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Research assistant position, University Koblenz-Landau
by Prof. Dr. Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

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). ====================================== Position code number: 140/2018 Application deadline: 31 January 2019 =======================================

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Ackermann Award 2019: Call for Nominations
by Thomas Schwentick 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

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 - Pre-registration deadline approaching - Databases, logic and automata, April 7-12, CIRM, Marseille, France
by Cristina Sirangelo 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

===================================================================== 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 ===================================================================== **** 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. ===================================================================== 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 --------- 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 ------------ 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 -------------- 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 ----------- 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 ------------ 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.

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26th WoLLIC 2019 (Utrecht, The Netherlands) - 2nd Call for Papers
by Ruy de Queiroz 01 Jan '19

01 Jan '19

[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: Accepted Papers and First Call for Participation
by Rolf Niedermeier 21 Dec '18

21 Dec '18

======================================================================== STACS 2019 36th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science March 13—16, 2019, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany ======================================================================== 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.

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ICDT2020 CfP - First Submission Cycle
by Carsten Lutz 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

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.

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Call for Nominations: VCLA International Student Awards 2019 - Logic and Computer Science
by Mihaela Rozman 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

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.

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1st World Logic Day: January 14, 2019
by jean-yves beziau 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

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

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EPIT 2019 - Spring school on databases, logic and automata - April 7-12, 2019 - Marseille, France
by Cristina Sirangelo 14 Dec '18

14 Dec '18

===================================================================== 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 <https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html> ===================================================================== **** NEWS **** *** !!! Registration fees will be no more than 50 Euros per participant !!! (much less than previously announced). Registration is free for CNRS agents. *** Pre-registration is open (until January 13, 2019) Please pre-register at https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html <https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html> IMPORTANT : Note that registration will be finalised only after receiving confirmation from us, and paying registration fees. ===================================================================== EPIT (École de Printemps d'Informatique Théorique, https://epit.irif.fr/ <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 --------- 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 <https://www.cirm-math.fr/ProgWeebly/2019/Renc1934/Prog1934.pdf>. Audience ------------ 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 -------------- 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/ <https://www.cirm-math.fr/>) in Luminy, Marseille. Directions for reaching CIRM are available here https://www.cirm-math.com/getting-to-cirm.html <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 ----------- Pre-registration is open on the Webpage of the event https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/1934.html <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 at most 50 Euros per participant (much less than previously announced). Registration will be free for CNRS agents. Organisation ------------ The school is organised by : Amélie Gheerbrant <amelie(a)irif.fr <mailto:amelie@irif.fr>> Leonid Libkin <libkin(a)inf.ed.ac.uk <mailto:libkin@inf.ed.ac.uk>> Luc Segoufin <luc.segoufin(a)inria.fr <mailto:luc.segoufin@inria.fr>> Pierre Senellart <pierre(a)senellart.com <mailto:pierre@senellart.com>> Cristina Sirangelo <cristina(a)irif.fr <mailto:cristina@irif.fr>> For any further information please contact the organisers.

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Paraconsistent Newsletter - Fall 2018
by jean-yves beziau 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

With an exclusive interview with Michael Dunn The latest inconsistent papers, books, events, videos and a terrrific enigma that may lead you to the island of inconsistency ... http://www.paraconsistency.org/2018fall

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