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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Siddhartha Prasad on March 10 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Siddhartha Prasad, a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzZhaGpqZ3…> ). 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, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Eventually, Understanding: Operationalizing Misconceptions in LTL Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) sits at the heart of verification and synthesis, yet even experienced users routinely misunderstand what formulas actually say. Over several years, we have studied LTL from a human-factors perspective across classrooms and controlled experiments, building instruments to surface the misconceptions people hold about its semantics and use. These studies show that misconceptions are not isolated mistakes but systematic misunderstandings that persist across levels of expertise and directly affect specification quality. This talk centers those misconceptions as the object of design. We present LTL Tutor, a lightweight, curriculum-agnostic system that operationalizes these insights into targeted practice with immediate, actionable feedback. The tutor generates exercises grounded in common misconceptions, explains errors in terms of the learner's answer versus the correct semantics, and uses a concept-based mutation engine to adaptively drill the ideas each learner struggles with. It is designed to fit into existing courses without requiring changes to teaching style, while also supporting independent learners with minimal prior instruction. By tying feedback to concrete errors and surfacing the underlying misconceptions over time, the tutor turns several years of research on how people misunderstand LTL into a practical, deployable tool for both classrooms and self-guided study. Bio: Siddhartha Prasad is a PhD student in Computer Science at Brown University, advised by Shriram Krishnamurthi. His research takes a programming-languages approach to improving how people express intent and reason about program behavior, drawing on ideas from formal methods, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. He is especially interested in how models of human cognition can inform the design of languages, semantics, and interactive tools for understanding complex computational structures. Previously, he was a software engineer at Microsoft, where he worked both on Windows and Azure. He says that his research interests are informed by his time as an engineer. In his own words, "I have written code that doesn't do what I want it to, and I want to spare everyone else the indignity."

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[Congress-Level CFP] 2026 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2026)

by Yacine Sam

[Apologies for multiple postings] Congress-Level Call for Papers ###################################################### 2026 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2026) CLOUD | EDGE | ICDH | ICWS | QSW | SSE July 13-18, Sydney, Australia https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/ Paper submission due: March 8, 2026 ###################################################### ****** OVERVIEW ***** The 2026 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES) will be held on July 13-18 in Sydney, Australia. The Congress is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Community on Services Computing (TCSVC). With six theme conferences, the scope of SERVICES covers all aspects of services computing and applications, both current or emerging. SERVICES provides a premier international venue for sharing and discussing significant and recent technical research advances in services computing. Centered around services computing, SERVICES 2026 covers various systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of Things (IoT), as well as technologies for intelligent computing, learning, Big Data and blockchain applications, addressing critical issues such as knowledge network, high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness. In addition to co-located theme-topic conferences, the Congress will also include symposia and workshops supporting deep-dive discussions on emerging topics, and complement the SERVICES 2026 program with industry and application presentations and panels. Authors are invited to prepare early and submit original and unpublished papers to any of these conferences at www.easychair.org. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The 2026 Congress will host the following conferences: IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2026) https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/cloud/ IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE 2026) https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/edge/ IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH 2026) https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/icdh/ IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2026) https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/icws/ IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW 2026) https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/qsw/ IEEE International Conference on Software Service Engineering (SSE 2026) https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/sse/ ***PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*** Please visit https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/info-for-authors/ for paper format and paper submission instructions for conferences being held under the IEEE Services Congress umbrella. ****IMPORTANT DATES**** Paper submission: March 8, 2026 Acceptance notifications: May 10, 2026 Camera-ready and registration: May 31, 2026 *****CONTACT US***** For general inquiries regarding the IEEE Services Congress, please use the contact form available at: [ https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/contact-us/ | https://services.conferences.computer.org/2026/contact-us/ ]

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[CFP] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare

by Alfonso Esposito

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026. Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026 Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare (IEEE W2R-Health 2026) in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026, June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026 WEBSITE https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N35071 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS W2R-HEALTH Workshop Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions. The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring • IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments • Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications • Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment • Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques • Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation • Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments • AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care • Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces • Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing • Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics • Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems • Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare • Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies • Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments. -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2026 Camera Ready: April 26, 2026 Workshop: June 16, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE Technical Program Chairs * Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy) * Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) * Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA) * Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy Web and Publicity Chair * Alfonso Esposito (University of Bologna, Italy)

