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14th ACM MobiWac 2016, MALTA
by Robson De Grande 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ================================================================== The 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2016) November 13 - 17, 2016 - Malta http://mobiwac-symposium.org/ ================================================================== The MOBIWAC series of event is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. To keep up with the technological developments, we also open up new areas such as mobile cloud computing starting from this year. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Mobile Cloud Computing - Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols - Wireless/Mobile Web Access - Wireless Internet and All-IP integration - Next Generation Wireless systems - Mobile Broadband Wireless Access - Pervasive Communication and Computing - Ubiquitous and mobile access - Wireless Applications and testbeds - Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff - Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management - Channels and resource allocation algorithms - Energy and power management algorithms - Mobility Models - Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios - Context-aware services and applications - Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures - Interactive applications - Mobile database management - Wireless Multimedia Protocols - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Mobile Info-services - Social mobile networks - Social mobile applications - Data analysis for mobile and wireless networks - SDN solutions in mobile and wireless networks - QoS management - Mobility Control and Management - Localization and tracking - Mobile/Vehicular environment access - Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Security,Trust management and Privacy issues - Fault Tolerance solutions - Wireless Systems' Design - Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems - Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis ========================= Paper Submission, Publication, and Important Dates: All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium Proceedings published by ACM press. - Submission Deadline: July 15, 2016 11:59PM EST (FIRM) - Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2016 11:59PM EST Papers are submitted via the EDAS system (https://edas.info/N22672) For any question or problems related to MobiWac 2015 submissions, please contact the PC Chairs. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Ángel Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Co-Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Robson De Grande, University of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Committee Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Michele Albano, CISTER, Portugal Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Jalel Ben-othman, University of Paris 13, France Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Juan Carlos Cano, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium Andrés García Saavedra, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Roberto González, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Paulo Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Victor Ramos, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Victor Rangel, National University of Mexico, Mexico Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Alicia Triviño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Manuel Urueña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Australia Posters/Demo Chair Graciela Román Alonso, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Publicity Chairs Khalil El-Khatib, UOIT, Canada Mirela. A. M. Notare, Sao Jose Municipal University, Brazil FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please see the conference website (http://mobiwac-symposium.org) ==============================================

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ANN: tagsoup-megaparsec-0.1.0.0
by KwangYul Seo 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce the first release of tagsoup-megaparsec, a Tag token parser library. This library helps you build a megaparsec parser using TagSoup's Tags as tokens. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tagsoup-megaparsec https://github.com/kseo/tagsoup-megaparsec Regards, Kwang Yul Seo

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Christopher Strachey centenary announcement
by Troy Astarte (PGR) 13 Jul '16

13 Jul '16

Dear all, This November marks 100 years since the birth of Christopher Strachey. We are holding a symposium to celebrate his life and research in Oxford on Saturday 19th November. There will also be an exhibition of material from the Strachey archive on Friday 18th November, followed by a banquet dinner at Hertford College on the evening of Friday 18th November. For more information and to register for attendance, please go to http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/strachey100/. ------------------------------- Christopher Strachey (1916–1975) was a pioneering computer scientist and the founder of the Programming Research Group, now part of the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University. Although Strachey was keenly interested in the practical aspects of computing, it is in the theoretical side that he most indelibly left his mark, notably by creating with Dana Scott the denotational (or as he called it, ‘mathematical’) approach to defining the semantics of programming languages—undoubtedly influential in the development of functional programming. Strachey also spent time writing complex programs and puzzles for various computers, such as a draughts playing program for the Pilot ACE in 1951. He developed some fundamental concepts of machine-independent operating systems, including an early suggestion for time-sharing, and was a prime mover in the influential CPL programming language. Strachey came from a notable family of intellectuals and artists, perhaps most famous for Christopher’s uncle Lytton, a writer and member of the Bloomsbury group. We will be marking the occasion of 100 years since Christopher Strachey's birth on Saturday 19th November 2016, three days after his birthday, with a symposium of invited speakers. The morning will look back at Strachey’s life and works from a historical and technical perspective, and the afternoon will concern the future of Strachey-inspired theoretical computer science, including functional programming, at Oxford University. There will also be a display of related archival material on Friday 18th November for anyone interested, and a banquet dinner at Hertford College on the evening of Friday 18th November. Hope to see many of you there. Best, Troy Astarte

