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Senior Project Associate/Postdoc Position - Model Checking/Formal Verification/Software Engineering
by Arpit Sharma 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Dear All, Hope this email finds you well. I am writing this email to inform you that a senior project associate/postdoc position is available in my research group at IISER Bhopal in the area of model checking/formal verification/software engineering. This position is funded by the DST-SERB Core Research Grant project titled: GALTOSM: A Graph and Logic Transformation Based Toolkit for Software Model Checking. I would request you to please share this information with your PhD/Postdoc students, and colleagues in academia. Candidates with a master's degree + 2 years of relevant research/industry experience or bachelor's degree + 4 years of relevant research/industry experience are also eligible and encouraged to apply. Interested candidates can directly contact me at : arpit(a)iiserb.ac.in The details of this position are as follows: No. of Position: 1 (One) Name of Position: Senior Project Associate Duration: Initially for 1 year, extendable up to 1 year based on satisfactory performance. *Salary: INR 57,000 + HRA* (as applicable) per month. *Essential Qualifications:* Doctoral Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Software Engineering/Data Science from a recognized University or equivalent. *OR* Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology (B.E. or B.Tech) in Computer Engineering/Information Technology/Data Science/Electronics or four years Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics/Electronics or Master of science (MSc) degree in Computer Science/Data Science/Information Technology/Electronics/Mathematics/Physics from a recognized University or equivalent and four years' experience in Research and Development in computer science (preferably in software design and development or machine learning/natural language processing or formal methods/model checking) in Industrial and Academic Institutions or Science and Technology Organisations and Scientific activities and services. * OR* Master’s degree in engineering or technology (M.E. or M.Tech) in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or Software Engineering or Information Technology or Data Science or Electronics Engineering from a recognized University or equivalent and two years’ experience in Research and Development in computer science (preferably in software design and development or machine learning/natural language processing or formal methods/model checking) in Industrial and Academic Institutions or Science and Technology Organisations and Scientific activities and services. *Desirable: * 1. Candidates should have some prior experience in Software Design and Implementation or development of Software Tools or building Machine Learning Pipelines. 2. This position requires good analytical and reasoning skills. *Age limit:* Candidates should be below 50 years of age on the last date of application. *How to Apply:* Interested candidates are requested to send their CV (including name, date of birth, photograph, address for communication, phone number, email id, details of educational and scientific accomplishments) to Dr. Arpit Sharma over email. Additionally, a copy of all the credentials including mark sheets starting from 12th standard, and UG degree certificate, PG degree certificate, doctoral degree certificate etc also need to be sent via email. Completed applications should reach the undersigned only by email. Last date of application is 06th April 2025. Keep subject of the email to be “Senior Project Associate Application”. Thanks. Regards, Arpit Arpit Sharma Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal Bhopal - 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India Homepage : https://sites.google.com/iiserb.ac.in/arpit-sharma/

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CFP： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/313735/security-and-privacy-in-… In a smart city, numerous artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) communicate and collaborate to improve our quality of life. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) are foundational technologies that have been interacting with each other to realize a smart life. As massive amounts of sensitive data are generated, processed, and exchanged through IoT devices and AI technologies, one of the fundamental problems is how to provide intelligent services in smart cities without compromising security and privacy. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in IoT, AI, and network security, to share their novel ideas and latest findings in relation to security and privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities. The scope and interests for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following list: ● Secure IoT infrastructure for smart cities ● Secure smart city applications, including secure AI-driven IoT applications ● Authentication and access control in IoT-enabled smart cities ● Intrusion detection for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Architectures and standards for secure IoT systems ● AI and big data techniques for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Blockchain technology for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Secure multi-party computation techniques for ML ● Security optimization in heterogeneous environments ● AI-driven mechanisms and models to perform attacks ● Security and privacy issues in AI-enabled IoT communications and systems ● Privacy-preserving ML ● Privacy-preserving data mining ● Privacy and anonymity techniques for IoT and AI ● Data privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy preserving techniques for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy modeling and analysis for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Miscellaneous privacy issues in AIoT-enabled smart cities Important Dates Submissions Deadline: April 1, 2025; First-round pass notification: April 15, 2025; Review result notification: June 1, 2025; Acceptance/rejection: August 30, 2025; Publication: 2nd Quarter 2025 Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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NETYS 2025 - Extended deadline
