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AVoCS 2015: Joint Call for Research Idea Papers & Participation
by Lin, Yuhui 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

======================================================================= |** AVoCS 2015: Joint Call for Research Idea Papers & Participation **| ======================================================================= The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems 1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/ avocs2015(a)easychair.org -----------------------|*** HIGHLIGHTS ***|---------------------------- + *NEW* Registration is now open! + *NEW* Special research ideas session: short papers due 10th August + *NEW* Several student grants available: application due 10th August + Invited talks by Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ/Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate/Edinburgh) + AI4FM workshop including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) + Proceedings to be published by EASST + Special issues of Science of Computer Programming ======================================================================= REGISTRATION Registration for AVoCS is available from https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/registration Early registration ends 18 August. SPONSORS Altran D-RisQ Software Systems Formal Methods Europe (FME) The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) BACKGROUND The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2015 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. SCOPE We encourage the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. The subject of the ideas is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. Topics include (but are not limited to): - Model Checking - Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving - SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification - Abstract Interpretation - Specification and Refinement - Requirements Capture and Analysis - Verification of Software and Hardware - Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience - Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems - Dependable Systems - Verified System Development - Industrial Applications IMPORTANT DATES Submission of research idea papers: 10th August 2015 Submission of student grant application: 10th August 2015 Notification (research idea): 14th August 2015 Early registration: 18th August 2015 Submissions of final versions: 21st August 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ & the University of Oxford) Don Sannella (Contemplate & the University of Edinburgh) WORKSHOPS AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ including invited talk by J Strother Moore (Univerity of Texas at Austin) VENUE The event will be held in the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in the centre of the historic old town of Edinburgh - an UNESCO world heritage site. SUBMISSION DETAILS Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available from the the following link (for LaTeX and Word): http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/public/template/ The presentation of these ideas will be organised around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of question in which the audience will discuss. Submissions are handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015 The research ideas will be included in the pre-proceedings, which will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt University Technical Report and will be available at the workhsop. STUDENT GRANTS Thanks to sponsorships from Altran, FME and SICSA we can offer financial support for a limited number of students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration fee waiver (full or partial). As this is limited, we ask the students that would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application. The details on how to apply is available from AVoCS webpage. SPECIAL SCP JOURNAL ISSUE Authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ernie Cohen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ewen Denney, NASA Ames, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair) Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair) Gerwin Klein, NICTA/UNSW, Australia Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Panagiotis (Pete) Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK Marco Roveri, FBK, Italy Thomas Santen, Microsoft Research, Germany Bernard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Jan Strejček, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Tayssir Touili, LIAFA, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Angela Wallenburg, Altran, UK John Wickerson, Imperial College London, UK Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway ORGANISERS Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK (local arrangements and publicity chair) STEERING COMMITTEE Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK ----- We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278.

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IAG is hiring Haskell programmers
by Patryk Zadarnowski 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

We are looking for two Haskell programmers to join the existing team of two at IAG, Australia's largest insurance group. The positions are within a newly-formed engineering group within the Information & Analytics department. We are currently working on some very cool algorithmic projects, and are looking for people who can demonstrate ability to work with complex data structures and algorithms (both design and implementation.) You should also have a good working knowledge of Haskell (since this is our language of choice for all development), but we also value breadth of experience with a variety of technologies (since we don’t work in a vacuum.) Most importantly, however, we are looking for people who are passionate about programming, have a github account to prove it, and who prefer to seek out challenging problems rather than tick off requirement lists. The positions are located in Sydney, Australia, so, to apply, you must have the right to work in Australia. Unfortunately, at this stage IAG is unable offer visa sponsorship, but, for the right candidate, we may be able to help with relocation costs. We are looking to hire immediately, so if this sounds like you, please sent your CV to me by reply email. -- Patryk Zadarnowski

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Call for Contributions: Haskell Implementors' Workshop 2015
by Josef Svenningsson 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

