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[MobiSPC-Conf] MobiSPC 2017 CFPs: The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

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

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[FNC-Conf] FNC 2017 CFPs: The 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (July 24-26, 2017, Leuven, Belgium)
by Wim Ectors 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

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

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1st CfP: SLE 2017 (10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering)
by Andrei Chis 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

======================================================================== **Call for Papers** 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2017) 23-24 October 2017, Vancouver, Canada (Co-located with SPLASH 2017) General chair: Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France Program co-chairs: Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Artifact evaluation chairs Tanja Mayerhofer, TU Wien, Austria Laurence Tratt, King's College London, UK http://conf.researchr.org/track/sle-2017/sle-2017-papers http://www.sleconf.org/2017 Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/sleconf ======================================================================== Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). ### Important Dates Fri 2 Jun 2017 - Abstract Submission Fri 9 Jun 2017 - Paper Submission Fri 4 Aug 2017 - Author Notification Thu 10 Aug 2017 - Artifact Submission Fri 1 Sep 2017 - Artifact Notification Fri 8 Sep 2017 - Camera Ready Deadline Sun 22 Oct - SLE workshops Mon 23 Oct - Tue 24 Oct 2017 - SLE Conference ### Topics of Interest SLE aims to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of language engineering. Topics relevant to SLE cover generic aspects of software languages development rather than aspects of engineering a specific language. In particular, SLE is interested in principled engineering approaches and techniques in the following areas: * Language Design and Implementation * Approaches and methodologies for language design * Static semantics (e.g., design rules, well-formedness constraints) * Techniques for behavioral / executable semantics * Generative approaches (incl. code synthesis, compilation) * Meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches * Language Validation * Verification and formal methods for languages * Testing techniques for languages * Simulation techniques for languages * Language Integration and Composition * Coordination of heterogeneous languages and tools * Mappings between languages (incl. transformation languages) * Traceability between languages * Deployment of languages to different platforms * Language Maintenance * Software language reuse * Language evolution * Language families and variability * Domain-specific approaches for any aspects of SLE (design, implementation, validation, maintenance) * Empirical evaluation and experience reports of language engineering tools * User studies evaluating usability * Performance benchmarks * Industrial applications ### Types of Submissions * **Research papers**: These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) * **Tool papers**: Because of SLE's interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Any of the SLE topics of interest are appropriate areas for tool demonstrations. Submissions must provide a tool description of 4 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) and a demonstration outline including screenshots of up to 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords “Tool Demo” or “Tool Demonstration” in the title. The 4-page tool description will, if the demonstration is accepted, be published in the proceedings. The 6-page demonstration outline will be used by the program committee only for evaluating the submission. * **Industrial papers**: These should describe real-world application scenarios of SLE in industry, explained in their context with an analysis of the challenges that were overcome and the lessons which the audience can learn from this experience. Industry paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) * **New ideas / vision papers**: New ideas papers should describe new, non-conventional SLE research approaches that depart from standard practice. They are intended to describe well-defined research ideas that are at an early stage of investigation. Vision papers are intended to present new unifying theories about existing SLE research that can lead to the development of new technologies or approaches. New ideas / vision papers must not exceed 4 pages including bibliography in ACM SIGPLAN conference style (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/) ### Artifact evaluation Authors of accepted papers at SLE 2017 are encouraged to submit their experiment results used for underpinning research statements to an artifact evaluation process. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully receive a seal of approval printed on the first page of the paper in the proceedings. Authors of papers with accepted artifacts are encouraged to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. ### Publications All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers, including tool papers, industrial papers and new ideas / vision papers will be published in ACM Digital Library. Selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of the Computer Languages, Systems and Structures (COMLAN) journal. ### Awards * **Distinguished paper**: Award for most notable paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the program committee. * **Distinguished reviewer**: Award for distinguished reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. * **Distinguished artifact**: Award for the artifact most significantly exceeding expectations, as determined by the AEC chairs based on the recommendations of the artifact evaluation committee. ### Program Committee Marjan Mernik (co-chair), University of Maribor, Slovenia Bernhard Rumpe (co-chair), RWTH Aachen University, Germany Christian Berger, Chalmers, Sweden Mark van den Brand, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria Jordi Cabot, ICREA, Spain Walter Cazzola, University of Milan, Italy Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Tom Dinkelaker, Ericsson, Germany Bernd Fischer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Sebastian Gerard, CEA, France Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA Esther Guerra, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Michael Homer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Tihamer Levendovszky, Microsoft, USA Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada Terence Parr, University of San Francisco, USA Jaroslav Porubän, University of Košice, Slovakia Jan Ringert, Tel Aviv University, Israel Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada Tony Sloane, Macquarie University, Australia Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada Emma Söderberg, Google, Denmark Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Jurgen Vinju, CWI, Netherlands Eric Walkingshaw, Oregon State University, USA Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Tian Zhang, Nanjing University, China ### Contact For any question, please contact the organizers via email: sle2017(a)inria.fr

