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CFP: Term and Graph rewriting, special issue of MSCS
by Rachid Echahed 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Papers Special Issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS) on "TERM and GRAPH Rewriting" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rewriting techniques constitute a foundational theory of computing science. They are being investigated for several structures such as lambda-terms, first-order terms or graphs and have been successfully used in many areas such as programming languages, automated reasoning, program verification, security, etc. This is witnessed by the leading international events ICGT, RTA or TLCA among others. During the last decade, a particular interest has been devoted to the study of the impact of shared structures in term and graph rewriting through the international editions of TERMGRAPH series of workshops. Sharing is indeed ubiquitous in several research areas, for instance: the modelling of first- and higher-order term rewriting by (acyclic or cyclic) graph rewriting, the modelling of biological or chemical abstract machines, the implementation techniques of programming languages. Term and graph rewriting are also used in automated theorem proving and symbolic computation systems working on shared structures... This special issue is devoted to recent developments in all aspects of TERM and GRAPH rewriting. This includes (but is not limited to): term rewriting, graph transformation, proof methods, programming languages, infinitary rewriting, rewrite strategies, semantics, properties of rewriting ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere, and will be subject to the standard journal refereeing process of the Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS) journal. Submissions should be in pdf format following the MSCS instruction for contributors (http://assets.cambridge.org/MSC/MSC_ifc.pdf) and should be submitted electronically via the following easy-chair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mscsrewriting2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 20, 2012 : Abstract submission February 20, 2012: Paper submission June 15, 2012 : Notification of acceptance -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editor: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachid Echahed, CNRS LIG Lab., Grenoble, France echahed(a)imag.fr --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RV 2014: 2nd Call for Papers, Deadline in 2 months
by Runtime Verification 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