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[CFP] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare

by Alfonso Esposito

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026. Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026 Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare (IEEE W2R-Health 2026) in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026, June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026 WEBSITE https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N35071 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS W2R-HEALTH Workshop Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions. The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring • IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments • Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications • Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment • Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques • Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation • Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments • AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care • Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces • Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing • Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics • Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems • Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare • Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies • Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments. -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: March 22, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: April 12, 2026 Camera Ready: April 26, 2026 Workshop: June 16, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE Technical Program Chairs * Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy) * Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) * Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA) * Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy)

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CONCUR 2026: 2nd Call for Papers

by Totzke, Patrick

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When: 1 – 4 September, 2026 Where: Liverpool, UK Web: https://confest-2026.github.io/concur ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) brings together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency and promote its applications. CONCUR solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience related to semantics, logics, verification and analysis of concurrent systems. The 2026 edition will be co-located with QEST+FORMATS, FMICS and a number of workshops under the joint name CONFEST 2026, which will take place September 1-5, 2026 at the University of Liverpool, UK. Important dates - Abstracts: 20 April, 2026 (AoE) - Submissions: 27 April, 2026 (AoE) - Rebuttal: 1 – 3 June, 2026 (AoE) - Notification: 15 June, 2026 (AoE) - Camera Ready: 29 June, 2026 (AoE) - Conference: 1 – 4 September, 2026 - Workshops: 5 September, 2026 Topics Submissions are solicited in the theory and practice of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain-theoretic models, categorical and coalgebraic models, game-theoretic models, parametric models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, Petri nets, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, quantum systems, biology-inspired systems, and synchronous systems; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, program logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, multi-agent logics, and resource logics; - Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, type systems, and security analysis; - Distributed/parallel algorithms and concurrent data structures: design, analysis, complexity, correctness, fault tolerance, reliability, availability, consistency, self-organization, self-stabilization, commitment schemes, communication protocols; - Theoretical foundations, tools, and empirical evaluations of architectures, execution environments, and software development for concurrent systems such as geo-replicated systems, distributed ledgers, communication networks, multiprocessor and multi-core architectures, quantum computing, quantum communication, shared and transactional memory, resource management and awareness, compilers and tools for concurrent programming, programming models such as component-based, object- and service-oriented. Paper submission - All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. - Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. - Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=concur2026). - Proceedings will be published by LIPIcs; please use their style files (https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/series/LIPIcs#author) when preparing your submission. - Submissions follow a single-blind process. - Papers must not exceed 15 pages (excluding references and appendices, LIPIcs style) - An appendix may provide additional material and proofs, but should not be expected to be scrutinized by the reviewers and will not be published in the proceedings. Special Issue A special issue dedicated to selected papers from CONCUR’2026 will appear in Logical Methods in Computer Science. Awards There will be a CONCUR Test-of-Time award, Best Paper award, and Best Student Paper award in 2026. The winners will be announced at the conference. Invited Speakers - Jade Alglave, University College London / Arm, UK - Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria - Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Jean-François Raskin, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Qiyi Tang, University of Liverpool, UK Program Committee Chairs - Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria - Patrick Totzke, University of Liverpool, UK Program Committee - Parosh Abdulla, Uppsala University, Sweden - Giorgio Bacci, Aalborg University, Denmark - Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany - Paolo Baldan, University of Padova, Italy - Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes, France - Laura Bocchi, University of Kent, UK - Filippo Bonchi, University of Pisa, Italy - Valentina Castiglioni, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands - Dmitry Chistikov, University of Warwick, UK - Corina Cirstea, University of Southampton, UK - Wojciech Czerwiński, University of Warsaw, Poland - Javier Esparza, TU Munich, Germany - Benjamin Kaminski, Saarland University and UCL, Germany/UK - Tobias Kappé, Leiden University, the Netherlands - Stefan Kiefer, University of Oxford, UK - Barbara König, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Antonín Kucera, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Yong Li, SKLCS Beijing, China - Nicolas Mazzocchi, STU Bratislava, Slovakia - Roland Meyer, TU Braunschweig, Germany - Pierre Ohlmann, CNRS, LIS Marseille, France - Prakash Panangaden, McGill and University of Edinburgh, Canada/UK - Kirstin Peters, University of Augsburg, Germany - Guillermo A. Pérez, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Damien Pous, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France - Karin Quaas, University of Leipzig, Germany - Ege Saraç, CISPA, Germany - Sylvain Schmitz, Université Paris Cité, France - Henning Urbat, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany - Franck van Breugel, York University, Canada - Rob van Glabbeek, University of Edinburgh, UK - Pierre Vandenhove, Université de Mons, Belgium - Kazuki Watanabe, NII, Tokyo, Japan - Sarah Winter, Université Paris Cité, France - Nisansala Yatapanage, Australian National University, Australia - Florian Zuleger, TU Wien, Austria Steering Committee - Luca Aceto, Reykjavik University, Iceland - Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany - Pedro R. D’Argenio, National University of Córdoba, Argentina - Wan Fokkink, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Saclay and LIX, France - Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark Questions regarding submissions should be directed to the PC chairs (concur2026(a)easychair.org).