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SPLASH'16: 3rd Combined Call for Contributions to Collocated Events
by Tijs van der Storm 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

################################################# ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH'16) ################################################# Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sun 30th October - Fri 4th November , 2016 http://2016.splashcon.org https://twitter.com/splashcon https://www.facebook.com/SPLASHCon/ NEWS! Benjamin Pierce and Andy Ko have agreed to be keynotes for SPLASH'16! Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN Combined Call for Contributions to Collocated Events: - SPLASH-I, SPLASH-E, Student Research Competition, Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop - Scala Symposium - Workshops: AGERE, DSLDI, DSM, FOSD, ITSLE, LWC@SLE, META, MOBILE!, NOOL, PLATEAU, Parsing@SLE, REBLS, RUMPLE, SA-MDE, SEPS, VMIL, WODA The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, systems, and software engineering. SPLASH'16 hosts a record number collocated tracks and events, from associated conferences (GPCE, SLE) and symposia (DLS, Scala), to 16 workshops! Please see below about important dates. We look forward to your submissions! SPLASH'16 Tracks =========================== ## SPLASH-I: Innovation, Interaction, Insight, Industry, Invited SPLASH-I is the track of SPLASH dedicated to great talks on exciting topics! SPLASH-I will run in parallel with all of SPLASH (during the week days), and is open to all attendees. SPLASH-I will host both invited talks and selected talks submitted via this call for proposals. SPLASH-I solicits inspiring talks, tutorials and demonstrations on exciting topics related to programming and programming systems, delivered by excellent speakers from academia or industry. Deadline: 1st of August Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-i ## SPLASH-E: Foundational Concepts of Computation SPLASH-E will be a one-day working meeting, with the following goals: - Building on prior work, identify and enumerate the foundational concepts of computation. - More ambitiously, for each concept, create a detailed plan for a lesson (or short sequence of lessons) for 8 year olds, to teach the concept. We do not solicit publications, but we ask prospective participants to submit a one-paragraph position statement. Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-splash-e ## Student Research Competition Continuing the successes of previous years, SPLASH is again hosting an ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition (ACM SRC). The competition is an internationally-recognized venue that enables undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world and to share their research results with other students and SPLASH attendees. The competition has separate categories for undergraduate and graduate students and awards prizes to the top three students in each category. The ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition shares the Poster session’s goal to facilitate interaction with researchers and industry practitioners, providing both sides with the opportunity to learn of ongoing, current research. Additionally, the Student Research Competition gives students experience with both formal presentations and evaluations. Submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-src ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact. It is held early in the conference, to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submission deadline: Fri 15 Jul 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-posters ## PLMW: Programming Language Mentoring Workshop The purpose of Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is to give promising students who consider pursuing a graduate degree in this field an overview of what research in this field looks like and how to get into and succeed in graduate school. In other words, a combination whirlwind tour of this research area, networking opportunity, and how-to-succeed guide. The program of PLMW will include talks by prominent researchers of the field of programming languages and software engineering providing an insight in their research. To learn more about PLMW, please see the SIGPLAN PLMW web page (http://www.sigplan.org/Conferences/PLMW/) Application deadline: Sun 14 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/splash-2016-plmw ## Scala Symposium The Scala Symposium is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala programming language community. We welcome a broad spectrum of research topics in many formats, going from student talks all the way to full 10-page research papers, indexed by the ACM Digital Library. Abstract submission deadline: Sun 17 Jul 2016 Paper submission deadline: Mon 25 Jul 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/scala-2016 Workshops ========= SPLASH'16 will host a record number of 16 workshops: ## AGERE! Programming based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control The AGERE! workshop is aimed at focusing on programming systems, languages and applications based on actors, active/concurrent objects, agents and – more generally – high-level programming paradigms promoting a mindset of decentralized control in solving problems and developing software. The workshop is designed to cover both the theory and the practice of design and programming, bringing together researchers working on models, languages and technologies, and practitioners developing real-world systems and applications. Abstract submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Paper submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/agere2016 ## DSLDI: Domain-specific Language Design and Implementation Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI) is a workshop intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in discussing how DSLs should be designed, implemented, supported by tools, and applied in realistic contexts. The focus of the workshop is on all aspects of this process, from soliciting domain knowledge from experts, through the design and implementation of the language, to evaluating whether and how a DSL is successful. More generally, we are interested in continuing to build a community that can drive forward the development of modern DSLs. Submission deadline talk proposals: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsldi2016 ## DSM: Domain-Specific Modeling Domain-specific languages provide a viable and time-tested solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction, and thus productivity, beyond coding, making systems development faster and easier. When accompanied with suitable automated modeling tools and generators it delivers to the promises of continuous delivery and devops. In domain-specific modeling (DSM) the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the application domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive them- selves as working directly with domain concepts. Together with frameworks and platforms, DSM can automate a large portion of software production. Submission deadline: Mon 15 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/dsm2016 ## FOSD: Feature-oriented Software Development Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. It supports the automatic generation of large-scale software systems from a set of units of functionality, called features. The key idea of feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is to explicitly represent similarities and differences of a family of software systems for a given application domain (e.g., database systems, banking software, text processing systems) with the goal of reusing software artifacts among the family members. Submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://www.fosd.net/workshop2016 Call for papers: http://conf.researchr.org/getImage/FOSD-2016/orig/FOSD+2016+-+CFP.pdf ## ITSLE: Industry Track Software Language Engineering Industry Track for Software Language Engineering (ITSLE) is a workshop to bring together practitioners and researchers from industry and academia working on the area of software language engineering. Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) techniques are being developed and used broadly in industry. However, as the size and complexity of software systems steadily increase, so does the cost of maintaining and improving the DSL and MDSE techniques and tools. It introduces new challenges such as language co-evolution, maintainability of legacy software using older version of DSLs and MDSE techniques, and extendability and scalability of these techniques. Some of these challenges have been addressed by the SLE research community and some remain unsolved. Submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/itsle2016 ## LWC@SLE: Language Workbench Challenge Language workbenches are tools for software language engineering. They distinguish themselves from traditional compiler tools by providing integrated development environment (IDE) support for defining, implementing, testing and maintaining languages. Not only that, languages built with a language workbench are supported by IDE features as well (e.g., syntax highlighting, outlining, reference resolving, completion etc.). As a result, language workbenches achieve a next level in terms of productivity and interactive editor support for building languages, in comparison to traditional batch-oriented, compiler construction tools. The goal of this workshop is twofold. First: exercise and assess the state-of-the-art in language workbenches using challenge problems from the user perspective (i.e. the language designer). Second: foster knowledge exchange and opportunities for collaboration between language workbench implementors and researchers. Submission deadline of solutions: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/lwc2016 ## META The Meta’16 workshop aims to bring together researchers working on metaprogramming and reflection, as well as users building applications, language extensions such as contracts, or software tools. With the changing hardware and software landscape, and increased heterogeneity of systems, metaprogramming becomes an important research topic to handle the associate complexity once more. Contributions to the workshop are welcome on a wide range of topics related to design, implementation, and application of metaprogramming techniques, as well as empirical studies on and typing for such systems and languages. Abstract submission: Wed 27 Jul 2016 Paper submission: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/meta2016 ## Mobile! Mobile application use and development is experiencing enormous growth, and by 2016 more than 200 billion apps have been downloaded. