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SBLP 2018 last call for papers
by Carlos Camarao 15 Apr '18

15 Apr '18

SBLP 2018 last call for papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Universidade de São Paulo - ICMC/USP São Carlos, Brazil, September 20-21, 2018 Conference website http://www.sbc.org.br/cbsoft2018 Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 There are only 3 weeks left for the deadline of paper submission to SBLP 2018, the 22nd edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. The symposium is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and provides a forum for researchers, students and professionals to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation and practical use of programming languages. Since 2010, it is part of CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (http://cbsoft.org/cbsoft2018/) Submission Guidelines ________________________________________________________________________________ Papers can be written in Portuguese or English. Submission in English is strongly encouraged since the symposium proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the Easychair System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sblp2018 The following paper categories are welcome (page limits include figures, references and appendices): Full papers: up to 8 pages long in ACM 2-column conference format, available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Short papers: up to 3 pages in the same format, can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development or can report partial results of on-going dissertations or theses. List of Topics (related but not limited to the following) ________________________________________________________________________________ • Programming paradigms and styles, scripting and domain-specific languages and support for real-time, service-oriented, multi-threaded, parallel, and distributed programming • Program generation and transformation • Formal semantics and theoretical foundations: denotational, operational, algebraic and categorical • Program analysis and verification, type systems, static analysis and abstract interpretation • Programming language design and implementation, programming language environments, compilation and interpretation techniques Publication ________________________________________________________________________________ SBLP proceedings will be published in ACM's digital library. As in previous editions, after the conference authors of selected regular papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a journal's special issue. Since 2009, selected papers of each SBLP edition are being published in a special issue of Science of Computer Programming, by Elsevier. Important dates ________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract submission: April 29th 2018 Paper submission: May 6th 2018 Author notification: June 22nd 2018 Camera ready deadline: July 8th 2018 Program Committee ________________________________________________________________________________ Mariza Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Roberto Bigonha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Andre R. Du Bois Universidade Federal de Pelotas Christiano Braga Universidade Federal Fluminense Carlos Camarão Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (chair) Fernando Castor Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Renato Cerqueira IBM Research, Brazil João Fernandes Universidade de Coimbra João Ferreira Teesside University Lucília Figueiredo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Ismael Figueroa Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso Alex Garcia Instituto Militar de Engenharia Francisco Heron Universidade Federal do Ceará Roberto Ierusalimschy Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Yu David Liu State University of New York at Binghamton Hans-Wolfgang Loidl Heriot-Watt University Marcelo Maia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia André M. Maidl Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná Manuel A. Martins Universidade de Aveiro Fábio Mascarenhas Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Sérgio Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Victor Miraldo University of Utrecht Álvaro Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Anamaria M. Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Peter Mosses Swansea University Martin Musicante Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Alberto Pardo Universidad de la República Fernando Pereira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Gustavo Pinto Universidade Federal do Pará Louis-Noel Pouchet Ohio State University Zongyan Qiu Peking University Henrique Rêbelo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Leonardo Reis Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Rodrigo Ribeiro Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Noemi Rodriguez Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Francisco Sant'Anna Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro João Saraiva Universidade do Minho Martin Sulzmann Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft (chair) Leopoldo Teixeira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Simon Thompson University of Kent Cristiano Vasconcellos Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina Varmo Vene University of Tartu Invited Speaker ________________________________________________________________________________ Martin Sulzmann, Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Germany Contact ________________________________________________________________________________ All questions about submissions should be emailed to Carlos Camarão (camarao(a)dcc.ufmg.br)

