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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shaz Qadeer on July 11 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shaz Qadeer, an ACM Fellow, currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, July 11, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHF2OTJoMm…> ). 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: Verification of Concurrent Programs with Civl Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The Civl verifier <https://civl-verifier.github.io/> introduces layered refinement, a new approach to the construction of verified concurrent programs and their proofs. This approach simplifies and scales (human and automated) reasoning by enabling a concurrent program to be represented and manipulated at multiple layers of abstraction. These abstraction layers are chained together via simple program transformations; each transformation is justified by a collection of automatically-checked verification conditions. Civl proofs are maintainable and reusable, specifically eliminating the need to write complex invariants on the low-level encoding of the concurrent program as a flat transition system. Civl has been used to construct verified low-level implementations of complex systems such as a concurrent garbage collector, a consensus protocol, and shared-memory data structures. Bio: Shaz Qadeer is an ACM Fellow. His research focuses on practical tools for the construction of verified concurrent and distributed systems. He is currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta.

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ICISS-2023 CFP
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> ----- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:07:15 +0530 From: Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> **ICISS 2023 CFP ANNOUNCEMENT** ICISS 2023 is accepting submissions under various tracks. Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2023. Key highlights: - first submission deadline: July 20, - double-blind review, - best paper award, - proceedings published by Springer LNCS, - the possibility of an invitation to exceptionally good papers to be submitted to the Sadhana journal, - please visit the conference website for further details https://iciss.isrdc.in ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (December 16 - 20, 2023) NIT Raipur, India https://iciss.isrdc.in Submission Deadline: July 20, 2023 (first deadline) ______________________________________________________________________ The 19th ICISS will be held at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur between December 16 and 20, 2023. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. This year, we will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts; a separate call is announced on the conference website. A broad but non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as below: SYSTEMS SECURITY OS, VM, containers, cloud Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN IoT, RFID, SCADA systems Communication Protocols IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc Honeypot, Botnet, etc ACCESS CONTROL Authentication, MFA Authorization model/policy PKI & Trust management Information flow control APPLICATION SECURITY Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps API security, WAF, OWASP Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust Malware, Ransomware, APTs SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Bias, fairness, explainability Model stealing, poisoning Trustworthiness Deep fakes, misinformation HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al Security-by-design, SBOM Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII S&P USE CASES e-voting, e-gov, smart cities COVID-19 contact tracing OSINT et al Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages; including the bibliography and appendices. Authors must use the LNCS template to create the manuscript. DOUBLE-BLIND review process will be followed, therefore the manuscripts should not have author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, self-references or any indirect information related to authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a select few accepted papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Further details will be made available on the conference website in due course of time. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 *** The BEST PAPER award is sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. *** Important Dates (in AoE): Submission deadline: July 20 (first deadline) Acceptance notification: Sep 15 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 25 Steering Committee: Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay General Chair: R.K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay Program Chairs: Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University Sithu D Sudarsan, CDAC Bangalore Related Links: Conference Website: https://iciss.isrdc.in Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss Call for Papers/Tutorials/PhD Forum https://iciss.isrdc.in/cfps/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Submission Guidelines https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Proceedings will be published by Springer as LNCS. ______________________________________________________________________ Contact: ivishwas(a)gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ -- Vishwas Patil Sr Research Scientist, IIT Bombay https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~vishwasp/ ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shaz Qadeer on July 11 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shaz Qadeer, an ACM Fellow, currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, July 11, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHF2OTJoMm…> ). 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: Verification of Concurrent Programs with Civl Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The Civl verifier <https://civl-verifier.github.io/> introduces layered refinement, a new approach to the construction of verified concurrent programs and their proofs. This approach simplifies and scales (human and automated) reasoning by enabling a concurrent program to be represented and manipulated at multiple layers of abstraction. These abstraction layers are chained together via simple program transformations; each transformation is justified by a collection of automatically-checked verification conditions. Civl proofs are maintainable and reusable, specifically eliminating the need to write complex invariants on the low-level encoding of the concurrent program as a flat transition system. Civl has been used to construct verified low-level implementations of complex systems such as a concurrent garbage collector, a consensus protocol, and shared-memory data structures. Bio: Shaz Qadeer is an ACM Fellow. His research focuses on practical tools for the construction of verified concurrent and distributed systems. He is currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta.

