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AI4FM 2014: Call for Short Contributions
by Iain Whiteside 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

------------------------------------------------- AI4FM 2014 - the 5th International Workshop on the use of AI in Formal Methods http://www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2014/ Singapore, 12th or 13th May, 2014 In association with FM 2014 ------------------------------------------------- --- First Call for Contributions --- Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: March 01, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 08, 2014 Final version due: April 22, 2014 Workshop: May 12th or 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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10 PhD studentships in Nottingham
by Graham Hutton 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

Dear all, The School of Computer Science in Nottingham is advertising 10 fully-funded PhD studentships. Applicants in the area of the Functional Programming lab (fp.cs.nott.ac.uk) are encouraged! If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential academic supervisor in the FP lab prior to submitting your application. Best wishes, Graham +-----------------------------------------------------------+ 10 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK Applications are invited for up to ten fully-funded PhD studentships in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, starting on 1st October 2014. The topics for the studentships are open, but should relate to the interests of one of the School¹s research groups: Agents Lab; Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning; Computer Vision Lab; Functional Programming Lab; Intelligent Modelling and Analysis; Mixed Reality Lab; Networked Systems. The studentships are for three years and include a stipend of £13,726 per year and tuition fees, and are available to students of any nationality. Applicants are normally expected to have a first-class Undergraduate or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and should discuss their interest and obtain the support of a potential supervisor in the School before applying. To apply, please submit the following items by email to <Christine.Fletcher(a)nottingham.ac.uk>: (1) a brief covering letter that describes your reasons for wishing to pursue a PhD, any ideas you have regarding possible areas or topics, and the name of a potential supervisor; (2) a copy of your CV, including your actual or expected degree class(es), and results of all University examinations; (3) an example of your technical writing, such as a project report or dissertation; (4) contact details for two academic referees. Closing date for applications: 10th January 2014 +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- 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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FLOPS 2014: 2nd Call for Papers
by Janis Voigtlaender 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

NEWS: - Journal publications in JFP (Journal of Functional Programming) and TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming) are planned (see below). - Hyakumangoku Matsuri ( https://www.google.com/search?q=hyakumangoku%20matsuri&tbm=isch ) is scheduled *just* after FLOPS 2014. Call For Papers =============== Twelfth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2014) June 4-6, 2014 Kanazawa, Japan http://www.jaist.ac.jp/flops2014/ FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning declarative programming, including functional programming and logic programming, and aims to promote cross-fertilization and integration between the two paradigms. Previous FLOPS meetings were held at Fuji Susono (1995), Shonan Village (1996), Kyoto (1998), Tsukuba (1999), Tokyo (2001), Aizu (2002), Nara (2004), Fuji Susono (2006), Ise (2008), Sendai (2010), and Kobe (2012). Topics ====== FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of functional and logic programming, including (but not limited to): - Language issues: language design and constructs, programming methodology, integration of paradigms, interfacing with other languages, type systems, constraints, concurrency and distributed computing. - Foundations: logic and semantics, rewrite systems and narrowing, type theory, proof systems. - Implementation issues: compilation techniques, memory management, program analysis and transformation, partial evaluation, parallelism. - Applications: case studies, real-world applications, graphical user interfaces, Internet applications, XML, databases, formal methods and model checking. The proceedings will be published as an LNCS volume. The proceedings of the previous meetings (FLOPS 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012) were published as LNCS 1722, 2024, 2441, 2998, 3945, 4989, 6009, and 7294. PC Co-Chairs ============ Michael Codish (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) PC Members ========== Lars Birkedal (Aarhus University) Michael Codish (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) [co-chair] Marina De Vos (University of Bath) Moreno Falaschi (Universita degli studi di Udine) Carsten Fuhs (University College London) John Gallagher (Roskilde Universitet / IMDEA Software Institute) Samir Genaim (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Laura Giordano (Universita del Piemonte Orientale) Ichiro Hasuo (University of Tokyo) Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen) Andy King (University of Kent) Oleg Kiselyov Vitaly Lagoon (MathWorks) Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica) Keiko Nakata (Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology) Luke Ong (University of Oxford) Peter Schachte (University of Melbourne) Takehide Soh (Kobe University) Eijiro Sumii (Tohoku University) [co-chair] Tachio Terauchi (Nagoya University) Joost Vennekens (KU Leuven) Janis Voigtlaender (Universitaet Bonn) Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania) Local Chair =========== Yuki Chiba (JAIST) Submission ========== 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: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication 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 written in English and can be up to 15 pages long including references, though pearls are typically shorter. Authors are required to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file, available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flops2014 Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: December 13, 2013 Author notification: February 10, 2014 Camera-ready copy: March 7, 2014 Journal Publication =================== - Journal of Functional Programming and - Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 2-4 of the best papers in each of the two areas: Functional Programming and Logic Programming, will be invited for inclusion in a designated FLOPS section within each of the two journals. The Theory and Practice of Logic Programming papers will appear as "Rapid Publications". All of the these submissions are expected to represent high-quality revisions and extensions of the selected FLOPS papers and will be reviewed under the standard criteria of each journal. Venue ===== Main Hall, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, 2-1 Dewa-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0963 JAPAN. Some Previous FLOPS =================== FLOPS 2012, Kobe: http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/flops2012/ FLOPS 2010, Sendai: http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/flops2010/ FLOPS 2008, Ise: http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/FLOPS2008/ Sponsor ======= Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (JSSST), Special Interest Group on Programming and Programming Languages (SIG-PPL) In Cooperation With =================== ACM SIGPLAN Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) Association for Logic Programming (ALP)