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MFCS 2017 - Call for papers
by Giovanni Bacci 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science MFCS 2017 Aalborg, Denmark, August 21-25, 2017 http://mfcs2017.cs.aau.dk/ BACKGROUND: MFCS conference series is organized since 1972. Traditionally, the conference moved between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, while since a few years ago, the conference travels around Europe (in 2013 it was held in Austria, then in 2014 in Hungary, in 2015, in Italy). In 2016 the conference returned to Poland and in 2017 it will be held in Denmark. MFCS is a high-quality venue for original research in all branches of theoretical computer science. The broad scope of the conference encourages interactions between researchers who might not meet at more specialized venues. MFCS 2017 consists of invited lectures and contributed talks, selected by an international program committee of researchers focusing on diverse areas of theoretical computer science. The conference will be accompanied by workshops. We encourage submission of original research papers in all areas of theoretical computer science, including (but not limited to) the following: - algorithmic game theory - algorithmic learning theory - algorithms and data structures (incl. sequential, parallel distributed, randomized, approximation, graph, network, on-line, parameterized, optimization algorithms) - automata and formal languages - bioinformatics - combinatorics on words, trees, and other structures - computational complexity (structural and model-related) - computational geometry - computer-assisted reasoning - concurrency theory - cryptography and security - databases and knowledge-based systems - formal specifications and program development - foundations of computing - logic, algebra and categories in computer science - mobile computing - models of computation - networks (incl. wireless, sensor, ad-hoc networks) - parallel and distributed computing - quantum computing - semantics and verification of programs - theoretical issues in artificial intelligence - types in computer science All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be collected into the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission deadline: April 17th, 2017 (AoE) Paper submission deadline: April 24th, 2017 (AoE) Notification of authors: June 12th, 2017 (AoE) Camera-ready copies due: June 22nd, 2017 (AoE) Early registration deadline: June 23rd, 2017 (AoE) Late registration deadline: August 7th, 2017 (AoE; afterward, only on-site registration) Conference dates: August 21–25, 2017 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: * Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark, chair) * Hans L. Bodlaender (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, co-chair) * Jean-Francois Raskin (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, co-chair) LOCAL ORGANIZERS * Radu Mardare (Aalborg University, Denmark) * Jiri Srba (Aalborg University, Denmark) * Rikke W. Uhrenholt (Aalborg University, Denmark) PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfcs17 Submissions should be prepared according to the following instructions: Papers should be formatted using the LIPIcs style (see LIPIcs: Instructions for Authors for style files, examples, and manuals) Length: up to 12 pages (excluding references and an optional appendix) References and an optional appendix can go beyond the 12 pages (the appendix will be consulted at the discretion of the program committee). It is mandatory to use pdflatex No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals are allowed (but submissions to preprint repositories such as arXiv or workshops without formal published proceedings are allowed)