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SOAP 2026 - Final Call for Papers (Deadline: March 3, 2026)

by Debasmita Lohar

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the final Call for Papers for the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State of the Art in Program Analysis (SOAP) 2026, co-located with PLDI 2026 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. SOAP brings together researchers and practitioners working on program analysis. We welcome submissions on exciting ideas in analysis frameworks, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results and work in progress. We also emphasize the state of practice by encouraging submissions from industry, including tool demonstration submissions. The workshop will continue its tradition of lively discussions on extending existing frameworks, developing novel analyses and tools, and how program analysis is applied in real-world settings. Important dates: • Submission deadline: March 3, 2026 • Author notification: April 15, 2026 • Camera-ready deadline: April 25, 2026 • Workshop: June 16, 2026 Workshop website (CFP and updates): https://pldi26.sigplan.org/home/SOAP-2026 Submission site: https://soap26.hotcrp.com/ We warmly encourage you to submit your work and look forward to receiving contributions from the community. Best regards, Yue Li and Debasmita Lohar PC Chairs, SOAP 2026

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13th Rodin User and Developer Workshop - Co-located with FM 2026

by Neeraj Kumar Singh

13th Rodin User and Developer Workshop The 13th Rodin User and Developer Workshop, May 18th-19th, 2026, Tokyo, Japan Event-B is a formal method for system-level modelling and analysis. The Rodin Platform is an Eclipse-based toolset for Event-B that provides effective support for modelling and automated proof. The platform is open-source and is further extendable with plug-ins. A range of plug-ins have already been developed. The 13th Rodin workshop will be collocated with the FM 2026 Conference <https://conf.researchr.org/home/fm-2026>,. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together existing and potential users and developers of the Rodin toolset and to foster a broader community of Rodin users and developers. For Rodin users the workshop will provide an opportunity to share tool experiences and to gain an understanding of on-going tool developments. For plug-in developers the workshop will provide an opportunity to showcase their tools and to achieve better coordination of tool development effort. Submission If you are interested in giving a presentation at the Rodin workshop or have a plug-in to demonstrate, send a short abstract (1 or 2 pages PDF) to rodin(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:rodin@ecs.soton.ac.uk> by 15th March 2026. Notification will be send out early April. We will endeavour to accommodate all submissions that are clearly relevant to Rodin and Event-B. The proceedings of the workshop will be available as a technical report at the University of Southampton. Exclusive Opportunity: Special Issue Publication This year, we are excited to announce that a special issue is in the planning stages, and the selected high-quality submissions will be invited to contribute to a Special Issue. (Note: The finalisation of the special issue is currently underway.) Organisers Asieh Salehi Fathabadi <https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xb2d2/doctor-asieh-salehi-fathabadi>, Lecturer, University of Southampton Laurent Voisin, R&D Manager, Systerel <https://www.systerel.fr/en/> Neeraj Kumar Singh <https://sites.google.com/site/singhnne/>, Associate Professor, INPT-ENSEEIHT / IRIT, University of Toulouse Michael Leuschel <https://www.cs.hhu.de/lehrstuehle-und-arbeitsgruppen/softwaretechnik-und-pr…>, Professor, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany Son Hoang <https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfl2w/doctor-son-hoang>, Associate Professor, University of Southampton

