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First Call for Papers: Formal Methods Teaching Workshop and Tutorial (FMTea 2021)
by João F. Ferreira 12 May '21

12 May '21

[ Please distribute, apologies for multiple postings. ] ========================================================= Call for Papers: Formal Methods Teaching Workshop and Tutorial (FMTea 2021) 21 November 2021, *online* Co-located with the 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2021 FMTea21 is a one-day combined workshop and tutorial that brings together researchers and educators working on formal methods to share their experiences in teaching formal methods, discuss key challenges, and stimulate collaboration that can lead to ways to reboot the presence of formal methods in curricula. FMTea21 will be an online event at the 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM2021. More details can be found on the workshop website: https://fmtea.github.io ========================================================= Invited Speakers ======================== - Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany) Provisional title: "Teaching Algorithms and Data Structures with a Proof Assistant" - A second invited speaker will be announced soon! Important Dates ======================== - 2 July 2021: Deadline for submission of papers (AoE) - 2 August 2021: Notifications to authors - 17 September 2021: Deadline for camera-ready version - 21 November 2021: FMTea21 Workshop (online) Objectives and Scope ======================== Formal Methods provide software engineering with tools and techniques for rigorously reasoning about the correctness of systems. While in recent years formal methods are increasingly being used in industry, university curricula are not adapting at the same pace. Some existing formal methods classes interest and challenge students, whereas others fail to ignite student motivation. It is thus important to develop, share, and discuss approaches to effectively teach formal methods to the next generations. This discussion is now more important than ever due to the challenges and opportunities that arose from the pandemic, which forced many educators to adapt and deliver their teaching online. Exchange of ideas is critical to making these new online approaches a success and having a greater reach. Topics ======================== In the workshop part of the event, we welcome papers detailing experiences with FM Teaching, including papers discussing successes and failures of various methods, case studies, tools, etc. Given the increasing importance of online teaching and self-learning, we also welcome reports of experiences with online teaching, including experiences with teaching formal methods via MOOCs. We invite novel papers that cover, but are not limited to, the following aspects: - Experiences and proposals related with "traditional" FM learning and teaching - Experiences and proposals related with online FM learning and teaching - Integrating/embedding FM teaching/thinking within other computer science courses - Teaching FM for industry - Innovative learning and teaching methods for FM Submission Details ======================== FMTea21 invites high quality papers reporting on opinions, approaches, and experiences related to the topic of teaching Formal Methods. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three PC members. As in previous events, the conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Submissions should be made using the FMTea21 Easychair web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmtea21 All accepted papers must be remotely presented at the workshop. Authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by an early date, to be indicated by the FM2021 organizers, and present the paper. Organization ======================== FMTea21 is organized by FME’s Teaching Committee, whose broad aim is to support a worldwide improvement in learning Formal Methods, mainly by teaching but also via self-learning. To that end, the committee manages a list of FM courses taught worldwide (https://fme-teaching.github.io) and plans to collect other resources as well, such as FM case studies, FM inspirational papers, etc. Program Committee ======================== - João F. Ferreira (co-chair), INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Alexandra Mendes (co-chair), INESC TEC & University of Beira Interior, Portugal - Claudio Menghi (co-chair), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France - Brijesh Dongol, University of Surrey, UK - Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France - Rustan Leino, Amazon Web Services, US - José N. Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal - Luigia Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland - Leila Ribeiro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Kristin Rozier, Iowa State University, US - Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada - Graeme Smith, The University of Queensland, Australia - Kenji Taguchi, CAV, Japan Contact ======================== All questions about submissions should be emailed to the chairs.