[Apologizes for duplicates] 14th International Conference on Runtime Verification September 22 - 25, 2014 *Toronto, Canada* http://rv2014.imag.fr/ <http://rv2014.imag.fr/images/CfP.pdf> Scope: Runtime verification is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software and hardware system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include: - specification languages - specification mining - program instrumentation - monitor construction techniques - logging, recording, and replay - fault detection, localization, containment, recovery and repair - program steering and adaptation - metrics and statistical information gathering - combination of static and dynamic analyses - program execution visualization - monitoring techniques for safety/mission-critical systems - monitoring distributed systems, cloud services, and big data applications - monitoring security and privacy policies Application areas of runtime verification include safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. Technical Research Papers Track: Technical research papers can be submitted in two categories: regular and short papers. Papers in both categories will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee. All accepted technical papers will appear in an LNCS<http://www.springer.com/series/558> volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using theEasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv2014> system. - *Regular papers* (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results. Theoretical and experimental papers as well as papers on applications of runtime verification and case studies are all welcome. A non-monetary Best Paper Award will be given. A selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System Design. - *Short papers* (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted short papers will be presented in special short talk (10 minutes) and poster sessions. Program committee Borzoo Bonakdarpour <https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~bbonakda/> (University of Waterloo, Canada), *co-chair* Scott Smolka <http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~sas/> (Stony Brook Universtiy, USA), *co-chair* Gul Agha <http://cs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/agha> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Thomas Ball <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tball/> (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Howard Barringer <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/howard.barringer> (The University of Manchester, UK) Ezio Bartocci <http://www.eziobartocci.com/> (TU Wien, Austria) David Basin <http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/basin/> (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Saddek Bensalem <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~bensalem/> (Verimag, France) Eric Bodden <http://www.bodden.de/> (TU - Darmstadt, Germany) Ivona Brandic <http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/ivona/> (TU Wien, Austria) Marsha Chechik <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~chechik/> (University of Toronto, Canada) Michael Clarkson <http://faculty.cs.gwu.edu/~clarkson/> (George Washington University, USA) Laura Dillon <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~ldillon/> (Michigan State University, USA) Shlomi Dolev <http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dolev/> (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Alastair Donaldson <http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~afd/> (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler <http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/> (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone <http://www.ylies.fr/> (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Vijay Garg <http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~garg/> (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Steve Goddard <http://cse.unl.edu/~goddard/papers.html> (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Ganesh Gopalakrishnan <http://www.cs.utah.edu/~ganesh/> (University of Utah, USA) Wolfgang Grieskamp (Google, USA) Radu Grosu <http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~grosu/> (TU- Wien, Austria) Klaus Havelund <http://www.havelund.com/> (NASA/JPL, USA) Mats Heimdahl <http://www.umsec.umn.edu/about/director> (University of Minnesota, USA) Laurie Hendren <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/> (McGill University, Canada) Gerard Holzmann <http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/people/gh.html> (NASA/JPL, USA) Daniel Keren <http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/~dkeren/> (Haifa University, Israel) Sandeep Kulkarni <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~sandeep/>(Michigan State University, USA) Marta Kwiatkowska <http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/marta.kwiatkowska/> (University of Oxford, UK) Insup Lee <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lee/home/home/index.shtml> (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Axel Legay <http://people.irisa.fr/Axel.Legay/> (IRISA/INRIA, France) Martin Leucker <http://www.isp.uni-luebeck.de/leucker/> (University of Lübeck, Germany) Leonardo Mariani<http://www.lta.disco.unimib.it/lta/personalPages/leonardoMariani/leonardoMa…> (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) Patrick Meredith <http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Patrick_Meredith> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) David Naumann <http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~naumann/> (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Doron Peled <http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~doronp/> (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Mauro Pezze <http://www.inf.usi.ch/personal-info?id=1187> (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Lee Pike <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~lepike/> (Galois Inc., USA) Zvonimir Rakamaric <http://www.zvonimir.info/> (University of Utah, USA) Grigore Rosu <http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Grigore_Rosu> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Andrey Rybalchenko <http://www7.in.tum.de/~rybal/> (TU-Munich, Germany) Andre Schiper <http://people.epfl.ch/andre.schiper?lang=fr> (EPFL, Switzerland) Oleg Sokolsky <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sokolsky/> (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Scott Stoller <http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~stoller/> (Stony Brook University, USA) Serdar Tasiran <http://home.ku.edu.tr/~stasiran/> (Koc University, Turkey) Michael Whalen <http://www.umsec.umn.edu/directory/Michael-Whalen> (University of Minnesota, USA) Lenore Zuck <http://www.cs.uic.edu/~lenore/> (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tool Demonstrations Track: The aim of the RV 2014 tool demonstration track is to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to show and to discuss the latest advances, experiences and challenges in devising and developing reliable software tools for runtime verification. Tool demonstration papers will be reviewed by the Tools Track Program Committee. All accepted tool demonstration papers will appear in the conference proceedings LNCS volume. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'14 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv2014> system. Tool papers should meet the following criteria: - A tool paper should present a new tool, a new tool component or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. Each submission should be original and not published previously in a tool paper form. - Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS/Springer proceeding format, including all text, references and figures. The paper must be written in English and provided in PDF format. - Each submission must be accompanied at the time of the submission by a short screencast (between 5-10 minutes), with voice and overlay text commentary illustrating the demonstration of the tool (a link to it should be provided in the paper). - The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission. - Each tool paper must include a script in an appendix (not included in the page count) describing how the demo will be conducted during the conference presentation with screenshots presenting step-by-step the tool's capabilities, highlighting the main characteristics and the usage. Evaluation Each submission will be reviewed by at least four members of the tool demonstration track program committee. The evaluation criteria will include: - the presentation quality - the availability (possibly in a open-source format) of the software. - the relevance for the Runtime Verification audience - the technical soundness of the presented tool - the originality of the underlying ideas Tool Demonstration Committee Ezio Bartocci, (TU-Vienna, Austria), *Chair* Eric Bodden (TU - Darmstadt, Germany) Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College London, UK) Dawson Engler (Stanford University, USA) Ylies Falcone (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA) Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA) Important Dates: Both research papers and tool demonstration tracks will follow the following timeline: - *Abstract deadline:* April 8, 2014 - *Full paper deadline:* April 15, 2014 - *Rebuttal phase:* May 18-20, 2014 - *Acceptance notification:* June 10, 2014 - *Camera ready submission:* June 25, 2014 - *Conference dates:* 22-25 September, 2014 Competition on Software for Runtime Verification (CSRV-2014) A satellite event of RV'14 is the first *International Competition on Software for Runtime Verification* (CRVS'14). The main aims of CSRV-2014 competition are to: - Stimulate the development of new efficient and practical runtime verification tools and the maintenance of the already developed ones. - Produce a benchmark suite for runtime verification tools, by sharing case studies and programs that researchers and developers can use in the future to test and to validate their prototypes. - Discuss the metrics employed for comparing the tools. - Provide a comparison of the tools running with different benchmarks and evaluating using different criteria. - Enhance the visibility of presented tools among the different communities (software engineering, formal methods and automated verification, distributed computing, security, and safety-critical systems) involved in software monitoring. CRVS'14 will follow the following time line: - *Declaration of intent:* December 15, 2013 - *Deadline for submission of benchmarks:* March 1, 2014 - *Monitoring tool submission:* June 1, 2014 - *Notification:* July 1, 2014 For more information, visit http://rv2014.imag.fr/monitoring-competition or contact the event organizers: - *Ezio Bartocci* (TU-Wien, Austria), ezio.bartocci(a)tuwien.ac.at - *Borzoo Bonakdarpour* (U. Waterloo, Canada), borzoo(a)cs.uwaterloo.ca - *Ylies Falcone* (U. Joseph Fourier, France), ylies.falcone(a)ujf-grenoble.fr

