January 2017 - Haskell

Haskell Symposium 2017, call for submissions
by Iavor Diatchki 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

================================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2017 Oxford, United Kingdom, 7--8 September 2017 https://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2017/ ================================================================================ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2017 will be co-located with the 2017 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), in Oxford, United Kingdom. The Haskell Symposium aims to present original research on Haskell, discuss practical experience and future development of the language, and to promote other forms of denotative programming. Topics of interest include: * Language design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management, as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * Tools, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts. * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work, and to other languages where appropriate. Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementors, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. More advice is available via the Haskell wiki. System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Submission Details ================== Early and Regular Track ----------------------- The Haskell Symposium uses a two-track submission process so that some papers can gain early feedback. Strong papers submitted to the early track are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit to the regular track. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. Formatting ---------- Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Authors should use the `acmart` format, with the `sigplan` sub-format for ACM proceedings. For details, see: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format Functional pearls, experience reports, and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such. Page Limits ----------- The length of submissions should not exceed the following limits: Regular paper: 12 pages Functional pearl: 12 pages Experience report: 6 pages Demo proposal: 2 pages There is no requirement that all pages are used. For example, a functional pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. Deadlines --------- Early track: Submission deadline: 13 March 2017, Monday Notification: 01 May 2017, Monday Regular track and demos: Submission deadline: 22 May 2017, Monday Notification: 26 June 2017, Monday Deadlines are valid anywhere on Earth. Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementors, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. More advice is available via the Haskell wiki. System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. Submission Details ================== Early and Regular Track ----------------------- The Haskell Symposium uses a two-track submission process so that some papers can gain early feedback. Strong papers submitted to the early track are accepted outright, and the others will be given their reviews and invited to resubmit to the regular track. Papers accepted via the early and regular tracks are considered of equal value and will not be distinguished in the proceedings. Although all papers may be submitted to the early track, authors of functional pearls and experience reports are particularly encouraged to use this mechanism. The success of these papers depends heavily on the way they are presented, and submitting early will give the program committee a chance to provide feedback and help draw out the key ideas. Program Committee ================= Adam Gundry Well-Typed Ekaterina Komendantskaya University of Dundee Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham Iavor Diatchki (chair) Galois J. Garrett Morris University of Edinburgh Joachim Breitner University of Pennsylvania Juriaan Hage Utrecht University Lennart Augustsson Facebook Martin Erwig Oregon State University Rebekah Leslie Intel Takayuki Muranushi University of Kyoto Thomas Hallgren Chalmers University Ulf Norrel Chalmers University If you have questions, please contact the chair at: diatchki(a)galois.com ================================================================================

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Multiple Research Positions, ERC MATHADOR Project, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
by Germán Delbianco 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hello, This is not exactly a *Haskell* job/position offer, but I still think it could be of interest to several members of the community. Cheers, Germán PS: Our sincere apologies for multiple posting(s). ------------------------ Applications are invited for multiple positions (PhD/Postdoc/Scientific Programmer) at the IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain. The positions are available from April 2017. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Aleks Nanevski (http://software.imdea.org/~aleks/) The topic of the research, to be determined based on the common interests of the candidate and the supervisor, will be in the areas of software verification, logics for concurrent programs, and language-based security. The research will be funded by Aleks' ERC Consolidator award "MATHADOR: Type and Proof Structures for Concurrent Software Verification", which aims to investigate the type-theoretic foundations for verification of concurrent software. PhD candidates should have an excellent MSc or BSc degree in computer science or a related subject, with an interest in the above areas, and a strong commitment to research. An MSc or a BSc thesis is a plus. PhD positions are for four years. Postdoc candidates should have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD in computer science. The ideal candidate will have expertise in program semantics and program logics, concurrent or distributed computing, type theory or interactive theorem proving, as they apply to the above areas. Postdoc positions are initially for one year, with possible extension up to three years. Scientific programmer candidates should hold a BSc or MSc degree in computer science, with experience in and passion for functional programming, and strong interest and willingness to learn interactive theorem proving (eg., Coq). The scientific programmer position is initially for one year, with possible extension up to five years. All positions require good teamwork and communication skills, including excellent spoken and written English. Salaries at IMDEA Software Institute are internationally competitive. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Aleks directly (aleks dot nanevski at imdea dot org). Formal applications should be submitted online at https://careers.imdea.org/software/ and mention this announcement in the submitted materials. (For the scientific programmer position, please select the "Research Engineer" option). Review of applications will begin immediately.