Call for Contributions ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementors' Workshop http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellImplementorsWorkshop/2015 Vancouver, Canada, 30 August, 2015 Co-located with ICFP 2015 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2015/ Important dates --------------- Proposal Deadline: Monday, 3 August, 2015 (midnight, anywhere on earth) Notification: Monday, 10 August, 2015 Workshop: Sunday, 30 August, 2015 The 7th Haskell Implementors' Workshop is to be held alongside ICFP 2015 this year in Vancouver. It is a forum for people involved in the design and development of Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting infrastructure, to share their work and discuss future directions and collaborations with others. Talks and/or demos are proposed by submitting an abstract, and selected by a small program committee. There will be no published proceedings; the workshop will be informal and interactive, with a flexible timetable and plenty of room for ad-hoc discussion, demos, and impromptu short talks. Attendance figures clearly reflect the growth of the Haskell user community and a constant interest in implementation aspects. Scope and target audience ------------------------- It is important to distinguish the Haskell Implementors' Workshop from the Haskell Symposium which is also co-located with ICFP 2015. The Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In contrast, the Haskell Implementors' Workshop will have no proceedings -- although we will aim to make talk videos, slides and presented data available with the consent of the speakers. In the Haskell Implementors' Workshop, we hope to study the underlying technology. We want to bring together anyone interested in the nitty-gritty details behind turning plain-text source code into a deployed product. Having said that, members of the wider Haskell community are more than welcome to attend the workshop -- we need your feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. The scope covers any of the following topics. There may be some topics that people feel we've missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if it doesn't fit exactly into one of these buckets: * Compilation techniques * Language features and extensions * Type system implementation * Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation * Performance, optimisation and benchmarking * Virtual machines and run-time systems * Libraries and tools for development or deployment Talks ----- At this stage we would like to invite proposals from potential speakers for talks and demonstrations. We are aiming for 20 minute talks with 10 minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. Please submit a talk title and abstract of no more than 300 words. Submissions should be made via HotCRP. The website is: https://icfp-hiw15.hotcrp.com/ We will also have a lightning talks session which will be organised on the day. These talks will be 5-10 minutes, depending on available time. Suggested topics for lightning talks are to present a single idea, a work-in-progress project, a problem to intrigue and perplex Haskell implementors, or simply to ask for feedback and collaborators. Organisers ---------- * Richard Eisenberg (University of Pennsylvania) * Edward Kmett (S&P Capital IQ) * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Heriot-Watt University) * Trevor L. McDonell (Indiana University) * Deian Stefan (Stanford University) * Josef Svenningsson - chair (Chalmers University of Technology) Contact ------- * Josef Svenningsson <josef.svenningsson at chalmers.se>