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Second call for papers, BX 2014
by Janis Voigtlaender 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Third International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (BX 2014) Friday March 28th, 2014 Athens, Greece co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2014 Web site: http://bx-community.wikidot.com/bx2014:home Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=bx2014 Paper length: 3-8 pages, ACM format. In-progress work is highly encouraged, if limited to 4 pages. Bidirectional transformations (bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the consistency of at least two related sources of information. Such sources can be relational data, software models, documents, graphs, trees, and so on. BX are an emerging topic in a wide range of research areas with prominent presence at top conferences in different fields. However, much of the research in bx tends to get limited exposure outside of a single field of study. The purpose of this workshop series is not only to further research into bx, but to promote cross-disciplinary research and awareness in the area. The first two instances of this workshop, BX'12 and BX'13, served as a dedicated venue for bx in all relevant areas, including: - Databases - Programming Languages - Software Engineering - Graph Transformation This instance of the workshop is the first at a database venue. The workshop rotates between venues in different areas to promote the cross-disciplinary nature of the work, as methodologies used for bx range from classical program transformation and updateable views to graph transformation techniques, from ad-hoc techniques for data synchronization to the development of domain-specific languages and their integration. We also solicit papers on model/metamodel co-evolution, which is a different yet closely related subject. Aims and Topics The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, established and new, interested in bidirectional transformations from different perspectives, such as: * inversion of data exchange mappings * new perspectives on view updatability * data-schema co-evolution and data synchronization * software-model synchronization * consistency analysis * (coupled) software/model transformations * language-based approaches Submissions can be: * novel research concepts and results * position papers and research perspectives * application of bx in new domains * analysis of gaps between formal concepts and application scenarios * examination of the efficiency of algorithms * analysis/classification of requirements for bx technologies * proposals and justification for benchmarks * summary papers providing novel comparisons between existing technologies * case studies and tool support Submitted papers must be in ACM format in accordance with the other workshops and proceedings at EDBT/ICDT. Papers may be 3-8 pages in length; the length of the paper should be appropriate for the level of completeness of the work. Important Dates: Paper submission date: 7th December 2013 Author notification: 7th January 2014 Camera-ready date: 20th January 2014 Workshop date: 28th March 2014 Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of EDBT/ICDT and will be available at the conference.

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Temporary Teaching Assistant Position to teach Functional Programming in China
by Thomas ANBERREE 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

Hello, We are looking for someone to teach the module G51FUN “Functional Programming” from February to June 2014 at the Chinese campus of the University of Nottingham. The position is opened to candidates currently studying a PhD in Functional Programming. The position is not yet officially opened but, because it might take time for some candidates to obtain a Chinese working visa, we need to act quickly. The contract should include (to be confirmed): * A stipend of about 5500 GBP for 4-5 months presence in China * Flights * Accommodation Would candidates please quickly contact me by email : Thomas.Anberree(a)nottingham.edu.cn<mailto:Thomas.Anberree@nottingham.edu.cn>. Please attach a short CV including experience in teaching using English and in functional programming. USEFUL LINKS: * Book, slides, etc. by Graham Hutton to teach G51FUN: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html * Module catalogue entry: http://modulecatalogue.nottingham.ac.uk/Nottingham/asp/ModuleDetails.asp?cr… * The UNNC academic calendar can be found there: http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/academicservices/documents/academic-calenda… * CS at UNNC: http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/engineering/departments/computer-science/in… Best regards Thomas 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 Ningbo China. 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 Ningbo China may be monitored as permitted by UK and Chinese legislation.

