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ISLA 2026: Second Call for Participation
by Abhisekh Sankaran 21 May '26

21 May '26

TCS Confidential ================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA) 2026 + https://isla26.vercel.app/ + June 25 - 30, 2026 + Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh + Co-located with the Formal Methods Update Meeting (FM Update) 2026 ================================================================= Dear all, The 11th Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA 2026) will be held at Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh (near Chennai), from June 25 to 30, 2026. The school will be followed by the Formal Methods Update Meeting on July 2 - 3, 2026. ISLA 2026 website: https://isla26.vercel.app/ ABOUT THE SCHOOL ISLA is a biennial school on logic organized by the Association for Logic in India (ALI, https://logicindia.org) It aims to bring together students and researchers from mathematics, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics who share an interest in logic and its applications. The school is especially intended for PhD students, researchers and others interested in exploring logic across disciplines. VENUE Lectures will be held in NAB 2G in the New Academic Building on the Sri City campus of Krea University. SPEAKERS + K. V. Krishna (IIT Guwahati) + Shikha Rajpurohit (Krea University) + Eric Snyder (Ashoka University) + S. P. Suresh (Chennai Mathematical Institute) COURSES + Computability Theory - K. V. Krishna + Proofs vs Programs Correspondence - S. P. Suresh + Reference to Abstract Entities - Eric Snyder + Abhaava: Categorising what there is not - Shikha Rajpurohit IMPORTANT DATES + School Dates: June 25 - 30, 2026 REGISTRATION Registration for the school is open. Details regarding registration fees and the registration process are available at: https://isla26.vercel.app/registration.html Participation is limited, and registration will be on a _first-come, first-served_ basis. REACHING SRI CITY Sri City is 60 kms away from the city of Chennai both by taxi services and local trains (to Tada). It lies on the railway route connecting Chennai to Vijayawada / Hyderabad / Kolkata / New Delhi, and the nearest major railway station is Sullurpeta (around 22 kms away). Further details are available on the ISLA 2026 website. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE + Arun Kumar (Chair), BHU + Govind R (Chair), IMSc Chennai + Abhishek De, Krea University + T. V. H. Prathamesh, Krea University LOCAL ORGANIZATION + Abhishek De, Krea University + T. V. H. Prathamesh, Krea University CONTACT isla2026(a)krea.edu.in<mailto:isla2026@krea.edu.in> We look forward to your participation. Best regards, Organising Committee ISLA 2026 https://isla26.vercel.app/ =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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CFP: GandALF 2026
by B Srivathsan 19 May '26

19 May '26

********************************************************************************* 2nd Call for Papers - GandALF 2026 ********************************************************************************* The Seventeenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification will take place in Aalborg, Denmark, September 15-17, 2026. Web page:https://gandalfsymposium.github.io/2026/ The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The symposium covers an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and encourages cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Automated Deduction Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Decision Procedures Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification Finite Model Theory First-order and Higher-order Logics Formal Languages Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems Games and Automata for Verification Game Semantics Logical aspects of Computational Complexity Logics of Programs Modal and Temporal Logics Model Checking Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems Program Analysis and Software Verification Run-time Verification and Testing Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems Synthesis ## Proceedings: The proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their work to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. The previous editions of GandALF already led to special issues of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), Information and Computation (GandALF 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020), Acta Informatica (GandALF 2015) and Logical Methods in Computer Science (GandALF 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024). ## Submissions: Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format (please use the LaTeX style provided athttps://style.eptcs.org) be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF format and will be handled via EasyChair Conference system at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2026 ## Important Dates: Abstract submission: June 18, 2026 Submission deadline: June 22, 2026 Notification: August 3, 2026 Camera ready: September 7, 2026 Conference Dates: September 15-17, 2026 ## Invited Speakers: Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien) Sarah Winter (IRIF - Université Paris Cité) ## Program Committee: Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark) - chair Mickaël Randour (Université de Mons, Belgium) - chair Bartosz Bednarczyk (University of Wrocław, Poland, and TU Wien, Austria) Laurent Doyen (CNRS & LMF, ENS Paris-Saclay, France) Marie Fortin (IRIF, CNRS, Université Paris Cité, France) Hadar Frenkel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Raffaella Gentilini (University of Perugia, Italy) Aline Goeminne (ENS Rennes, France) James C. A. Main (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Alessio Mansutti (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Angelo Matteo (University of Udine, Italy) Matteo Mio (CNRS/ENS-Lyon, France) Petr Novotný (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Charles Paperman (Université de Lille, France) Julie Parreaux (University of Warsaw, Poland) Igor Potapov (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) David Purser (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) Jeremy Sproston (University of Turin, Italy) B Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Marie Van Den Bogaard (Université Gustave Eiffel, France) Chana Weil-Kennedy (CEA List, France) ## Steering Committee: Luca Aceto (Reykjavik University) Javier Esparza (University of Munich) Salvatore La Torre (University of Salerno) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine) Mimmo Parente (University of Salerno) Jean-François Raskin (Université libre de Bruxelles) Martin Zimmermann (Aalborg University)

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Highlights 2026 Vienna: CfP submission deadline May 29th
by Supratik Chakraborty 17 May '26

17 May '26

# HIGHLIGHTS’26 (Vienna, Austria 7-11 September 2026) AND CREW (14-18 September) **HIGHLIGHTS’26** is scheduled **from September 7 to September 11, 2026** at **TU Wien**. It is co-organized by ISTA, TU Wien and Wolfgang Pauli Institute. Highlights'26 will take place at the main building of TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13, in the center of Vienna. HIGHLIGHTS’26 will be followed by the **Highlights' Collaborative Research Week (CREW)**, from **September 14 to 18, 2026**, at **ISTA**. **HIGHLIGHTS’26** is the fourteenth in the series of international conferences “Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata”, aiming at integrating the community working in algorithmic model theory, automata theory, databases, games for logic and verification, logic and verification. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to the HIGHLIGHTS conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. There are no publications. **HIGHLIGHTS’26** key features: - HIGHLIGHTS is a conference without publications, where speakers give short presentations of their best work. - A chat of the conference is available during the event, and throughout the year. - There is an early round of submissions and notifications to help with travel planning - The _Highlights’ Collaborative REsearch Week_ (**CREW**) offers means for research collaborations/discussions between participants. CREW is scheduled after the conference. - The _Highlights Extended Stay Support Scheme_ (**HESSS**) helps participants find collaborators and organise visits in the vicinity of HIGHLIGHTS. We encourage you to attend and present your best work - be it already published or not - at **HIGHLIGHTS’26**. ## SCOPE Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: - Algebraic and categorical models of computation - Algorithmic model theory - Automata theory - Databases - Games for logic, verification, and semantics - Logic - Verification ## IMPORTANT DATES AND INFORMATION - HIGHLIGHTS'26 webpage: https://highlights-conference.org/2026/ - Registration to the chat at https://highlights-conference.org/2026/zulip (no need if you did it last year) - Registration page: TBA - Early-submission deadline: April 17, 2026 - Early notification: May 08, 2026 - Regular-submission deadline: May 29, 2026 - Regular Notification: June 19, 2026 - Early-bird registration deadline: July 17, 2026 - Registration deadline: August 17, 2026 - Conference: September 7- 11, 2026. - Highlights’ Collaborative Research Week (CREW): September 14 - 16, 2026. - Registration fee: TBA (tentative 160 EUR) ## MODALITIES OF ATTENDANCE **HIGHLIGHTS’26** is an event that will take place on-site (barring unforeseen circumstances), and the preferred form of participation is in person. Remote attendance via a video stream will also be offered, but with limited possible interactions for these participants. Submission for a presentation at Highlights'26 is open to everyone, and attendance to the conference is not a requirement. The selection procedure will not take into account in-person attendance. Authors who do not intend to attend Highlights'26 in-person must commit to this choice when submitting their talk proposal. If accepted, authors of such talk proposals will have the opportunity to share a prerecorded video of their talk, which will be made available on the conference website. Before coming from far away, please review how your trip and international flights are contributing to climate change. We encourage you to take the train as much as possible, possibly taking the opportunity for visiting colleagues on the way and thus decomposing the travel into smaller pieces. More generally, we encourage you to make the most of your stay. This means extending your journey to the previous and/or following weeks for more scientific activities in Vienna and around. Several initiatives are here to help you in this task: - You can participate to the **Highlights’ Collaborative Research Week** (**[CREW](https://highlights-conference.org/2026/hcrw), September 14 - 18**) in the week after HIGHLIGHTS, in ISTA. - You can use the **Highlights Extended Stay Support Scheme** (**[HESSS](https://highlights-conference.org/2026/hesss)**) for finding collaborators and organising visits. ## SUBMISSIONS AND GUIDELINES Submissions should take the form of a short abstract describing the content of the presentation and its interest. It should serve as a proposal for a presentation. Hence, submissions should have a single author — the speaker. They can concern any recently published, to be published, or ongoing work of the speaker. We expect you to present your favourite result of the year, so there should be at most one submission per speaker. The abstract should list co-authors, if any. Optionally, an extended abstract of up to two pages may be attached as a PDF file. We encourage both young and senior researchers to present. The **regular round of submissions is open until May 29, 2026**, with a notification by June 19, 2026. Submissions will not lead to publications. There are no formal proceedings and we encourage the presentation of work published or presented elsewhere. The talk (which is short, around 10 minutes) can be doubled with a poster. Further information about poster submissions will be provided. **Submission page:** https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=highlights26 ## HIGHLIGHTS' COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WEEK (CREW) **HIGHLIGHTS’26** will be followed by the _Highlights’ Collaborative Research Week_ (**CREW**), **from September 14 to 18 at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria**. Note that this is located outside of Vienna, ISTA being 20 km North of Vienna. Special hosting arrangements on site during CREW will be made available for a limited number of participants on a first-come-first-served basis. The Highlights CReW is not a workshop nor a conference: it is simply a week in which researchers gather to work together, to collaborate on their current projects or to start new ones. Participants will be asked to bring open problems they are interested in and to present it on Day 1, so that they can then decide on the topics they work on throughout the week. We expect researchers from all generations and all countries. Expected registration fees will be 70€ for students, 120€ for non-students (early registration), subject to pending public funding applications. This will cover lunch, coffee breaks, and a social dinner. Some accommodation (in shared rooms) will also be provided at subsidised prices, on a first-come first-served basis. We encourage participants to declare their intent to come and offer activities in advance using the chat of highlights. ## HIGHLIGHTS EXTENDED STAY SUPPORT SCHEME (HESSS) The **HESSS** is an incentive for collaborations between participants of the conference and researchers working in research groups reachable by train from the conference location. The objective is to foster interactions with low carbon footprint. The mechanism is as follows: - Research groups willing to participate in the scheme will be listed on the webpage: https://highlights-conference.org/2026/hesss. These groups are offering to fund collaborations between HIGHLIGHTS participants and their members. - The pair of a HIGHLIGHTS participant and a member of a listed research group submit a proposal, which takes the form of an email containing names, period of collaboration, and a sentence describing the planned activity. It has to be sent to the **HESSS** contact person of the research unit. - The decision of acceptance is up to the research group. In particular, it may be subject to scientific scope, number of requests, or e.g., favouring distant participants. - The only strict rule is that the visit should be around HIGHLIGHTS, and no airplane should be taken by the visitor to travel from HIGHLIGHTS to the visit location. ## INVITED SPEAKERS ### TUTORIALS - Daniela Petrisan - TBA ### KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Cécilia Pradic - Anthony Lin - Mirco Giacobbe - K. S. Thejaswini ### PROGRAM COMMITTEE HIGHLIGHTS'26 A. R. Balasubramanian, MPI-SWS Manuel Bodirsky, TU Dresden Lorenzo Clemente, University of Warsaw (chair) Javier Esparza, TU Müchen Emmanuel Filiot, Univerté Libre de Bruxelles Zeinab Galal, Kyoto University Shankaranarayanan Krishna, IIT Bombay Ugo dal Lago, University of Bologna Nathan Lhote, Aix-Marseille University Christof Löding, Aachen Uniersity Rupak Majumdar, MPI-SWS Tito Nguyen, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University Karin Quaas, Leipzig University Ocan Sankur, CNRS, Rennes University ### ORGANISING COMMITTEE Laura Kovacs, TU Wien c/o WPI Michael Sammler, ISTA ### STEERING COMMITTEE - Antoine Amarilli (environmental chair) - León Bohn (webmaster) - Antonio Casares - Supratik Chakraborty - Thomas Colcombet (chair) - Bartek Klin - K. S. Thejaswini (publicity chair) - Sophie Tison

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DPM 2026 - CFP - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2026
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 14 May '26

14 May '26

(appologies for cross-posting) CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2026) 21th International Workshop September 17, 2026, Rome, Italy (co-located with ESORICS 2026) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2026/ ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 16, 2026 Notification: -- July 22, 2026 Camera Ready: -- August 24, 2026 ====== 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. Submission should be done through the ESORICS 2026 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026 and the select the track: 21st International Workshop on Data Privacy Management. 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. Submissions are not anonymous (single blind review). 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 ================= Abderrahim Ait Wakrime (UM5R) Nicolas Anciaux (INRIA) Ken Barker (University of Calgary) Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Jordi Castella-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Depeng Chen (Anhui University) Mathieu Cunche (University of Lyon / Inria) Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercate (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Sara Foresti (Universita degli Studi di Milano) SÃ©bastien Gambs (Universita du Quebec a Montreal) Lorena GonzÃ¡lez Manzano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) M. Emre Gursoy (Department of Computer Engineering) Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London) Christophe Kiennert (Telecom SudParis) Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University) Seongkwang Kim (Korea University) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University) Patrick Lacharme (Ensicaen) Romain Laborde (Universita de Toulouse) Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology) Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London) Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Isabel Praca (GECAD / ISEP) Ruben Rios (University of Malaga) Julian Salas (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) Pierangela Samarati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) David Sanchez (University Rovira i Virgili) Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Isabel Wagner (University of Basel) Jens Weber (University of Victoria) Lena Wiese (Fraunhofer Institute) Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay on May 12 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 11 May '26

11 May '26

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay, an industrial researcher and engineer at ABB, specializing in verification and evolution of safety-critical automation software.. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 12, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NDR2dTZtcn…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Formal Verification of PLC Software Evolution Across Migration and Upgrade Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Industrial plants rely on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for automation. As industrial requirements evolve, control software undergoes *migration* from legacy languages such as Taylor™ Control Language (TCL) to IEC 61131-3 compliant Sequential Function Charts (SFC), as well as *upgradation* of existing SFC programs through the addition of new features. Both processes risk introducing unintended behavioural deviations that may compromise safety. This work addresses automatic behavioural verification during PLC software evolution. We present a Petri net based framework that models TCL and SFC programs as formal behavioural representations. The approach verifies behavioural equivalence for migration and checks containment between older and upgraded SFC versions using a symbolic path-based equivalence checking algorithm, ensuring the preservation of existing functionality while accommodating new features. Bio: Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay is an industrial researcher and engineer specializing in verification and evolution of safety-critical automation software. He currently works at ABB, contributing to the development and validation of industrial control systems based on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS). His work focuses on ensuring correctness, reliability, and safe modernization of legacy control software through formal verification, behavioral equivalence checking, and automated software migration techniques. With prior experience as an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani and a postdoctoral researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, he bridges academic research and industrial practice. His interests include formal methods for industrial automation, trustworthy AI for engineering workflows, and verification of software upgrades in large-scale industrial systems.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay on May 12 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 05 May '26

05 May '26

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay, an industrial researcher and engineer at ABB, specializing in verification and evolution of safety-critical automation software.. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 12, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NDR2dTZtcn…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Formal Verification of PLC Software Evolution Across Migration and Upgrade Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Industrial plants rely on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for automation. As industrial requirements evolve, control software undergoes *migration* from legacy languages such as Taylor™ Control Language (TCL) to IEC 61131-3 compliant Sequential Function Charts (SFC), as well as *upgradation* of existing SFC programs through the addition of new features. Both processes risk introducing unintended behavioural deviations that may compromise safety. This work addresses automatic behavioural verification during PLC software evolution. We present a Petri net based framework that models TCL and SFC programs as formal behavioural representations. The approach verifies behavioural equivalence for migration and checks containment between older and upgraded SFC versions using a symbolic path-based equivalence checking algorithm, ensuring the preservation of existing functionality while accommodating new features. Bio: Soumyadip Bandyopadhyay is an industrial researcher and engineer specializing in verification and evolution of safety-critical automation software. He currently works at ABB, contributing to the development and validation of industrial control systems based on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS). His work focuses on ensuring correctness, reliability, and safe modernization of legacy control software through formal verification, behavioral equivalence checking, and automated software migration techniques. With prior experience as an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani and a postdoctoral researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany, he bridges academic research and industrial practice. His interests include formal methods for industrial automation, trustworthy AI for engineering workflows, and verification of software upgrades in large-scale industrial systems.

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2nd Call for Papers: SYNT 2026 (FLoC workshop), 25 July, Lisbon (deadline extended to May 15)
by Supratik Chakraborty 01 May '26

01 May '26

SYNT 2026 : 15th International Workshop on Synthesis 25th July 2026 Co-located with FLoC 2026, Lisbon, Portugal --- The SYNT workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the broad area of synthesis of computing systems. The workshop fosters the development of frontier techniques in automating the development of computing systems and is inclusive in its interpretation of the term “synthesis”. SYNT 2026 encourages submissions that can be broadly categorized into one of the tracks: reactive synthesis, functional synthesis and neuro-symbolic synthesis. However, submissions in other areas related to synthesis are also welcome. --- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Algorithms and tools for synthesis of computing systems, broadly interpreted - Reactive (discrete-time, timed, hybrid, ...) synthesis - Functional (program, circuit, …) synthesis - Neuro-symbolic synthesis - Specification languages and optimization in synthesis, - Complexity and decidability results for synthesis, - Case studies of software or hardware synthesis, - Connections between verification and synthesis, - Synthesis by model learning, - Connections between synthesis and inductive programming, - New approaches or applications for synthesis, - Description and analysis of benchmark families for synthesis. --- **SYNT 2026 submission instructions** SYNT 2026 welcomes submissions of extended abstracts up to 3 pages, excluding references. All submissions should be in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format: <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…> As in previous years, there will be no published proceedings of SYNT 2026. However, /authors of selected abstracts may be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Acta Informatica./ Submissions will be judged on how interesting they are to the SYNT community. Overlap with previously published work should be indicated but does not disqualify a submission if the presentation can be expected to be of enough interest. Parallel submissions are welcome as well, since there will be no published proceedings. --- **WORKSHOP URL:** <https://synt2026.github.io/> **SUBMISSION URL:** <https://submissions.floc26.org/synt/> --- **IMPORTANT DATES:** - Submission: (extended to) 15th May (AoE) - Author Notification: 29th May (AoE) - Early registration for workshop ends on: 1st June - Workshop: 25th July --- Organisers: Supratik Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) K. S. Thejaswini (Université libre de Bruxelles)

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Three Research Assistant + PhD Positions in Program Synthesis
by Aalok Thakkar 01 May '26

01 May '26

Dear all We are pleased to announce three research assistant positions at the post-bachelor's (pre-PhD/pre-doc) and two PhD positions in the ANRF-funded project "Scalable, Robust, and Trustworthy Program Synthesis". The project investigates automated synthesis when the specification is partial or contradictory, combining techniques from SAT , SMT, and reinforcement learning. Both the positions are at Ashoka University, Sonipat (NCR). Research Assistant Positions: Duration: 12 months to up to 36 months, with renewal after every year based on the performance of the candidate. The positions are available immediately. Applicants must have at least a three-year undergraduate degree in Computer Science (or be in the process of concluding one by June 2026). A master's degree is preferred but not necessary. Required qualifications: strong level of familiarity with algorithms, logic, and formal methods; s trong programming skills; familiarity with automata, games, and complexity is appreciated PhD Positions: PhD program will be the regular program at Ashoka University ( https://www.ashoka.edu.in/programme/new-horizons-in-computer-science-ph-d-p… ). I will be glad to answer further questions and look forward to receiving your application for this exciting research opportunity! If interested, please contact me and send y our CV and the name of one reference. For more details, contact me at thakkar(a)ashoka.edu.in. Thank you Aalok Thakkar -- *Confidentiality Notice:* This email and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete the email and any attachments permanently. Thank you.

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Three Research Assistant + PhD Positions in Program Synthesis
by Aalok Thakkar 01 May '26

01 May '26

Dear all We are pleased to announce *three research assistant positions* at the post-bachelor's (pre-PhD/pre-doc) and *two PhD positions* in the ANRF-funded project "Scalable, Robust, and Trustworthy Program Synthesis". The project investigates automated synthesis when the specification is partial or contradictory, combining techniques from SAT , SMT, and reinforcement learning. Both the positions are at Ashoka University, Sonipat (NCR). *Research* *Assistant* *Positions:* Duration: 12 months to up to 36 months, with renewal after every year based on the performance of the candidate. The positions are available immediately. Applicants must have at least a three-year undergraduate degree in Computer Science (or be in the process of concluding one by June 2026). A master's degree is preferred but not necessary. Required qualifications: strong level of familiarity with algorithms, logic, and formal methods; s trong programming skills; f amiliarity with automata, games, and complexity is appreciated ** *PhD* *Positions:* PhD program will be the regular program at the Vachani School of Advanced Computing ( https://www.ashoka.edu.in/programme/new-horizons-in-computer-science-ph-d-p… ). I will be glad to answer further questions and look forward to receiving your application for this exciting research opportunity! If interested, please contact me and send y our CV and the name of one reference. For more details, contact me at thakkar(a)ashoka.edu.in. Thank you *Aalok Thakkar* *(* *આલોક ઠક્કર)* Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science +91 98982 29865 | aalok-thakkar.github.io ( http://aalok-thakkar.github.io ) Please note: this email may have been sent at a time that aligns with my schedule. Managing work and life responsibilities is unique to each person; kindly respond at a time that works best for you. Sent via Superhuman ( https://superhuman.com/refer/1a2nj18b?utm_medium=signature&utm_source=produ… ) -- *Confidentiality Notice:* This email and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete the email and any attachments permanently. Thank you.

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ISLA 2026: Call for Participation
by Abhisekh Sankaran 23 Apr '26

23 Apr '26

TCS Confidential ======================================================================================== Call for Participation Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA) 2026 + https://isla26.vercel.app/ <https://isla26.vercel.app/%20%0b> + June 25 - 30, 2026 + Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh + Co-located with the Formal Methods Update Meeting (FM Update) 2026 + Early registration deadline: May 15, 2026 ======================================================================================== Dear all, The 11th Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA 2026) will be held at Krea University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh (near Chennai) , from June 25 to 30, 2026. The school will be followed by the Formal Methods Update Meeting on July 2 – 3, 2026. ISLA 2026 website: https://isla26.vercel.app/ About the school: ISLA is a biennial school on logic organized by the Association for Logic in India (ALI, https://logicindia.org) It aims to bring together students and researchers from mathematics, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics who share an interest in logic and its applications. The school is especially intended for PhD students, researchers and others interested in exploring logic across disciplines. Venue: Lectures will be held in NAB 2G in the New Academic Building on the Sri City campus of Krea University. Speakers: + K. V. Krishna (IIT Guwahati) + Shikha Rajpurohit (Krea University) + Eric Snyder (Ashoka University) + S. P. Suresh (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Courses: + Recursion Theory — K. V. Krishna + Proofs vs Programs Correspondence — S. P. Suresh + On Reference to Abstract Entities — Eric Snyder Important Dates: + Early Registration Deadline: May 15, 2026 + School Dates: June 25 – 30, 2026 Participation is limited, and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration: Details regarding registration fees and the registration process are available at: https://isla26.vercel.app/registration.html Reaching Sri City: Sri City is 60 kms away from the city of Chennai both by taxi services and local trains (to Tada). It lies on the railway route connecting Chennai to Vijayawada / Hyderabad / Kolkata / New Delhi, and the nearest major railway station is Sullurpeta (around 22 kms away). Further details are available on the ISLA 2026 website. Programme Committee: + Arun Kumar (Chair), BHU + Govind R (Chair), IMSc Chennai + Abhishek De, Krea University + T. V. H. Prathamesh, Krea University Local Organisation: + Abhishek De, Krea University + T. V. H. Prathamesh, Krea University Contact: isla2026(a)krea.edu.in<mailto:isla2026@krea.edu.in> We look forward to your participation. Best regards, Organising Committee ISLA 2026 https://isla26.vercel.app/ =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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Formal Methods Update Meeting 2026
by VSS IARCS 11 Apr '26

11 Apr '26

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the Formal Methods Update Meeting 2026, an informal research meeting and workshop on formal methods and related area at Krea University in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh in the proximity of Chennai. Dates: July 2nd and July 3rd. Venue: Krea University Location: Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, India (near Chennai, Tamil Nadu) Website: https://fm-update.github.io/index.html Register at: https://fm-update.github.io/registration.html The meeting aims to bring together researchers, students, and practitioners from across academia and industry to discuss ongoing work and emerging directions in formal methods, including (but not limited to) logic, verification, programming languages, and automated reasoning. The format is designed to encourage interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas. We particularly encourage participation from graduate students , early-career researchers and industry researchers. Further details regarding registration, accommodation, and travel support are available on the website and will be communicated to registered participants via email. We would appreciate it if you could share this announcement with colleagues and students who may be interested. Best regards, Inzemamul Haque, Krea University Aalok Thakkar, Ashoka University T. V. H. Prathamesh, Krea University [Organizing Committee, FM Update Workshop 2026]

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[CFP - LAST CALL] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
by Alfonso Esposito 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026. Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm) Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare (IEEE W2R-Health 2026) in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026, June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm) WEBSITE https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N35071 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS W2R-HEALTH Workshop Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions. The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring • IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments • Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications • Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment • Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques • Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation • Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments • AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care • Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces • Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing • Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics • Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems • Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare • Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies • Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments. -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2026 Camera Ready: April 30, 2026 Workshop: June 16, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE Technical Program Chairs * Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy) * Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) * Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA) * Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy Web and Publicity Chair • ⁃ Alfonso Esposito (University of Bologna, Italy)

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CONCUR 2026: Final Call for Papers
by totzke＠liverpool.ac.uk 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

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

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Ashish Mishra on April 07 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 06 Apr '26

06 Apr '26

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Ashish Mishra, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 07, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NG8ydXZuaW…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Coverage Types: Underapproximate Refinement Types for Generator Coverage Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Property-based testing (PBT) has become a widely used technique for validating semantic properties of programs by automatically generating test inputs that satisfy user-specified preconditions. In practice, however, the effectiveness of PBT depends critically on the quality of input generators. When preconditions describe rich structural constraints, purely random generators rarely produce many valid inputs, forcing developers to write specialized generators by hand. Unfortunately, such generators are often incomplete, i.e., they may fail to produce many valid inputs, limiting the behaviors explored during testing. However, it is not readily apparent how to validate whether a particular generator provides sufficient coverage against a given precondition. Typically, developers must rely on manual inspection and post-hoc analysis. In this talk, I will present a refinement type-based framework for reasoning about the coverage of test input generators. Our key idea is coverage types, an interpretation of refinement types that captures must-style guarantees about the values a program will produce, rather than the traditional may-style approximation of possible outputs. Conceptually, coverage types bring ideas from Incorrectness logic and underapproximate reasoning into the type system. The types associated with expressions now capture the set of values guaranteed to be produced by an expression, rather than the typical formulation that uses types to represent the set of values an expression may produce. This automated, underapproximate reasoning mechanism allows us to formally verify coverage properties of generators in a higher-order functional language with inductive data types. Building on this foundation, I will also describe a synthesis-based program repair technique that automatically patches incomplete generators by enumerating candidate repairs guided by coverage types. Together, these ideas enable both verification and automated repair of test generators, providing stronger guarantees about the effectiveness of property-based testing and illustrating how incorrectness-style, underapproximate reasoning can be integrated with modern type systems to support practical testing workflows. Bio: Ashish Mishra obtained his PhD from IISc Bangalore. He was subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at Northeastern University and Purdue University, before joining IIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor in 2024. Ashish's research interests are broadly in Program Verification and Synthesis, Functional Programming and Type Systems.

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First CfP: SYNT 2026, 15th Workshop on Synthesis (Lisbon, Portugal), July 25, 2026
by Supratik Chakraborty 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

**SYNT 2026 : 15th International Workshop on Synthesis** 25th July 2026 Co-located with FLoC 2026, Lisbon, Portugal --- The SYNT workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the broad area of synthesis of computing systems. The workshop fosters the development of frontier techniques in automating the development of computing systems and is inclusive in its interpretation of the term “synthesis”. SYNT 2026 encourages submissions that can be broadly categorized into one of the tracks: reactive synthesis, functional synthesis and neuro-symbolic synthesis. However, submissions in other areas related to synthesis are also welcome. --- **Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:** - Algorithms and tools for synthesis of computing systems, broadly interpreted - Reactive (discrete-time, timed, hybrid, ...) synthesis - Functional (program, circuit, …) synthesis - Neuro-symbolic synthesis - Specification languages and optimization in synthesis, - Complexity and decidability results for synthesis, - Case studies of software or hardware synthesis, - Connections between verification and synthesis, - Synthesis by model learning, - Connections between synthesis and inductive programming, - New approaches or applications for synthesis, - Description and analysis of benchmark families for synthesis. --- **SYNT 2026 submission instructions** SYNT 2026 welcomes submissions of extended abstracts up to 3 pages, excluding references. All submissions should be in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…> As in previous years, there will be no published proceedings of SYNT 2026 Submissions will be judged on how interesting they are to the SYNT community. Overlap with previously published work should be indicated but does not disqualify a submission if the presentation can be expected to be of enough interest. Parallel submissions are welcome as well, since there will be no published proceedings. --- **WORKSHOP URL:** https://synt2026.github.io/ <https://synt2026.github.io/> **SUBMISSION URL:** https://submissions.floc26.org/synt/ <https://submissions.floc26.org/synt/> --- **IMPORTANT DATES:** - Submission: 1st May (AoE) - Author Notification: 14th May (AoE) - Workshop: 25th July --- Organisers: Supratik Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) K. S. Thejaswini (Université libre de Bruxelles)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Ashish Mishra on April 07 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Ashish Mishra, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 07, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NG8ydXZuaW…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Coverage Types: Underapproximate Refinement Types for Generator Coverage Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Property-based testing (PBT) has become a widely used technique for validating semantic properties of programs by automatically generating test inputs that satisfy user-specified preconditions. In practice, however, the effectiveness of PBT depends critically on the quality of input generators. When preconditions describe rich structural constraints, purely random generators rarely produce many valid inputs, forcing developers to write specialized generators by hand. Unfortunately, such generators are often incomplete, i.e., they may fail to produce many valid inputs, limiting the behaviors explored during testing. However, it is not readily apparent how to validate whether a particular generator provides sufficient coverage against a given precondition. Typically, developers must rely on manual inspection and post-hoc analysis. In this talk, I will present a refinement type-based framework for reasoning about the coverage of test input generators. Our key idea is coverage types, an interpretation of refinement types that captures must-style guarantees about the values a program will produce, rather than the traditional may-style approximation of possible outputs. Conceptually, coverage types bring ideas from Incorrectness logic and underapproximate reasoning into the type system. The types associated with expressions now capture the set of values guaranteed to be produced by an expression, rather than the typical formulation that uses types to represent the set of values an expression may produce. This automated, underapproximate reasoning mechanism allows us to formally verify coverage properties of generators in a higher-order functional language with inductive data types. Building on this foundation, I will also describe a synthesis-based program repair technique that automatically patches incomplete generators by enumerating candidate repairs guided by coverage types. Together, these ideas enable both verification and automated repair of test generators, providing stronger guarantees about the effectiveness of property-based testing and illustrating how incorrectness-style, underapproximate reasoning can be integrated with modern type systems to support practical testing workflows. Bio: Ashish Mishra obtained his PhD from IISc Bangalore. He was subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at Northeastern University and Purdue University, before joining IIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor in 2024. Ashish's research interests are broadly in Program Verification and Synthesis, Functional Programming and Type Systems.

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[CFP - Extended Deadline] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
by Alfonso Esposito 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare(W2R-Health 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026 in Bologna, June 16-19, 2026. Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm) Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st IEEE International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare (IEEE W2R-Health 2026) in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2026, June 16 2026, Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm) WEBSITE https://w2r-health.github.io/W2R-Health/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N35071 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS W2R-HEALTH Workshop Wearables to Robotics for Intelligent and Personalized Healthcare The W2R-HEALTH Workshop aims to advance interdisciplinary research at the intersection of wearable sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics to enable intelligent and personalized healthcare environments. Rapid progress in wearable technologies and humanoid robotics is opening new opportunities to transform healthcare spaces into adaptive, context-aware, and patient-centered systems that support continuous monitoring, assisted living, rehabilitation, and personalized interventions. The workshop focuses on the integration of wearable IoT technologies and robotic platforms to create smart healthcare ecosystems capable of real-time sensing, intelligent decision-making, and privacy-preserving data processing. By bridging engineering and life sciences, W2R-HEALTH seeks to stimulate collaboration and foster discussion on how sensing, computation, and robotic technologies can jointly shape the next generation of personalized healthcare solutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Wearable sensing and body-area networks for healthcare monitoring • IoT architectures and platforms for smart healthcare environments • Context-aware and personalized healthcare applications • Human activity recognition and behavioral modeling for health assessment • Physiological and multimodal sensing with data fusion techniques • Humanoid and mobile robots for healthcare assistance and rehabilitation • Human–robot interaction in assistive and clinical environments • AI-based planning, reasoning, and decision-making for personalized care • Knowledge representation and intelligent healthcare spaces • Edge and fog computing for real-time and privacy-preserving processing • Machine learning and federated learning for healthcare analytics • Wireless and mobile networking solutions for smart healthcare systems • Security, privacy, and trust in IoT- and robot-enabled healthcare • Ethical, legal, and social implications of intelligent healthcare technologies • Clinical validation, user acceptance, and real-world deployment W2R-HEALTH encourages contributions that present novel research results, system prototypes, experimental studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of advancing intelligent, secure, and human-centered healthcare environments. -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE WOWMOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: April 10, 2026 (Extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2026 Camera Ready: April 30, 2026 Workshop: June 16, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE Technical Program Chairs * Valeria Seidita (University of Palermo, Italy) * Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) * Roberto Toni (Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA) * Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council of Italy Web and Publicity Chair * Alfonso Esposito (University of Bologna, Italy)

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[Congress-Level CFP] 2026 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2026)
by Yacine Sam 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

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

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[CFP] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
by Alfonso Esposito 13 Mar '26

13 Mar '26

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

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CFP Announcement: 22nd Int Conf on Information & Systems Security (ICISS-2026), Dec 16-20 2026
by Madhavan Mukund 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:42:03 +0530 CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ICISS-2026 ---------- 22nd International Conference on Information Systems Security Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India December 16-20, 2026 The 22nd ICISS will be held at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai between December 16 and 20, 2026. ICISS provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present their previously unpublished research work. Important Dates: ---------------- Submission deadline: July 10, 2026 Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2026 Camera-ready submission deadline: September 30, 2026 TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA SP Suresh, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India A broad but non-exhaustive list of areas of interest is as below: Systems Security OS, VM, containers, cloud Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN IoT, RFID, SCADA systems IDS, IPS, Honeypot, Botnet Access control Authentication, Authorization PKI & Trust management Zero Trust Application Security Vulnerabilities, Malware Ransomware, APTs, MITRE Information flow control Threat Modelling, Attack graphs Security in AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Prompt injection, RLHF strategies Model stealing, Model poisoning Formal Methods for Security Verification of Security Protocols FM for AI/ML Models & Apps Hardware Security Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, SGX Privacy PETs, anonymization tech De-identification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation attacks Blockchain Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML Emerging Tech/Standards ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, etc Security-by-design, SBOM STIX/TAXII Use Cases e-voting, e-gov, smart cities Healthcare, UPI payments Submissions must be written in English and must not exceed 20 pages in length using LNCS format. Submissions must be in PDF format. A double-blinded peer review process will be followed. Submission link will be available in the coming weeks. At the time of submission, you will have to: 1) declare potential conflict-of-interests with TPC members, 2) declare IRB status along with responsible disclosures while dealing with vulnerabilities and user privacy 3) declare use of Gen-AI in the work submitted for review. The proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS series. ICISS has a best paper award. ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning talks & poster. ICISS has generous funds supporting students to attend pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. Website: https://iciss.in CFP version 1 (March 10, 2026) ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Siddhartha Prasad on March 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

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

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Call For Papers: ICTAC'26 -- 11-13 of November, 2026 -- Bariloche, Argentina
by B Srivathsan 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