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, with diverse capabilities including various input modes, wireless communication types, on-device memory and disk capacities, and sensors. Applications function on wide ranges of platforms, requiring scaling according to hardware. Many applications interact with third-party services, requiring application development with effective security and authorization processes for those dataflows. “Bring your own device” policies pose security challenges including employer and employee data privacy. Developing secure mobile applications requires new tools and practices such as improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications; polyglot applications; and testing techniques for multiple devices. This workshop aims to establish a community of researchers and practitioners, leading to further research in mobile development. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/mobile2016 ## NOOL: New Object-Oriented Languages NOOL-16 is a new unsponsored workshop to bring together users and implementors of new(ish) object oriented systems. Through presentations, and panel discussions, as well as demonstrations, and video and audiotapes, NOOL-16 will provide a forum for sharing experience and knowledge among experts and novices alike. We invite technical papers, case studies, and surveys in the following areas, related to theory of object oriented programming, new languages, implementation of languages, tools and environment, applications and related work. Abstract submission deadline: Thu 1 Sep 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/nool2016 ## PLATEAU: Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools Programming languages exist to enable programmers to develop software effectively. But how efficiently programmers can write software depends on the usability of the languages and tools that they develop with. The aim of this workshop is to discuss methods, metrics and techniques for evaluating the usability of languages and language tools. The supposed benefits of such languages and tools cover a large space, including making programs easier to read, write, and maintain; allowing programmers to write more flexible and powerful programs; and restricting programs to make them more safe and secure. PLATEAU gathers the intersection of researchers in the programming language, programming tool, and human-computer interaction communities to share their research and discuss the future of evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/plateau2016 ## Parsing@SLE Parsing@SLE 2016 is the fourth annual workshop on parsing programming languages. The intended participants are the authors of parser generation tools and parsers for programming languages and other software languages. For the purpose of this workshop “parsing” is a computation that takes a sequence of characters as input and produces a syntax tree or graph as output. This possibly includes tokenization using regular expressions, deriving trees using context-free grammars, and mapping to abstract syntax trees. The goal is to bring together today’s experts in the field of parsing, in order to explore open questions and possibly forge new collaborations. The topics may include algorithms, implementation and generation techniques, syntax and semantics of meta formalisms (BNF), etc. We expect to attract participants that have been or are developing theory, techniques and tools in the broad area of parsing. Abstract submission deadline: Fri 9 Sep 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/parsing2016 ## REBLS: Reactive and Event-based Languages & Systems Reactive programming and event-based programming are two closely related programming styles that are becoming ever more important with the advent of advanced HPC technology and the ever increasing requirement for our applications to run on the web or on collaborating mobile devices. A number of publications on middleware and language design — so-called reactive and event-based languages and systems (REBLS) — have already seen the light, but the field still raises several questions. For example, the interaction with mainstream language concepts is poorly understood, implementation technology is in its infancy and modularity mechanisms are almost totally lacking. Moreover, large applications are still to be developed and patterns and tools for developing reactive applications is an area that is vastly unexplored. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rebls2016 ## RUMPLE: ReUsable and Modular Programming Language Ecosystems The RUMPLE’16 workshop is a venue for discussing a wide range of topics related to modular approaches to programming language implementation, extensible virtual machine architectures, as well as reusable runtime components such as dynamic compilers, interpreters, or garbage collectors. One of the main goals of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Extended abstract submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/rumple2016 ## SA-MDE: Tutorial on MDD with Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster With the model-driven development (MDD) approach to software, rather than building each system from scratch, one specifies a metamodel covering a whole class of similar systems, provides a universal generator to transform metamodel instances into executable programs, and specifies each system by a higher-level model conforming to the metamodel. When the application domain concerns semantically rich datasets—with structured entities, interlinked data, and sophisticated integrity constraints—then the MDD tools should support this richness: in the metamodel, in individual system models, and in the generation process. In this tutorial, we present the Model Catalogue and Semantic Booster, tools respectively for curating and exploiting semantically rich data in a MDD workflow, which are under development as part of ALIGNED. Participants will learn what the tools can do, gain hands-on experience with using them, and be able to contribute challenges and suggestions for future development. Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/samde2016 ## SEPS: Software Engineering for Parallel Systems This workshop provides a stable forum for researchers and practitioners dealing with compelling challenges of the software development life cycle on modern parallel platforms. The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and re-engineering sequential legacy applications. We aim to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/seps2016 ## VMIL: Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages The VMIL workshop is a forum for research in virtual machines and intermediate languages. It is dedicated to identifying programming mechanisms and constructs that are currently realized as code transformations or implemented in libraries but should rather be supported at VM level. Candidates for such mechanisms and constructs include modularity mechanisms (aspects, context-dependent layers), concurrency (threads and locking, actors, capsules, processes, software transactional memory), transactions, development tools (profilers, runtime verification), etc. Topics of interest include the investigation of which such mechanisms are worthwhile candidates for integration with the run-time environment, how said mechanisms can be elegantly (and reusably) expressed at the intermediate language level (e.g., in bytecode), how their implementations can be optimized, and how virtual machine architectures might be shaped to facilitate such implementation efforts. Paper submission deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/vmil2016 ## WODA: Workshop on Dynamic Analysis The International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA) is the place where researchers interested in dynamic analysis and related topics can meet and discuss current research, issues, and trends in the field. WODA exists since 2003 and has been co-located with several different SE/PL conferences in the past, including ICSE, ISSTA, ASPLOS, and SPLASH. See https://sites.google.com/site/scwoda/ for the history of WODA. The 2016 edition of WODA will be a mix of invited talks by high-visibility researchers in the community and presentations of submitted workshop papers. Submission deadline: Fri 19 Aug 2016 Website: http://2016.splashcon.org/track/woda2016 # SPLASH Supporters SPLASH'16 is kindly supported by the following organizations: - ACM: http://www.acm.org/ - SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/ - LogicBlox (Gold): http://www.logicblox.com/ - Oracle (Silver): http://www.oracle.com/index.html - TU Delft (Silver): http://tudelft.nl/ - Huawei (Bronze): http://www.huawei.com/en/ - Facebook (Bronze): https://research.facebook.com/ - IBM Research (Bronze): http://www.research.ibm.com/ - Google (Bronze): https://www.google.com - Itemis (Bronze): https://www.itemis.com/en/ Want to support SPLASH'16? See our options here: http://2016.splashcon.org/attending/support-program.

