May 2020 - Haskell - Haskell.org

[HIW'20] Second Call for Talks
by Ben Gamari 14 May '20

14 May '20

Hello everyone, Haskell Implementors Workshop is calling for talk proposals. Co-located with ICFP, HiW is an ideal place to describe a Haskell library, a Haskell extension, compiler, works-in-progress, demo a new Haskell-related tool, or even propose future lines of Haskell development. The deadline for submissions is July 2nd 2020. Call for Talks ============== The 12th Haskell Implementors’ Workshop is to be held alongside ICFP 2020 this year. It is a forum for people involved in the design and development of Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting infrastructure, to share their work and discuss future directions and collaborations with others. Talks and/or demos are proposed by submitting an abstract, and selected by a small program committee. There will be no published proceedings. The workshop will be informal and interactive, with open spaces in the timetable and room for ad-hoc discussion, demos and lightning talks. Scope and Target Audience ------------------------- It is important to distinguish the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop from the Haskell Symposium which is also co-located with ICFP 2020. The Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In contrast, the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop will have no proceedings – although we will aim to make talk videos, slides and presented data available with the consent of the speakers. The Implementors’ Workshop is an ideal place to describe a Haskell extension, describe works-in-progress, demo a new Haskell-related tool, or even propose future lines of Haskell development. Members of the wider Haskell community encouraged to attend the workshop – we need your feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. Students working with Haskell are specially encouraged to share their work. The scope covers any of the following topics. There may be some topics that people feel we’ve missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if it doesn’t fit exactly into one of these buckets: - Compilation techniques - Language features and extensions - Type system implementation - Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation - Performance, optimization and benchmarking - Virtual machines and run-time systems - Libraries and tools for development or deployment Talks ----- We invite proposals from potential speakers for talks and demonstrations. We are aiming for 20-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. Please submit a talk title and abstract of no more than 300 words. Submissions can be made via HotCRP at https://icfp-hiw20.hotcrp.com/ until July 2nd (anywhere on earth). We will also have lightning talks session. These have been very well received in recent years, and we aim to increase the time available to them. Lightning talks be ~7mins and are scheduled on the day of the workshop. Suggested topics for lightning talks are to present a single idea, a work-in-progress project, a problem to intrigue and perplex Haskell implementors, or simply to ask for feedback and collaborators. Logistics --------- Due to the on-going COVID-19 situation, ICFP (and, consequently, HIW) will be held remotely this year. However, the organizers are still working hard to provide for a great workshop experience. While we are sad that this year will lack the robust hallway track that is often the highlight of HIW, we believe that this remote workshop presents a unique opportunity to include more of the Haskell community in our discussion and explore new modes of communicating with our colleagues. We hope that you will join us in making this HIW as vibrant as any other. Program Committee ----------------- - Andrey Mokhov (Newcastle University) - Ben Gamari (Well-Typed LLP) - Christian Baaij (QBayLogic) - George Karachalias (Tweag I/O) - Klara Marntirosian (KU Leuven) - Matthew Pickering (Univeristy of Bristol) - Ryan G.L. Scott (Indiana University Bloomington) Best wishes, Ben

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PPDP 2020 deadline extension
by Andreas Abel 12 May '20