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CFP: Fifth International Conference on Microservices
by Alessandro Bocci 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

International Conference on Microservices: Call for Papers ========================================================== Fifth International Conference on Microservices October 10th-12th 2023, Pisa, Italy https://www.conf-micro.services/2023/ Important Dates (EXTENDED) --------------- - Submission deadline : July 09th, 2023 (AoE) (extended) - Notification to authors: July 19th, 2023 (AoE) (extended) - Camera-ready due: July 30th, 2023 (AoE) - Early bird registration until: July 30th, 2023 (AoE) - October 10th-12th, 2023 Theme and Topics ---------------- Microservices are pervading enterprise IT, with many big companies already adopting microservice architectures to deliver their core businesses. Microservices indeed provide an alternative to traditional software architectures, which brings various additional benefits, including increased flexibility, scalability, and improved resilience to failures. Additionally, microservices allow for faster and more efficient development, as well as better collaboration between cross-functional teams. As the technology landscape continues to evolve and become more complex, the importance of microservices in building modern, scalable, and effective applications cannot be overstated. The 5th International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2023) seeks contributions from both industry and academia covering all aspects and phases of the design and implementation of microservice architectures, as well as experiences based on daily working with them. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - Software engineering methods for microservices, specifically (but not limited to) agile service design practices, behavior- and domain-driven design - Formal models for microservices - Programming languages, notations, and techniques for microservices - Verification (both static and runtime) of microservice systems - Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development - DevOps for microservices, in particular (but not limited to) continuous deployment and distributed monitoring - Microservices in the context of development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) - Secure by design in the context of Microservices - Microservice operation and contributor analysis - Microservice management: fault, configuration, accounting/cost, performance, security - Co-change and change impact analysis - Discovery/recovery and reverse engineering of microservices solutions - Microservice evolution - Global governance for microservices - Methodologies for identification, specification, and realization of candidate services - Patterns for cloud-native application architectures; service API design and management - Microservices infrastructure components: API gateways, side cars, and service meshes; reactive messaging brokers; service registries; service containers and cluster managers; infrastructure as code - Function-as-a-service and serverless cloud offerings; service-based event sourcing and data streaming architectures - Security and other service quality concerns (consistency, availability, recoverability) in microservices; dealing with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and other data privacy requirements Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development Internet technologies: services, human interactions, data analytics and AI for IoT, architecture things centric, sensor networks, security, privacy, applications - AI and Microservices (including Datasets, Open-source technology) - Cyber-physical Systems: AI/ML applications, security - Industrial case studies and applications: Data Science/Big Data, Smart Industry, Healthcare, Government, Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Empirical studies of microservices adoption - Case Studies and Surveys on the topic of Microservices - Sustainable practices in the Microservices community - Education about Microservices technologies Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- A submission should describe a talk to be given at the conference in the form of extended abstracts with a maximum of two pages for talks from industry and six pages for academic presentations (including references). Submissions can be based on work in progress, scientific work published or submitted for publication, practical experience reports, or practical tool demonstrations. They must further be prepared using the TBA template, be in PDF format, printable in black and white on A4 paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. Submissions must be in English. Contributions may be submitted via TBA. The submission deadline is June 25th, 2023 AoE. Resubmissions are allowed until the submission deadline. Contributions will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee. Extended abstracts of accepted contributions will be available electronically before the conference. Selected contributions will be invited to submit manuscripts based on their abstracts for conference post-proceedings. Organisation ------------ General Chair: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa (IT) Program Chairs: Tomas Cerny, Baylor University (US) Valentina Lenarduzzi, University of Oulu (FI) Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa (IT) Industrial Liaison Chair: Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware (IT) Publicity Chair: Alessandro Bocci, University of Pisa (IT) Philip Wizenty, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (DE) Local Chairs: Stefano Forti, University of Pisa (IT) Steering Committee ----------------- Giulio Manzonetto, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark Sabine Sachweh, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund Program Committee ----------------- Amr S. Abdelfattah, Baylor University (USA) Nour Ali, Brunel University London (UK) Carlo Aliprandi, Extra RED (IT) Hernán Astudillo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (CL) Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Justus Bogner, University of Stuttgart (DE) Andrea Janes, Vorarlberg University of Applied Science (AT) Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna (IT) Pavas Navaney, Oracle (USA) Phu Nguyen, SINTEF (NO) Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Florian Rademacher, RWTH Aachen University (DE) Larisa Safina, INRIA (FR) Davide Taibi, University of Oulu (FI) Pavel Tisnovsky, Red Hat (USA) Nabil El Ioini, The University of Nottingham (MY) Richard Lipka, University of West Bohemia (CZ) Muhammad Waseem, University of Jyväskylä (FI) Contact Information ------------------- Please contact us if you have questions: https://www.conf-micro.services/2023/contact/