by Madhavan Mukund 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

*** The submission deadline for NETYS is extended to 15 March, 2025 *** Call for Papers THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS (NETYS 2025) 21-23 May, 2025, Rabat, Morocco http://www.netys.net AIM AND SCOPE NETYS aims to bring together researchers and engineers from the theory and practice of distributed and networked systems. The scope of the conference covers all aspects related to the design and the development of these systems, including, but not restricted to, cloud systems, formal verification, concurrent and distributed algorithms, data management, data science, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, machine learning theory and applications, large language models, multicore architectures, networks, and security. NETYS will provide a forum to report on best practices, novel algorithms, results, and techniques on networked systems. Original research contributions and experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, verification and application of networked systems are solicited. Topics of interest are broadly divided into three categories: networked systems, distributed computing and machine learning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 1. NETWORKED SYSTEMS - Cloud systems and data centers - Cyber-physical systems - Distributed database, embedded and operating systems - Multicore architectures and multithreaded applications - Distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies - Internet of Things, 5G, URLLC - Mobile, wireless, ad-hoc and sensor networks - Social networks - Overlay and peer-to-peer infrastructures 2. DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING - Concurrency, synchronization and persistence - Distributed and concurrent data structures - Languages, verification and formal methods for distributed systems - Design and analysis of distributed algorithms - Lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing - Game theory, mechanisms design - Fault-tolerance, reliability, self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomic systems - Collaborative intelligent systems 3. MACHINE LEARNING - Collaborative/federated learning - Distributed Machine learning - Trustworthy machine learning - Large language models theory and applications - Fairness and privacy in machine learning - Reinforcement learning theory and applications - Generative AI - Optimization algorithms IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines are at 23:59 AoE) - Abstract submission: March 15th, 2025 - Paper submission: March 15th, 2025 - Notifications: April 14th, 2025 - Conference dates: May 21st-23rd, 2025 INVITED SPEAKERS - Swarat Chaudhuri (University of Texas & Google DeepMind, Austin, USA) - Mohamed El Amine Seddik (Technology Innovation Institute, AD, UAE) - Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley, USA) - Marc Shapiro (Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France) - Praneeth Vepakomma (MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE & MIT, Cambridge, USA) PUBLICATION Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series will publish conference proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) One of the authors of each accepted paper must present it at the conference. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions must follow the LNCS template and be written in English. Full papers are allowed a maximum of 15 pages in the LNCS format, excluding bibliographic references, whereas short papers are allowed a maximum of 5 pages (in the same format). Papers exceeding these limits may be rejected without review. A clearly marked appendix can be included for supplementary materials, but it will be read at the reviewers' discretion; therefore, the main body of the paper should contain sufficient details to assess its contributions. Submission of papers is via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NETYS2025/ PROGRAM CHAIRS Madhavan Mukund <madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in> Salem Lahlou <salem.lahlou(a)mbzuai.ac.ae> PROGRAM COMMITTEE El Mehdi Achour (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Reda Alami (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) Robert Basmadjian (University Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Ben Guerir, Morocco) Yahya Benkaouz (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco) Mahmoud El Hamlaoui (ENSIAS, Morocco) Bernd Freisleben (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) Eduard Gorbunov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE) Loic Helouet (University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France) Alex Hernandez-Garcia (University of Montreal and Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Canada) Zahi Jarir (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco) Mohamed Jmaeil (University of Sfax, Tunisia) Mohamed Amine Koulali (National School of Applied Sciences of Oujda, Morocco) Salem Lahlou (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE (Co-chair)) Tongliang Liu (University of Sydney, Australia) Nils Lukas (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE) Anisur Rahaman Molla (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India (Co-chair)) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) Maria Potop-Butucaru (LIP6, Sorbonne University, France) Sergio Rajsbaum (UNAM, Mexico) Mohamed El Amine Seddik (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) Pradeep Sharma (ServiceNow, USA) B Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Afaf Taik (Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Canada) Sebastien Tixeuil (LIP6, Sorbonne University, France) Ahmed Touati (Meta AI, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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FMCAD 2025 - 2nd Call for Papers
by Daniela Kaufmann 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