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2016 Autumn School on Computational Logic
by German Vidal 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.) The 2016 Autumn School on Computational Logic will be held on October 16-17, 2016, in New York, affiliated to the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'16). Researchers and PhD students are encouraged to attend. Student scholarships are available (Deadline for application: July 20) Association for Logic Programming 2016 Autumn School on Computational Logic http://iclp16school.webs.upv.es/ October 16-17, New York, USA (Affiliated to ICLP'16) Researchers interested in research in computational logic are invited to attend the 2016 Autumn School. The 2-day school is suited for those who wish to learn advanced topics in computational logic and logic programming. It will consist of four half-day tutorials on the following topics: 1. Constraint Logic Programming Lecturer: Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic 2. Language processing through logic grammars and constraints Lecturer: Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada 3. Answer Set Programming: foundations and applications Lecturer: Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany 4. Verification and probabilistic programming Lecturer: C.R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY Stony Brook, USA A number of scholarships for students that cover local expenses for the duration of the school are available. To apply for these scholarships, students should also register to the Doctoral Consortium and send the following information to German Vidal at gvidal(a)dsic.upv.es by July 20th: - A short vita of the applicant. - A letter of recommendation from applicant's faculty advisor. - A one paragraph statement outlining how the school will benefit the applicant. The letter from the advisor should also certify that the applicant is a full-time student. Organizers: John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