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Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing
by Graham Hutton 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Dear all, Readers of this group might be interested in the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing, a 5-day programme of courses in theoretical computer science that runs in Nottingham, UK from 22-26 April 2014: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~txa/mgs.2014/ Courses include category theory, concurrency, denotational semantics, lambda calculus, randomised search, homotopy type theory, infinite data structures, parametricity, functional reactive programming, and dependently typed programming. Best wishes, Graham -- Prof Graham Hutton Functional Programming Lab School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems, GRENOBLE (FRANCE) JULY 7-11, 2014
by Ylies Falcone 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

[~~~~~~ Please disseminate widely within your teams & contacts ~~~~~~] Dear Colleagues, PERSYVAL-Lab and NASA-JPL are organizing the second edition of the CPS Summer School. The broad objective of the CPS Summer School is to explore the manifold relationship between networked embedded systems (« the internet of things ») and humans as their creators, users, and subjects. The format of the Summer School is a five days meeting, organized around different aspects of rigorous engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems. This year, the objective of the school is to survey fundamental and applied aspects of modelling, monitoring and learning of systems as well as to identify novel opportunities and research directions in these areas through a series of lectures by international experts. Participants will also experience the relevant technologies during hands-on courses and be given a chance to present their own work. The school will provide a great opportunity to know other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future. The school will concentrate on the fields of system modelling, monitoring and learning. Over the last ten years we have seen a lot of growth in these areas, building on strong theoretical foundations to apply and extend techniques to new application domains. Runtime verification is a growing field with more and more efffective applications in safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. The field of specification mining (learning specifications from system behaviour) has also seen a surge in research effort, with the establishment of a number of competitions to drive forward the development of practical tools. This research community is at an ideal stage to benefit from a school such as this, to inspire, motivate and instruct new researchers into the field. Students participating at this summer school will learn the current state of the art in modeling, monitoring, and learning. Students will be able to apply new techniques coming from various communities and backgrounds to their own domain. The CPS Summer School will be held at Grenoble University. Courses will be given in English by experts from industry and academia working in various fields of CPS. Topics: • System modeling. • Monitoring. • Learning. • Medical devices. • Sensor networks. Confirmed Speakers: • Eric Bodden (TU Darmstadt and EC SPRIDE, Germany). • Olivier Coutelou (Schneider Electric, France). • Radu Grosu (Technical Univesity Wien, Austria). • Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, USA). • Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark). • Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, Germany). • Roberto Passerone (Universita' degli Studi di Trento, Italy). • Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA). • Mohamad Sawan (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada). • Bernhard Steffen (Technical University Dortmund, Germany). • Andreas Zeller (Saarland University, Germany). Organization Committee: • Saddek Bensalem - University of Grenoble, France. • Yliès Falcone - University of Grenoble, France. • Klaus Havelund - NASA JPL, USA. Registration fee is €250 for students, €400 for non-students, which includes lunches and coffee breaks from Monday 8th through Thursday 11th, and a party. The registration fee only partially covers the costs incurred. The remaining costs are covered by PERSYVAL-Lab. The local organization committee has arranged university accommodations for students. Please refer to the Website for more details. Application Procedure and Important Dates (please refer to the Website for the full procedure): • Deadline for Application: April 14, 2014. • Response to Applicants: April 21, 2014. • Online Registration and Fee payment: May 10, 2014. • Summer school on CPS: July 7-11, 2014. Since attendance is limited, priority will be given to Ph.D. students and companies' staff. More details can be found at: https://persyval-lab.org/en/summer-school/cps14. Applications can be submitted at: https://persyval-calls.imag.fr/en/project/10. Enquiries can be sent to cps-school.organization(a)imag.fr. Best Regards, Saddek Bensalem, Yliès Falcone, and Klaus Havelund

