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ISEC 2024: [UPDATE] Deadlines extended
by Madhavan Mukund 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

----- Forwarded message ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 13:27:52 +0000 Greetings all, Link: https://conf.researchr.org/home/isec-2024 UPDATE : You may have viewed previous versions of this announcement, announcing two tracks within ISEC 2024 and extension of deadlines. This announcement entails the updated details of the already announced tracks, so please read on. ISEC: Innovations in Software Engineering Conference, ISEC (Formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference) is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT (isoft.acm.org) under the umbrella of ACM India. The 17th edition of the conference will be held in International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India. ISEC will bring together researchers and practitioners from across the world to share the results of their work. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering. Call for Contributions Updates: The deadline for Research track has been extended. Please find the the tracks with their updated deadlines on the website and as follows: * Track: Research track URL: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-papers Submission deadline: - Submission Deadline: Fri 13 Oct 2023 - Acceptance Notification: Thu 30 Nov 2023 - Camera-ready Deadline: Fri 15 Dec 2023 * Track: Workshop and Tutorials URL: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-workshops Submission deadline: - Proposal Submission: Sat 30 Sep 2023 - Acceptance Notification: Mon 9 Oct 2023 * Track: Software Engineering in Practice URL: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-software-engineering-i… Submission deadlines: - SEIP Submission Deadline: Wed 8 November 2023. - SEIP Submission Acceptance Notification: Fri 15 December 2023. - SEIP Presentation Submission Deadline: Thu 25 January 2024. * Track: Doctoral Symposium URL : https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-doctoral-symposium Submission deadlines: - Submission Deadline: Wed 1 November 2023 - Submission Acceptance Notification: Fri 1 December 2023 - Presentation Submission Deadline: Thu 7 December 2023 * Track: Student Posters Session URL : https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-student-posters-session Submission deadlines: - Submission Deadline: Wed 25 October 2023 Organising Team General Chair Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti (IIIT Bangalore) Organising Co-Chairs Raghavan Komondoor (IISc, Bangalore) Raveendra Kumar Medicherla (TCS Research) Program Co-Chairs (Research Track) Sudipto Ghosh (Colorado State University, USA) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, India) Workshops and Tutorial Track Co-Chairs Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay, India) Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan (IIT Kanpur, India) Software Engineering in Practice Co-Chairs Manoj Dixit (MathWorks, India) Tukaram Muske (Synopsis, India) PhD Symposium Chair Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur, India) If any additional information is needed, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. Best regards, Nandakishore S Menon Publicity Chair, ISEC 2024 International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore +91 9188016258 ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Subhajit Roy on Oct. 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Subhajit Roy, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MTJxcmNwdm…> ). 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: Analysis of incomplete programs via Proof Engines and Fuzzing Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We tackle the problem of testing and verifying "incomplete" programs — that contain components whose source code is either unavailable (like third-party libraries and cloud-based APIs), or too complex to model formally (like large machine learning models). We show how classical techniques like symbolic execution, deductive verification and SMT solving can be "lifted" to this setting. The techniques essentially employ a combination of automated SMT based proofs, with tests from modern fuzzers for testing and "almost" verification of such programs. We will delve into one of our contributions: Sādhak, a solver for SMT theories modulo closed-box functions. Our core idea is to use a synergistic combination of a fuzzer to reason on closed-box functions and an SMT engine to solve the constraints pertaining to the SMT theories. The fuzz and the SMT engines attempt to converge to a model by exchanging a rich set of interface constraints that are relevant and interpretable by them. Our implementation, Sādhak, demonstrates a significant advantage over the only other solver that is capable of handling such closed-box constraints: Sādhak solves 36.45% more benchmarks than the best-performing mode of this state-of-the-art solver and has 5.72x better PAR-2 score; on the benchmarks that are solved by both tools, Sādhak is (on an average) 14.62x faster. Bio: Subhajit Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His research is aimed at designing new algorithms and developing automated tools for analysis, verification, optimization, synthesis, debugging, and interpreting both (conventional) programs as well as for machine learnt models, using formal methods (logic, automata theory, compiler design) and data-driven techniques (machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics).