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ANN: enchant-0.1.0.0
by KwangYul Seo 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hello, I'm happy to announce the first release of enchant, binding for the Enchant library. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/enchant-0.1.0.0 https://github.com/kseo/enchant What is Enchant? (from http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/) On the surface, Enchant appears to be a generic spell checking library. You > can request dictionaries from it, ask if a word is correctly spelled, get > corrections for a misspelled word, etc... > > Beneath the surface, Enchant is a whole lot more - and less - than that. > You'll see that Enchant isn't really a spell checking library at all. > > "What's that?" you ask. Well, Enchant doesn't try to do any of the work > itself. It's lazy, and requires backends to do most of its dirty work. > Looking closer, you'll see the Enchant is more-or-less a fancy wrapper > around the dlopen() system call. Enchant steps in to provide uniformity and > conformity on top of these libraries, and implement certain features that > may be lacking in any individual provider library. Everything should "just > work" for any and every definition of "just working." Thanks, Kwang Yul Seo

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ANN: qtah-0.1.0
by Bryan Gardiner 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hello all, I'm happy to announce the first Hackage-ready release of Qtah, Qt bindings for Haskell. I announced Qtah earlier this year, but a lot of work was needed to get it to the point where you can just "cabal install" it. That work has now been done, so I invite you to install qtah-qt5 or qtah-examples[1] (currently just the Qt notepad example), and check out: http://khumba.net/projects/qtah https://gitlab.com/khumba/qtah As a small demonstration, I have a good portion of Goatee ported (board rendering clearly missing): http://khumba.net/tmp/20160710-goatee-qt.png However, there is still lots of the Qt API left to cover. Thanks to ezyang for help working with some Cabal internals. Cheers, Bryan [1] cabal install --enable-executable-dynamic qtah-examples