12 May '20

UPDATE: extended deadlines! Abstract deadline: Mon 18 May 2020 AoE Paper deadline: Fri 22 May 2020 AoE Submissions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2020 PPDP 2020 Call For Papers ========================= The 22nd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, [PPDP 2020](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/ppdp20/), hosted 8-10 September 2020 by the University of Bologna, Italy. **Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PPDP 2020 will take place online. The submission, review, and publication process is unaffected. However, the deadlines have been extended by a week to accommodate for the situation.** Scope ----- The PPDP 2020 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; functional languages; reactive languages; languages with objects; languages for quantum computing; languages inspired by biological and chemical computation; metaprogramming. - Declarative languages in artificial intelligence: logic programming; database languages; knowledge representation languages; probabilistic languages; differentiable languages. - 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 take place 8-10 September 2020 virtually hosted by the University of Bologna, Italy, co-organized with the 29th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020) and the International conference on [Microservices 2020](https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/). Submissions ----------- Submissions are welcome on easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ppdp2020 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 via a link to an extended version of the submission (recommended), or in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study extended versions or any material beyond the respective page limit. Material beyond the page limit will not be included in the final published version. 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 1.70. 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 ---------------------------- **Due to the shift to an online event, registration fees will be decreased to cover only the costs of publication and online event hosting.** At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to register 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 --------------- The organizers appreciate that potential authors may be disadvantaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting disruption. **To encourage submissions, short extensions are available on request.** To request an extension, please register an abstract before the abstract deadline and write to the PC chair before the submission deadline explaining the circumstances and duration of the extension. -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Title and abstract (extended): 18 May 2020 (AoE) Paper submission (extended): 22 May 2020 (AoE) Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2020 (AoE) Author notification: 3 July 2020 Final paper version: 21 July 2020 Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020 -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Organization ------------ ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee chairs: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh Steering committee chair: James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee ----------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Abel (co-chair) Gothenburg University, SE Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, JP James Cheney (co-chair) The University of Edinburgh, UK Ugo Dal Lago University of Bologna, IT & INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm, DE Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, DE Jacob Howe City, University of London, UK Fred Mesnard Université de la Réunion, FR Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK David Sabel Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, DE Claudio Sacerdoti Coen University of Bologna, IT Ulrich Schöpp fortiss GmbH, DE Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE Christine Tasson Université Paris Diderot & IRIF, FR Peter Van Roy Université catholique de Louvain, BE ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------

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Several Open PhD Positions in the doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS) in Austria ***Deadline: June 12, 2020***
by Rozman, Mihaela 12 May '20

12 May '20

{With apologies for cross-posting, please see below for information and thank you for a possible share among your network nodes} ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) TU Graz (Graz University of Technology), and JKU Linz (Johannes Kepler University), are seeking highly qualified candidates for the joint doctoral program on Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). We are recruiting up to 12 doctoral candidates for a starting period of 3 years, with a negotiable starting date. Deadline: June 12, 2020 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The PhD program focuses on interdisciplinary research topics covering – computational logic, and applications of logic to – databases and artificial intelligence, – computer-aided verification, – security and privacy, – cyber-physical systems, as well as to – distributed systems. ______________________________________________________ THE PROGRAM ______________________________________________________ Our PhD program LogiCS is focusing on logic and its applications in computer science. Successful applicants will work with and be mentored by leading researchers in the fields of computational logic, databases and knowledge representation, computer-aided verification, security and privacy, cyber-physical systems, and distributed systems. The LogiCS doctoral program offers top research expertise, and a stimulating and supportive environment. The LogiCS is coordinated by TU Wien, which offers an outstanding research environment and numerous professional development opportunities. The Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien is the largest one in Austria and is consistently ranked among the best in Europe. The founding body of the LogiCS, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), offers multiple funding opportunities for young researchers to advance their independent scientific careers. ______________________________________________________ FACULTY MEMBERS ______________________________________________________ - M. Bartocci - A. Biere - R. Bloem - A. Ciabattoni - T. Eiter - G. Gottlob - R. Grosu - L. Kovacs - M. Maffei - M. Ortiz - U. Schmid - M. Seidl - S. Szeider - G. Weissenbacher - S. Woltran The LogiCS faculty comprises 15 renowned researchers with strong records in research, teaching and advising, complemented by 15 associated members who further strengthen the research and teaching activities of the college. ______________________________________________________ POSITIONS AND FUNDING ______________________________________________________ * We are looking for 12 very strong doctoral students. * The doctoral positions are funded for at least 3 years according to the funding scheme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). (30 hours per week/ 39.000 EUR gross/year) * The funding can be extended for one additional year contingent on a placement at one of our international partner institutions. * The location of the research post is Vienna, Graz or Linz, Austria. ______________________________________________________ SEEKING CANDIDATES FOR THE CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS ______________________________________________________ At the moment we are particularly looking for candidates interested in the following areas: * Automated Software Verification * Description Logics * Epistemic logic in distributed computing * Game-based Semantics * Fixed-Parameter Algorithms and Complexity * Formal Verification of hybrid systems * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Model Checking * Modeling and analysis of digital integrated circuits * Normative Reasoning * Ontology-based Data Access * Security and Privacy * Scheduling and logic programming * Study of the Interaction between rules from a knowledge base and rules arising from machine learning * Topology in distributed computing * Quantified Boolean Formulas ______________________________________________________ HOW TO APPLY ______________________________________________________ Detailed information about the application process is available on the LogiCS web-page: https://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ * The applicants are expected to have completed an excellent diploma or master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. * Candidates with comparable achievements will be considered on a case-by-case basis. * Applications by the candidates need to be submitted electronically. Application Deadline: June 12, 2020 ______________________________________________________ LOGIC IN AUSTRIA ______________________________________________________ Austria has a highly active and successful logic in the computer science community. Recent activities include: Austrian Research Network in Rigorous Systems Engineering - http://www.arise.or.at Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms - http://www.vcla.at International Kurt Goedel Society - http://www.kgs.logic.at ______________________________________________________ HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE ______________________________________________________ The Austrian cities Vienna, Graz, and Linz, located close to the Alps and surrounded by beautiful nature, provide an exceptionally high quality of life, with a vibrant cultural scene, numerous cultural events, world-famous historical sites, a large international community, a varied cuisine and famous coffee houses. If you decide to be located in Vienna, the city features a vibrant and excellence-driven research landscape, with several leading research institutes (e.g., University of Vienna, IST, AIT, SBA) and universities continuously establishing collaborations in various fields. Finally, Vienna has been consistently ranked by Mercer over the last years the best city for quality of life worldwide. ______________________________________________________ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ______________________________________________________ LogiCS web-page: https://logic-cs.at/phd/admission/ For further information please contact: info(a)logic-cs.at