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Tezos recrute! / Tezos is recruiting!
by careers 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Tezos est une blockchain et une plateforme de contrats intelligents écrite en OCaml. En outre, Tezos est dotée d'un mécanisme d'auto-gestion lui permettant d'évoluer de manière décentralisée. Le développement s'articule autour de plusieurs thèmes dont les systèmes distribués, les réseaux pairs à pairs, la théorie des langages de programmation, la cryptographie, et les méthodes formelles. Tezos compte 40 postes ouverts dans le monde dont environ 25 en France. Nous recherchons des profils variés, avec une préférence pour les détenteurs de doctorats. Possibilité de thèse CIFRE pour les étudiants en master. Est fortement préférée la maîtrise d'un langage fonctionnel tel que OCaml, Haskell, Clojure ou équivalent et des compétences dans l'un des domaines suivants: algorithmique, compilateurs, conception de langages de programmation, cryptographie, p2p, programmation web / UI en OCaml, SAT/SMT ou vérification formelle. Rémunération très attractive. Si vous êtes intéressé(e)s, envoyez votre CV à careers(a)tezos.com! ******************* Tezos is a self-governing blockchain and smart-contract platform written in OCaml. Tezos' self-governance allows it to evolve in a decentralised manner by enabling collective decision making. The development of the project is centred around different areas, such as distributed systems, peer to peer systems, theory of programming languages, cryptography and formal methods. We are currently filling 40 open positions world-wide, including 25 in France and are looking for a range of profiles, with a preference towards PhD holders. Possibility of PhD funding for Master students in France. Mastering of a functional language such as OCaml, Haskell or Closure is particularly desirable, as are proven skills in one or more of the following topics: algorithmics, compilers, design of programming languages, cryptography, p2p, web programming / UI in OCaml, SAT / SMT, or formal verification. Attractive compensation. If you are interested, please send your CV (resumé) to careers(a)tezos.com!

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Unplanned Hackage Downtime
by Gershom B 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

I made a terrible administrative snafu, and we need to take some time to restore Hackage. Luckily we have better mirroring in place now, so cabal-install should be able to fall back automatically to mirrors. If this does not work, you can use http://objects-us-west-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/ or http://hackage.fpcomplete.com/ manually. Best (and sincere apologies), Gershom

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[MobiSPC-2018] FINAL submission deadline: April 20. Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing. Gran Canaria, Spain (July 13-15, 2018)
by Wim Ectors 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing August 13-15, 2018 Gran Canaria, Spain http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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-2018 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-2018 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: February 10, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 Publication ------------ All MobiSPC 2018 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 following special issues: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), ( http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) MobiSPC 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/) . MobiSPC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. MobiSPC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chair Boris Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden Program Chair StŽphane Galland, UniversitŽ de Technologie de Belfort-MontbŽliard, France Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Flavien Balbo, Ecole Nationale SupŽrieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy No‘l de Palma, UniversitŽ de Grenoble, France Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Tracks Chairs Habib M. Ammari, Fordham University, USA Longbiao Chen, Xiamen University, China Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria Danny Hughes, K. U. Leuven, Belgium Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy Zahoor Khan, HCT, UAE Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK Marc Kšrner, TUB Berlin, Germany Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Kashif Akhtar Saleem, KSA Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia David S. L. Wei, Fordham University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/#programCommittees

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[FNC-2018] FINAL submission deadline: April 20. Conference on Future Networks and Communications. Gran Canaria, Spain (August 13-15, 2018)
by Wim Ectors 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications August 13-15, 2018 Gran Canaria, Spain http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: February 10, 2018 - Paper Submission Due: April 20, 2018 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2018 - Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2018 Publication ------------ All FNC 2018 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 following special issues: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), ( http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) FNC 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/) FNC 2018 is co-organized & co-hosted by the University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. FNC 2018 will be held in Gran Canaria, Spain. Gran Canaria originally meaning "Great [Island] of Dogs" is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, an African archipelago which is part of Spain, with a population of 847,830 (in 2015) that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Located in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 kilometres (93 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa and about 1,350 km (840 mi) from Europe. With an area of 1,560 km2 (602 sq. mi) and an altitude of 1,956 m (6,417 ft) at the Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria is the third largest island of the archipelago in both area and altitude. COMMITTEES: ----------- General Chair Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Program Chairs Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Local Chair Javier Sanchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Advisory Committee Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada 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 Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-18/#programCommittees

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Phd/PostDoc position on linear types and session types
by Peter Thiemann 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

