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Deadline Extended August 31： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '25

Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/313735/security-and-privacy-in-… Important Dates Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2025 Review result notification: November 1, 2025 Acceptance/rejection: December 31, 2025 In a smart city, numerous artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) communicate and collaborate to improve our quality of life. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) are foundational technologies that have been interacting with each other to realize a smart life. As massive amounts of sensitive data are generated, processed, and exchanged through IoT devices and AI technologies, one of the fundamental problems is how to provide intelligent services in smart cities without compromising security and privacy. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in IoT, AI, and network security, to share their novel ideas and latest findings in relation to security and privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities. The scope and interests for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following list: ● Secure IoT infrastructure for smart cities ● Secure smart city applications, including secure AI-driven IoT applications ● Authentication and access control in IoT-enabled smart cities ● Intrusion detection for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Architectures and standards for secure IoT systems ● AI and big data techniques for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Blockchain technology for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Secure multi-party computation techniques for ML ● Security optimization in heterogeneous environments ● AI-driven mechanisms and models to perform attacks ● Security and privacy issues in AI-enabled IoT communications and systems ● Privacy-preserving ML ● Privacy-preserving data mining ● Privacy and anonymity techniques for IoT and AI ● Data privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy preserving techniques for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy modeling and analysis for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Miscellaneous privacy issues in AIoT-enabled smart cities Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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Last call for papers: PNSE 2025
by Étienne André 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Call for Papers International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering PNSE’25, Paris, France, June 23-24, 2025 http://www.pnse.de PNSE’25 is a satellite event of PETRI NETS’25 https://petrinets25.github.io/web/ Scope For the successful realisation of complex systems of interacting and reactive software and hardware components the use of a precise language at different stages of the development process is of crucial importance. Petri nets are becoming increasingly popular in this area, as they provide a uniform language supporting the tasks of modelling, validation, and verification. We welcome contributions describing original research in topics related to Petri nets in combination with software engineering, addressing open problems or presenting new ideas regarding the relation of Petri nets and software engineering. Furthermore, we look for surveys addressing open problems and new applications of Petri nets and for Petri nets. Important Dates: Deadline for papers: 25 April 2025 Notification of paper acceptance: 19 May 2025 Deadline for posters: 25 May 2025 Notification of poster acceptance: 28 May 2025 Deadline for final revisions: 30 May 2025 Topics Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Software Engineering agile development product lines software in business contexts software development and production environments; DevOps; IDEs; continuous integration programming and concurrency technologies: hadoop / MapReduce; akka, Spark; Flink; STORM etc. distributed database technology: redis; cassandra; CouchDB; mongoDB etc. concepts for mobility, concurrency, non-determinism, distribution, embedding, flexibility social concepts for norms, rules, contracts, communication, co-ordination, co-operation software engineering addressing Petri nets, UML techniques, BPMN, BPEL, eEPCs, CMMN and other modelling techniques - Modelling representation of formal models by intuitive modelling concepts guidelines for the construction of system models adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines views and abstractions of systems meta-modelling and domain specific languages (DSLs) model-driven architecture modelling software landscapes web service-based software development - Validation and Execution prototyping simulation, observation, animation code generation and execution testing and debugging efficient implementation - Verification structural methods (e.g. place invariants, reduction rules) results for structural subclasses of nets state space based approaches efficient model checking assertional and deductive methods (e.g. temporal logics) process algebraic methods model and graph transformation applications of category theory, rewriting logic and linear logic - Application of Petri nets and Software Engineering, in particular in the domains of … education, training and teaching at any level, flexible manufacturing, logistics, telecommunication, big data, cyber-physical systems, internet-of-things, grid and cloud computing, distributed systems, workflow management and embedded systems. - Tools in the fields mentioned above Submissions The program committee invites submissions of full contributions (up to 20 pages excluding references) or short contributions (5 - 8 pages excluding references). Ongoing work (up to 3 pages including references) can be presented in a special poster session. Papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the CEUR latex style: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Submissions should include title, authors' addresses, E-mail addresses, keywords and an abstract. For your submission please use the track "International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering 2025" at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2025 The papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the workshop and published online. The best papers from the workshop will be invited for publication in a volume of the journal sub-line of Lecture Notes in Computer Science entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC). The papers are expected to be thoroughly revised and they will go through a totally new round of reviewing. PC Chairs Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, University of Applied Science Hamburg, Germany Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany Heiko Rölke, FH Graubünden, Austria In case of any problems please contact us by email: pnse25(a)easychair.org