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Position as lab docent Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam
by Clemens Grelck 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to the following job opening at the University of Amsterdam: <http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/16-267…>http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/16-267… This is a full-time teaching position in our MSc Software Engineering programme that is rated among the best ICT Master programmes in the Netherlands: http://www.uva.nl/en/education/master-s/master-s-programmes/item/software-e… We partially take a rather formal approach to software engineering and use Haskell in at least one of our courses. So the position might indeed be of interest to subscribers of this mailing list. After some local hickups the definitive and firm deadline for application is Monday July 11 any time Amsterdam time. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Clemens Grelck -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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3rd Call for Papers: OCL and Textual Modeling Tools and Textual Model Transformations (OCL 2016) - Less Than 10 Days Left To Submit Your Paper!
by Achim D. Brucker 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

(Apologies for duplicates) Less than 10 days until the deadline! CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling Co-located with ACM/IEEE 19th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2016) October 2, 2016, Saint-Malo, France http://oclworkshop.github.io Modeling started out with UML and its precursors as a graphical notation. Such visual representations enable direct intuitive capturing of reality, but some of their features are difficult to formalize and lack the level of precision required to create complete and unambiguous specifications. Limitations of the graphical notations encouraged the development of text-based modeling languages that either integrate with or replace graphical notations for modeling. Typical examples of such languages are OCL, textual MOF, Epsilon, and Alloy. Textual modeling languages have their roots in formal language paradigms like logic, programming and databases. The goal of this workshop is to create a forum where researchers and practitioners interested in building models using OCL or other kinds of textual languages can directly interact, report advances, share results, identify tools for language development, and discuss appropriate standards. In particular, the workshop will encourage discussions for achieving synergy from different modeling language concepts and modeling language use. The close interaction will enable researchers and practitioners to identify common interests and options for potential cooperation. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) =================================================== - Mappings between textual modeling languages and other languages or formalisms - Algorithms, evaluation strategies and optimizations in the context of textual modeling languages for -- validation, verification, and testing, -- model transformation and code generation, -- meta-modeling and DSLs, and -- query and constraint specifications - Alternative graphical/textual notations for textual modeling languages - Evolution, transformation and simplification of textual modeling expressions - Libraries, templates and patterns for textual modeling languages - Tools that support textual modeling languages (e.g., verification of OCL formulae, runtime monitoring of invariants) - Complexity results for textual modeling languages - Quality models and benchmarks for comparing and evaluating textual modeling tools and algorithms - Successful applications of textual modeling languages - Case studies on industrial applications of textual modeling languages - Experience reports -- usage of textual modeling languages and tools in complex domains, -- usability of textual modeling languages and tools for end-users - Empirical studies about the benefits and drawbacks of textual modeling languages - Innovative textual modeling tools - Comparison, evaluation and integration of modeling languages - Correlation between modeling languages and modeling tasks This year, we particularly encourage submissions describing tools that support - in a very broad sense - textual modeling languages (if you have implemented OCL.js to run OCL in a web browser, this is the right workshop to present your work) as well as textual model transformations. Venue ===== The workshop will be organized as a part of MODELS 2016 Conference in Saint-Malo, France. It continues the series of OCL workshops held at UML/MODELS conferences: York (2000), Toronto (2001), San Francisco (2003), Lisbon (2004), Montego Bay (2005), Genova (2006), Nashville (2007), Toulouse (2008), Denver (2009), Oslo (2010), Zurich (2011, at the TOOLs conference), 2012 in Innsbruck, 2013 in Miami, 2014 in Valencia, Spain, and 2015 in Ottawa, Canada. Similar to its predecessors, the workshop addresses both people from academia and industry. The aim is to provide a forum for addressing integration of OCL and other textual modeling languages, as well as tools for textual modeling, and for disseminating good practice and discussing the new requirements for textual modeling. Workshop Format =============== The workshop will include short (about 15 min) presentations, parallel sessions of working groups, and sum-up discussions. Submissions =========== Two types of papers will be considered: * short contributions (between 6 and 8 pages) describing new ideas, innovative tools or position papers. * full papers (between 12 and 16 pages) in LNCS format. Submissions should be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ocl16) The program committee will review the submissions (minimum 2 reviews per paper, usually 3 reviews) and select papers according to their relevance and interest for discussions that will take place at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published online in a post-conference edition of CEUR (http://www.ceur-ws.org) Important Dates =============== Submission of papers: July 17, 2016 Notification: August 14, 2016 Workshop date: October 2, 2016 Organizers ========== Achim D. Brucker, The University of Sheffield, UK Jordi Cabot, ICREA - Open University of Catalonia, Spain Adolfo Sánchez-Barbudo Herrera, University of York, UK Programme Committee (TBC) ========================= Thomas Baar, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Mira Balaban, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Tricia Balfe, Nomos Software, Ireland Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg Dan Chiorean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Robert Clariso, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Manuel Clavel, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Birgit Demuth, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Marina Egea, Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Istvan Rath, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen, Germany Massimo Tisi, Mines de Nantes, France Frederic Tuong, Univ. Paris-Sud - IRT SystemX - LRI, France Edward Willink, Willink Transformations Ltd., UK Burkhart Wolff, Univ. Paris-Sud - LRI, France Steffen Zschaler, King's College, UK -- Dr. Achim D. Brucker | Software Assurance & Security | University of Sheffield https://www.brucker.uk/ | https://logicalhacking.com/blog

