR
*Outstanding Undergraduate Research (Bachelor) Award: 800 EUR
*The winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony in
Vienna, Austria.
ELIGIBILITY
*The degree must have been awarded between November 15th, 2017, and December
31st, 2018, (inclusive).
*Students who obtained their degree at TU Wien are excluded from the
nomination.
MAIN AREAS OF INTEREST
*Computational Logic, covering theoretical and mathematical foundations such
as proof theory, model theory, computability theory, algorithmic lower and
upper bounds, Boolean satisfiability (SAT), QBF, constraint satisfaction,
satisfiability modulo theories, automated deduction (resolution, refutation,
theorem proving), non-classical logics (substructural logics, multi-valued
logics, deontic logics, modal and temporal logics), computational complexity
and algorithms (complexity analysis, parameterized and exact algorithms,
decomposition methods).
*Databases and Artificial Intelligence, concerned with logical methods for
modeling, storing, and drawing inferences from data and knowledge. This
includes subjects like query languages based on logical concepts (Datalog,
variants of SQL, XML, and SPARQL), novel database-theoretical methods
(schema mappings, information extraction and integration), logic
programming, knowledge representation and reasoning (ontologies, answer-set
programming, belief change, inconsistency handling, argumentation,
planning).
*Verification, concerned with logical methods and automated tools for
reasoning about the behavior and correctness of complex state-based systems
such as software and hardware designs as well as hybrid systems. This ranges
from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new
interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program
synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems.
NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS
*For nomination instructions, please visit
<https://logic-cs.at/award-call-2019/> https://logic-cs.at/award-call-2019/
*Kindly address all inquiries to <mailto:award@logic-cs.at>
award(a)logic-cs.at
IMPORTANT DATES
*Final submission deadline: March 15, 2019 (AoE)
*Notification of decision: end of June 2019
*Award ceremony: September 2019, Vienna (Austria)
AWARD COMMITTEE 2019
To be announced in January 2019. For the VCLA Award Committee 2018 see:
<http://www.vcla.at/vcla-awards/> http://www.vcla.at/vcla-awards/
*Robert Ganian (committee co-chair)
*Magdalena Ortiz (general chair)
*Revantha Ramanayake (committee co-chair)
IN MEMORIAM
The award is dedicated to the memory of Helmut Veith, the brilliant computer
scientist who tragically passed away in March 2016, and aims to carry on his
commitment to promoting young talent and promising researchers in these
areas.
RECIPIENTS OF THE VCLA INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AWARDS
<http://www.vcla.at/vcla-awards/> http://www.vcla.at/vcla-awards/
Please feel free to distribute as appropriate.
The basic idea of a World Logic Day
is to put logic in its right place, i.e the first place:
1st World Logic Day, January 14, 2019:
http://www.logica-universalis.org/wld