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CoPro 2015 - Mini-Symposium on Coordination Programming
by Clemens Grelck 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS / EXTENDED ABSTRACTS / PRESENTATION SUMMARIES CoPro 2015 Mini-Symposium on Coordination Programming http://www.parco2015.org/coordination-programming Edinburgh, UK September 1, 2015 Submission deadline: July 29, 2015 *************************************************************************** PART OF ParCo 2015 17th International Conference on Parallel Computing http://www.parco2015.org/ Edinburgh, UK September 1-4, 2015 *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: July 29, 2015: submission deadline July 30, 2015: author notification July 31, 2015: early registration deadline ParCo conference September 1, 2015: mini-symposium September 4, 2015: end of ParCo conference October 31, 2015: submission of camera-ready papers for ParCo proceedings *************************************************************************** SUBMISSIONS: The focus of the mini-symposium is on bringing together researchers interested in all aspects of coordination programming. Our emphasis is on lively discussions and scientific exchange, not formalities. For the initial submission anything from a 1-2 page extended abstract or presentation summary to a full 10-page paper is equally fine. Titles, authors and abstracts of all submissions accepted by the CoPro 2015 mini-symposium will appear in the ParCo book of abstracts to be distributed during the conference. We will merely apply a quick scope check. All authors of contributions presented at the mini-symposium are invited to submit a full paper after the conference that will be reviewed and if accepted will be included in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2015) and published as a volume of the series Advances of Parallel Computing after the ParCo conference. Submission of contributions is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copro2015 *************************************************************************** SCOPE: Coordination programming is a term that everybody seems to have a vague idea about, but only a few have a definite view on. And among those there is a great deal of divergence in understanding what coordination is all about. In this mini-symposium we intend to look at various interpretations of, and approaches to, coordination: from the conventional tuple-space, Linda-inspired constructions, such as CnC, to behavioural models such as Reo, to more recent attempts to see a coordination program as a projection of the full semantics of a distributed application that can be more or less accurately inferred at compile time and which affects resource- and performance-critical parameters. The mini-symposium will serve as a forum for building bridges between the various directions of research and will help us to share experiences and build a community geared towards practical applications of coordination programming. The mini-symposium will address, but is not limited to, the following issues through contributed papers and a panel-style discussion session included in the programme: * Why does coordination require a coordination language? Is there a kind of analysis that is impeded by the lack of specific coordination-language constructs? * Inference vs adaptation. What can be inferred and how should the coordination program adapt to the resource situation in parallel and distributed systems? * What kind of tuning or self-tuning facilities should/can coordination programming approaches require/possess? * What is the relationship between control-coordination and data-coordination? * How can coordination programming address the challenges of cloud computing, big data processing/analysis and mixed-criticality cyberphysical systems? * What are recent success stories in applying coordination programming to real-life applications? *************************************************************************** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Farhad Arbab, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Kath Knobe, Rice University, USA Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, UK *************************************************************************** MINI-SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Clemens Grelck University of Amsterdam Informatics Institute Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands c.grelck(a)uva.nl http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck Alex Shafarenko University of Hertfordshire School of Computer Science College Lane Hatfield, AL10 9AB United Kingdom a.shafarenko(a)herts.ac.uk http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~comqas/ *************************************************************************** -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Clemens Grelck Science Park 904 University Lecturer 1098XH Amsterdam Netherlands University of Amsterdam Institute for Informatics T +31 (0) 20 525 8683 Computer Systems Architecture Group F +31 (0) 20 525 7490 Office C3.105 staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.u.grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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FLOPS 2016, Second CFP
by Oleg 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

FLOPS 2016: 13th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming March 3-6, 2016, Kochi, Japan Call For Papers http://www.info.kochi-tech.ac.jp/FLOPS2016/ New: best paper award; in-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN Writing down detailed computational steps is not the only way of programming. The alternative, being used increasingly in practice, is to start by writing down the desired properties of the result. The computational steps are then (semi-)automatically derived from these higher-level specifications. Examples of this declarative style include functional and logic programming, program transformation and re-writing, and extracting programs from proofs of their correctness. FLOPS aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and implementors of the declarative programming, to discuss mutually interesting results and common problems: theoretical advances, their implementations in language systems and tools, and applications of these systems in practice. The scope includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, applications, implementations, and teaching of declarative programming. FLOPS specifically aims to promote cross-fertilization between theory and practice and among different styles of declarative programming. Scope FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of the declarative programming: * functional, logic, functional-logic programming, re-writing systems, formal methods and model checking, program transformations and program refinements, developing programs with the help of theorem provers or SAT/SMT solvers; * foundations, language design, implementation issues (compilation techniques, memory management, run-time systems), applications and case studies. FLOPS promotes cross-fertilization among different styles of declarative programming. Therefore, submissions must be written to be understandable by the wide audience of declarative programmers and researchers. Submission of system descriptions and declarative pearls are especially encouraged. Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: * Regular research papers: they should describe new results and will be judged on originality, correctness, and significance. * System descriptions: they should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. * Declarative pearls: new and excellent declarative programs or theories with illustrative applications. System descriptions and declarative pearls must be explicitly marked as such in the title. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. See also ACM SIGPLAN Republication Policy. The proceedings will be published by Springer International Publishing in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as a printed volume as well as online in the digital library SpringerLink. Post-proceedings: The authors of 4-7 best papers will be invited to submit the extended version of their FLOPS paper to a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming (SCP). Important dates Monday, September 14, 2015 (any time zone): Submission deadline Monday, November 16, 2015: Author notification March 3-6, 2016: FLOPS Symposium March 7-9, 2016: PPL Workshop Submission Submissions must be written in English and can be up to 15 pages long including references, though pearls are typically shorter. The formatting has to conform to Springer's guidelines. Regular research papers should be supported by proofs and/or experimental results. In case of lack of space, this supporting information should be made accessible otherwise (e.g., a link to a Web page, or an appendix). Papers should be submitted electronically at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flops2016 Program Committee Andreas Abel Gothenburg University, Sweden Lindsay Errington USA Makoto Hamana Gunma University, Japan Michael Hanus CAU Kiel, Germany Jacob Howe City University London, UK Makoto Kanazawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Andy King University of Kent, UK (PC Co-Chair) Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair) Hsiang-Shang Ko National Institute of Informatics, Japan Julia Lawall Inria-Whisper, France Andres Loeh Well-Typed LLP, UK Anil Madhavapeddy Cambridge University, UK Jeff Polakow PivotCloud, USA Marc Pouzet Ecole normale superieure, France Vitor Santos Costa Universidade do Porto, Portugal Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium Zoltan Somogyi Australia Alwen Tiu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sam Tobin-Hochstadt Indiana University, USA Hongwei Xi Boston University, USA Neng-Fa Zhou CUNY Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, USA Organizers Andy King University of Kent, UK (PC Co-Chair) Oleg Kiselyov Tohoku University, Japan (PC Co-Chair) Yukiyoshi Kameyama University of Tsukuba, Japan (General Chair) Kiminori Matsuzaki Kochi University of Technology, Japan (Local Chair) flops2016 at logic.cs.tsukuba.ac dot jp

