CALL FOR PAPERS Tenth International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025) 14-20 July 2025, Birmingham, UK https://fscd-conference.org/2025/
IMPORTANT DATES --------------- All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered.
Abstract: 10 February 2025 Submission: 17 February 2025 Rebuttal: 7-11 April 2025 Notification: 30 April 2025 Final version: 14 May 2025
OVERVIEW -------- FSCD (https://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 logic, 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, nominal, 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; - Process algebras (synchronous, asynchronous, static and dynamic semantics with and without time, etc.) - Quantum calculi.
2. Methods in Computation and Deduction: - Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.); - Induction, coinduction; - Matching, unification, completion, orderings; - Strategies (normalisation, 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 of 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; - Applications of formal systems in education.
6. Formal Systems for Modelling and Verification in new challenging areas: - Certification; - Security; - Blockchain; - Databases; - Deep learning and machine learning algorithms; - Planning.
PUBLICATION ----------- 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 ------------- There will be a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science of selected papers. More details will be provided later.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES --------------------- The submission site is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2025
Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/5#author) and submitted via EasyChair.
Submissions can be made in two categories: regular research papers and system descriptions. Please indicate in the submission page in Easychair and in the first page of the paper in which category you are submitting. 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. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. A system description 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 each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work in person at the conference. In case that this is not possible for some unforeseen reason, online presentation will be arranged, but in person registration will still be required.
BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS -------------------------------------- The programme 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. When submitting the paper, other authors should declare to the PC Chair that at least 50% of contribution is made by the junior researcher(s).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR ------------------------- Maribel Fernandez, King's College London, UK Email: fscd2025@easychair.org
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Thorsten Altenkirch University of Nottingham, UK Sandra Alves University of Porto, Portugal Zena M. Ariola University of Oregon, US Mauricio Ayala-Rincon University of Brasilia, Brazil Kyungmin Bae Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea Frederic Blanqui INRIA, France James Cheney University of Edinburgh, UK Ugo De'Liguoro University of Torino, Italy Santiago Escobar Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Silvia Ghilezan University of Novi Sad, Serbia Jean Goubault-Larrecq ENS Paris-Saclay, France Masahito Hasegawa Kyoto University, Japan Paul Blain Levy University of Birmingham, UK Christopher Lynch Clarkson University, US Assia Mahboubi INRIA, France, and VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Damiano Mazza CNRS, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho Imperial College, UK, and University of Brasilia, Brazil Naoki Nishida Nagoya University, Japan Valeria de Paiva Topos Institute, Berkeley, US Frank Pfenning Carnegie Mellon University, US Brigitte Pientka McGill University, Canada Alessandra di Pierro University of Verona, Italy Femke van Raamsdonk VU Amsterdam, Netherlands Simona Ronchi Della Rocca University of Torino, Italy Grigore Rosu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US Manfred Schmidt-Schauss Goethe University, Germany Carolyn Talcott SRI, US Alvaro Tasistro Universidad ORT Uruguay Jamie Vicary University of Cambridge, UK Glynn Winskel Queen Mary University of London, UK
CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- Paul Blain Levy, University of Birmingham, UK Anupam Das, University of Birmingham, UK
LOCAL WORKSHOPS CHAIRS ---------------------- Paul Blain Levy, University of Birmingham, UK Anupam Das, University of Birmingham, UK
FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE ----------------------- Patrick Baillot (Chair), CNRS, University of Lille Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna Amy Felty, University of Ottawa Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London (Publicity Chair) Marco Gaboardi, Boston University Herman Geuvers, Radboud University Nijmegen Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen University Cynthia Kop, Radboud University Nijmegen (SC Workshop Chair) Giulio Manzonetto, University Paris Cite Daniele Nantes, Imperial College London / University of Brasilia Femke van Raamsdonk, VU Amsterdam Jakob Rehof, TU Dortmund University