ICTAC 2026 The 23rd International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing 11-13 of November, 2026 Bariloche, Argentina https://ictac2026.github.io/ SCOPE The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present research and exchange ideas and experiences within theoretical aspects of computing through methods and tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote research cooperation between developing and industrial countries. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: 8-Jun-2026 (AoE) Submission deadline: 15-Jun-2026 (AoE) Notification: 10-Aug-2026 (AoE) Camera ready: 31-Aug-2026 (AoE) INVITED SPEAKERS Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Pablo Barceló (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - IMFD - CENIA, CL) Nazareno Aguirre (National University of Rio Cuarto, AR) TOPICS The conference concerns all aspects of theoretical computer science, including, but not limited to: - Languages and automata - Semantics of programming languages - Logic in computer science - Lambda calculus, type theory, and category theory - Domain-specific languages - Theories of concurrency and mobility - Theories of distributed computing - Models of objects and components - Coordination models, timed, hybrid, embedded, and cyber-physical systems - Security and privacy - Static analysis - Software verification - Software testing - Program generation and transformation - Model checking and theorem proving - Theory and methods of trustworthy AI - Applications and experiences. SUBMISSIONS We solicit submissions, related to the topics of ICTAC, in the following categories: A. original research contributions; B. short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas and emerging challenges; and C. tool papers on tools that support formal techniques for software modeling, system design, and verification. Submissions of regular papers must not exceed 16 pages and short and tool papers should not exceed 8 pages, in both cases excluding bibliography of 2 pages maximum. Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference’s topics. All contributions to ICTAC 2026 have to be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easy Chair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2026 Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers (seehttps://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) without modifications of margins and other space-saving measures. Authors should therefore consult Springer’s authors’ instructions and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. PUBLICATION All accepted papers in categories A-C will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by the early registration date, and present the paper. GENERAL CHAIRS Carlos Lopez Pombo (National University of Río Negro - CONICET, AR) Pablo Francisco Castro (National University of Río Cuarto - CONICET, AR) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Pedro R. D'Argenio (National University of Córdoba - CONICET, AR) Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giovanni Bacci (Aalborg University, DK) Christel Baier (TU Dresden, DE) Gilles Barthe (MPI Institute for Security and Privacy, DE) Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien, AT) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT) Carlos Budde (DTU Computing, DK) Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT) Clemens Dubslaff (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) Uli Fahrenberg (EPITA Research Laboratory, FR) Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, DE) Diego Garbervetsky (University of Buenos Aires, AR) Arnd Hartmanns (University of Twente, NL) Peter Höfner (Australian National University, AU) Justin Hsu (Cornell University, US) David N. Jansen (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) Sebastian Junges (Radboud University, NL) Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO) Mayuko Kori (RIMS, Kyoto University, JP) Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, DE) Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, IT) Jorge A. Pérez (University of Groningen, NL) Elaine Pimentel (University College London, UK) Anne Remke (University of Münster, DE) Tamara Rezk (INRIA Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur, FR) César Sánchez (IMDEA Software Institute, ES) Gerardo Schneider (University of Gothenburg, SE) B Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, IN) Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, IT) Rob van Glabbeek (University of Edinburgh, UK) Mahsa Varshosaz (IT University of Copenhagen, DK) Thorsten Wißmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE) STEERING COMMITTEE Martin Leucker (Chair) (University of Lübeck, DE) Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, CN) Tobias Nipkow (Technische Universität München, DE) Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, BR) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, US) Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, IS)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Siddhartha Prasad on March 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

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

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[CFP] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
by Alfonso Esposito 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

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

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[CFP] - IEEE W2R-Health 2026 - International Workshop on intelligent environments for personalized healthcare
by Alfonso Esposito 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

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

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CONCUR 2026: 2nd Call for Papers
by Totzke, Patrick 24 Feb '26

24 Feb '26

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

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SOAP 2026 - Final Call for Papers (Deadline: March 3, 2026)
by Debasmita Lohar 20 Feb '26

20 Feb '26

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

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13th Rodin User and Developer Workshop - Co-located with FM 2026
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

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

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Ashwani Anand on Feb. 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

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

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Ashwani Anand on Feb. 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

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

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Focus Programme in Formal Methods and Artificial Intelligence - Feb 2 to 6 - CMI
by B Srivathsan 23 Jan '26

23 Jan '26

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

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Two postdoctoral positions in Reactive Synthesis
by Shibashis Guha 19 Jan '26

19 Jan '26

Two postdoctoral positions are available in the Indo-French CEFIPRA project SMILeS -- Synthesis with Multiple objectives, Imperfect information, and Learning in Stochastic systems, one in India and one in France. The project investigates the automated synthesis of reactive systems under uncertainty, combining quantitative and qualitative objectives, worst-case and expectation requirements, and using machine learning with formal guarantees. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Position in India: Location: School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Duration: up to 30 months (2.5 years) with renewal after every year based on the performance of the candidate. Job offer details: https://www.tifr.res.in/shibashis.guha/SMILESjob-offer-postdoc.pdf Contact: Dr. Shibashis Guha <shibashis(a)tifr.res.in> <shibashis(a)tifr.res.in> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Position in France: Location: LMF, ENS Paris-Saclay (Laboratoire Methodes Formelles) Duration: 1 year Job offer details: https://lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr/~doyen/post-doc-offer--IFI_CEF_25_20.pdf !! Only available to non-French scientists !! Contact: Dr. Laurent Doyen <laurent.doyen(a)lmf.cnrs.fr> <laurent.doyen(a)lmf.cnrs.fr> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The positions are available immediately. The selected candidates will work closely with both the Indian PI (Shibashis Guha) and the French PI (Laurent Doyen), and may also collaborate with colleagues in either the Indian or French side. Applications and questions regarding the position may be sent to both Shibashis Guha (shibashis(a)tifr.res.in) and Laurent Doyen ( laurent.doyen(a)lmf.cnrs.fr) Applicants must have a PhD degree (or be in the process of obtaining one); - Candidate competences: Strong level in Logic, Automata, Games. Good familiarity with Complexity theory, Algorithms, and Probability. - Candidate know-how: Excellent writing and oral communication skills in English, including LaTeX. Collaborative and teamwork instinct. - Expected starting date: March 01, 2026 We will be glad to answer further questions and look forward to receiving your application for this exciting research opportunity! Please contact us if interested, and send a CV, a publication list, and a link to your phd manuscript. Shibashis Guha & Laurent Doyen

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[CFP] - IEEE NetRobiCS 2026 - International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
by Alfonso Esposito 14 Jan '26

14 Jan '26

Call for Papers: 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026. Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): January 19, 2026 Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026, May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: (EXTENDED): January 19, 2026 WEBSITE https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N34642 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly. In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation. The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks. NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks - Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems - 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems - Communications and networking for swarm robotics - Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication - Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management - Data management and processing in robotic systems - Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems - AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems - Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication - Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems - Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks - Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks - Blockchain-enabled robotic systems - Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks - Distributed control and management for robotic networks - Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Novel applications of robotic networks -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): January 19, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: February 9, 2026 Camera Ready: February 16, 2026 Workshop: May 18, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE) - Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA) Technical Program Chairs - Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France) - Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) - Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)

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FM 2026 Tutorials: Call for Tutorials (Deadline approaching...)
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

***************************************************************************************** FM 2026 Tutorials: Call for Tutorials https://conf.researchr.org/track/fm-2026/fm-2026-tutorials ***************************************************************************************** ## Overview FM 2026 is the 27th international symposium on Formal Methods in a series organized by Formal Methods Europe (FME), an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The FM symposia have been successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a program of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral research. We are inviting proposals for tutorials to complement the main FM 2026 symposium. The primary goal of these tutorials is to convey ideas with a focus on pedagogy over technical innovation. They offer a valuable platform for participants to discuss technical challenges, exchange research concepts, explore educational strategies, and demonstrate or investigate practical applications. Tutorials should be designed to be broadly accessible and pedagogically oriented, clarifying key concepts, building intuition, and ensuring ease of understanding. They aim to attract new researchers, serve as bridges to practitioners, and disseminate useful ideas widely. These may be driven by fundamental academic interests, or by needs from specific application domains. We encourage a diversity of topics relating to different ways of developing and using formal methods as well as all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including complex applications. Although tutorials focused on tools are a traditional choice, tutorials covering techniques are also welcome. Authors interested in proposing different types of tutorials are encouraged to contact the chairs for guidance. Overall, we welcome a broad range of tutorial topics, as long as they are relevant to the interests of the formal methods community. Moreover, we also invite topics at the intersection of machine learning and formal methods due to the growing interest in AI and machine learning-based software development. Accepted tutorial papers will be published in the conference proceeding volume. Authors of these papers will be allocated a presentation slot during the tutorial sessions prior to the main conference. When submitting tutorial papers, authors should indicate their preferred presentation length, which can be either half a day or a full day. ##Important Dates - Submission Deadline: February 02, 2026 (AoE) - Acceptance Notification: February 28, 2026 - Camera-ready versions: March 13, 2026 More information can be found on the website of FM 2026: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fm-2026/fm-2026-tutorials ## Submission Instructions Submission should be done through the FM 2026 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2026 As in previous years, the proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Tutorial papers can be at most 25 pages in LNCS format (including references and appendices). There is no minimum length; the tutorial should be as long as necessary to be effective, but should avoid filler. Tools should include links and descriptions of how to run them. The paper must provide clear references to the original technical content and they are welcome to include an appendix for better details. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) ## Tutorials Co-Chairs - Kazuhiro Ogata, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan - Neeraj Kumar Singh, INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, University of Toulouse, France

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[CFP] - IEEE NetRobiCS 2026 - International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
by Alfonso Esposito 05 Jan '26

05 Jan '26

[CFP] - IEEE NetRobiCS 2026 - International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems Call for Papers: 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026. Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): January 19, 2026 Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026, May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: (EXTENDED): January 19, 2026 WEBSITE https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N34642 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly. In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation. The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks. NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks - Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems - 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems - Communications and networking for swarm robotics - Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication - Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management - Data management and processing in robotic systems - Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems - AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems - Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication - Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems - Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks - Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks - Blockchain-enabled robotic systems - Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks - Distributed control and management for robotic networks - Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Novel applications of robotic networks -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): January 19, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: February 9, 2026 Camera Ready: February 16, 2026 Workshop: May 18, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE) - Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA) Technical Program Chairs - Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France) - Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) - Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)

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[CFP] - IEEE NetRobiCS 2026 - International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
by Alfonso Esposito 27 Dec '25

27 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce the 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026. Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026, May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 WEBSITE https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N34642 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly. In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation. The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks. NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks - Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems - 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems - Communications and networking for swarm robotics - Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication - Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management - Data management and processing in robotic systems - Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems - AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems - Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication - Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems - Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks - Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks - Blockchain-enabled robotic systems - Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks - Distributed control and management for robotic networks - Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Novel applications of robotic networks -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: February 2, 2026 Camera Ready: February 16, 2026 Workshop: May 18, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE) - Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA) Technical Program Chairs - Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France) - Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) - Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)

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[CFP] - IEEE NetRobiCS 2026 - International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
by Alfonso Esposito 24 Dec '25

24 Dec '25

We are pleased to announce the 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026. Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026, May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 WEBSITE https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N34642 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly. In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation. The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks. NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks - Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems - 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems - Communications and networking for swarm robotics - Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication - Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management - Data management and processing in robotic systems - Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems - AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems - Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication - Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems - Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks - Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks - Blockchain-enabled robotic systems - Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks - Distributed control and management for robotic networks - Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Novel applications of robotic networks -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: February 2, 2026 Camera Ready: February 16, 2026 Workshop: May 18, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE) - Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA) Technical Program Chairs - Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France) - Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) - Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)

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CFP ESORICS-2026, Deadline approaching: JAN 09, 2026
by Madhavan Mukund 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> ----- ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 31st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2026, Rome, Italy (September 21-25, 2026) ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. ESORICS 2026 at Rome invites you to submit your previously unpublished research work for peer review. We are looking for papers with high-quality, original, and unpublished research contributions. The Symposium will start on September 21, 2026 with an exciting technical program, including vetted papers, invited talks, and collocated workshops. This year's symposium will have two review cycles. *IMPORTANT DATES* (All dates are in AoE; firm deadlines) WINTER CYCLE: Submission Deadline: January 09, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2026 Camera-Ready Submission: March 24, 2026 SPRING CYCLE: Submission Deadline: April 21, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: June 12, 2026 Camera-Ready Submission: June 26, 2026 *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Submissions are solicited in the following areas relating to computer security, including but not limited to: - Access Control - Anonymity and Censorship Resistance - Artificial Intelligence for Security - Audit and Accountability - Cyber Attack (e.g., APTs, botnets, DDoS) prevention, detection, investigation, and response. - Data and Computation Integrity - Database Security - Digital Content Protection - Digital Forensics - Disinformation, Fake News Detection - Formal Methods for Security and Privacy - Governance and Management - Hardware Security - Identity Management - Information Flow Control - Information Hiding - Intrusion Detection - Language-based Security - Malware and Unwanted Software - Network Security - Phishing and Spam Prevention - Privacy Technologies and Mechanisms - Risk Analysis and Management - Secure Electronic Voting - Security Economics and Metrics - Security and Privacy in Cloud / Fog Systems - Security and Privacy of Systems based on Machine Learning and AI - Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing - Security and Privacy in the IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems - Security and Privacy in Location-based Services - Security and Privacy for Mobile / Smartphone Platforms - security and Privacy in Social Networks - Security and Privacy in Wireless and Cellular Communications - Security, Privacy, and Resilience for Large-Scale, Critical Infrastructures (e.g., Smart Grid, AirPorts, Ports) - Security for Emerging Networks (e.g., Home Networks, IoT, Body-Area Networks, VANETs) - Software Security - Systems Security - Trustworthy Computing - Usable Security and Privacy - Web Security *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Previously unpublished research works of high quality are invited for review. Submissions are not required to be anonymous. All submissions must be written in English and uploaded as a single PDF with 16 pages in length (using 10pt font), and 20 pages at most including references and appendices. Papers should be intelligible without appendices as TPC members are not required to read them. Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page, for the preparation of their papers.https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceed… Authors are obliged to specify the Conflict of Interests at the time of submission. Guidelines are available on the conference webiste. Authors may submit up to a maximum of 6 papers for the Winter Cycle. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. *SUBMISSION PORTAL* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026 You can continue updating your submission until the deadline, i.e., January 09, 2026. *PROCEEDINGS* The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). *STUDENT GRANTS AVAILABLE* Partial grants are available for student authors. You may get in touch with the organizers once your paper is accepted. *BEST PAPER AWARD* ESORICS 2026 will present a Best Paper Award chosen by the Program Committee. This award is generously sponsored by Springer. Contact: esorics2026(a)easychair.org Website: https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/esorics2026/home CFP-ESORICS-2026-v1 -- Yours sincerely, Vishwas Patil. Senior Scientist, IIT Bombay. https://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas <http://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas> An omission is the most powerful form of lying. ~ George Orwell. ----- End forwarded message -----

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[CFP] - IEEE NetRobiCS 2026 - International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems
by Alfonso Esposito 06 Dec '25

06 Dec '25

CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026. CFP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026, May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 WEBSITE https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N34642 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly. In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation. The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks. NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks - Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems - 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems - Communications and networking for swarm robotics - Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication - Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management - Data management and processing in robotic systems - Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems - AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems - Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication - Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems - Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks - Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks - Blockchain-enabled robotic systems - Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks - Distributed control and management for robotic networks - Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Novel applications of robotic networks -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: February 2, 2026 Camera Ready: February 16, 2026 Workshop: May 18, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE) - Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA) Technical Program Chairs - Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France) - Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) - Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)

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10th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Call for posters/short talks
by VSS IARCS 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Dear all, The 10th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 14-15 December 2025, at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, co-located with FSTTCS 2025. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/) for details on invited speakers, registration, etc. The early bird registration for the school has been extended till December 5th (AoE). SAT+SMT School 2025 will also host a session for posters and short talks -- a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and experts in the field. If you are interested in presenting a poster or giving a short talk, please submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form <https://forms.gle/5K7DyDpZtPpMRuM3A>. The submission deadline is December 7th. Accepted entries will be notified on Dec. 8th. The final selection will be made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and relevance to the school. If you wish to submit an entry, and your decision to register for the school depends on its acceptance, please let us know immediately by writing to Priyanka (pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and Madhukar ( madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write to us at indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com <indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>. Best regards, Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi Kuldeep S. Meel, Georgia Institute of Technology Aalok Thakkar, Ashoka University

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Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2025 (Dec 17-19, Goa, India) and co-located workshops
by Shibashis Guha 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

*Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2025 and co-located workshops FSTTCS 2025 is the 45th conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. Within Track B, there is a focus on soliciting submissions in the areas of Programming Languages and Practical Verification, in addition to theoretical results. FSTTCS 2025 will be held in BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus during December 17–19, 2025. The conference is being organized as an in-person event. We also have several exciting workshops lined up! You can register for the conference and any subset of the workshops, or just for one or more of the workshops. ========================================== QUICK LINKS: Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/ Registration: https://fsttcs.info/registration/ Early registration deadline: 5th December, AoE Local information: https://guptasid.bitbucket.io/fsttcs2025/ ========================================== WORKSHOPS: 10th Indian SAT + SMT School Dates: December 14 – 15, 2025 http://sat-smt.in/ Workshop on Quantum Algorithms and Cryptography Dates: December 14 – 15, 2025 https://k-rajendra.github.io/Workshop/QCWorkshop25.html Verification and Learning for Quantitative Systems Dates: December 15 – 16, 2025 https://quantformal-2025.vercel.app/ FSTTCS Mentoring Workshop Date: December 16, 2025 https://aalok-thakkar.github.io/fsttcs-mentoring-workshop-2025.html Information in Games and Mechanisms Date: December 16, 2025 https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~igm-25/ RHPL: Research Highlights in Programming Languages Dates: December 17 – 19, 2025 https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ WAGS: Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis Dates: December 20, 2025 https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/home CSS: Workshop on Compilers-oriented Software Security Dates: December 20, 2025 https://awpandeyiitr.github.io/Homepage/CSS.html ==========================================

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Call for Papers – Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory (RTLG 2026)
by Purbita Jana 01 Dec '25

01 Dec '25

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the workshop *Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory (RTLG 2026 <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2026/home?authuser=5>)*, jointly organised by the *Madras School of Economics (MSE)* and the *Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Chennai)*. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working in logic, game theory, and their applications in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. ------------------------------ *Topics of Interest* We welcome submissions on any topic related to *logic* and *game theory*, including but not limited to: logics for games and games for logics, game semantics, game theory, information theory, combinatorial games, finite model theory, determinacy axioms, algorithmic game theory, categorical aspects of games, domain theory as well as their applications in: artificial intelligence, economics, social sciences. ------------------------------ *Important Dates* (*Anywhere-on-Earth / AoE*) - *Submission Deadline:* 31 December 2025 - *Notification of Acceptance:* 20 January 2026 ------------------------------ *Submission Guidelines* Submissions are invited in the following categories: *Short Abstracts* - *3–5 pages* (including references) - May report completed results, work in progress, or recently published/submitted work - Must contain sufficient detail for the Program Committee to assess relevance and quality *Extended Abstracts* - *Up to 8 pages* (including references) - Must present *original work* not previously published or submitted elsewhere - Additional material may be included in an optional appendix All manuscripts must be written in *English* and formatted according to the LNCS template. Submissions should be sent as a PDF to rtlg2025(a)gmail.com, with the submission category clearly indicated. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the workshop and present the work. A *post-proceedings volume* of accepted extended abstracts will be published shortly after the workshop. Authors will be invited to submit revised versions following the event. ------------------------------ *Registration* Registration will be *mandatory* for participation. Further details regarding registration procedures and deadlines will be communicated in due course. ------------------------------ For further information or queries, please contact us at rtlg2025(a)gmail.com. We kindly request you to circulate this announcement among colleagues who may be interested in participating. Sincerely, On behalf of the *RTLG 2026 Organising Committee* Purbita Jana, *Assistant Professor and* *Chair of M.Sc. Data Science Programme,* *Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.* https://sites.google.com/view/purbita/home

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FM 2026 Tutorials: 1st Call for Tutorials
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 28 Nov '25

28 Nov '25

***************************************************************************************** FM 2026 Tutorials: Call for Tutorials https://conf.researchr.org/track/fm-2026/fm-2026-tutorials ***************************************************************************************** ## Overview FM 2026 is the 27th international symposium on Formal Methods in a series organized by Formal Methods Europe (FME), an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The FM symposia have been successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a program of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral research. We are inviting proposals for tutorials to complement the main FM 2026 symposium. The primary goal of these tutorials is to convey ideas with a focus on pedagogy over technical innovation. They offer a valuable platform for participants to discuss technical challenges, exchange research concepts, explore educational strategies, and demonstrate or investigate practical applications. Tutorials should be designed to be broadly accessible and pedagogically oriented, clarifying key concepts, building intuition, and ensuring ease of understanding. They aim to attract new researchers, serve as bridges to practitioners, and disseminate useful ideas widely. These may be driven by fundamental academic interests, or by needs from specific application domains. We encourage a diversity of topics relating to different ways of developing and using formal methods as well as all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including complex applications. Although tutorials focused on tools are a traditional choice, tutorials covering techniques are also welcome. Authors interested in proposing different types of tutorials are encouraged to contact the chairs for guidance. Overall, we welcome a broad range of tutorial topics, as long as they are relevant to the interests of the formal methods community. Moreover, we also invite topics at the intersection of machine learning and formal methods due to the growing interest in AI and machine learning-based software development. Accepted tutorial papers will be published in the conference proceeding volume. Authors of these papers will be allocated a presentation slot during the tutorial sessions prior to the main conference. When submitting tutorial papers, authors should indicate their preferred presentation length, which can be either half a day or a full day. ##Important Dates - Submission Deadline: February 02, 2026 (AoE) - Acceptance Notification: February 28, 2026 - Camera-ready versions: March 13, 2026 More information can be found on the website of FM 2026: https://conf.researchr.org/track/fm-2026/fm-2026-tutorials ## Submission Instructions Submission should be done through the FM 2026 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2026 As in previous years, the proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Tutorial papers can be at most 25 pages in LNCS format (including references and appendices). There is no minimum length; the tutorial should be as long as necessary to be effective, but should avoid filler. Tools should include links and descriptions of how to run them. The paper must provide clear references to the original technical content and they are welcome to include an appendix for better details. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) ## Tutorials Co-Chairs - Kazuhiro Ogata, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan - Neeraj Kumar Singh, INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, University of Toulouse, France

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CFP - NetRobiCS 2026 (IEEE INFOCOM) 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication System
by Alfonso Esposito 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

We are pleased to announce the 19th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (NetRobiCS 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026 in Tokyo, May 18-21, 2026. Call For Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (IEEE NetRobiCS 2026, ex WiSARN) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2026, May 18 2026, Tokyo, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 WEBSITE https://netrobics2026.nws.cs.unibo.it/ SUBMISSION LINK https://edas.info/N34642 -------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Robotic networks have emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, enhance our daily lives, and venture into the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond. At the heart of this transformation lies the critical aspect of communication and networking, enabling robots to operate effectively, share data and collaborate seamlessly. In this era of interconnected devices, robots rely on advanced communication protocols and networks to function efficiently in diverse environments. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, or space exploration, the ability of robots to communicate with each other and with humans is transforming industries and pushing the boundaries of technological innovation. The frontier of research foresees the deployment of highly autonomic and integrated scenarios where heterogeneous ground, aerial and/or marine robots coordinate with each other and with the existing sensing and processing infrastructures to accomplish complex tasks. On the one side, this implies proposing and investigating novel M2M solutions and network protocols to enable the data communication on the aerial and ground segments while taking into account the novel possibilities offered by the emerging technologies (e.g. 5G/6G and LEO satellite communications). The communication technologies must be paired with proper control mobility functions to support swarm operations and to instill coordinated behaviors. On the other side, the data processing on the mobile edges may take advantage of emerging federated and embedded AI techniques to drastically reduce the latency of the decision process while limiting the amount of data transferred from the robotic networks. NetRobiCS aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification, and evaluation of architectures, algorithms, applications, and protocols for current and future applications of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design, development and evaluation of wireless ground, marine and aerial robotic networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Aerial, Terrestrial and Marine Drone Communications and Networks - Network protocols and communication technologies for robotic systems - 5G, 6G and satellite enabled robotic systems - Communications and networking for swarm robotics - Infrastructure-to-robot and robot-to-robot communication - Robotic motion control and swarm modeling and management - Data management and processing in robotic systems - Embedded AI and federated learning solutions in robotic systems - AI-driven communication and computing in robotic systems - Large Language Models (LLMs) in robotic communication - Path planning, localization and navigation in robotic networks - Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms for robotic systems - Energy efficiency and endurance management in robotic networks - Quality of service, security, and robustness issues in robotic networks - Blockchain-enabled robotic systems - Energy-efficient & real-time communication protocols in robotic networks - Distributed control and management for robotic networks - Autonomic & self-organizing coordination and communication in robotic networks - Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots - Novel applications of robotic networks -------------- FEATURES - Best Paper Award, with a prize sponsored by the TII - Best-selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a workshop-dedicated Special Issue (SI) -------------- SUBMISSION RULES Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format that is used by the INFOCOM 2026 main conference and must not exceed 6 pages in length (including references). All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop will be published in the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: December 29, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: February 2, 2026 Camera Ready: February 16, 2026 Workshop: May 18, 2026 ------------- ORGANIZING COMMITEEE General Chairs - Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE) - Yannis Paschalidis (Boston University, USA) Technical Program Chairs - Christelle Caillouet (Université Côte d'Azur, France) - Marco Di Felice (University of Bologna, Italy) - Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE)

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10th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Call for posters/short talks
by VSS IARCS 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Dear all, The 10th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 14-15 December 2025, at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, co-located with FSTTCS 2025. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/) for details on invited speakers, registration, etc. The early bird registration for the school closes on November 30th. SAT+SMT School 2025 will also host a session for posters and short talks -- a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and experts in the field. If you are interested in presenting a poster or giving a short talk, please submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form <https://forms.gle/5K7DyDpZtPpMRuM3A>. The submission deadline is Nov. 29th. Accepted entries will be notified by Dec. 2nd. The final selection will be made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and relevance to the school. In case you have submitted an entry already, and your decision to register for the school depends on its acceptance, please let us know immediately by writing to Priyanka (pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and Madhukar (madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write to us at indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com <indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>. Best regards, Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi Kuldeep S. Meel, Georgia Institute of Technology Aalok Thakkar, Ashoka University

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Final Call for Submissions - WAGS@FSTTCS'25 - Deadline Extended!
by Suman Sadhukhan 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

[Apologies for multiple postings] Dear Colleagues, Please see below the final call for submissions for Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis, and note that the submission deadline is extended to *1st December AOE.* Please distribute the call, consider submitting and encourage your fellow researchers and students to submit their best work of the year! ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- Call for Participations Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis <https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/home> Goa, India December 20th, 2025 Co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2025 <https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of contributed talks at: https://forms.gle/baHEbDRh5eJbfgbA8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025 =================== About the workshop =================== The second iteration of the *Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis* is an on-site event happening on December 20, 2025, in Goa, India. It is co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2025, the premier international computer science conference in India, and held annually in December since 1981. Automated synthesis of systems from specifications has been a longstanding goal of computer science. The workshop focuses on various aspects by which automata and game solving are used to tackle problems motivated by synthesis. The workshop will feature three invited speakers and some sessions with short presentations. For the short presentations, *students, postdocs, and early-career researchers* are encouraged to talk about their research in 10–15 minute sessions (exact length will depend on the number of contributions). For submission, we solicit a title and an abstract for the talk (please find the Google Form link below). The workshop does not have proceedings; therefore previously published talks or ongoing work are both encouraged to be presented. Topics for presentation at the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Reactive Synthesis Games on Finite and Infinite Graphs Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Formal Languages Games and Automata for Verification Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Submission Deadline : *December 1, 2025 (AoE)* Notification Final Notification : Sent on a rolling basis, let us know if you need it before the early-bird registration deadline of FSTTCS ends (on *November 30th AOE*). : December 3rd, 2025 Workshop : December 20, 2025 Submission of contributed talks at: https://forms.gle/baHEbDRh5eJbfgbA8 ============= Invited speakers ============= Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University) B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Aditya Prakash (LIS, Aix-Marseille Université) ============= Organisers ============= Sougata Bose Suman Sadhukhan K.S. Thejaswini ============= Program ============= The detailed program will be available here <https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/schedule> closer to the workshop. For any queries, contact the organisers: sougata.bose(a)umons.ac.be, suman.sadhukhan00(a)gmail.com, thejaswini.k.s(a)ista.ac.at Best regards, Suman Sadhukhan

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Re: IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by KC Sivaramakrishnan on Nov. 18 at 1900 hrs IST
by KC Sivaramakrishnan 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Thanks Deepak. Kind Regards KC Sivaramakrishnan On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 21:01, Deepak D'Souza <deepakd(a)iisc.ac.in> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification KC. And thanks for a great talk. > > Kudos to you and Sheera and the rest of the team for seeing thru a very > challenging and impactful piece of work. > > Best wishes, > > Deepak > > Sent from Android device > > On 18 Nov 2025 20:32, KC Sivaramakrishnan <kcsrk(a)cse.iitm.ac.in> wrote: > External Email > > > > Thanks for coming to my talk today. Apologies for going over. > > Reg one of the questions in the talk about graph isomorphism, Sheera tells > me that `successors` returns a sequence (functional list) of successors in > the order in which they appear in the object. So `successors g_init x == > successors g_sweep x` ensures that pointers are not reordered in an object > between the initial and the final heaps. > > Kind Regards > KC > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM VSS IARCS <vss.iarcs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by > KC > > Sivaramakrishnan, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and > > Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the > > Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, > > November 18, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar > > < > > > https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjNrcmQ1c2… > > > > > ). > > > > The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( > > https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this > > email. > > > > The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association > > for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online > > talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming > > Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of > this > > talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to > > interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for > > researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and > > for younger researchers to start working in these areas. > > > > All are welcome to join. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series > > > > ============================================================= > > > > Title: A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml > > > > Meeting Link: > > > https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 > > (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) > > > > Abstract: > > OCaml is a garbage-collected (GC) language, where unused memory is > > automatically and reliably freed. OCaml's GC is known for its high > > throughput and low latency, making it suitable for both batch jobs and > > interactive systems. OCaml GC is non-trivial and written in C, and is a > > part of the trusted computing base of OCaml programs. Bugs in the GC have > > the potential to violate the type safety of OCaml programs. In this > talk, I > > will describe our work in developing a correct, proof-oriented GC for > OCaml > > from scratch, capable of being swapped into the existing OCaml runtime > > system. Our GC is simple — a stop-the-world mark-and-sweep collector — > but > > is capable of running non-trivial OCaml programs. The GC is developed in > F* > > and its low-level subset Low*, which is compiled to memory-safe C. I will > > also describe the extension of our collector to enable generational and > > incremental collection. > > > > This work was published in the Journal of Automated Reasoning (link > > <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10817-025-09721-0>). > > > > Bio: KC Sivaramakrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer > Science > > and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and > > the Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. He led the development of > > Multicore OCaml, a concurrent and parallel extension of the OCaml > > programming language. His research interest lies in building robust, > secure > > and scalable systems using programming language technology. > > _______________________________________________ > > FMIndia mailing list -- fmindia(a)cmi.ac.in > > To unsubscribe send an email to fmindia-leave(a)cmi.ac.in > > > > https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/ > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > -- > Kind Regards > KC Sivaramakrishnan > _______________________________________________ > FMIndia mailing list -- fmindia(a)cmi.ac.in > To unsubscribe send an email to fmindia-leave(a)cmi.ac.in > > https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/ > _______________________________________________ >

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by KC Sivaramakrishnan on Nov. 18 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by KC Sivaramakrishnan, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, November 18, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjNrcmQ1c2…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: OCaml is a garbage-collected (GC) language, where unused memory is automatically and reliably freed. OCaml's GC is known for its high throughput and low latency, making it suitable for both batch jobs and interactive systems. OCaml GC is non-trivial and written in C, and is a part of the trusted computing base of OCaml programs. Bugs in the GC have the potential to violate the type safety of OCaml programs. In this talk, I will describe our work in developing a correct, proof-oriented GC for OCaml from scratch, capable of being swapped into the existing OCaml runtime system. Our GC is simple — a stop-the-world mark-and-sweep collector — but is capable of running non-trivial OCaml programs. The GC is developed in F* and its low-level subset Low*, which is compiled to memory-safe C. I will also describe the extension of our collector to enable generational and incremental collection. This work was published in the Journal of Automated Reasoning (link <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10817-025-09721-0>). Bio: KC Sivaramakrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. He led the development of Multicore OCaml, a concurrent and parallel extension of the OCaml programming language. His research interest lies in building robust, secure and scalable systems using programming language technology.

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RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Call for Participation
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

======================= Call for Participation ======================= ============================================================= RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages + Website: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ + Dates: December 17 - 19, 2025 + Venue: BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, co-located with FSTTCS 2025 + Early registration deadline: November 30, 2025 + Registration page: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/registration ============================================================= =================== About the Workshop =================== RHPL 2025 is the fourth edition of the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL) organized by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS). The focus of the workshop is on all areas of Programming Languages (PL), including but not limited to: + Applied formal methods + Automated and interactive theorem provers + Compilers + Concurrency and memory models + Domain and type theories + Program analysis and verification + Program sketching, synthesis and repair + Programming language design and semantics Further, in view of the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in PL theory and practice, the workshop also includes in its scope themes pertaining to the influences of AI/ML concepts and tools on the mentioned PL topics, and vice-versa; for instance, probabilistic programming languages. The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly, between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. RHPL 2025 will be held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus as a co-located workshop of FSTTCS 2025. RHPL 2025 website: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ ================= Panel Discussion ================= + Theme: Bridging PL Theory and Practice in the Age of AI + Panelists: - Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) - Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University) - Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur) - R Venkatesh (TCS Research) =========================== Accepted Talks and Posters =========================== The list of accepted talks and posters of RHPL 2025 can be found at the link below. https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/accepted_proposals ============== Registration ============== The registration for RHPL 2025 is open. - Early registration deadline: *November 30, 2025* - Registration page: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/registration ================== Local Information ================== - Local information page: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/local_information ===================== Organising Committee ===================== - Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research) (co-Chair) - Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (co-Chair) - Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) - Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) - Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) - Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) - Sumanth Prabhu (TCS Research) - Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) - Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore) ========= Contact ========= Feel free to write to us with any queries at the following email addresses. - abhisekh.sankaran(a)tcs.com - divyesh.unadkat(a)synopsys.com We look forward to seeing you in Goa. Best regards, RHPL 2025 Organising Committee RHPL 2025 Website: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/

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10th Indian SAT+SMT School (co-located with FSTTCS 2025) -- Call for participation
by VSS IARCS 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

Dear all, The 10th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 14-15 December 2025, at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, co-located with FSTTCS 2025. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/) for details on invited speakers, registration, etc. The early bird registration for the school closes on November 30th. SAT+SMT School 2025 will also host a session for posters and short talks -- a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and experts in the field. If you are interested in presenting a poster or giving a short talk, please submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form <https://forms.gle/5K7DyDpZtPpMRuM3A>. The submission deadline is Nov. 29th. Accepted entries will be notified by Dec. 2nd. The final selection will be made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and relevance to the school. In case you have submitted an entry already, and your decision to register for the school depends on its acceptance, please let us know immediately by writing to Priyanka (pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and Madhukar (madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write to us at indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com <indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>. Best regards, Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi Kuldeep S. Meel, Georgia Institute of Technology Aalok Thakkar, Ashoka University

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by KC Sivaramakrishnan on Nov. 18 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by KC Sivaramakrishnan, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, November 18, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NjNrcmQ1c2…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: OCaml is a garbage-collected (GC) language, where unused memory is automatically and reliably freed. OCaml's GC is known for its high throughput and low latency, making it suitable for both batch jobs and interactive systems. OCaml GC is non-trivial and written in C, and is a part of the trusted computing base of OCaml programs. Bugs in the GC have the potential to violate the type safety of OCaml programs. In this talk, I will describe our work in developing a correct, proof-oriented GC for OCaml from scratch, capable of being swapped into the existing OCaml runtime system. Our GC is simple — a stop-the-world mark-and-sweep collector — but is capable of running non-trivial OCaml programs. The GC is developed in F* and its low-level subset Low*, which is compiled to memory-safe C. I will also describe the extension of our collector to enable generational and incremental collection. This work was published in the Journal of Automated Reasoning (link <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10817-025-09721-0>). Bio: KC Sivaramakrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the Chief Technology Officer of Tarides. He led the development of Multicore OCaml, a concurrent and parallel extension of the OCaml programming language. His research interest lies in building robust, secure and scalable systems using programming language technology.