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

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Alastair Donaldson on March 4 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Alastair Donaldson, a Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 4, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Nzd2Zmc1bn…> ). 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: Taking Back Control: Formally Modelling a Compiler Intermediate Representation for GPU Computing Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We will present our POPL 2023 work on using formal modelling and analysis techniques to understand and fix fundamental problems in the design of SPIR-V, a compiler intermediate representation that is widely-used in GPU computing. An innovation of SPIR-V is that it features special instructions that allow information about high level control flow constructs to be documented in its otherwise-unstructured basic block-based representation. The idea is that compilers can exploit this information to generate efficient GPU-specific machine code. However, the original definitions of these instructions and the rules that govern them were fraught with ambiguities, preventing users of SPIR-V from understanding their purpose and hindering their use by compiler developers. We used the Alloy modelling language and analysis tool to build an initial best-effort formal model of SPIR-V control flow, after which we iteratively refined the model by cross-checking it against official documentation, test suites and validation tools, consulting with experts in industry to resolve differences. Along the way we fixed numerous deficiencies in these test suites and validation tools, and ended up with agreement between our revised formal model and these other sources of truth about SPIR-V. We then rewrote relevant parts of the English language formal specification based on our rigorous formal model, and our changes to the language have been incorporated in the latest version of the SPIR-V specification. As an added bonus, we devised a novel technique for automated testing of SPIR-V compilers that uses our formal model to generate unusual control flow graphs which are then fleshed out into self-checking SPIR-V test cases. This led to the discovery of numerous bugs affecting open source and commercial SPIR-V compilers. Bio: Alastair Donaldson is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London where he is Director of Research and leads the Multicore Programming Group, investigating novel techniques and tool support for programming, testing and reasoning about highly parallel systems and their programming languages. He was Founder and Director of GraphicsFuzz Ltd., a start-up company specialising in metamorphic testing of graphics drivers, which was acquired by Google in 2018, after which he spent time working with Google as a software engineer and then as a Visiting Researcher. He was the recipient of the 2017 BCS Roger Needham Award and an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship, and has published more than 100 articles in the fields of programming languages, formal verification, software testing and parallel programming. Alastair was previously a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Research Engineer at Codeplay Software Ltd. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Distributed Machine Learning @ IEEE ICDCS 2025. Deadline: March 16th, 2025
by HotDiML-Workshop 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs. We would appreciate your help to contribute & forward this CFPs to your friends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, We are honored that IEEE ICDCS 2025 (https://icdcs2025.icdcs.org <https://icdcs2025.icdcs.org/>) will be hosting the 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Distributed Machine Learning (HotDiML) this year! HotDiML provides researchers working in the Distributed Machine Learning field with a platform for critical thinking, sharing both successes and failures, and fostering constructive discussions. The workshop encourages novel directions, accepting papers that offer fresh perspectives or critical analyses, even if not fully developed. These papers can provide valuable insights to advance the field. We invite you to contribute with your recent work presented as position, research, experimental evaluation or report papers on Distributed Machine Learning. The accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and a plenary discussion will be held alongside these presentations. Please check the call for paper here: https://hotdiml.github.io/HotDiML2025/cfp/. Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: March 16th, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 2nd, 2025 Camera-ready: April 16th, 2025 Workshop days: July 20th, 2025 Important Note: For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register and attend the workshop in-person to present their paper on-site. No-show paper will be reported to the publisher and removed from the ICDCSW companion conference proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE ICDCSW companion conference proceedings and IEEE digital library. Note that the authors should adhere to ethic and professional standards of IEEE. Please refer to IEEE Code of Ethics and IEEE Policy of AI-Generated Text. We look forward to your submission and the eventual inspiring conversations in Glasgow, Scotland, UK! All the best! HotDiML 2025 Organizers Andrea Agiollo, Enkeleda Bardhi, Paolo Bellavista, Rajiv Khanna and Riccardo Lazzeretti hotdiml.workshop(a)gmail.com <mailto:hotdiml.workshop@gmail.com>

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Postdoc in Verification and Game Theory at the University of Liverpool
by Patrick Totzke 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

(apologies for the cross-posting!) Dear colleagues, Hi all, we are looking for a postdoc interested in games on graphs, automata/logics, and generally game theory, to join the verification group at the University of Liverpool. The post is for two years and is to be filled as soon as possible (there is some flexibility). The application deadline is 2025-03-30. All details here: <https://my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_…> Thanks and best wishes, P