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FSTTCS 2023 - Second Call for Papers
by Shibashis Guha 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies.] December 18-20, 2023 at IIIT Hyderabad <https://www.iiit.ac.in/>, India Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2023/ FSTTCS 2023 is the 43rd conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS <http://www.iarcs.org.in/>, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India <https://india.acm.org/>. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AoE) Abstract Submission: July 12, 2023 Paper Submission: July 19, 2023 Notification: September 22, 2023 Camera Ready: October 5, 2023 Conference: December 18-20, 2023 Workshops: TBA PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in electronic form via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fsttcs2023> using the LIPIcs LaTeX style file available here <https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors>. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (excluding bibliography), but may include a clearly marked appendix containing technical details. The appendix will be read only at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions to journals or other conferences with published proceedings are disallowed. Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/> as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper in person at the conference. TOPICS Track A - Algebraic Complexity - Algorithms and Data Structures - Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics - Approximation Algorithms - Combinatorial Optimization - Communication Complexity - Computational Biology - Computational Geometry - Computational Learning Theory - Cryptography and Security - Data Streaming and Sublinear algorithms - Economics and Computation - Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms - Parameterized Complexity - Proof Complexity - Quantum Computing - Randomness in Computing - Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing Track B - Automata, Games and Formal Languages - Logic in Computer Science - Modal and Temporal Logics - Models of Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems - Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic and Quantum Systems - Model Theory - Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages - Program Analysis and Transformation - Security protocols - Specification, Verification and Synthesis - Theorem Proving and Decision Procedures ORGANISATION COMMITTEE - Girish Varma <https://girishvarma.in/> (IIIT Hyderabad) - Suryajith Chillara <https://suryajith.github.io/> (IIIT Hyderabad) - Anjaneya Swami <https://scis.uohyd.ac.in/~askcs/> (Univ of Hyderabad) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Track A - Siddharth Barman <https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~barman/> (The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India) - Arnab Bhattacharyya <https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~arnab/> (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Parinya Chalermsook <https://sites.google.com/site/parinyachalermsook/> (Aalto University, Finland) - Sivakanth Gopi <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/sigopi/> (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) - Karthik C.S. <http://karthikcs.org/> (Rutgers University, USA) - Venkata Koppula <https://web.iitd.ac.in/~kvenkata/> (IIT