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CfP: REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION 2026 –18th International Conference on Reversible Computation, July 9–10, 2026, Torino, Italy
by Clément Aubert 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Call for papers REVERSIBLE COMPUTATION 2026 18th International Conference on Reversible Computation July 9th - July 10th, 2026, Torino, Italy <https://reversible-computation.github.io/> Purpose & Scope =============== Reversible computation has a growing number of promising application areas such as low-power electronics, encoding/decoding, debugging, testing and verification, database recovery, discrete event simulation, the modeling of biochemical systems, and reversible algorithms, specification formalisms, programming languages and process algebras. Furthermore, reversible logic provides a basis for quantum computation with its applications, for example, in cryptography and in the development of highly efficient algorithms. First reversible circuits and quantum circuits have been implemented and are seen as promising alternatives to conventional CMOS technology. The 18th edition of the Reversible Computation conference will bring together researchers from computer science, mathematics, and physics to discuss new developments and directions for future research in Reversible Computation, including applications of reversibility to quantum computation. Research papers, tutorials, tool demonstrations, and work-in-progress reports are within the scope of the conference. Contributions on all areas of Reversible Computation are welcome, including---but not limited to---the following topics: - Applications - Architectures - Algorithms - Bidirectional transformations - Circuit Design - Debugging - Fault Tolerance and Error Correction - Hardware - Information Theory - Physical Realizations - Programming Languages - Program Transformation and Optimisation - Quantum Computation - Software - Synthesis - Theoretical Results - Testing - Verification Important dates =============== Abstract submission: February 6th, 2026 AOE Submission deadline: February 13th, 2026 AOE Notification to authors: April 22nd, 2026 AOE Final version: May 13th, 2026 AOE Conference: July 9th - July 10th, 2026 Submission guidelines ===================== The Reversible Computation conference welcomes the following types of submissions: - full research papers (15 pages maximum, not including references), - tutorials (15 pages maximum, not including references), - work-in-progress (6 pages maximum, not including references), - tool demonstration papers (6 pages maximum, not including references), to be submitted at <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=rc2026>. Please do not forget to clearly indicate the type of your submission by choosing the proper category on the submission page. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version---for example, details of proofs---may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Reviewers are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without them. The paper submission will be accepted as a PDF file using Springer's LNCS style (<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>). Authors are encouraged to include their ORCID (<https://orcid.org/>) number in the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. We would appreciate if one person would not present more than two papers at the conference: if more than two papers are accepted by a group of authors, we kindly ask that the papers be presented by different co-authors, as far as possible. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer as a LNCS volume. Proceedings authors will be expected to adhere to Springer's Book Authors' Code of Conduct (<https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct>). Invited Talks ============== Reversible Computation 2026 will feature invited talks by Hannah Earley (<https://ha.nnah.io/>) and Prakash Panangaden (<https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash/>). Details will be posted at <https://reversible-computation.github.io/invited/>. Programme Committee =================== - Clément Aubert (co-chair) (Augusta University) - Bogdan Aman (Academia Română Filiala Iași) - Jacques Carette (McMaster University) - Kostia Chardonnet (INRIA) - Kamalika Datta (Universität Bremen) - Alessandra Di Pierro (Università di Verona) - Stefano Gogioso (University of Oxford) - Anna Gogolińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun) - Robin Kaarsgaard (Syddansk Universitet) - Jarkko Kari (Turun yliopisto) - Ivan Lanese (Università di Bologna & INRIA) - Doriana Medić (Università degli studi di Torino) - Uwe Meyer (Universität Gießen) - Torben Mogensen (Københavns Universitet) - Mathys Rennela (Welinq) - Neil J. Ross (Dalhousie University) - Luca Roversi (co-chair) (Università degli studi di Torino) - Amr Sabry (Indiana University) - Yasuhiro Takahashi (University of Tsukuba) - Shoji Yuen (Nagoya daigaku) Organizing Committee ==================== - Luca Paolini (chair) (Università degli studi di Torino) - Doriana Medić (Università degli studi di Torino) - Mario Bifulco (Università degli studi di Torino) - Matteo Palazzo (Università degli studi di Torino) - Luca Roversi (Università degli studi di Torino) Steering Committee ================== - Robert Glück (Københavns Universitet) - Ivan Lanese (Università di Bologna & INRIA) - Łukasz Mikulski (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu) - Irek Ulidowski (University of Leicester & AGH University of Science and Technology) - Germán Vidal (Universitat Politècnica de València) Patronages & Sponsor ==================== Reversible Computation 2026 is under the patronage of the Università degli studi di Torino (<https://www.unito.it/>) and its Dipartimento di Informatica (<https://informatica.unito.it/do/home.pl>), and is sponsored by Vaire (<https://vaire.co/>). -- Clément Aubert, Associate Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, https://spots.augusta.edu/caubert/

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IWSLA 2025: Call for Participation
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

======================= Call for Participation ======================= ============================================================= Indian Winter School on Logic and its Applications (IWSLA) 2025 + Website: https://iwsla25.csisbitsgoa.com + Dates: December 8 - 12, 2025 + Venue: BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus ============================================================= ================= About the School ================= The Indian Winter School on Logic and its Applications (IWSLA) 2025 is organized under the auspices of the Association for Logic in India (ALI) (https://logicindia.org) The aim of the school is to bring together students, researchers, and practitioners from computer science, mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics who share an interest in the study and application of logic. The school is especially aimed at graduate students, early-career researchers, and anyone interested in exploring the role of logic across disciplines. ======================== Courses and Instructors ======================== + Course on Lean (Theorem Proving) - Instructor: Dr. T. V. H. Prathamesh, KREA University - Invited Lecture: Prof. Siddhartha Gadgil, IISc Bangalore + Course on Forcing (Set Theory) - Instructor: Dr. Ashutosh Kumar, IIT Kanpur ================ Important Dates ================ + Early Registration Deadline: November 21, 2025 (earlier: November 15, 2025) + School Dates: December 8 - 12, 2025 Please note that the number of participants is limited. Selection will be on **first-come, first-served** basis. ============== Registration ============== Registration for IWSLA 25 is now open. Participants may register through the form linked below. Registration Form: https://forms.gle/ke4XoW7X4cUvKVAAA ---------------- Registration Fees: ---------------- + Students: ₹ 2500 /- + Faculty: ₹ 5000 /- + Industry: ₹ 10000 /- ------ Note: ------ 1. The registration fee is non-refundable. 2. We host a limited number of participants and registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. 3. Shared accommodation is arranged for girls on campus and for boys outside the campus (shuttle will be arranged) on a payment basis separately. 4. Participants from academia and industry may book accommodation in the nearby hotels. 5. Make the payment first and then fill the form. ============== Payment Link ============== Participants may follow the steps below to make the payment. 1. Search for "BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE" at the following link. Pay via SBI Collect: https://onlinesbi.sbi.bank.in/sbicollect/icollecthome.htm 2. Select "BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE Goa" from the dropdown menu. 3. Choose the payment category as "IWSLA25". 4. Complete the payment details and make the payment. ===================== Organising Committee ===================== Diptendu Chatterjee, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus ==================== Programme Committee ==================== A Baskar, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus Sourav Tarafder, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata ========== Hosted by ========== Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus In association with Association for Logic in India (ALI) ======= Venue ======= Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus NH - 17B, Zuarinagar, Goa - 403726, India Tel: +91-832-2580221, +91-832-2580811 ========= Contact ========= + Email: diptenduc(a)goa.bits-pilani.ac.in + Phone: +91-832-2580221 / +91-832-2580811 ============== How to Reach ============== + Goa International Airport (Dabolim): 7 km + Mopa Airport (Manohar International): 56 km + Vasco-da-Gama: 10 km south + Margao: 20 km north We look forward to your participation and to an engaging week of lectures and discussions on logic and its applications. Warm regards, Organising Committee Indian Winter School on Logic and its Applications (IWSLA) '25 BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus Website: https://iwsla25.csisbitsgoa.com

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Blockchain Kaigi 2025 (BCK25), IIT Bombay
by Madhavan Mukund 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> To: Madhavan Mukund <madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:59:55 +0530 Dear All, The draft program of Blockchain Kaigi 2025 (BCK25) - *The 5th International Workshop on Blockchain* is available. *We invite you to register and participate in this workshop.* *Dates*: December 4-6, 2025 *Venue*: PC Saxena Auditorium, IIT Bombay *Registration*: https://bck-2025.isrdc.in/registration/ (Students doing research in Blockchain can register for free by uploading a recommendation letter from their advisor) *Keynotes & Invited Talks* by: (Abstracts: https://bck-2025.isrdc.in/speakers/) 1. Dilip Asbe, Managing Director and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India 2. Jun Watanabe, Chairman, Sony Block Solutions Labs Pte. Ltd 3. Kazumasa Omote, Professor, University of Tsukuba 4. Hidenori Nakazato, Professor, Waseda University 5. Suvendu Pati, Chief General Manager of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 6. Ikkei Matsuda, CEO of Digital Platformer The program will have 38 full-paper presentations & 13 poster presentations on various topics in Blockchain. (List of *accepted papers*: https://bck-2025.isrdc.in/accepted-papers/) There will be a few *Panel Discussions* involving industry professionals, policy-makers, and leading international researchers. Blockchain Kaigi 2025: https://bck-2025.isrdc.in Register here: https://bck-2025.isrdc.in/registration/ -- Yours sincerely, Vishwas Patil. Senior Scientist, IIT Bombay. https://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas <http://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas> An omission is the most powerful form of lying. ~ George Orwell. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Call for Submissions and Participations -- WAGS@FSTTCS 2025
by Suman Sadhukhan 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

**Apologies for multiple postings** Dear Colleagues, Please find below the call for participation and talks for the Workshop on automata and games for synthesis, taking place just after FSTTCS at BITS Goa. Kindly share it with others. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- Call for Participations Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis <https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/home> Goa, India December 20th, 2025 Co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2025 <https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of contributed talks at: https://forms.gle/baHEbDRh5eJbfgbA8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025 =================== About the workshop =================== The second iteration of the *Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis* is an on-site event happening on December 20, 2025, in Goa, India. It is co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2025, the premier international computer science conference in India, and held annually in December since 1981. Automated synthesis of systems from specifications has been a longstanding goal of computer science. The workshop focuses on various aspects by which automata and game solving are used to tackle problems motivated by synthesis. The workshop will feature three invited speakers and some sessions with short presentations. For the short presentations, early-career researchers are encouraged to talk about their research in 10–15 minute sessions (exact length will depend on the number of contributions). For submission, we solicit a title and an abstract for the talk (please find the Google Form link below). The workshop does not have proceedings; therefore previously published talks or ongoing work are both encouraged to be presented. Topics for presentation at the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Reactive Synthesis Games on Finite and Infinite Graphs Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Formal Languages Games and Automata for Verification Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Early Submission Deadline November 13, 2025 Early Notification November 14, 2025 (notifications sent on a rolling basis; note that early-bird registration for the conference and workshop ends on November 15, 2025) Final Submission Deadline November 25, 2025 (AoE) Final Notification November 30, 2025 Workshop December 20, 2025 Submission of contributed talks at: https://forms.gle/baHEbDRh5eJbfgbA8 ============= Invited speakers ============= Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University) B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Aditya Prakash (LIS, Aix-Marseille Université) ============= Organisers ============= Sougata Bose Suman Sadhukhan K.S. Thejaswini ============= Program ============= The detailed program will be available here <https://sites.google.com/view/wagsfsttcs2025/schedule> closer to the workshop. For any queries, contact the organisers: sougata.bose(a)umons.ac.be, suman.sadhukhan00(a)gmail.com, thejaswini.k.s(a)ista.ac.at Best regards, Suman Sadhukhan Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Haifa

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APLAS-ATVA 2025 Call for Participation
by Madhavan Mukund 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

----- Forwarded message from Deepak D'Souza <deepakd(a)iisc.ac.in> ----- From: Deepak D'Souza <deepakd(a)iisc.ac.in> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:48:04 +0000 Subject: APLAS-ATVA 2025 Call for Participation APLAS-ATVA 2025 Call for Participation The 23rd editions of the Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2025) and the International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025) will be jointly held at the International Institute for Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT Bangalore), during 27-31 October 2025. Registrations are now open. Early Registrations close on 30th September 2025. Key highlights of the conferences include: * Invited talks by Aarti Gupta (Princeton U), Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich), and Rahul Sharma (Microsoft Research India) * APLAS and ATVA contributed Research and Tool talks * Tutorials on Replicated Data Types by Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) and Quantitative and Probabilistic Verification by Benjamin Kaminski (Saarland U) * New Ideas and Emerging Results in Programming Languages and Systems (NIER) Track talks. * Workshop on Milestones and Motifs in Automata and Concurrency, with invited talks by Ahmed Bouajjani (Paris Diderot U), Pavithra Prabhakar (Kanas State U), P S Thiagarajan (UNC Chapel Hill), and Pascal Weil (U Sorbonne Paris Nord). A limited number of travel grants are available, particularly for students. Travel grant applications close on 05 October 2025. For more details visit the conference webpages at https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025 and https://conf.researchr.org/home/aplas-2025. Deepak D'Souza and Pritam Gharat (General Chairs APLAS-ATVA 2025) On behalf of APLAS-ATVA 2025 Organizing Committee ----- End forwarded message -----

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RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Deadline Extension
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 18 Sep '25

18 Sep '25

============================================================= RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages December 2025, BITS Goa, co-located with FSTTCS 2025 Website: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ Submission link: https://forms.gle/RufuAs54zxsadp1n7 Extended submission deadline: October 3, 2025 IST ============================================================= Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2025 (https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/) is going to be held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus (https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/) during December 17 – 19, 2025. The conference is organized by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (https://www.iarcs.org.in/) in association with ACM India (https://india.acm.org/) It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. As in the previous years, this year too, co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is organizing the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages (PL), including but not limited to: - Applied formal methods - Automated and interactive theorem provers - Compilers - Concurrency and memory models - Domain and type theories - Program analysis and verification - Program sketching, synthesis and repair - Programming language design and semantics Further, in view of the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in PL theory and practice, the workshop also includes in its scope themes pertaining to the influences of AI/ML concepts and tools on the mentioned PL topics, and vice-versa; for instance, probabilistic programming languages. The website for the workshop is: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/. The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. We solicit: (1) Talk proposals: On recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. (2) Poster proposals: On early ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the promise of research possibilities and their novelty. Proposals to the workshop can be based on one or more works, published or unpublished. They may be submitted using the Google form below. https://forms.gle/RufuAs54zxsadp1n7 The important dates for the workshop are as below. All dates are in Indian Standard Time (IST). - Submission portal opens: July 28, 2025 - Submission deadline: October 3, 2025 (earlier: September 18, 2025) - Notification: October 10, 2025 (earlier: September 25, 2025) - Early registration deadline: TBA - RHPL@FSTTCS: TBA We look forward to receiving your talk/poster proposals to the workshop. On behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research) (co-Chair) Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (co-Chair) Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) Sumanth Prabhu (TCS Research) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore)

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CEFIPRA Project Research Associate Position
by Srinivas Pinisetty 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

*CEFIPRA Project Research Associate Position* CEFIPRA Research Associate (RA)/postdoc position for the *“**SINCRET: Scalable and incremental security monitoring and enforcement for timed systems**”* project. *Announcement:* Applications are invited for one Research Associate (RA)/postdoc position to work at IIT Bhubaneswar on the “*SINCRET: Scalable and incremental security monitoring and enforcement for timed systems*” project. It is a CEFIPRA Indo-French collaborative project under the DST-Inria targeted programme. Details of current members working on the project from IIT Bhubaneswar, India and form Inria, Rennes, France are available here: https://devine.inria.fr/SINCRET/People.htm *Background:* In recent years, research on monitoring runtime behaviour of a system has gained significant attention. The domain of Runtime Monitoring and Verification has gained popularity due to its focus on dynamic behaviour of the system. In a nutshell, Runtime Verification (RV) domain focuses on developing algorithms that automatically generates a monitor from a given specification. The monitor, then, captures the execution of the system and gives a verdict on whether it satisfies the given specification [1]. In 2000, Schneider [2] made the first significant attempt to define a class of security policies that are enforceable. This led to the advent of a new sub-domain of research called Runtime Enforcement (RE). RE can be thought of as an extension of the RV domain, that along with monitoring a system for a given specification, provides assurance that the system satisfies the specification [3, 4, 5]. We work in the field of runtime enforcement, with special focus on timed systems. We work towards developing compositional RE monitors for timed systems. *Objectives:* One of the primary objectives of the *SINCRET* project is to investigate and formulate the theory (and the corresponding monitor synthesis tools) related to incremental/compositionality of enforcers in the timed context. Compositionality refers to combining multiple individual enforcers effectively and efficiently. We will initially consider the enforcement monitor synthesis framework suitable for reactive Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) proposed in [8] for discrete timed properties. We will study/explore various schemes for incrementally adding/composing enforcers in such frameworks. We will consider various schemes for composing enforcers such as serial and parallel composition schemes. In addition to theory and the monitor synthesis tools, we will also explore pros/cons of these schemes using application scenarios related to security of CPSs. More details about the project like related literature, team members, recent publications etc. is available on the website: https://devine.inria.fr/SINCRET/index.html. *Vacant Position**:* The project currently has one vacant Research Associate (RA)/postdoc position. - *Eligibility*: PhD degree in computer science is preferred. However, candidates with masters’ in CSE with relevant research experience/publications are also welcome to apply. - *Remuneration*: It will be as per DST norms for a Research Associate (RA)/postdoc position. - *Location*: The work location is IIT Bhubaneswar, India. - *Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities*: Background/knowledge in Formal Methods, Timed systems/Timed automata, programming and development skills, ability to work effectively in a team as well as independently, and good communication skills. *To apply and for queries about the position:* Those interested, to apply please send your CV to Dr. Srinivas Pinisetty (email: spinisetty(a)iitbbs.ac.in) before 30th September 2025. In case of any queries about the position, please contact Dr. Srinivas Pinisetty (email: spinisetty(a)iitbbs.ac.in) *References:* [1] Ezio Bartocci and Yli`es Falcone. Lectures on runtime verification. Springer, 2018. [2] Fred B Schneider. Enforceable security policies. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 3(1):30–50, 2000. [3] Jay Ligatti and Srikar Reddy. A theory of runtime enforcement, with results. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, pages 87–100. Springer, 2010. [4] Srinivas Pinisetty, Partha S Roop, Steven Smyth, Stavros Tripakis, and Reinhard von Hanxleden. Runtime enforcement of reactive systems using synchronous enforcers. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSOFT international SPIN symposium on model checking of software, pages 80–89, 2017. [5] Srinivas Pinisetty, Partha S Roop, Steven Smyth, Nathan Allen, Stavros Tripakis, and Reinhard Von Hanxleden. Runtime enforcement of cyber-physical systems. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards Dr. Srinivas Pinisetty Associate Professor (CSE) School of Electrical and Computer Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Odisha 752050, India https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/srinivaspinisetty/

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Soumyajit Paul on Sept. 16 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Soumyajit Paul, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, September 16, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M2EzajE4cT…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Resolving Nondeterminism by Chance Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: History-deterministic automata are those in which nondeterministic choices can be correctly resolved stepwise: there is a strategy to select a continuation of a run given the next input letter so that if the overall input word admits some accepting run, then the constructed run is also accepting. The notion of History Determinism (sometimes known as Good for Games) was introduced by Henzinger and Piterman in 2006 motivated by applications in reactive synthesis. Later, it has been studied for several models such as Pushdown systems, Timed automata, Vector Addition systems, etc. Motivated by checking qualitative properties in probabilistic verification, we introduce the setting where the resolver strategy can randomize and only needs to succeed with lower-bounded probability. In this talk, I will present our work on stochastic resolution of nondeterministic automata. I will discuss the expressiveness of stochastically-resolvable automata as well as our complexity results for deciding stochastic resolvability. In particular, we show that it is undecidable to check if a given NFA is stochastically resolvable with a given threshold. The problem however becomes decidable for the class of finitely-ambiguous automata. We also consider the related question of deciding whether an automata is resolvable with any positive threshold. We show that this problem is decidable for automata over unary alphabet as well as for finitely-ambiguous automata. I will present our complexity results for several well-studied classes of automata and also discuss natural extensions of some of these results to automata for omega regular languages. I will conclude with some interesting open questions. This is based on joint work with David Purser, Sven Schewe, Qiyi Tang, Patrick Totzke and Di-de Yen. Bio: Soumyajit Paul is currently a post-doctoral researcher at University of Liverpool, working primarily with Sven Schewe. His research interests encompasses algorithmic game theory, probabilistic systems and formal methods. Earlier, he was a teaching and research fellow at Université Paris Cité, affiliated to IRIF. He did his PhD at LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux under the supervision of Hugo Gimbert and B. Srivathsan. His PhD research work focussed on the complexity of equilibrium computations in games where players may have imperfect information. Prior to his PhD, he completed his undergraduate and master's studies at Chennai Mathematical Institute.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Soumyajit Paul on Sept. 16 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Soumyajit Paul, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, September 16, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M2EzajE4cT…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Organizers, IARCS Verification Seminar Series ============================================================= Title: Resolving Nondeterminism by Chance Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: History-deterministic automata are those in which nondeterministic choices can be correctly resolved stepwise: there is a strategy to select a continuation of a run given the next input letter so that if the overall input word admits some accepting run, then the constructed run is also accepting. The notion of History Determinism (sometimes known as Good for Games) was introduced by Henzinger and Piterman in 2006 motivated by applications in reactive synthesis. Later, it has been studied for several models such as Pushdown systems, Timed automata, Vector Addition systems, etc. Motivated by checking qualitative properties in probabilistic verification, we introduce the setting where the resolver strategy can randomize and only needs to succeed with lower-bounded probability. In this talk, I will present our work on stochastic resolution of nondeterministic automata. I will discuss the expressiveness of stochastically-resolvable automata as well as our complexity results for deciding stochastic resolvability. In particular, we show that it is undecidable to check if a given NFA is stochastically resolvable with a given threshold. The problem however becomes decidable for the class of finitely-ambiguous automata. We also consider the related question of deciding whether an automata is resolvable with any positive threshold. We show that this problem is decidable for automata over unary alphabet as well as for finitely-ambiguous automata. I will present our complexity results for several well-studied classes of automata and also discuss natural extensions of some of these results to automata for omega regular languages. I will conclude with some interesting open questions. This is based on joint work with David Purser, Sven Schewe, Qiyi Tang, Patrick Totzke and Di-de Yen. Bio: Soumyajit Paul is currently a post-doctoral researcher at University of Liverpool, working primarily with Sven Schewe. His research interests encompasses algorithmic game theory, probabilistic systems and formal methods. Earlier, he was a teaching and research fellow at Université Paris Cité, affiliated to IRIF. He did his PhD at LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux under the supervision of Hugo Gimbert and B. Srivathsan. His PhD research work focussed on the complexity of equilibrium computations in games where players may have imperfect information. Prior to his PhD, he completed his undergraduate and master's studies at Chennai Mathematical Institute.

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RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Third Call for Talk and Poster Proposals | Deadline: September 18
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

============================================================= RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages December 2025, BITS Goa, co-located with FSTTCS 2025 Website: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ Submission link: https://forms.gle/RufuAs54zxsadp1n7 Submission deadline: September 18, 2025 IST ============================================================= Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2025 (https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/) is going to be held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus (https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/) during December 17 – 19, 2025. The conference is organized by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (https://www.iarcs.org.in/) in association with ACM India (https://india.acm.org/) It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. As in the previous years, this year too, co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is organizing the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages (PL), including but not limited to: - Applied formal methods - Automated and interactive theorem provers - Compilers - Concurrency and memory models - Domain and type theories - Program analysis and verification - Program sketching, synthesis and repair - Programming language design and semantics Further, in view of the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in PL theory and practice, the workshop also includes in its scope themes pertaining to the influences of AI/ML concepts and tools on the mentioned PL topics, and vice-versa; for instance, probabilistic programming languages. The website for the workshop is: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/. The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. We solicit: (1) Talk proposals: On recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. (2) Poster proposals: On early ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the promise of research possibilities and their novelty. Proposals to the workshop can be based on one or more works, published or unpublished. They may be submitted using the Google form below. https://forms.gle/RufuAs54zxsadp1n7 The important dates for the workshop are as below. All dates are in Indian Standard Time (IST). - Submission portal opens: July 28, 2025 - Submission deadline: September 18, 2025 - Notification: September 25, 2025 - Early registration deadline: TBA - RHPL@FSTTCS: TBA We look forward to receiving your talk/poster proposals to the workshop. On behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research) (co-Chair) Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (co-Chair) Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) Sumanth Prabhu (TCS Research) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore)

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MMAC Workshop (co-located with ATVA 2025): Call for participation and poster submission
by VSS IARCS 08 Sep '25

08 Sep '25

Dear all, We invite you to participate in MMAC 2025 (https://mmautomata.github.io/) — a post-conference of ATVA 2025 (https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025) on Milestones and Motifs in Automata and Concurrency. This workshop is going to be held at IIIT Bangalore, on October 31, 2025. The registration for the workshop is open; the early bird registration deadline ends on September 30th. Here is the link to register: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/atva-2025/registration MMAC 2025 will also host a Poster Session ( https://mmautomata.github.io/#poster) -- a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the broad area of automated analysis, synthesis, and verification of hardware and software systems, including but not limited to automata, concurrency and timed systems, to present their research work to the workshop attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and experts in the field. Note that there will be no proceedings for this workshop and thus the shortlisted posters would not be a part of any formal proceedings. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please submit an entry using this Google form (https://forms.gle/r2WiAHVQWtX7s1v39) The submission deadline is September 25th. Shortlisted entries will be notified by September 28th. The poster presentation would only be an in-person event; an author of every shortlisted poster would be expected to register for MMAC 2025 (https://conf.researchr.org/attending/atva-2025/registration) and present the poster at the workshop. We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. If you have any queries, please write to the organisers at mmautomata2025(a)gmail.com. Best regards, C. Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute) S. Akshay (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi)

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DataMod 2025 - Final Call for Papers, Extended Deadline
by Ouadie Khebbeb 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

DataMod 2025 - 13th International Symposium "From Data to Models and Back" Toledo, Spain, 10-11 November 2025 Website: https://datamod-symposium.github.io/DataMod-2025/ DataMod 2025 is a satellite event of the 23rd International Conference of Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2025): https://sefm-conference.github.io/2025/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline (extended): 10 September 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES DataMod 2025 aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and research institutions interested in the combined computational modelling methods with data-driven techniques from the areas of knowledge management, data mining and machine learning. Modelling methodologies of interest include automata, agents, Petri nets, process algebras and rewriting systems. Application domains include social systems, ecology, biology, medicine, smart cities, governance, security, education, software engineering, and any other field that deals with complex systems and large amounts of data. Papers can present research results in any of the themes of interest for the symposium, as well as application experiences, tools and promising preliminary ideas. Papers dealing with synergistic approaches that integrate modelling and knowledge management/discovery, or that exploit knowledge management/discovery to develop/synthesise system models are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic. These can either be normal or short papers. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. TOPICS Modelling and analysis methodologies include: - Agent-based Methodologies - Automata-based Notations - Big Data Analytics - Cellular Automata - Classification - Clustering, Segmentation and Profiling - Conformance Analysis - Constraint Programming - Data Mining - Differential Equations - Game Theory - Machine Learning - Membrane Systems - Network Theory and Analysis - Ontologies - Optimisation Modelling - Petri Nets - Process Calculi - Process Mining - Rewriting Systems - Spatio-temporal Data Analysis/Mining - Statistical Model Checking - Text Mining - Topological Data Analysis Application domains include: - Biology - Brain Data and Simulation - Business Process Management - Climate Change - Cybersecurity - Ecology - Education - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management - Enterprise Architectures - Epidemiology - Genetics and Genomics - Governance - HCI and Human Behaviour - Open Source Software Development and Communities - Pharmacology - Resilience Engineering - Safety and Security Risk Assessment - Social Good - Social Software Engineering - Social Systems - Sustainable Development - Threat Modelling and Analysis - Urban Ecology - Smart Cities and Smart Lands Synergistic approaches include: (1) Use of modelling methods and notations in a knowledge management/discovery context (2) Development and use of common modelling and knowledge management/discovery frameworks to explore and understand complex systems from the application domains of interest SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers can take one of the following three types: - regular (research, tool or position) paper, up to 16 pages (excluding references) - short (research, tool or position) paper, up to 8 pages (excluding references) - presentation report, up to 4 pages Presentation reports concern recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas, for timely discussion and feedback at the workshop. There is no restriction as to previous/future publication of the contents of a presentation. Typically, a presentation is based on a paper which recently appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another recognised conference, or which has not yet been submitted. Presentation reports will receive a lightweight review to establish their relevance for DataMod. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their presentation report via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datamod2025 Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers, without modifications of margins and other space-saving measures. Authors should therefore consult Springer's authors' instructions and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Each paper will be reviewed by three Program Committee members. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email through the Easychair platform. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will be included in a dedicated LNCS post-proceedings volume published by Springer after the Symposium. Condition for inclusion in the proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors attends and presents the paper at the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES - Research Papers Abstract submission deadline (optional): 22 August 2025 Paper submission deadline (extended): 10 September 2025 Acceptance notification: 30 September 2025 Revised version: 7 October 2025 Symposium: 10-11 November 2025 Note that you will have the opportunity to submit the camera-ready paper for the LNCS Proceedings with discussions and remarks after the symposium, i.e., by the end of the year or early Jan/26. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Livia Lestingi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Gwen Salaün, Université Grenoble Alpes, France PUBLICITY CHAIRS * Ouadie Khebbeb, Université de Grenoble Alpes, France STEERING COMMITTEE * Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow, UK * Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan * Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa, Italy * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa, Canada * Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy * Anna Monreale, University of Pisa, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow * Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) * Juliana Bowles, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews * Giovanna Broccia, ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab * Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University * Robert Clarisó, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya * Carla Ferreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa * Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke * Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel * Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa * Alexander Kocian, University of Pisa * Ricardo M. Czekster, Aston University * José Machado, University of Minho, DI, ALGORITMI/LASI * Paolo Milazzo, Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Pisa * Pedro Ribeiro, University of York * Arpit Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research * Volker Stolz, Høgskulen på Vestlandet * Martin Tappler, TU Wien * Thais Webber, Aston University * Lina Ye, CentraleSupélec, LMF, University Paris-Saclay, France CONTACT > All inquiries should be sent to datamod2025(a)easychair.org

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Registrations open for India's first Compiler Technology Hackathon!
by Uday Khedker 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

As a part of the upcoming*Innovations In Compiler Technology 2025* (IICT 2025) workshop, we invite you to participate in SEGFAULT, a first of a kind Compiler Technology themed hackathon! *Website *: https://segfault.compilertech.org/ *Registrations Close Date* : 29th August 2025. The first round of SEGFAULT is completely online, with the finale being co-located and held as a part of IICT 2025. Top 6 teams will get a chance to present their work to Industry and Academic experts, along with the 350 strong audience at IICT. *Themes *: - Domain Specific Languages and Compilers - Compiler Frameworks and Tools - Compilers and AI/ML - Optimizations for the Real World - Explainable Compilers - Compilers for New Paradigms Registration is free and requires forming a team of 1 - 4 members along with an abstract of the proposed solution on the Hackathon website. Participants can also submit projects that are already complete, as long as they are relevant to Compilers and is their own work. For any queries, email support(a)compilertech.org or ashutosh(a)compilertech.org. Regards, IICT Organizing Committee -- signature.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker, Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct)

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Call for Presentations || IICT 2025
by Uday Khedker 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

2nd Workshop on Innovations In Compiler Technology (IICT) ========================================================== Call for Presentation Proposals ------------------------------- The 2nd workshop on Innovations In Compiler Technology (IICT) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts in the field of compiler technologies. The first workshop was held in Bengaluru on 28 and 29 September 2024. This edition of IICT is being held as an ACM Meetup in collaboration with iSoft on 27 and 28 September 2025 at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru. More details about the workshop can be found athttps://compilertech.org/. IICT focuses on the cutting-edge advancements in design, implementation, and optimization of compiler techniques as well as their applications on emerging software and hardware platforms. We invite speakers from academia and industry to present their work related to programming languages and compilers. We invite presentations on all aspects of compilers covering the classical compiler techniques, compilers for AI/ML, DSLs, Web3, blockchains etc. Proposals should provide sufficient information for the program committee to be able to judge the quality of the submission. Proposals can be submitted under the form of an extended abstract, full paper, or slides. The selections will happen in two steps: In the first step, a conditional acceptance will be provided. The second step requires the participants of conditionally accepted proposals to submit a ninety seconds video of their presentation which will be displayed as a teaser on the workshop website. The final acceptance will be provided based on the evaluation of the video presentations. Some of the proposals may be accepted for posters rather than conventional presentations. Important dates: Submissions Open 1 June 2025 Submission Deadline 1 July 2025 Notification of Conditional Acceptance 7 August 2025 Submission of 90 second video 15 August 2025 Final Notification 1 September 2025 Workshop Dates 27, 28 September 2025 Link for submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=compilertech2025. Who should attend? - Practitioners of compilers. - Students and Researchers in the field of compilers, programming languages, and runtime. - Those interested in using compiler and toolchain technology in novel and interesting ways. Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Aditya Kumar (Google) Program Chair Organizing Chair -- signature.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker, Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct)

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RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Second Call for Talk and Poster Proposals
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 20 Aug '25

20 Aug '25

============================================================= RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages December 2025, BITS Goa, co-located with FSTTCS 2025 Website: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ Submission deadline: September 18, 2025 ============================================================= Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2025 (https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/) is going to be held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus (https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/) during December 17 – 19, 2025. The conference is organized by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (https://www.iarcs.org.in/) in association with ACM India (https://india.acm.org/) It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. As in the previous years, this year too, co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is organizing the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages (PL), including but not limited to: - Applied formal methods - Automated and interactive theorem provers - Compilers - Concurrency and memory models - Domain and type theories - Program analysis and verification - Program sketching, synthesis and repair - Programming language design and semantics Further, in view of the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in PL theory and practice, the workshop also includes in its scope themes pertaining to the influences of AI/ML concepts and tools on the mentioned PL topics, and vice-versa; for instance, probabilistic programming languages. The website for the workshop is: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/. The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. We solicit: (1) Talk proposals: On recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. (2) Poster proposals: On early ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the promise of research possibilities and their novelty. Proposals to the workshop can be based on one or more works, published or unpublished. They may be submitted using the Google form below. https://forms.gle/RufuAs54zxsadp1n7 The important dates for the workshop are as below. All dates are in Indian Standard Time (IST). - Submission portal opens: July 28, 2025 - Submission deadline: September 18, 2025 - Notification: September 25, 2025 - Early registration deadline: TBA - RHPL@FSTTCS: TBA We look forward to receiving your talk/poster proposals to the workshop. On behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research) (co-Chair) Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (co-Chair) Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) Sumanth Prabhu (TCS Research) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore)

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CFP: 5th International Workshop on Blockchain (December 4-6, 2025);
by Madhavan Mukund 20 Aug '25

20 Aug '25

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Vishwas Patil <ivishwas(a)gmail.com> *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Fifth International Workshop on Blockchain: Blockchain Kaigi 2025* December 04-06, 2025 IIT Bombay, India. https://bck-2025.isrdc.in Submission deadline: September 15 The International Workshop "Blockchain Kaigi" (Kaigi: Meeting, Conference) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from various communities of science and technology working on areas related to FinTech, crypto-asset, and blockchain. Authors are encouraged to submit theoretical and/or applied articles on their research related to Blockchains in general. We have excellent *Keynotes *lined up during this workshop (partial list). 1) Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO, National Payments Corporation of India 2) Suvendu Pati, Chief General Manager, FinTech, Reserve Bank of India 3) Kazumasa Omote, Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan 4) Hidenori Nakazato, Professor, Waseda University, Japan *Authors are invited to submit 2-page extended abstract describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.* Please submit your extended abstract using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=bck25 The abstract should include the title of the presentation, the names and affiliations of the speaker and co-researcher(s), a description of the content of the presentation, and one figure or table to supplement the description. The abstract should be two pages at maximum. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. *Deadline of abstract submission for general speakers: Sep. 15, 2025.* Indicative Topics of Interest (not an exhaustive list): - Consensus, Fault-tolerance, Scalability - Cryptography & Mathematics - Applications in Cybersecurity - Digital Asset Market, AUM - Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - Innovation Policy, SDGs - Modelling of on-chain activity - Digital Identity & Privacy - Token Ecosystem, Finternet - IoU networks, Settlements - Lightning networks, Interoperability - Smart Contract Verification, DAOs - Smart-Grid, Smart-City - FinTech, AgTech, HealthTech - Legal and Regulatory Issues - Network Science, Hypergraphs - Innovative Use Cases for public good - Ledger analytics for privacy and AML - ML Applications to Blockchain - Blockchain for AI/ML ecosystem - Simulation tools - Visualisation of transaction trails Other topics in distributed ledger technologies will also be considered in the spirit of the above. Authors are invited to enter submissions describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. *PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION* Extended versions of accepted contributions will be invited for publication in JPS conference proceedings and a special issue of the Ledger Journal after your presentation at BCK25. For accepted manuscripts, at least one author must attend and present the paper. BCK25 is an in-person event. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* For compiling your submission (*2-page extended abstract*), please use this [1] LaTeX template or this [2] MS Word template. The abstract should include the title of the presentation, the names and affiliations of the speaker and co-researcher(s), a description of the content of the presentation, and one figure or table to supplement the description. The abstract should be two pages at maximum. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process. [1] https://bit.ly/40L8Bfb [2] https://bit.ly/4l0PCEz ABOUT BCK WORKSHOPS ------------------- On February 17th - 18th, 2021, the international workshop “Blockchain in Kyoto 2021 (BCK21)" was hosted at Kyoto University, Japan. This event drew participants from around the globe, fostering a vibrant exchange of knowledge and ideas within the blockchain community. Continuing this tradition, the next instalment, “BCK22: Blockchain Kaigi 2022," took place on August 4th - 5th, 2022, at Tohoku University, Japan. It maintained the legacy of its predecessor by uniting a diverse group of forward-thinking researchers and practitioners who shared their latest findings and innovative solutions in blockchain technology. The "BCK23: Blockchain Kaigi 2023” session was held on October 28th -29th, 2023 at RIKEN's Kobe Campus (Kobe City), Japan. The recent edition of this kaigi was held at University of Zurich between September 12 and 13 as "BCK24: Blockchain Kaigi 2024". Building on this rich tradition of Blockchain Kaigi, we invite you to join us at IIT Bombay, where this year's Blockchain Kaigi (BCK25) will be held between December 4 and 6. BCK25 will continue to serve as a venue where experts from scientific and technological disciplines can discuss, collaborate, and advance the field of blockchain research. Authors are invited to submit both theoretical and applied papers that contribute to the broad spectrum of blockchain studies. PREVIOUS EDITIONS ----------------- - BCK21 - Kyoto University - BCK22 - Tohoku University - BCK23 - RIKEN Kobe Campus - BCK24 - University of Zurich IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission deadline: September 15 * Notification of accptance: October 15 * Camera-ready submission: October 25 (All dates will follow AoE time 23:59) -- Yours sincerely, Vishwas Patil. Senior Scientist, IIT Bombay. https://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas <http://sites.google.com/site/ivishwas> An omission is the most powerful form of lying. ~ George Orwell. ----- End forwarded message -----

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DataMod 2025 - deadline approaching
by Arpit Sharma 14 Aug '25