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Second call for the *regular* round of Papers for the Haskell Symposium 2021
by Hage, J. (Jurriaan) 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear all, First, some * BREAKING NEWS *: Jean-Philippe Bernardy has accepted the invitation to speak at the symposium. He will be talking about Linear Haskell. This is the second call for the *regular* round of papers for the upcoming Haskell Symposium. Please forward to anyone that you believe might be interested. The deadline for this round is May 21. Apologies for receiving multiple copies of this announcement. Best regards, Jurriaan Hage Chair ================================================================================ ACM SIGPLAN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Haskell Symposium 2021 ** virtual ** Thu 26 -- Fri 27 August, 2021 http://www.haskell.org/haskell-symposium/2021/ ================================================================================ The ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Symposium 2021 will be co-located with the 2021 International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). Due to COVID-19 it will take place **virtually** this year. Like last year, we will be using a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. See further information below. Different from last year is that we offer a new submission category: the tutorial. Details can be found below. The Haskell Symposium presents original research on Haskell, discusses practical experience and future development of the language, and promotes other forms of declarative programming. Topics of interest include: * Language design, with a focus on possible extensions and modifications of Haskell as well as critical discussions of the status quo; * Theory, such as formal semantics of the present language or future extensions, type systems, effects, metatheory, and foundations for program analysis and transformation; * Implementations, including program analysis and transformation, static and dynamic compilation for sequential, parallel, and distributed architectures, memory management, as well as foreign function and component interfaces; * Libraries, that demonstrate new ideas or techniques for functional programming in Haskell; * Tools, such as profilers, tracers, debuggers, preprocessors, and testing tools; * Applications, to scientific and symbolic computing, databases, multimedia, telecommunication, the web, and so forth; * Functional Pearls, being elegant and instructive programming examples; * Experience Reports, to document general practice and experience in education, industry, or other contexts; * Tutorials, to document how to use a particular language feature, programming technique, tool or library within the Haskell ecosystem; * System Demonstrations, based on running software rather than novel research results. Regular papers should explain their research contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work, and to other languages where appropriate. Experience reports and functional pearls need not necessarily report original academic research results. For example, they may instead report reusable programming idioms, elegant ways to approach a problem, or practical experience that will be useful to other users, implementers, or researchers. The key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. It is not enough simply to describe a standard solution to a standard programming problem, or report on experience where you used Haskell in the standard way and achieved the result you were expecting. A new submission category for this year's Haskell Symposium is the tutorial. Like with the experience report and the functional pearl, the key criterion for such a paper is that it makes a contribution from which other Haskellers can benefit. What distinguishes a tutorial is that its focus is on explaining an aspect of the Haskell language and/or ecosystem in a way that is generally useful to a Haskell audience. Tutorials for many such topics can be found online; the distinction here is that by writing it up for formal review it will be vetted by experts and formally published. System demonstrations should summarize the system capabilities that would be demonstrated. The proposals will be judged on whether the ensuing session is likely to be important and interesting to the Haskell community at large, whether on grounds academic or industrial, theoretical or practical, technical, social or artistic. Please contact the program chair with any questions about the relevance of a proposal. If your contribution is not a research paper, please mark the title of your experience report, functional pearl, tutorial or system demonstration as such, by supplying a subtitle (Experience Report, Functional Pearl, Tutorial Paper, System Demonstration). Submission Details ================== Formatting ---------- Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Authors should use the `acmart` format, with the `sigplan` sub-format for ACM proceedings. For details, see: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format It is recommended to use the `review` option when submitting a paper; this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews. Functional pearls, experience reports, tutorials and demo proposals should be labelled clearly as such. Lightweight Double-blind Reviewing ---------------------------------- Haskell Symposium 2021 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: 1. Author names and institutions must be omitted, and 2. References to authors' own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work" but rather "We build on the work of "). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. A reviewer will learn the identity of the author(s) of a paper after a review is submitted. Page Limits ----------- The length of submissions should not exceed the following limits: Regular paper: 12 pages Functional pearl: 12 pages Tutorial: 12 pages Experience report: 6 pages Demo proposal: 2 pages There is no requirement that all pages are used. For example, a functional pearl may be much shorter than 12 pages. In all cases, the list of references is not counted against these page limits. Deadlines --------- Regular track and demos: Submission deadline: 21 May 2021 (Fri) Notification: 23 June 2021 (Wed) Deadlines are valid anywhere on Earth. Submission ---------- Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) and authors should be aware of ACM's policies on plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism) Program Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but their papers will be held to a higher standard. The paper submission deadline and length limitations are firm. There will be no extensions, and papers violating the length limitations will be summarily rejected. Papers should be submitted through HotCRP at: https://haskell21.hotcrp.com/ Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. Supplementary material: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. This supplementary material should not be submitted as part of the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a separate PDF document or tarball. Supplementary material should be uploaded at submission time, not by providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository. Authors can distinguish between anonymized and non-anonymized supplementary material. Anonymized supplementary material will be visible to reviewers immediately; non-anonymized supplementary material will be revealed to reviewers only after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). Resubmitted Papers: authors who submit a revised version of a paper that has previously been rejected by another conference have the option to attach an annotated copy of the reviews of their previous submission(s), explaining how they have addressed these previous reviews in the present submission. If a reviewer identifies him/herself as a reviewer of this previous submission and wishes to see how his/her comments have been addressed, the conference chair will communicate to this reviewer the annotated copy of his/her previous review. Otherwise, no reviewer will read the annotated copies of the previous reviews. Proceedings =========== Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Their authors will be required to choose one of the following options: - Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission-to-publish license (and, optionally, licenses the work with a Creative Commons license); - Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permission-to-publish license; - Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM. For more information, please see ACM Copyright Policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and ACM Author Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html) Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be posted on the symposium website but not formally published in the proceedings. Publication date: The official publication date of accepted papers is the date the proceedings 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. Artifacts ========= Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make auxiliary material (artifacts like source code, test data, etc.) available with their paper. They can opt to have these artifacts published alongside their paper in the ACM Digital Library (copyright of artifacts remains with the authors). If an accepted paper's artifacts are made permanently available for retrieval in a publicly accessible archival repository like the ACM Digital Library, that paper qualifies for an Artifacts Available badge (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging#available) Applications for such a badge can be made after paper acceptance and will be reviewed by the PC chair. Program Committee ================= Edwin Brady University of St Andrews Koen Claessen Chalmers University of Technology Dominique Devriese Vrije Universiteit Brussel Andy Gill University of Kansas Jurriaan Hage (chair) Universiteit Utrecht Zhenjiang Hu Peking University Ranjit Jhala University of California Patricia Johann Appalachian State University Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba George Karachalias Tweag Ralf Laemmel University of Koblenz-Landau Daan Leijen Microsoft Research Ben Lippmeier Ghost Locomotion Neil Mitchell Facebook Alberto Pardo Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Matt Roberts Macquarie University Janis Voigtlaender University of Duisburg-Essen Nicolas Wu Imperial College London If you have questions, please contact the chair at: j.hage(a)uu.nl ================================================================================