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Second Call for Papers: ICFP 2017
by Lindsey Kuper 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

ICFP 2017 The 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming Oxford, United Kingdom http://icfp17.sigplan.org/ Second Call for Papers ### Important dates Submissions due: Monday, February 27, Anywhere on Earth https://icfp17.hotcrp.com Author response: Monday, April 17, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) - Thursday, April 20, 2017, 15:00 (UTC) Notification: Monday, 1 May, 2017 Final copy due: Monday, 5 June 2017 Early registration: TBA Conference: Monday, 4 September - Wednesday, 6 September, 2017 ### Updates for Second Call for Papers This revision, published January 31, 2017, includes the following updates: * A link to the list of frequently asked questions about the double-blind review process. * A new requirement for citations in author-year format. This follows a decision for PACMPL that was made after the original version of this call was distributed. As such, author-year format will be required for final (accepted) versions of papers in ICFP 2017, but not for submissions. * Additional guidance for authors using LaTeX. * A clarification about the expectations for author attendance in the event of visa-related problems. ### New this year Those familiar with previous ICFP conferences should be aware of two significant changes that are being introduced in 2017: 1. Papers selected for ICFP 2017 will be published as the ICFP 2017 issue of a new journal, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), which replaces the previous ICFP conference proceedings. The move to PACMPL will have two noticeable impacts on authors: * A new, two-phase selection and reviewing process that conforms to ACM’s journal reviewing guidelines. * A new, single-column format for submissions. 2. Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the reviewing process will have the option to submit materials for Artifact Evaluation. Further details on each of these changes are included in the following text. ### Scope ICFP 2017 seeks original papers on the art and science of functional programming. Submissions are invited on all topics from principles to practice, from foundations to features, and from abstraction to application. The scope includes all languages that encourage functional programming, including both purely applicative and imperative languages, as well as languages with objects, concurrency, or parallelism. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * *Language Design*: concurrency, parallelism, and distribution; modules; components and composition; metaprogramming; type systems; interoperability; domain-specific languages; and relations to imperative, object-oriented, or logic programming. * *Implementation*: abstract machines; virtual machines; interpretation; compilation; compile-time and run-time optimization; garbage collection and memory management; multi-threading; exploiting parallel hardware; interfaces to foreign functions, services, components, or low-level machine resources. * *Software-Development Techniques*: algorithms and data structures; design patterns; specification; verification; validation; proof assistants; debugging; testing; tracing; profiling. * *Foundations*: formal semantics; lambda calculus; rewriting; type theory; monads; continuations; control; state; effects; program verification; dependent types. * *Analysis and Transformation*: control-flow; data-flow; abstract interpretation; partial evaluation; program calculation. * *Applications*: symbolic computing; formal-methods tools; artificial intelligence; systems programming; distributed-systems and web programming; hardware design; databases; XML processing; scientific and numerical computing; graphical user interfaces; multimedia and 3D graphics programming; scripting; system administration; security. * *Education*: teaching introductory programming; parallel programming; mathematical proof; algebra. Submissions will be evaluated according to their relevance, correctness, significance, originality, and clarity. Each submission should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. The technical content should be accessible to a broad audience. ICFP 2017 also welcomes submissions in two separate categories --- Functional Pearls and Experience Reports --- that must be marked as such at the time of submission and that need not report original research results. Detailed guidelines on both categories are given at the end of this call. Please contact the program chair if you have questions or are concerned about the appropriateness of a topic. ### Preparation of submissions ICFP 2017 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process, as described below. **Deadline**: The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 27, 2017, Anywhere on Earth (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth>). This deadline will be strictly enforced. **Formatting**: (NOTE: NEW FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR ICFP 2017) Submissions must be in PDF format, printable in black and white on US Letter sized paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. All submissions must adhere to the "ACM Large" template that is available (in both LaTeX and Word formats) from <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. For authors using LaTeX, a lighter-weight package, including only the essential files, is available from <http://sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format>; the appropriate template for ICFP 2017 authors is in the file `acmart-pacmpl-template.tex`. As documented in the