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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) have evolved into an active area of research and development. This is due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics, including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. MobiSPC-2017 solicits papers that focus on the theory, systems, practices and challenges of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people pervasively use their computers, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technologies enabling those applications. MobiSPC-2017 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and mobile systems. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: March 8, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/) MobiSPC 2017 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Conference Tracks --------------- - Component-based IoT - Enabling Technologies and Emerging Topics - Internet of Things (IoT) - Mobile Cloud Computing - Mobile Data Management - Mobile Social Networking - Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Ubiquitous Climate Change Management - Smart Communities and Ubiquitous Systems - Mobile Systems and Applications Committees: ----------- General Chairs Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Noël de Palma, Université de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Norfolk State University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Nafaa Jabeur, German University of Technology, Oman Jason J. Jung, Chung-Ang University, Korea Marc Körner, TUB Berlin, Germany Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Nawaz Mohamudally, University of Technology, Mauritius Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA M. Elena Renda, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica - CNR, Italy Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Leye Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Mikhail Gofman, California State University of Fullerton, USA Pedro E. Lopez-de-Teruel, Spain Mario Henrique Cruz Torres, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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[FNC-Conf] FNC 2017 CFPs: The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC) July 24-26, 2017 Leuven, Belgium http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success. Important Dates ---------------- - Workshop Proposal Due: January 20, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: March 8, 2017 - Acceptance Notification: April 28, 2017 - Final Manuscript Due: May 28, 2017 Publication ------------ All FNC 2017 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/) All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) FNC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-17/) FNC 2017 will be gel in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chairs Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Advisory Committee Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chairs Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Bjšrn A. Johnsson, Lund University, Sweden Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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SPIN 2017 - final call for papers, deadline Feb 10
by Klaus Havelund 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

SPIN 2017 24th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software Santa Barbara, CA, USA, July 13-14, 2017 http://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2017 Collocated with ISSTA ------------------------------ The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, empirical evaluation, and education. History: The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the Spin model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia. SPIN 2017 will be organized as an ACM SIGSOFT event, collocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017): http://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2017. The RERS Verification Challenge In addition there will be a one-day Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems verification challenge Workshop (RERS 2017): http://www.rers-challenge.org/2017. ------------------------------ SPIN 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software - Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts - Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract - Model checking - Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT - Verifying compilers - Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques - Static analysis and abstract interpretation - Combination of verification techniques - Modular and compositional verification techniques - Verification of timed and probabilistic systems - Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques - Combination of static and dynamic analyses - Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis - Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results - Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools - Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools - Formal methods education and training - Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium ------------------------------ Keynote Speakers ------------------------------ - *Domagoj Babic*, Google, Inc. - *Byron Cook*, Amazon Web Services - *Gerard Holzmann*, Nimble Research ------------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ The contributions to SPIN 2017 will be published as ACM Proceedings, and should be submitted in the ACM Conference Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions. We are soliciting two categories of papers: - *Full Research Papers* describing fully developed work and complete results (10 pages); - *Short Papers* presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods education (4 pages). Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2017. *Best Paper* awards will be given and announced at the conference. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the *International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer* (STTT). ------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------ - Paper Submission: February 10, 2017 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth) - Author Notification: April 15, 2017 - Camera-Ready Paper: May 20, 2017 - Symposium: July 13-14, 2017 ------------------------------ Organization ------------------------------ - Hakan Erdogmus, *Program Co-Chair*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Klaus Havelund, *Program Co-Chair*, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Corina Pasareanu, *Awards Chair*, NASA Ames Research Center, USA - Yliès Falcone, *Publicity Chair*, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, France ------------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------------ - Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany - Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA - Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany - Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands - Zmago Brezocnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia - Sagar Chaki, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA - Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Lucas Cordeiro, University of Oxford, UK - Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA - Susanne Graf, VERIMAG Laboratory, France - Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, USA - Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Rajeev Joshi, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA - Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark - Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany - Alice Miller, University of Glasgow, Scotland - Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA - Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel - Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, USA - Theo Ruys, RUwise, Netherlands - Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA - Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, United States - Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore - Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA - Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley, USA - Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA - Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