Delhi, India) - Rucha Kulkarni <https://ruchark2.web.engr.illinois.edu/> (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Mrinal Kumar <https://mrinalkr.bitbucket.io/> (TIFR, Mumbai, India) - Paloma Lima <https://www.ii.uib.no/~palomal/> (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - Meena Mahajan <https://www.imsc.res.in/~meena/> (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) - Nikhil Mande <https://mande-nikhil.github.io/> (University of Liverpool, UK) - Neeldhara Misra <https://iitgn.ac.in/faculty/cse/neeldhara> (IIT Gandhinagar, India) - Sagnik Mukhopadhyay <https://sagnikm.github.io/> (University of Sheffield, UK) - Meghana Nasre <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~meghana/> (IIT Madras, India) - Noga Ron-Zewi <https://sites.google.com/view/nogazewi> (University of Haifa, Israel) - Chris Schwiegelshohn <https://cs.au.dk/~schwiegelshohn/> (University of Aarhus, Denmark) - Srikanth Srinivasan <https://cs.au.dk/~srikanth/> (University of Aarhus, Denmark) – *Track A chair* Track B - Aiswarya C. <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~aiswarya/> (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Guy Avni <https://sites.google.com/view/gavni> (University of Haifa, Israel) - Francesco Belardinelli <https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~fbelard/> (Imperial College, UK) - Dietmar Berwanger <http://www.lsv.fr/~dwb/> (CNRS, LMF, France) - Patricia Bouyer <http://www.lsv.fr/~bouyer/> (CNRS, LMF France) – *Track B chair* - Arnaud Carayol <http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~carayol/> (Université Gustave Eiffel, LIGM, France) - Supratik Chakraborty <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/> (IIT Bombay, India) - Lorenzo Clemente <https://sites.google.com/view/lorenzoclemente/> (University of Warsaw, Poland) - Ugo Dal Lago <https://udallago.github.io/> (Università di Bologna, Italy) - P. Madhusudan <https://madhu.cs.illinois.edu/> (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) - Pavithra Prabhakar <https://people.cs.ksu.edu/~pprabhakar/> (Kansas State University, USA) - Prakash Saivasan <https://www.imsc.res.in/prakash_saivasan> (The Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India) - Abhisekh Sankaran <https://abhisekhs.github.io/> (Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune, India) - B. Srivathsan <https://www.cmi.ac.in/~sri/> (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Nathalie Sznajder <https://pages.lip6.fr/Nathalie.Sznajder/> (Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France) - Tony Tan <https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tonytan/> (National Taiwan University) STEERING COMMITTEE - Paul Gastin <http://www.lsv.fr/~gastin/> (LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay) - Amit Kumar <http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~amitk/> (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) - S Krishna <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krishnas/> (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) - G Ramalingam <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/grama/> (Microsoft Research, Bangalore) - Venkatesh Raman <https://www.imsc.res.in/~vraman/> (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) - Kavitha Telikepalli <https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~kavitha/> (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