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ANN: hledger 0.26
by Simon Michael 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

I'm pleased to announce hledger and hledger-web 0.26! This release restores non-regular-expression account aliases as the default, and brings miscellaneous bugfixes and cleanups and some performance work. Also the website and documentation have been improved, and now include many more examples. Full release notes: http://hledger.org/release-notes#hledger-0.26 . Release contributors: Simon Michael, Imuli, Carlos Lopez-Camey, Kyle Marek-Spartz, Rick Lupton, Simon Hengel. About: hledger (http://hledger.org) is a command-line tool and haskell library for tracking financial transactions, which are stored in a human-readable plain text format. It can also read CSV or timelog files, and output CSV. It provides useful reports, and can also help you record new transactions interactively. Add-on commands include hledger-web (a web interface), hledger-irr (for calculating internal rate of return) and hledger-interest (for generating interest transactions). hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with Ledger, and can be used with some Ledger files. Installation: $ cabal update [$ cabal sandbox init] $ cabal install hledger[-web]-0.26 or: install stack (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/wiki/Downloads <https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/wiki/Downloads>) $ stack --resolver nightly-2015-07-13 install hledger [hledger-web] or: $ git clone https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger.git $ cd hledger $ git checkout hledger-0.26 $ stack install or see http://hledger.org/download for more options. Best! -Simon

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[LPNMR 2015] REGISTRATION OPEN - Call for Participation (student support grants available)
by Francesco Calimeri 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