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6-year PostDoc Position in Algorithms at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria *** Application deadline is May 28, 2020 ***
by Rozman, Mihaela 11 May '20

11 May '20

/ Apologies for cross-posting / / Please feel free to distribute among the nodes in your network / The Algorithms and Complexity Group at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria, is offering a 6-year PostDoc Position in Algorithms. *** Application deadline is May 28, 2020 *** REQUIREMENTS - Completed doctoral study in Computer Science or a related area - Excellent Knowledge in the field of algorithms and complexity - Excellent publications in top-tier conferences and journals - Very good communication skills and an interest in teaching - Research experience in at least one of the following areas: -- parameterized algorithms and complexity -- algorithmic applications of graph decompositions -- satisfiability and constraint satisfaction - A good command of the German language is desirable - Expected start: 1.10.2020 (negotiable) WE OFFER - A stimulating scientific environment - Continuing support in personal and academic carrier development - Outstanding opportunities for collaboration - Workplace in a central location in one of the most liveable cities in the world - Entry-level salary as a postdoctoral researcher is covered by level B1 of the Austrian Collective Agreement for university staff and receives a minimum of currently EUR 3.889,50/month gross, 14 times/year. Relevant working experiences may increase the monthly income. TU Wien is committed to increasing female employment in leading scientific positions. Female candidates are explicitly encouraged to apply. Preference will be given when equally qualified. APPLICATIONS *** Application deadline is May 28, 2020 *** Applications should be submitted by e-mail to Manuela Reinharter <manuela.reinharter(a)tuwien.ac.at> and should contain: - Letter of motivation - CV - List of publications - Short research statement - Three of the most important publications - Contact information of three referees Expected start: 1.10.2020 (negotiable) CONTACT AND INFORMAL INQUIRES For informal inquiries, please contact Univ.Prof.Dr. Stefan Szeider <sz(a)ac.tuwien.ac.at>. VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT WEBSITE https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/jobs/

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TyDe 2020 - Final Call for Papers
by Cyrus Omar 06 May '20