14 Aug '25

DataMod 2025 - 13th International Symposium "From Data to Models and Back" Toledo, Spain, 10-11 November 2025 Website: https://datamod-symposium.github.io/DataMod-2025/ DataMod 2025 is a satellite event of the 23rd International Conference of Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2025): https://sefm-conference.github.io/2025/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline (optional): 22 August 2025 Paper submission deadline: 29 August 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES DataMod 2025 aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and research institutions interested in the combined computational modelling methods with data-driven techniques from the areas of knowledge management, data mining and machine learning. Modelling methodologies of interest include automata, agents, Petri nets, process algebras and rewriting systems. Application domains include social systems, ecology, biology, medicine, smart cities, governance, security, education, software engineering, and any other field that deals with complex systems and large amounts of data. Papers can present research results in any of the themes of interest for the symposium, as well as application experiences, tools and promising preliminary ideas. Papers dealing with synergistic approaches that integrate modelling and knowledge management/discovery, or that exploit knowledge management/discovery to develop/synthesise system models are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic. These can either be normal or short papers. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. TOPICS Modelling and analysis methodologies include: - Agent-based Methodologies - Automata-based Notations - Big Data Analytics - Cellular Automata - Classification - Clustering, Segmentation and Profiling - Conformance Analysis - Constraint Programming - Data Mining - Differential Equations - Game Theory - Machine Learning - Membrane Systems - Network Theory and Analysis - Ontologies - Optimisation Modelling - Petri Nets - Process Calculi - Process Mining - Rewriting Systems - Spatio-temporal Data Analysis/Mining - Statistical Model Checking - Text Mining - Topological Data Analysis Application domains include: - Biology - Brain Data and Simulation - Business Process Management - Climate Change - Cybersecurity - Ecology - Education - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management - Enterprise Architectures - Epidemiology - Genetics and Genomics - Governance - HCI and Human Behaviour - Open Source Software Development and Communities - Pharmacology - Resilience Engineering - Safety and Security Risk Assessment - Social Good - Social Software Engineering - Social Systems - Sustainable Development - Threat Modelling and Analysis - Urban Ecology - Smart Cities and Smart Lands Synergistic approaches include: (1) Use of modelling methods and notations in a knowledge management/discovery context (2) Development and use of common modelling and knowledge management/discovery frameworks to explore and understand complex systems from the application domains of interest SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All contributions in the form of either - regular (research, tool or position) paper, up to 16 pages (excluding references) - short (research, tool or position) paper, up to 8 pages (excluding references) will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Authors are invited to submit their contributions via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datamod2025 In addition, presentation reports will be considered having the following form: - presentation report, up to 4 pages Presentation reports concern recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas, for timely discussion and feedback at the workshop. There is no restriction as to previous/future publication of the contents of a presentation. Typically, a presentation is based on a paper which recently appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another recognised conference, or which has not yet been submitted. Presentation reports will receive a lightweight review to establish their relevance for DataMod. Authors are invited to submit their presentation report via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datamod2025 All papers should be written in English and formatted according to the LNCS style. Paper formatting guidelines according to LNCS style are available here: http://www.springer.com/lncs Detailed information on the submission procedure and format are available on the symposium web page: https://datamod2025.github.io/ Accepted papers (both regular and short) will be included in a dedicated LNCS post-proceedings volume published by Springer after the Symposium. Condition for inclusion in the proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors attends and presents the paper at the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission deadline (optional): 22 August 2025 Paper Submission deadline: 29 August 2025 Notification: 30 September 2025 Revised Version: 7 October 2025 Symposium: 10-11 November 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * TBA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Livia Lestingi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Gwen Salaün, Université Grenoble Alpes, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow * Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) * Juliana Bowles, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews * Giovanna Broccia, ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab * Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University * Robert Clarisó, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya * Carla Ferreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa * Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke * Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel * Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa * Alexander Kocian, University of Pisa * Ricardo M. Czekster, Aston University * José Machado, University of Minho, DI, ALGORITMI/LASI * Paolo Milazzo, Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Pisa * Pedro Ribeiro, University of York * Arpit Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research * Volker Stolz, Høgskulen på Vestlandet * Martin Tappler, TU Wien * Thais Webber, Aston University * Lina Ye, CentraleSupélec, LMF, University Paris-Saclay, France CONTACT > All inquiries should be sent to datamod2025(a)easychair.org

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Reminder: Logic Education Webinar on August 11 at 6:30 pm
by Madhavan Mukund 09 Aug '25

09 Aug '25

----- Forwarded message from R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> ----- webpage: https://resources.illc.uva.nl/Commission-on-Logic-Education/news-events/ zoom link: URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/83042980483?pwd=8qXaJ6WqzLVEROZD1HrZ3b6aFhwyao.1 Meeting ID: 830 4298 0483 Passcode: 546866 WHAT ASPECTS OF STUDENT LANGUAGE USE DO NOT COMPORT WITH MATHEMATICAL LOGIC? Speaker: PAUL CHRISTIAN DAWKINS, Professor Of Mathematics, Texas State University Date: August 11, 2025 Time: 0800 HOURS (DALLAS) 1000 (Brasilia) 1500 (Paris) 1830 (Bangalore) 2100 (Beijing) Abstract: Based on over a decade of experiments working to support students in reflecting on their use of mathematical language to help them reinvent some basic logical structures, I have gained some insights about university students’ untrained interpretations of mathematical language. Combining these empirical findings with insights from psychology, pragmatics, and linguistics, I have come to appreciate the coherence and rationality of students’ language use even when it proves incompatible with logical structure. In this talk, I will share some stories of student thinking that have given me some helpful insight into how their language use differed in important ways from mathematical language use. Hopefully, these contrasts will help instructors and researchers understand the challenges that logic instruction must overcome to support students in formalizing and systematizing their reasoning about mathematical language. ----- End forwarded message -----

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FMCAD 2025 - Call for Participation
by Daniela Kaufmann 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

===================================================================== *FMCAD 2025 *- 25th Intl Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design /Call for Participation / October 6--10, 2025 SRI International Headquarters Menlo Park, California, US https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25 Registration link: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/registration/ ===================================================================== FMCAD 2025 will be held at the SRI International Headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA, from October 6 to October 10, 2025. The conference includes: * the FMCAD Student Forum (https://fmcad.forsyte.at/FMCAD25/student_forum/) * the HWMCC 2025 (https://hwmcc.github.io/2025/) * VSTTE 2025 (https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/vstte2025/) FMCAD 2025 is the twenty-fifth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD 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. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. ## Conference dates: * VSTTE conference: October 6, 2025 * Joint VSTTE & FMCAD Tutorial day: October 7, 2025 * Main FMCAD conference: October 8–10, 2025 ## FMCAD Tutorial Speakers: * Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Ankush Desai, Amazon Web Services, USA ## FMCAD Invited Talks: * Ashish Tiwari, Microsoft Research, USA * Nina Narodytska, VMware Research by Broadcom, USA ## About the venue FMCAD 2025 is hosted by SRI. The Menlo Park campus is situated in the heart of Silicon Valley just minutes from Stanford University and major tech companies. SRI is an independent nonprofit R&D institute with deep roots in Silicon Valley. With a nearly 80-year legacy, SRI’s technologies, research, and ideas have had a profound impact on every one of our lives — at home, at work, at school, and at play. SRI’s teams work in locations from coast-to-coast and in Tokyo, collaborate across fields and disciplines, and take an integrated approach to supporting government and commercial clients and addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges. ## Registration The registrations for the conference is now open. Early registration deadline: August 24, 2025, 23:59 PT Registration link: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/registration/ We look forward to seeing you in Menlo Park! Best regards, Daniela Kaufmann and Ahmed Irfan FMCAD 2025 Co-Chairs

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ICISS 2025, Final Extended Deadline 10 Aug 2025
by Madhavan Mukund 01 Aug '25

01 Aug '25

----- Forwarded message from Gourinath Banda <gourinath(a)iiti.ac.in> ----- From: Gourinath Banda <gourinath(a)iiti.ac.in> Subject: Call for Papers – Final Extended Deadline: 10 August 2025 (FIRM) – 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2025) Dear All, We are pleased to invite paper submissions for the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2025), to be hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore), India from December 16–20, 2025. ICISS is a premier international forum that brings together researchers, academicians, and industry professionals to share their latest findings and insights in the fields of cybersecurity, cryptography, system security, and hardware security. Since its inception in 2005, ICISS has played a critical role in shaping the research landscape and fostering meaningful collaborations in information systems security. The ICISS 2025 conference will feature technical paper presentations, workshops, an industry and demo track, invited talks, keynote speeches, and more. Keynote addresses will be delivered by leading experts in information systems security. Confirmed keynote speakers include Prof. Christopher Kruegel, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and Prof. Elisa Bertino, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. In addition to the keynotes, several invited speakers will deliver talks on emerging topics in cybersecurity. One such speaker is Dr. Nils Ole Tippenhauer, faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany. Additional invited speakers will be announced soon. The submission portal for ICISS 2025 is now open and accepting papers. The submission deadline has been extended to August 10, 2025 (AoE). This is the final chance to submit your paper(s) to ICISS 2025. Submit your paper here: https://meteor.springer.com/ICISS2025 **IMPORTANT DATES** • Paper Submission Deadline: August 10, 2025 (FIRM Deadline) • Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025 • Camera-ready Deadline: October 15, 2025 • Conference Dates: December 16–20, 2025 The conference will be held at IIT Indore. Established in the year 2009, IIT Indore has rapidly gained a reputation for excellence in education, research, and innovation. IIT Indore is known for its diverse academic programs, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and vibrant campus life. ICISS 2025 invites original, high-quality research contributions in the field of information systems security. We look forward to your contributions and participation in ICISS 2025! Please find attached CFP or for more details, submission guidelines, and updates, please visit the official conference website: https://iciss.isrdc.in/ Best regards, Organizing Committee ICISS 2025 Gourinath Banda Associate Professor, CSE IIT Indore gourinath(a)iiti.ac.in ----- End forwarded message -----

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RHPL@FSTTCS 2025: Call for Talk and Poster Proposals
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2025 (https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2025/) is going to be held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus (https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/) during December 17 – 19, 2025. The conference is organized by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (https://www.iarcs.org.in/) in association with ACM India (https://india.acm.org/) It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. As in the previous years, this year too, co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is organizing the Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages (PL), including but not limited to: - Applied formal methods - Automated and interactive theorem provers - Compilers - Concurrency and memory models - Domain and type theories - Program analysis and verification - Program sketching, synthesis and repair - Programming language design and semantics Further, in view of the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in PL theory and practice, the workshop also includes in its scope themes pertaining to the influences of AI/ML concepts and tools on the mentioned PL topics, and vice-versa; for instance, probabilistic programming languages. The website for the workshop is: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2025/ The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. We solicit: (1) Talk proposals: On recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. (2) Poster proposals: On early ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the promise of research possibilities and their novelty. Proposals to the workshop can be based on one or more works, published or unpublished. They may be submitted using the Google form below. https://forms.gle/RufuAs54zxsadp1n7 The important dates for the workshop are as below. All dates are in Indian Standard Time (IST). - Submission portal opens: July 28, 2025 - Submission deadline: September 18, 2025 - Notification: September 25, 2025 - Early registration deadline: TBA - RHPL@FSTTCS: TBA We look forward to receiving your talk/poster proposals to the workshop. On behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research) (co-Chair) Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (co-Chair) Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) Sumanth Prabhu (TCS Research) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore)

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Logic education webinar on August 11 at 6-30 pm
by Madhavan Mukund 13 Jul '25

13 Jul '25

----- Forwarded message from R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> ----- From: R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:26:54 +0530 Subject: logic education webinar on august 11 at 6-30 pm Speaker: PAUL CHRISTIAN DAWKINS, Professor of Mathematics, Texas State University Title: /What aspects of student language use do not comport with mathematical logic?/ Date: AUGUST 11, 2025, MONDAY Time: 0800 HOURS (DALLAS) 1000 (Brasilia) 1500 (Paris) 1830 (Bangalore) 2100 (Beijing) URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/83042980483?pwd=8qXaJ6WqzLVEROZD1HrZ3b6aFhwyao.1 Meeting ID: 830 4298 0483 Passcode: 546866 ------------- -- R Ramanujam ----- End forwarded message -----

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Call for papers: PLAS @ CCS '25
by Abhishek Bichhawat 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers PLAS 2025 <http://plas25.github.io>(co-located with CCS '25) Taipei, Taiwan 13th October, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TL;DR: Submission Deadline: June 20, 2025 AoE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS) explores the use of programming language and program analysis techniques to improve software security across compilers, machine learning models, and smart contracts. It promotes speculative, forward-looking ideas and insightful discussions at the intersection of programming languages and security. The 20th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2025) <http://plas25.github.io> will be held on the 13th of October, 2025, co-located with CCS 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The workshop has no formal published proceedings; hence, we encourage the submission of papers that are likely to generate lively discussion as well as papers covering ongoing and future work. Presenting a paper at the workshop does not preclude submission to or publication in other venues that are before, concurrent, or after the workshop. Papers presented at the workshop will be made available to workshop participants only. We invite both short papers and long papers. Full papers: There is no page limit on long papers. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. Papers that present promising preliminary and exploratory work, or recently published work are particularly welcome in this category. Long papers may receive longer talk slots at the workshop than short papers, depending on the number of accepted submissions. Short papers: should be at most 2 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. There is no restriction on paper format other than the page limits stated above. A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop is: - Side-channel vulnerability detection and elimination - Verification techniques applied to adversarial learning and smart contracts - Software isolation (e.g., SFI, sandboxing) - Compiler/runtime-based hardening and monitoring - Program analysis, binary analysis, and fuzzing - Security enforcement mechanisms - Cryptographic protocol verification - Information flow and access control - Security in web, IoT, and cloud programming languages Submissions will be made (in PDF format) via the following website: https://plas25.hotcrp.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission: *June 20, 2025 AoE*Author notification: August 8, 2025 Workshop date: October 13, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amir Ahmadian (KTH, Sweden) Sebastien Bardin (CEA, France) Abhishek Bichhawat (IIT Gandhinagar, India) (co-chair) Ferhat Erata (Yale, USA) Jana Hofmann (MPI-SP, Germany) (co-chair) Adrien Koutsos (Inria, France) McKenna McCall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Toby Murray (University of Melbourne, Australia) Sabine Oechsner (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information, please refer to plas25.github.io or email us at abhishek.b(a)iitgn.ac.in and jana.hofmann(a)mpi-sp.org Best Regards, Jana and Abhishek

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Fully funded PhD position in Automata theory in Marseille, France
by C Aiswarya 03 Jul '25

03 Jul '25

We are looking for candidates for a PhD position in automata theory in LIS Marseille, France. A Masters degree with a strong background in theoretical computer science is required. The PhD will be jointly supervised by C. Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute) and Benjamin Monmege (LIS, Marseille). The student will be based in Marseille, with an option to visit Chennai Mathematical Institute for research discussions. The earliest starting date is October 1, 2025. Further details can be found in the application portal <https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7020-BENMON-002/Default.aspx?lan…>. Application deadline: 14 July. Please reach out to us if you have any queries. Best regards, Aiswarya and Benjamin

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Formal Methods Update Meeting 2025
by VSS IARCS 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Dear all, The Formal Methods Update Meeting 2025 will be held as a physical meeting at DA-IICT in Gandhinagar during 3–4 July, 2025. Please visit the website https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/update2025/ for registration and other details. The FM Update Meeting is an informal event organized by the FM community in India annually, with the aim of getting FM researchers together to present and discuss topical developments in their areas of interest. Everybody interested in the use of Formal Methods in Program Design and Verification and Theoretical Computer Science is welcome to join. If you would like to give a talk at the meeting, please send us a title and an abstract of your talk to fmupdatemeet(a)gmail.com. Best regards, Organizing Committee, FM Update Meeting 2025

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VSTTE 2025 (co-located with FMCAD 2025): Call for papers
by Supratik Chakraborty 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

VSTTE 2025 17th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments October 06-07, 2025, Menlo Park, California, USA Co-located with Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2025 (_FMCAD 2025 <https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/>_) Key Information Conference Website: _https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/vstte2025/ <https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/vstte2025/>_ Paper submission Deadline: July 18th AoE This year, VSTTE accepts both (short and long) regular papers to be included in post-conference proceedings and work-in-progress (presentation only) papers. Overview The goal of the VSTTE conference series is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. The Verified Software Initiative (VSI), spearheaded by Tony Hoare and Jayadev Misra, is an ambitious research program for making large-scale verified software a practical reality. The International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) is the main forum for advancing the initiative. VSTTE brings together experts spanning the spectrum of software verification in order to foster international collaboration on the critical research challenges. The theoretical work includes semantic foundations and logics for specification and verification, and verification algorithms and methodologies. The tools cover specification and annotation languages, program analyzers, model checkers, interactive verifiers and proof checkers, automated theorem provers and SAT/SMT solvers, and integrated verification environments. The experimental work drives the research agenda for theory and tools by taking on significant specification/verification exercises covering hardware, operating systems, compilers, computer security, parallel computing, and cyber-physical systems. Call for papers and work-in-progress presentations VSTTE 2025 welcomes submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e. software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. In addition to regular papers, we welcome submissions on in-progress verified software projects to a “work-in-progress (presentation-only)” track. Work-in-progress contributions will not appear in the post-proceedings of the conference. Submissions describing work of interest to the software verification community, but that could not be accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, may be invited to the “work-in-progress (presentation-only)” track, on a case-by-case basis. Topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification/certification case studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments. Submissions VSTTE 2025 accepts both long (limited to 16 pages, excluding references) and short (limited to 10 pages, excluding references) paper submissions. Short submissions also cover “verification pearls” describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers may be submitted via EasyChair at the _VSTTE 2025 conference submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte25>_. The use of LaTeX and the _Springer LNCS class files <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>_ is strongly encouraged. Submissions that are not in the proper format or are too long will not be considered. Accepted regular-track papers will be included in the post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2025, which will be published as a LNCS volume by Springer-Verlag. Authors of those papers will have to transfer copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. Important Dates * Abstract submission: July 14th AoE * Paper submission: July 18th AoE * Notification of acceptance: Aug 31th (AoE) * Final pre-conference paper submission: September 26th (AoE) * Conference: October 6th-7th * Camera-ready for papers included in post-conference proceedings: TBA Invited speakers * _Caroline Trippel <https://cs.stanford.edu/people/trippel/>_ (Stanford University) * _Grant Passmore <https://www.imandra.ai/about>_ (Imandra) Invited tutorial speakers * _Pierre-Yves Strub <https://www.strub.nu/>_ (PQShield) Chairs Steering Committee * _Supratik Chakraborty <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/>_ (IIT Bombay, India) * _Natarajan Shankar <https://www.csl.sri.com/~shankar/>_ (SRI International) Program Chairs * _Clément Pit-Claudel <https://pit-claudel.fr/clement/>_ (EPFL) * _Katherine Kosaian <https://sites.google.com/view/katherinekosaian>_ (University of Iowa)

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DataMod 2025 - First Call for Papers
by Ouadie Khebbeb 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

DataMod 2025 - 13th International Symposium "From Data to Models and Back" Toledo, Spain, 10-11 November 2025 Website: https://datamod-symposium.github.io/DataMod-2025/ DataMod 2025 is a satellite event of the 23rd International Conference of Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2025): https://sefm-conference.github.io/2025/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline (optional): 22 August 2025 Paper submission deadline: 29 August 2025 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES DataMod 2025 aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and research institutions interested in the combined computational modelling methods with data-driven techniques from the areas of knowledge management, data mining and machine learning. Modelling methodologies of interest include automata, agents, Petri nets, process algebras and rewriting systems. Application domains include social systems, ecology, biology, medicine, smart cities, governance, security, education, software engineering, and any other field that deals with complex systems and large amounts of data. Papers can present research results in any of the themes of interest for the symposium, as well as application experiences, tools and promising preliminary ideas. Papers dealing with synergistic approaches that integrate modelling and knowledge management/discovery, or that exploit knowledge management/discovery to develop/synthesise system models are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic. These can either be normal or short papers. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. TOPICS Modelling and analysis methodologies include: - Agent-based Methodologies - Automata-based Notations - Big Data Analytics - Cellular Automata - Classification - Clustering, Segmentation and Profiling - Conformance Analysis - Constraint Programming - Data Mining - Differential Equations - Game Theory - Machine Learning - Membrane Systems - Network Theory and Analysis - Ontologies - Optimisation Modelling - Petri Nets - Process Calculi - Process Mining - Rewriting Systems - Spatio-temporal Data Analysis/Mining - Statistical Model Checking - Text Mining - Topological Data Analysis Application domains include: - Biology - Brain Data and Simulation - Business Process Management - Climate Change - Cybersecurity - Ecology - Education - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management - Enterprise Architectures - Epidemiology - Genetics and Genomics - Governance - HCI and Human Behaviour - Open Source Software Development and Communities - Pharmacology - Resilience Engineering - Safety and Security Risk Assessment - Social Good - Social Software Engineering - Social Systems - Sustainable Development - Threat Modelling and Analysis - Urban Ecology - Smart Cities and Smart Lands Synergistic approaches include: (1) Use of modelling methods and notations in a knowledge management/discovery context (2) Development and use of common modelling and knowledge management/discovery frameworks to explore and understand complex systems from the application domains of interest SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All contributions in the form of either - regular (research, tool or position) paper, up to 16 pages (excluding references) - short (research, tool or position) paper, up to 8 pages (excluding references) will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Authors are invited to submit their contributions via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datamod2025 In addition, presentation reports will be considered having the following form: - presentation report, up to 4 pages Presentation reports concern recent or ongoing work on relevant topics and ideas, for timely discussion and feedback at the workshop. There is no restriction as to previous/future publication of the contents of a presentation. Typically, a presentation is based on a paper which recently appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another recognised conference, or which has not yet been submitted. Presentation reports will receive a lightweight review to establish their relevance for DataMod. Authors are invited to submit their presentation report via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=datamod2025 All papers should be written in English and formatted according to the LNCS style. Paper formatting guidelines according to LNCS style are available here: http://www.springer.com/lncs Detailed information on the submission procedure and format are available on the symposium web page: https://datamod2025.github.io/ Accepted papers (both regular and short) will be included in a dedicated LNCS post-proceedings volume published by Springer after the Symposium. Condition for inclusion in the proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors attends and presents the paper at the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission deadline (optional): 22 August 2025 Paper Submission deadline: 29 August 2025 Notification: 30 September 2025 Revised Version: 7 October 2025 Symposium: 10-11 November 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * TBA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Livia Lestingi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Gwen Salaün, Université Grenoble Alpes, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow * Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) * Juliana Bowles, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews * Giovanna Broccia, ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab * Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University * Robert Clarisó, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya * Carla Ferreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa * Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke * Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel * Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa * Alexander Kocian, University of Pisa * Ricardo M. Czekster, Aston University * José Machado, University of Minho, DI, ALGORITMI/LASI * Paolo Milazzo, Dipartimento di Informatica - Università di Pisa * Pedro Ribeiro, University of York * Arpit Sharma, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research * Volker Stolz, Høgskulen på Vestlandet * Martin Tappler, TU Wien * Thais Webber, Aston University * Lina Ye, CentraleSupélec, LMF, University Paris-Saclay, France CONTACT > All inquiries should be sent to datamod2025(a)easychair.org

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shahaf Bassan on June 12 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shahaf Bassan, a senior PhD student in the Katz Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in explainable AI. The talk is scheduled on Thursday, June 12, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NTRxaDRxdG…> ). 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: “Formal XAI”: Can we formally explain ML models? Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The goal of explainability is to make sense of the decisions made by black-box ML models. Unfortunately, many existing explanation methods are heuristic, which makes them unreliable. In this talk, I will present our work on developing techniques that provide explanations with formal guarantees, ensuring their trustworthiness. These techniques often rely on formal verification, particularly neural network verification tools. In addition, we examine these explanations from a theoretical perspective - studying the computational challenges they pose and exploring ways to build practical tools that address these challenges and enable the generation of reliable explanations for ML models. Bio: Shahaf Bassan is a senior PhD student in the Katz Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in explainable AI. His research focuses on developing explanation techniques with formally provable guarantees, at the intersection of explainability, formal verification, and ML theory. His work spans both theoretical foundations and practical applications. Sahaf has presented his research at leading conferences in formal verification (e.g., TACAS) and machine learning (e.g., ICML, ICLR). His research goal is to enhance trust in ML models by providing trustworthy, verifiable explanations.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shahaf Bassan postponed to June 12, 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shahaf Bassan, a senior PhD student in the Katz Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in explainable AI. The talk is scheduled on Thursday, June 12, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NTRxaDRxdG…> ). 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: “Formal XAI”: Can we formally explain ML models? Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The goal of explainability is to make sense of the decisions made by black-box ML models. Unfortunately, many existing explanation methods are heuristic, which makes them unreliable. In this talk, I will present our work on developing techniques that provide explanations with formal guarantees, ensuring their trustworthiness. These techniques often rely on formal verification, particularly neural network verification tools. In addition, we examine these explanations from a theoretical perspective - studying the computational challenges they pose and exploring ways to build practical tools that address these challenges and enable the generation of reliable explanations for ML models. Bio: Shahaf Bassan is a senior PhD student in the Katz Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in explainable AI. His research focuses on developing explanation techniques with formally provable guarantees, at the intersection of explainability, formal verification, and ML theory. His work spans both theoretical foundations and practical applications. Sahaf has presented his research at leading conferences in formal verification (e.g., TACAS) and machine learning (e.g., ICML, ICLR). His research goal is to enhance trust in ML models by providing trustworthy, verifiable explanations.

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DPM 2025 - CFP - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2025
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2025) 20th International Workshop September 25, 2025, Toulouse, France (co-located with ESORICS 2025) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2025/ ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 17, 2025 Notification: -- July 31, 2025 Camera Ready: -- September 5, 2025 ====== 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. Submission should be done through the ESORICS 2025 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2025 and the select the track: DPM Workshop. 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 ================= - Abderrahim Ait Wakrime (Mohammed V University) - Ken Barker (University of Calgary) - Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) - Alessandro Brighente (University of Padova) - Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) - Jordi Castella-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) - Depeng Chen (Anhui University) - Mathieu Cunche (University of Lyon / Inria) - Frederic Cuppens (Polytechnique Montreal) - Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) - Jose M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) - Lorena Gonzalez Manzano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - M. Emre Gursoy (Koç University) - Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa) - Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London) - 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 (Universite de Toulouse) - Patrick Lacharme (Ensicaen) - Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan) - Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) - Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology) - Zoltan Mann (University of Halle-Wittenberg) - David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) - Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano) - Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) - Ruben Rios (University of Malaga) - Pierangela Samarati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) - Vicenc Torra (Umea University) - Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) - Isabel Wagner (University of Basel) - Jens Weber (University of Victoria) - Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shahaf Bassan on June 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 01 Jun '25

01 Jun '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shahaf Bassan, a senior PhD student in the Katz Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in explainable AI. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 10, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NTRxaDRxdG…> ). 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: “Formal XAI”: Can we formally explain ML models? Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The goal of explainability is to make sense of the decisions made by black-box ML models. Unfortunately, many existing explanation methods are heuristic, which makes them unreliable. In this talk, I will present our work on developing techniques that provide explanations with formal guarantees, ensuring their trustworthiness. These techniques often rely on formal verification, particularly neural network verification tools. In addition, we examine these explanations from a theoretical perspective - studying the computational challenges they pose and exploring ways to build practical tools that address these challenges and enable the generation of reliable explanations for ML models. Bio: Shahaf Bassan is a senior PhD student in the Katz Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in explainable AI. His research focuses on developing explanation techniques with formally provable guarantees, at the intersection of explainability, formal verification, and ML theory. His work spans both theoretical foundations and practical applications. Sahaf has presented his research at leading conferences in formal verification (e.g., TACAS) and machine learning (e.g., ICML, ICLR). His research goal is to enhance trust in ML models by providing trustworthy, verifiable explanations.

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ICFEM 2025 (Hangzhou): Extended deadline
by Étienne André 27 May '25

27 May '25

============================================================ Call for papers ICFEM 2025 The 26th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods 10-13 November 2025 (Hangzhou, China) ============================================================ https://icfem2025.github.io ** NEW: EXTENDED DEADLINES** - Abstract Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 => 11th June 2025 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 => 15th June 2025 ** NEW: SPECIAL ISSUES** - Invited extended versions of selected papers will be recommended to a special issue of Formal Aspects of Computing after the conference proceedings. - After the conference, the best software linked to a paper (typically any paper with a dedicated implementation) will be recommended to a special issue of the Software track of Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming journal. *ABOUT ICFEM* ICFEM is an internationally leading conference series in formal methods and software engineering. Since 1997, ICFEM has served as an international forum for researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government are encouraged to attend, present their research, and help advance the state of the art. ICFEM is interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, as well as in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefits. ICFEM has been hosted in many countries around the world. This year, the 26th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods will be held in Hangzhou, China (birthplace of DeepSeek). ICFEM 2025 welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners worldwide to advance the field of formal methods and software engineering. *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS* - Jifeng He, Tongji University, China - Mariëlle Stoelinga, Radboud University & University of Twente, the Netherland - Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK - Yongwang Zhao, Zhejiang University, China *PROGRAM CHAIRS* - Étienne André, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France - Jingyi Wang, Zhejiang University, China - Naijun Zhan, Peking University, China *HONORABLE CHAIRS* - Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Jifeng He, Tongji University, China - Huimin Lin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *CONFERENCE LOCAL CHAIRS* - Xinyu Wang, Zhejiang University, China - Wenhai Wang, Zhejiang University, China *PUBLICITY CHAIRS* - Yamine Aït-Ameur, University of Toulouse, France - Jie An, Institute of Software, CAS, China *TUTORIAL CHAIR* - Dongxia Wang, Zhejiang University, China *WORKSHOP CHAIR* - Mingshuai Chen, Zhejiang University, China *FINANCIAL CHAIR* - Ling Shi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *STEERING COMMITTEE* - David Basin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK - Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Jifeng He, Shanghai Academy of AI Industrial Technology, China - Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland - Shaoying Liu, Hiroshima University, Japan (Chair) - Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan - Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Formal specification and modeling - Formal approaches to fault prevention and detection - Abstraction, refinement, and evolution - Formal verification and validation - Integration of formal methods and testing - Integration of formal methods and review - SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing - Practical formal methods - Applications of formal methods - Formal approaches to software maintenance - Formal approaches to safety-critical system development - Supporting tools for formal methods - Formal methods for agile development - Formal methods for human-machine pair programming - Formal methods for and with AI - Formal methods for Cyber-physical systems and IoT - Formal methods for security - Formal certification of products - Industrial case studies *IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH)* - Abstract Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025 => 11th June 2025 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 => 15th June 2025 - Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2025 - Camera-ready Paper Submission Deadline: August 20, 2025 - Conference: November 10-13, 2025 *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Submission should be done through the ICFEM 2025 submission page. As in previous years, the proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English in the Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details found on https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. We encourage authors to add line numbers to their submissions. This can be done, for example, using the lineno LaTeX package. Main Conference Paper Submissions should not exceed 16 pages (excluding references and appendix) in Springer's LNCS format. Each submission will undergo a rigorous single-blind peer-review process by at least three experts. Doctoral Symposium seeks students' submissions in two categories: (1) 2-page extended abstracts which will not be included in the proceedings; (2) 6-page papers which will be included in the proceedings. The authors with accepted submissions are expected to present their work at the symposium. Journal-first Presentations invite interested researchers to submit a short proposal for their recently published journal articles, providing the authors an opportunity to speak directly to the community. Even though there will be no artifact evaluation at ICFEM this year, we encourage authors to upload their artifacts to an archive such as Zenodo or GitHub to ensure reproducibility and availability. *CONTACT INFORMATION* For any questions regarding submissions, please email the program chairs. For more information, please visit: https://icfem2025.github.io

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Formal Methods Update Meeting 2025
by Kumar Madhukar 24 May '25

24 May '25

Dear all, The Formal Methods Update Meeting 2025 will be held as a physical meeting at DA-IICT in Gandhinagar during 3–4 July, 2025. Please visit the website https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/update2025/ for registration and other details. The FM Update Meeting is an informal event organized by the FM community in India annually, with the aim of getting FM researchers together to present and discuss topical developments in their areas of interest. Everybody interested in the use of Formal Methods in Program Design and Verification and Theoretical Computer Science is welcome to join. If you would like to give a talk at the meeting, please send us a title and an abstract of your talk to fmupdatemeet(a)gmail.com. Best regards, Organizing Committee, FM Update Meeting 2025

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Deadline extended: Six PhD positions on "Cyclic Structures in Programs and Proofs" (The Netherlands, different locations)
by Jorge A. Pérez 22 May '25

22 May '25

*[Apologies for cross-posting; please forward to any good students you might know.]* We invite applications for six fully-funded PhD positions (4 years) in the project "Cyclic Structures in Programs and Proofs - New Harmonies in Software Correctness by Construction" https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies ===================================================== Due to several requests, the deadline for submitting applications has been extended. The new deadline is *Monday, May 26, 2025*, 23:59 (CET). ===================================================== # About the Project This €3 million project aims to advance software verification through fundamental research in the following areas: - Modal logic, proof theory, and coalgebras; - Programming languages, concurrency, and type systems; - Proof assistants (Agda, Rocq). Funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), this consortium brings together researchers from different universities: - Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) - Henning Basold (Leiden University) - Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University) - Georgiana Caltais (University of Twente) - Jesper Cockx (TU Delft) - Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen) - Robbert Krebbers (Radboud University Nijmegen) - Jorge Pérez (University of Groningen, Principal Investigator) # Candidate Profile We seek strong, highly motivated applicants who: - Have (or are close to completing) an MSc in Computer Science, Logic, Mathematics, or a related field. - Preferably have background or research experience in any of the areas above. - Have strong communication skills (oral and written) in English. # Position Details - The six PhD positions are fully funded, employed positions for four years. The conditions of employment follow the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. - Candidates will be based in and employed by one of the participating universities and collaborate with national and international partners. # How to Apply For full details about the six positions and to submit your application, visit: https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies/ Deadline (extended): Submit your application until Monday, May 26, 2025, 23:59 (CET), for full consideration. Applications will be reviewed until all positions are filled. Starting date: We expect positions to start in September 2025 (or soon thereafter). Some flexibility is possible, depending on the position. Questions and informal inquiries: Please contact Jorge Pérez (Principal Investigator) at <j.a.perez(a)rug.nl> -- Jorge A. Pérez Associate Professor Leader, Fundamental Computing group Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI University of Groningen, The Netherlands <https://www.jperez.nl> / <https://www.rug.nl/fse/fc>

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Sreejith A V on May 20 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 19 May '25

19 May '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Sreejith A V, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Goa. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 20, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NHRwODlxNj…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Active learning of deterministic one-counter automata Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Deterministic one-counter automata (DOCA) extend finite automata with a counter that can be incremented, decremented or reset to zero. The transition of a DOCA depends on the current state, the letter, and whether the current counter value is zero. In an active learning framework, a Learner intends to learn a language by querying the Teacher with membership and equivalence queries. Angluin's classical L* algorithm showed that in this framework, a DFA can be learnt in polynomial time. In this talk, we are interested in the active learning of DOCA. All existing algorithms for learning DOCA run in time exponential in the size of the minimal DOCA recognising the language. We present OL*, the first active learning algorithm that learns a DOCA in polynomial time. This is a joint work with Prince Mathew and Vincent Penelle. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04525 (to appear in LICS'25) Bio: Sreejith A V is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Goa. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science, especially formal methods. In the past, he has also held research positions in University of Tubingen, TIFR - Mumbai, LIAFA - Paris, CMI - Chennai, and University of Warsaw - Poland.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Sreejith A V on May 20 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 13 May '25

13 May '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Sreejith A V, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Goa. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 20, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NHRwODlxNj…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Active learning of deterministic one-counter automata Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Deterministic one-counter automata (DOCA) extend finite automata with a counter that can be incremented, decremented or reset to zero. The transition of a DOCA depends on the current state, the letter, and whether the current counter value is zero. In an active learning framework, a Learner intends to learn a language by querying the Teacher with membership and equivalence queries. Angluin's classical L* algorithm showed that in this framework, a DFA can be learnt in polynomial time. In this talk, we are interested in the active learning of DOCA. All existing algorithms for learning DOCA run in time exponential in the size of the minimal DOCA recognising the language. We present OL*, the first active learning algorithm that learns a DOCA in polynomial time. This is a joint work with Prince Mathew and Vincent Penelle. arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04525 (to appear in LICS'25) Bio: Sreejith A V is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Goa. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science, especially formal methods. In the past, he has also held research positions in University of Tubingen, TIFR - Mumbai, LIAFA - Paris, CMI - Chennai, and University of Warsaw - Poland.