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Call for Participation: Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop - a POPL workshop.
by Alan Schmitt 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop, San Diego, USA Tuesday January 21, 2014 Co-located with POPL 2014 PLMW web page: http://plmw2014.inria.fr/ After the resounding success of the first two Programming Languages Mentoring Workshops at POPL 2012 and POPL 2013, we proudly announce the 3rd SIGPLAN Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW), co-located with POPL 2014 and organised by Amal Ahmed, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. The purpose of this mentoring workshop is to encourage graduate students and senior undergraduate students to pursue careers in programming language research. This workshop will provide technical sessions on cutting-edge research in programming languages, and mentoring sessions on how to prepare for a research career. We will bring together leaders in programming language research from academia and industry to give talks on their research areas. The workshop will engage students in a process of imagining how they might contribute to our research community. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minority students to attend PLMW. This workshop is part of the activities surrounding POPL, the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, and takes place the day before the main conference. One goal of the workshop is to make the POPL conference more accessible to newcomers. We hope that participants will stay through the entire conference. A number of sponsors have generously donated scholarship funds for qualified students to attend PLMW. These scholarships should cover reasonable expenses (airfare, hotel, and registration fees) for attendance at both the workshop and the POPL conference. Students attending this year will get one year free student membership of SIGPLAN, unless they prefer to opt out during their application. The workshop registration is open to all. Students with alternative sources of funding are welcome. APPLICATION for PLMW scholarship: The scholarship application can be accessed from the workshop web site (http://plmw2014.inria.fr/) The deadline for full consideration of funding is 10th December, 2013. Selected participants will be notified from Friday 14th December, and will need to register for the workshop by December 24th. SPONSORS: Facebook Google Jane Street Microsoft Research NSF SIGPLAN

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ANN: New Haskell.org committee members
by Jason Dagit 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

The Haskell.org committee has selected new members following the October self-nomination period. The new members are: * Adam Foltzer * Nicolas Wu * Andres Loeh Thank you to everyone who submitted a self-nomation. We had many very strong candidates and it was not easy for us to narrow the selection down to just three people. I would like to add, that if you've self-nominated in the past but not be picked, please self-nominate again in the future. Cheers, Jason

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Job announcement: formal methods engineer
by Hendrik Tews 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Dear all, [My excuses if see this email more than once] FireEye Inc. seeks outstanding formal-methods experts to join FireEye's software verification team in Dresden, Germany. Applicants should have strong knowledge in logical reasoning, software modeling and formal software verification. FireEye is a next generation security company that provides the industry's leading cross-enterprise threat protection technology to dynamically identify and block cyber-attacks in real time. FireEye was ranked fourth fastest growing company in North America and won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award in 2012. By joining FireEye you may contribute to protect the world from the next generation of cyber-attacks! If you are interested or have questions, please contact Hendrik Tews via Dresden(a)FireEye.com or Roland Carter <roland.carter(a)FireEye.com> or visit FireEye's careers page at http://FireEye.com/careers . Look up http://FireEye.com for more information about FireEye. Bye, Hendrik Tews

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Call for participation: PLPV 2014
by Nils Anders Danielsson 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

You are cordially invited to participate in the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages meets Program Verification Date: 21 January 2014 Location: San Diego, in conjunction with POPL 2014 Program: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~nad/plpv-2014/ Invited talks: - Ranjit Jhala on liquid types for Haskell. - Lee Pike on Programming Languages for High-Assurance Autonomous Vehicles. Contributed talks: - Verified Programs with Binders. Martin Clochard, Claude Marché and Andrei Paskevich. - Formalizing a Correctness Property of a Type-Directed Partial Evaluator. Noriko Hirota and Kenichi Asai. - An Abstract Categorical Semantics for Functional Reactive Programming with Processes. Wolfgang Jeltsch. - Substructural Typestates. Filipe Militao, Jonathan Aldrich and Luis Caires. - The Recursive Polarized Dual Calculus. Aaron Stump. Registration: https://regmaster3.com/2014conf/POPL14/register.php Early registration closes 31 December 2012. Best regards, Nils Anders Danielsson and Bart Jacobs

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Call for participation: Dutch Functional Programming Day 2014
by Clemens Grelck 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Dear all, The next Netherlands Functional Programming day (NL-FP 2014) will take place on Friday, January 10, 2014 at the University of Amsterdam at Amsterdam Science Park. You are all cordially invited to participate and, of course, to give a presentation. The day will largely follow the pattern of the previous NL-FP days with a moderately timed start, a day of enjoyable talks in between lunch and coffee breaks and ending with a joint dinner in a nearby restaurant. All further details can be found on the NL-FP 2014 site(s): http://staff.science.uva.nl/~grelck/nl-fp-day-2014.html http://staff.science.uva.nl/~grelck/nl-fp-dag-2014.html Hope to see you all in Amsterdam in January! Best regards, Clemens Grelck -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 www.science.uva.nl/~grelck ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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