06 May '20

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Workshop on Type-Driven Development (TyDe 2020) Co-Located with ICFP 2020 (Online) https://icfp20.sigplan.org/home/tyde-2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Goals of the workshop The workshop on Type-Driven Development aims to show how static type information may be used effectively in the development of computer programs. Co-located with ICFP, this workshop brings together leading researchers and practitioners who are using or exploring types as a means of program development. We welcome all contributions, both theoretical and practical, on a range of topics including: - dependently typed programming; - generic programming; - design and implementation of programming languages, exploiting types in novel ways; - exploiting typed data, data dependent data, or type providers; - static and dynamic analyses of typed programs; - tools, IDEs, or testing tools exploiting type information; - pearls, being elegant, instructive examples of types used in the derivation, calculation, or construction of programs. # Coronavirus Update (2020-5-2) Due to the coronavirus pandemic, TyDe will be held online alongside ICFP. We will strive to accommodate authors from all time zones, e.g. by allowing pre-recorded videos or by spreading out the talks throughout the day, following the lead of the main conference. Updates will be posted on the website and sent to all authors of submitted papers as they become available. # Program Committee - Bob Atkey, Strathclyde University (UK) - Sandrine Blazy, IRISA (FR) - Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP) - Nils Anders Danielsson, Gothenburg University/Chalmers (SE) - Larry Diehl, Symbiont (USA) - Favonia, University of Michigan (USA) - Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University (JP) - Ranjit Jhala, UCSD (USA) - Dan Licata, Wesleyan University (USA) - James McKinna, LFCS, University of Edinburgh (UK) (PC Co-chair) - Cyrus Omar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) (PC Co-chair) - Wouter Swierstra, Utrecht University (NL) # Proceedings and Copyright We will have formal proceedings, published by the ACM. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors must grant ACM publication rights upon acceptance, but may retain copyright if they wish. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, and so forth). The proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library from one week before the start of the conference until two weeks after the conference. The official publication date is the date the papers are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. # Submission details Submissions should fall into one of two categories: - regular research papers (12 pages) - extended abstracts (2 pages) The bibliography will not be counted against the page limits for either category. Regular research papers are expected to present novel and interesting research results, and will be included in the formal proceedings. Extended abstracts should report work in progress that the authors would like to present at the workshop. Extended abstracts will be distributed to workshop attendees but will not be published in the formal proceedings. We welcome submissions from PC members (with the exception of the two co-chairs), but these submissions will be held to a higher standard. Submission is handled through HotCRP: https://tyde20.hotcrp.com All submissions should be in portable document format (PDF) and formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/ *Note* that the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines have changed from previous years! In particular, submissions should use the new ‘acmart’ format and the two-column ‘sigplan’ subformat (not to be confused with the one-column ‘acmlarge’ subformat). Extended abstracts must be submitted with the label 'Extended abstract' clearly in the title. # Important Dates - May 19: Paper submission deadline - May 26: Extended abstract submission deadline - June 9: Author notification - June 30: Camera ready deadline - Aug 23: Workshop # Participant Support Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover participation-related expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for accommodations for members with physical disabilities. For details on the PAC program, see its web page: http://www.sigplan.org/PAC/ (Please contact PAC organizers as early as possible if you will need accommodations, as protocols may have shifted due to the coronavirus situation.)

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EUSPN 2020 CfP in Madeira, Portugal, November 2-5 2020 (Conference with ISI Special Issues)
by Davidekova Monika 06 May '20