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Women in Logic 2025 (Co-located with FSCD 2025) -- Deadline extension
by Tephilla 08 May '25

08 May '25

Dear colleague, Are you a woman working in logic? Please join us on July 14, 2025 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic! Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by ****May 10****, 2025 (AoE), via EasyChair. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions WiL 2025: 9th Women in Logic Workshop July 14, 2025 Co-located with FSCD 2025 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/wil2025__;!!IBzWL… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women in Logic 2025 is a satellite event of the 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025) to be held in Birmingham, UK, from July 14 to July 20, 2025. The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community. Our aim is to: * provide a platform for women researchers to share their work and achievements; * increase the feelings of community and belonging, especially among junior faculty, post-docs and students through positive interactions with peers and more established faculty; * establish new connections and collaborations; * foster a welcoming culture of mutual support and growth within the logic research community. We believe these aspects will benefit women working in logic and computer science, particularly early-career researchers. Previous versions of Women in Logic (Reykjavík 2017, Oxford 2018, Vancouver 2019, Paris 2020, Rome 2021, Haifa 2022, Rome 2023, Tallinn 2024) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for a recognition of the need for change in the community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: automata theory, automated deduction, categorical models and logics, concurrency and distributed computation, constraint programming, constructive mathematics, database theory, decision procedures, description logics, domain theory, finite model theory, formal aspects of program analysis, formal methods, foundations of computability, games and logic, higher-order logic, lambda and combinatory calculi, linear logic, logic in artificial intelligence, logic programming, logical aspects of bioinformatics, logical aspects of computational complexity, logical aspects of quantum computation, logical frameworks, logics of programs, modal and temporal logics, model checking, probabilistic systems, process calculi, programming language semantics, proof theory, real-time systems, reasoning about security and privacy, rewriting, type systems and type theory, and verification. INVITED SPEAKERS * TBA IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission deadline: May 10, 2025 -- Extended! * Notification: May 15, 2025 * Early registration: TBA * Contribution for Informal Proceedings: June 25, 2025 * Workshop: July 14, 2025 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style ( https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors_… ). The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2025 Easychair page https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wil202… as a PDF file before the submission deadline on May 5, 2025, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Lourdes Del Carmen González Huesca (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) * Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) * Raheleh Jalali (University of Bath) * Delia Kesner (Université Paris Cité) * Anela Lolic (Co-chair, TU Wien) * Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) * Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) * Anja Petkovic Komel (TU Wien) * Elaine Pimentel (Co-chair, UCL) * Tephilla Prince (Co-chair, IIT Dharwad) * Krishna S. (IIT Bombay) More TBA GRANTS A limited number of travel grants is available for students/young researchers who would not otherwise have resources to attend WiL, and whose attendance would benefit both the applicant and the event. We expect to be able to help with registration/local/travel expenses. Applicants should note that grants are limited, and that costs in excess of the grant will not be reimbursed. Grants will be awarded to (co-)authors of accepted papers, based on the grant committee's assessment of the applicant's genuine financial need, the potential benefit to the applicant's education and research, and the potential benefit to WiL. Applications should be sent by May 17 2025 via the form: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/hSnTGEEddPZRYqqx5__;!!IBzWLUs… The award notification date is May 19, 2025. The grants will be presented at the conferences; in case a grantee does not attend, the chairs may transfer the grant to another student or give no award. The grants are kindly offered by ACM SIGLOG, Jane Street, VeTSS, Microsoft, TOPOS Institute and Kurt Gödel Society. -- Tephilla Prince Research Scholar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT Dharwad

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Six PhD positions on "Cyclic Structures in Programs and Proofs" (The Netherlands) - Apply by May 23.
by Jorge A. Pérez 08 May '25

08 May '25

*[Apologies for cross-posting; please forward to any good students you might know.]* We invite applications for six fully-funded PhD positions (4 years) in the project "Cyclic Structures in Programs and Proofs – New Harmonies in Software Correctness by Construction" https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies Deadline approaching! Submit your application until Friday, *May 23, 2025*, 23:59 (CET <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cet>). About the Project This €3 million project aims to advance software verification through fundamental research in the following areas: - Modal logic, proof theory, and coalgebras; - Programming languages, concurrency, and type systems; - Proof assistants (Agda, Rocq). Funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), this consortium brings together researchers from different universities: - Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) - Henning Basold (Leiden University) - Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University) - Georgiana Caltais (University of Twente) - Jesper Cockx (TU Delft) - Helle Hvid Hansen (University of Groningen) - Robbert Krebbers (Radboud University Nijmegen) - Jorge Pérez (University of Groningen, Principal Investigator) Candidate Profile We seek strong, highly motivated applicants who: - Have (or are close to completing) an MSc in Computer Science, Logic, Mathematics, or a related field. - Preferably have background or research experience in any of the areas above. - Have strong communication skills (oral and written) in English. Position Details - The six PhD positions are fully funded, employed positions for four years. The conditions of employment follow the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. - Candidates will be based in and employed by one of the participating universities and collaborate with national and international partners. How to Apply For full details about the six positions and to submit your application, visit: https://cyclic-structures.gitlab.io/vacancies/ Deadline: Submit your application until Friday, May 23, 2025, 23:59 (CET <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cet>), for full consideration. Applications will be reviewed until all positions are filled. Starting date: We expect positions to start in September 2025 (or soon thereafter). Some flexibility is possible, depending on the position. Questions and informal inquiries: Please contact Jorge Pérez (Principal Investigator) at <j.a.perez(a)rug.nl> -- Jorge A. Pérez Associate Professor Leader, Fundamental Computing group Bernoulli Institute for Math, CS and AI University of Groningen, The Netherlands <https://www.jperez.nl> / <https://www.rug.nl/fse/fc>

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Call for paper: Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis
by Priyanka Golia 05 May '25

05 May '25

Dear all, This is a call for papers for the Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis (MCW) 2025. We invite you to submit your already published work or work in progress on model counting, sampling, and synthesis to this year's edition of MCW 2025. The workshop covers advanced topics such as weighted and projected counters/samplers, and various domains such as SAT, SMT, ASP, and CP. The workshop has expanded its focus to include the role of model counters, samplers, and solvers in automated synthesis. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of cutting-edge theoretical and practical insights, with a particular emphasis on innovative solver technologies and their real-world applications. It is a pre-conference workshop as part of SAT 2025, and will be held in University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland. This year, SAT 2025 will be colocated with the 31st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), the 18th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), and the 23rd International Workshop on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). For more information visit the website: https://mccompetition.org/2025/mcw_description.html Regards, Priyanka Golia – On behalf of the workshop organizers: Paulius Dilkas and Priyanka Golia

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Deadline Extended August 31： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 30 Apr '25

30 Apr '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-… Important Dates Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2025 Review result notification: November 1, 2025 Acceptance/rejection: December 31, 2025 In a smart city, numerous artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) communicate and collaborate to improve our quality of life. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) are foundational technologies that have been interacting with each other to realize a smart life. As massive amounts of sensitive data are generated, processed, and exchanged through IoT devices and AI technologies, one of the fundamental problems is how to provide intelligent services in smart cities without compromising security and privacy. This special issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in IoT, AI, and network security, to share their novel ideas and latest findings in relation to security and privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities. The scope and interests for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following list: ● Secure IoT infrastructure for smart cities ● Secure smart city applications, including secure AI-driven IoT applications ● Authentication and access control in IoT-enabled smart cities ● Intrusion detection for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Architectures and standards for secure IoT systems ● AI and big data techniques for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Blockchain technology for IoT-enabled secure smart cities ● Secure multi-party computation techniques for ML ● Security optimization in heterogeneous environments ● AI-driven mechanisms and models to perform attacks ● Security and privacy issues in AI-enabled IoT communications and systems ● Privacy-preserving ML ● Privacy-preserving data mining ● Privacy and anonymity techniques for IoT and AI ● Data privacy in AIoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy preserving techniques for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Privacy modeling and analysis for IoT-enabled smart cities ● Miscellaneous privacy issues in AIoT-enabled smart cities Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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Last call for papers: PNSE 2025
by Étienne André 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Call for Papers International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering PNSE’25, Paris, France, June 23-24, 2025 http://www.pnse.de PNSE’25 is a satellite event of PETRI NETS’25 https://petrinets25.github.io/web/ Scope For the successful realisation of complex systems of interacting and reactive software and hardware components the use of a precise language at different stages of the development process is of crucial importance. Petri nets are becoming increasingly popular in this area, as they provide a uniform language supporting the tasks of modelling, validation, and verification. We welcome contributions describing original research in topics related to Petri nets in combination with software engineering, addressing open problems or presenting new ideas regarding the relation of Petri nets and software engineering. Furthermore, we look for surveys addressing open problems and new applications of Petri nets and for Petri nets. Important Dates: Deadline for papers: 25 April 2025 Notification of paper acceptance: 19 May 2025 Deadline for posters: 25 May 2025 Notification of poster acceptance: 28 May 2025 Deadline for final revisions: 30 May 2025 Topics Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Software Engineering agile development product lines software in business contexts software development and production environments; DevOps; IDEs; continuous integration programming and concurrency technologies: hadoop / MapReduce; akka, Spark; Flink; STORM etc. distributed database technology: redis; cassandra; CouchDB; mongoDB etc. concepts for mobility, concurrency, non-determinism, distribution, embedding, flexibility social concepts for norms, rules, contracts, communication, co-ordination, co-operation software engineering addressing Petri nets, UML techniques, BPMN, BPEL, eEPCs, CMMN and other modelling techniques - Modelling representation of formal models by intuitive modelling concepts guidelines for the construction of system models adaption, integration, and enhancement of concepts from other disciplines views and abstractions of systems meta-modelling and domain specific languages (DSLs) model-driven architecture modelling software landscapes web service-based software development - Validation and Execution prototyping simulation, observation, animation code generation and execution testing and debugging efficient implementation - Verification structural methods (e.g. place invariants, reduction rules) results for structural subclasses of nets state space based approaches efficient model checking assertional and deductive methods (e.g. temporal logics) process algebraic methods model and graph transformation applications of category theory, rewriting logic and linear logic - Application of Petri nets and Software Engineering, in particular in the domains of … education, training and teaching at any level, flexible manufacturing, logistics, telecommunication, big data, cyber-physical systems, internet-of-things, grid and cloud computing, distributed systems, workflow management and embedded systems. - Tools in the fields mentioned above Submissions The program committee invites submissions of full contributions (up to 20 pages excluding references) or short contributions (5 - 8 pages excluding references). Ongoing work (up to 3 pages including references) can be presented in a special poster session. Papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using the CEUR latex style: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Submissions should include title, authors' addresses, E-mail addresses, keywords and an abstract. For your submission please use the track "International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering 2025" at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2025 The papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the workshop and published online. The best papers from the workshop will be invited for publication in a volume of the journal sub-line of Lecture Notes in Computer Science entitled "Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency" (ToPNoC). The papers are expected to be thoroughly revised and they will go through a totally new round of reviewing. PC Chairs Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, University of Applied Science Hamburg, Germany Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany Heiko Rölke, FH Graubünden, Austria In case of any problems please contact us by email: pnse25(a)easychair.org

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Deadline Extended August 31： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 21 Apr '25

21 Apr '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: August 31, 2025 Review result notification: November 1, 2025 Acceptance/rejection: December 31, 2025 Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- 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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FMCAD 2025: Deadline Extension
by Daniela Kaufmann 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '25

================================================================================ Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) 2025 - Deadline Extension ================================================================================ 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 28, 2025 (extended from April 20, 2025) *Paper Submission Deadline: May 5, 2025 (extended from 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 Hyvärinen, 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 University 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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Deadline Extended August 31： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 14 Apr '25

14 Apr '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: August 31, 2025 Review result notification: November 1, 2025 Acceptance/rejection: December 31, 2025 Submission Format and Guideline Authors should follow the "Guidelines for Authors" from The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). Details can be found at Guide for authors - Journal of Systems Architecture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/publi…) Solicited original submissions must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Submission site for Journal of Systems Architecture ( https://www.editorialmanager.com/jsa/default.aspx) Please select the “VSI:SPASS” option as article type of the paper. Guest editors: Associate Prof. Qin Liu Hunan University, Changsha, China Prof. Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Prof. Richard Hill University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Associate Prof. Wenjia Li UK New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, USA -- 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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ATVA 2025: Call for papers - Deadlines extended
by B Srivathsan 11 Apr '25

11 Apr '25

Call for Papers - Deadlines extended ------------------------------- **Paper submission extended to April 25, 2025 (AoE)** The 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025) 27-30 October 2025, Bangalore, India https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025 AIM AND SCOPE 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 (all deadlines in AoE) - Abstract + Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2025 - Author response period: June 17 - 20, 2025 - Paper notification: July 4, 2025 - Camera-ready deadline: August 1, 2025 - Tutorials: October 27, 2025 - Workshops: 31 October 2025 - Conference: October 28 - October 30, 2025 ARTIFACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all deadlines in AoE): For tool papers: - Artifact submission deadline: May 2, 2025 - Smoke test reviews: May 9, 2025 - Submission of revised artifacts: May 11, 2025 - Author notification: July 4, 2025 For accepted regular papers: - Artifact submission: July 8, 2025 - Author notification: July 27, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed and encouraged. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2025>. Submissions in both categories must be in Springer's LNCS format. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A few outstanding papers will 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. 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 a repository in their original submission, if such a repository is available and is pertinent to the paper. This repository could contain code, datasets, results, etc. This would be for the consideration of the PC reviewers of the submission, at their discretion. If such a URL is included in the submission, the contents of the repository should adhere to the guidelines of a double-blind review process. The review process will include a rebuttal period where the authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. 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 conference web site. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS We invite proposals for organizing workshops as part of ATVA 2025. Workshops will be held post-conference, on 31 October 2025. Proposals may be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyZ7otNMqivg5xnS2aPIyzEKW__LPC2SE…>. The last date for submitting workshop proposals is 30 April 2025. CALL FOR TUTORIALS We invite proposals for organizing tutorials as a part of ATVA 2025. Tutorials will be held pre-conference, on 27 October 2025. Tutorial proposals can be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLRNufBv7sL-_SJWJXhs7aLOnML_mn3S9…>. The last date for submitting tutorial proposals is 30 April 2025. GENERAL CHAIR Deepak D’Souza, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-Bangalore, India PROGRAM CHAIRS Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT-Bangalore, India < meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in > K. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India < raghavan(a)iisc.ac.in > B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India < sri(a)cmi.ac.in > ARTIFACT EVALUATION CHAIRS Jie An, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi, India

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Nikhil Swamy on April 8 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Nikhil Swamy, a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 8, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=Mm5wcm80ZW…> ). 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: Pulse: Proof-oriented Programming with Concurrent Separation Logic in F* Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: F* is a dependently typed programming language. It has been used to develop more than a million lines of verified code and proofs, for artifacts ranging from cryptographic libraries to networking components. Some of this verified software runs in widely used production systems, ranging from the Windows kernel to the Python standard library. However, most of this corpus of verified code is purely sequential. Pulse is a new extension of F* enabling programming and proving imperative programs with shared-memory concurrency. Proofs in Pulse are conducted in a new program logic called PulseCore, a concurrent separation logic with state-of-the-art features, including higher-order ghost state and impredicative invariants, backed by a foundational semantics developed within F* itself. Programs are verified in Pulse using a custom checker with a combination of tactics and SMT solving. Once proven, programs in Pulse can be extracted to OCaml, C, or Rust, depending on the libraries and features used. Pulse is being used in a number of new projects, including in the development of verified firmware, in new libraries for secure data formatting, and for verified CPU/GPU programs. I will provide some background on F* and concurrent separation logic, and then introduce Pulse by way of examples and a tool demonstration. Bio: Nikhil Swamy is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, working in the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group. He is interested in type systems, program logics, functional programming, program verification and interactive theorem proving, and also in the use of these techniques to build provably secure programs, including web applications, web browsers, crypto protocol implementations, and low-level systems code.

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Reminder: Webinar on logic education
by Madhavan Mukund 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

A reminder about this talk tomorrow. The Europe times in the original message were wrong. They have been corrected below. ----- Forwarded message from R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> ----- From: R Ramanujam <jam(a)imsc.res.in> The DLMPST Commission on Logic Education https://dlmps.org/pages/commissions.php invites you to a webinar on logic education by Professor Maria Manzano. Date: Apr 8, 2025 Time: 1000 New York, 1400 GMT, 1600 Amsterdam, 1930 Bangalore, 2200 Beijing Zoom link: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/89497108451?pwd=rLl7QvAfnfJHTxp5h6ZVoZzyGuvNQQ.1 Meeting ID: 894 9710 8451 Passcode: udayana Talk details: Tools for teaching logic Maria Manzano Salamanca, Spain I will tell you about the European ALFA project on Tools for Teaching Logic that we had last century and about the International TTL Congresses that we held in 2000, 2006, 2015, and 2023. The first goal of the ALFA project was to share our experience as teachers among Aracne members. We proposed: (1) the preparation of a metabook (with hypertext version), (2) the design of an on-line dictionary of logic terms, (3) the investigation of the existing software for the teaching of logic, (4) the translation of both elementary and interdisciplinary texts and software, (5) to help potential authors to write lecture notes, (6) the dissemination of our project both within our academic community and outside it (high school), thus bolstering a good image of Logic and (7) to support women’s participation in higher education. The network we created was interdisciplinary and included professors and researchers from philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Some of the results of the project can be consulted on the Aracne website (aracne.usal.es.) and others in the Summa Logicae digital library (logicae.usal.es) Speaker Bio: María Gracia Manzano Arjona is a Spanish philosopher specializing in mathematical logic and model theory. Manzano earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Barcelona. Her dissertation, Sistemas generales de la lógica de segundo orden [General systems of second-order logic], was supervised by Jesús Mosterín. She is a professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the University of Salamanca. She is the author of several books on logic and model theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Manzano -- R Ramanujam ----- End forwarded message -----

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ATVA 2025: Joint Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

----- Forwarded message from Meenakshi D'Souza <meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: Meenakshi D'Souza <meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 18:03:40 +0000 Subject: ATVA 2025: Joint Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials ------------------------------------------------------- The 23rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2025) 27-30 October 2025, Bangalore, India https://conf.researchr.org/home/atva-2025 AIM AND SCOPE 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 (all deadlines in AoE) - Abstract submission deadline: April 11, 2025 - Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2025 - Author response period: June 10 - 13, 2025 - Paper notification: June 25, 2025 - Camera-ready deadline: July 25, 2025 - Tutorials: October 27, 2025 - Workshops: 31 October 2025 - Conference: October 28 - October 30, 2025 ARTIFACT SUBMISSION DEADLINES (all deadlines in AoE): For tool papers: - Artifact submission deadline: April 25, 2025 - Smoke test reviews: May 1, 2025 - Submission of revised artifacts: May 3, 2025 - Author notification: June 25, 2025 For accepted regular papers: - Artifact submission: June 28, 2025 - Author notification: July 21, 2025 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 authored or co-authored by members of the program committee are allowed and encouraged. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2025>. Submissions in both categories must be in Springer's LNCS format. Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A few outstanding papers will 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. 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 a repository in their original submission, if such a repository is available and is pertinent to the paper. This repository could contain code, datasets, results, etc. This would be for the consideration of the PC reviewers of the submission, at their discretion. If such a URL is included in the submission, the contents of the repository should adhere to the guidelines of a double-blind review process. The review process will include a rebuttal period where the authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. An artifact evaluation will be undertaken, which will be optional for regular papers and mandatory for tool papers. 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 conference web site. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS We invite proposals for organizing workshops as part of ATVA 2025. Workshops will be held post-conference, on 31 October 2025. Proposals may be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyZ7otNMqivg5xnS2aPIyzEKW__LPC2SE…>. The last date for submitting workshop proposals is 30 April 2025. CALL FOR TUTORIALS We invite proposals for organizing tutorials as a part of ATVA 2025. Tutorials will be held pre-conference, on 27 October 2025. Tutorial proposals can be submitted via this Proposal Form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLRNufBv7sL-_SJWJXhs7aLOnML_mn3S9…>. The last date for submitting tutorial proposals is 30 April 2025. GENERAL CHAIR Deepak D’Souza, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-Bangalore, India PROGRAM CHAIRS Meenakshi D’Souza, IIIT-Bangalore, India < meenakshi(a)iiitb.ac.in > K. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India < raghavan(a)iisc.ac.in > B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India < sri(a)cmi.ac.in > ARTIFACT EVALUATION CHAIRS Jie An, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi, India ----- End forwarded message -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Nikhil Swamy on April 8 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 04 Apr '25

04 Apr '25

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by Madhavan Mukund 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

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Call For Papers - APLAS 2025, Bengaluru, India
by Madhavan Mukund 26 Mar '25

26 Mar '25

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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

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

06 Mar '25

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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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The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) - Call for Papers Extension
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENSION --------------- As requested by many authors, we extend the paper submission deadlines. The new submission deadlines are 16 February 2025 (Paper Registration) and 23 February 2025 (Full Paper Submission). The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) 2-4 July 2025, Gold Coast, Australia https://iwqos2025.ieee-iwqos.org/ Overview We invite the submission of manuscripts presenting original research results to the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2025, which will be held from July 2-4, 2025, in Gold Coast, Australia. Quality of Service (QoS) has long been a central focus for communications and networking researchers worldwide. While traditional QoS research areas continue to garner significant interest, emerging domains such as the Internet of Things, data centers, virtualization, cloud and fog computing, green computing, and artificial intelligence are driving a new wave of research into service guarantees related to QoS, Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Protection (QoP), Software Quality, Data Quality, and, more broadly, Quality of Information Technology. For over two decades, IWQoS has established itself as a premier forum for presenting novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects. The 33rd International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025) aims to continue this tradition as an international platform for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field. The scope of IWQoS encompasses both the latest theoretical advancements and experimental research papers. Topics of Interest - Artificial Intelligence for QoS - Data analytics for QoS - QoS for data analytics and machine learning - QoS in Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical networks - QoS in cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing - Blockchain for QoS - Security, privacy, system dependability, resilience and robustness - QoS in software-defined networking - QoS in information-centric networking - QoS in mobile and next generation cellular networks - System dependability, availability, resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks - Robustness against security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures - QoS-aware scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control - Traffic engineering approaches and tools for QoS provisioning and evaluation - QoS evaluation metrics and methodologies - Quality of software - QoE in multimedia networks - Measurement, evaluation, adaptation, and verification - Network operations, network economics, pricing and billing - Architectures and protocols for QoS, QoP or QoE support - Energy awareness in communication and computing systems - Design for future networks and computing systems with integrated QoS Important Dates (AoE) - Paper Registration Deadline: 16 February 2025 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: 23 February 2025 - Early Rejection Notification: 14 March 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: 4 April 2025 - Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 25 April 2025 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit manuscripts not exceeding 10 single-spaced, double-column pages (including references) using a font size of 10 points, formatted according to the standard IEEE template for LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Templates can be downloaded by selecting Conferences in the IEEE Template Selector at https://template-selector.ieee.org/. The review process will be double-blind, requiring submissions to avoid revealing the authors' names and affiliations, as well as to refrain from obvious self-references. Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. All submissions must be made electronically as PDF files. Please follow the submission like on https://iwqos2025.hotcrp.com/ to submit your paper. More information can be found on the website of IWQoS 2025: https://iwqos2025.ieee-iwqos.org/authors/call-papers Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs - Dan Kim, The University of Queensland, Australia - Surya Nepal, CSIRO's Data61, Australia Program Co-Chairs - Qi Li, Tsinghua University, China - Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia - Guangdong Bai, The University of Queensland, Australia Finance/Sponsorship Chair - Xingliang Yuan, The University of Melburne, Australia Local Co-Chairs - Naipeng Dong, The University of Queensland, Australia - Yu Zhang, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs - Jianliang Wu, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Neeraj Kumar Singh, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France - Ruitao Feng, Southern Cross University, Australia Publication Chair - Kailong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

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CFP： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '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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The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) - Call for Papers
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

-------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------- The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) 2-4 July 2025, Gold Coast, Australia https://iwqos2025.ieee-iwqos.org/ Overview We invite the submission of manuscripts presenting original research results to the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2025, which will be held from July 2-4, 2025, in Gold Coast, Australia. Quality of Service (QoS) has long been a central focus for communications and networking researchers worldwide. While traditional QoS research areas continue to garner significant interest, emerging domains such as the Internet of Things, data centers, virtualization, cloud and fog computing, green computing, and artificial intelligence are driving a new wave of research into service guarantees related to QoS, Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Protection (QoP), Software Quality, Data Quality, and, more broadly, Quality of Information Technology. For over two decades, IWQoS has established itself as a premier forum for presenting novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects. The 33rd International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025) aims to continue this tradition as an international platform for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field. The scope of IWQoS encompasses both the latest theoretical advancements and experimental research papers. Topics of Interest - Artificial Intelligence for QoS - Data analytics for QoS - QoS for data analytics and machine learning - QoS in Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical networks - QoS in cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing - Blockchain for QoS - Security, privacy, system dependability, resilience and robustness - QoS in software-defined networking - QoS in information-centric networking - QoS in mobile and next generation cellular networks - System dependability, availability, resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks - Robustness against security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures - QoS-aware scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control - Traffic engineering approaches and tools for QoS provisioning and evaluation - QoS evaluation metrics and methodologies - Quality of software - QoE in multimedia networks - Measurement, evaluation, adaptation, and verification - Network operations, network economics, pricing and billing - Architectures and protocols for QoS, QoP or QoE support - Energy awareness in communication and computing systems - Design for future networks and computing systems with integrated QoS Important Dates (AoE) - Paper Registration Deadline: 9 February 2025 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: 16 February 2025† - Early Rejection Notification: 14 March 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: 4 April 2025 - Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 25†April 2025 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit manuscripts not exceeding 10 single-spaced, double-column pages (including references) using a font size of 10 points, formatted according to the standard IEEE template for LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Templates can be downloaded by selecting ìConferencesî in the IEEE Template Selector at https://template-selector.ieee.org/. The review process will be double-blind, requiring submissions to avoid revealing the authors' names and affiliations, as well as to refrain from obvious self-references. Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. All submissions must be made electronically as PDF files. Please follow the submission like on https://iwqos2025.hotcrp.com/ to submit your paper. More information can be found on the website of IWQoS 2025: https://iwqos2025.ieee-iwqos.org/authors/call-papers Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs - Dan Kim, The University of Queensland, Australia - Surya†Nepal, CSIRO's Data61, Australia Program Co-Chairs - Qi Li, Tsinghua University, China - Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia - Guangdong Bai,†The University of Queensland, Australia Finance/Sponsorship Chair - Xingliang Yuan, The University of Melburne, Australia Local Co-Chairs - Naipeng Dong, The University of Queensland, Australia - Yu Zhang, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs - Jianliang Wu, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Neeraj Kumar Singh, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France - Ruitao Feng,†Southern Cross University, Australia Publication Chair - Kailong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

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Final call for papers: Petri Nets 2025 (Paris)
by Étienne André 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

============================================================ Final call for papers PETRI NETS 2025 46th international conference on application and theory of Petri nets and concurrency ============================================================ *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** Paris, France 23-27 June 2025 https://petrinets25.github.io/web/ ## Paper Submission Petri Nets 2025 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or tools related to the topics mentioned below. * Regular papers (20 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe original results pertaining to the development of the theory of Petri nets and distributed and concurrent systems in general, new results extending the applicability of Petri nets, or case studies, application and experience reports pertinent to the practical use of Petri nets and concurrency. * Tool papers (10 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe a computer tool based on Petri nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool). The tool should be available for use by other groups (but not necessarily for free). The submission should indicate how the reviewers can get access to the tool (this must be for free). The tool will be demonstrated in the Tool Exhibition, in addition to being presented in a conference talk. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English using the Springer LNCS format, including line numbers (e.g.,https://ctan.org/pkg/lineno LaTeX package) and submitted electronically (as a PDF file) by the deadline using EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2025). ## Important dates EXTENDED abstract submission : 15 January 2025 => 29 January 2025 EXTENDED aubmission of papers : 22 January 2025 => 29 January 2025 Notification : 10 March 2025 Final version due : 24 March 2025 Participation in tool exhibition: 30 May 2025 Workshops and Tutorials : 23-24 June 2025 Main Conference : 25-27 June 2025 The deadline is the end of day (AoE). ## Topics of Interest Topics specific to Petri Nets * Analysis and synthesis, structure and behavior of nets * System design and model-driven development using nets * Relationships between Petri nets and other approaches * Net-based semantical, logical and algebraic calculi * Higher-level net models (colored nets, timed nets, etc.) * Stochastic net models * Verification and model checking using nets * Process discovery and conformance checking * Computer tools for nets * Standardization of nets * Experience reports describing applications of nets to different kinds of systems and application fields (e.g., flexible manufacturing systems, office automation, real-time systems, workflows, embedded systems, process mining, biological systems, supervisory control, health and medical systems, protocols and networks, environmental systems, Internet and Web services, hardware, e-commerce and trading, telecommunications, programming languages, railway networks, performance evaluation, component based development, operations research) General topics of interest related to concurrency * Application of concurrency to system design: formal models for designing computer systems with concurrent behavior, applied research aimed at designing computer systems which exhibit concurrency, etc. * Model checking and verification of distributed systems * Verification of infinite-state or parametric systems * Causality/partial order theory of concurrency * Educational issues related to concurrency * New developments in the theory of concurrency * Modeling of hardware and biological systems Papers presenting original research on application or theory of Petri nets, as well as contributions addressing topics relevant to the general field of distributed and concurrent systems or focused on applications of concurrency to system design are sought. The language of the conference is English, and its proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS. All accepted papers will be considered for an Outstanding Paper award. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version that will be further reviewed for inclusion into a special issue of a renowned journal. ## Tool Exhibition An exhibition of Petri net tools will take place on Wednesday June 25. It consists of informal demonstrations for small groups/individuals and there are no scheduled talks. Requests for participation in the tool exhibition must be sent to the Tool Exhibition chairs by the deadline stated at the top of this Call for Papers. They should include a link to the Web pages for the tool (or a short description of the tool). The demonstrators should bring their own laptops, while the organisers may be requested to give access to the Internet. ## Courses, Workshops and Tutorials The main conference takes place from Wednesday 25 to Friday 27. The two days before the main conference also offer a wide range of activities. The Petri Net Course takes place from Monday 23 to Tuesday 24. It offers a thorough introduction to Petri nets in half-days and full-day modules. For successful participation in the entire course, including preparation and examination, two credit points (ECTS) will be awarded. Each module of the course can also be taken separately, without any credit. Detailed descriptions of Workshops and Tutorials will be made available via the conference Web page. It is also possible to arrange Meetings and Courses related to Petri Nets. Submissions for such activities must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by the Workshops and Tutorials chairs via email no later than January 15, 2025. ## Organization The 46th annual international Petri Nets conference will be organised by the LoVe (Logics and Verification) team at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France) jointly with members of the MeFoSyLoMa group. The conference will take place at the Campus Condorcet. ### Organization Committee * Étienne André (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) * Carlos Olarte (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) ### Program committee co-chairs * Elvio Amparore, Italy * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland ### Workshops co-chairs * Giuliana Franceschinis, Italy * Karsten Wolf, Germany ### Petri Net Course and Tutorials co-chairs * Jörg Desel, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway ### Publicity chair * Benoît Barbot, France ## Program committee * Elvio Amparore, Italy (co-chair) * Abel Armas Cervantes, Australia * João Paulo Barros, Portugal * Benoît Delahaye, France * João Miguel Fernandes, Portugal * Guiliana Franceschinis, Italy * Luis Gomes, Portugal * Xudong He, USA * Loïc Helouet, France * Wojciech Jamroga, Luxemburg * Gabriel Juhás, Slovakia * Anna Kalenkova, Australia * Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway * Lisa Mannel, Germany * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland (co-chair) * Andrew Miner, USA * Guillermo Alberto Perez, Belgium * Marta Pietkiewicz-Koutny, UK * Artem Polyvyanyy, Australia * Lucia Pomello, Italy * Andrey Rivkin, Denmark * Natalia Sidorova, The Netherlands * Jiří Srba, Denmark * Jeremy Sproston, Italy * Nathalie Sznajder, France * Remigiusz Wisniewski, Poland * Karsten Wolf, Germany

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CFP： Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities
by Qin Liu 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '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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Last Call for ECOOP 2025 Workshop Proposals
by Clément Aubert 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSAL % ECOOP'25 % Mon 30 June - Fri 4 July 2025 Bergen, Norway % https://2025.ecoop.org/ % https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-workshops#Call-for-Workshops %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Overview ------------- ECOOP (the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming) hosts a diverse offering of workshops bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experiences. Topics for workshops may include, but are not limited to, the theory, design, implementation, optimization, testing, and analysis of programs and programming languages. Workshops will run after the program of the main conference (Thu. 3 − Fri. 4 July 2025). The organizers will investigate the possibility of organizing the publication of a single-volume peer-reviewed post-proceedings if there is enough interest. Submission link: https://framaforms.org/proposal-for-ecoop25-workshop-1729617158 Please contact ECOOP'25 workshops chair, Clément Aubert (caubert(a)augusta.edu or clement.aubert(a)math.cnrs.fr) if you have any questions. Timeline ------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the last submission date being on January 24, 2025. - Workshops must send notifications for accepted papers by June 21, 2025, which will be about one week before the early registration deadline. - The workshop's website must be live within two weeks of notification of the workshop's acceptance and include relevant information about the organizers and any call for contributions. To submit a proposal for an ECOOP'25 workshop, please complete the online form linked above. After submitting, you will receive an automated email confirmation of your submission and, within at most four weeks (or shortly after the final submission deadline), a formal response notifying you if the workshop has been accepted for ECOOP'25. -- Clément Aubert, Associate Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, https://spots.augusta.edu/caubert/

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FMCAD 2025 - Call for Papers
by Daniela Kaufmann 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

================================================================================ * Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) 2025 - 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, introducenew 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 * Local Chair Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, SRI, CA, USA * Registration Chair Jenny McNeill, SRI, CA, USA * Student Forum Chair 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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TASE 2025: Call For Papers
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 17 Jan '25

17 Jan '25

TASE 2025 Call For Papers Limassol, Cyprus, July 14-16, 2025 https://cyprusconferences.org/tase2025/ The 19th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Conference (TASE 2025) will be held in Limassol, Cyprus, on July 14-16, 2025. TASE 2025 aims to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry with interest in the theoretical aspects of software engineering. Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to current software engineering methodologies that need to be enhanced using modern results from theoretical computer science. We invite submission of research papers on topics covering all theoretical aspects of software engineering, including those describing applications of theoretical computer science in industrial applications and software engineering methodologies. Important Dates Abstract Submission : Feb 1, 2025 (AoE) Paper Submission : Feb 7, 2025 (AoE) Author Notification : April 1, 2025 (AoE) Camera-ready Version and Author Registration : May 1, 2025 (AoE) Conference : July 14-16, 2025 Topics of Interest Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all theoretical aspects of software engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Software engineering, including: ■ Software processes and workflows ■ Software architectures and design ■ Software product lines ■ Requirements engineering ■ Model-driven software engineering ■ Software testing and quality assurance ■ Software safety, security and reliability ■ Reverse engineering and software maintenance ■ Component-based software engineering ■ Feature-oriented programming ■ Program synthesis ■ Use of AI and large language models in software engineering Formal methods and theoretical computer science, including: ■ Deductive verification ■ Model checking ■ Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT and SMT ■ Specification languages ■ Program logics and calculi ■ Formal languages and automata theory ■ Run-time verification and monitoring ■ Integration of formal methods ■ Formal methods for AI systems, and vice versa Programming language design and technology, including: ■ Formal semantics ■ Abstract interpretation and program analysis ■ Language paradigms, including object-oriented, functional, declarative, etc. ■ Type systems and behavioral typing ■ Compiler design ■ Domain-specific languages Tools and application areas, including: ■ Software tools putting theory into practice ■ Cyber-physical, embedded, and real-time systems ■ Distributed and concurrent systems ■ Semantic web and web services ■ Service-oriented programming and cloud computing ■ Quantum circuits and programs ■ Cryptographic algorithms Submission Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography) for long papers and 6 pages (excluding bibliography) for short papers in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the TASE 2025 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2025. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue in journal Science of Computer Programming (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-computer-programming) Organization Committee. General Chair George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) PC Chairs Zhilin Wu (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Philipp Rümmer (University of Regensburg, Germany) Local Organization Chair George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Publicity Chair Qinxiang Cao (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) PC Members Jie An (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Zoltán Horváth (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary) Zhenya Zhang (Kyushu University, Japan) Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Wanwei Liu (National University of Defense Technology, China) Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Yedi Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Zhe Hou (Griffith Univerity, Australia) Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen University, China) Hongfei Fu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Guangdong Bai (The University of Queensland, Australia) Jyun-Ao Lin (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, China) Shaoying Liu (Hiroshima University, Japan) Marc Frappier (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Julie Cailler (Loria, University of Lorraine, France) Dominique Mery (Loria, Université de Lorraine, France) Andreas Katis (KBR Inc. at NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Grigory Fedyukovich (Florida State University, USA) Mingshuai Chen (Zhejiang University, China) Mohammed Erradi (ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco) Ramanathan S. Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Lucas Cordeiro (The University of Manchester, UK) Andrei Paskevich (Université Paris-Sud, LRI, France) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, Neitherlands) Peter Backeman (Mälardalen University, Sweden) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University, USA) Nikolaj Bjørner (Microsoft, USA) Mizuhito Ogawa (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Aaron Tomb (Amazon Web Services, USA) Jun Sun (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Daniel Stan (LRDE, Epita Paris, France) Eric Mercer (Brigham Young University, USA)

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Petri Nets 2025: deadline extension
by Étienne André 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

============================================================ Call for papers PETRI NETS 2025 46th international conference on application and theory of Petri nets and concurrency ============================================================ *** DEADLINE EXTENSION *** Paris, France 23-27 June 2025 https://petrinets25.github.io/web/ ## Paper Submission Petri Nets 2025 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or tools related to the topics mentioned below. * Regular papers (20 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe original results pertaining to the development of the theory of Petri nets and distributed and concurrent systems in general, new results extending the applicability of Petri nets, or case studies, application and experience reports pertinent to the practical use of Petri nets and concurrency. * Tool papers (10 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe a computer tool based on Petri nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool). The tool should be available for use by other groups (but not necessarily for free). The submission should indicate how the reviewers can get access to the tool (this must be for free). The tool will be demonstrated in the Tool Exhibition, in addition to being presented in a conference talk. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English using the Springer LNCS format, including line numbers (e.g.,https://ctan.org/pkg/lineno LaTeX package) and submitted electronically (as a PDF file) by the deadline using EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2025). ## Important dates EXTENDED abstract submission : 15 January 2025 => 22 January 2025 EXTENDED aubmission of papers : 22 January 2025 => 29 January 2025 Notification : 10 March 2025 Final version due : 24 March 2025 Participation in tool exhibition: 30 May 2025 Workshops and Tutorials : 23-24 June 2025 Main Conference : 25-27 June 2025 The deadline is the end of day (AoE). ## Topics of Interest Topics specific to Petri Nets * Analysis and synthesis, structure and behavior of nets * System design and model-driven development using nets * Relationships between Petri nets and other approaches * Net-based semantical, logical and algebraic calculi * Higher-level net models (colored nets, timed nets, etc.) * Stochastic net models * Verification and model checking using nets * Process discovery and conformance checking * Computer tools for nets * Standardization of nets * Experience reports describing applications of nets to different kinds of systems and application fields (e.g., flexible manufacturing systems, office automation, real-time systems, workflows, embedded systems, process mining, biological systems, supervisory control, health and medical systems, protocols and networks, environmental systems, Internet and Web services, hardware, e-commerce and trading, telecommunications, programming languages, railway networks, performance evaluation, component based development, operations research) General topics of interest related to concurrency * Application of concurrency to system design: formal models for designing computer systems with concurrent behavior, applied research aimed at designing computer systems which exhibit concurrency, etc. * Model checking and verification of distributed systems * Verification of infinite-state or parametric systems * Causality/partial order theory of concurrency * Educational issues related to concurrency * New developments in the theory of concurrency * Modeling of hardware and biological systems Papers presenting original research on application or theory of Petri nets, as well as contributions addressing topics relevant to the general field of distributed and concurrent systems or focused on applications of concurrency to system design are sought. The language of the conference is English, and its proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS. All accepted papers will be considered for an Outstanding Paper award. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version that will be further reviewed for inclusion into a special issue of a renowned journal. ## Tool Exhibition An exhibition of Petri net tools will take place on Wednesday June 25. It consists of informal demonstrations for small groups/individuals and there are no scheduled talks. Requests for participation in the tool exhibition must be sent to the Tool Exhibition chairs by the deadline stated at the top of this Call for Papers. They should include a link to the Web pages for the tool (or a short description of the tool). The demonstrators should bring their own laptops, while the organisers may be requested to give access to the Internet. ## Courses, Workshops and Tutorials The main conference takes place from Wednesday 25 to Friday 27. The two days before the main conference also offer a wide range of activities. The Petri Net Course takes place from Monday 23 to Tuesday 24. It offers a thorough introduction to Petri nets in half-days and full-day modules. For successful participation in the entire course, including preparation and examination, two credit points (ECTS) will be awarded. Each module of the course can also be taken separately, without any credit. Detailed descriptions of Workshops and Tutorials will be made available via the conference Web page. It is also possible to arrange Meetings and Courses related to Petri Nets. Submissions for such activities must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by the Workshops and Tutorials chairs via email no later than January 15, 2025. ## Organization The 46th annual international Petri Nets conference will be organised by the LoVe (Logics and Verification) team at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France) jointly with members of the MeFoSyLoMa group. The conference will take place at the Campus Condorcet. ### Organization Committee * Étienne André (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) * Carlos Olarte (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) ### Program committee co-chairs * Elvio Amparore, Italy * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland ### Workshops co-chairs * Giuliana Franceschinis, Italy * Karsten Wolf, Germany ### Petri Net Course and Tutorials co-chairs * Jörg Desel, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway ### Publicity chair * Benoît Barbot, France ## Program committee * Elvio Amparore, Italy (co-chair) * Abel Armas Cervantes, Australia * João Paulo Barros, Portugal * Benoît Delahaye, France * João Miguel Fernandes, Portugal * Guiliana Franceschinis, Italy * Luis Gomes, Portugal * Xudong He, USA * Loïc Helouet, France * Wojciech Jamroga, Luxemburg * Gabriel Juhás, Slovakia * Anna Kalenkova, Australia * Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway * Lisa Mannel, Germany * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland (co-chair) * Andrew Miner, USA * Guillermo Alberto Perez, Belgium * Marta Pietkiewicz-Koutny, UK * Artem Polyvyanyy, Australia * Lucia Pomello, Italy * Andrey Rivkin, Denmark * Natalia Sidorova, The Netherlands * Jiří Srba, Denmark * Jeremy Sproston, Italy * Nathalie Sznajder, France * Remigiusz Wisniewski, Poland * Karsten Wolf, Germany

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World Logic Day 2025 celebrations by ALI
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues, As part of its celebrations of the World Logic Day 2025, the Association for Logic in India (ALI) invites you to an online lecture by Prof. Shashi Mohan Srivastava. The lecture details are as below. Date and time: ============== Date: January 16, 2025 Time: 18:00 IST Zoom Meeting details: =================== Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84357712770?pwd=LYLWbkiNat5vll4stGyn6Vx34nvXIu.1 Meeting ID: 843 5771 2770 Passcode: wldcali25 Lecture details: ============= Speaker: Prof. Shashi Mohan Srivastava, IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India Title: Recalling Vaught's conjecture Abstract: Vaught's conjecture states the following. The countable models of a countable first order theory, up to isomorphism, are either countably many or continuum many. This problem is still open, and it seems not much activity has been going on on it. Speaker Bio: Prof. Shashi Mohan Srivastava is an Emeritus Professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, which he joined in 1980. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, and the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI) Belur, Kolkata. He graduated from ISI Kolkata in 1980 under the supervision of Prof. A. Maitra. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, during the academic year 1979–1980. Prof. Srivastava's primary research interest lies in descriptive set theory. He is the recipient of the Indian National Science Academy medal for young scientists, and is the author of the books, A Course on Borel Sets and A Course on Mathematical Logic, both published by Springer. He is an enthusiastic teacher and has written several expository articles aimed at popularising mathematical logic and set theory in India. We look forward to seeing you at the lecture. ---

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Message about FMIndia subscription being disabled
by Madhavan Mukund 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

A large number of members subscribed to the FMIndia mailing list were automatically unsubsribed today due to "excessive bounces". It is not clear why this happened. I have restored the status of all those who were unsubscribed. If you receive this message, you are in good shape. If you don't, I expect I will get an email from you at some point --- some of you have already written in after this notification went out --- and I will try to address the problem individually. Apologies for this glitch. --Madhavan P.S. I have also changed some settings on the group to try to prevent this from happening again.