The programming languages group at University of Freiburg, Germany, has an opening for a research assistant to work on a DFG-funded project to create a version of OCaml with linear types and session types to start on July 1, 2018. The project entails work on the theory and on an implementation with the weighting adjusted according to the candidate’s profile, which would ideally complement the current group members. The position can be filled with a PhD student or with a PostDoc and we welcome applications of either kind. I am looking for strong candidates with PL background, preferably with demonstrated experience in functional programming and types. Background with OCaml and/or proof assistants (Coq, Agda) is an additional bonus. JOB DETAILS AND APPLICATION The salary is according to the TV-L E13 scale of German public service. The university of Freiburg aims at increasing the number of female employees and thus especially welcomes applications of female candidates. Applications of disabled candidates will be given priority, depending on their suitability. Applications in PDF format or informal enquiries by email are welcome. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The starting date is negotiable. Check our research webpage http://proglang.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/research/ or the DBLP publication profile http://dblp.dagstuhl.de/pers/hd/t/Thiemann:Peter for more information. Best regards -Peter Thiemann

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PPDP 2018: Second Call for Papers
by David Sabel 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please circulate.) ====================================================================== PPDP 2018: Second Call for Papers ====================================================================== 20th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 3-5 September 2018 http://ppdp-lopstr-18.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/ppdp18.html (co-located with LOPSTR 2018 and WFLP 2018) http://ppdp-lopstr-18.cs.uni-frankfurt.de ====================================================================== Invited Talks (NEW!) ==================== - Philippa Gardner, Imperial College: Testing and Verification for JavaScript (joint with LOPSTR) - Jorge Navas, SRI International: Constrained Horn Clauses for Verification (joint with LOPSTR) - Chung-Chieh Shan, University of Indiana: Calculating Distributions Scope ===== The PPDP 2018 symposium brings together researchers from the declarative programming communities, including those working in the functional, logic, answer-set, and constraint handling programming paradigms. The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for analyzing, performing, specifying, and reasoning about computations, including mechanisms for concurrency, security, static analysis, and verification. Submissions are invited on all topics related to declarative programming, from principles to practice, from foundations to applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Language Design: domain-specific languages; interoperability; concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; probabilistic languages; reactive languages; database languages; knowledge representation languages; languages with objects; language extensions for tabulation; metaprogramming. - Implementations: abstract machines; interpreters; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; memory management. - Foundations: types; logical frameworks; monads and effects; semantics. - Analysis and Transformation: partial evaluation; abstract interpretation; control flow; data flow; information flow; termination analysis; resource analysis; type inference and type checking; verification; validation; debugging; testing. - Tools and Applications: programming and proof environments; verification tools; case studies in proof assistants or interactive theorem provers; certification; novel applications of declarative programming inside and outside of CS; declarative programming pearls; practical experience reports and industrial application; education. The PC chair will be happy to advise on the appropriateness of a topic. PPDP will be co-located with the 28th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2018). Submission Categories ===================== Submissions can be made in three categories: regular Research Papers, System Descriptions, and Experience Reports. Submissions of Research Papers must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 12 pages ACM style 2-column (including figures, but excluding bibliography). Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Research papers will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, clarity, and readability. Submission of System Descriptions must describe a working system whose description has not been published or submitted elsewhere. They must not exceed 10 pages and should contain a link to a working system. System Descriptions must be marked as such at the time of submission and will be judged on originality, significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Submissions of Experience Reports are meant to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence where declarative programming such as functional, logic, answer-set, constraint programming, etc., is used in practice. They must not exceed 5 pages **including references**. Experience Reports must be marked as such at the time of submission and need not report original research results. They will be judged on significance, usefulness, clarity, and readability. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: insights gained from real-world projects using declarative programming comparison of declarative programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum curricular issues encountered when using declarative programming in education real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a declarative language or for declarative programming in general novel use of declarative programming in the classroom programming pearl that illustrates a nifty new data structure or programming technique. Supplementary material may be provided in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study any material beyond the respective page limit. Format of a submission ====================== For each paper category, you must use the most recent version of the "Current ACM Master Template" which is available at <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. The most recent version at the time of writing is 1.48. You must use the LaTeX sigconf proceedings template as the conference organizers are unable to process final submissions in other formats. In case of problems with the templates, contact [ACM's TeX support team at Aptara](mailto:acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com). Authors should note [ACM's statement on author's rights](http://authors.acm.org/) which apply to final papers. Submitted papers should meet the requirements of [ACM's plagiarism policy](http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy). Requirements for publication ============================ At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present the work at the conference. The pc chair may retract a paper that is not presented. The pc chair may also retract a paper if complaints about the paper's correctness are raised which cannot be resolved by the final paper deadline. Important dates =============== - 23.04.2018 paper submission - 14.06.2018 rebuttal period (48 hours) - 25.06.2018 notification - 16.07.2018 final papers - 03.09.2018 conference starts

