*[Apologies for cross-posting; please forward to any good students you
might know.]*
We invite applications for six fully-funded PhD positions (4 years) in the
project
"Cyclic Structures in Programs and Proofs - New Harmonies in Software
Correctness by Construction"
https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies
=====================================================
Due to several requests, the deadline for submitting applications has been
extended.
The new deadline is *Monday, May 26, 2025*, 23:59 (CET).
=====================================================
# About the Project
This €3 million project aims to advance software verification through
fundamental research in the following areas:
-
Modal logic, proof theory, and coalgebras;
-
Programming languages, concurrency, and type systems;
-
Proof assistants (Agda, Rocq).
Funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), this consortium brings together
researchers from different universities:
-
Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg)
-
Henning Basold (Leiden University)
-
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University)
-
Georgiana Caltais (University of Twente)
-
Jesper Cockx (TU Delft)
-
Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen)
-
Robbert Krebbers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
-
Jorge Pérez (University of Groningen, Principal Investigator)
# Candidate Profile
We seek strong, highly motivated applicants who:
-
Have (or are close to completing) an MSc in Computer Science, Logic,
Mathematics, or a related field.
-
Preferably have background or research experience in any of the areas
above.
-
Have strong communication skills (oral and written) in English.
# Position Details
-
The six PhD positions are fully funded, employed positions for four years.
The conditions of employment follow the Collective Labour Agreement for
Dutch Universities.
-
Candidates will be based in and employed by one of the participating
universities and collaborate with national and international partners.
# How to Apply
For full details about the six positions and to submit your application,
visit:
https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies/
Deadline (extended): Submit your application until Monday, May 26, 2025,
23:59 (CET), for full consideration. Applications will be reviewed until
all positions are filled.
Starting date: We expect positions to start in September 2025 (or soon
thereafter). Some flexibility is possible, depending on the position.
Questions and informal inquiries: Please contact Jorge Pérez (Principal
Investigator) at <j.a.perez(a)rug.nl>
--
Jorge A. Pérez
Associate Professor
Leader, Fundamental Computing group
Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
<https://www.jperez.nl> / <https://www.rug.nl/fse/fc>
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Sreejith A V, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at IIT
Goa. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 20, at 1900 hrs IST (add to
Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NHRwODlxNj…>
).
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: Active learning of deterministic one-counter automata
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Deterministic one-counter automata (DOCA) extend finite automata with a
counter that can be incremented, decremented or reset to zero. The
transition of a DOCA depends on the current state, the letter, and whether
the current counter value is zero.
In an active learning framework, a Learner intends to learn a language by
querying the Teacher with membership and equivalence queries. Angluin's
classical L* algorithm showed that in this framework, a DFA can be learnt
in polynomial time.
In this talk, we are interested in the active learning of DOCA. All
existing algorithms for learning DOCA run in time exponential in the size
of the minimal DOCA recognising the language. We present OL*, the first
active learning algorithm that learns a DOCA in polynomial time.
This is a joint work with Prince Mathew and Vincent Penelle.
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04525 (to appear in LICS'25)
Bio: Sreejith A V is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science
at IIT Goa. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science,
especially formal methods. In the past, he has also held research positions
in University of Tubingen, TIFR - Mumbai, LIAFA - Paris, CMI - Chennai, and
University of Warsaw - Poland.
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Call for papers
PLAS 2025 <http://plas25.github.io>(co-located with CCS '25)
Taipei, Taiwan
13th October, 2025
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TL;DR: Submission Deadline: June 20, 2025 AoE
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Overview
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The Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS)
explores the use of programming language and program analysis techniques to
improve software security across compilers, machine learning models, and
smart contracts. It promotes speculative, forward-looking ideas and
insightful discussions at the intersection of programming languages and
security.
The 20th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS
2025) <http://plas25.github.io> will be held on the 13th of October, 2025,
co-located with CCS 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Submission Guidelines
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The workshop has no formal published proceedings; hence, we encourage the
submission of papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well
as papers covering ongoing and future work. Presenting a paper at the
workshop does not preclude submission to or publication in other venues
that are before, concurrent, or after the workshop. Papers presented at the
workshop will be made available to workshop participants only.
We invite both short papers and long papers.
Full papers: There is no page limit on long papers. Papers in this category
are expected to have relatively mature content. Papers that present
promising preliminary and exploratory work, or recently published work are
particularly welcome in this category. Long papers may receive longer talk
slots at the workshop than short papers, depending on the number of
accepted submissions.