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Alastair Donaldson on March 4 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Alastair Donaldson, a Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 4, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Nzd2Zmc1bn…> ). 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: Taking Back Control: Formally Modelling a Compiler Intermediate Representation for GPU Computing Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We will present our POPL 2023 work on using formal modelling and analysis techniques to understand and fix fundamental problems in the design of SPIR-V, a compiler intermediate representation that is widely-used in GPU computing. An innovation of SPIR-V is that it features special instructions that allow information about high level control flow constructs to be documented in its otherwise-unstructured basic block-based representation. The idea is that compilers can exploit this information to generate efficient GPU-specific machine code. However, the original definitions of these instructions and the rules that govern them were fraught with ambiguities, preventing users of SPIR-V from understanding their purpose and hindering their use by compiler developers. We used the Alloy modelling language and analysis tool to build an initial best-effort formal model of SPIR-V control flow, after which we iteratively refined the model by cross-checking it against official documentation, test suites and validation tools, consulting with experts in industry to resolve differences. Along the way we fixed numerous deficiencies in these test suites and validation tools, and ended up with agreement between our revised formal model and these other sources of truth about SPIR-V. We then rewrote relevant parts of the English language formal specification based on our rigorous formal model, and our changes to the language have been incorporated in the latest version of the SPIR-V specification. As an added bonus, we devised a novel technique for automated testing of SPIR-V compilers that uses our formal model to generate unusual control flow graphs which are then fleshed out into self-checking SPIR-V test cases. This led to the discovery of numerous bugs affecting open source and commercial SPIR-V compilers. Bio: Alastair Donaldson is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London where he is Director of Research and leads the Multicore Programming Group, investigating novel techniques and tool support for programming, testing and reasoning about highly parallel systems and their programming languages. He was Founder and Director of GraphicsFuzz Ltd., a start-up company specialising in metamorphic testing of graphics drivers, which was acquired by Google in 2018, after which he spent time working with Google as a software engineer and then as a Visiting Researcher. He was the recipient of the 2017 BCS Roger Needham Award and an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship, and has published more than 100 articles in the fields of programming languages, formal verification, software testing and parallel programming. Alastair was previously a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Research Engineer at Codeplay Software Ltd. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

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NETYS 2025 - Second Call for Papers
by Madhavan Mukund 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Call for Papers THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS (NETYS 2025) 21-23 May, 2025, Rabat, Morocco http://www.netys.net AIM AND SCOPE NETYS aims to bring together researchers and engineers from the theory and practice of distributed and networked systems. The scope of the conference covers all aspects related to the design and the development of these systems, including, but not restricted to, cloud systems, formal verification, concurrent and distributed algorithms, data management, data science, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, machine learning theory and applications, large language models, multicore architectures, networks, and security. NETYS will provide a forum to report on best practices, novel algorithms, results, and techniques on networked systems. Original research contributions and experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, verification and application of networked systems are solicited. Topics of interest are broadly divided into three categories: networked systems, distributed computing and machine learning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 1. NETWORKED SYSTEMS - Cloud systems and data centers - Cyber-physical systems - Distributed database, embedded and operating systems - Multicore architectures and multithreaded applications - Distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies - Internet of Things, 5G, URLLC - Mobile, wireless, ad-hoc and sensor networks - Social networks - Overlay and peer-to-peer infrastructures 2. DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING - Concurrency, synchronization and persistence - Distributed and concurrent data structures - Languages, verification and formal methods for distributed systems - Design and analysis of distributed algorithms - Lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing - Game theory, mechanisms design - Fault-tolerance, reliability, self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomic systems - Collaborative intelligent systems 3. MACHINE LEARNING - Collaborative/federated learning - Distributed Machine learning - Trustworthy machine learning - Large language models theory and applications - Fairness and privacy in machine learning - Reinforcement learning theory and applications - Generative AI - Optimization algorithms IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines are at 23:59 AoE) - Abstract submission: March 1st, 2025 - Paper submission: March 8th, 2025 - Notifications: April 14th, 2025 - Conference dates: May 21st-23rd, 2025 INVITED SPEAKERS - Swarat Chaudhuri (University of Texas & Google DeepMind, Austin, USA) - Mohamed El Amine Seddik (Technology Innovation Institute, AD, UAE) - Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley, USA) - Marc Shapiro (Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France) - Praneeth Vepakomma (MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE & MIT, Cambridge, USA) PUBLICATION Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series will publish conference proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) One of the authors of each accepted paper must present it at the conference. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All submissions must follow the LNCS template and be written in English. Full papers are allowed a maximum of 15 pages in the LNCS format, excluding bibliographic references, whereas short papers are allowed a maximum of 5 pages (in the same format). Papers exceeding these limits may be rejected without review. A clearly marked appendix can be included for supplementary materials, but it will be read at the reviewers' discretion; therefore, the main body of the paper should contain sufficient details to assess its contributions. Submission of papers is via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NETYS2025/ PROGRAM CHAIRS Madhavan Mukund <madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in> Salem Lahlou <salem.lahlou(a)mbzuai.ac.ae> PROGRAM COMMITTEE El Mehdi Achour (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India) Reda Alami (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) Robert Basmadjian (University Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Ben Guerir, Morocco) Yahya Benkaouz (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco) Mahmoud El Hamlaoui (ENSIAS, Morocco) Bernd Freisleben (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) Eduard Gorbunov (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE) Loic Helouet (University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France) Alex Hernandez-Garcia (University of Montreal and Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Canada) Zahi Jarir (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco) Mohamed Jmaeil (University of Sfax, Tunisia) Mohamed Amine Koulali (National School of Applied Sciences of Oujda, Morocco) Salem Lahlou (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE (Co-chair)) Tongliang Liu (University of Sydney, Australia) Nils Lukas (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE) Anisur Rahaman Molla (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India (Co-chair)) Andreas Podelski (University of Freiburg, Germany) Maria Potop-Butucaru (LIP6, Sorbonne University, France) Sergio Rajsbaum (UNAM, Mexico) Mohamed El Amine Seddik (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE) Pradeep Sharma (ServiceNow, USA) B Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Afaf Taik (Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Canada) Sebastien Tixeuil (LIP6, Sorbonne University, France) Ahmed Touati (Meta AI, France) Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

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Call for Papers - ATVA 2025 conference - Bengaluru, India
by B Srivathsan 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] -------------------------------------------- ** ** *** Call for Papers ATVA 2025 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis 27-30 October 2025 Bangalore, India https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025 ATVA 2025 is the 23rd in a series of Symposia aimed at bringing together academics, industrial researchers and practitioners in the area of theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware and software systems. ATVA solicits high quality submissions in the following suggestive list of topics: * Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems * Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized systems * Program analysis and software verification * Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and embedded systems * Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced, weighted and probabilistic systems * Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement techniques for analysis and verification * Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability * Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology * Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent systems * Verification in industrial practice * Synthesis for hardware and software systems * Applications and case studies of verification * Automated tool support for verification * Testing and verification of neural networks * Testing and verification of autonomous systems IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission deadline: April 11, 2025 (AoE) * Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2025 (AoE) * Author response period: June 10 -- 13, 2025 * Paper notification: June 25, 2025 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: July 25, 2025 (AoE) * Tutorials and Workshops: October 27, 2025 * Conference: October 28 – October 30, 2025 SUBMISSIONS ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: * Regular research papers (18 pages, excluding references, must be anonymized) * Tool papers (10 pages, excluding references, not anonymized) Submissions in both categories must be in Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>. Adding line numbers (LaTeX package lineno) is highly recommended. Submissions authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed and encouraged. An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva202 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2023>5 Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A few outstanding paperswill be selected for a distinguished paper award. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. Regular papers Regular papers should not exceed 18 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, not counting references and appendices. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers, and to be omitted in the final version. Regular papers at ATVA 2025 will follow a full double-blind review process, which means that author names and affiliations must be omitted from the submission. Additionally, if a submission refers to prior work done by the authors, the reference should be made in the third person. These are firm submission requirements, and any regular paper that does not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. We strongly encourage authors to not put the work on arXiv before (within 1 week) or shortly after (within 1 month) the submission deadline, because potential reviewers may be subscribed to receive updates on recently posted papers. Authors of accepted regular papers will be invited (but are not required) to submit a relevant artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The submission deadline for this artifact evaluation will be soon after the paper acceptance notification. Independent of the artifact evaluation process, research paper authors are encouraged to include a URL to an artifact in their original submission, if such an artifact is available and is pertinent to the paper. The artifact could contain code, datasets, results, etc. This would be for the consideration of the reviewers of the submission, at their discretion. If such a URL is included in the submission, the artifact it points to should not reveal the identities of the authors. Tool papers Tool papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer’s LNCS format, not counting references. Tool papers will follow a single-blind review process. They do NOT need to be anonymized. Tool paper submissions MUST include a URL to an archival site from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed online for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee. The site must also contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. If the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the site must contain instructions for installing the tool on Linux, Windows or MacOS. Packing the artifact as a Docker container is recommended. Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented. Acceptance of tool paper submissions is contingent on successful artifact evaluation at the “functional” level. In special cases, where an artifact cannot be submitted, the authors should contact the Artifact Evaluation chairs to find alternate modes of artifact evaluation. More details about artifact evaluation can be found on the<https://atva-conference.org/2024/artifact-evaluation/>conference web site. ORGANIZATION General Chair Deepak D’Souza, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Program Co-Chairs * Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT-Bangalore, India * K. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India * B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India Local Organization Chair Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-Bangalore, India Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs * Jie An, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China * Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi, India Program Committee S. Akshay, IIT Bombay, India Etienne André, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Guy Avni, University of Haifa, Israel Gogul Balakrishnan, Google, USA A R Balasubramanian, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Ansuman Banerjee, Indian Statistical Institute, India Suguman Bansal, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany Mingshuai Chen, Zhejiang University, China Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yunja Choi, Kyungpook National University, South Korea Christoph Csallner, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Meenakshi D’Souza, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA, Germany Susanna Donatelli, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Grigory Fedyukovich, Florida State University, USA Hongfei Fu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Orna Grumberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Shibashis Guha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Ashutosh Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Frédéric Herbreteau, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LaBRI, France Orna Kupferman, Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, Israel Milan Lopuaa-Zwakenberg, Univ of Twente, Netherlands Kumar Madhukar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Umang Mathur, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ashish Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India Benjamin Monmege, Aix-Marseille Université, France Sergio Mover, École Polytechnique, France Kartik Nagar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Daniel Neider, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Youssouf Oualhadj, Université Paris Est Créteil, France Andreas Pavlogiannis, Aarhus University, Denmark Doron Peled, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Lauren Pick, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sumanth Prabhu, Tata Consultancy Services, India M. Praveen, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Xiaokang Qiu, Purdue University, USA Komondoor Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, India Muralikrishna Ramanathan, Amazon, USA Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Subhajit Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Krishna S, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India Prakash Saivasan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Univ. Colorado Boulder, USA Anne-Kathrin Schmuck, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany Arpit Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India B Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Quentin Stiévenart, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Vaishnavi Sundararajan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Nathalie Sznajder, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6, France Aditya V Thakur, University of California, Davis, USA Yakir Vizel, Technion, Israel Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan Zhilin Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *

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