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Post-doc positions in Fuzz Testing at NUS
by Abhik Roychoudhury 31 Jul '23

31 Jul '23

We are writing to announce a new 4 year research program "Fuzz Testing" which will run 1 July 2023 - 30 June 2027. The research program is funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore. The research program is in the area of fuzz testing for effectively detecting software vulnerabilities. Details of the research program can be obtained from this webpage *https://nus-tss.github.io/fuzzing/* We have open positions for post-doc. You are welcome to apply with your CV to /neocy(a)nus.edu.sg/ or simply get in touch with any of the Principal Investigators -- Zhenkai Liang, Umang Mathur, Manuel Rigger, and Abhik Roychoudhury (Lead Principal Investigator). NUS provides an engaging work environment, with stimulating colleagues, lot of visitors, and good work-life balance. Salaries for the positions are also very competitive. Applicants who have submitted their PhD thesis but have not received the degree yet, are also eligible to be appointed as post doc. Hence any applicants with relevant research background, who are close to submitting their PhD thesis, are eligible to apply. Kind regards // -- -Abhik Roychoudhury School of Computing National University of Singapore https://abhikrc.com

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Fwd: Open PhD and Postdoc positions in Formal Analysis of Autonomous Systems at Chalmers University
by akshay 28 Jul '23

28 Jul '23

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Open PhD and Postdoc positions in Formal Analysis of Autonomous Systems at Chalmers University Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:58:12 +0200 From: Hazem Torfah <torfah(a)berkeley.edu> Dear colleagues, The group for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Reasoning at Chalmers University has openings for two PhD positions and a PostDoc position in Formal Analysis of Autonomous Systems. We are looking for candidates interested in developing formal techniques and tools for the construction of provably-safe and -reliable learning-enabled autonomous systems. Please pass this information on to potential candidates. It would be great if you could also share this information within your network. The announcements for the positions are linked below: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=jo… <https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=jo…> https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=jo… <https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=jo…> Application deadline: Sep 1, 2023 Many thanks! Kindest regards, Hazem Torfah -- Hazem Torfah Assistant Professor Computing Science Division Chalmers University of Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

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Lecturer in Programming Languages at Bristol
by Madhavan Mukund 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

----- Forwarded message from Mandayam Srivas <mksrivas(a)hotmail.com> ----- From: Cristina David <cristina.david(a)gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 1:13 PM To: Mandayam Srivas <mksrivas(a)hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Lecturer in Programming Languages at Bristol Dear Srivas, It was very nice seeing you at CAV! I'm not sure whether I mentioned this at the conference, but we are recruiting a new lecturer in the Programming Languages group (https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=316176&jobTitle=Lecturer…) This is the ad (unfortunately, the deadline is very soon): https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=316176&jobTitle=Lecturer… I'd really appreciate it if you could send it to anyone that might be interested. Thank you, Cristina ----- End forwarded message -----

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[Deadline Extension] CFP: ICISS-2023 - the 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (August 10, 2023)
by Madhavan Mukund 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> ----- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 03:56:18 +0530 From: Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> Due to several requests for a deadline extension, we have extended the submission deadline to August 10 (the final deadline). Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2023. Key highlights: - Double-blind review - Notification of results: September 20, 2023 - One best paper award - 2 Keynotes, 1 invited talk (Sanjam Garg - UC Berkeley, Nishanth Chandran - MS Research, Thomas Silkjaer - XRP Ledger Foundation) - Proceedings by Springer LNCS - the possibility of an invitation to publish extended versions in the Sadhana journal ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (December 16 - 20, 2023) NIT Raipur, India https://iciss.isrdc.in @IcissConf Submission Deadline: August 10, 2023 (final deadline) ______________________________________________________________________ The 19th ICISS will be held at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur between December 16 and 20, 2023. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. This year, we will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts; a separate call is announced on the conference website. A broad but non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as below: SYSTEMS SECURITY OS, VM, containers, cloud Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN IoT, RFID, SCADA systems Communication Protocols IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc Honeypot, Botnet, etc ACCESS CONTROL Authentication, MFA Authorization model/policy PKI & Trust management Information flow control APPLICATION SECURITY Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps API security, WAF, OWASP Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust Malware, Ransomware, APTs SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Bias, fairness, explainability Model stealing, poisoning Trustworthiness Deep fakes, misinformation HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al Security-by-design, SBOM Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII S&P USE CASES e-voting, e-gov, smart cities COVID-19 contact tracing OSINT et al Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages; including the bibliography and appendices. Authors must use the LNCS template to create the manuscript. A DOUBLE-BLIND review process will be followed, therefore the manuscripts should not have author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, self-references or any indirect information related to the authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a select few accepted papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Further details will be made available on the conference website in due course of time. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 *** The BEST PAPER award is sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. *** Important Dates (in AoE): Submission deadline: Aug 10 (final deadline) Acceptance notification: Sep 20 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30 Steering Committee: Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay General Chair: R.K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay Program Chairs: Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University Sithu D Sudarsan, CDAC Bangalore Related Links: Conference Website: https://iciss.isrdc.in Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss Call for Papers/Tutorials/PhD Forum https://iciss.isrdc.in/cfps/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Submission Guidelines https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Proceedings will be published by Springer as LNCS. ______________________________________________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----

