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Call for Location for FSCD 2023
The FSCD conference covers all aspects of Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. The annual FSCD conference comprises the main conference and a considerable number of affiliated workshops (expectedly, more than ten).
We invite proposals for locations to host the 8th FSCD International Conference to be held during the summer of 2023. Previous (and upcoming) FSCD meetings include:
FSCD 2016 in Porto (Portugal);
FSCD 2017 in Oxford (UK) co-located with ICFP 2017;
FSCD 2018 in Oxford (UK) as part of FLoC 2018;
FSCD 2019 in Dortmund (Germany);
FSCD 2020 in Paris (France) co-located with IJCAR 2020;
FSCD 2021 in Buenos Aires (Argentina);
FSCD 2022 in Haifa (Israel) as part of FLoC 2022.
The deadline for proposals is *** 22nd January 2022 ***. Proposals should be sent to the FSCD Steering Committee Chair (see contact information below). We encourage proposers to register their intention informally as soon as possible.
The proposals will be put forward to the FSCD mailing list for an indicative vote (the results of which will not be made public), after which the final decision about hosting and organising of FSCD 2023 will be taken by the SC.
Proposals should address the following points:
* FSCD Conference Chair (complete name and current position), host institution, FSCD Local Committee (complete names and current positions), availability of student-volunteers.
* National, regional, and local government and industry support, both organizational and financial.
* Accessibility to the location (i.e., transportation) and attractiveness of the proposed site. Accessibility can include both information about local transportation and travel information to the location (flight and/or train connections), as well as estimated costs.
* Appropriateness of the proposed dates (including consideration of holidays/other events during the period), hotel prices, and access to dormitory facilities for students.
* Estimated costs on registration for the conference and workshops, both for regular and student participants.
* Conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants (typically around 200). For example: number, capacity and audiovisual equipment of meeting rooms; a large plenary session room that can hold all the registrants; enough rooms for parallel sessions/workshops/tutorials; internet connectivity and workstations for demos/competitions; catering services; and presence of professional staff.
* Residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference venue, for example, number and cost range of hotels, and availability and cost of dormitory rooms (e.g., at local universities) and kind of services they offer.
* Other relevant information, which can include information about leisure activities and attractiveness of the location (e.g., cultural and historical aspects, touristic activities, etc...).
Contact information:
Herman Geuvers
herman(a)cs.ru.nl
FSCD SC Chair
CALL FOR PAPERS
Seventh International Conference on
Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022)
August 2 - 5, 2022, Haifa, Israel
https://fscd2022.github.io/
In-cooperation with ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN
IMPORTANT DATES
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All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered.
Abstract: February 8, 2022
Submission: February 11, 2022
Rebuttal: March 29-April 1, 2022
Notification: April 15, 2022
Final version: April 30, 2022
FSCD (http://fscd-conference.org/) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation, semantics and verification in new challenging areas.
The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is:
1. Calculi:
- Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.);
- Lambda calculus;
- Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.);
- Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.);
- Type theory and logical frameworks;
- Homotopy type theory;
- Quantum calculi.
2. Methods in Computation and Deduction:
- Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.);
- Induction, coinduction;
- Matching, unification, completion, orderings;
- Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.);
- Tree automata;
- Model building and model checking;
- Proof search and theorem proving;
- Constraint solving and decision procedures.
3. Semantics:
- Operational semantics and abstract machines;
- Game Semantics and applications;
- Domain theory and categorical models;
- Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, etc.);
- Quantum computation and emerging models in computation.
4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems:
- Type Inference and type checking;
- Abstract Interpretation;
- Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity;
- Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties;
- Symbolic computation.
5. Tools and Applications:
- Programming and proof environments;
- Verification tools;
- Proof assistants and interactive theorem provers;
- Applications in industry;
- Applications of formal systems in other sciences.
6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas:
- Certification;
- Security;
- Blockchain protocols;
- Data Bases;
- Deep learning and machine learning algorithms;
- Planning.
PUBLICATION
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The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access.
SPECIAL ISSUE
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The submission site is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2022
Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author).
Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages, excluding references. They must present new software tools, or significantly new versions of such tools, in which FSCD topics play an important role. An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be provided.
One author of an accepted paper is expected to present it at the (physical) conference, unless Covid restrictions prevent travel.
BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS
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The program committee will select a paper in which at least one author is a junior researcher, i.e. either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. Other authors should declare to the PC Chair that at least 50% of contribution is made by the junior researcher(s).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Amy Felty, University of Ottawa
fscd2022 at easychair.org
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University
Thorsten Altenkirch, Nottingham University
Takahito Aoto, Niigata University
Kazuyuki Asada, Tohoku University
Franz Baader, TU Dresden
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh
Agata Ciabattoni, Vienna University of Technology
Horatiu Cirstea, Loria
Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University
Gilles Dowek, Inria & ENS Paris-Saclay
Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
Hugo Herbelin, Inria & Université de Paris
Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University
Daniel Licata, Wesleyan University
Salvador Lucas, Universitat Politècnica de València
Christopher Lynch, Clarkson University
Ralph Matthes, IRIT, CNRS, TU Toulouse
Paul-André Melliès, CNRS, Université de Paris
Alexandre Miquel, Universidad de la República
Georg Moser, Universität Innsbruck
Daniele Nantes, Universidade de Brasília
Vivek Nigam, Huawei ERC & UFPB
Carlos Olarte, UFRN
Valeria de Paiva, Topos Institute
Giselle Reis, CMU Qatar
Masahiko Sakai, Nagoya University
Renate Schmidt, University of Manchester
Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University
Sam Staton, University of Oxford
Christine Tasson, Sorbonne Université
Benoît Valiron, LRI & Université de Paris
Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania
CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Shaull Almagor, Technion
Guillermo A. Pérez, University of Antwerp
STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR
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Jamie Vicary, Oxford University
PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE
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Zena Ariola, University of Oregon
Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Quilmes University & ICC/CONICET
Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
Herman Geuvers (Chair), Radboud University
Silvia Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad
Stefano Guerrini, Université de Paris 13
Delia Kesner, Université de Paris Diderot Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo
Luigi Liquori, Inria
Damiano Mazza, Université de Paris 13
Jakob Rehof, TU Dortmund
Jamie Vicary, Oxford University