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[Deadline Extension] WPTE 2021: Call For Papers
by Keisuke Nakano 11 May '21

11 May '21

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE 2021: 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation Held online on July 18, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Web site: https://www.ipl.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/wpte2021/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021 Submission deadline: May 24, 2021 (EXTENDED!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of WPTE is to bring together the researchers working on program transformations, evaluation, and operationally based programming language semantics, using rewriting methods, in order to share the techniques and recent developments and to exchange ideas to encourage further activation of research in this area. The 8th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2021) is affiliated with FSCD 2021, https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/ List of Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Correctness of program transformations, optimizations and translations. * Program transformations for proving termination, confluence, and other properties. * Correctness of evaluation strategies. * Operational semantics of programs, operationally-based program equivalences such as contextual equivalences and bisimulations. * Cost-models for arguing about the optimizing power of transformations and the costs of evaluation. * Program transformations for verification and theorem proving purposes. * Translation, simulation, equivalence of programs with different formalisms, and evaluation strategies. * Program transformations for applying rewriting techniques to programs in specific programming languages. * Program transformations for program inversions and program synthesis. * Program transformation and evaluation for Haskell and rewriting. Submission Guidelines --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the paper submission deadline an extended abstract of at most 10 pages is required to be submitted. The extended abstract may present original work or also work in progress. Based on the submissions the program committee will select the presentations for the workshop. All selected contributions will be included in the informal proceedings distributed to the workshop participants. One author of each accepted extended abstract is expected to present it at the workshop. Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the EPTCS macro package. All submissions will be electronic via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpte2021. Formal Proceedings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WPTE post-proceedings of selected papers will be published in a JLAMP special issue. For this, full papers must be submitted until the post-proceedings deadline. The authors of selected contributions will have the opportunity (but no obligation) to submit a full paper for the formal post-proceedings. These must represent original work and should not be submitted to another conference at the same time. The submission deadline for these post-proceedings will be after the workshop in September 2021. There will be a second round of reviewing for selecting papers to be published in the formal proceedings. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended abstracts: May 24, 2021 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: June 14, 2021 Final version for proceedings deadline: June 27, 2021 Workshop: July 18, 2021 Submission to post-proceedings: September 2021 Program Committees --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keisuke Nakano, Tohoku University, Japan (Chair) Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. (co-Chair) Ștefan Ciobâcă, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași, Romania Makoto Hamana, Gunma University, Japan Akimasa Morihata, the University of Tokyo, Japan Shin-Cheng Mu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Koko Muroya, Kyoto University, Japan David Sabel, LMU, Germany Julia Sapiña, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Janis Voigtländer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions about submissions should be emailed to wpte2021 (at) easychair.org -- 中野圭介東北大学電気通信研究所 ksk(a)riec.tohoku.ac.jp