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CFP announcement for ISEC 2024
by Madhavan Mukund 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

----- Forwarded message from IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> To: Madhavan Mukund <madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 05:34:42 +0000 17th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2024) 22-24 February 2024, Bangalore Link: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-papers Innovations in Software Engineering Conference, ISEC (Formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference) is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT (isoft.acm.org) under the umbrella of ACM India. The 17th edition of the conference will be held at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India. ISEC will bring together researchers and practitioners from across the world to share the results of their work. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering. Call for Contributions The conference has a number of tracks, to which contributions are invited. The Call for Papers for the Research track and the Workshop and Tutorial track are already out, and those for the other tracks are as follows: Track: Software Engineering in Practice URL: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-software-engineering-i… Submission deadlines: SEIP Submission Deadline: 8 November 2023. SEIP Submission Acceptance Notification: 15 December 2023. SEIP Presentation Submission Deadline: 25 January 2024. Track: Doctoral Symposium URL: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-doctoral-symposium Submission deadlines: Submission Deadline: 1 November 2023 Submission Acceptance Notification: 1 December 2023 Presentation Submission Deadline: 7 December 2023 Track: Student Posters Session URL: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-student-posters-session Submission deadlines: Submission Deadline: 5 October 2023 Organising Team General Chair Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti (IIIT Bangalore) Organising Co-Chairs Raghavan Komondoor (IISc, Bangalore) Raveendra Kumar Medicherla (TCS Research) Program Co-Chairs (Research Track) Sudipto Ghosh (Colorado State University, USA) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, India) Workshops and Tutorial Track Co-Chairs Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay, India) Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan (IIT Kanpur, India) Software Engineering in Practice Co-Chairs Manoj Dixit (MathWorks, India) Tukaram Muske (Synopsis, India) PhD Symposium Chair Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur, India) ________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Supratik Chakraborty on Sept. 14 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Supratik Chakraborty, Bajaj Group Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. The talk is scheduled on Thursday, Sept. 14, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzVzdnQxMj…> ). 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: Synthesizing Pareto-Optimal Interpretations for Black-Box ML Models Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We present a new multi-objective optimization approach for synthesizing interpretations that "explain" the behavior of black-box machine learning models. Constructing human-understandable interpretations for black-box models often requires balancing conflicting objectives. A simple interpretation may be easier to understand for humans while being less precise in its predictions vis-a-vis a complex interpretation. Existing methods for synthesizing interpretations use a single objective function and are often optimized for a single class of interpretations. In contrast, we provide a more general and multi-objective synthesis framework that allows users to choose (1) the class of syntactic templates from which an interpretation should be synthesized, and (2) quantitative measures on both the correctness and explainability (or other suitable measure) of an interpretation. For a given black-box, our approach yields a set of Pareto-optimal interpretations with respect to the correctness and explainability measures. We show that the underlying multi-objective optimization problem can be solved via a reduction to quantitative constraint solving, such as weighted maximum satisfiability. To demonstrate the benefits of our approach, we have applied it to synthesize interpretations for black-box neural-network classifiers. Our experiments show that there often exists a rich and varied set of choices for interpretations that are missed by existing approaches. This is joint work with Hazem Torfah, Shetal Shah, S. Akshay and Sanjit Seshia. Bio: Supratik Chakraborty is Bajaj Group Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. His current research interests include constrained sampling and counting, automated synthesis, formal verification, automata theory and logic. He is particularly interested in the development of scalable algorithmic techniques with strong guarantees for reasoning about different computational models. Supratik is a Distinguished Member of ACM, a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee of IIT Kharagpur.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Supratik Chakraborty on Sept. 14 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Supratik Chakraborty, Bajaj Group Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. The talk is scheduled on Thursday, Sept. 14, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzVzdnQxMj…> ). 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: Synthesizing Pareto-Optimal Interpretations for Black-Box ML Models Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We present a new multi-objective optimization approach for synthesizing interpretations that "explain" the behavior of black-box machine learning models. Constructing human-understandable interpretations for black-box models often requires balancing conflicting objectives. A simple interpretation may be easier to understand for humans while being less precise in its predictions vis-a-vis a complex interpretation. Existing methods for synthesizing interpretations use a single objective function and are often optimized for a single class of interpretations. In contrast, we provide a more general and multi-objective synthesis framework that allows users to choose (1) the class of syntactic templates from which an interpretation should be synthesized, and (2) quantitative measures on both the correctness and explainability (or other suitable measure) of an interpretation. For a given black-box, our approach yields a set of Pareto-optimal interpretations with respect to the correctness and explainability measures. We show that the underlying multi-objective optimization problem can be solved via a reduction to quantitative constraint solving, such as weighted maximum satisfiability. To demonstrate the benefits of our approach, we have applied it to synthesize interpretations for black-box neural-network classifiers. Our experiments show that there often exists a rich and varied set of choices for interpretations that are missed by existing approaches. This is joint work with Hazem Torfah, Shetal Shah, S. Akshay and Sanjit Seshia. Bio: Supratik Chakraborty is Bajaj Group Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. His current research interests include constrained sampling and counting, automated synthesis, formal verification, automata theory and logic. He is particularly interested in the development of scalable algorithmic techniques with strong guarantees for reasoning about different computational models. Supratik is a Distinguished Member of ACM, a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee of IIT Kharagpur.