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Ashwani Anand on Feb. 10 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Ashwani Anand, a final-year PhD scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), advised by Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, February 10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Njg0M29ib3…> ). 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, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Following the STARS: Dynamic ω-Regular Shielding of Learned Policies Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, I will present a novel dynamic post-shielding framework that enforces the full class of ω-regular correctness properties over pre-computed probabilistic policies. This constitutes a paradigm shift from the predominant setting of safety-shielding — i.e., ensuring that nothing bad ever happens — to a shielding process that additionally enforces liveness — i.e., ensures that something good eventually happens. At the core, our method uses Strategy-Template-based Adaptive Runtime Shields (STARs), which leverage permissive strategy templates to enable post-shielding with minimal interference. As its main feature, STARs introduce a mechanism to dynamically control interference, allowing a tunable enforcement parameter to balance formal obligations and task-specific behavior at runtime. This allows to trigger more aggressive enforcement when needed, while allowing for optimized policy choices otherwise. In addition, STARs support runtime adaptation to changing specifications or actuator failures, making them especially suited for cyber-physical applications. We evaluate STARs on a mobile robot benchmark to demonstrate their controllable interference when enforcing (incrementally updated) ω-regular correctness properties over learned probabilistic policies. This talk is based on joint work with Satya Prakash Nayak, Ritam Raha and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, which will appear at AAMAS 2026. Bio: Ashwani Anand is a final-year PhD scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), advised by Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck. Prior to MPI-SWS, he earned a Master’s in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Chennai Mathematical Institute. His research focuses on the synthesis and verification of distributed systems, using two-player game models to construct systems that meet formal specifications—correct by construction, while remaining robust to change in practice. More recently, Ashwani’s work has turned to providing formal guarantees for learned models to enable safer automated systems.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Ashwani Anand on Feb. 10 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Ashwani Anand, a final-year PhD scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), advised by Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, February 10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Njg0M29ib3…> ). 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, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Following the STARS: Dynamic ω-Regular Shielding of Learned Policies Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, I will present a novel dynamic post-shielding framework that enforces the full class of ω-regular correctness properties over pre-computed probabilistic policies. This constitutes a paradigm shift from the predominant setting of safety-shielding — i.e., ensuring that nothing bad ever happens — to a shielding process that additionally enforces liveness — i.e., ensures that something good eventually happens. At the core, our method uses Strategy-Template-based Adaptive Runtime Shields (STARs), which leverage permissive strategy templates to enable post-shielding with minimal interference. As its main feature, STARs introduce a mechanism to dynamically control interference, allowing a tunable enforcement parameter to balance formal obligations and task-specific behavior at runtime. This allows to trigger more aggressive enforcement when needed, while allowing for optimized policy choices otherwise. In addition, STARs support runtime adaptation to changing specifications or actuator failures, making them especially suited for cyber-physical applications. We evaluate STARs on a mobile robot benchmark to demonstrate their controllable interference when enforcing (incrementally updated) ω-regular correctness properties over learned probabilistic policies. This talk is based on joint work with Satya Prakash Nayak, Ritam Raha and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, which will appear at AAMAS 2026. Bio: Ashwani Anand is a final-year PhD scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), advised by Rupak Majumdar and Anne-Kathrin Schmuck. Prior to MPI-SWS, he earned a Master’s in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Chennai Mathematical Institute. His research focuses on the synthesis and verification of distributed systems, using two-player game models to construct systems that meet formal specifications—correct by construction, while remaining robust to change in practice. More recently, Ashwani’s work has turned to providing formal guarantees for learned models to enable safer automated systems.

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Focus Programme in Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence - Feb 2 to 6 - CMI

by B Srivathsan

Dear All, Here's an advertisement for a lecture series scheduled to happen in the first week of February at CMI. Best, Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute) ----- FOCUS PROGRAMME IN FORMAL METHODS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Venue: LH 202, Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) Dates: February 2 - 6, 2026 Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, with a break in between There will be five tutorials in subjects around FM and AI. Day 1 (Feb 2): Madhavan Mukund (CMI) - Introduction to Neural Networks Day 2 (Feb 3): Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) - Verification of Neural Networks Day 3 (Feb 4): David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France) - Formally verified static analysis and compilation Day 4 (Feb 5): Prajakta Nimbhorkar (CMI) - Fairness in resource allocation Day 5 (Feb 6): Madhavan Mukund (CMI) - Introduction to Reinforcement Learning More details can be found in the Programme Webpage <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~sri/focus-programme-26.html>. There is no registration fee. If you would like to attend the programme, please write to Srivathsan (sri(a)cmi.ac.in). For a limited number of students, shared accommodation can be provided on a first-come-first-served basis. -----

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