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CALCO 2021: Second call for papers
by Thorsten Wissmann 10 May '21

10 May '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS: CALCO 2021 9th International Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science 31 Aug - 03 Sep 2021 Salzburg, Austria (if possible) Co-located with MFPS XXXV ========================================================== Paper submission: 3 June 2021 Author notification: 29 July 2021 Final version due: 12 August 2021 ========================================================== Scope ===== Algebraic and coalgebraic methods and tools are a mainstay of computer science. From data types to development techniques and specification formalisms, both theoreticians and practitioners have benefited from the large body of research proposed and implemented since the pioneering works of the 1960s. CALCO aims to bring together researchers with interests in both foundational and applicative uses of algebra and coalgebra in computer science, traditional as well as emerging ones. CALCO is a high-level, bi-annual conference formed by joining the forces and reputations of CMCS (the International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science) and WADT (the Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques). Previous CALCO editions took place in Swansea (Wales, 2005), Bergen (Norway, 2007), Udine (Italy, 2009), Winchester (UK, 2011), Warsaw (Poland, 2013), Nijmegen (the Netherlands, 2015), Ljubljana (Slovenia,2017), and London (UK, 2019). The 9th edition will be held in Salzburg, Austria, colocated with MFPS XXXVII. Joint CALCO-MFPS Speaker ======================== * Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Submission Categories ===================== CALCO invites papers relating to all aspects of algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications, and distinguishes between four categories of submissions. 1. Regular papers that report * results on theoretical foundations * novel methods and techniques for software development * experiences with the technology transfer to industry. 2. (Co)Algebraic Pearls papers that * present possibly known material in a novel and enlightening way. 3. Early ideas abstracts that lead to * presentations of work in progress * proposals for original venues of research. 4. Tool presentation papers that * report on the features and uses of algebraic/coalgebra-based tools. Topics of Interests =================== All topics relating to algebraic and coalgebraic theory and applications are of interest for CALCO, and among them * Models and logics - Automata and languages - Graph transformations and term rewriting - Modal logics - Proof systems - Relational systems * Algebraic and coalgebraic semantics - Abstract data types - Re-engineering techniques (program transformation) - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Semantics of programming languages * Methodologies in software and systems engineering - Development processes - Method integration - Usage guidelines * Specialised models and calculi - Hybrid, probabilistic, and timed systems - Concurrent, distributed, mobile, cyber-physical, and context-aware computational paradigms - Systems theory and computational models (chemical, biological, etc.) * System specification and verification - Formal testing and quality assurance - Generative programming and model-driven development - Integration of formal specification techniques - Model-driven development - Specification languages, methods, and environments * Tools supporting algebraic and coalgebraic methods for - Advances in automated verification - Model checking - Theorem proving - Testing * String diagrams and network theory - Theory of PROPs and operads - Rewriting problems and higher-dimensional approaches - Automated reasoning with string diagrams - Applications of string diagrams * Quantum computing - Categorical semantics for quantum computing - Quantum calculi and programming languages - Foundational structures for quantum computing - Applications of quantum algebra Submissions Guidelines ====================== All submissions will be handled via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=calco2021 The format for all submissions is specified by LIPIcs. Please use the latest version of the style http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/ It is recommended that submissions adhere to that format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Regular papers ============== Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Regular papers should be maximum 15 pages long, excluding references. Proofs omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. Proceedings will be published in the Dagstuhl LIPIcs Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics series. A special issue of the open access journal Logical Methods in Computer Science (http://www.lmcs-online.org) containing extended versions of selected papers, is planned. (Co)algebraic pearls ==================== This is a new submission category in 2021. Explaining a known idea in a new way may make as strong a contribution as inventing a new idea. We encourage the submission of pearls: elegant essays that illustrate an idea in a beautiful or didactically clever way, perhaps by developing an application. Pearls are typically short and concise and so should not be longer than regular papers in the format specified by LIPIcs. Authors who feel they need a bit more space should consult with the PC co-chairs. The accepted papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. Early ideas abstracts ===================== Submissions should not exceed 2 pages in the format specified by LIPIcs. The volume of selected abstracts will be made available on arXiv and on the CALCO pages. Authors will retain copyright, and are also encouraged to disseminate the results by subsequent publication elsewhere. Each submission will be evaluated by at least two reviewers. Tool papers =========== Submissions should not exceed 5 pages in the format specified by LIPIcs. The accepted tool papers will be included in the final proceedings of the conference. The tools should be made available on the web at the time of submission for download and evaluation. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and one or more of the reviewers will be asked to download and use the tool. Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards ======================================= This edition of CALCO will feature two awards: a Best Paper Award whose recipients will be selected by the PC before the conference and a Best Presentation Award, elected by the participants. Programme Committee =================== * Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon) * Paolo Baldan (University of Padova) * Rui Soares Barbosa (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory) * Luis Caires (NOVA University Lisbon) * Francisco Durán (University of Málaga) * Brendan Fong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Fabrizio Romano Genovese (University of Pisa) * Jules Hedges (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) * Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen) * Peter Jipsen (Chapman University) * Wolfram Kahl (McMaster University) * Marie Kerjean (CNRS -- Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord) * Jean Krivine (CNRS -- Université de Paris) * Michele Loreti (University of Camerino) * Sonia Marin (University College London) * Manuel A. Martins (University of Aveiro) * Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University) * Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires) * Koko Muroya (RIMS, Kyoto University) * Elaine Pimentel (UFRN) * Elvinia Riccobene (University of Milan) * Alex Simpson (University of Ljubljana) * David I. Spivak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Christine Tasson (LIP6 - Sorbonne Université) * Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University/Tallinn U. of Technology) * Maaike Zwart (University of Oxford) * Rob van Glabbeek (Data61 - CSIRO) Chairs ====== * Fabio Gadducci (University of Pisa) * Alexandra Silva (University College London) Local Organiser =============== * Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg)