06 May '20

********************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2020) Date: November 2-5, 2020 Location: Madeira, Portugal Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/ ********************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas. Important Dates: -------------------- - Workshop Proposals: May 15, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2020 - Author Notification: August 2, 2020 - Final Manuscript Due: August 30, 2020 Publication ------------- All EUSPN 2020 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. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.901), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - International Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and…) - International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (IF: 3.030) (Pending), Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks) EUSPN 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/) Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/call-for-papers.html EUSPN 2020 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Conference Tracks ============ - Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks - Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Big Data and Big Data Science - Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies - Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems - Internet of Things - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications - Security, Privacy, and Trust - Semantic Web Technologies Committees ======== General Chair Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Program Chairs Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium Local Arrangement Chairs Adelio Manuel Rodrigues Gaspar, University of Coimbra, Portugal Margarida Cerqueira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Workshops' Chairs Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Publicity Chairs Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovakia Mohammed Elghzaoui, FP-UMI, Errachidia, Morocco Siddardha Kaja, Acadia University, Canada Orven E. Llantos, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Program Vice Chairs El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui, EIGSI-Casablanca, Morocco Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane, Cnam, Paris, France, France Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovakia Mohammed Erritali, Sultane Moulay Slimane University, Morocco Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Yannis Korkontzelos, Edge Hill University, UK Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Advisory Committee Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/organizing-commitee.html

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PPDP 2020 Final call for papers
by Andreas Abel 04 May '20

04 May '20

PPDP 2020 Call For Papers ========================= The 22nd International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, [PPDP 2020](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/ppdp20/), hosted 8-10 September 2020 by the University of Bologna, Italy. **Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PPDP 2020 will take place online. The submission, review, and publication process is unaffected. However, short extensions are available on request.** TL;DR Abstract deadline: 11 May; paper deadline: 15 May; extensions available. Scope ----- The PPDP 2020 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; functional languages; reactive languages; languages with objects; languages for quantum computing; languages inspired by biological and chemical computation; metaprogramming. - Declarative languages in artificial intelligence: logic programming; database languages; knowledge representation languages; probabilistic languages; differentiable languages. - 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 take place 8-10 September 2020 virtually hosted by the University of Bologna, Italy, co-organized with the 29th Int'l Symp. on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2020) and the International conference on [Microservices 2020](https://www.conf-micro.services/2020/). 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 via a link to an extended version of the submission (recommended), or in a clearly marked appendix beyond the above-mentioned page limits. Reviewers are not required to study extended versions or any material beyond the respective page limit. Material beyond the page limit will not be included in the final published version. 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 1.70. 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 ---------------------------- **Due to the shift to an online event, registration fees will be decreased to cover only the costs of publication and online event hosting.** At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to register 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 --------------- The organizers appreciate that potential authors may be disadvantaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting disruption. **To encourage submissions, short extensions are available on request.** To request an extension, please register an abstract before the abstract deadline and write to the PC chair before the submission deadline explaining the circumstances and duration of the extension. -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Title and abstract registration: 11 May 2020 (AoE) Paper submission: 15 May 2020 (AoE) Rebuttal period (48 hours): 22-23 June 2020 (AoE) Author notification: 3 July 2020 Final paper version: 21 July 2020 Conference: 8-10 Sept 2020 -------------------------------- ----- ---- ---------- Organization ------------ ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee chairs: Andreas Abel, Gothenburg University James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh Steering committee chair: James Cheney, The University of Edinburgh General chair: Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna ------------------------- -------------------- --------------------------- Program committee ----------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Abel (co-chair) Gothenburg University, SE Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, JP James Cheney (co-chair) The University of Edinburgh, UK Ugo Dal Lago University of Bologna, IT & INRIA Sophia Antipolis, FR Thom Fruehwirth University of Ulm, DE Michael Hanus Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, DE Jacob Howe City, University of London, UK Fred Mesnard Université de la Réunion, FR Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK David Sabel Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, DE Claudio Sacerdoti Coen University of Bologna, IT Ulrich Schöpp fortiss GmbH, DE Martin Sulzmann Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE Christine Tasson Université Paris Diderot & IRIF, FR Peter Van Roy Université catholique de Louvain, BE ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------

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Final call for contributions for the virtual WiL 2020 (4th Women in Logic Worskhop collocated with Petri Nets, IJCAR etc)
by Rozman, Mihaela 04 May '20