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Soliciting talks in PL and Verification to RHPL@FSTTCS 2023
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2023 is the 43rd conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science in association with ACM India. It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. This year, co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is also organizing the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS), whose inaugural edition was held in 2020. The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages, including but not limited to Program Analysis and Verification, Applied Formal Methods, and Compilers. The objective of the workshop is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. We solicit talk proposals for recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. More information about the workshop and about submitting talk proposals is available here: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl/index.html We look forward to receiving your talk proposals to this workshop. On Behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) (Organizing Co-Chair, RHPL 2023) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) (Organizing Co-Chair, RHPL 2023) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, Bangalore) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune)

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FSTTCS 2023 - Third Call for Papers
by Shibashis Guha 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies.] December 18-20, 2023 at IIIT Hyderabad <https://www.iiit.ac.in/>, India Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2023/ FSTTCS 2023 is the 43rd conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS <http://www.iarcs.org.in/>, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India <https://india.acm.org/>. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. This year within Track B, in addition to theoretical results, there is also a focus on soliciting submissions in the areas of Programming Languages and Practical Verification. IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AoE) Abstract Submission: July 12, 2023 Paper Submission: July 19, 2023 Notification: September 22, 2023 Camera Ready: October 5, 2023 Conference: December 18-20, 2023 Workshops: TBA PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in electronic form via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fsttcs2023> using the LIPIcs LaTeX style file available here <https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors>. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (excluding bibliography), but may include a clearly marked appendix containing technical details. The appendix will be read only at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions to journals or other conferences with published proceedings are disallowed. Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/> as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper in person at the conference. TOPICS Track A - Algebraic Complexity - Algorithms and Data Structures - Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics - Approximation Algorithms - Combinatorial Optimization - Communication Complexity - Computational Biology - Computational Geometry - Computational Learning Theory - Cryptography and Security - Data Streaming and Sublinear algorithms - Economics and Computation - Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms - Parameterized Complexity - Proof Complexity - Quantum Computing - Randomness in Computing - Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing Track B - Automata, Games and Formal Languages - Logic in Computer Science - Modal and Temporal Logics - Models of Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems - Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic and Quantum Systems - Model Theory - Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages - Program Analysis and Transformation - Security protocols - Specification, Verification and Synthesis - Theorem Proving and Decision Procedures ORGANISATION COMMITTEE - Girish Varma <https://girishvarma.in/> (IIIT Hyderabad) - Suryajith Chillara <https://suryajith.github.io/> (IIIT Hyderabad) - Anjaneya Swami <https://scis.uohyd.ac.in/~askcs/> (Univ of Hyderabad) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Track A - Siddharth Barman <https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~barman/> (The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India) - Arnab Bhattacharyya <https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~arnab/> (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Parinya Chalermsook <https://sites.google.com/site/parinyachalermsook/> (Aalto University, Finland) - Sivakanth Gopi <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/sigopi/> (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) - Karthik C.S. <http://karthikcs.org/> (Rutgers University, USA) - Venkata