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[Information] Invitation: Special Issue "Information for Business and Management–Software Development for Data Processing and Management"
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda I72 09 May '21

09 May '21

Dear Colleagues, As Guest Editor, I cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in a Special Issue "Information for Business and Management–Software Development for Data Processing and Management" to be published in the journal Information (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/, ISSN 2078-2489). The manuscript submission deadline is 30 June 2021. We will process your paper in time once we receive your submission. For more details, please visit the Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/business_management The topics include but are not limited to: * Software engineering for data * Requirements engineering for information management * Data processing and management * Business analysis * Knowledge management * Security and privacy of data * Software for data mining Please share this invitation with your team members and colleagues; co-authors are most welcome. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in submitting a manuscript for this Special Issue with tentative title and abstract. Your contribution would be most welcome. We are looking forward to hearing from you. With kind regards, Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, 90-924 Lodz, Poland ________________________________ [Politechnika Łódzka / Lodz University of Technology] [Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/Politechnika.Lodzka/> [Twitter] <https://twitter.com/p_lodz_pl> [Youtube] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbBnxpxg1DbSrIBwvebJghg> [Linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/politechnika-łódzka/> ________________________________ Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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[Electronics] Invitation: Special Issue "Security Measures in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks"
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda I72 09 May '21

09 May '21

Dear Colleagues, As Guest Editor, I cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in a Special Issue "Security Measures in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks" to be published in the journal Electronics (IF 2.412) (ISSN 2079-9292) (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/) The Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is a self-organised ad-hoc network that can be formed by connecting vehicles with other vehicles on the road and with static infrastructure such as crossroads or parking lots. VANET allows its users to share their information and knowledge about road conditions, events, and traffic. Analysing data from this type of network allows road safety to be increased efficiently by controlling crises on the road and supports traffic management thanks to Internet access for drivers and software developers. However, just like any network, VANET is exposed to attacks and attempts to gain access to data that are generated and transferred between network elements. Therefore, it has become necessary to design, develop, and extend the appropriate security methods, mechanisms and tools for VANET to protect and secure data exchanged between the network nodes, and, consequently, to secure its users and protect them against incorrect information, misinformation, and delays in information sending. This Special Issue aims to present a collection of papers that address problems in the methods, mechanisms, and tools for securing the VANETs and their users by exploring aspects such as security design, architectures, deployment, routing, and protocols. Topics of interest include but not are limited to security methods and mechanics for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication environments, protective methods against any form of security attack (e.g., DoS attack, timing attack, man-in-the-middle attack, Bogus, Sybil, Black, Worm and Gray Hole attack), the security of routing protocols, security and privacy methods for availability, confidentiality, data integration, authentication, and access control. The manuscript submission deadline is 31 August 2021. We will process your paper in time once we receive your submission. For more details please visit the Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/security_measures The topics include but are not limited to: * Security and privacy methods and mechanics * Authentication and access control * Security of routing protocols * Data availability * Confidentiality and integration * Cryptography * Vanet architecture for security * V2v and v2i communication security Please share this invitation with your team members and colleagues; co-authors are most welcome. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in submitting a manuscript for this Special Issue with tentative title and abstract. Your contribution would be most welcome. We are looking forward to hearing from you. With kind regards, Guest Editors Prof. Dr. Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology, 90-924 Lodz, Poland ________________________________ [Politechnika Łódzka / Lodz University of Technology] [Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/Politechnika.Lodzka/> [Twitter] <https://twitter.com/p_lodz_pl> [Youtube] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbBnxpxg1DbSrIBwvebJghg> [Linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/politechnika-łódzka/> ________________________________ Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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[Smart Cities] Invitation: Special Issue "Cloud-Based IoT Applications for Smart Cities"
by Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda I72 09 May '21

09 May '21

Dear Colleagues, As Guest Editors, we cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in a Special Issue "Cloud-Based IoT Applications for Smart Cities" to be published in the journal Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511) (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/) The idea of the smart city connects many IT systems that improve and automate various aspects of everyday life. The effect of implementing the smart city idea is the popularization of access to information about the city, plans for further development, improving the work of offices and municipal institutions, better investment conditions, improved communication, improving the functioning of municipal services, improving the conditions of the environment, increasing safety, increasing the number of cultural and sports activities and opportunities to spend free time, as well as the active participation of residents in development and improvement. Thanks to Internet of Things devices, it is possible to automate tedious processes related to measurement and data transfer, and it is also possible to control the mechanisms remotely. In a smart city, there are many different types of sensors that collect information about the environment and send it to the central office. The question is: What to do with such a huge amount of data? Where to store it and how to manage it effectively? This is where cloud computing comes in handy. The main goal of this Special Issue is to analyze the possibilities that arise from the use of Internet of Things and cloud computing in the idea of the smart city, both for technical and utility reasons, as well as for the development of ICT. The manuscript submission deadline is 31 January 2022. We will process your paper in time once we receive your submission. For more details please visit the Special Issue website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/special_issues/Cloud_Based_IoT_App… The topics include but are not limited to: * smart energy * smart buildings * smart technology * IoT-based applications * cloud storage and processing for smart cities * data science for smart cities * security for smart cities Please share this invitation with your team members and colleagues; co-authors are most welcome. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are interested in submitting a manuscript for this Special Issue with tentative title and abstract. Your contribution would be most welcome. We are looking forward to hearing from you. With kind regards, Guest Editors Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda Witold Maranda Lodz University of Technology 90-924 Lodz, Poland ________________________________ [Politechnika Łódzka / Lodz University of Technology] [Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/Politechnika.Lodzka/> [Twitter] <https://twitter.com/p_lodz_pl> [Youtube] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbBnxpxg1DbSrIBwvebJghg> [Linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/politechnika-łódzka/> ________________________________ Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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CFPs [ICTH 2021] Leuven, Belgium (The 11th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare)
by Hana Gharrad 09 May '21