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Call for participation: PPDP 2016
by German Vidal 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

============================================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PPDP 2016 18th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Edinburgh, UK, September 5-7, 2016 http://ppdp16.webs.upv.es/ co-located with LOPSTR 2016 26th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation Edinburgh, UK, September 6-8, 2016 http://www.cliplab.org/Conferences/LOPSTR16/ and SAS 2016 23rd Static Analysis Symposium Edinburgh, UK, September 8-10, 2016 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2016/ ============================================================ Registration is now open: http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppdp-lopstr-sas-2016/ **Early registration until August 15** INVITED TALKS * Elvira Albert: Testing of Concurrent and Imperative Software using CLP * Greg Morrisett (jointly with LOPSTR'16): TBD * Francesco Logozzo (jointly with LOPSTR'16): TBD ACCEPTED PAPERS - Davide Fuscà, Stefano Germano, Jessica Zangari, Marco Anastasio, Francesco Calimeri and Simona Perri. A Framework for Easing the Development of Applications Embedding Answer Set Programming - Dimitrios Kouzapas, Ornela Dardha, Roly Perera and Simon Gay. Typechecking Protocols with Mungo and StMungo - Joaquin Arias Herrero and Manuel Carro. Description and Evaluation of a Generic Design to Integrate CLP and Tabled Execution - Nataliia Stulova, Jose F. Morales and Manuel V. Hermenegildo. Reducing the Overhead of Runtime Checks via Static Analysis - Takahiro Nagao and Naoki Nishida. Proving Inductive Validity of Constrained Inequalities - Vincenzo Mastandrea, Elena Giachino, Ludovic Henrio and Cosimo Laneve. Actors may synchronize, safely! - Frederic Mesnard, Etienne Payet and Wim Vanhoof. Towards a Framework for Algorithm Recognition in Binary Code - Jan Midtgaard, Flemming Nielson and Hanne Riis Nielson. Iterated Process Analysis over Lattice-Valued Regular Expressions - Nick Benton, Martin Hofmann and Vivek Nigam. Effect-Dependent Transformations for Concurrent Programs - Manfred Schmidt-Schauss and David Sabel. Unification of Program Expressions with Recursive Bindings - Stefan Fehrenbach and James Cheney. Language-integrated provenance - Clara Bertolissi, Jean-Marc Talbot and Didier Villevalois. Rewrite-based Access Control Policy Analysis through Narrowing - Sylvia Grewe, Sebastian Erdweg, Michael Raulf and Mira Mezini. Exploration of Language Specifications by Compilation to First-Order Logic - Angelos Charalambidis, Panos Rondogiannis and Antonis Troumpoukis. Higher-Order Logic Programming: an Expressive Language for Representing Qualitative Preferences - Thomas Ehrhard and Giulio Guerrieri. The bang calculus: an untyped lambda-calculus generalizing Call-By-Name and Call-By-Value - Fan Yang, Santiago Escobar, Catherine Meadows, Jose Meseguer and Sonia Santiago. Strand Spaces with Choice via a Process Algebra Semantics - Yanhong A. Liu, Jon Brandvein, Scott Stoller and Bo Lin. Demand-Driven Incremental Object Queries Hope to see you in Edinburgh! ======================================================================

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