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[Deadline Extension] RHPL@FSTTCS 2023
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

Dear colleague, The deadline for RHPL@FSTTCS has been extended to September 25, 2023 (AOE). The CFP for the workshop is included below. We look forward to receiving your talk proposals. Best regards, RHPL@FSTTCS organizing committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2023 is the 43rd conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science in association with ACM India. It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. This year, co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is also organizing the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS), whose inaugural edition was held in 2020. The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages, including but not limited to Program Analysis and Verification, Applied Formal Methods, and Compilers. The objective of the workshop is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. We solicit talk proposals for recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. More information about the workshop and about submitting talk proposals is available here: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl/index.html We look forward to receiving your talk proposals to this workshop. On Behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) (Organizing Co-Chair, RHPL 2023) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) (Organizing Co-Chair, RHPL 2023) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, Bangalore) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune)

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ISEC 2024 CFP
by Madhavan Mukund 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

----- Forwarded message ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 08:17:34 +0000 17th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2024) 22-24 February 2024, Bangalore https://lnkd.in/gAXwhT6U Innovations in Software Engineering Conference, ISEC (Formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference) is the annual conference of iSOFT, the India chapter of ACM SIGSOFT (isoft.acm.org<http://isoft.acm.org/>) under the umbrella of ACM India. The 17th edition of the conference will be held in International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India. ISEC will bring together researchers and practitioners from across the world to share the results of their work. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share cutting-edge advancements in the field of software engineering. Call for Contributions The conference has a number of tracks, to which contributions are invited. The Call for Papers for the Research track and the Workshop and Tutorial track are already out, and those for the other tracks will be published soon. Track: Research track URL: https://lnkd.in/gtTDQn2w Submission deadline: Fri 29 Sep 2023 Track: Workshop and Tutorials URL: https://lnkd.in/gQ7eGfWr Submission deadline: Sun 10 Sep 2023 Track: PhD Symposium URL: https://lnkd.in/gHzpbFTC Submission deadline: TBD Track: Software Engineering in Practice URL: https://lnkd.in/gxY-GU-B Submission deadline: TBD Organising Team General Chair Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti (IIIT Bangalore) Organising Co-Chairs Raghavan Komondoor (IISc, Bangalore) Raveendra Kumar Medicherla (TCS Research) Program Co-Chairs (Research Track) Sudipto Ghosh (Colorado State University, USA) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, India) Workshops and Tutorial Track Co-Chairs Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay, India) Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan (IIT Kanpur, India) Software Engineering in Practice Co-Chairs Manoj Dixit (MathWorks, India) Tukaram Muske (Synopsis, India) PhD Symposium Chair Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur, India) ----- End forwarded message -----

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

31 Jul '23

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

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

28 Jul '23

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

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

25 Jul '23

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

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