04 May '20

(Deadline approaching, last chance to submit a contribution.) (Please consider sharing this piece of information among the nodes in your network.) (Apologies for cross-posting.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you a woman working in logic? Are you planning to participate at FSCD-IJCAR 2020? Please join us at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic! Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by May 10, 2020 via EasyChair. This will help us provide an interesting program, with only a light-weight selection procedure. More information below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions WiL 2020: 4th Women in Logic Workshop virtual 30 June 2020 https://sites.google.com/g.uporto.pt/wil2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Women in Logic 2020 is part of "Paris Nord Summer of LoVe 2020" (https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/summer-of-love-2020/) a joint event on LOgic and VErification, made of Petri Nets 2020, IJCAR 2020, FSCD 2020, and over 20 satellite events. The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Our aim is to: - provide a platform for female researchers to share their work and achievements; - increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty; - establish new connections and collaborations; - foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community. We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers. Previous versions of Women in Logic (Reykjavik, Iceland 2017, Oxford, UK 2018 and Vancouver, Canada 2019) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for recognition of the need for change in the community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. INVITED SPEAKERS * Maribel Fernández (Kings College London) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: May 10, 2020 Notification: June 2, 2020 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors) The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2020 Easychair page as a PDF file (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wil2020) before the submission deadline of May 10, 2020, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Sandra Alves (Co-chair, University of Porto) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Delia Kesner (Université de Paris) * Sandra Kiefer (Co-chair, RWTH Aachen University) * Koko Muroya (RIMS Kyoto University) * Daniele Nantes (University of Brasília) * Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America) * Brigitte Pientka (McGill University) * Sonja Smets (ILLC - University of Amsterdam) * Ana Sokolova (Co-chair, University of Salzburg)

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Journal of Functional Programming - Call for PhD Abstracts
by Graham Hutton 04 May '20

04 May '20

============================================================ CALL FOR PHD ABSTRACTS Journal of Functional Programming Deadline: 31st May 2020 http://tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstracts ============================================================ PREAMBLE: Many students complete PhDs in functional programming each year. As a service to the community, twice per year the Journal of Functional Programming publishes the abstracts from PhD dissertations completed during the previous year. The abstracts are made freely available on the JFP website, i.e. not behind any paywall. They do not require any transfer of copyright, merely a license from the author. A dissertation is eligible for inclusion if parts of it have or could have appeared in JFP, that is, if it is in the general area of functional programming. The abstracts are not reviewed. Please submit dissertation abstracts according to the instructions below. We welcome submissions from both the PhD student and PhD advisor/supervisor although we encourage them to coordinate. ============================================================ SUBMISSION: Please submit the following information to Graham Hutton <graham.hutton(a)nottingham.ac.uk> by 31st May 2020: o Dissertation title: (including any subtitle) o Student: (full name) o Awarding institution: (full name and country) o Date of PhD award: (month and year; depending on the institution, this may be the date of the viva, corrections being approved, graduation ceremony, or otherwise) o Advisor/supervisor: (full names) o Dissertation URL: (please provide a permanently accessible link to the dissertation if you have one, such as to an institutional repository or other public archive; links to personal web pages should be considered a last resort) o Dissertation abstract: (plain text, maximum 350 words; you may use \emph{...} for emphasis, but we prefer no other markup or formatting; if your original abstract exceeds the word limit, please submit an abridged version within the limit) Please do not submit a copy of the dissertation itself, as this is not required. JFP reserves the right to decline to publish abstracts that are not deemed appropriate. ============================================================ PHD ABSTRACT EDITOR: Graham Hutton School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom ============================================================ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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WFLP 2020 CFP (Workshop on Functional and Constraint Logic Programming)
by Michael Hanus 04 May '20