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9 PhD positions at Chalmers for web security and secure programing of IoT devices
by Alejandro Russo 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Dear all, We are starting two big projects on security at Chalmers. Both of them apply programming languages technology to solve security problems. One of them is based on Haskell. Details below. Best, /Alejandro ** Apologies for multiple copies ** The Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chalmers University of Technology is hiring: 4 PhD students in web application security 5 PhD students in secure programming of IoT devices * Important dates: April 27- Deadline for first round of selection (we encourage all candidates to apply early, especially those who need visa for visiting Sweden) May 21 - Deadline for second round of selection June 1, 4 or 5 - Tentative dates for interviews * Expected starting date: preferably around September 2018. For details, including employment conditions and how to apply, see: <http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Page…> <http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Page…> 4 PhD students in web application security ------------------------------------------ The PhD students will join an ambitios framework project: WebSec: Securing Web-driven Systems, conducted jointly with Uppsala University. WebSec sets out to develop a principled security platform for the web. WebSec will break away from temporary patches and short-term mitigations and tackle the challenge of web security at scale. WebSec will result in: -Comprehensive framework for detection, mitigation, and prevention of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, encompassing (i) Crawling 2.0 and advanced string constraint solving for XSS detection, (ii) flexible Content Security Policy (CSP) for XSS mitigation, and (iii) a server-side template framework separating data from code for XSS prevention. -JavaScript program analysis platform for monitoring and symbolically executing JavaScript, the web's main programming language. -Principled framework for system-wide security, enabling confinement, tainting, and information-flow control mechanisms across web component boundaries, building on our work on JSFlow http://www.jsflow.net/ -Mechanisms for confinement and compartmentalization on the web, including extensions to the recently proposed COWL W3C standard (https://www.w3.org/TR/COWL/) and the multi-app web framework Hails (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hails) -Framework for privacy on the web, addressing user tracking while enabling privacy-preserving web analytics. The PhD students will join a high-profile group of researchers on software security. Software is often the root cause of vulnerabilities in modern computing systems. By focusing on securing the software, we target principled security mechanisms that provide robust protection against large classes of attacks. We have a track record of successful projects with top international partners in academia and industry, including a European project WebSand on web application sandboxing: https://www.websand.eu/ Promotional video of Chalmers research on securing web applications: https://vimeo.com/82206652 5 PhD students in secure programming of IoT devices --------------------------------------------------- The PhD positions are within the recently granted project Octopi: Secure Programming for the Internet of Things (IoT). Octopi is dedicated to contribute and further research on (i) utilizing high-level languages to program constraint devices, (ii) finding suitable programming models for IoT, and (iii) developing security mechanisms to obtain system-wide guarantees. The programming language of the project is Haskell (https://www.haskell.org/) Applicants work is expected to range from establishing new theoretical foundations to building mature prototypes. Octopi presents many research tracks dedicated to tackle ambitious challenges: - Programming model This track focuses on developing programming models which capture the common coding patterns (and architecture) of IoT applications. - Compilation and runtime Programs written in high-level languages often run in tandem with fat runtime responsible to provide valuable services (e.g., safe memory management). Having such runtime in constraint IoT devices is simply not possible. This task explores mechanisms to predict resource consumption behavior of programs so that certain runtime services are not needed, thus reducing their size. - Locality of data In data-driven IoT systems, users must be able to express and control easily is the choice of whether to migrate data to functions or functions to data. This task focus on finding ways to provide such control without giving up the benefits of programming in a high-level language. - Hardware support This task is aimed at the end points of IoT system. It plans on creating a processor aimed specifically at executing functional languages directly and efficiently. This entails both creating an efficient graph reduction engine as well as built-in support for garbage collection. - Penetration testing High-level languages prevent developers from introducing a wide class of security-related bugs that plague low-level ones. Nevertheless, programs written in a high-level language interacts, via bindings, with the underlying OS. The binding code is responsible to bridge the semantic gap across both languages, which constitutes a door for security bugs. This task plans to provide a smart fuzzing tool to test such binding code for vulnerabilities. PhD students will join high-profile groups of researchers on security and functional programming with a rich network of collaborators and visibility across several research communities. Octopi's faculty members have a strong tradition in successfully applying the functional programming Haskell to different domains: protection of privacy of data (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lio) testing (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck) SAT-solving and theorem proving (https://github.com/nick8325/equinox) and digital signal processing (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/feldspar-language)