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Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop
by oleg＠okmij.org 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

[Please notice the new submission category of informed opinions and the broad scope of the workshop. Compilation techniques, run-time systems and fancy types should be of interest to the Haskell community, too.] Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop Thursday September 4, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden (immediately following ICFP and preceding OCaml Users and Developers Workshop) Call For Papers http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/ML14.html ML is a very large family of programming languages that includes Standard ML, OCaml, F#, SML#, Manticore, MetaOCaml, JoCaml, Alice ML, Dependent ML, Flow Caml, and many others. All ML languages, beside the great deal of syntax, share several fundamental traits. They are all higher-order, strict, mostly pure, and typed, with algebraic and other data types. Their type systems inherit from Hindley-Milner. The development of these languages has inspired a significant amount of computer science research and influenced a number of programming languages, including Haskell, Scala and Clojure, as well as Rust, ATS and many others. ML workshops have been held in affiliation with ICFP continuously since 2005. This workshop specifically aims to recognize the entire extended ML family and to provide the forum to present and discuss common issues, both practical (compilation techniques, implementations of concurrency and parallelism, programming for the Web) and theoretical (fancy types, module systems, metaprogramming). The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of the members of the ML family. We also encourage presentations from related languages (such as Scala, Rust, Nemerle, ATS, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas. The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Format Since 2010, the ML workshop has adopted an informal model. Presentations are selected from submitted abstracts. There are no published proceedings, so any contributions may be submitted for publication elsewhere. We hope that this format encourages the presentation of exciting (if unpolished) research and deliver a lively workshop atmosphere. Each presentation should take 20-25 minutes, except demos, which should take 10-15 minutes. The exact time will be decided based on the number of accepted submissions. The presentations will likely be recorded. Post-conference proceedings We are considering post-conference proceedings of selected papers. The Program Committee shall invite interested authors of selected presentations to expand their abstract for inclusion in the proceedings. The submissions are to be reviewed according to the standards of the publication. Coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop The OCaml workshop is seen as more practical and is dedicated in significant part to the OCaml community building and the evolution of the OCaml system. In contrast, the ML family workshop is not focused on any language in particular, is more research oriented, and deals with general issues of the ML-style programming and type systems. Yet there is an overlap, which we are keen to explore in various ways. The authors who feel their submission fits both workshops are encouraged to mention it at submission time or contact the Program Chairs. Scope We acknowledge the whole breadth of the ML family and aim to include languages that are closely related (although not by blood), such as Rust, ATS, Scala, Typed Clojure. Those languages have implemented and investigated run-time and type system choices that may be worth considering for OCaml, F# and other ML languages. We also hope that the exposure to the state of the art ML might favorably influence those related languages. Specifically, we seek research presentations on topics including but not limited to * Design: concurrency, distribution and mobility, programming for the web and embedded systems, handling semi-structured data, facilitating interactive programming, higher forms of polymorphism, generic programming, objects * Implementation: compilation techniques, interpreters, type checkers, partial evaluators, runtime systems, garbage collectors, etc. * Type systems: fancy types, inference, effects, overloading, modules, contracts, specifications and assertions, dynamic typing, error reporting, etc. * Applications: case studies, experience reports, pearls, etc. * Environments: libraries, tools, editors, debuggers, cross-language interoperability, functional data structures, etc. * Education: ML and ML-like languages in college or high-school, in general or computer science curriculum. Four kinds of submissions will be accepted: Informed Positions, Research Presentations, Experience Reports and Demos. * Informed Positions: A justified argument for or against a language feature. The argument must be substantiated, either theoretically (e.g., by a demonstration of (un)soundness, an inference algorithm, a complexity analysis), empirically or by a substantial experience. Personal experience is accepted as justification so long as it is extensive and illustrated with concrete examples. * Research Presentations: Research presentations should describe new ideas, experimental results, or significant advances in ML-related projects. We especially encourage presentations that describe work in progress, that outline a future research agenda, or that encourage lively discussion. These presentations should be structured in a way which can be, at least in part, of interest to (advanced) users. * Experience Reports: Users are invited to submit Experience Reports about their use of ML and related languages. These presentations do not need to contain original research but they should tell an interesting story to researchers or other advanced users, such as an innovative or unexpected use of advanced features or a description of the challenges they are facing or attempting to solve. * Demos: Live demonstrations or short tutorials should show new developments, interesting prototypes, or work in progress, in the form of tools, libraries, or applications built on or related to ML. (You will need to provide all the hardware and software required for your demo; the workshop organizers are only able to provide a projector.) Important dates Monday May 19 (any time zone): Abstract submission Monday June 30: Author notification Thursday September 4, 2014: ML Family Workshop Submission Submissions should be at most two pages, in PDF format, and printable on US Letter or A4 sized paper. A submission should have a synopsis (2-3 lines) and a body between 1 and 2 pages, in one- or two-column layout. The synopsis should be suitable for inclusion in the workshop program. Submissions must be uploaded to the workshop submission website before the submission deadline (Monday May 19, 2014). For any question concerning the scope of the workshop or the submission process, please contact the program chair. Program Committee Kenichi Asai Ochanomizu University, Japan Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Jacques Garrigue Nagoya University, Japan Dave Herman Mozilla, USA Stefan Holdermans Vector Fabrics, Netherlands Oleg Kiselyov (Chair) Monterey, CA, USA Keiko Nakata Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Didier Re'my INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Zhong Shao Yale University, USA Hongwei Xi Boston University, USA