[apologies for multiple posting] Call for Participation *** REGISTRATION is now open *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2015 http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/ Lexington, KY, USA September 27-30, 2015 (Collocated with the 4th Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory 2015) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration procedure is available via http://www.cs.uky.edu/lpnmr2015/. AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2015 is the thirteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to the construction of systems for declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. LPNMR 2015 The program will include three invited talks: - Stable Models for Temporal Theories - By Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain - Algorithmic decision theory meets logic - By Jérôme Lang, Université Paris-Dauphine, France (Plenary session with ADT 2015). - Relational and Semantic Data Mining - By Nada Lavrač, Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia This edition of LPNMR will also feature several workshops, a special session dedicated to the 6th ASP Systems Competition, and will be collocated with the 4th Algorithmic Decision Theory Conference, ADT 2015. Joint LPNMR-ADT Doctoral Consortium will be a part of the program. Some details follow; full info are available via the official conference website http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/. ASSOCIATED EVENTS WORKSHOPS - LPNMR 2015 will include specialized workshops to be held on September 27 prior to the main conference. Currently planned workshops include: - Grounding, Transforming, and Modularizing Theories with Variables Organizers: Marc Denecker, Tomi Janhunen Website: https://sites.google.com/site/gttv2015/ - Action Languages, Process Modeling, and Policy Reasoning Organizer: Joohyung Lee, Gail-Joon Ahn Website: https://sites.google.com/site/alpp2015/ - Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning Organizers: Marcello Balduccini, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Peter Schueller Website: https://sites.google.com/site/nlpar2015/ - Learning and Nonmonotonic Reasoning Organizers: Alessandra Russo and Alessandra Mileo Website: http://lnmr2015.insight-centre.org/ ASP COMPETITION - A special session dedicated to a discussion of the 6th ASP System Competition, including the methodology of the competition, benchmarks used, lessons learned and, most importantly, the results and the announcement of the winners. ALGORITHMIC DECISION THEORY (ADT) 2015 (collocated - same time and place) Algorithmic Decision Theory is a vibrant and growing area of research concerned with algorithmic aspects of problems arising in social choice and economics that involve optimal ways to aggregate preferences. The area abounds in hard computational problems and may be an axciting area of applications for ASP. The two conferences will seek ways to identify and promote synergies between their respective areas of focus. JOINT LPNMR-ADT DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: co-Chairs: - Esra Erdem (LPNMR), Sabanci University, Turkey - Nick Mattei (ADT), NICTA, Australia More info: http://lpnmr2015.mat.unical.it/associated-events/adt-lpnmr-2015-doctoral-co… STUDENT SUPPORT GRANTS The organizing committee has limited funds to partially support students attending LPNMR, with priority to authors of accepted papers that are not funded by the doctoral consortium and have no other funding available. The funding will cover registration and partially cover stay in the conference hotel or some other hotel located nearby (the exact number of free nights to be determined). Applicants should submit their requests to lpnmr2015(a)mat.unical.it. A proof of student status is requested. COMPLIMENTARY MEMBERSHIP OFFER FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS NEW TO AAAI LPNMR 2015 is pleased to acknowledge its cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) [http://www.aaai.org] which will be publicizing the conference to its membership. Of special interest to conference attendees is an introductory membership offer from AAAI, which provides a complimentary 1-year online membership to conference participants who are new to AAAI. Please send a message to membership15(a)aaai.org for further details. VENUE Lexington is a medium size, pleasant and quiet university town. It is located in the heart of the so-called Bluegrass Region in Central Kentucky. The city is surrounded by beautiful horse farms on green pastures dotted with ponds and traditional architecture stables, and small race tracks, and bordered by white or black fences. The Horse Museum is as beautifully located as it is interesting. Overall, the city has a nice feel that mixes well old and new. The conference will be held in the Hilton Lexington Downtown hotel. COMMITTEES GENERAL CHAIR Victor Marek, University of Kentucky, KY, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy Mirek Truszczynski, University of Kentucky, KY, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebrska at Omaha, NE, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Agostino Dovier, Università di Udine, Italy Agustín Valverde, Universidad de Màlaga, Spain Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland, Galway, INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland Andrea Formisano, Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia, Italy Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Bart Bogaerts, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA Christoph Redl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA David Pearce, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Emilia Oikarinen, Aalto University, Finland Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Eugenia Ternovska, Simon Fraser University, Canada Fangkai Yang, Schlumberger Ltd Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Francesco Calimeri, Università della Calabria, Italy Gerhard Brewka, Leipzig University, Germany Giovanni Grasso, Oxford University, UK Hannes Strass, Leipzig University, Germany Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria James Delgrande, Simon Fraser University, Canada Jia-Huai You, University of Alberta, Canada Joohyung Lee, Arizona State University, USA Jose Julio Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Marc Denecker, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Marcello Balduccini, Drexel University, USA Marina De Vos, University of Bath, UK Martin Gebser, Aalto University, Finland Matthias Knorr, NOVA-LINCS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Mauricio Osorio, Fundacion de la Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Orkunt Sabuncu, University of Potsdam, Germany Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA Pedro Cabalar, University of Corunna, Spain Saadat Anwar, Arizona State University, USA Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology Stefania Costantini, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione, e Matematica, Univ. di L'Aquila, Italy Terrance Swift, CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Finland Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, USA Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield, UK Yi Zhou, University of Western Sydney, Australia Yisong Wang, Guizhou University, China Yuliya Lierler, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA CONTACT lpnmr2015(a)mat.unical.it