Koppula <https://web.iitd.ac.in/~kvenkata/> (IIT Delhi, India) - Rucha Kulkarni <https://ruchark2.web.engr.illinois.edu/> (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Mrinal Kumar <https://mrinalkr.bitbucket.io/> (TIFR, Mumbai, India) - Paloma Lima <https://www.ii.uib.no/~palomal/> (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Meena Mahajan <https://www.imsc.res.in/~meena/> (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) - Nikhil Mande <https://mande-nikhil.github.io/> (University of Liverpool, UK) - Neeldhara Misra <https://iitgn.ac.in/faculty/cse/neeldhara> (IIT Gandhinagar, India) - Sagnik Mukhopadhyay <https://sagnikm.github.io/> (University of Sheffield, UK) - Meghana Nasre <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~meghana/> (IIT Madras, India) - Noga Ron-Zewi <https://sites.google.com/view/nogazewi> (University of Haifa, Israel) - Chris Schwiegelshohn <https://cs.au.dk/~schwiegelshohn/> (University of Aarhus, Denmark) - Srikanth Srinivasan <https://cs.au.dk/~srikanth/> (University of Aarhus, Denmark) – *Track A chair* Track B - Aiswarya C. <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~aiswarya/> (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Guy Avni <https://sites.google.com/view/gavni> (University of Haifa, Israel) - Francesco Belardinelli <https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~fbelard/> (Imperial College, UK) - Dietmar Berwanger <http://www.lsv.fr/~dwb/> (CNRS, LMF, France) - Patricia Bouyer <http://www.lsv.fr/~bouyer/> (CNRS, LMF France) – *Track B chair* - Arnaud Carayol <http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~carayol/> (Université Gustave Eiffel, LIGM, France) - Supratik Chakraborty <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/> (IIT Bombay, India) - Lorenzo Clemente <https://sites.google.com/view/lorenzoclemente/> (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Ugo Dal Lago <https://udallago.github.io/> (Università di Bologna, Italy) - P. Madhusudan <https://madhu.cs.illinois.edu/> (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Pavithra Prabhakar <https://people.cs.ksu.edu/~pprabhakar/> (Kansas State University, USA) - Prakash Saivasan <https://www.imsc.res.in/prakash_saivasan> (The Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India) - Abhisekh Sankaran <https://abhisekhs.github.io/> (Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune, India) - B. Srivathsan <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~sri/> (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Nathalie Sznajder <https://pages.lip6.fr/Nathalie.Sznajder/> (Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France) - Tony Tan <https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tonytan/> (National Taiwan University) STEERING COMMITTEE - Paul Gastin <http://www.lsv.fr/~gastin/> (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) - Amit Kumar <http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~amitk/> (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) - S Krishna <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krishnas/> (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) - G Ramalingam <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/grama/> (Microsoft Research, Bangalore) - Venkatesh Raman <https://www.imsc.res.in/~vraman/> (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) - Kavitha Telikepalli <https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~kavitha/> (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shaz Qadeer on July 11 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shaz Qadeer, an ACM Fellow, currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, July 11, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHF2OTJoMm…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs with Civl Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The Civl verifier <https://civl-verifier.github.io/> introduces layered refinement, a new approach to the construction of verified concurrent programs and their proofs. This approach simplifies and scales (human and automated) reasoning by enabling a concurrent program to be represented and manipulated at multiple layers of abstraction. These abstraction layers are chained together via simple program transformations; each transformation is justified by a collection of automatically-checked verification conditions. Civl proofs are maintainable and reusable, specifically eliminating the need to write complex invariants on the low-level encoding of the concurrent program as a flat transition system. Civl has been used to construct verified low-level implementations of complex systems such as a concurrent garbage collector, a consensus protocol, and shared-memory data structures. Bio: Shaz Qadeer is an ACM Fellow. His research focuses on practical tools for the construction of verified concurrent and distributed systems. He is currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta.