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Google Summer of Code | Haskell.org
by Narendra Joshi 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Hi there! Is haskell.org participating in this year's GSoC? -- narendra

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[ANN] yocto-1.0.1
by Alvaro J. Genial 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Howdy, `yocto`, a minimal JSON parser & printer, is now feature complete, documented and tested: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yocto-1.0.1 >From the CHANGELOG: - Removed `Read` & `Show` instances in favor of `decode` & `encode`. - Added `QuickCheck`-based test suite. - Fixed decoding of numbers between -1 and 1. - Added error check for trailing (unparsed) input. Anyway, I hope you find it useful; the code lives here: https://github.com/ajg/yocto Alvaro http://alva.ro

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Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, 2014
by Amal Ahmed 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

We are pleased to announce the preliminary program for the 13th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) to be held June 16th to 28th, 2014 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The registration deadline will be April 14th, 2014. This year's program is titled Types, Logic, Semantics, and Verification and features the following speakers: Andrew Appel -- Software Verification Princeton University Lars Birkedal -- Category Theory Aarhus University Derek Dreyer -- Modular Reasoning about Stateful Programs Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Robert Harper -- Type Theory Foundations Carnegie Mellon University Greg Morrisett -- Certified Programming and State Harvard University Ulf Norell -- Programming in Agda Chalmers University of Technology Brigitte Pientka -- Proof Theory Foundations McGill University Stephanie Weirich -- Designing Dependently-Typed Programming Languages University of Pennsylvania Steve Zdancewic -- Software Foundations in Coq University of Pennsylvania Full information on registration and scholarships will be available shortly at: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/Activities/summerschool/summer14/ . Amal Ahmed Greg Morrisett

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ETAPS 2014 call for participation
by Tarmo Uustalu 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