04 May '20

========================== WFLP 2020: Call for Papers ========================== 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming ## Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the workshop will be organized by ## the University of Bologna, but it will be held entirely on-line. Bologna, Italy, September 7th, 2020 (part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020; co-located with PPDP, LOPSTR, Microservices) Important Dates Paper Registration: June, 29th Submission: July, 06th Notification of Authors: July, 27th Camera-ready Papers: August, 24th Conference & Workshops: September 7th, 2020 WFLP 2020 The international Workshop on Functional and (constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP) aims at bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners interested in functional programming, logic programming, and their integration. WFLP has a reputation for being a lively and friendly forum, and it is open for presenting and discussing work in progress, technical contributions, experience reports, experiments, reviews, and system descriptions. The 28th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP 2020) will be organized by the University of Bologna, Italy, as part of Bologna Federated Conference on Programming Languages 2020 and it will be held entirely on-line due to the coronavirus pandemic. Previous WFLP editions were WFLP 2019 (Cottbus, Germany), WFLP 2018 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), WFLP 2017 (Würzburg, Germany), WFLP 2016 (Leipzig, Germany), WFLP 2014 (Wittenberg, Germany), WFLP 2013 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2012 (Nagoya, Japan), WFLP 2011 (Odense, Denmark), WFLP 2010 (Madrid, Spain), WFLP 2009 (Brasilia, Brazil), WFLP 2008 (Siena, Italy), WFLP 2007 (Paris, France), WFLP 2006 (Madrid, Spain), WCFLP 2005 (Tallinn, Estonia), WFLP 2004 (Aachen, Germany), WFLP 2003 (Valencia, Spain), WFLP 2002 (Grado, Italy), WFLP 2001 (Kiel, Germany), WFLP 2000 (Benicassim, Spain), WFLP'99 (Grenoble, France), WFLP'98 (Bad Honnef, Germany), WFLP'97 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'96 (Marburg, Germany), WFLP'95 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'94 (Schwarzenberg, Germany), WFLP'93 (Rattenberg, Germany), and WFLP'92 (Karlsruhe, Germany). Topics The topics of interest cover all aspects of functional and logic programming. They include (but are not limited to): * Functional programming * Logic programming * Constraint programming * Deductive databases, data mining * Extensions of declarative languages, objects * Multi-paradigm declarative programming * Foundations, semantics, non-monotonic reasoning, dynamics * Parallelism, concurrency * Program analysis, abstract interpretation * Program and model manipulation * Program transformation, partial evaluation, meta-programming * Specification, * Verification * Debugging * Testing * Knowledge representation, machine learning * Interaction of declarative programming with other formalisms * Implementation of declarative languages * Advanced programming environments and tools * Software techniques for declarative programming * Applications The primary focus is on new and original research results, but submissions describing innovative products, prototypes under development, application systems, or interesting experiments (e.g., benchmarks) are also encouraged. Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and experience reports are also welcome. Papers must be written and presented in English. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions). Submission Guidelines Submission is via Easychair submission website for WFLP 2020: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wflp2020 Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: + Regular research paper + Work-in-progress report + System description Regular research papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been formally published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with formal proceedings. They will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. For work-in-progress reports and system descriptions, less formal rules apply, and presentation-only submissions (talk and discussion, but no paper in the formal proceedings) are possible. Please contact the PC chair with any questions. All submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. However, all submissions (especially work-in-progress reports and system descriptions) may be considerably shorter than 15 pages. Proceedings All papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published in informal proceedings publicly available at the Computing Research Repository. According to the program committee reviews, submissions can be directly accepted for publication in the formal post-conference proceedings. The formal post-conference proceedings will be published in both electronic and paper formats by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, all authors accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the conference. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Therefore, all accepted papers will be published in open-access, and the authors can also decide to publish their work in the Springer LNCS formal proceedings. Program Committee Sergio Antoy (Portland State University, USA) Demis Ballis (University of Udine, Italy) Moreno Falaschi (Università di Siena, Italy) Michael Hanus (University of Kiel, Germany) (Co-Chair) Herbert Kuchen (University of Muenster, Germany) Dale Miller (INRIA and LIX/Ècole Polytechnique) Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) (Co-Chair) Konstantinos Sagonas (Uppsala University, Sweden) Enrico Tassi (INRIA, France) Janis Voigtländer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Johannes Waldmann (HTWK Leipzig, Germany) Organizing Committee Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (University of Bologna, Italy) (Co-Chair) --

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