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ICISS-2023 CFP
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> ----- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:07:15 +0530 From: Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> **ICISS 2023 CFP ANNOUNCEMENT** ICISS 2023 is accepting submissions under various tracks. Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2023. Key highlights: - first submission deadline: July 20, - double-blind review, - best paper award, - proceedings published by Springer LNCS, - the possibility of an invitation to exceptionally good papers to be submitted to the Sadhana journal, - please visit the conference website for further details https://iciss.isrdc.in ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (December 16 - 20, 2023) NIT Raipur, India https://iciss.isrdc.in Submission Deadline: July 20, 2023 (first deadline) ______________________________________________________________________ The 19th ICISS will be held at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur between December 16 and 20, 2023. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. This year, we will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts; a separate call is announced on the conference website. A broad but non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as below: SYSTEMS SECURITY OS, VM, containers, cloud Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN IoT, RFID, SCADA systems Communication Protocols IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc Honeypot, Botnet, etc ACCESS CONTROL Authentication, MFA Authorization model/policy PKI & Trust management Information flow control APPLICATION SECURITY Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps API security, WAF, OWASP Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust Malware, Ransomware, APTs SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Bias, fairness, explainability Model stealing, poisoning Trustworthiness Deep fakes, misinformation HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al Security-by-design, SBOM Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII S&P USE CASES e-voting, e-gov, smart cities COVID-19 contact tracing OSINT et al Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages; including the bibliography and appendices. Authors must use the LNCS template to create the manuscript. DOUBLE-BLIND review process will be followed, therefore the manuscripts should not have author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, self-references or any indirect information related to authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a select few accepted papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Further details will be made available on the conference website in due course of time. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 *** The BEST PAPER award is sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. *** Important Dates (in AoE): Submission deadline: July 20 (first deadline) Acceptance notification: Sep 15 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 25 Steering Committee: Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay General Chair: R.K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay Program Chairs: Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University Sithu D Sudarsan, CDAC Bangalore Related Links: Conference Website: https://iciss.isrdc.in Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss Call for Papers/Tutorials/PhD Forum https://iciss.isrdc.in/cfps/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Submission Guidelines https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Proceedings will be published by Springer as LNCS. ______________________________________________________________________ Contact: ivishwas(a)gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ -- Vishwas Patil Sr Research Scientist, IIT Bombay https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~vishwasp/ ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shaz Qadeer on July 11 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shaz Qadeer, an ACM Fellow, currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, July 11, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHF2OTJoMm…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs with Civl Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The Civl verifier <https://civl-verifier.github.io/> introduces layered refinement, a new approach to the construction of verified concurrent programs and their proofs. This approach simplifies and scales (human and automated) reasoning by enabling a concurrent program to be represented and manipulated at multiple layers of abstraction. These abstraction layers are chained together via simple program transformations; each transformation is justified by a collection of automatically-checked verification conditions. Civl proofs are maintainable and reusable, specifically eliminating the need to write complex invariants on the low-level encoding of the concurrent program as a flat transition system. Civl has been used to construct verified low-level implementations of complex systems such as a concurrent garbage collector, a consensus protocol, and shared-memory data structures. Bio: Shaz Qadeer is an ACM Fellow. His research focuses on practical tools for the construction of verified concurrent and distributed systems. He is currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta.

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CFP: Fifth International Conference on Microservices
by Alessandro Bocci 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