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To all users of FGL
by Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

As you may now, for the past few months I've been (finally!) cleaning up FGL, adding tests, etc. One of the issues that has arisen with this is that the behaviour of the delLEdge [1] function is not well specified when dealing with multiple edges. Specifically, the documentation states that the purpose is to "Remove *an* LEdge from the Graph." (emphasis added)... but the behaviour when dealing with multiple edges is to remove *all* such edges from the graph. The current version on GitHub is to instead just delete a single such labelled edge, with a new function "delAllLEdge" that replicates the current behaviour. Before releasing this change, however, I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't break people's code if they rely upon this functionality; I did try and search through GitHub to see who - if anyone - is using this function, but primarily found various copies of fgl embedded into other people's repositories. As such, please check your code and let me know if this change in behaviour might affect you (if this is the case, I might let delLEdge keep the current behaviour and have a new function delete just one edge). [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fgl-5.5.1.0/docs/Data-Graph-Inductive-Gr… -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic(a)gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

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AI4FM 2015: Final call for short contributions
by Andrius Velykis 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

AI4FM 2015 The 6th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/ *1st September 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland.* In association with AVoCS 2015 (https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15) Important dates ---------- *Submission deadline: 1st August 2015* Notification of acceptance: 10th August 2015 Final version due: 21st August 2015 Workshop: 1st September 2015 Overview ---------- The 6th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods (AI4FM 2015) will be held on the 1st of September, 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The AI4FM workshops bring together researchers from formal methods, automated reasoning and AI; aiming to address the issue of how AI can be used to support the formal software development process, including requirement analysis, modelling and proof. The workshops include a mix of industrial and academic participants and we anticipate attracting a similarly diverse audience in AI4FM 2015. We invite 3-page short contributions (extended abstracts) presenting work in the areas of automated reasoning, formal methods and artificial intelligence. The authors can submit work in progress, tools under development, and PhD projects to facilitate and benefit from the active dialog between the groups involved in these research areas. Invited speaker: J Strother Moore (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/, University of Texas at Austin, US) will be giving an invited talk at AI4FM 2015. Topics of interest ---------- The main aim for the workshop is discussion, thus submissions do not need to be original. Extended versions of submissions may have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after AI4FM 2015 to another workshop, conference or a journal. Presentations of work in progress, tools under development, and PhD projects are also encouraged. The scope of the workshop covers the research in automated reasoning, formal methods and artificial intelligence. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The use of AI and automated reasoning to support and guide the formal modelling process. - The use of AI and automated reasoning in the requirement capture process. - The use of AI to reuse formal models, programs and proofs. - The use of machine learning to support interactive theorem proving. - The use of machine learning to enhance automated theorem proving. - The development of search heuristics. - The use of AI for term synthesis, invariant generation, lemma discovery and concept invention. - The use of AI for counter-example generation. - The use of constraint solvers in formal methods. - The role of AI planning for formal systems developments, from requirements to the end product (including software and hardware). - The interplay between reasoning and modelling and the role of AI in this framework. - Ontologies in the formal engineering process. - Novel ideas on how to use AI (e.g. machine learning, pattern recognition) in proof automation. - Use of cloud elasticity for: scalability on large scale developments, proof/lemma exploration. - Techniques for bridging the development to maintenance gap. Submission ---------- Submission is by email to: ai4fm2015(a)ai4fm.org Please submit an abstract up to 3 pages in a PDF format. The extended abstracts will be handed out to all participants, and will be made into a technical report prior to the workshop. Acceptance for presentation at the workshop will be made by the organisers based on relevance to the workshop. Student grants ---------- Thanks to sponsorships from Altran, FME, and SICSA we can offer financial support for a limited number of students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration fee waiver (full or partial, registration covers the AI4FM workshop in addition to AVoCS). As this is limited, we ask the students that would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application. The details on how to apply are available on the AVoCS website: https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/student-grants Organisers ---------- - Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) - Andrius Velykis (Newcastle University, UK) - Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) If you have any queries, please email the organisers at the following e-mail address: ai4fm2015(a)ai4fm.org