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Deadline Extended August 31： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '25

Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/313735/security-and-privacy-in-… In a smart city, numerous artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) communicate and collaborate to improve our quality of life. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) are foundational technologies that have been interacting with each other to realize a smart life. As massive amounts of sensitive data are generated, processed, and exchanged through IoT devices and AI technologies, one of the fundamental problems is how to provide intelligent services in smart cities without compromising security and privacy. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in IoT, AI, and network security, to share their novel ideas and latest findings in relation to security and privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities. The scope and interests for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following list: ● Secure IoT infrastructure for smart cities ● Secure smart city applications, including secure AI-driven IoT applications ● Authentication and access control in IoT-enabled smart cities ● Intrusion detection for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Architectures and standards for secure IoT systems ● AI and big data techniques for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Blockchain technology for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Secure multi-party computation techniques for ML ● Security optimization in heterogeneous environments ● AI-driven mechanisms and models to perform attacks ● Security and privacy issues in AI-enabled IoT communications and systems ● Privacy-preserving ML ● Privacy-preserving data mining ● Privacy and anonymity techniques for IoT and AI ● Data privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy preserving techniques for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy modeling and analysis for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Miscellaneous privacy issues in AIoT-enabled smart cities Important Dates Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2025 Review result notification: November 1, 2025 Acceptance/rejection: December 31, 2025 Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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FMCAD 2025: Deadline Extension
by Daniela Kaufmann 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