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Post-doc positions in Trustworthy Software at Singapore
by Abhik Roychoudhury 02 Jul '23

02 Jul '23

Post-doc position announcement Post-doc positions are available at the National University of Singapore in the area of trustworthy software, in the group of Abhik Roychoudhury. The focus of the group in software testing and program analysis as well as related topics like trustworthy AI. Details may be found from the group website. *https://nus-tss.github.io/* The group has graduated many past PhD and post-doc alumni, with academic placements all over the world. The alumni placement track record can be seen from *https://nus-tss.github.io/team/* The National University of Singapore (/https://www.nus.edu.sg//) provides an engaging work environment. Salary and other benefits for the position are competitive. Interested applicants can email their CV to Neo Chee Yong *neocy(a)nus.edu.sg* with CC to *abhik(a)comp.nus.edu.sg* Candidates who have submitted their PhD thesis but have not received the PhD degree, are also eligible to apply. Thanks -- -Abhik Roychoudhury School of Computing National University of Singapore https://abhikrc.com

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[Deadline June 30 firm] CFP - DPM 2023, Data Privacy Management, ESORICS 2023, LNCS proceedings & special issue
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2023) 18th International Workshop September 25-29, 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands (co-located with ESORICS 2023 and CBT 2023) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2023/ Deadline extended to June 30, 2023 --- Firm deadline --- ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 30, 2023 --- already extended! --- Notification: -- July 30, 2023 Camera Ready: -- August 20, 2023 ====== SCOPE ====== DPM is an annual international workshop covering research in data privacy management. Organizations are increasingly concerned about the privacy of information that they manage (as witnessed, for example, by lawsuits filed against organizations for violating the privacy of customer's data). Thus, the management of privacy-sensitive information is very critical and important for every organization. This poses several challenging problems, such as how to translate the high-level business goals into system-level privacy policies, administration of privacy-sensitive data, privacy preserving data integration and engineering, privacy preserving access control mechanisms, information-oriented security, and query execution on privacy-sensitive data for partial answers. Starting from these observations, the aim of DPM is to discuss and exchange ideas related to data privacy management. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. TOPICS ======== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Privacy in Machine Learning - Privacy Information Management - Privacy Policy-based Infrastructures and Architectures - Privacy-oriented Access Control Languages and Models - Privacy in Trust Management - Privacy in Cryptocurrencies - Privacy Data Integration - Privacy Risk Assessment and Assurance - Privacy Services - Privacy Policy Analysis - Data Protection Regulations in Practice - Cryptographic Protocols for Privacy - Query Execution over Privacy Sensitive Data - Privacy Preserving Data Mining - Privacy for Integrity-based Computing - Privacy Monitoring and Auditing - Privacy in Social Networks - Privacy in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Applications - Individual Privacy vs. Corporate/National Security - Privacy in computer networks - Privacy and RFIDs - Privacy and Big Data - Privacy in sensor networks - Privacy in the Internet of Things PAPER SUBMISSIONS =================== Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers can be submitted as Full Papers or Short Papers. Full papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Short papers should be at most 8 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so papers should be intelligible without them. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a short paper to differentiate them from full papers. All submissions must be written in English. It is planned to have accepted papers published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, the LNCS template can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors. Authors must submit their papers by the indicated deadline, using the EasyChair web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpm2023 Only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers must be presented at the Workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. PROGRAM CHAIRS =============== Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Esma Aimeur (University of Montreal) Ken Barker (University of Calgary) Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Jordi Castella-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Mauro Conti (University of Padua) Mathieu Cunche (University of Lyon / Inria) Frederic Cuppens (Polytechnique Montreal) Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (Polytechnique Montreal) Mila Dalla Preda (University of Verona) Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Nicolas E. Diaz Ferreyra (Hamburg University of Technology) Jose M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Sebastien Gambs (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) Lorena Gonzalez Manzano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) M.Emre Gursory (KoÃ§ University) Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa) Marc Juarez (University of Edinburgh) Christos Kalloniatis (University of the Aegean) Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria) Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Christophe Kiennert (Telecom SudParis) Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University) Romain Laborde (University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III) Patrick Lacharme (Ensicaen) Costas Lambrinoudakis (University of Piraeus) Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan) Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London) Benjamin Nguyen (INSA Centre Val de Loire) MartÃn Ochoa (AppGate Inc.) Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano) Isabel Praca (GECAD / ISEP) Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt) Ruben Rios (Universidad de Malaga) Pierangela Samarati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Isabel Wagner (De Montfort University) Jens Weber (University of Victoria) Lena Wiese (University of Gottingen) Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology) Melek Onen (EURECOM) ================== VENUE/FORMAT ================== The workshop will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 28th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS. More information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2023 website at https://esorics2023.org/ This call for papers and additional information about DPM 2023 can be found at https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2023/ Kinldy contact dpm2023(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or questions.