International Conference on Microservices: Call for Papers ========================================================== Fifth International Conference on Microservices October 10th-12th 2023, Pisa, Italy https://www.conf-micro.services/2023/ Important Dates (EXTENDED) --------------- - Submission deadline : July 09th, 2023 (AoE) (extended) - Notification to authors: July 19th, 2023 (AoE) (extended) - Camera-ready due: July 30th, 2023 (AoE) - Early bird registration until: July 30th, 2023 (AoE) - October 10th-12th, 2023 Theme and Topics ---------------- Microservices are pervading enterprise IT, with many big companies already adopting microservice architectures to deliver their core businesses. Microservices indeed provide an alternative to traditional software architectures, which brings various additional benefits, including increased flexibility, scalability, and improved resilience to failures. Additionally, microservices allow for faster and more efficient development, as well as better collaboration between cross-functional teams. As the technology landscape continues to evolve and become more complex, the importance of microservices in building modern, scalable, and effective applications cannot be overstated. The 5th International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2023) seeks contributions from both industry and academia covering all aspects and phases of the design and implementation of microservice architectures, as well as experiences based on daily working with them. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - Software engineering methods for microservices, specifically (but not limited to) agile service design practices, behavior- and domain-driven design - Formal models for microservices - Programming languages, notations, and techniques for microservices - Verification (both static and runtime) of microservice systems - Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development - DevOps for microservices, in particular (but not limited to) continuous deployment and distributed monitoring - Microservices in the context of development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) - Secure by design in the context of Microservices - Microservice operation and contributor analysis - Microservice management: fault, configuration, accounting/cost, performance, security - Co-change and change impact analysis - Discovery/recovery and reverse engineering of microservices solutions - Microservice evolution - Global governance for microservices - Methodologies for identification, specification, and realization of candidate services - Patterns for cloud-native application architectures; service API design and management - Microservices infrastructure components: API gateways, side cars, and service meshes; reactive messaging brokers; service registries; service containers and cluster managers; infrastructure as code - Function-as-a-service and serverless cloud offerings; service-based event sourcing and data streaming architectures - Security and other service quality concerns (consistency, availability, recoverability) in microservices; dealing with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and other data privacy requirements Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development Internet technologies: services, human interactions, data analytics and AI for IoT, architecture things centric, sensor networks, security, privacy, applications - AI and Microservices (including Datasets, Open-source technology) - Cyber-physical Systems: AI/ML applications, security - Industrial case studies and applications: Data Science/Big Data, Smart Industry, Healthcare, Government, Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Empirical studies of microservices adoption - Case Studies and Surveys on the topic of Microservices - Sustainable practices in the Microservices community - Education about Microservices technologies Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- A submission should describe a talk to be given at the conference in the form of extended abstracts with a maximum of two pages for talks from industry and six pages for academic presentations (including references). Submissions can be based on work in progress, scientific work published or submitted for publication, practical experience reports, or practical tool demonstrations. They must further be prepared using the TBA template, be in PDF format, printable in black and white on A4 paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. Submissions must be in English. Contributions may be submitted via TBA. The submission deadline is June 25th, 2023 AoE. Resubmissions are allowed until the submission deadline. Contributions will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee. Extended abstracts of accepted contributions will be available electronically before the conference. Selected contributions will be invited to submit manuscripts based on their abstracts for conference post-proceedings. Organisation ------------ General Chair: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa (IT) Program Chairs: Tomas Cerny, Baylor University (US) Valentina Lenarduzzi, University of Oulu (FI) Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa (IT) Industrial Liaison Chair: Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware (IT) Publicity Chair: Alessandro Bocci, University of Pisa (IT) Philip Wizenty, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (DE) Local Chairs: Stefano Forti, University of Pisa (IT) Steering Committee ----------------- Giulio Manzonetto, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark Sabine Sachweh, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund Program Committee ----------------- Amr S. Abdelfattah, Baylor University (USA) Nour Ali, Brunel University London (UK) Carlo Aliprandi, Extra RED (IT) Hernán Astudillo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (CL) Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Justus Bogner, University of Stuttgart (DE) Andrea Janes, Vorarlberg University of Applied Science (AT) Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna (IT) Pavas Navaney, Oracle (USA) Phu Nguyen, SINTEF (NO) Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Florian Rademacher, RWTH Aachen University (DE) Larisa Safina, INRIA (FR) Davide Taibi, University of Oulu (FI) Pavel Tisnovsky, Red Hat (USA) Nabil El Ioini, The University of Nottingham (MY) Richard Lipka, University of West Bohemia (CZ) Muhammad Waseem, University of Jyväskylä (FI) Contact Information ------------------- Please contact us if you have questions: https://www.conf-micro.services/2023/contact/