================================================================================ Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) 2025 - Deadline Extension ================================================================================ FMCAD 2025 is the twenty-fifth edition in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. The conference encompasses a wide range of topics related to formal aspects of computer-aided system design, including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing and provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. ## General Information Conference Website: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/ Conference Location: SRI Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, US Conference Dates: October 6 - October 10, 2025 FMCAD 2025 includes the FMCAD Student Forum (https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/student_forum/) and is co-located with VSTTE 2025. ## Topics of Interest FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer-aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): *Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. *Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. *Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. *Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, introduce new features, or substantially improve the automation of formal methods. *Application of formal methods to verifying safety, connectivity and security properties of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts, block chains, and IoT devices. *Application of formal methods to the analysis of machine learning systems, and applications of machine learning to enhance formal methods techniques. ## Important Dates *Abstract Submission Deadline: April 28, 2025 (extended from April 20, 2025) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 5, 2025 (extended from April 27, 2025) *Author Response: June 17 - June 19, 2025 *Author Notification: July 1, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) ### FMCAD/VSTTE Program Outline *Main VSTTE Day: October 6, 2025 *Joint FMCAD/VSTTE Tutorial Day: October 7, 2025 *Main FMCAD days: October 8 - October 10, 2025 ## Submission Guidelines Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=fmcad2025 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. **Regular papers*are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. **Tool & Case Study papers*are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case Study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size; preferably, use the FMCAD template for papers. Papers in both categories can be either 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) in length excluding references. Short papers that describe emerging results, practical experiences, or original ideas that can be described succinctly are encouraged. Authors will be required to select an appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in all categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process and each submission will be reviewed by at least four members of the program committee. The review process is single-blind. The review process will incorporate a feedback and rebuttal period during which authors will have the opportunity to formally respond to reviewer comments. **New - Artifact Evaluation:**FMCAD 2025 introduces optional artifact evaluation to enhance transparency and the usability of research outcomes. Authors reporting experimental results are strongly encouraged to publish their final data in a long-term repository (e.g. zenodo (https://zenodo.org)) With artifacts serving as supplementary evidence, high-quality artifacts can improve the likelihood of paper acceptance. Artifact evaluation will be integrated into the main review process, with one selected program committee member assessing the quality of the artifact alongside the paper. Accepted artifacts require a DOI and will be clearly identified in the published paper. Details are available on the Artifacts Page (https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/cfa) Accepted papers are published by TU Wien Academic Press under a Creative Commons license (the authors retain the copyright) and distributed through the IEEE XPlore digital library. IEEE CEDA is a technical co-sponsor of FMCAD. There are no publication fees. Authors of accepted contributions will be required to sign the FMCAD copyright transfer form found here: https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf. For each accepted paper, at least one unique author must register for the conference. Moreover, authors of accepted papers ensure that at least one of them will attend the conference and present the work. ## Student Forum Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2025 will host a Student Forum that provides a platform for graduate students at any career stage to introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods community, and solicit feedback. Submissions for the student forum must be short reports describing research ideas or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the scope of FMCAD. Work that has been partly published previously might be considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in such cases. All submissions will be reviewed by a selected group of FMCAD student forum committee members. Details are available on the Student Forum Page (https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/student_forum) ## FMCAD 2025 Committees ### Program Chair Ahmed Irfan, SRI, CA, USA Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien, Austria ### Program Committee Guy Amir, Cornell University Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University Kshitij Bansal, Google Haniel Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Per Bjesse, Synopsys Inc. Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft Martin Blicha, University of Lugano Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Aleksandar Chakarov, Phase Change Software LLC Pascal Fontaine, Université de Liège Katalin Fazekas, TU Wien Divya Gopinath, NASA Ames (KBR Inc.) Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo Liana Hadarean, Amazon Web Services Paula Herber, University of Münster Osman Hasan, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Marijn Heule, Carnegie Mellon University Antti Hyvärinen, Certora Alexey Ignatiev, Monash University Mitesh Jain, Rivos Inv. Mikolas Janota, Czech Technical University in Prague Susmit Jha, SRI International Martin Jonas, Masaryk University Jianwen Li, East China Normal University Enrico Magnago, Amazon Web Services Sergio Mover, Ecole Polytechnique Antonina Nepeivoda, Program System Institute of RAS Aina Niemetz, Stanford University Mathias Preiner, Stanford University Stefan Ratschan, Czech Academy of Sciences Kristin Rozier, Iowa State University Philipp Rümmer, University of Regensburg and Uppsala University Mark Santolucito, Barnard College Christoph Scholl, University of Freiburg Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University Linz Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Anna Slobodova, ARM Mate Soos, Ethereum Foundation Christoph Sticksel, The MathWorks Nestan Tsiskaridze, Stanford University Ashish Tiwari, Microsoft Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien Andrew Wu, Amherst College Nisansala Yatapanage, Australian National University Emily Yu, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Cunxi Yu, University of Maryland Zhen Zhang, Utah State University Hongce Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Yoni Zohar, Bar-Ilan University ### Local Chair Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, SRI, CA, USA ### Registration Chair Jenny McNeill, SRI, CA, USA ### Student Forum Chairs Tanja Schindler, University of Basel, Switzerland Lee A. Barnett, AWS, CA, USA ### Sponsorship Chair: Alex Ozdemir, Stanford University, CA, USA ### Publication Chair Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria ### Web Chair Thomas Hader, TU Wien, Austria ### FMCAD Steering Committee Clark Barrett, Stanford University, CA, USA Armin Biere, University of Freiburg, Germany Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA Anna Slobodova, ARM, USA Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria

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Deadline Extended August 31： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/313735/security-and-privacy-in-… In a smart city, numerous artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) communicate and collaborate to improve our quality of life. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) are foundational technologies that have been interacting with each other to realize a smart life. As massive amounts of sensitive data are generated, processed, and exchanged through IoT devices and AI technologies, one of the fundamental problems is how to provide intelligent services in smart cities without compromising security and privacy. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in IoT, AI, and network security, to share their novel ideas and latest findings in relation to security and privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities. The scope and interests for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following list: ● Secure IoT infrastructure for smart cities ● Secure smart city applications, including secure AI-driven IoT applications ● Authentication and access control in IoT-enabled smart cities ● Intrusion detection for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Architectures and standards for secure IoT systems ● AI and big data techniques for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Blockchain technology for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Secure multi-party computation techniques for ML ● Security optimization in heterogeneous environments ● AI-driven mechanisms and models to perform attacks ● Security and privacy issues in AI-enabled IoT communications and systems ● Privacy-preserving ML ● Privacy-preserving data mining ● Privacy and anonymity techniques for IoT and AI ● Data privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy preserving techniques for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy modeling and analysis for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Miscellaneous privacy issues in AIoT-enabled smart cities Important Dates Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2025 Review result notification: November 1, 2025 Acceptance/rejection: December 31, 2025 Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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ATVA 2025: Call for papers - Deadlines extended
by B Srivathsan 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Call for Papers - Deadlines extended ------------------------------- **Paper submission extended to April 25, 2025 (AoE)** The 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025) 27-30 October 2025, Bangalore, India https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025 AIM AND SCOPE ATVA 2025 is the 23rd in a series of symposia aimed at bringing together academics, industrial researchers and practitioners in the area of theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware and software systems. ATVA solicits high quality submissions in the following suggestive list of topics: - Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems - Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized systems - Program analysis and software verification - Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and embedded systems - Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced, weighted and probabilistic systems - Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement techniques for analysis and verification - Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability - Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology - Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent systems - Verification in industrial practice - Synthesis for hardware and software systems - Applications and case studies of verification - Automated tool support for verification - Testing and verification of neural networks - Testing and verification of autonomous systems IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines in AoE) - Abstract + Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2025 - Author response period: June 17 - 20, 2025 - Paper notification: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready deadline: August 1, 2025 - Tutorials: October 27, 2025 - Workshops: 31 October 2025 - Conference: October 28 - October 30, 2025 ARTIFACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all deadlines in AoE): For tool papers: - Artifact submission deadline: May 2, 2025 - Smoke test reviews: May 9, 2025 - Submission of revised artifacts: May 11, 2025 - Author notification: July 4, 2025 For accepted regular papers: - Artifact submission: July 8, 2025 - Author notification: July 27, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: - Regular research papers (18 pages, excluding references, must be anonymized) - Tool papers (10 pages, excluding references, not anonymized) Submissions authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed and encouraged. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2025>. Submissions in both categories must be in Springer's LNCS format. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A few outstanding papers will be selected for a distinguished paper award. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, not counting references and appendices. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers, and to be omitted in the final version. Regular papers at ATVA 2025 will follow a full *double-blind* review process, which means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if a submission refers to prior work done by the authors, the reference should be made in the third person. These are firm submission requirements, and any regular paper that does not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted regular papers will be invited (but are not required) to submit a relevant artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The submission deadline for this artifact evaluation will be soon after the paper acceptance notification. Independent of the artifact evaluation process, research paper authors are encouraged to include a URL to a repository in their original submission, if such a repository is available and is pertinent to the paper. This repository could contain code, datasets, results, etc. This would be for the consideration of the PC reviewers of the submission, at their discretion. If such a URL is included in the submission, the contents of the repository should adhere to the guidelines of a double-blind review process. The review process will include a rebuttal period where the authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. TOOL PAPERS Tool papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, not counting references. Tool papers will follow a single-blind review process. They do NOT need to be anonymized. Tool paper submissions MUST include a URL to an archival site from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed online for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The site must also contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. If the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the site must contain instructions for installing the tool on Linux, Windows or MacOS. Packing the artifact as a Docker container is recommended. Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Acceptance of tool paper submissions is contingent on successful artifact evaluation at the “functional” level. In special cases, where an artifact cannot be submitted, the authors should contact the Artifact Evaluation chairs to find alternate modes of artifact evaluation. More details about artifact evaluation can be found on the conference web site. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS We invite proposals for organizing workshops as part of ATVA 2025. Workshops will be held post-conference, on 31 October 2025. Proposals may be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyZ7otNMqivg5xnS2aPIyzEKW__LPC2SE…>. The last date for submitting workshop proposals is 30 April 2025. CALL FOR TUTORIALS We invite proposals for organizing tutorials as a part of ATVA 2025. Tutorials will be held pre-conference, on 27 October 2025. Tutorial proposals can be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLRNufBv7sL-_SJWJXhs7aLOnML_mn3S9…>. The last date for submitting tutorial proposals is 30 April 2025. GENERAL CHAIR Deepak D’Souza, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-Bangalore, India PROGRAM CHAIRS Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT-Bangalore, India < meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in > K. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India < raghavan(a)iisc.ac.in > B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India < sri(a)cmi.ac.in > ARTIFACT EVALUATION CHAIRS Jie An, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi, India