template, submissions should be prepared using the `acmlarge` and `anonymous` options. The use of the `review` option is also strongly encouraged but not required. (The `review` option will add line numbers, which will make it easier for reviewers to reference specific parts of your paper in their comments, but should have absolutely no other effect on the typesetting.) Details of available technical support for LaTeX-specific questions is available at <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#h-technical-support>. There is a limit of 24 pages for a full paper or 12 pages for an Experience Report; in either case, the bibliography will not be counted against these limits. These page limits have been chosen to allow essentially the same amount of content with the new single-column format as was possible with the two-column format used in past ICFP conferences. Submissions that exceed the page limits or, for other reasons, do not meet the requirements for formatting, will be summarily rejected. **Citations**: As part of PACMPL, ICFP 2017 papers are expected to use author-year citations for references to other work. Author-year citations may be used as either a noun phrase, such as "The lambda calculus was originally conceived by Church (1932)", or a parenthetic phase, such as "The lambda calculus (Church 1932) was intended as a foundation for mathematics". A useful test for correct usage it to make sure that the text still reads correctly when the parenthesized portions of any references are omitted. Take care with prepositions; in the first example above, "by" is more appropriate than "in" because it allows the text to be read correctly as a reference to the author. Sometimes, readability may be improved by putting parenthetic citations at the end of a clause or a sentence, such as "A foundation for mathematics was provided by the lambda calculus (Church 1932)". In LaTeX, use `\citet{Church-1932}` for citations as a noun phrase, "Church (1932)", and `\citep{Church-1932}` for citations as a parenthetic phrase, "(Church 1932)"; for details, see Sections 2.3--2.5 of the natbib documentation (<http://ctan.org/pkg/natbib>). **Submission**: Submissions will be accepted at <https://icfp17.hotcrp.com/> (in preparation at the time of writing). Improved versions of a paper may be submitted at any point before the submission deadline using the same web interface. **Author Response Period**: Authors will have a 72-hour period, starting at 15:00 UTC on Monday, April 17, 2017, to read reviews and respond to them. **Supplementary Materials**: Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look at it. The material should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. This supplementary material may or may not be anonymized; if not anonymized, it will only be revealed to reviewers after they have submitted their review of the paper and learned the identity of the author(s). **Authorship Policies**: All submissions are expected to comply with the ACM Policies for Authorship that are detailed at <https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/information-for-authors>. **Republication Policies**: Each submission must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy, as explained on the web at <http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication>. **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 program 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. ### Review Process This section outlines the two-stage process with lightweight double-blind reviewing that will be used to select papers for presentation at ICFP 2017. A [list of frequently asked questions and answers](http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-papers#Submission-and-Re… that address common concerns is available on the conference website and will be updated as necessary to clarify and expand on this process. **ICFP 2017 will employ a two-stage review process.** The first stage in the review process will assess submitted papers using the criteria stated above and will allow for feedback and input on initial reviews through the author response period mentioned previously. At the PC meeting, a set of papers will be conditionally accepted and all other papers will be rejected. Authors will be notified of these decisions on May 1, 2017. Authors of conditionally accepted papers will be provided with committee reviews (just as in previous conferences) along with a set of mandatory revisions. After five weeks (June 5, 2017), the authors will provide a second submission. The second and final reviewing phase assesses whether the mandatory revisions have been adequately addressed by the authors and thereby determines the final accept/reject status of the paper. The intent and expectation is that the mandatory revisions can be addressed within five weeks and hence that conditionally accepted papers will in general be accepted in the second phase. The second submission should clearly identify how the mandatory revisions were addressed. To that end, the second submission must be accompanied by a cover letter mapping each mandatory revision request to specific parts of the paper. The cover letter will facilitate a quick second review, allowing for confirmation of final acceptance within two weeks. Conversely, the absence of a cover letter will be grounds for the paper’s rejection. This process is intended as a refinement of the review process that has been used in previous ICFP conferences. By incorporating a second stage, the process will conform to ACM’s journal reviewing guidelines for PACMPL. **ICFP 2017 will employ 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 PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement 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. ### Information for Authors of Accepted Papers * As a condition of acceptance, final versions of all papers must adhere to the new ACM Large format. The page limits for final versions of papers will be increased to ensure that authors have space to respond to reviewer comments and mandatory revisions. * Authors of accepted submissions will be required to agree to one of the three ACM licensing options: copyright transfer to ACM; retaining copyright but granting ACM exclusive publication rights; or open access on payment of a fee. Further information about ACM author rights is available from <http://authors.acm.org>. * At least one author of each accepted submission will be expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. (ICFP welcomes all authors, regardless of nationality. If any author of an accepted submission has visa-related difficulties in travelling to the conference, we will make arrangements to enable remote participation, and not require them to attend the conference in order to present their talk.) The schedule for presentations will be determined and shared with authors after the full program has been selected. Presentations will be videotaped and released online if the presenter consents. * We intend that the proceedings will be freely available for download from the ACM Digital Library in perpetuity via the OpenTOC mechanism. * ACM Author-Izer is a unique service that enables ACM authors to generate and post links on either their home page or institutional repository for visitors to download the definitive version of their articles from the ACM Digital Library at no charge. Downloads through Author-Izer links are captured in official ACM statistics, improving the accuracy of usage and impact measurements. Consistently linking to the definitive version of an ACM article should reduce user confusion over article versioning. After an article has been published and assigned to the appropriate ACM Author Profile pages, authors should visit <http://www.acm.org/publications/acm-author-izer-service> to learn how to create links for free downloads from the ACM DL. * **AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date 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.** ### Artifact Evaluation Authors of papers that are conditionally accepted in the first phase of the review process will be encouraged (but not required) to submit supporting materials for Artifact Evaluation. These items will then be reviewed by a committee, separate from the program committee, whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the associated paper. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to make the supporting materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, for example, by including them as "source materials" in the ACM Digital Library. An additional seal will mark papers whose artifacts are made available, as outlined in the ACM guidelines for artifact badging. Participation in Artifact Evaluation is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding paper acceptance. Further information about the motivations and expectations for Artifact Evaluation can be found at <http://icfp17.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2017-Artifacts>. ### Special categories of papers In addition to research papers, ICFP solicits two kinds of papers that do not require original research contributions: Functional Pearls, which are full papers, and Experience Reports, which are limited to half the length of a full paper. Authors submitting such papers should consider the following guidelines. #### Functional Pearls A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to: * a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea * an instructive example of program calculation or proof * a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure * an interesting application of functional programming techniques * a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so. Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls. Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria. In particular, a pearl is not required to report original research, but, it should be concise, instructive, and entertaining. A pearl is likely to be rejected if its readers get bored, if the material gets too complicated, if too much specialized knowledge is needed, or if the writing is inelegant. The key to writing a good pearl is polishing. A submission that is intended to be treated as a pearl must be marked as such on the submission web page, and should contain the words "Functional Pearl" somewhere in its title or subtitle. These steps will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation criteria. Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however, for the purpose of computing the conference's acceptance rate. #### Experience Reports The purpose of an Experience Report is to help create a body of published, refereed, citable evidence that functional programming really works --- or to describe what obstacles prevent it from working. Possible topics for an Experience Report include, but are not limited to: * insights gained from real-world projects using functional programming * comparison of functional programming with conventional programming in the context of an industrial project or a university curriculum * project-management, business, or legal issues encountered when using functional programming in a real-world project * curricular issues encountered when using functional programming in education * real-world constraints that created special challenges for an implementation of a functional language or for functional