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World Logic Day talk by Prof. Moshe Vardi | Today, 14 January
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

================== Talk announcement ================== On the occasion of World Logic Day, January 14, 2025, the DLMPST Commission on Logic Education invites you to a webinar by Professor Moshe Vardi. Date: January 14, 2025 Time: 0700 CST, 1300 GMT, 1400 CET, 1830 IST, 2100 (Beijing) Zoom Link: URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/89055168551?pwd=7SeShMDEKSLw1wy6ZaZj4JEa0hiuqE.1 Meeting ID: 890 5516 8551 Passcode: gangesha Talk details: Machine Learning and Logic: Fast and Slow Thinking Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University Computer science seems to be undergoing a paradigm shift. Much of earlier research was conducted in the framework of well-understood formal models. In contrast, some of the hottest trends today shun formal models and rely on massive data sets and machine learning. A cannonical example of this change is the shift in AI from logic programming to deep learning. I will argue that the correct metaphore for this development is not paradigm shift, but paradigm expansion. Just as General Relativity augments Newtonian Mechanics, rather than replace it -- we went to the moon, after all, using Newtonian Mechanics -- data-driven computing augments model-driven computing. In the context of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and logic correspond to the two modes of human thinking: fast thinking and slow thinking. The challenge today is to integrate the model-driven and data-driven paradigms. I will describe one approach to such an integration -- making logic more quantitative. I will conclude by discussing implications for computer-science education. Speaker Bio: Moshe Y. Vardi is a University Professor, and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University. He is the author and co-author of close to 800 papers, as well as two books. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, is a fellow of several societies, and a member of several honorary academies. He holds ten honorary titles. He is a Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, the premier publication in computing, focusing on societal impact of information technology.

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NETYS 2025 - First Call for Papers
by Madhavan Mukund 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Call for Papers THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS (NETYS 2025) May 21st-23rd, 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 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>

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Invitation to the conference: "Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory"
by Purbita Jana 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Dear All, We are delighted to announce that the conference *"Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory", *jointly organised by MSE and ISI Chennai*,* will be held at *Madras School of Economics, Chennai*, from *11th-12th February 2025*. This conference aims to bring together experts, researchers, and enthusiasts in the fields of logic and game theory to discuss recent advancements and foster collaboration. *Key Details:* - *Website:* Visit Conference Website <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2025/home> - *Dates:* 11th-12th February 2025 - *Venue:* Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu *Important Deadlines:* - *Contributed Talks Abstract Submission:* 18th January 2025 (AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* 25th January 2025 (AoE) - *Registration Deadline:* 31st January 2025 (AoE) *Submission Method: *Please send the abstract to rtlg2025(a)gmail.com, specifying the topic. For more details, visit the call for contributed talks <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2025/call-for-contributed-talks?authuser=0> page. *Registration:* Registration is *mandatory* to participate in the conference. Please register by filling out the form at this link: Registration Form <https://forms.gle/KV2SRLDTQEZp977p7>. We look forward to your positive reply and submissions! With Best Regards, Purbita

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ICLA 2025: Early bird registration deadline extension
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

====================== Call for Participation ====================== ============================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications 2025 Dates: + ICLA 2025 conference: February 3 - 5, 2025 + Pre-conference tutorials/workshops: February 1 - 2, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata - 700108, India ICLA 2025 Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 Early bird registration deadline: *Jan 18, 2025 AoE* Register now!: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#registration ============================================================= ====================== About the conference ====================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. More about the conference and its earlier editions can be found at the ALI website [2]. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://logicindia.org/icla The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [3] during February 3 - 5, 2025. There will be co-located tutorials/workshops prior to the conference during Feb 1 - 2, 2025. [3] https://www.isical.ac.in/ —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [4]. The review process for these abstracts involved a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [4] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… =================== Invited Speakers =================== Distinguished lecture - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) Keynote talks - Su Gao (Nankai University, China) - Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) - Sophie Pinchinat (University of Rennes, France) - Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) =================== Panel Discussions =================== + Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems Panelists: - Su Gao (Nankai University, China) - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) - Moshe Vardi (Rice University, USA) Moderator: - Mangesh Patwardhan (National Insurance Academy Pune, India) + Education and Careers in Logic Panelists: - Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) - R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) - R Venkatesh (TCS Research, India) - More confirmations are awaited =================== Committee Chairs =================== Program Committee Chairs: - C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Organizing Committee Chairs: - Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India) - Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai, India) ===================== Co-located Events ===================== ---------------------------------------------------------- Pre-conference: Tutorials/Workshops of ICLA 2025 ---------------------------------------------------------- Venue for all the pre-conference events: ISI Kolkata + Tutorial on First Order Modal Logic (FOML) - Organizers: R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) - Speakers: Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Anantha Padmanabha (IIT Madras, India) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) Reihane Zoghifard (IPM Teheran, Iran) - Dates: Feb 2, 2025 (full day) + Workshop on the Mīmāṃsā system of logical interpretation of imperatives - Organizers: Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) - Speakers: Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Ranjani Parthasarathi (Anna University, India) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) - Dates: Feb 1, 2025 (half day) + Workshop on Recent Developments in Arithmetic Theories and Applications - Organizers: Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Georg Zetzsche (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Speakers: Toghrul Karimov (MPI-SWS Saarbrücken, Germany) Chris Köcher (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Alessio Mansutti (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Mikhail Starchak (St. Petersburg University, Russia) - Dates: Feb 1, 2025 (half day) ----------------------------------- Post-conference: AWPL 2025 ----------------------------------- - Dates: Feb 6 - 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ - Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/registration [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ =================== Accepted papers =================== The list of accepted papers (extended and short abstracts) of ICLA 2025 can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#accepted-papers. ========= Awards ========= The following awards will be given to selected accepted papers during the conference. - Best paper award - Best student paper award ============== Registration ============== The registration for the conference and the co-located pre-conference events, is open. - Early bird registration deadline: *Jan 18, 2025 AoE* - Registration link: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#registration For more information, please visit https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025. We look forward to seeing you in Kolkata! Best regards, ICLA 2025 Organizers

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World Logic Day Celebrations (Jan 15-Jan 22)
by Aalok Thakkar 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

The Logic Society of Delhi invites you to the *World Logic Day 2025 Celebrations*. Join us for an exciting lineup of virtual talks, and an in-person meet-up on January 22. *Event Schedule*: January 15, 7:00 PM One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb – and other Knowledge Puzzles Speaker: *Hans van Ditmarsch*, Senior Researcher, CNRS, France. Zoom Link: (https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94964030447) January 20, 7:30 PM Making Necessity Relevant Speaker: *Shawn Standefer,* Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99219236470 January 21, 7:30 PM Generalised Geometric Logic and its Applications Speaker: *Purbita Jana*, Assistant Professor, Madras School of Economics, India. Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97902248017 January 22, 7:00 PM Logic Society of Delhi Meet-up! Join us at Cafe Lota (National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, New Delhi) to meet and network with logic enthusiasts from Delhi NCR. Talk abstracts and more details at: https://logic-society-delhi.github.io/logic-day-2025.html We look forward to seeing you at these events! Please help share the word. We would love to have attendance from across India and the world. You may direct your questions to logic.society.delhi(a)ashoka.edu.in.

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CONCUR 2025 - Call for papers
by B Srivathsan 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

CONCUR 2025 is the 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory. Its purpose is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications. It will be co-located with QEST+FORMATS, FMICS and a number of workshops, under the joint name CONFEST 2025. CONFEST 2025 will take place August 25-30, 2025 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Important dates (anywhere on Earth) - Abstracts: April 1, 2025 (AoE) - Submissions: April 7, 2025 (AoE) - Rebuttal Response: May 8-12, 2025 (AoE) - Notification: May 27, 2025 (AoE) - Camera Ready: June 10, 2025 (AoE) - Conference(s): Aug 26-29, 2025 - Workshops: Aug 25 and 30, 2025 Paper submission CONCUR 2025 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience related to the topics mentioned below. - All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. - Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. The paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. - Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=concur2025) - The CONCUR 2025 proceedings will be published by LIPIcs, please use their style files (https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/series/LIPIcs#author) - Submissions follow a single blind process. - Papers must not exceed 15 pages (excluding references and clearly marked appendices) using the LIPIcs style. Topics Submissions are solicited in the theory and practice of concurrent systems. The principal topics include (but are not limited to): - Basic models of concurrency such as abstract machines, domain-theoretic models, categorical and coalgebraic models, game-theoretic models, parametric models, process algebras, graph transformation systems, Petri nets, hybrid systems, mobile and collaborative systems, probabilistic systems, real-time systems, quantum systems, biology-inspired systems, and synchronous systems; - Logics for concurrency such as modal logics, program logics, probabilistic and stochastic logics, temporal logics, multi-agent logics, and resource logics; Verification and analysis techniques for concurrent systems such as abstract interpretation, atomicity checking, model checking, race detection, pre-order and equivalence checking, run-time verification, state-space exploration, static analysis, synthesis, testing, theorem proving, type systems, and security analysis; - Distributed/parallel algorithms and concurrent data structures: design, analysis, complexity, correctness, fault tolerance, reliability, availability, consistency, self-organization, self-stabilization, commitment schemes, communication protocols; - Theoretical foundations, tools, and empirical evaluations of architectures, execution environments, and software development for concurrent systems such as geo-replicated systems, distributed ledgers, communication networks, multiprocessor and multi-core architectures, quantum computing, quantum communication, shared and transactional memory, resource management and awareness, compilers and tools for concurrent programming, programming models such as component-based, object- and service-oriented. Invited Speakers - Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany - Chris Heunen, University of Edinburgh, UK - Andreas Pavlogiannis, Aarhus University, Denmark - Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark PC Chairs - Patricia Bouyer, CNRS, France (http://www.lsv.fr/~bouyer/) - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark (https://cs.au.dk/~jaco/) Program Committee - Luca Aceto, Reykjavik University, Iceland - Guy Avni, University of Haifa, Israel - Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria - Michael Blondin, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada - Patricia Bouyer (chair), CNRS, France - Janna Burman, Université Paris-Saclay, France - Michaël Cadilhac, DePaul University, USA - Pedro R. D'Argenio, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina - Josee Desharnais, Laval University, Canada - Pierre Ganty, IMDEA, Spain - Rob van Glabbeek, University of Edinburgh, UK - Christoph Haase, University of Oxford, UK - Tingting Han, Birkbeck, University of London, UK - Sebastian Junges, Radboud University, The Netherlands - Jan Kretinsky, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - S Krishna, IIT Bombay, India - Sławomir Lasota, University of Warsaw, Poland - Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany - Paul-André Melliès, CNRS, Université de Paris Cité, France - Benjamin Monmege, Aix-Marseille Université, France - Wojciech Penczek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Nir Piterman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Jaco van de Pol (chair), Aarhus University, Denmark - Mickael Randour, F.R.S.-FNRS & Université de Mons, Belgium - Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria - B Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India - Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Dominik Wojtczak, University of Liverpool, UK - Zhilin Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Mingsheng Ying, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Martin Zimmermann, Aalborg University, Denmark Steering Committee - Luca Aceto - Christel Baier - Pedro R. D’Argenio - Wan Fokkink, chair - Catuscia Palamidessi - Jiri Srba Questions on submissions should be directed to the PC chairs.

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2nd call for papers: Petri Nets 2025 (Paris)
by Étienne André 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

============================================================ Call for papers PETRI NETS 2025 46th international conference on application and theory of Petri nets and concurrency ============================================================ Paris, France 23-27 June 2025 https://petrinets25.github.io/web/ ## Paper Submission Petri Nets 2025 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or tools related to the topics mentioned below. * Regular papers (20 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe original results pertaining to the development of the theory of Petri nets and distributed and concurrent systems in general, new results extending the applicability of Petri nets, or case studies, application and experience reports pertinent to the practical use of Petri nets and concurrency. * Tool papers (10 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe a computer tool based on Petri nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool). The tool should be available for use by other groups (but not necessarily for free). The submission should indicate how the reviewers can get access to the tool (this must be for free). The tool will be demonstrated in the Tool Exhibition, in addition to being presented in a conference talk. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English using the Springer LNCS format, including line numbers (e.g., https://ctan.org/pkg/lineno LaTeX package) and submitted electronically (as a PDF file) by the deadline using EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2025). ## Important dates Abstract submission : 15 January 2025 Submission of papers : 22 January 2025 Notification : 10 March 2025 Final version due : 24 March 2025 Participation in tool exhibition: 30 May 2025 Workshops and Tutorials : 23-24 June 2025 Main Conference : 25-27 June 2025 The deadline is the end of day (AoE). ## Topics of Interest Topics specific to Petri Nets * Analysis and synthesis, structure and behavior of nets * System design and model-driven development using nets * Relationships between Petri nets and other approaches * Net-based semantical, logical and algebraic calculi * Higher-level net models (colored nets, timed nets, etc.) * Stochastic net models * Verification and model checking using nets * Process discovery and conformance checking * Computer tools for nets * Standardization of nets * Experience reports describing applications of nets to different kinds of systems and application fields (e.g., flexible manufacturing systems, office automation, real-time systems, workflows, embedded systems, process mining, biological systems, supervisory control, health and medical systems, protocols and networks, environmental systems, Internet and Web services, hardware, e-commerce and trading, telecommunications, programming languages, railway networks, performance evaluation, component based development, operations research) General topics of interest related to concurrency * Application of concurrency to system design: formal models for designing computer systems with concurrent behavior, applied research aimed at designing computer systems which exhibit concurrency, etc. * Model checking and verification of distributed systems * Verification of infinite-state or parametric systems * Causality/partial order theory of concurrency * Educational issues related to concurrency * New developments in the theory of concurrency * Modeling of hardware and biological systems Papers presenting original research on application or theory of Petri nets, as well as contributions addressing topics relevant to the general field of distributed and concurrent systems or focused on applications of concurrency to system design are sought. The language of the conference is English, and its proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS. All accepted papers will be considered for an Outstanding Paper award. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version that will be further reviewed for inclusion into a special issue of a renowned journal. ## Tool Exhibition An exhibition of Petri net tools will take place on Wednesday June 25. It consists of informal demonstrations for small groups/individuals and there are no scheduled talks. Requests for participation in the tool exhibition must be sent to the Tool Exhibition chairs by the deadline stated at the top of this Call for Papers. They should include a link to the Web pages for the tool (or a short description of the tool). The demonstrators should bring their own laptops, while the organisers may be requested to give access to the Internet. ## Courses, Workshops and Tutorials The main conference takes place from Wednesday 25 to Friday 27. The two days before the main conference also offer a wide range of activities. The Petri Net Course takes place from Monday 23 to Tuesday 24. It offers a thorough introduction to Petri nets in half-days and full-day modules. For successful participation in the entire course, including preparation and examination, two credit points (ECTS) will be awarded. Each module of the course can also be taken separately, without any credit. Detailed descriptions of Workshops and Tutorials will be made available via the conference Web page. It is also possible to arrange Meetings and Courses related to Petri Nets. Submissions for such activities must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by the Workshops and Tutorials chairs via email no later than January 15, 2025. ## Organization The 46th annual international Petri Nets conference will be organised by the LoVe (Logics and Verification) team at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France) jointly with members of the MeFoSyLoMa group. The conference will take place at the Campus Condorcet. ### Organization Committee * Étienne André (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) * Carlos Olarte (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) ### Program committee co-chairs * Elvio Amparore, Italy * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland ### Workshops co-chairs * Giuliana Franceschinis, Italy * Karsten Wolf, Germany ### Petri Net Course and Tutorials co-chairs * Jörg Desel, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway ### Publicity chair * Benoît Barbot, France ## Program committee * Elvio Amparore, Italy (co-chair) * Abel Armas Cervantes, Australia * João Paulo Barros, Portugal * Benoît Delahaye, France * João Miguel Fernandes, Portugal * Guiliana Franceschinis, Italy * Luis Gomes, Portugal * Xudong He, USA * Loïc Helouet, France * Wojciech Jamroga, Luxemburg * Gabriel Juhás, Slovakia * Anna Kalenkova, Australia * Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway * Lisa Mannel, Germany * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland (co-chair) * Andrew Miner, USA * Guillermo Alberto Perez, Belgium * Marta Pietkiewicz-Koutny, UK * Artem Polyvyanyy, Australia * Lucia Pomello, Italy * Andrey Rivkin, Denmark * Natalia Sidorova, The Netherlands * Jiří Srba, Denmark * Jeremy Sproston, Italy * Nathalie Sznajder, France * Remigiusz Wisniewski, Poland * Karsten Wolf, Germany

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The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) - Call for Papers
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

--------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) 2-4 July 2025, Gold Coast, Australia https://iwqos2025.ieee-iwqos.org/ Overview We invite the submission of manuscripts presenting original research results to the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2025, which will be held from July 2-4, 2025, in Gold Coast, Australia. Quality of Service (QoS) has long been a central focus for communications and networking researchers worldwide. While traditional QoS research areas continue to garner significant interest, emerging domains such as the Internet of Things, data centers, virtualization, cloud and fog computing, green computing, and artificial intelligence are driving a new wave of research into service guarantees related to QoS, Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Protection (QoP), Software Quality, Data Quality, and, more broadly, Quality of Information Technology. For over two decades, IWQoS has established itself as a premier forum for presenting novel ideas on all QoS-related subjects. The 33rd International Symposium on Quality of Service (IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025) aims to continue this tradition as an international platform for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field. The scope of IWQoS encompasses both the latest theoretical advancements and experimental research papers. Topics of Interest - Artificial Intelligence for QoS - Data analytics for QoS - QoS for data analytics and machine learning - QoS in Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical networks - QoS in cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing - Blockchain for QoS - Security, privacy, system dependability, resilience and robustness - QoS in software-defined networking - QoS in information-centric networking - QoS in mobile and next generation cellular networks - System dependability, availability, resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks - Robustness against security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures - QoS-aware scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control - Traffic engineering approaches and tools for QoS provisioning and evaluation - QoS evaluation metrics and methodologies - Quality of software - QoE in multimedia networks - Measurement, evaluation, adaptation, and verification - Network operations, network economics, pricing and billing - Architectures and protocols for QoS, QoP or QoE support - Energy awareness in communication and computing systems - Design for future networks and computing systems with integrated QoS Important Dates (AoE) - Paper Registration Deadline: 9 February 2025 - Full Paper Submission Deadline: 16 February 2025† - Early Rejection Notification: 14 March 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: 4 April 2025 - Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 25†April 2025 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit manuscripts not exceeding 10 single-spaced, double-column pages (including references) using a font size of 10 points, formatted according to the standard IEEE template for LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Templates can be downloaded by selecting ìConferencesî in the IEEE Template Selector at https://template-selector.ieee.org/. The review process will be double-blind, requiring submissions to avoid revealing the authors' names and affiliations, as well as to refrain from obvious self-references. Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits. All submissions must be made electronically as PDF files. Please follow the submission like on https://iwqos2025.hotcrp.com/ to submit your paper. More information can be found on the website of IWQoS 2025: https://iwqos2025.ieee-iwqos.org/authors/call-papers Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs - Dan Kim, The University of Queensland, Australia - Surya†Nepal, CSIRO's Data61, Australia Program Co-Chairs - Qi Li, Tsinghua University, China - Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia - Guangdong Bai,†The University of Queensland, Australia Finance/Sponsorship Chair - Xingliang Yuan, The University of Melburne, Australia Local Co-Chairs - Naipeng Dong, The University of Queensland, Australia - Yu Zhang, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs - Jianliang Wu, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Neeraj Kumar Singh, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France - Ruitao Feng,†Southern Cross University, Australia Publication Chair - Kailong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by S P Suresh on January 7 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by S P Suresh, a faculty member of Theoretical Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, January 7, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2xkbWs1a2…> ). 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: Insecurity problem for assertions Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Security protocols underpin most aspects of our digital lives nowadays, with finance, health, and even citizenship requiring some online interaction with remote servers over an insecure network, and involving exchange of sensitive private information. Formal verification of such protocols has a long history of more than 40 years (and applied on many fundamental protocols like TLS and the Signal messaging protocol, and various protocols for electronic voting, e-commerce, etc.). One of the central theoretical results [Rusinowitch-Turuani (2003)] is that the problem of deciding if there is a B-bounded attack on a given protocol is NP-complete, for a fixed number B. A B-bounded attack is one which involves at most B messages and in which a secret is leaked to the malicious attacker. The technical challenge is that although the number of messages is bounded in such attacks, the size of each message is not. In recent work [Ramanujam-Sundararajan-Suresh (2024)] we extended the above NP-completeness result to protocols that involve, in addition to "traditional" messages themselves, certificates or assertions of the form "the previous term that I sent is encrypted, and the term inside the encryption is a number between 1 to 10." In this talk, we describe the insecurity problem, and the solution by Rusinowitch-Turuani (RT03), and show how we can extend the analysis of RT03 to our setting. Bio: S P Suresh is a faculty member of Theoretical Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. His research interests include logic in computer science, concurrency and distributed computing, and formal methods for security. His other interests include classical Indian logic and epistemology, Carnatic music, chess, and P G Wodehouse.

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ICLA 2025: Deadline extension for posters
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 07 Jan '25

07 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues, As you may already know, the 11th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA 2025 - https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025) is going to be held at ISI Kolkata during February 3 - 5 2025. Conducted by the Association for Logic in India (ALI - https://logicindia.org) ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic. In addition to regular papers, ICLA 2025 welcomes poster proposals relating to the above mentioned fields in a broad sense. The proposals may also include early stage ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. This is a great opportunity to present and discuss your work in more detail with the relevant audience. Authors are invited to submit a 1-page abstract (excluding references) for their poster proposals in PDF format. The abstracts must be sent to icla2025.posters(a)gmail.com with the subject "ICLA 2025 poster: [Full name of a corresponding author]" by *January 14th, 2025 AoE* (earlier: January 7th, 2025 AoE). If you have any queries regarding the posters, do not hesitate to send an email to icla2025.posters(a)gmail.com. Submission Details: Submission deadline: 14th January 2025, AoE Author notification: 16th January 2025, AoE Submission format: 1-page abstract (excluding references) in PDF format Email to: icla2025.posters(a)gmail.com Subject of email: ICLA 2025 poster: [Full name of a corresponding author] Topics: same as that for ICLA 2025 conference (https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#submission-topics) We look forward to your submissions and hope to see you at ICLA 2025. On behalf of the Organizers of ICLA 2025.

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Fwd: Invitation to the conference: "Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory"
by Purbita Jana 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

Dear All, We are delighted to announce that the conference *"Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory", *jointly organised by MSE and ISI Chennai*,* will be held at *Madras School of Economics, Chennai*, from *11th-12th February 2025*. This conference aims to bring together experts, researchers, and enthusiasts in the fields of logic and game theory to discuss recent advancements and foster collaboration. *Key Details:* - *Website:* Visit Conference Website <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2025/home> - *Dates:* 11th-12th February 2025 - *Venue:* Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu *Important Deadlines:* - *Contributed Talks Abstract Submission:* 18th January 2025 (AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* 25th January 2025 (AoE) - *Registration Deadline:* 31st January 2025 (AoE) *Submission Method: *Please send the abstract to rtlg2025(a)gmail.com, specifying the topic. For more details, visit the call for contributed talks <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2025/call-for-contributed-talks?authuser=0> page. *Registration:* Registration is *mandatory* to participate in the conference. Please register by filling out the form at this link: Registration Form <https://forms.gle/KV2SRLDTQEZp977p7>. We look forward to your positive reply and submissions! Please share this invitation with colleagues and peers who may be interested. For any queries, please get in touch with us at rtlg2025(a)gmail.co <rtlg2025(a)gmail.com>m -- With Best Regards, Purbita Jana, *Assistant Professor,* *Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.* https://sites.google.com/view/purbita/home

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ICLA 2025: Early bird registration ends in 7 days
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 05 Jan '25

05 Jan '25

====================== Call for Participation ====================== ============================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications 2025 Dates: + ICLA 2025 conference: February 3 - 5, 2025 + Pre-conference tutorials/workshops: February 1 - 2, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata - 700108, India ICLA 2025 Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 Early bird registration deadline: Jan 11, 2025 AoE Register now!: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#registration ============================================================= ====================== About the conference ====================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. More about the conference and its earlier editions can be found at the ALI website [2]. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://logicindia.org/icla The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [3] during February 3 - 5, 2025. There will be co-located tutorials/workshops prior to the conference during Feb 1 - 2, 2025. [3] https://www.isical.ac.in/ —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [4]. The review process for these abstracts involved a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [4] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… =================== Invited Speakers =================== Distinguished lecture - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) Keynote talks - Su Gao (Nankai University, China) - Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) - Sophie Pinchinat (University of Rennes, France) - Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) =================== Panel Discussions =================== + Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems Panelists: - Su Gao (Nankai University, China) - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) - More confirmations are awaited + Education and Careers in Logic Panelists: - Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) - R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) - R Venkatesh (TCS Research, India) - More confirmations are awaited =================== Committee Chairs =================== Program Committee Chairs: - C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Organizing Committee Chairs: - Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India) - Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai, India) ===================== Co-located Events ===================== ---------------------------------------------------------- Pre-conference: Tutorials/Workshops of ICLA 2025 ---------------------------------------------------------- Venue for all the pre-conference events: ISI Kolkata + Tutorial on First Order Modal Logic (FOML) - Organizers: R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) - Speakers: Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Anantha Padmanabha (IIT Madras, India) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) Reihane Zoghifard (IPM Teheran, Iran) - Dates: Feb 2, 2025 (full day) + Workshop on the Mīmāṃsā system of logical interpretation of imperatives - Organizers: Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) - Speakers: Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Ranjani Parthasarathi (Anna University, India) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) - Dates: Feb 1, 2025 (half day) + Workshop on Recent Developments in Arithmetic Theories and Applications - Organizers: Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Speakers: Toghrul Karimov (MPI-SWS Saarbrücken, Germany) Chris Köcher (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Alessio Mansutti (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Mikhail Starchak (St. Petersburg University, Russia) - Dates: Feb 1, 2025 (half day) ----------------------------------- Post-conference: AWPL 2025 ----------------------------------- - Dates: Feb 6 - 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ - Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/registration [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ =================== Accepted papers =================== The list of accepted papers (extended and short abstracts) of ICLA 2025 can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#accepted-papers. ========= Awards ========= The following awards will be given to selected accepted papers during the conference. - Best paper award - Best student paper award ============== Registration ============== The registration for the conference and the co-located pre-conference events, is open. - Early bird registration deadline: Jan 11, 2025 AoE - Registration link: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#registration For more information, please visit https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025. We look forward to seeing you in Kolkata! Best regards, ICLA 2025 Organizers

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by S P Suresh on January 7 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by S P Suresh, a faculty member of Theoretical Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, January 7, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2xkbWs1a2…> ). 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: Insecurity problem for assertions Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Security protocols underpin most aspects of our digital lives nowadays, with finance, health, and even citizenship requiring some online interaction with remote servers over an insecure network, and involving exchange of sensitive private information. Formal verification of such protocols has a long history of more than 40 years (and applied on many fundamental protocols like TLS and the Signal messaging protocol, and various protocols for electronic voting, e-commerce, etc.). One of the central theoretical results [Rusinowitch-Turuani (2003)] is that the problem of deciding if there is a B-bounded attack on a given protocol is NP-complete, for a fixed number B. A B-bounded attack is one which involves at most B messages and in which a secret is leaked to the malicious attacker. The technical challenge is that although the number of messages is bounded in such attacks, the size of each message is not. In recent work [Ramanujam-Sundararajan-Suresh (2024)] we extended the above NP-completeness result to protocols that involve, in addition to "traditional" messages themselves, certificates or assertions of the form "the previous term that I sent is encrypted, and the term inside the encryption is a number between 1 to 10." In this talk, we describe the insecurity problem, and the solution by Rusinowitch-Turuani (RT03), and show how we can extend the analysis of RT03 to our setting. Bio: S P Suresh is a faculty member of Theoretical Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. His research interests include logic in computer science, concurrency and distributed computing, and formal methods for security. His other interests include classical Indian logic and epistemology, Carnatic music, chess, and P G Wodehouse.

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World Logic Day talk by Prof. Moshe Vardi
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

================== Talk announcement ================== On the occasion of World Logic Day, January 14, 2025, the DLMPST Commission on Logic Education invites you to a webinar by Professor Moshe Vardi. Date: January 14, 2025 Time: 0700 CST, 1300 GMT, 1400 CET, 1830 IST, 2100 (Beijing) Zoom Link: URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/89055168551?pwd=7SeShMDEKSLw1wy6ZaZj4JEa0hiuqE.1 Meeting ID: 890 5516 8551 Passcode: gangesha Talk details: Machine Learning and Logic: Fast and Slow Thinking Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University Computer science seems to be undergoing a paradigm shift. Much of earlier research was conducted in the framework of well-understood formal models. In contrast, some of the hottest trends today shun formal models and rely on massive data sets and machine learning. A cannonical example of this change is the shift in AI from logic programming to deep learning. I will argue that the correct metaphore for this development is not paradigm shift, but paradigm expansion. Just as General Relativity augments Newtonian Mechanics, rather than replace it -- we went to the moon, after all, using Newtonian Mechanics -- data-driven computing augments model-driven computing. In the context of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and logic correspond to the two modes of human thinking: fast thinking and slow thinking. The challenge today is to integrate the model-driven and data-driven paradigms. I will describe one approach to such an integration -- making logic more quantitative. I will conclude by discussing implications for computer-science education. Speaker Bio: Moshe Y. Vardi is a University Professor, and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University. He is the author and co-author of close to 800 papers, as well as two books. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, is a fellow of several societies, and a member of several honorary academies. He holds ten honorary titles. He is a Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, the premier publication in computing, focusing on societal impact of information technology.

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Invitation to the conference: "Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory"
by Purbita Jana 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Dear All, We are delighted to announce that the conference *"Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory", *jointly organised by MSE and ISI Chennai*,* will be held at *Madras School of Economics, Chennai*, from *11th-12th February 2025*. This conference aims to bring together experts, researchers, and enthusiasts in the fields of logic and game theory to discuss recent advancements and foster collaboration. *Key Details:* - *Website:* Visit Conference Website <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2025/home> - *Dates:* 11th-12th February 2025 - *Venue:* Madras School of Economics, Chennai, Tamil Nadu *Important Deadlines:* - *Contributed Talks Abstract Submission:* 18th January 2025 (AoE) - *Notification of Acceptance:* 25th January 2025 (AoE) - *Registration Deadline:* 31st January 2025 (AoE) *Submission Method: *Please send the abstract to rtlg2025(a)gmail.com, specifying the topic. For more details, visit the call for contributed talks <https://sites.google.com/view/rtlg2025/call-for-contributed-talks?authuser=0> page. *Registration:* Registration is *mandatory* to participate in the conference. Please register by filling out the form at this link: Registration Form <https://forms.gle/KV2SRLDTQEZp977p7>. We look forward to your positive reply and submissions! Please share this invitation with colleagues and peers who may be interested. For any queries, please get in touch with us at rtlg2025(a)gmail.co <rtlg2025(a)gmail.com>m

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AWPL 2025: Early registration ends in 7 days
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

===================================================== 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic 6-8 February, 2025 Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ===================================================== [CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: REGISTRATION IS OPEN] https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/registration DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: December 31, 2024 (AoE) DEADLINE FOR LATE REGISTRATION: January 20, 2025 (AoE) The 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic will be held on 6-8 February 2025 at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]) will be a co-organizer for this workshop. The Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL [2]) is a series of events initiated by a group of Asian logicians. Its first instalment took place at JAIST in Japan in 2012. The workshop's primary goal is to promote awareness, understanding, and collaboration among researchers in philosophical logic and related fields. It emphasises the interaction between philosophical ideas and formal theories. AWPL 2025 will happen just after ICLA 2025 [3], which would be held at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, during February 3-5, 2025. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] http://awpl.org/Workshops.html [3] https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 [INVITED SPEAKERS] https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/invited-speakers [ACCEPTED PAPERS] https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/accepted-papers [LOCAL INFORMATION] https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/local-information [CONTACT] awpl2025ju(a)gmail.com

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ICLA 2025: Call for Posters
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

Dear Colleagues, As you may already know, the 11th Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA 2025 - https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025) is going to be held at ISI Kolkata during February 3 - 5 2025. Conducted by the Association for Logic in India (ALI - https://logicindia.org) ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic. In addition to regular papers, ICLA 2025 welcomes poster proposals relating to the above mentioned fields in a broad sense. The proposals may also include early stage ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. This is a great opportunity to present and discuss your work in more detail with the relevant audience. Authors are invited to submit a 1-page abstract (excluding references) for their poster proposals in PDF format. The abstracts must be sent to icla2025.posters(a)gmail.com with the subject "ICLA 2025 poster: [Full name of a corresponding author]" by January 7th, 2025 AoE. If you have any queries regarding the posters, do not hesitate to send an email to icla2025.posters(a)gmail.com. Submission Details: Submission deadline: 7th January 2025, AoE Author notification: 9th January 2025, AoE Submission format: 1-page abstract (excluding references) in PDF format Email to: icla2025.posters(a)gmail.com Subject of email: ICLA 2025 poster: [Full name of a corresponding author] Topics: same as that for ICLA 2025 conference (https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#submission-topics) We look forward to your submissions and hope to see you at ICLA 2025. On behalf of the Organizers of ICLA 2025.