To notice: - The programme of the main conferences of ETAPS 2014 is on the web. - Early registration is until Friday, 14 February 2014. ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ETAPS 2014 17th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software Grenoble, France, 5-13 April 2014 http://www.etaps.org/2014 ****************************************************************** -- ABOUT ETAPS -- The European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software (ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of six main annual conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2014 is already the seventeenth event in the series. -- MAIN CONFERENCES (7-11 April) -- * CC: Compiler Construction * ESOP: European Symposium on Programming * FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering * FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures * POST: Principles of Security and Trust * TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems -- INVITED TALKS -- * Unifying speakers: John Launchbury (Galois, US) Geoffrey Smith (Florida International University, US) * CC invited speaker: Benoit Dupont de Dinechin (Kalray, France) * ESOP invited speaker: Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, US) * FASE invited speaker: Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) * FoSSaCS invited speaker: Petr Jancar (Technical Univ of Ostrava, Czech Republic) * POST invited speaker: David Mazières (Stanford University, US) * TACAS invited speaker: Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) -- TUTORIALS * Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) * Bernd Finkbeiner (Univ des Saarlandes, Germany) -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences at the conference website. -- SATELLITE EVENTS (5-6 and 12-13 April) -- 23 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2014. CMCS, DICE, F-IDE, Graphite, GT-VMT, MBT, MEALS, RePP, Sifakis event, SR, SynCop, VSSE, WRLA will be held 5-6 April 2014. AiSOS, Cassting, FESCA, GALOP, GramSec, HAS, HotSpot, MSFP, PLACES, QAPL have been scheduled for 12-13 April 2014. -- REGISTRATION Early registration is until Friday, 14 February 2014. Normal-rate registration is until Monday, 10 March 2014. -- ACCOMMODATION We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own. See our recommendations on the website. -- HOST CITY -- Located in the southeastern part of France, Grenoble is considered as the capital of the Alps. Grenoble is surrounded by nature and high mountains: down the Alps, Grenoble is the meeting point of two important rivers, Drac and Isere. Grenoble has important historical and gastronomic heritages. Leisure activities in breathtaking nature are easily organizable and within short-distance. Grenoble is also a major scientific center in Europe dedicated to high-tech technologies, e.g., nano, micro, bio, and information technologies. -- ORGANIZERS * General chair: Saddek Bensalem * Conferences chair: Alain Girault * Workshops chair: Axel Legay * Publicity chair: Ylies Falcone * Finance chair: Nicolas Halbwachs * Website chair: Marius Bozga Host institution: VERIMAG, U Joseph Fourier / CNRS / Grenoble INP -- FURTHER INFORMATION -- Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at etaps2014.organization(a)imag.fr.

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AI4FM 2014: Call for Short Contributions
by Iain Whiteside 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

------------------------------------------------- AI4FM 2014 - the 5th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/ Singapore, 13th May, 2014 In association with FM 2014 ------------------------------------------------- --- Second Call for Contributions --- Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: March 01, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 08, 2014 Final version due: April 22, 2014 Workshop: May 13th, 2014 General --------------- This workshop will bring together researchers from formal methods, automated reasoning and AI; it will address the issue of how AI can be used to support the formal software development process, including requirement analysis, modelling and proof. Previous AI4FM workshops have included a mix of industrial and academic participants and we anticipate attracting a similarly diverse audience. Rigorous software development using formal methods allows the construction of an accurate characterisation of a problem domain that is firmly based on mathematics; by applying standard mathematical analyses, these methods can be used to prove that systems satisfy formal specifications. Research has shown that with tools backed by mature theory, formal methods are becoming cost effective and their use is easier to justify, not as an academic exercise, legal requirement or niche markets -- but as part of a business case. However, while industrial use of formal methods is increasing, in order to make it more mainstream, the cost of applying formal methods, in terms of mathematical skill level and development time, must still be reduced. We believe that AI can help with these issues. Scope --------------- We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, and PhD projects, in order that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in automated reasoning, formal methods and artificial intelligence. Particular areas 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. History --------------- This will be the fifth workshop in the series. Previous workshops were held at: - Rennes, France, July 2013 @ ITP (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2013/) - Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2012 (www.dagstuhl.de/12271) - Edinburgh, UK, April 2011 (www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2011.php) - Newcastle, UK, May 2010 (www.ai4fm.org/ko-meeting.php) Submission --------------- 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 2014 to another workshop, conference or a journal. Submission is by email to: ai4fm2014(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. Organisers --------------- * Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK) * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Iain Whiteside (Newcastle University, UK) Contact Details ---------------- If you have any queries, please email the organisers at the following email address: ai4fm2014(a)ai4fm.org

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