Short papers: should be at most 2 pages long, plus as many pages as needed
for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking
ideas are particularly welcome in this category. Authors submitting papers
in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the
submitted paper.
There is no restriction on paper format other than the page limits stated
above.
A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop is:
- Side-channel vulnerability detection and elimination
- Verification techniques applied to adversarial learning and smart
contracts
- Software isolation (e.g., SFI, sandboxing)
- Compiler/runtime-based hardening and monitoring
- Program analysis, binary analysis, and fuzzing
- Security enforcement mechanisms
- Cryptographic protocol verification
- Information flow and access control
- Security in web, IoT, and cloud programming languages
Submissions will be made (in PDF format) via the following website:
https://plas25.hotcrp.com.
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Important Dates
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Paper submission:
*June 20, 2025 AoE*Author notification: August 8, 2025
Workshop date: October 13, 2025
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Program Committee
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Amir Ahmadian (KTH, Sweden)
Sebastien Bardin (CEA, France)
Abhishek Bichhawat (IIT Gandhinagar, India) (co-chair)
Ferhat Erata (Yale, USA)
Jana Hofmann (MPI-SP, Germany) (co-chair)
Adrien Koutsos (Inria, France)
McKenna McCall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Toby Murray (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Sabine Oechsner (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Contact
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For more information, please refer to plas25.github.io or email us at
abhishek.b(a)iitgn.ac.in and jana.hofmann(a)mpi-sp.org
Best Regards,
Jana and Abhishek
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by
Sreejith A V, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at IIT
Goa. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 20, at 1900 hrs IST (add to
Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NHRwODlxNj…>
).
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: Active learning of deterministic one-counter automata
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
Deterministic one-counter automata (DOCA) extend finite automata with a
counter that can be incremented, decremented or reset to zero. The
transition of a DOCA depends on the current state, the letter, and whether
the current counter value is zero.
In an active learning framework, a Learner intends to learn a language by
querying the Teacher with membership and equivalence queries. Angluin's
classical L* algorithm showed that in this framework, a DFA can be learnt
in polynomial time.
In this talk, we are interested in the active learning of DOCA. All
existing algorithms for learning DOCA run in time exponential in the size
of the minimal DOCA recognising the language. We present OL*, the first
active learning algorithm that learns a DOCA in polynomial time.
This is a joint work with Prince Mathew and Vincent Penelle.
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04525 (to appear in LICS'25)
Bio: Sreejith A V is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science
at IIT Goa. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science,
especially formal methods. In the past, he has also held research positions
in University of Tubingen, TIFR - Mumbai, LIAFA - Paris, CMI - Chennai, and
University of Warsaw - Poland.
Dear colleague,
Are you a woman working in logic?
Please join us on July 14, 2025 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day
with Women in Logic!
Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by ****May 10****, 2025 (AoE),
via EasyChair.
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Call for Contributions
WiL 2025: 9th Women in Logic Workshop
July 14, 2025
Co-located with FSCD 2025
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/wil2025__;!!IBzWL…
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Women in Logic 2025 is a satellite event of the 10th International
Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD
2025) to be held in Birmingham, UK, from July 14 to July 20, 2025.
The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase
awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of
logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the
excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing
their visibility and representation in the community. Our aim is to:
* provide a platform for women researchers to share their work and
achievements;
* increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among
junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions
with peers and more established faculty;
* establish new connections and collaborations;
* foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the
logic research community.
We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and
computer science, particularly early-career researchers.
Previous versions of Women in Logic (Reykjavík 2017, Oxford 2018,
Vancouver 2019, Paris 2020, Rome 2021, Haifa 2022, Rome 2023, Tallinn
2024) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts
for a recognition of the need for change in the community.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: automata theory,
automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and
distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive
mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics,
domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program
analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, games and
logic, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear
logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical
aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational
complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical
frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model
checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language
semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security
and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and
verification.
INVITED SPEAKERS
* TBA
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract submission deadline: May 10, 2025 -- Extended!
* Notification: May 15, 2025
* Early registration: TBA
* Contribution for Informal Proceedings: June 25, 2025
* Workshop: July 14, 2025
SUBMISSIONS
Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using
the Easychair style (
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors_…
).
The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2025 Easychair page
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wil202…
as a PDF file before the submission deadline on May 5, 2025, anywhere on
Earth.
ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Lourdes Del Carmen González Huesca (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México)
* Amy Felty (University of Ottawa)
* Raheleh Jalali (University of Bath)
* Delia Kesner (Université Paris Cité)
* Anela Lolic (Co-chair, TU Wien)
* Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute)
* Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA)
* Anja Petkovic Komel (TU Wien)
* Elaine Pimentel (Co-chair, UCL)
* Tephilla Prince (Co-chair, IIT Dharwad)
* Krishna S. (IIT Bombay)
More TBA
GRANTS
A limited number of travel grants is available for students/young
researchers who would not otherwise have resources to attend WiL, and
whose attendance would benefit both the applicant and the event. We
expect to be able to help with registration/local/travel expenses.
Applicants should note that grants are limited, and that costs in
excess of the grant will not be reimbursed.
Grants will be awarded to (co-)authors of accepted papers, based on
the grant committee's assessment of the applicant's genuine financial
need, the potential benefit to the applicant's education and research,
and the potential benefit to WiL.
Applications should be sent by May 17 2025 via the form:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/hSnTGEEddPZRYqqx5__;!!IBzWLUs…
The award notification date is May 19, 2025.
The grants will be presented at the conferences; in case a grantee
does not attend, the chairs may transfer the grant to another student
or give no award.
The grants are kindly offered by ACM SIGLOG, Jane Street, VeTSS,
Microsoft, TOPOS Institute and Kurt Gödel Society.
--
Tephilla Prince
Research Scholar
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
IIT Dharwad
*[Apologies for cross-posting; please forward to any good students you
might know.]*
We invite applications for six fully-funded PhD positions (4 years) in the
project
"Cyclic Structures in Programs and Proofs – New Harmonies in Software
Correctness by Construction"
https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies
Deadline approaching!
Submit your application until Friday, *May 23, 2025*, 23:59 (CET
<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cet>).
About the Project
This €3 million project aims to advance software verification through
fundamental research in the following areas:
-
Modal logic, proof theory, and coalgebras;
-
Programming languages, concurrency, and type systems;
-
Proof assistants (Agda, Rocq).
Funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), this consortium brings together
researchers from different universities:
-
Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg)
-
Henning Basold (Leiden University)
-
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University)
-
Georgiana Caltais (University of Twente)
-
Jesper Cockx (TU Delft)
-
Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen)
-
Robbert Krebbers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
-
Jorge Pérez (University of Groningen, Principal Investigator)
Candidate Profile
We seek strong, highly motivated applicants who:
-
Have (or are close to completing) an MSc in Computer Science, Logic,
Mathematics, or a related field.
-
Preferably have background or research experience in any of the areas
above.
-
Have strong communication skills (oral and written) in English.
Position Details
-
The six PhD positions are fully funded, employed positions for four years.
The conditions of employment follow the Collective Labour Agreement for
Dutch Universities.
-
Candidates will be based in and employed by one of the participating
universities and collaborate with national and international partners.
How to Apply
For full details about the six positions and to submit your application,
visit:
https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies/
Deadline: Submit your application until Friday, May 23, 2025, 23:59 (CET
<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cet>), for full consideration.
Applications will be reviewed until all positions are filled.
Starting date: We expect positions to start in September 2025 (or soon
thereafter). Some flexibility is possible, depending on the position.
Questions and informal inquiries: Please contact Jorge Pérez (Principal
Investigator) at <j.a.perez(a)rug.nl>
--
Jorge A. Pérez
Associate Professor
Leader, Fundamental Computing group
Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
<https://www.jperez.nl> / <https://www.rug.nl/fse/fc>
Dear all,
This is a call for papers for the Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis (MCW) 2025. We invite you to submit your already published work or work in progress on model counting, sampling, and synthesis to this year's edition of MCW 2025.
The workshop covers advanced topics such as weighted and projected counters/samplers, and various domains such as SAT, SMT, ASP, and CP. The workshop has expanded its focus to include the role of model counters, samplers, and solvers in automated synthesis. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of cutting-edge theoretical and practical insights, with a particular emphasis on innovative solver technologies and their real-world applications. It is a pre-conference workshop as part of SAT 2025, and will be held in University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland.
This year, SAT 2025 will be colocated with the 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), the 18th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), and the 23rd International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT).
For more information visit the website: https://mccompetition.org/2025/mcw_description.html
Regards,
Priyanka Golia
–
On behalf of the workshop organizers: Paulius Dilkas and Priyanka Golia
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/
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
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
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Dr. Qin Liu
College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Hunan University
Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082
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