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EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School, last call
by David Baelde 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

EPIT 2018 Software Verification Spring School Last call for participation : ** Pre-registration closes on April 13th. ** Please pre-register now (it takes 1 mn), ** validate and pay later. ** Full program announced. ===================================================================== When: May 7-11, 2018 Where: Centre Paul-Langevin in Aussois, France Web: https://projects.lsv.fr/epit18/ ===================================================================== EPIT (École de Printemps en Informatique Théorique) is a long series of Spring schools in theoretical computer science, initiated by Maurice Nivat in 1973. Since then, it has covered various fields of computer science, and has been a key event where young researchers meet. The theme of the 2018 school is software verification. The need for software verification in our information society has been recognized as early as in the ’70s and it is an ever-more-important concern today. Over the past decades, it has driven exciting research in various fields of theoretical computer science such as logic, automata, type systems, algorithms and complexity. Recently, verification techniques have seen rapid development and industrial adoptions, notably following the SMT revolution. The school will cover several fundamental aspects of software verification through four lectures (6h each): – SMT solvers, by Pascal Fontaine (LORIA) – Program verification with F*, by Cătălin Hriţcu (Inria Paris) – Bounded model-checking, by Gennaro Parlato (Uni. of Southampton) – Concurrent program logics, by Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI Kaiserslautern) and four research talks (1h each): – SMT, String and Security, by Philipp Rümmer (Uppsala University) – Verification of invariants for convergent replicated data types, by Gustavo Petri (Université Paris Diderot) – Traces, interpolants, and automata : Ultimate Automizer's approach to software verification, by Matthias Heizmann (University of Freiburg) – F* and security, by Antoine Delignat-Lavaud (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Please find more information, e.g. regarding the venue and registration, on our website: <https://projects.lsv.fr/epit18/>. Pre-register immediately, and spread the word! — The organizers, David Baelde (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay & Inria Paris) Constantin Enea (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot)

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TFPIE 2018: First Call for Papers
by Heather Miller 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

====================================================================== TFPIE 2018: First Call for Papers ====================================================================== Trends in Functional Programming in Education Gothenburg, Sweden, 14 June 2018 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/heather/tfpie2018/ (co-located with TFP 2018) http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~myreen/tfp2018/ ====================================================================== The goal of TFPIE is to gather researchers, teachers and professionals that use, or are interested in the use of, functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas and work-in-progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. The program chair of TFPIE 2018 will screen submissions to ensure that all presentations are within scope and are of interest to participants. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit revised versions of their articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Scope ===== TFPIE 2018 welcomes submissions describing techniques used in the classroom, tools used in and/or developed for the classroom and any creative use of functional programming (FP) to aid education in or outside Computer Science. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy - The pedagogy of teaching FP - FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. - Best Lectures – more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What’s your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. Submissions =========== Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 16 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via EasyChair at the link below. After the workshop, presenters will be invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles for publication in the journal Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2018 Important dates =============== - Submission deadline: May 15th, Anywhere on Earth. - Notification: May 21st - Workshop: June 14th - Submission for formal review: August 17th - Notification of full article: October 5th - Camera ready: November 2nd -- Heather Miller EPFL, Scala Center Executive Director, Research Scientist http://people.epfl.ch/heather.miller +41 21 693 64 83 +41 78 625 20 23

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