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FSTTCS 2023 - Second Call for Papers
by Shibashis Guha 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies.] December 18-20, 2023 at IIIT Hyderabad <https://www.iiit.ac.in/>, India Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2023/ FSTTCS 2023 is the 43rd conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS <http://www.iarcs.org.in/>, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India <https://india.acm.org/>. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AoE) Abstract Submission: July 12, 2023 Paper Submission: July 19, 2023 Notification: September 22, 2023 Camera Ready: October 5, 2023 Conference: December 18-20, 2023 Workshops: TBA PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in electronic form via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fsttcs2023> using the LIPIcs LaTeX style file available here <https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors>. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (excluding bibliography), but may include a clearly marked appendix containing technical details. The appendix will be read only at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions to journals or other conferences with published proceedings are disallowed. Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/> as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper in person at the conference. TOPICS Track A - Algebraic Complexity - Algorithms and Data Structures - Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics - Approximation Algorithms - Combinatorial Optimization - Communication Complexity - Computational Biology - Computational Geometry - Computational Learning Theory - Cryptography and Security - Data Streaming and Sublinear algorithms - Economics and Computation - Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms - Parameterized Complexity - Proof Complexity - Quantum Computing - Randomness in Computing - Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing Track B - Automata, Games and Formal Languages - Logic in Computer Science - Modal and Temporal Logics - Models of Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems - Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic and Quantum Systems - Model Theory - Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages - Program Analysis and Transformation - Security protocols - Specification, Verification and Synthesis - Theorem Proving and Decision Procedures ORGANISATION COMMITTEE - Girish Varma <https://girishvarma.in/> (IIIT Hyderabad) - Suryajith Chillara <https://suryajith.github.io/> (IIIT Hyderabad) - Anjaneya Swami <https://scis.uohyd.ac.in/~askcs/> (Univ of Hyderabad) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Track A - Siddharth Barman <https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~barman/> (The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India) - Arnab Bhattacharyya <https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~arnab/> (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Parinya Chalermsook <https://sites.google.com/site/parinyachalermsook/> (Aalto University, Finland) - Sivakanth Gopi <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/sigopi/> (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) - Karthik C.S. <http://karthikcs.org/> (Rutgers University, USA) - Venkata Koppula <https://web.iitd.ac.in/~kvenkata/> (IIT Delhi, India) - Rucha Kulkarni <https://ruchark2.web.engr.illinois.edu/> (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Mrinal Kumar <https://mrinalkr.bitbucket.io/> (TIFR, Mumbai, India) - Paloma Lima <https://www.ii.uib.no/~palomal/> (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Meena Mahajan <https://www.imsc.res.in/~meena/> (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) - Nikhil Mande <https://mande-nikhil.github.io/> (University of Liverpool, UK) - Neeldhara Misra <https://iitgn.ac.in/faculty/cse/neeldhara> (IIT Gandhinagar, India) - Sagnik Mukhopadhyay <https://sagnikm.github.io/> (University of Sheffield, UK) - Meghana Nasre <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~meghana/> (IIT Madras, India) - Noga Ron-Zewi <https://sites.google.com/view/nogazewi> (University of Haifa, Israel) - Chris Schwiegelshohn <https://cs.au.dk/~schwiegelshohn/> (University of Aarhus, Denmark) - Srikanth Srinivasan <https://cs.au.dk/~srikanth/> (University of Aarhus, Denmark) – *Track A chair* Track B - Aiswarya C. <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~aiswarya/> (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Guy Avni <https://sites.google.com/view/gavni> (University of Haifa, Israel) - Francesco Belardinelli <https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~fbelard/> (Imperial College, UK) - Dietmar Berwanger <http://www.lsv.fr/~dwb/> (CNRS, LMF, France) - Patricia Bouyer <http://www.lsv.fr/~bouyer/> (CNRS, LMF France) – *Track B chair* - Arnaud Carayol <http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~carayol/> (Université Gustave Eiffel, LIGM, France) - Supratik Chakraborty <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/> (IIT Bombay, India) - Lorenzo Clemente <https://sites.google.com/view/lorenzoclemente/> (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Ugo Dal Lago <https://udallago.github.io/> (Università di Bologna, Italy) - P. Madhusudan <https://madhu.cs.illinois.edu/> (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Pavithra Prabhakar <https://people.cs.ksu.edu/~pprabhakar/> (Kansas State University, USA) - Prakash Saivasan <https://www.imsc.res.in/prakash_saivasan> (The Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India) - Abhisekh Sankaran <https://abhisekhs.github.io/> (Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune, India) - B. Srivathsan <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~sri/> (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Nathalie Sznajder <https://pages.lip6.fr/Nathalie.Sznajder/> (Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France) - Tony Tan <https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tonytan/> (National Taiwan University) STEERING COMMITTEE - Paul Gastin <http://www.lsv.fr/~gastin/> (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) - Amit Kumar <http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~amitk/> (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) - S Krishna <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krishnas/> (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) - G Ramalingam <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/grama/> (Microsoft Research, Bangalore) - Venkatesh Raman <https://www.imsc.res.in/~vraman/> (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) - Kavitha Telikepalli <https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~kavitha/> (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

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Post-doc positions in Trustworthy Software at Singapore
by Abhik Roychoudhury 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Post-doc position announcement Post-doc positions are available at the National University of Singapore in the area of trustworthy software, in the group of Abhik Roychoudhury. The focus of the group in software testing and program analysis as well as related topics like trustworthy AI. Details may be found from the group website. *https://nus-tss.github.io/* The group has graduated many past PhD and post-doc alumni, with academic placements all over the world. The alumni placement track record can be seen from *https://nus-tss.github.io/team/* The National University of Singapore (/https://www.nus.edu.sg//) provides an engaging work environment. Salary and other benefits for the position are competitive. Interested applicants can email their CV to Neo Chee Yong *neocy(a)nus.edu.sg* with CC to *abhik(a)comp.nus.edu.sg* Candidates who have submitted their PhD thesis but have not received the PhD degree, are also eligible to apply. Thanks -- -Abhik Roychoudhury School of Computing National University of Singapore https://abhikrc.com

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