09 May '21

Conference: The 11th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH) Date: November 1-4, 2021 Location: Leuven, Belgium Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-21/ ********************************************************************************** Important Dates ------------------ - Workshop Proposals: May 30, 2021 - Paper Submission Due: June 15, 2021 - Author Notification: August 4, 2021 - Final Manuscript Due: August 30, 2021 Publication ------------- All ICTH 2021 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: 4.594), 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 E-Health and Medical Communications, by IGI Global: ( http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-health-medical-comm… ) ICTH 2021 will be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-21/) Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-21/call-for-papers.html ICTH 2021 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. The conference venue will be at Park Inn (by Radisson) Hotel (Leuven), which is located right in the heart of the Leuven City. The hotel is less than 2 mins walk from the Leuven train station. All you have to do is to get off the train (or the taxi or the bus) and take the elevator to the bridge connecting the hotel with the rest of the city. Leuven city is directly connected with the Brussels International airport with a 13 min connection via train, 45 mins via bus or a 20 min by taxi (or Uber). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------ - Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care - Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems - Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems - Clinical Data and Knowledge Management - Cloud Computing for Healthcare - Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare - Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care - Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare - Data Visualization - Decision Support Systems in Healthcare - Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare - Digital Hospitals - Drug Information Systems - E-health & m-health - Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) - Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) - Healthgrids - Health Portals - Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments - Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications - Quantified Self for Pervasive Healthcare - Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems - Related Real World Experimentations and Case Studies in Healthcare - RFID Solutions for Healthcare - Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments - Telemedicine and Health Telematics - Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare - Usability & Socio Technical studies - User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications - Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare - Virtual Environments for Healthcare Committees ------------- General Chair Heiko Gewald, The Neu-Ulm University of Applied, Germany Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil Program Chairs Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal Workshops Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA International Journals Chair Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Publicity Chairs Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium Sony Guntuka, Acadia University, Canada Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-21/program-committees.html Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Advisory Committee Abdullah Ali Al-Maniri, Oman Medical Specialty Board, Oman Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Princiroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada

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SETTA 2021: 2nd CFP updated with a special issue for STTT
by songfu1983＠shanghaitech.edu.cn 07 May '21

07 May '21

======================================== SETTA 2021: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, November 25-27, 2021 Submission deadline: July 23rd, 2021 Conference website: https://lcs.ios.ac.cn/setta2021/ Colocated with FM'2021 ======================================== ************************ ABOUT SETTA 2021 ************************ The Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering: Theories, Tools and Applications (SETTA) 2021 will be held in Beijing, China on November 25-27, 2021, co-located with FM'2021. Formal methods emerged as an important area in computer science and software engineering about half a century ago. An international community is formed researching, developing and teaching formal theories, techniques and tools for software modeling, specification, design and verification. However, the impact of formal methods on the quality improvement of software systems in practice is lagging behind. This is for instance reflected by the challenges in applying formal techniques and tools to engineering large-scale systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet-of-Things (IoT), Enterprise Systems, Cloud-Based Systems, and so forth. The purpose of the SETTA symposium is to bring international researchers together to exchange research results and ideas on bridging the gap between formal methods and software engineering. The interaction with the Chinese computer science and software engineering community is a central focus point. The aim is to show research interests and results from different groups so as to initiate interest-driven research collaboration. The SETTA symposium is aiming at academic excellence and its objective is to become a flagship conference on formal software engineering in China. To achieve these goals and contribute to the sustainability of the formal methods research, it is important for the symposium to attract young researchers into the community. Thus, this symposium encourages in particular the participation of young researchers and students. This year, SETTA welcomes submissions to the following two tracks: Journal First Papers and Research Papers. All submissions must be in the PDF format. Papers should be written in English. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers for both tracks must be presented at the conference. Latest News: Special issues for the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) and the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) have been confirmed. Authors of selected papers from SETTA2021 will be invited to submit an extended version of their SETTA2021 paper to one of these special issues. ************************ LIST OF TOPICS ************************ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Requirements specification and analysis - Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation - Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures - Scalable approaches to formal system analysis - Formal approaches to simulation, run-time verification, and testing - Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice - Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems - Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance - Parallel and multicore programming - Embedded, real-time, hybrid, probabilistic, and cyber-physical systems - Mixed-critical applications and systems - Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing - Safety, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance - Dependability of smart software and systems - Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods - Applications and industrial experience reports - Software tools to assist the construction or analysis of software systems ************************ RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK ************************ Research papers will be published in the SETTA 2021 proceedings as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission web page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2021>. ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Abstract & Paper Submission: July 23, 2021 (AoE) Notification to authors: September 3, 2021 (AoE) Camera-ready versions: September 20, 2021 (AoE) Conference date: November 25-27, 2021 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected to contribute to the development of formal methods and applications thereof in software engineering. This is done by either substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating the need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing technologies, especially when addressing new application domains. Submissions can take the form of either regular or short papers. Regular papers should not exceed 16 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages (excluding references) in LNCS format. ************************ JOURNAL FIRST PAPERS TRACK ************************ The journal first papers track of SETTA 2021 is implemented in partnership with the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). Accepted papers to this track will be presented and discussed at the conference SETTA 2021. Papers should be submitted electronically through the journal's submission web page <https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst>. ------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------ Paper Submission: May 31, 2021 (AoE) Tentative acceptance decision: July 16, 2021 (AoE) Acceptance decision: August 30, 2021 (AoE) Conference date: November 25-27, 2020 ------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------ To submit to this track, authors have to make a journal submission to the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and select the type of submission to be for the SETTA 2021 special issue. It is recommended that submitted papers follow the submission guidelines of JCST <https://www.springer.com/journal/11390/submission-guidelines> and do not exceed 15 pages including references. ************************ COMMITTEES ************************ General Chair: - Chen Zhao, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: - Shengchao Qin, Teesside University - Jim Woodcock, University of York - Wenhui Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Local Organisation Chair: - Zhilin Wu, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Publicity Chair: - Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University Program Committee Members: - Yamine Ait-Ameur (IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT) - Richard Banach (The University of Manchester) - Lei Bu (Nanjing University) - Milan Ceska (Brno University of Technology) - Sudipta Chattopadhyay (Singapore University of Technology and Design) - Liqian Chen (National University of Defense Technology) - Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) - Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) - Florin Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University) - Yuxin Deng (East China Normal University) - Wei Dong (National University of Defense Technology) - Hongfei Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) - Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology) - Nan Guan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - Dimitar Guelev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - Thai Son Hoang (University of Southampton) - Chao Huang (University of Liverpool, Northwestern University) - Yu Jiang (Tsinghua University) - Sebastian Junges (University of California, Berkeley) - Guoqiang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) - Yi Li (Nanyang Technological University) - Zhiming Liu (Southwest University) - Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University) - Tiziana Margaria (Lero) - Dominique Mery (Universite de Lorraine, LORIA) - Stefan Mitsch (Carnegie Mellon University) - Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg) - Dave Parker (University of Birmingham) - Yu Pei (HK Polytechnic University) - Shengchao Qin (Teesside University) - Mickael Randour (F.R.S.-FNRS & Universite de Mons) - Stefan Schupp (TU Wien) - Zhiping Shi (Beijing Eng. Research Center of High Reliable Embbeded Systems) - Fu Song (ShanghaiTech University) - Jeremy Sproston (University of Turin) - Ting Su (East China Normal University) - Jun Sun (Singapore Management University) - Meng Sun (Peking University) - Andrea Turrini (Institute of Software, CAS) - Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University) - Jaco van de Pol (Aarhus University) - Jim Woodcock (University of York) - Xiaofei Xie (Kyushu University) - Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen University) - Bai Xue (Institute of Software, CAS) - Chenyi Zhang (Jinan University) - Wenhui Zhang (Institute of Software, CAS) ************************ VENUE ************************ The conference will be held in Beijing, China. ************************ CONTACT ************************ All questions about submissions should be emailed to setta2021@easy*chair.org (remove *).