programming in general An Experience Report is distinguished from a normal ICFP paper by its title, by its length, and by the criteria used to evaluate it. * Both in the proceedings and in any citations, the title of each accepted Experience Report must begin with the words "Experience Report" followed by a colon. The acceptance rate for Experience Reports will be computed and reported separately from the rate for ordinary papers. * Experience Report submissions can be at most 12 pages long, excluding bibliography. * Each accepted Experience Report will be presented at the conference, but depending on the number of Experience Reports and regular papers accepted, authors of Experience reports may be asked to give shorter talks. * Because the purpose of Experience Reports is to enable our community to accumulate a body of evidence about the efficacy of functional programming, an acceptable Experience Report need not add to the body of knowledge of the functional-programming community by presenting novel results or conclusions. It is sufficient if the Report states a clear thesis and provides supporting evidence. The thesis must be relevant to ICFP, but it need not be novel. The program committee will accept or reject Experience Reports based on whether they judge the evidence to be convincing. Anecdotal evidence will be acceptable provided it is well argued and the author explains what efforts were made to gather as much evidence as possible. Typically, more convincing evidence is obtained from papers which show how functional programming was used than from papers which only say that functional programming was used. The most convincing evidence often includes comparisons of situations before and after the introduction or discontinuation of functional programming. Evidence drawn from a single person's experience may be sufficient, but more weight will be given to evidence drawn from the experience of groups of people. An Experience Report should be short and to the point: it should make a claim about how well functional programming worked on a particular project and why, and produce evidence to substantiate this claim. If functional programming worked in this case in the same ways it has worked for others, the paper need only summarize the results --- the main part of the paper should discuss how well it worked and in what context. Most readers will not want to know all the details of the project and its implementation, but the paper should characterize the project and its context well enough so that readers can judge to what degree this experience is relevant to their own projects. The paper should take care to highlight any unusual aspects of the project. Specifics about the project are more valuable than generalities about functional programming; for example, it is more valuable to say that the team delivered its software a month ahead of schedule than it is to say that functional programming made the team more productive. If the paper not only describes experience but also presents new technical results, or if the experience refutes cherished beliefs of the functional-programming community, it may be better off submitted it as a full paper, which will be judged by the usual criteria of novelty, originality, and relevance. The program chair will be happy to advise on any concerns about which category to submit to. ### Organizers General Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK) Program Chair: Mark Jones (Portland State University, USA) Artifact Evaluation Chair: Ryan R. Newton (Indiana University, USA) Industrial Relations Chair: Ryan Trinkle (Obsidian Systems LLC, USA) Programming Contest Organiser: Sam Lindley (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity and Web Chair: Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Ilya Sergey (University College London, UK) Video Chair: Jose Calderon (Galois, Inc., USA) Workshops Co-Chair: Andres Löh (Well-Typed LLP) Workshops Co-Chair: David Christiansen (Indiana University, USA) Program Committee: Bob Atkey (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Dominique Devriese (KU Leuven, Belgium) Martin Erwig (Oregon State, USA) Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, USA) Ronald Garcia (University of British Columbia, Canada) Kathryn Gray (University of Cambridge, England) John Hughes (Chalmers University and Quvik, Sweden) Chung-Kil Hur (Seoul National University, Korea) Graham Hutton (University of Nottingham, England) Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego, USA) Shin-ya Katsumata (Kyoto University, Japan) Lindsey Kuper (Intel Labs, USA) Dan Licata (Wesleyan University, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Digital Asset, Australia) Gabriel Scherer (Northeastern University, USA) Alexandra Silva (University College London, England) Nikhil Swamy (Microsoft Research, USA) Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Nicolas Wu (University of Bristol, England) Beta Ziliani (CONICET and FAMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)

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

30 Jan '17

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

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

27 Jan '17

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

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

27 Jan '17

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

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

27 Jan '17

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

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

27 Jan '17

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

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