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Final CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015
by Nabeel Al-Qirim 11 Jul '15

11 Jul '15

IIT’15: The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology 2015 URL: http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit2015/posters.html The IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Committee invites all undergraduate and graduate students to submit an extended (2 pages max.) abstract and to display it as a poster during the IIT’15. The poster topic should fall within the conference’s theme and tracks. SUBMISSION Extended abstracts should be sent to Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae. All students are encouraged to review their abstracts with their faculty advisers prior to submission. All accepted abstracts will be published by the IIT’15 proceedings. NEW IMPORTANT DATES -Student Poster (Extended Paper) Submission July 15, 2015 -Notification of Student Poster acceptance from September 9, 2015 -Camera ready Extended Paper and Poster material September 29, 2015 -Conference November 01-03, 2015 BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARDS There will be a competition for best student poster award at the IIT’15. This award will be given to recognize student excellence in research and presentation. CONTACT Queries should be directed to: Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Thanks, Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Chair College of Information Technology United Arab Emirates University P.O Box 15551 - Al Ain United Arab Emirates Tel: +971-3-7135531 Mobile: +971-507308705 Fax: +971-3-7672018 Email: nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Website: http://nalqirim.wix.com/nabeel-al-qirim -----Original Message----- From: Haskell [mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Nabeel Al-Qirim Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 3:23 PM To: haskell(a)haskell.org; Haskell Cafe Subject: [Haskell] CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015 CF STUDENT POSTERS for Innovations'15 (No registration fees), Dubai, November 01-03, 2015 IIT’15: The 11th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology 2015 URL: http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit2015/posters.html The IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Committee invites all undergraduate and graduate students to submit an extended (2 pages max.) abstract and to display it as a poster during the IIT’15. The poster topic should fall within the conference’s theme and tracks. SUBMISSION Extended abstracts should be sent to Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae. All students are encouraged to review their abstracts with their faculty advisers prior to submission. All accepted abstracts will be published by the IIT’15 proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES -Student Poster (Extended Paper) Submission May 30, 2015 -Notification of Student Poster acceptance July 15, 2015 -Camera ready Extended Paper and Poster material September 01, 2015 -Conference November 01-03, 2015 BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARDS There will be a competition for best student poster award at the IIT’15. This award will be given to recognize student excellence in research and presentation. CONTACT Queries should be directed to: Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim at nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Thanks, Dr. Nabeel Al-Qirim IIT’15 Student Poster and Demos Chair College of Information Technology United Arab Emirates University P.O Box 15551 - Al Ain United Arab Emirates Tel: +971-3-7135531 Mobile: +971-507308705 Fax: +971-3-7672018 Email: nalqirim(a)uaeu.ac.ae Website: http://nalqirim.wix.com/nabeel-al-qirim Disclaimer:"The content of this email together with any attachments, statements and opinions expressed herein contains information that is confidential in nature and intended for the named addressee(s) only. If you are not the addressee of this email or you have received this message in error please notify the sender and delete the message and any associated files from your system, you have no right to copy, print, distribute or use this email or any of its attachments, or permit or disclose its contents to any other party in any way, except with the prior approval of the sender. 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