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ICLA 2025: Call for Participation
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

====================== Call for Participation ====================== ============================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications 2025 Dates: + ICLA 2025 conference: February 3 - 5, 2025 + Pre-conference tutorials/workshops: February 1 - 2, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata - 700108, India ICLA 2025 Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 Early bird registration deadline: Jan 11, 2025 AoE Register now!: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#registration ============================================================= ====================== About the conference ====================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. More about the conference and its earlier editions can be found at the ALI website [2]. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://logicindia.org/icla The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [3] during February 3 - 5, 2025. There will be co-located tutorials/workshops prior to the conference during Feb 1 - 2, 2025. [3] https://www.isical.ac.in/ —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [4]. The review process for these abstracts involved a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [4] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… =================== Invited Speakers =================== Distinguished lecture - Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) Keynote talks - Su Gao (Nankai University, China) - Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) - Sophie Pinchinat (University of Rennes, France) - Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) =================== Committee Chairs =================== Program Committee Chairs: - C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) - Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) - Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Organizing Committee Chairs: - Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India) - Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai, India) ===================== Co-located Events ===================== ---------------------------------------------------------- Pre-conference: Tutorials/Workshops of ICLA 2025 ---------------------------------------------------------- Venue for all the pre-conference events: ISI Kolkata + Tutorial on First Order Modal Logic (FOML) - Organizers: R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) - Speakers: Eugenio Orlandelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Anantha Padmanabha (IIT Madras, India) Yanjing Wang (Peking University, China) Reihane Zoghifard (IPM Teheran, Iran) - Dates: Feb 2, 2025 (full day) + Workshop on the Mīmāṃsā system of logical interpretation of imperatives - Organizers: Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) - Speakers: Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Ranjani Parthasarathi (Anna University, India) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) - Dates: Feb 1, 2025 (half day) + Workshop on Recent Developments in Arithmetic Theories and Applications - Organizers: Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Speakers: Alessio Mansutti (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Mikhail Starchak (St. Petersburg University, Russia) Chris Köcher (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) (More speaker confirmations are awaited.) - Dates: Feb 1, 2025 (half day) ----------------------------------- Post-conference: AWPL 2025 ----------------------------------- - Dates: Feb 6 - 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ - Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/registration [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ =================== Accepted papers =================== The list of accepted papers (extended and short abstracts) of ICLA 2025 can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#accepted-papers. ========= Awards ========= The following awards will be given to selected accepted papers during the conference. - Best paper award - Best student paper award ============== Registration ============== The registration for the conference and the co-located pre-conference events, is open. - Early bird registration deadline: Jan 11, 2025 AoE - Registration link: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/#registration For more information, please visit https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025. We look forward to seeing you in Kolkata! Best regards, ICLA 2025 Organizers

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AWPL 2025: Call for Participation
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 13 Dec '24

13 Dec '24

===================================================== 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic 6-8 February, 2025 Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ===================================================== [CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN] https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/registration DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: December 31, 2024 (AoE) DEADLINE FOR LATE REGISTRATION: January 20, 2025 (AoE) The 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic will be held on 6-8 February 2025 at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]) will be a co-organizer for this workshop. The Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL [2]) is a series of events initiated by a group of Asian logicians. Its first instalment took place at JAIST in Japan in 2012. The workshop's primary goal is to promote awareness, understanding, and collaboration among researchers in philosophical logic and related fields. It emphasises the interaction between philosophical ideas and formal theories. AWPL 2025 will happen just after ICLA 2025 [3], which would be held at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, during February 3-5, 2025. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] http://awpl.org/Workshops.html [3] https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 [INVITED SPEAKERS] Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) Andreas Herzig (IRIT Toulouse) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University) Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University) We will also have a distinguished lecture by: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Stanford and Tsinghua) [ACCEPTED PAPERS] https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/accepted-papers [STEERING COMMITTEE] Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok) Hu Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa) R. Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) Hsing-chien Tsai (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi) [PROGRAM COMMITTEE] Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Mihir Chakraborty (Jadavpur University) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University) Madhumita Chattopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute) (Co-Chair) Purbita Jana (Madras School of Economics) Kohei Kishida (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Serafina Lapenta (University of Salerno) Dazhu Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Yanjun Li (Nankai University) Fei Liang (Shandong University) Abhishek Anant Nowbagh (Jadavpur University) (Co-Chair) Hitoshi Omori (Tohoku University) R.Ramanujam (Azim Premji University) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University) Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Shawn Standefer (National Taiwan University) Sourav Tarafder (St. Xavier's College) Yanjing Wang (Peking University) Yì Nicholas Wáng (Sun Yat-sen University) Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) [LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] Gopinath Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Samar Kumar Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Tamoghna Sarkar (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Sunirmal Das (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) [CONTACT] awpl2025ju(a)gmail.com

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Senior Project Associate/Postdoc Position - Model Checking & Formal Verification (Arpit Sharma)
by Arpit Sharma 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Dear All, Hope this email finds you well. I am happy to share that a senior project associate/postdoc position is available in my research group at IISER Bhopal in the area of model checking and formal verification. 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 or bachelor's degree and 4 years of relevant research/industry experience will also be considered for this position. Interested candidates are encouraged to directly contact me at : arpit(a)iiserb.ac.in The details of this position are as follows: Duration: 2.2 years. Salary: INR 42,000 + HRA (as applicable) per month. Essential Qualifications: Doctoral Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering from a recognized University or equivalent (preferably in model checking/software verification/formal methods/process algebra/model-based testing). OR 1. Master of science degree in computer science or Master of Science in mathematics or Bachelor of Engineering/Technology degree in computer engineering/computer science from a recognized University/Institute and having minimum 60% marks or CGPA of 7.5 and above at a scale of 10. 2. Four years' experience in Research and Development in theoretical computer science (preferably in formal methods/model checking) in Industrial and Academic Institutions or Science and Technology Organisations and Scientific activities and services Desirable: 1. Strong background in logic, formal methods/model checking. 2. Some prior experience in design and implementation of software tools for mathematical analysis of software systems. Age limit: Candidates should be below 40 years of age on the last date of application. Start Date: January 2025 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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Lead Software Engineer position in Jasper/Cadence
by Ravi Prakash 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

Hi, We have an open position in industry leading formal product Jasper from Cadence. The position is in Bangalore and we are interested in recently completed PhDs in formal domain. Looking for people who are passionate about formal/coding and making an impact with their knowledge in Jasper. Please write to me directly at ravipr(a)gmail.com or ravipr(a)cadence.com for further details. Thanks Ravi

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ICISS 2024 - Call for Participation
by Madhavan Mukund 27 Nov '24

27 Nov '24

----- Forwarded message from Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> ----- From: Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:32:25 +0530 Subject: ICISS 2024 - Call for Participation ============================ Dear Researcher, We warmly invite you to participate in ICISS 2024. By attending the conference you will not only be able to meet the authors and keynote speakers at the conference but also have access to four pre-conference events. If you are a full-time doctoral student, you may avail travel support available through the generous support of our sponsors. ICISS 2024 is hosted by LNMIIT Jaipur between December 16 and 19, 2024. Complete program is available here: https://iciss.isrdc.in/program/ By participating in ICISS 2024, apart from the technical sessions, you will have opportunity to hear the following Keynote & Invited talks: *Scams in the Cryptocurrency Market* *Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome**Security Tai Chi: The Art of Building and Attacking Secure Computing Systems* *Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, TU Darmstadt**Data Security and Privacy in Emerging Scenarios* *Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan**Biometrics and AI: Challenges and Opportunities* *Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan**From Security to Scalability: The Multifaceted Role of Cryptographic Primitives in XRPL R&D* *Aanchal Malhotra, Ripple**Modeling and Security Analysis of Attacks on Machine Learning Systems* *Anoop Singhal, NIST**Large language models: are guarded models safe?* *Atul Prakash, University of Michigan**Towards Regulated, Private and Robust Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)* *Kari Kostiainen, ETH Zurich* https://iciss.isrdc.in/keynotes/ You can also attend the following pre-conference Tutorials & Workshop: Tutorial 1: Deep Learning for Cybersecurity Tutorial 2: Android Security Tutorial 3: Malware Hunt-Demystifying the Invisible Threats A Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials-workshops/ Conference website: https://iciss.isrdc.in Registration process: https://iciss.isrdc.in/fees-payment/ Best regards, -- Dr. Preetam Mukherjee Assistant Professor School of Computer Science & Engineering Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India https://duk.ac.in/personnel/dr-preetam-mukherjee/ <https://duk.ac.in/> ----- End forwarded message -----

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Senior Project Associate/Postdoc Position - Model Checking and Formal Verification
by Arpit Sharma 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Dear All, Hope this email finds you well. I am happy to share that a senior project associate/postdoc position is available in my research group at IISER Bhopal in the area of model checking and formal verification. 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 or bachelor's degree and 4 years of relevant research/industry experience will also be considered for this position. Interested candidates are encouraged to directly contact me at : arpit(a)iiserb.ac.in The details of this position are as follows: Duration: 2.2 years. Salary: INR 42,000 + HRA (as applicable) per month. Essential Qualifications: Doctoral Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering from a recognized University or equivalent (preferably in model checking/software verification/formal methods/process algebra/model-based testing). OR 1. Master of science degree in computer science or Master of Science in mathematics or Bachelor of Engineering/Technology degree in computer engineering/computer science from a recognized University/Institute and having minimum 60% marks or CGPA of 7.5 and above at a scale of 10. 2. Four years' experience in Research and Development in theoretical computer science (preferably in formal methods/model checking) in Industrial and Academic Institutions or Science and Technology Organisations and Scientific activities and services Desirable: 1. Candidates should have a strong background in logic, formal methods/model checking. 2. Candidates should have some prior experience in design and implementation of software tools for mathematical analysis of software systems. Age limit: Candidates should be below 40 years of age on the last date of application. Start Date: December 2024 or January 2025 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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Petri Nets 2025 - Call for Papers
by Étienne André 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

============================================================ Call for papers PETRI NETS 2025 46th international conference on application and theory of Petri nets and concurrency ============================================================ Paris, France 23-27 June 2025 https://petrinets25.github.io/web/ ## Paper Submission Petri Nets 2025 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or tools related to the topics mentioned below. * Regular papers (20 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe original results pertaining to the development of the theory of Petri nets and distributed and concurrent systems in general, new results extending the applicability of Petri nets, or case studies, application and experience reports pertinent to the practical use of Petri nets and concurrency. * Tool papers (10 pages LNCS excluding references) must describe a computer tool based on Petri nets (not an application of the tool or the theory behind the tool). The tool should be available for use by other groups (but not necessarily for free). The submission should indicate how the reviewers can get access to the tool (this must be for free). The tool will be demonstrated in the Tool Exhibition, in addition to being presented in a conference talk. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English using the Springer LNCS format, including line numbers (e.g.,https://ctan.org/pkg/lineno LaTeX package) and submitted electronically (as a PDF file) by the deadline using EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petrinets2025). ## Important dates Abstract submission : 15 January 2025 Submission of papers : 22 January 2025 Notification : 10 March 2025 Final version due : 24 March 2025 Participation in tool exhibition: 30 May 2025 Workshops and Tutorials : 23-24 June 2025 Main Conference : 25-27 June 2025 The deadline is the end of day (AoE). ## Topics of Interest Topics specific to Petri Nets * Analysis and synthesis, structure and behavior of nets * System design and model-driven development using nets * Relationships between Petri nets and other approaches * Net-based semantical, logical and algebraic calculi * Higher-level net models (colored nets, timed nets, etc.) * Stochastic net models * Verification and model checking using nets * Process discovery and conformance checking * Computer tools for nets * Standardization of nets * Experience reports describing applications of nets to different kinds of systems and application fields (e.g., flexible manufacturing systems, office automation, real-time systems, workflows, embedded systems, process mining, biological systems, supervisory control, health and medical systems, protocols and networks, environmental systems, Internet and Web services, hardware, e-commerce and trading, telecommunications, programming languages, railway networks, performance evaluation, component based development, operations research) General topics of interest related to concurrency * Application of concurrency to system design: formal models for designing computer systems with concurrent behavior, applied research aimed at designing computer systems which exhibit concurrency, etc. * Model checking and verification of distributed systems * Verification of infinite-state or parametric systems * Causality/partial order theory of concurrency * Educational issues related to concurrency * New developments in the theory of concurrency * Modeling of hardware and biological systems Papers presenting original research on application or theory of Petri nets, as well as contributions addressing topics relevant to the general field of distributed and concurrent systems or focused on applications of concurrency to system design are sought. The language of the conference is English, and its proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS. All accepted papers will be considered for an Outstanding Paper award. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version that will be further reviewed for inclusion into a special issue of a renowned journal. ## Tool Exhibition An exhibition of Petri net tools will take place on Wednesday June 25. It consists of informal demonstrations for small groups/individuals and there are no scheduled talks. Requests for participation in the tool exhibition must be sent to the Tool Exhibition chairs by the deadline stated at the top of this Call for Papers. They should include a link to the Web pages for the tool (or a short description of the tool). The demonstrators should bring their own laptops, while the organisers may be requested to give access to the Internet. ## Courses, Workshops and Tutorials The main conference takes place from Wednesday 25 to Friday 27. The two days before the main conference also offer a wide range of activities. The Petri Net Course takes place from Monday 23 to Tuesday 24. It offers a thorough introduction to Petri nets in half-days and full-day modules. For successful participation in the entire course, including preparation and examination, two credit points (ECTS) will be awarded. Each module of the course can also be taken separately, without any credit. Detailed descriptions of Workshops and Tutorials will be made available via the conference Web page. It is also possible to arrange Meetings and Courses related to Petri Nets. Submissions for such activities must contain a 2-5 page description. They must be received by the Workshops and Tutorials chairs via email no later than January 15, 2025. ## Organization The 46th annual international Petri Nets conference will be organised by the LoVe (Logics and Verification) team at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France) jointly with members of the MeFoSyLoMa group. The conference will take place at the Campus Condorcet. ### Organization Committee * Étienne André (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) * Carlos Olarte (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) ### Program committee co-chairs * Elvio Amparore, Italy * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland ### Workshops co-chairs * Giuliana Franceschinis, Italy * Karsten Wolf, Germany ### Petri Net Course and Tutorials co-chairs * Jörg Desel, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway ### Publicity chair * Benoît Barbot, France ## Program committee * Elvio Amparore, Italy (co-chair) * Abel Armas Cervantes, Australia * João Paulo Barros, Portugal * Benoît Delahaye, France * João Miguel Fernandes, Portugal * Guiliana Franceschinis, Italy * Luis Gomes, Portugal * Xudong He, USA * Loïc Helouet, France * Wojciech Jamroga, Luxemburg * Gabriel Juhás, Slovakia * Anna Kalenkova, Australia * Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Germany * Lars Kristensen, Norway * Lisa Mannel, Germany * Łukasz Mikulski, Poland (co-chair) * Andrew Miner, USA * Guillermo Alberto Perez, Belgium * Marta Pietkiewicz-Koutny, UK * Artem Polyvyanyy, Australia * Lucia Pomello, Italy * Andrey Rivkin, Denmark * Natalia Sidorova, The Netherlands * Jiří Srba, Denmark * Jeremy Sproston, Italy * Nathalie Sznajder, France * Remigiusz Wisniewski, Poland * Karsten Wolf, Germany

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Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024 and allied workshops
by Shibashis Guha 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

*Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024 and allied workshops ========================================== QUICK LINKS: Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/ Local website: https://fsttcs.info/ Registration: https://fsttcs.info/registration/ Early-bird registration deadline: 24th November, AoE Volunteer Program: https://fsttcs.info/volunteers/ Deadline to apply: 20th November, AoE Social Events: https://fsttcs.info/social/ Virtual Participation: https://fsttcs.info/online/ ========================================== WORKSHOPS: MM: Milestones and Motifs in the Theory of Proofs, Algebraic Computation, and Lower Bounds Dates: December 14 – 15, 2024 https://mmcomplexity.github.io/ RHPL: Research Highlights in Programming Languages Dates: December 16 – 18, 2024 https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/ WAGS: Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis Dates: December 19, 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop AMD: Workshop on Algorithmic Mechanism Design Dates: December 19 – 20, 2024 http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~amd-24 ========================================== FSTTCS 2024 is the 44th conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. Within Track B, there is a focus on soliciting submissions in the areas of Programming Languages and Practical Verification, in addition to theoretical results. FSTTCS 2024 will be held in IIT Gandhinagar during December 16–18, 2024. The conference is being organized as an in-person event. We also have several exciting workshops lined up! You can register for the conference and any subset of the workshops, or just for one or more of the workshops. We are also on a social media network near you. Please follow us to keep up with updates: https://mathstodon.xyz/@fsttcs https://bsky.app/profile/fsttcs.bsky.social https://x.com/fsttcs https://instagram.com/fst.tcs We look forward to welcoming you at IIT Gandhinagar this December!

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Call for ECOOP 2025 Workshop Proposals
by Clément Aubert 16 Nov '24

16 Nov '24

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % CALL FOR WORKSHOPS % ECOOP'25 % Mon 30 June - Fri 4 July 2025 Bergen, Norway <https://2025.ecoop.org/venue/ecoop-2025-venue>% https://2025.ecoop.org/ % https://2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2025-workshops#Call-for-Workshops %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Overview ------------- ECOOP (the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming) hosts a diverse offering of workshops bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experiences. Topics for workshops may include, but are not limited to, the theory, design, implementation, optimization, testing, and analysis of programs and programming languages. Workshops will run after the program of the main conference (Thu. 3 − Fri. 4 July 2025). The organizers will investigate the possibility of organizing the publication of a single-volume peer-reviewed post-proceedings if there is enough interest. Submission link: https://framaforms.org/proposal-for-ecoop25-workshop-1729617158 Please contact ECOOP'25 workshops chair, Clément Aubert (caubert(a)augusta.edu or clement.aubert(a)math.cnrs.fr) if you have any questions. Timeline ------------- - Workshop proposal will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the last submission date being on January 24, 2025. - Workshops must send notifications for accepted papers by June 21, 2025, which will be about one week before the early registration deadline. - The workshop’s website must be live within two weeks of notification of the workshop’s acceptance and include relevant information about the organizers and any call for contributions. To submit a proposal for an ECOOP'25 workshop, please complete the online form linked above. After submitting, you will receive an automated email confirmation of your submission and, within at most four weeks (or shortly after the final submission deadline), a formal response notifying you if the workshop has been accepted for ECOOP'25. -- Clément Aubert, Associate Professor of Computer Science, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University, https://spots.augusta.edu/caubert/

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Final Call for Submissions - WAGS@FSTTCS'24 - Deadline Extended!
by Suman Sadhukhan 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] Dear Colleagues, Please see below the call for submissions for Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis, and note that the submission deadline is extended to *20th November AOE*, as the early-bird registration of FSTTCS'24 has been pushed to 24th November AOE as well. Please distribute the call, consider submitting and encourage your fellow researchers and students to submit their best work of the year! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for participation* Workshop on automata and games for synthesis <https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop> Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India December 19th, 2024 Co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of contributed talks at: https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/short-presentation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== About the workshop =================== The first workshop on automata and games for synthesis is an on-site event happening on the 19th of December, 2024, in Gandhinagar, India. It is co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2024, the premier international computer science conference in India, and takes place each year in December since 1981. Automated synthesis of systems from specifications has been a longstanding goal of computer science. The workshop focuses on various aspects by which automata and game solving are used to tackle problems motivated by synthesis. The workshop has several invited speakers and one session with short-presentations. For the short-presentation, *students, postdocs, and early-career researchers* are encouraged to talk about their research in 10-15 minute sessions (exact length will depend on the number of contributions). The workshop does not have any proceedings, and therefore previously published talks or ongoing work are both encouraged to be presented. Topics for the presentation at the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Synthesis Games on Finite and Infinite Graphs Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Formal Languages Games and Automata for Verification Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Deadline: *November 20th 2024 (AoE) *(Extended from 14th Nov, 2024) Submit your contributions at: https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/short-presentation Notifications: *November 25th 2024* Event: *19th December 2024* ============= Speakers ============= Dmitry Chistikov (University of Warwick) C. Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Youssouf Oualhadj (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne) and more to be announced. ============= Organisers ============= Sougata Bose Suman Sadhukhan K. S. Thejaswini ============= Program ============= The detailed program will be here <https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/schedule> closer to the workshop. For any queries, contact the organisers: sougata.Bose(a)liverpool.ac.uk, ssadhukh(a)campus.haifa.ac.il, thejaswini.k.s(a)ista.ac.at Regards, Suman Sadhukhan Postdoctoral researcher University of Haifa

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Fwd: RE'25 Call for Papers and Contributions - 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
by Arpit Sharma 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

RE 2025 - The 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference September 1-5, 2025 in Valencia, Spain Visit the official website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/RE-2025 Follow us on X: https://x.com/ieee_re The IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference is the premier requirements engineering (RE) conference, where researchers, practitioners, students and educators meet, present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and issues in the field of RE. RE'25 welcomes original contributions focusing on traditional RE topics, such as requirements elicitation, analysis, prioritisation, documentation, validation, evolution, and maintenance. It also highly encourages contributions covering novel areas at the boundary of RE and other disciplines, including but not limited to software engineering/computer science at large, mechanical/electronic/civil and other engineering, business, social science, psychology, anthropology, and the humanities. In addition, this year, we particularly encourage submissions addressing the theme “Future-proofing Requirements Engineering”. This theme focuses on innovating RE by embracing AI, DevOps, sustainability, security, personalization, and agile practices. It aims to equip professionals with the tools and methodologies needed to address the evolving challenges and opportunities in software development, ensuring robust, user-centric, and adaptable systems. Call for contributions: * Research Papers (Solution-focused and Evaluation-focused) * Industrial Innovation Papers (Full, Short, and Presentation-only) * RE@Next! Papers (Research Previews and Vision) * Posters and Tool Demonstrations * Journal-First Papers We also invite: * Tutorial Proposals * Workshop Proposals * Submissions to the Doctoral Symposium * (NEW) Submissions to RE Open Data Initiative (contact re-open-data-initiative(a)googlegroups.com<mailto: re-open-data-initiative(a)googlegroups.com> to know more) Submission Dates: * Dec 10, 2024: RE Open Data Initiative Submissions * Jan 20, 2025: Workshop Proposals * Mar 3, 2025: Research Paper Abstracts * Mar 10, 2025: Research Papers * Mar 24, 2025: RE@Next! & Industrial Innovation Paper Abstracts * Apr 07, 2025: RE@Next! & Industrial Innovation Papers * Apr 28, 2025: Journal-First & Tutorial Proposals * Jun 2, 2025: Workshop Papers * Jun 16, 2025: Doctoral Symposium Papers & Poster and Tool Demos All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Standard Time). RE’25 will have a diverse program and interactive sessions attendees. We are looking forward to your submissions and an exciting conference! General Chairs - Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete & Oscar Pastor Program Chairs - Alessio Ferrari & Norbert Seyff Program Committee Members: - João Araújo, NOVA LINCS, Portugal - Fatma B. Aydemir, Utrecht University, NL - Muneera Bano, CSIRO's Data61, Australia - Nelly Bencomo, Durham University, UK - Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada - Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg - Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University, US - Giovanna Broccia, ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab, Italy - Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Bristol, UK - Jane Cleland-Huang, University of Notre Dame, US - Benoit Combemale, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France - Jacek Dąbrowski, Lero, Ireland - Maya Daneva, University of Twente, NL - Arpit Sharma, IISER Bhopal, India - Oscar Dieste, UPM, Spain - Neil Ernst, University of Victoria, Canada - Xavier Franch, UPC, Spain - Julian Frattini, BTH, Sweden - Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy - Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine, US - Eduard C. Groen, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany - Iris Groher, JKU, Linz, Austria - Alicia M. Grubb, Smith College, US - Paul Grünbacher, JKU, Linz, Austria - Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, NL - Irit Hadar, University of Haifa, Israel - Anne Hess, THWS, Germany - Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers and GU, Sweden - Emilio Insfran, UPV, Spain - Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero, Ireland - Zhi Jin, Peking University, China - Oliver Karras, TIB, Germany - Eric Knauss, Chalmers and GU, Sweden - Sylwia Kopczyńska, PUT, Poland - Emmanuel Letier, UCL. UK - Tong Li, BJUT, China - Grischa Liebel, Reykjavik University, Iceland - Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany - Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS, Brazil - Mehdi Mirakhorli, University of Hawaii - Ana Moreira, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal - Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, US - Nicole Novielli, University of Bari, Italy - Barbara Paech, Heidelberg University, Germany - Nitish Patkar, FHNW, Switzerland - Birgit Penzenstadler, Chalmers, Sweden - Anna Perini, FBK, Italy - Kurt Schneider, LUH, Germany - Paola Spoletini, Kennesaw State University, US - Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, XITASO GmbH IT, Germany - Angelo Susi, FBK, Italy - Michael Unterkalmsteiner, BTH, Sweden - Colin C. Venter, University of Huddersfield, UK - Michael Vierhauser, University of Innsbruck, Austria - Tao Yue, Beihang University, China - Liping Zhao, University of Manchester, UK - Waad Alhoshan, IMSIU, Saudi Arabia - James Tizard, University of Auckland, NZ - Christoph Becker, Univ. of Toronto, Canada - Laura Semini, Università di Pisa, Italy

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[FormaliSE 2025]: Final CfP with Deadlines Extension
by Arpit Sharma 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

*Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2025* 13th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering 27 and 28 April, 2025 co-located with ICSE 2025 (April 27-May 3, 2025), Ottawa, Canada https://conf.researchr.org/home/Formalise-2025 *Overview* Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times, the outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods research has delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can support various aspects of the software development process: from user requirements elicitation, to design, implementation, verification and validation, as well as the creation of documentation. On the other hand, software engineering has developed a growing interest in rigorous techniques applied at scale. The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of the formal methods and software engineering communities, providing a venue to exchange ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We believe more collaboration between these two communities can be mutually beneficial by fostering the creation of formal methods that are practically useful and by helping develop higher-quality software. Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized as a conference co-located with ICSE. The 13th edition of FormaliSE will also take place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2025. *Areas of interest* include but are not limited to: - requirements formalization and formal specification; - approaches, methods and tools for verification and validation; - formal approaches to safety and security related issues; - analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based on formal approaches; - scalability of formal method applications - integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle (e.g., change management, continuous integration, regression testing, and deployment) - model-based engineering approaches; - correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems engineering; - application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous, cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems; - formal methods for AI-based systems (FM4AI), and AI applied in formal method approaches (AI4FM); - formal methods in a certification context - case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches - experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world problems; - guidelines to use formal methods in practice; - usability of formal methods. *Important dates*: - Abstracts due: 18 November 2024 (AoE) - EXTENDED DEADLINE - Submissions: 25 November 2024 (AoE) - EXTENDED DEADLINE - Notifications: 13 January 2025 - Camera ready copies: 5 February 2025 - FormaliSE conference: 27-28 April 2025 *Paper submission guidelines *We accept papers in three categories: - *Full research papers* describing original research work and results. We encourage authors to include validation of their contributions by means of a case study or experiments. We also welcome research papers focusing on tools and tool development. - *Case study papers* discussing a significant application that suggests general lessons learned and motivates further research, or empirically validates theoretical results (such as a technique's scalability). - *Research ideas papers* describing new ideas in preliminary form, in a way that can stimulate interesting discussions at the conference, and suggest future work. All papers submitted to the FormaliSE 2025 conference must be written in English, must be unpublished original work, and must not be under review or submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Submissions must comply with the FormaliSE's lightweight double-anonymous review process (see below). Full research papers and case study papers can take up to 10 pages including all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding references. Research ideas papers can take up to 4 pages, plus up to 1 additional page solely for references. To avoid that authors waste time fitting their papers into the stated limit at the expense of presentation clarity, paper lengths slightly exceeding the stated limit will still be considered, provided that the reviewers find that the presentation is of high quality. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type): https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html In LaTeX, use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options. To submit a paper to FormaliSE 2025 use thisHotCRP link: https://formalise25.hotcrp.com/ *Lightweight Double-Blind Review Process for Papers *As in recent editions, FormaliSE 2025 will use a lightweight double-anonymous process. Authors must omit their names and institutions from the title page, cite their own work in the third person, and omit acknowledgments that may reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is reducing chances of reviewer bias influenced by the authors’ identities. The double-anonymous process is, however, lightweight, which means that it should not pose a heavy burden for authors, nor should make a paper's presentation weaker or more difficult to review. Also, advertising the paper as part of your usual research activities (for example, on your personal web-page, in a pre-print archive, by email, in talks or discussions with colleagues) is permitted without penalties. *Paper selection *Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members that will judge its overall quality in terms of its soundness, significance, novelty, verifiability, and presentation clarity. FormaliSE 2025 will adopt a lightweight response process: if all the reviewers of a given paper agree that a clarification from the authors regarding a specific question could move the paper from "borderline" to "accept", the chairs will relay the reviewers' questions to the authors by email, and then share their reply with the reviewers in HotCRP. The goal of lightweight responses is reducing the chance of random decisions on borderline papers. Hence, they will only be used for a minority of submissions; most papers will not require such an author response. Nevertheless, we would ask the corresponding authors of all submissions to make sure that they are available to answer questions by email upon request. *Artifact Evaluation *Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward reproducibility, FormaliSE 2025 continues its Artifact Evaluation (AE) procedure. An artifact is any additional material (software, data sets, machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that substantiates the claims made in the paper and ideally makes them fully reproducible. Submission of an artifact is optional but encouraged for all papers where it can support the results presented in the paper. Artifact review is single-anonymous (the paper corresponding to an artifact must still follow the double-anonymous submissions requirements) and will be conducted concurrently with the paper reviewing process. Artifacts will be handled by a separate Artifact Evaluation Committee, and the Artifact Evaluation process will be set up such that the anonymization of the corresponding papers will not be compromised. Accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artefact will be awarded the [EAPLS badges ( https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/) that apply (among "Functional", "Reusable", and "Available"). Awarded badges are to be added to the camera-ready version of the paper. Artifacts will be assessed with respect to their consistency with the results presented in the paper, their completeness, their documentation, and their ease of use. The Artifact Evaluation will include an initial check for technical issues; authors of artifacts may be contacted by email within the first two weeks after artifact submission to help resolve any technical problems that prevent the evaluation of an artifact if necessary. The results of an artifact evaluation will not be available to the reviewers of the corresponding paper; hence, they will not affect the paper's acceptance decision. However, reviewers will know whether a paper has submitted *any* artifacts; this piece of information may be taken into account to decide whether the paper should be accepted. Thus, if there are justifiable reasons why a paper's artifacts cannot be submitted, they should be pointed out in the paper so that the reviewers can appreciate them and adjust their expectations accordingly. Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be described in a dedicated page inFormaliSE 2025's website. *Publication *All accepted papers are published as part of the ICSE 2025 Proceedings in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper at the conference — physically or, if the circumstances do not allow so, virtually. Failure to register an author will result in a paper being removed from the proceedings. *General Chairs* - Stefania Gnesi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Italy - Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands *Program Chairs* - Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA - Gwen Salaün, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Artifact Evaluation Chairs* - Ákos Hajdu, Meta, UK - Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada *Social Media Chair* - Quentin Nivon, University Grenoble Alpes, France *Program committee* - Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria - Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan - Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea - Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France - Giovanna Broccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy - Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK - Pablo Castro, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina - Zhenbang Chen, NUDT, China - Nancy Day, University of Waterloo, Canada - Francisco Durán, University of Málaga, Spain - Marie Farrell, University of Manchester, UK - Carlo A. Furia, USI Lugano, Switzerland - Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran - Divya Gopinath, KBR/ NASA Ames Research Center, USA - Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Concordia University, Canada - Paula Herber, University of Münster, Germany - Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Xiaoqing Jin, Apple Inc., USA - Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway - Oleksandr Kolchyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine - Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland, Australia - Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia - Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden - Arpit Sharma, EECS Department, IISER Bhopal, India - Allison Sullivan, University of Texas, Arlington, USA - Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg, Germany

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MMComplexity 2024: Call for Participation
by Akshay S 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

(Apologies for multiple/cross-posting) =================== Call for participation =================== Milestones and Motifs in the Theory of Proofs, Algebraic Computation, and Lower Bounds (MMComplexity 2024) <https://mmcomplexity.github.io/> IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India December 14th, 15th, 2024.Co-located with the 44th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2024 <https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/>. The goal of this workshop is to explore recent advancements in circuit complexity, algebraic complexity, and proof complexity. We envisage this event to be relevant for both Algorithms and Complexity as well as Logic and Verification audiences. We have a stellar list of speakers lined up for the event; a partial list is given below: * V. Arvind, Visiting Professor at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), India and Ex-Director of Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India * Olaf Beyersdorff, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany * Supratik Chakraborty, Bajaj Group Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India * Susanna De Rezende, Assistant Professor at Lund University, Sweden * Sumegha Garg, Assistant professor at Rutgers University, USA * Jakob Nordström,Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Lund University, Sweden * Madhu Sudan,Gordon McKay Professor, Harvard University, USA ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Early Registration Deadline:November 15th 2024 Registration link:https://events.iitgn.ac.in/apply/application_fsttcs.php?eventid=26092024 <https://events.iitgn.ac.in/apply/application_fsttcs.php?eventid=26092024> Event:14th and 15th December 2024 Webpage: https://mmcomplexity.github.io/ <https://mmcomplexity.github.io/> If you have any queries, please write to the organisers at mmcomplexity(a)gmail.com <mailto:mmcomplexity@gmail.com> ============================ Organisers ============================ S. Akshay (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) Olaf Beyersdorff (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) Nutan Limaye (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IT University of Copenhagen) Prajakta Nimbhorkar (Chennai Mathematical Institute)

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Funded PhD Positions at Boston University
by Das, Ankush 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Hi all, I am excited to share that the Boston University Programming Languages and Verification group (POPV: https://www.bu.edu/cs/research-groups/popv/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cs/research-groups/popv/__;!!…>) is looking for PhD students. The group consists of faculty and students with interests in programming languages, verification, type systems, and proof assistants with applications to distributed systems, cryptographic protocols, security, and differential privacy. Members of the POPV group actively collaborate with other groups at Boston University, including the Boston University Security group (https://www.bu.edu/cs/groups/busec/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cs/groups/busec/__;!!IBzWLUs!…>), and at other universities in the Boston area like MIT, Northeastern, and Harvard. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply and/or contact me or one of the other faculty in the group. The deadline for applications is December 15, 2024. The official application information can be found here: https://www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/__;!!IBzWL…> Application fees can be waived for strong applicants, if needed. More details here: https://www.bu.edu/cas/admissions/phd-mfa/apply/fee-waiver/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cas/admissions/phd-mfa/apply/…> International students can also request a fee waiver by sending me an email. All admitted PhD students will receive a 5-year fellowship offer, which may be a combination of a non-service fellowship, teaching fellowship or doctoral research assistant. Boston University is a large private university in the heart of Boston with a rich tradition of inclusion and social justice. We are proud that we were the first American university to award a PhD to a woman (1877) and that Martin Luther King Jr. received his PhD here (1955). The Boston area is home to a vibrant academic environment formed by multiple universities with a strong tradition in programming languages and verification, and it is also home to several startups and tech industries related to these research areas. Please encourage your students to apply for a PhD position at Boston University and reach out to me if you have additional questions. Ankush Das Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department Boston University

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Pre-doctoral Research Workshop@Ashoka University: Call for Applications
by Aalok Thakkar 09 Nov '24

09 Nov '24

Dear All Ashoka University invites applications from final year undergraduate and masters students for pre-doctoral research workshop 2025 <https://forms.gle/rPfGshT6qFteQj62A>. Registration closes *December 10.* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-doctoral Research Workshop Department of Computer Science, Ashoka University The Pre-doctoral Research Workshop offers aspiring doctoral candidates an immersive experience into the world of interdisciplinary computer science research at Ashoka University. Our department's research spans foundational areas such as algorithms, cryptography, data science, logic and automated reasoning, natural language processing, and machine learning, while also extending beyond traditional boundaries into computational social sciences, digital health, digitalization, privacy, and technology policy. Final year undergraduate and masters students with mathematical and computational backgrounds are invited to apply to this workshop and learn from and engage with leading researchers, network with peers who share their academic interests, and gain insights into doctoral studies and graduate school preparation. The workshop participants are strongly encouraged to also participate in the poster session and present their original work (published, under submission, or ongoing). Taking place from January 9th to 11th, 2025, at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, this year's workshop will focus on how computer science intersects with diverse disciplines—from natural sciences to social sciences. Through our PhD and integrated PhD programs, we welcome students from all relevant academic backgrounds, including non-CS disciplines, recognizing that diverse perspectives drive innovation in computer science research. Join us to explore these possibilities and discover your path toward pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. Registration Link: Here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT9oYyL-ul-IAo7C2S2PTDu7k5QXwYeT5…> . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For any queries, contact the organisers: cs.dept(a)ashoka.edu.in, aalok.thakkar(a)ashoka.edu.in. Thank you and we look forward to your participation. *Aalok Thakkar* Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science aalok.thakkar(a)ashoka.edu.in | aalok-thakkar.github.io Schedule an appointment <https://calendly.com/aalok-thakkar-ashoka/30min> with me. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete the email from your system.