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CFP: Fifth International Conference on Microservices
by Alessandro Bocci 28 Jun '23

28 Jun '23

International Conference on Microservices: Call for Papers ========================================================== Fifth International Conference on Microservices October 10th-12th 2023, Pisa, Italy https://www.conf-micro.services/2023/ Important Dates (EXTENDED) --------------- - Submission deadline : July 09th, 2023 (AoE) (extended) - Notification to authors: July 19th, 2023 (AoE) (extended) - Camera-ready due: July 30th, 2023 (AoE) - Early bird registration until: July 30th, 2023 (AoE) - October 10th-12th, 2023 Theme and Topics ---------------- Microservices are pervading enterprise IT, with many big companies already adopting microservice architectures to deliver their core businesses. Microservices indeed provide an alternative to traditional software architectures, which brings various additional benefits, including increased flexibility, scalability, and improved resilience to failures. Additionally, microservices allow for faster and more efficient development, as well as better collaboration between cross-functional teams. As the technology landscape continues to evolve and become more complex, the importance of microservices in building modern, scalable, and effective applications cannot be overstated. The 5th International Conference on Microservices (Microservices 2023) seeks contributions from both industry and academia covering all aspects and phases of the design and implementation of microservice architectures, as well as experiences based on daily working with them. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: - Software engineering methods for microservices, specifically (but not limited to) agile service design practices, behavior- and domain-driven design - Formal models for microservices - Programming languages, notations, and techniques for microservices - Verification (both static and runtime) of microservice systems - Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development - DevOps for microservices, in particular (but not limited to) continuous deployment and distributed monitoring - Microservices in the context of development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) - Secure by design in the context of Microservices - Microservice operation and contributor analysis - Microservice management: fault, configuration, accounting/cost, performance, security - Co-change and change impact analysis - Discovery/recovery and reverse engineering of microservices solutions - Microservice evolution - Global governance for microservices - Methodologies for identification, specification, and realization of candidate services - Patterns for cloud-native application architectures; service API design and management - Microservices infrastructure components: API gateways, side cars, and service meshes; reactive messaging brokers; service registries; service containers and cluster managers; infrastructure as code - Function-as-a-service and serverless cloud offerings; service-based event sourcing and data streaming architectures - Security and other service quality concerns (consistency, availability, recoverability) in microservices; dealing with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and other data privacy requirements Testing for microservices: unit tests, system tests, acceptance and regression tests, test-driven service development Internet technologies: services, human interactions, data analytics and AI for IoT, architecture things centric, sensor networks, security, privacy, applications - AI and Microservices (including Datasets, Open-source technology) - Cyber-physical Systems: AI/ML applications, security - Industrial case studies and applications: Data Science/Big Data, Smart Industry, Healthcare, Government, Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Empirical studies of microservices adoption - Case Studies and Surveys on the topic of Microservices - Sustainable practices in the Microservices community - Education about Microservices technologies Submissions Guidelines ---------------------- A submission should describe a talk to be given at the conference in the form of extended abstracts with a maximum of two pages for talks from industry and six pages for academic presentations (including references). Submissions can be based on work in progress, scientific work published or submitted for publication, practical experience reports, or practical tool demonstrations. They must further be prepared using the TBA template, be in PDF format, printable in black and white on A4 paper, and interpretable by common PDF tools. Submissions must be in English. Contributions may be submitted via TBA. The submission deadline is June 25th, 2023 AoE. Resubmissions are allowed until the submission deadline. Contributions will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee. Extended abstracts of accepted contributions will be available electronically before the conference. Selected contributions will be invited to submit manuscripts based on their abstracts for conference post-proceedings. Organisation ------------ General Chair: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa (IT) Program Chairs: Tomas Cerny, Baylor University (US) Valentina Lenarduzzi, University of Oulu (FI) Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa (IT) Industrial Liaison Chair: Claudio Guidi, italianaSoftware (IT) Publicity Chair: Alessandro Bocci, University of Pisa (IT) Philip Wizenty, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (DE) Local Chairs: Stefano Forti, University of Pisa (IT) Steering Committee ----------------- Giulio Manzonetto, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark Sabine Sachweh, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund Program Committee ----------------- Amr S. Abdelfattah, Baylor University (USA) Nour Ali, Brunel University London (UK) Carlo Aliprandi, Extra RED (IT) Hernán Astudillo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (CL) Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Justus Bogner, University of Stuttgart (DE) Andrea Janes, Vorarlberg University of Applied Science (AT) Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna (IT) Pavas Navaney, Oracle (USA) Phu Nguyen, SINTEF (NO) Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT) Florian Rademacher, RWTH Aachen University (DE) Larisa Safina, INRIA (FR) Davide Taibi, University of Oulu (FI) Pavel Tisnovsky, Red Hat (USA) Nabil El Ioini, The University of Nottingham (MY) Richard Lipka, University of West Bohemia (CZ) Muhammad Waseem, University of Jyväskylä (FI) Contact Information ------------------- Please contact us if you have questions: https://www.conf-micro.services/2023/contact/