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Nikhil Swamy on April 8 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Nikhil Swamy, a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 8, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mm5wcm80ZW…> ). 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: Pulse: Proof-oriented Programming with Concurrent Separation Logic in F* Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: F* is a dependently typed programming language. It has been used to develop more than a million lines of verified code and proofs, for artifacts ranging from cryptographic libraries to networking components. Some of this verified software runs in widely used production systems, ranging from the Windows kernel to the Python standard library. However, most of this corpus of verified code is purely sequential. Pulse is a new extension of F* enabling programming and proving imperative programs with shared-memory concurrency. Proofs in Pulse are conducted in a new program logic called PulseCore, a concurrent separation logic with state-of-the-art features, including higher-order ghost state and impredicative invariants, backed by a foundational semantics developed within F* itself. Programs are verified in Pulse using a custom checker with a combination of tactics and SMT solving. Once proven, programs in Pulse can be extracted to OCaml, C, or Rust, depending on the libraries and features used. Pulse is being used in a number of new projects, including in the development of verified firmware, in new libraries for secure data formatting, and for verified CPU/GPU programs. I will provide some background on F* and concurrent separation logic, and then introduce Pulse by way of examples and a tool demonstration. Bio: Nikhil Swamy is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, working in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group. He is interested in type systems, program logics, functional programming, program verification and interactive theorem proving, and also in the use of these techniques to build provably secure programs, including web applications, web browsers, crypto protocol implementations, and low-level systems code.

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Reminder: Webinar on logic education
by Madhavan Mukund 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

A reminder about this talk tomorrow. The Europe times in the original message were wrong. They have been corrected below. ----- Forwarded message from R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> ----- From: R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> The DLMPST Commission on Logic Education https://dlmps.org/pages/commissions.php invites you to a webinar on logic education by Professor Maria Manzano. Date: Apr 8, 2025 Time: 1000 New York, 1400 GMT, 1600 Amsterdam, 1930 Bangalore, 2200 Beijing Zoom link: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/89497108451?pwd=rLl7QvAfnfJHTxp5h6ZVoZzyGuvNQQ.1 Meeting ID: 894 9710 8451 Passcode: udayana Talk details: Tools for teaching logic Maria Manzano Salamanca, Spain I will tell you about the European ALFA project on Tools for Teaching Logic that we had last century and about the International TTL Congresses that we held in 2000, 2006, 2015, and 2023. The first goal of the ALFA project was to share our experience as teachers among Aracne members. We proposed: (1) the preparation of a metabook (with hypertext version), (2) the design of an on-line dictionary of logic terms, (3) the investigation of the existing software for the teaching of logic, (4) the translation of both elementary and interdisciplinary texts and software, (5) to help potential authors to write lecture notes, (6) the dissemination of our project both within our academic community and outside it (high school), thus bolstering a good image of Logic and (7) to support women’s participation in higher education. The network we created was interdisciplinary and included professors and researchers from philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Some of the results of the project can be consulted on the Aracne website (aracne.usal.es.) and others in the Summa Logicae digital library (logicae.usal.es) Speaker Bio: María Gracia Manzano Arjona is a Spanish philosopher specializing in mathematical logic and model theory. Manzano earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Barcelona. Her dissertation, Sistemas generales de la lógica de segundo orden [General systems of second-order logic], was supervised by Jesús Mosterín. She is a professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the University of Salamanca. She is the author of several books on logic and model theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Manzano -- R Ramanujam ----- End forwarded message -----

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ATVA 2025: Joint Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