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[CFP] Call for Abstracts and Call for the Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems Doctoral Consortium (Submission Deadline :: 12th of May)
by calendarsites＠insticc.org 06 May '21

06 May '21

Dear Colleagues, WINSYS 2021 is welcoming abstract submissions and also contributions to the Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems 2021 Doctoral Consortium, until the 12th of May. ABSTRACT TRACK: In order to ensure a proper and fair review of the abstracts, we encourage authors to submit abstracts with clear insights and background of the work, and to include complementing material that can help the panel understand its contribution and relevance to the conference. Complementing material could include, for example, previously published papers or videos related to the abstract, to enrich the abstract submission. Abstracts that bring an appropriate complementing material are eligible for oral or poster presentation; otherwise, they are eligible for poster presentation only. Oral presentations are given a 20' minutes time slot. Abstracts will be advertised in the conference program and in the conference book of abstracts (in the printed and digital version), but not published. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: The Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems 2021 Doctoral Consortium aims to improve the research of PhD students and broaden their perspectives by giving them the opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a supportive environment, get feedback from senior members, improve their communication skills, exchange ideas, and build relationships with other PhD students. Accepted contributions will be presented in a dedicated conference session where participants will discuss their research ideas and results, and receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of their peers as well as more senior experts in the field. In addition to that, students will be invited to participate at poster sessions so that they also receive comments of other participants in the conference. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: May 12, 2021 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2021 Camera Ready and Registration: June 3, 2021 For more information, you may send an email to: winsys.secretariat(a)insticc.org or visit the conference website: http://www.winsys.org

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