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Kishor Jothimurugan on June 20 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Kishor Jothimurugan, an incoming Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 20, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjViM244cW…> ). 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: Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have enabled data-driven controller design for autonomous systems such as robotic arms and self-driving cars. Applying RL to such a system typically involves encoding the objective using a reward function (mapping transitions of the system to real values) and then training a neural network controller (from simulations of the system) to maximize the expected reward. However, many challenges arise when we try to train controllers to perform complex long-horizon tasks---e.g., navigating a car along a complex track with multiple turns. Firstly, it is quite challenging to manually define well-shaped reward functions for such tasks. It is much more natural to use a high-level specification language such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) to specify these tasks. Secondly, existing algorithms for learning controllers from logical specifications do not scale well to complex tasks due to a number of reasons including the use of sparse rewards and lack of compositionality. Furthermore, existing algorithms for verifying neural network policies (trained using RL) cannot be easily applied to verify policies for complex long-horizon tasks due to large approximation errors. In this talk, I will present my work on using logical specifications to specify RL tasks. First, I'll talk about algorithms for learning control policies from such specifications. Then, I'll show how we can use logical task decompositions to scale verification to long-horizons. Bio: Kishor Jothimurugan is an incoming Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma. He earned his PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was advised by Prof. Rajeev Alur. His research interests lie at the intersection of Formal Methods and Machine Learning. In particular, he is interested in applying formal methods to improve applicability and reliability of reinforcement learning, verifying systems with neural network components and using neurosymbolic approaches to improve program synthesis and analysis.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Kishor Jothimurugan on June 20 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 17 Jun '23

17 Jun '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Kishor Jothimurugan, an incoming Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 20, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjViM244cW…> ). 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: Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have enabled data-driven controller design for autonomous systems such as robotic arms and self-driving cars. Applying RL to such a system typically involves encoding the objective using a reward function (mapping transitions of the system to real values) and then training a neural network controller (from simulations of the system) to maximize the expected reward. However, many challenges arise when we try to train controllers to perform complex long-horizon tasks---e.g., navigating a car along a complex track with multiple turns. Firstly, it is quite challenging to manually define well-shaped reward functions for such tasks. It is much more natural to use a high-level specification language such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) to specify these tasks. Secondly, existing algorithms for learning controllers from logical specifications do not scale well to complex tasks due to a number of reasons including the use of sparse rewards and lack of compositionality. Furthermore, existing algorithms for verifying neural network policies (trained using RL) cannot be easily applied to verify policies for complex long-horizon tasks due to large approximation errors. In this talk, I will present my work on using logical specifications to specify RL tasks. First, I'll talk about algorithms for learning control policies from such specifications. Then, I'll show how we can use logical task decompositions to scale verification to long-horizons. Bio: Kishor Jothimurugan is an incoming Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma. He earned his PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was advised by Prof. Rajeev Alur. His research interests lie at the intersection of Formal Methods and Machine Learning. In particular, he is interested in applying formal methods to improve applicability and reliability of reinforcement learning, verifying systems with neural network components and using neurosymbolic approaches to improve program synthesis and analysis.

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