----- Forwarded message from Meenakshi D'Souza <meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: Meenakshi D'Souza <meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 18:03:40 +0000 Subject: ATVA 2025: Joint Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials ------------------------------------------------------- The 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025) 27-30 October 2025, Bangalore, India https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025 AIM AND SCOPE ATVA 2025 is the 23rd in a series of symposia aimed at bringing together academics, industrial researchers and practitioners in the area of theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware and software systems. ATVA solicits high quality submissions in the following suggestive list of topics: - Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems - Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized systems - Program analysis and software verification - Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and embedded systems - Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced, weighted and probabilistic systems - Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement techniques for analysis and verification - Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability - Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology - Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent systems - Verification in industrial practice - Synthesis for hardware and software systems - Applications and case studies of verification - Automated tool support for verification - Testing and verification of neural networks - Testing and verification of autonomous systems IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines in AoE) - Abstract submission deadline: April 11, 2025 - Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2025 - Author response period: June 10 - 13, 2025 - Paper notification: June 25, 2025 - Camera-ready deadline: July 25, 2025 - Tutorials: October 27, 2025 - Workshops: 31 October 2025 - Conference: October 28 - October 30, 2025 ARTIFACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all deadlines in AoE): For tool papers: - Artifact submission deadline: April 25, 2025 - Smoke test reviews: May 1, 2025 - Submission of revised artifacts: May 3, 2025 - Author notification: June 25, 2025 For accepted regular papers: - Artifact submission: June 28, 2025 - Author notification: July 21, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: - Regular research papers (18 pages, excluding references, must be anonymized) - Tool papers (10 pages, excluding references, not anonymized) Submissions authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed and encouraged. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2025>. Submissions in both categories must be in Springer's LNCS format. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A few outstanding papers will be selected for a distinguished paper award. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, not counting references and appendices. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers, and to be omitted in the final version. Regular papers at ATVA 2025 will follow a full *double-blind* review process, which means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if a submission refers to prior work done by the authors, the reference should be made in the third person. These are firm submission requirements, and any regular paper that does not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted regular papers will be invited (but are not required) to submit a relevant artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The submission deadline for this artifact evaluation will be soon after the paper acceptance notification. Independent of the artifact evaluation process, research paper authors are encouraged to include a URL to a repository in their original submission, if such a repository is available and is pertinent to the paper. This repository could contain code, datasets, results, etc. This would be for the consideration of the PC reviewers of the submission, at their discretion. If such a URL is included in the submission, the contents of the repository should adhere to the guidelines of a double-blind review process. The review process will include a rebuttal period where the authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. TOOL PAPERS Tool papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, not counting references. Tool papers will follow a single-blind review process. They do NOT need to be anonymized. Tool paper submissions MUST include a URL to an archival site from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed online for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The site must also contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. If the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the site must contain instructions for installing the tool on Linux, Windows or MacOS. Packing the artifact as a Docker container is recommended. Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Acceptance of tool paper submissions is contingent on successful artifact evaluation at the “functional” level. In special cases, where an artifact cannot be submitted, the authors should contact the Artifact Evaluation chairs to find alternate modes of artifact evaluation. More details about artifact evaluation can be found on the conference web site. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS We invite proposals for organizing workshops as part of ATVA 2025. Workshops will be held post-conference, on 31 October 2025. Proposals may be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyZ7otNMqivg5xnS2aPIyzEKW__LPC2SE…>. The last date for submitting workshop proposals is 30 April 2025. CALL FOR TUTORIALS We invite proposals for organizing tutorials as a part of ATVA 2025. Tutorials will be held pre-conference, on 27 October 2025. Tutorial proposals can be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLRNufBv7sL-_SJWJXhs7aLOnML_mn3S9…>. The last date for submitting tutorial proposals is 30 April 2025. GENERAL CHAIR Deepak D’Souza, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-Bangalore, India PROGRAM CHAIRS Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT-Bangalore, India < meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in > K. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India < raghavan(a)iisc.ac.in > B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India < sri(a)cmi.ac.in > ARTIFACT EVALUATION CHAIRS Jie An, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi, India ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Nikhil Swamy on April 8 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Nikhil Swamy, a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 8, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mm5wcm80ZW…> ). 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: Pulse: Proof-oriented Programming with Concurrent Separation Logic in F* Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: F* is a dependently typed programming language. It has been used to develop more than a million lines of verified code and proofs, for artifacts ranging from cryptographic libraries to networking components. Some of this verified software runs in widely used production systems, ranging from the Windows kernel to the Python standard library. However, most of this corpus of verified code is purely sequential. Pulse is a new extension of F* enabling programming and proving imperative programs with shared-memory concurrency. Proofs in Pulse are conducted in a new program logic called PulseCore, a concurrent separation logic with state-of-the-art features, including higher-order ghost state and impredicative invariants, backed by a foundational semantics developed within F* itself. Programs are verified in Pulse using a custom checker with a combination of tactics and SMT solving. Once proven, programs in Pulse can be extracted to OCaml, C, or Rust, depending on the libraries and features used. Pulse is being used in a number of new projects, including in the development of verified firmware, in new libraries for secure data formatting, and for verified CPU/GPU programs. I will provide some background on F* and concurrent separation logic, and then introduce Pulse by way of examples and a tool demonstration. Bio: Nikhil Swamy is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, working in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group. He is interested in type systems, program logics, functional programming, program verification and interactive theorem proving, and also in the use of these techniques to build provably secure programs, including web applications, web browsers, crypto protocol implementations, and low-level systems code.

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