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a postdoc position in Imperial College London
by Dominic Orchard 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Recently there are several works which link session types and functional programming. Imperial College London has an open postdoc position on session types and programming languages, including Haskell and related theoretical studies. ------------------------- Department of Computing, Imperial College London Research Associate (Post-doc, Full Time) £36,070 to £43,350 per annum Fixed-term: the starting date: as soon as possible the ending date: 19 May 2020 Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London A post is funded by EPSRC, the UK science funding agency and the titles of the projects are "From Data Types to Session Types: A Basis for Concurrency and Distribution" and "Application Customisation: Enhancing Design Quality and Developer Productivity". The goal is to further develop the theory and practice of session types for structuring concurrent and distributed software. The project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to case studies; or developing the links between session types and other areas of theoretical computer science. The research programme includes collaboration with several companies and organisations: Amazon, Cognizant, Red Hat, ThoughtWorks, as well as November Group LLC and Weaveworks. The focus of Imperial College London Group is theories and applications of (Multiparty) Session Types (JACM,POPL'08), which include: -- Erlang (CC'17), Go (CC'16,POPL'17), Haskell (POPL'16), Scala (ECOOP'16), Java (FASE'16,FASE'17), MPI (OOPSLA'15,CC'15), C (FPL'16) and Python (FOAC,LMCS,FMSD); or -- automata/model checking (POPL'15,CONCUR'15,TACAS'16,FoSSaCs'17), linear logic (CONCUR'15) and bisimulations (CONCUR'15,ESOP'16,LMCS) For more details, see http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk Candidates for the post-doc position will need to have expertise in either: 1. programming language design and implementation; or 2. formal semantics, type theory and concurrency theory Different positions will be suitable for different points on the theory/practice spectrum. We will be especially interested in candidates with a combination of theoretical and practical skills. The contact person is Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London (N.Yoshida(a)imperial.ac.uk <mailto:N.Yoshida@imperial.ac.uk>) Details: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWU532/research-associate <http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWU532/research-associate>

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Call for Papers (TASE 2017)
by Huibiao Zhu 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

**************************************************************************** * 11th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Call for Papers TASE 2017 13 - 15 September 2017, Nice, France, http://tase2017.unice.fr * Important dates ********************************************************** Abstract research paper 12 March 2017 Submission research paper 19 March 2017 Author notification 21 May 2017 Camera ready copy 05 June 2017 ********************************************************** * Objectives and scope Now on its 11th edition, TASE is an international symposium that aims to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry with interests in the theoretical aspects of software engineering. We invite submissions of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including, but not limited to, the following. We invite submissions of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including, but not limited to, the following: + Abstract interpretation + Algebraic and co-algebraic specifications + Aspect oriented software + Component-based systems + Cyber-physical systems + Deductive verification + Distributed and concurrent systems + Embedded and real-time systems + Feature-oriented software + Formal verification and program semantics + Integration of formal methods + Language design + Model checking and theorem proving + Object-oriented systems + Program logics and calculi + Quantum computation + Run-time verification and monitoring + Service-oriented and cloud computing + Software architecture + Software testing and quality assurance + Software security and reliability + Static analysis of programs + Type systems and behavioural typing + Tools exploiting theoretical results * Venue and event TASE 2017 will be held on the the SophiaTech Campus in Sophia Antipolis, France, on 13 -15 September 2017. * Keynote speakers TBA * PC chairs Frederic Mallet (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR) Min Zhang (East China Normal University, CN) * Organization chair Eric Madelaine (INRIA, FR) * Publication chair Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL) * Keynote speakers TBA * Programme committee (to be confirmed) Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Bernhard Aichernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Toshiaki Aoki (JAIST, Japan) Farhad Arbab (CWI, Netherlands) Cyrille Artho (AIST, Japan) Luis Soares Barbosa (University of Minho, Portugal) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University, China) Rocco de Nicola (IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Yuxi Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Marieke Huisman (University of Tweente, Netherlands) Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Einar Broch Johnsen (Oslo University, Norway) Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Zhiming Liu (Birmingham City University, UK) Antonia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Eric Madelaine (INRIA, France) Kazuhiro Ogata (JAIST, Japan) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, France) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Jean Pierre Talpin (INRIA, France) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw University, Poland) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan) Yi Wang (Uppsala University, Sweden) Eric Wong (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Lijun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) ¡ * Steering Committee: Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, JP) Jifeng He (East China Normal University, CN) Michael Hinchey (Lero, IE) Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, CN) * Submission guidelines We solicit contributions that describe original and unpublished research, and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere. They are limited to 8 pages, must be written in English, and the format should adhere to the A4 double column IEEE style. Please prepare your manuscripts with respect to the IEEE guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file via the Easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2017. The proceedings of the TASE 2017 symposium will include all accepted papers and will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. As usual, we are now contacting the journal of Science of Computer Programming, and hopefully selected papers will be invited after the symposium to submit an extended version to a journal special issue Science of Computer Programming. **************************************************************************** **

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ETAPS 2017 call for participation
by Tarmo Uustalu 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2017 20th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software ETAPS 2017 Uppsala, Sweden, 22-29 April 2017 http://www.etaps.org/2017 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2017 is the twentieth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (24-28 April) -- * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming (PC chair Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK) * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (PC chairs Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands, and Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada) * FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (PC chairs Javier Esparza, Technische Universität München, Germany, Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK) * POST: Principles of Security and Trust (PC chairs Matteo Maffei, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, Mark D. Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK) * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (PC chairs Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France, and Tiziana Margaria, LERO, Ireland) TACAS '17 hosts the 6th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP). -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Unifying speakers: Michael Ernst (University of Washington, USA) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Joel Ouaknine (University of Oxford, UK) * TACAS invited speaker: Dino Distefano (Facebook and Queen Mary University of London, UK) -- UNIFYING PUBLIC LECTURE Serge Abiteboul (DI, INRIA Paris & ENS Cachan, France) -- INVITED TUTORIALS Véronique Cortier (LORIA, CRNS, France) Kenneth McMillan (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- See the accepted paper lists at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 April, 29 April) -- 17 satellite workshops and other events will take place before or after ETAPS 2017. Check their calls for papers and consider contributing! DICE-FOPARA, GaLoP, GaM, SynCop-PV, VerifyThis (22-23 April) FESCA, SNR (22 April) HotSpot, MBT, QAPL, SannellaFest (23 April) BX, CREST, LiVe, MARS, PLACES, VPT (29 April) -- REGISTRATION -- Early registration is until Sunday, 12 March 2017 (23:59 GMT+1). http://www.etaps.org/2017/registration -- ACCOMMODATION -- The organizers have negotiated special rates from several hotels in Uppsala. To benefit from those, follow the instructions on the conference website. The offers expire on different dates. -- HOST CITY -- Uppsala city holds a rich history, having for long periods been the political, religious and academic centre of Sweden. Uppsala University is over 500 years old and ranked among the top 100 in the World and has hosted many great scientists over the years, for instance Carl von Linné, Anders Celsius and Anders Jonas Ångström. The proximity to the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, provides additional benefits as a potential site for arranging both pre- and post congress tours, as well as for excursions or tourism. -- HOST INSTITUTION -- ETAPS 2017 is hosted by the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University. -- ORGANIZERS Parosh Abdulla (General chair), Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Andreina Francisco, Kaj Lampka, Philipp Rümmer, Konstantinos Sagonas, Björn Victor, Wang Yi, Tjark Weber, Yunyun Zhu

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Announce: Haskell Platform 8.0.2
by Gershom B 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.0.2 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This includes GHC 8.0.2, cabal-install 1.24.0.2, and stack 1.3.2, all with many bugfixes and improvements since the last platform release. This platform release we've cleaned up the webpage a bit, and renamed the "minimal" distribution to the "core" distribution to highlight that it is the recommended approach (and simplified the accompanying text). A number of improvements have been made to the windows installer -- notably the /S option for silent install is now in fully working order, and we have the flags /STACK and /D (for stack and platform-ghc install paths). The installer expects no quoting of paths, even with spaces within the paths, like so: HaskellPlatform-8.0.2-full-x86_64-setup.exe /S /STACK=c:\My install path for stack\local\bin /D=c:\program files\Haskell\Platform\8.0.2 There is also an updated version of msys2 included, which includes pacman, et al. to ease the installation of libraries with more complex foreign dependencies. Changes to Contents: * As a result of transitive dependencies of platform packages, the integer-logarithms and call-stack packages have been added to the full platform. A full list of contents is available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC team for all their hard work. A list of new GHC changes is available at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/ghc-8.0.2-released A list of cabal changes is available at: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-1.24.0.2/changelog The new cabal documentation page is at: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ A list of stack changes is at: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/ChangeLog/ Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom (Note -- one feature we have not implemented yet for the platform but would like to is a generic linux installer that allows one to set a custom location and does not require root. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help with this, please get in touch!)

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Extended Deadline CFP- DCOSS 2017 (Ottawa, Canada)
by Robson De Grande 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

================================================== IMPORTANT: Extended Deadline: Paper Submission (Extended): January 23rd, 2017 =================================================== =================================================== Call-For-Papers: 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2017) Ottawa, Canada, June 5 - 7, 2017 http://www.dcoss.org/ ==================================================== DCOSS 2017 is the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems to be hosted in Ottawa, Canada in June 5-7, 2017. Due to their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The focus of DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in large scale networked sensor systems, including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing. DCOSS puts together a highly selective program where it primes for quality and innovation on works. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Social networks and applications Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability Computation and programming models Energy models, minimization, awareness Distributed collaborative information processing Detection and tracking Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability Abstractions for modular design Fault tolerance and security Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration Dynamic resource management Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation Design automation and application synthesis techniques Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation Case studies: lessons from real world deployments Network coding and compression Paper Submission and Publication: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Please submit your paper through EDAS link (https://edas.info/N23046) More detailed instructions about paper submissions can be fount at the link below. - http://www.dcoss.org/ IMPORTANT: Extended Deadline: Paper Submission (Extended): January 23rd, 2017 Organizing Committee: GENERAL CHAIR Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Soumaya Charkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

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