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WAGS@FSTTCS 2024: Call for Submissions and Participations
by Suman Sadhukhan 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the call for participation and talks for the Workshop on automata and games for synthesis happening just after FSTTCS at IIT Gandhinagar. Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for participation* Workshop on automata and games for synthesis <https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop> Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India December 19th, 2024 Co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of contributed talks at: https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/short-presentation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== About the workshop =================== The first workshop on automata and games for synthesis is an on-site event happening on the 19th of December, 2024, in Gandhinagar, India. It is co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2024, the premier international computer science conference in India, and takes place each year in December since 1981. Automated synthesis of systems from specifications has been a longstanding goal of computer science. The workshop focuses on various aspects by which automata and game solving are used to tackle problems motivated by synthesis. The workshop has several invited speakers and one session with short-presentations. For the short-presentation, PhD students and postdocs are encouraged to talk about their research in 10-15 minute sessions (exact length will depend on the number of contributions). The workshop does not have any proceedings, and therefore previously published talks or ongoing work are both encouraged to be presented. Topics for the presentation at the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: Automata Theory Synthesis Games on Finite and Infinite Graphs Computational aspects of Game Theory Concurrency and Distributed computation Formal Languages Games and Automata for Verification Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Deadline: November 14th (AoE) Submit your contributions at: https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/short-presentation Notifications: November 18th 2024 Event: 19th December 2024 ============= Speakers ============= Dmitry Chistikov (University of Warwick) C. Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Youssouf Oualhadj (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne) and more to be announced. ============= Organisers ============= Sougata Bose Suman Sadhukhan K. S. Thejaswini ============= Program ============= The detailed program will be here <https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/schedule> closer to the workshop. For any queries, contact the organisers: sougata.Bose(a)liverpool.ac.uk, ssadhukh(a)campus.haifa.ac.il, thejaswini.k.s(a)ista.ac.at Regards, Suman Sadhukhan Postdoctoral researcher University of Haifa

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ACM ARCS 2025: Call for poster presentation
by Shibashis Guha 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Academic Research and Careers for Students (ARCS) is an annual symposium hosted by ACM India, dedicated to providing a unique platform for research scholars in Computer Science and related fields across India. The 2025 edition of ARCS will be held on February 27-28 in Coimbatore. If you are a PhD student in India working in any area of Computer Science with an accepted or published paper in a conference or journal, ACM ARCS 2025 [1] formally invites you to submit your publication details for a potential poster presentation at ARCS, held alongside the ACM India Annual Event. We are specifically seeking accepted or published work between Nov 23' to Oct 24' to facilitate meaningful networking among PhD students and research mentors from both academia and industry. Selected students will receive limited travel and accommodation support to attend ARCS and the ACM India Annual Event. Sub-themes include (but not limited to): * Algorithms * Complexity * Logic & Automata * Cryptography * Quantum computation * Information theory * Architecture * Database * Networking * PL & Formal Verification * OS & Compilers * Computer Vision & Graphics * Artificial Intelligence * Machine Learning * NLP, Information retrieval * Social network analysis * Security * Technology for society Key dates: - Submission deadline: November 15, 2024 - Notification of selection: December 15, 2024 Registration link for open call: Click Here [2] For more info. write to:acmarcs2025@gmail.com Or Visit: https://event.india.acm.org/arcs/home/ Links: ------ [1] https://event.india.acm.org/arcs/home/ [2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X3xmmlGpdaSrC_op3LnzMb8z9vgf908A9Vo-BSucKt…

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PhD and post-doc positions at NTU Singapore
by Supratik Chakraborty 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Posting on behalf of Yong Kiam Tan (NTU): We are jointly advertising for several open PhD and postdoc positions in PL/FM at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. PhD positions are fully funded, and will be for the January 2025 or August 2025 intake at SCSE, NTU. Details of the postdoctoral positions vary, but they are open to candidates with PhD-level qualifications in a range of topics in PL/FM. Please see below for further information on individual openings; interested candidates should contact us directly. Luke Ong, Professor We invite motivated and well-qualified candidates to work on Bayesian Statistical Probabilistic Programming, as part of a research programme funded by the National Research Foundation, Singapore. The appointees will work in the Probabilistic Programming Lab, where research is carried out on a wide range of topics, especially in the interface of programming languages, machine learning, and Bayesian statistics, but also in allied areas in semantics of computation, formal methods and verification, and in logic and algorithms. Bayesian Statistical Probabilistic Programming lies in the interface of programming languages, machine learning, and Bayesian statistics. These positions will suit researchers with expertise in one (or more) of the three areas, and are interested and committed to collaborating with experts in the other areas. Further details are available at https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/luke.ong/Vacancies/phd.html Yang Liu, Professor I have fully-funded PhD positions available for PL/SE/Security on web3 security (smart contract and runtime monitoring), AV security and robustness, and Large Language Model (LLM) applications: applying LLM for FM (specification/property generation, proof automation), LLM for security (vulnerability detection via static analysis or fuzzing, vulnerability repair), LLM for SE (multi-agent software development), LLM security (prompt injection, jailbreak, defence against LLM attacks). website: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/yangliu/ contact: yangliu(a)ntu.edu.sg Conrad Watt, Assistant Professor I have fully-funded PhD positions available for PL research, broadly construed, related to the WebAssembly programming language and virtual machine. A successful applicant will have the opportunity to work closely with WebAssembly's industrial standards body and inform the future direction of the language. I am also looking to recruit postdocs with experience in mechanised theorem proving and programming language semantics, to work on advanced extensions and applications of the WasmCert-Isabelle mechanisation of WebAssembly and related artefacts. A key theme of this work will be driving industrial adoption of verified artefacts - for example, see https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3591224. Experience with Isabelle/HOL would be highly desirable. Funding is available for up to 4 years of full-time employment. website: conrad-watt.github.io <http://conrad-watt.github.io> contact: conrad.watt(a)ntu.edu.sg Yong Kiam Tan, (incoming) Assistant Professor I am interested in applications of deductive verification and interactive theorem proving in automated reasoning, compilers (CakeML), randomized algorithms, hybrid systems, and cryptography. I am recruiting up to three PhD students and three postdocs for these topics under a new Singapore NRF fellowship project. Please visit https://tanyongkiam.github.io/advert.html for contact and other details. Conrad and Yong Kiam would also like to draw attention to A*STAR's graduate scholarships (https://www.a-star.edu.sg/Scholarships/for-graduate-studies/overview) These competitive national awards offer enhanced support for exceptional PhD applicants, who we would jointly supervise in a project related to the intersection of WebAssembly and CakeML. Please contact us for more details.

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Winter School on Formal Verification & Program Synthesis at CSE-IITD
by Priyanka Golia 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Dear all, The Formal Methods group at CSE IIT Delhi is organizing a Winter School on Formal Verification and Program Synthesis, and registration is now open Important Details: When: 3rd to 6th December Where: CSE, IIT Delhi Who can apply: Final-year undergraduate students, post-graduate (Masters/PhD) students, or industry professionals How to apply: Register now at https://forms.gle/T7gqKbVei8PQwf1x7 Support: Travel support of INR 3000 for students and accommodation at IITD hostels (most likely). More Information: https://priyanka-golia.github.io/WinterSchool24/index.html For any questions, please feel free to contact Kumar Madhukar (madhukar(a)iitd.ac.in <mailto:madhukar@iitd.ac.in>) or Priyanka Golia (pgolia(a)iitd.ac.in <mailto:pgolia@iitd.ac.in>). Thank you! Regards, Priyanka

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RHPL@FSTTCS 2024: Call for submissions and participation
by VSS IARCS 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

Dear colleague, As you may know, co-located with FSTTCS 2024 ( https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/) IARCS is organizing a Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages, including but not limited to, Program Analysis and Verification, Applied Formal Methods, and Compilers. Please visit the webpage for more details: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/ The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. Click here to register: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/attend.html We solicit proposals for (1) Talks -- on recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation, and (2) Posters -- on early ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the promise of research possibilities and their novelty. You may submit a proposal using this Google form: https://forms.gle/B3sj8xu4hrCKar2M9 The important dates are as below. Submission deadline (extended): October 22, 2024 (AoE) Notification: October 25, 2024 Early-bird registration deadline: November 15, 2024 (AoE) RHPL@FSTTCS: December 16-18, 2024 We look forward to your participation in the workshop. On behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) (Co-Chair) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research) Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (Co-Chair)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Jan Křetínský on October 15 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Jan Křetínský, a professor for Formal Methods for Software Reliability at the Technical University of Munich. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October 15, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWN0OWYwcT…> ). 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: Learning and Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis via Semantics Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We discuss a learning-based framework for guessing a winning strategy in a parity game originating from a reactive synthesis problem for LTL. Its applications range from cases where the game's huge size prohibits rigorous approaches, over increasing scalability of rigorous synthesis, to explainability of synthesized controllers. We discuss the advantages and caveats of these new avenues in synthesis. On the technical level, we describe (i) how to reflect the highly structured logical information in game's states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) to do so by learning from previously solved games, bringing the solution process closer to human-like reasoning. Bio: After PhD from Technical University of Munich in 2013 and from Masaryk University Brno in 2014, Jan Křetínský was a research fellow at IST Austria and since 2015 a professor at TU Munich, getting tenure there. While still affiliated, he has recently moved to MU Brno. His main focus is basic research in verification, control and explainability of complex systems. Since 2013 he has been advocating and pioneering the use of AI and ML in verification.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Jan Křetínský on October 15 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 06 Oct '24

06 Oct '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Jan Křetínský, a professor for Formal Methods for Software Reliability at the Technical University of Munich. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October 15, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWN0OWYwcT…> ). 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: Learning and Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis via Semantics Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We discuss a learning-based framework for guessing a winning strategy in a parity game originating from a reactive synthesis problem for LTL. Its applications range from cases where the game's huge size prohibits rigorous approaches, over increasing scalability of rigorous synthesis, to explainability of synthesized controllers. We discuss the advantages and caveats of these new avenues in synthesis. On the technical level, we describe (i) how to reflect the highly structured logical information in game's states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) to do so by learning from previously solved games, bringing the solution process closer to human-like reasoning. Bio: After PhD from Technical University of Munich in 2013 and from Masaryk University Brno in 2014, Jan Křetínský was a research fellow at IST Austria and since 2015 a professor at TU Munich, getting tenure there. While still affiliated, he has recently moved to MU Brno. His main focus is basic research in verification, control and explainability of complex systems. Since 2013 he has been advocating and pioneering the use of AI and ML in verification.

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[FormaliSE 2025] Call for Papers
by Arpit Sharma 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2025 13th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering 27 and 28 April, 2025 co-located with ICSE 2025 (April 27-May 3, 2025), Ottawa, Canada https://conf.researchr.org/home/Formalise-2025 Overview Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times, the outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods research has delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can support various aspects of the software development process: from user requirements elicitation, to design, implementation, verification and validation, as well as the creation of documentation. On the other hand, software engineering has developed a growing interest in rigorous techniques applied at scale. The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of the formal methods and software engineering communities, providing a venue to exchange ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We believe more collaboration between these two communities can be mutually beneficial by fostering the creation of formal methods that are practically useful and by helping develop higher-quality software. Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized as a conference co-located with ICSE. The 13th edition of FormaliSE will also take place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2025. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - requirements formalization and formal specification; - approaches, methods and tools for verification and validation; - formal approaches to safety and security related issues; - analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based on formal approaches; - scalability of formal method applications - integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle (e.g., change management, continuous integration, regression testing, and deployment) - model-based engineering approaches; - correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems engineering; - application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous, cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems; - formal methods for AI-based systems (FM4AI), and AI applied in formal method approaches (AI4FM); - formal methods in a certification context - case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches - experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world problems; - guidelines to use formal methods in practice; - usability of formal methods. Important dates: Abstracts due: 11 November 2024 Submissions: 18 November 2024 Notifications: 13 January 2025 Camera ready copies: 5 February 2025 FormaliSE conference: 27-28 April 2025 Paper submission guidelines We accept papers in three categories: - Full research papers describing original research work and results. We encourage authors to include validation of their contributions by means of a case study or experiments. We also welcome research papers focusing on tools and tool development. - Case study papers discussing a significant application that suggests general lessons learned and motivates further research, or empirically validates theoretical results (such as a technique's scalability). - Research ideas papers describing new ideas in preliminary form, in a way that can stimulate interesting discussions at the conference, and suggest future work. All papers submitted to the FormaliSE 2025 conference must be written in English, must be unpublished original work, and must not be under review or submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Submissions must comply with the FormaliSE's lightweight double-anonymous review process (see below). Full research papers and case study papers can take up to 10 pages including all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding references. Research ideas papers can take up to 4 pages, plus up to 1 additional page solely for references. To avoid that authors waste time fitting their papers into the stated limit at the expense of presentation clarity, paper lengths slightly exceeding the stated limit will still be considered, provided that the reviewers find that the presentation is of high quality. All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the IEEE conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type): https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html In LaTeX, use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf options. To submit a paper to FormaliSE 2025 use thisHotCRP link: https://formalise25.hotcrp.com/ Lightweight Double-Blind Review Process for Papers As in recent editions, FormaliSE 2025 will use a lightweight double-anonymous process. Authors must omit their names and institutions from the title page, cite their own work in the third person, and omit acknowledgments that may reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is reducing chances of reviewer bias influenced by the authors’ identities. The double-anonymous process is, however, lightweight, which means that it should not pose a heavy burden for authors, nor should make a paper's presentation weaker or more difficult to review. Also, advertising the paper as part of your usual research activities (for example, on your personal web-page, in a pre-print archive, by email, in talks or discussions with colleagues) is permitted without penalties. Paper selection Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members that will judge its overall quality in terms of its soundness, significance, novelty, verifiability, and presentation clarity. FormaliSE 2025 will adopt a lightweight response process: if all the reviewers of a given paper agree that a clarification from the authors regarding a specific question could move the paper from "borderline" to "accept", the chairs will relay the reviewers' questions to the authors by email, and then share their reply with the reviewers in HotCRP. The goal of lightweight responses is reducing the chance of random decisions on borderline papers. Hence, they will only be used for a minority of submissions; most papers will not require such an author response. Nevertheless, we would ask the corresponding authors of all submissions to make sure that they are available to answer questions by email upon request. Artifact Evaluation Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward reproducibility, FormaliSE 2025 continues its Artifact Evaluation (AE) procedure. An artifact is any additional material (software, data sets, machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that substantiates the claims made in the paper and ideally makes them fully reproducible. Submission of an artifact is optional but encouraged for all papers where it can support the results presented in the paper. Artifact review is single-anonymous (the paper corresponding to an artifact must still follow the double-anonymous submissions requirements) and will be conducted concurrently with the paper reviewing process. Artifacts will be handled by a separate Artifact Evaluation Committee, and the Artifact Evaluation process will be set up such that the anonymization of the corresponding papers will not be compromised. Accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artefact will be awarded the [EAPLS badges (https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/) that apply (among "Functional", "Reusable", and "Available"). Awarded badges are to be added to the camera-ready version of the paper. Artifacts will be assessed with respect to their consistency with the results presented in the paper, their completeness, their documentation, and their ease of use. The Artifact Evaluation will include an initial check for technical issues; authors of artifacts may be contacted by email within the first two weeks after artifact submission to help resolve any technical problems that prevent the evaluation of an artifact if necessary. The results of an artifact evaluation will not be available to the reviewers of the corresponding paper; hence, they will not affect the paper's acceptance decision. However, reviewers will know whether a paper has submitted *any* artifacts; this piece of information may be taken into account to decide whether the paper should be accepted. Thus, if there are justifiable reasons why a paper's artifacts cannot be submitted, they should be pointed out in the paper so that the reviewers can appreciate them and adjust their expectations accordingly. Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be described in a dedicated page inFormaliSE 2025's website. Publication All accepted papers are published as part of the ICSE 2025 Proceedings in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper at the conference — physically or, if the circumstances do not allow so, virtually. Failure to register an author will result in a paper being removed from the proceedings. General Chairs Stefania Gnesi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Italy Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands Program Chairs Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Gwen Salaün, University Grenoble Alpes, France Artifact Evaluation Chairs Ákos Hajdu, Meta, UK Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada Social Media Chair Quentin Nivon, University Grenoble Alpes, France Program committee Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Giovanna Broccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Pablo Castro, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina Zhenbang Chen, NUDT, China Nancy Day, University of Waterloo, Canada Francisco Durán, University of Málaga, Spain Marie Farrell, University of Manchester, UK Carlo A. Furia, USI Lugano, Switzerland Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran Divya Gopinath, KBR/ NASA Ames Research Center, USA Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Concordia University, Canada Paula Herber, University of Münster, Germany Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Xiaoqing Jin, Apple Inc., USA Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway Oleksandr Kolchyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland, Australia Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden Arpit Sharma, EECS Department, IISER Bhopal, India Allison Sullivan, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg, Germany

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Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) position at the School of Technology and Computer Science at TIFR Mumbai
by Shibashis Guha 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

Start date: November 2024 Salary: INR 37000 + HRA Location: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai Duration: One year with a possible extension for one more year depending on performance Essential educational qualification: At least 4-year degree B. E./ B. Tech/B.S. or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering with minimum 60% marks or 6.2 CGPA Last date of application: October 15, 2024 The successful candidate will be working on the "VeriLearn" project led by Shibashis Guha and study the use of machine learning techniques in formal methods as well as on providing provable guarantees for safety and trustworthiness as studied in formal methods for machine-learned systems. The project is aimed at investigating theoretical foundations as well as showing practical usefulness in terms of scalability and efficiency. More details on the position, application procedure, and eligibility criteria can be found at https://tinyurl.com/VeriLearnJRF Application materials can be directly sent via email to the email id mentioned. Shortlisted candidates will be called for an online interview towards the end of October 2024.

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VMCAI 2025: Call for Papers
by Akshay 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Apologies for multiple emails. ---- Call for Papers (Please note deadline extension for VMCAI 2025 below). https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025 VMCAI 2025 is the 26th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. The conference will be held during January 20-21, 2025. VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas. Scope <https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025#scope> The program will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Program Verification * Model Checking * Abstract Interpretation * Abstract Domains * Program Synthesis * Static Analysis * Type Systems * Deductive Methods * Program Logics * First-Order Theories * Decision Procedures * Interpolation * Horn Clause Solving * Program Certification * Separation Logic * Probabilistic Programming and Analysis * Error Diagnosis * Detection of Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities * Program Transformations * Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems * Concurrent and distributed Systems * Analysis of numerical properties * Analysis of smart contracts * Analysis of neural networks * Case Studies on all of the above topics Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming. Important Dates AoE (UTC-12) <https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025#important-dates-aoe-utc-12> * *October 1, 2024* AOE : Paper submission deadline (extended). * November 8, 2024: Notification * November 22, 2024: Camera-ready version due Submissions <https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025#submissions> Submissions are required to follow Springer’s LNCS format. The page limit depends on the paper’s category (see below). In each category, additional material beyond the page limit may be placed in a clearly marked appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Submission is via Easy Chair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vmcai2025>. Note: submissions will open on August 26th. All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The corresponding author of each paper will need to complete and sign a License-to-Publish form to be submitted together with the camera-ready version. Submissions will undergo a single-blind review process. Submissions should /not/ be anonymized for the purposes of review. There will be three categories of papers: regular papers, tool papers and case studies. Papers in each category have a different page limit and will be evaluated differently. *Regular papers* clearly identify and justify an advance to the field of verification, abstract interpretation, or model checking. Where applicable, they are supported by experimental validation. Regular papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. ** *Tool papers* present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, and emphasize the design and implementation concerns, including software architecture and core data structures. A regular tool paper should give a clear account of the tool’s functionality, discuss the tool’s practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, describe experience with realistic case studies, and where applicable, provide a rigorous experimental evaluation. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool, preferably substantiated by data on enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available and submit an artifact. Tool papers are restricted to 12 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. ** *Case studies* are expected to describe the use of verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation techniques in new application domains or industrial settings. Papers in this category do not necessarily need to present original research results but are expected to contain novel applications of formal methods techniques as well as an evaluation of these techniques in the chosen application domain. Such papers are encouraged to discuss the unique challenges of transferring research ideas to a real-world setting and reflect on any lessons learned from this technology transfer experience. Case study papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. (Shorter case study papers are also welcome.)

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Final CFPs of UbiSec 2024-Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024
by Qin Liu 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Final UbiSec 2024 Second Batch CFPs with Deadline October 10, 2024. ============================= UbiSec 2024 ================================= Final CFPs of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizers: Central South University, China Guangzhou University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ======================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 3 Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Keynote 1: Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Title: Privacy Preserving Service Discovery in Wireless Communications http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/robertdeng/ (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Zonghua Gu, Ume University, Sweden Title: Towards Safe, Secure, and Efficient Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems https://www.umu.se/en/staff/zonghua-gu/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Title: Continuous Whole Area Authentication with WiFi-Enabled IoT Networks https://dependsys.com/dr-alam/ ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 10+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication *: (1) Journal of Systems Architecture (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.7) Special Issue on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Society https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about… Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 1, 2025. (2) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.5) Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities https://mdpi.com/si/214727 Deadline for manuscript submissions: August 1, 2025. (3) Discover Computing (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.7) Special Issue on Advanced Pattern Recognition with AI https://link.springer.com/collections/diahciabdj Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 30, 2025. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2024 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2024 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2024 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- 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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Soliciting talks and posters in PL and Verification to RHPL@FSTTCS 2024
by VSS IARCS 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear colleague, As you may know, FSTTCS 2024 (https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/) is going to be held in IIT Gandhinagar during 16-18 December. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India. It is a very visible forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. In continuation from last year, this year too co-located with the main FSTTCS conference, IARCS is organizing a Workshop on Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages, including but not limited to, Program Analysis and Verification, Applied Formal Methods, and Compilers. The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods. Please visit the webpage for more details: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/ We solicit (1) Talk proposals: On recent work that has been published in good venues, or is mature in terms of approach and evaluation. (2) Poster proposals: On early ideas that are promising but have not been developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the promise of research possibilities and their novelty. You may submit a proposal using this Google form: https://forms.gle/B3sj8xu4hrCKar2M9 The important dates are as below. Submission deadline: October 15, 2024 (AoE) Notification: October 25, 2024 RHPL@FSTTCS: December 16-18, 2024 We look forward to receiving your talk/poster proposals to the workshop. On Behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee: Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore) Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay) Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) (Co-Chair) Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research) Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research) Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (Co-Chair)

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Call for Registration (deadline 15 Sep) || Workshop on Innovations in Compiler Technology
by Uday P. Khedker 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

We have an exciting (and diverse) collection of invited and contributed talks related to compilers: https://compilertech.org/schedule. The last date of registration is 15 Sept 2024. We look forward to seeing you in the workshop. -- signature.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker, Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct)

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Final CFPs of UbiSec 2024-Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024
by Qin Liu 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Final UbiSec 2024 Second Batch CFPs with Deadline October 10, 2024. ============================= UbiSec 2024 ================================= Final CFPs of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizers: Central South University, China Guangzhou University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ======================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 3 Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Keynote 1: Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Title: Privacy Preserving Service Discovery in Wireless Communications http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/robertdeng/ (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Zonghua Gu, Ume University, Sweden Title: Towards Safe, Secure, and Efficient Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems https://www.umu.se/en/staff/zonghua-gu/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Title: Continuous Whole Area Authentication with WiFi-Enabled IoT Networks https://dependsys.com/dr-alam/ ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 10+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication *: (1) Journal of Systems Architecture (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.7) Special Issue on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Society https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about… Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 1, 2025. (2) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.5) Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities https://mdpi.com/si/214727 Deadline for manuscript submissions: August 1, 2025. (3) Discover Computing (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.7) Special Issue on Advanced Pattern Recognition with AI https://link.springer.com/collections/diahciabdj Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 30, 2025. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2024 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2024 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2024 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- 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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AWPL 2025: Final Call for Papers
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

===================================================== 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic 6-8 February, 2025 Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ===================================================== [CALL FOR PAPERS: A GENTLE REMINDER (10 days till deadline)] The 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic will be held on 6-8 February 2025 at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]) will be a co-organizer for this workshop. The Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL [2]) is a series of events initiated by a group of Asian logicians. Its first instalment took place at JAIST in Japan in 2012. The workshop's primary goal is to promote awareness, understanding, and collaboration among researchers in philosophical logic and related fields. It emphasises the interaction between philosophical ideas and formal theories. AWPL 2025 will happen just after ICLA 2025 [3], which would be held at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, during February 3-5, 2025. *Topics of interest include* (but are not restricted to): Algebraic logic; Chinese logic; Constructive logic; Decision Theory; Formal epistemology; Game Theory; Greek logic; Indian logic; Inductive logic; Logics of belief change; Logics of conditionals; Modal, temporal, epistemic and deontic logics; Nonmonotonic logics; Relevance and other non-classical logics; Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of Science; Proof Systems, Quantum logic; Vagueness; *as well as their applications in:* Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science; Computer Science; Law; Linguistics; Mathematics; Social Sciences. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] http://awpl.org/Workshops.html [3] https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 [IMPORTANT DATES] Submission deadline: 15 September, 2024 AoE Notification of acceptance: 20 October, 2024 AoE Workshop dates: 6-8 February, 2025 [SUBMISSION] All submissions should present original works that have not been previously published. Submissions should be written in English and follow the LNCS template [4]. Please prepare your submission as a PDF file with a maximum of 12 pages, including the reference list, appendixes, acknowledgements, etc. Submissions should be sent electronically via EasyChair [5] by the corresponding author within the specified deadline. It is expected that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop and present the accepted work. After the workshop, selected submissions will be invited to revise and resubmit for the post-conference proceedings, which will be published in the "Logic in Asia" [6] series. [4] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [5] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awpl2025 [6] http://www.springer.com/series/13080?detailsPage=titles [INVITED SPEAKERS] Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) Andreas Herzig (IRIT Toulouse) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University) Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University) We will also have a distinguished lecture by: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Stanford and Tsinghua) [STEERING COMMITTEE] Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok) Hu Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa) R. Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) Hsing-chien Tsai (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi) [PROGRAM COMMITTEE] Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Mihir Chakraborty (Jadavpur University) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University) Madhumita Chattopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute) (Co-Chair) Purbita Jana (Madras School of Economics) Kohei Kishida (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Serafina Lapenta (University of Salerno) Dazhu Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Yanjun Li (Nankai University) Fei Liang (Shandong University) Abhishek Anant Nowbagh (Jadavpur University) (Co-Chair) Hitoshi Omori (Tohoku University) R.Ramanujam (Azim Premji University) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University) Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Shawn Standefer (National Taiwan University) Sourav Tarafder (St. Xavier's College) Yanjing Wang (Peking University) Yì Nicholas Wáng (Sun Yat-sen University) Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) [LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] Gopinath Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Samar Kumar Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Tamoghna Sarkar (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Mainak Pal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Sunirmal Das (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) [CONTACT] awpl2025ju(a)gmail.com

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ICLA 2025: Final Call for Papers
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 EasyChair CFP page: https://easychair.org/cfp/icla2025 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 Abstract registration deadline (extended): Aug 29, 2024 AoE Submission deadline: Aug 29, 2024 AoE ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata during February 3 -- 5, 2025. —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [3]. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [3] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… ===================================== Events: Main conference and co-located workshops ===================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [4] - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Co-located workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ [4] https://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ ================= Important dates ================= All dates below are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Abstract registration deadline: Aug 29, 2024 (earlier: Aug 25, 2024) - Submission deadline: Aug 29, 2024 - Rebuttal period: Oct 7 -- Oct 11, 2024 - Notification to authors: Oct 25, 2024 ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 —-------------------------------------------- Common guidelines for all submissions —-------------------------------------------- 1) A submission must either be an extended abstract or a short abstract. 2) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through EasyChair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 3) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 4) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 5) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. 6) For an accepted submission, one of the authors must commit to presenting it at the conference either in person or online. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL and ECCC. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information [FoL], a sub-series of Springer LNCS. [FoL] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They will however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, first order modal logic, formal epistemology, imperative logics, logic and artificial intelligence, logic in decision and game theory, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, modal logic – algebraic, algorithmic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, multi-agent systems, normative reasoning, provability logics + Automata theory and logic, category theory in computer science, logic and algebraic methods, logic and concurrency, logic and games, logic and quantum computing, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, transductions, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Automated reasoning, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic in industrial applications, logic in security and privacy, programming language semantics, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic + Algorithmic meta theorems, comonads in finite model theory, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, logic and computational complexity, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and graph structure theory, logic and machine learning, many valued logics in finite model theory, proof complexity, stability theory over finite structures + History of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, many valued logics and their applications, non-monotonic logics, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic + General tools and frameworks for logical systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic in education, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic in law, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Nikhil Balaji (IIT Delhi, India) Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Sankha Basu (IIIT Delhi, India) Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Huimin Dong (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Purbita Jana (Madras School of Economics, India) Roman Kuznets (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Amaldev Manuel (IIT Goa, India) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University, China) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Sourav Tarafder (St. Xavier's College Kolkata, India) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) ================= Invited Speakers ================= Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) More speaker confirmations are awaited. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ========= Contact ========= For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com. More information and updates about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/.

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First Workshop on Innovations in Compiler Technology || Bangalore 28, 29 September 2024
by Uday Khedker 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Call for presentation proposals ------------------------------------------ The Workshop on IICT (Innovations In Compiler Technology) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts in the field of compiler technologies. This is our first edition and we hope that in subsequent years, it will become an important forum for sharing novel explorations and exchanging ideas in the field of compilers in India. Important dates: - Deadline for submission of talk proposals: 1 September 2024 - Notification of accepted proposals: 14 September 2024 - Workshop : 28 and 19 September 2024 at Dayanand Sagar College of Engineeting, Bangalore. For more details, please visit https://compilertech.org/. Submissions can be madehere <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compilertech2024>. This year's theme focuses on the cutting-edge advancements in design, implementation, and optimization of compiler techniques as well as their applications on emerging software and hardware platforms. We invite speakers from academia and industry to present their work in one of the following tracks. Classical Compiler Techniques: - Code Generation and optimization techniques (llvm, gcc, rustc, msvc, rustc, jit) - Performance of runtime libraries (like standard libraries, high performance libraries) - Any tools or products developed using compiler technologies - Software performance tracing - Compiler flags, annotations and remarks to understand and improve performance - Program synthesis - SuperOptimizers AI/ML, DSLs: - Compilers for AI/ML - Codegen and optimizations in AI Frameworks (Tensorflow, Pytorch etc.) - Optimizing compilers for Machine Learning workloads Security: - Improving the security of generated code - Validating compiler optimizations (translation validation) Web3/Blockchain: - Programming language advancements to address Web3 challenges - Verification of smart contracts using abstract interpretation (e.g., symbolic evaluation) techniques - Fuzz testing, fault injection etc using compiler technique Proposals should provide sufficient information for the review committee to be able to judge the quality of the submission. Proposals can be submitted under the form of an extended abstract, full paper, or slides. Accepted presentations must be presented in-person. The presentations and recordings may be publicly available in future. We are looking for: - Keynote speakers (30-60minutes), - Technical presentations: 20 minutes plus questions and discussion, - Tutorials (30-60minutes), - Poster presentations What types of people should attend? Active developers of compilers Students and Researchers in the field of compilers Those interested in using compiler and toolchain technology in novel and interesting ways. For more details, please visit https://compilertech.org/. -- signature.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Uday Khedker, Professor Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India. Email : uday(a)cse.iitb.ac.in Homepage: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~uday Phone : 91 (22) 2572 2545 x 7717, 91 (22) 2576 7717 (Direct)

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AWPL 2025: Deadline Extension
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

===================================================== 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic 6-8 February, 2025 Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ===================================================== [CALL FOR PAPERS: EXTENSION OF DEADLINE] The 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic will be held on 6-8 February 2025 at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]) will be a co-organizer for this workshop. The Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL [2]) is a series of events initiated by a group of Asian logicians. Its first instalment took place at JAIST in Japan in 2012. The workshop's primary goal is to promote awareness, understanding, and collaboration among researchers in philosophical logic and related fields. It emphasises the interaction between philosophical ideas and formal theories. AWPL 2025 will happen just after ICLA 2025 [3], which would be held at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, during February 3-5, 2025. *Topics of interest include* (but are not restricted to): Algebraic logic; Chinese logic; Constructive logic; Decision Theory; Formal epistemology; Game Theory; Greek logic; Indian logic; Inductive logic; Logics of belief change; Logics of conditionals; Modal, temporal, epistemic and deontic logics; Nonmonotonic logics; Relevance and other non-classical logics; Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of Science; Proof Systems, Quantum logic; Vagueness; *as well as their applications in:* Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science; Computer Science; Law; Linguistics; Mathematics; Social Sciences. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] http://awpl.org/Workshops.html [3] https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 [IMPORTANT DATES] Submission deadline: 15 September, 2024 Notification of acceptance: 20 October, 2024 Workshop dates: 6-8 February, 2025 [SUBMISSION] All submissions should present original works that have not been previously published. Submissions should be written in English and follow the LNCS template [4]. Please prepare your submission as a PDF file with a maximum of 12 pages, including the reference list, appendixes, acknowledgements, etc. Submissions should be sent electronically via EasyChair [5] by the corresponding author within the specified deadline. It is expected that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop and present the accepted work. After the workshop, selected submissions will be invited to revise and resubmit for the post-conference proceedings, which will be published in the "Logic in Asia" [6] series. [4] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [5] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awpl2025 [6] http://www.springer.com/series/13080?detailsPage=titles [INVITED SPEAKERS] Bahareh Afshari (University of Gothenburg) Andreas Herzig (IRIT Toulouse) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University) Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University) We will also have a distinguished lecture by: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Stanford and Tsinghua) [STEERING COMMITTEE] Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok) Hu Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa) R. Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) Hsing-chien Tsai (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi) [PROGRAM COMMITTEE] Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Mihir Chakraborty (Jadavpur University) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University) Madhumita Chattopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute) (Co-Chair) Purbita Jana (Madras School of Economics) Kohei Kishida (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Serafina Lapenta (University of Salerno) Dazhu Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Yanjun Li (Nankai University) Fei Liang (Shandong University) Abhishek Anant Nowbagh (Jadavpur University) (Co-Chair) Hitoshi Omori (Tohoku University) R.Ramanujam (Azim Premji University) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University) Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam) Shawn Standefer (National Taiwan University) Sourav Tarafder (St. Xavier's College) Yanjing Wang (Peking University) Yì Nicholas Wáng (Sun Yat-sen University) Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) [LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] Gopinath Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Samar Kumar Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Tamoghna Sarkar (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Mainak Pal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Sunirmal Das (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) [CONTACT] awpl2025ju(a)gmail.com

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ICLA 2025: Deadline Extension
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025 EasyChair CFP page: https://easychair.org/cfp/icla2025 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 Abstract registration deadline: Aug 25, 2024 AoE Submission deadline: Aug 29, 2024 AoE ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata during February 3 -- 5, 2025. —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [3]. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [3] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… ===================================== Events: Main conference and co-located workshops ===================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [4] - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Co-located workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ [4] https://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ ================= Important dates ================= All dates below are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Deadline for abstract of submission: Aug 25, 2024 (earlier: Aug 11, 2024) - Submission deadline: Aug 29, 2024 (earlier: Aug 15, 2024) - Rebuttal period: Oct 7 -- Oct 11, 2024 (earlier: Sep 23 -- Sep 28, 2024) - Notification to authors: Oct 25, 2024 (earlier: 18 Oct, 2024) ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. EasyChair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 —-------------------------------------------- Common guidelines for all submissions —-------------------------------------------- 1) A submission must either be an extended abstract or a short abstract. 2) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 3) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 4) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 5) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. 6) For an accepted submission, one of the authors must commit to presenting it at the conference either in person or online. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL and ECCC. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information [FoL], a sub-series of Springer LNCS. [FoL] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They will however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, first order modal logic, formal epistemology, imperative logics, logic and artificial intelligence, logic in decision and game theory, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, modal logic – algebraic, algorithmic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, multi-agent systems, normative reasoning, provability logics + Automata theory and logic, category theory in computer science, logic and algebraic methods, logic and concurrency, logic and games, logic and quantum computing, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, transductions, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Automated reasoning, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic in industrial applications, logic in security and privacy, programming language semantics, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic + Algorithmic meta theorems, comonads in finite model theory, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, logic and computational complexity, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and graph structure theory, logic and machine learning, many valued logics in finite model theory, proof complexity, stability theory over finite structures + History of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, many valued logics and their applications, non-monotonic logics, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic + General tools and frameworks for logical systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic in education, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic in law, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Huimin Dong (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Roman Kuznets (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University, China) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) More members are expected to join. ================= Invited Speakers ================= Anil Nerode (Cornell University, USA) Janos Makowsky (Technion, Israel) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) More speaker confirmations are awaited. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ========= Contact ========= For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com. More information and updates about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Prakash Saivasan on August 6 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Prakash Saivasan, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, August 06, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWRjc29rN3…> ). 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: Verifying Programs in Weak Memory Models with Persistency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the problem of verifying concurrent programs. In here, we are given a set of programs that communicate through shared memory and a specification, we wish to algorithmically check if the programs violate the specification. The programmers, while writing code usually assume that the memory operations are immediate (referred to as sequential consistency). However, the modern day architectures, to optimise the running time, re-order the memory operations in a non-trivial manner. This leads to various memory models such as TSO, PSO and so on. We will walk through some of these memory models during the talk. The recent intel processor introduced persistency mechanism that allows for the writes to be archived. This can then be used to restart the computation in case of a crash. The main focus of the talk will be how to verify programs when persistency is combined with weak memory. Bio: Prakash Saivasan is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He obtained his PhD from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2016 and has done postdocs at T U Braunschweig and T U Kaiserslautern in Germany. His areas of interest are automata theory, logic, concurrency, and formal verification.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Prakash Saivasan on August 6 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Prakash Saivasan, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, August 06, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWRjc29rN3…> ). 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: Verifying Programs in Weak Memory Models with Persistency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the problem of verifying concurrent programs. In here, we are given a set of programs that communicate through shared memory and a specification, we wish to algorithmically check if the programs violate the specification. The programmers, while writing code usually assume that the memory operations are immediate (referred to as sequential consistency). However, the modern day architectures, to optimise the running time, re-order the memory operations in a non-trivial manner. This leads to various memory models such as TSO, PSO and so on. We will walk through some of these memory models during the talk. The recent intel processor introduced persistency mechanism that allows for the writes to be archived. This can then be used to restart the computation in case of a crash. The main focus of the talk will be how to verify programs when persistency is combined with weak memory. Bio: Prakash Saivasan is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He obtained his PhD from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2016 and has done postdocs at T U Braunschweig and T U Kaiserslautern in Germany. His areas of interest are automata theory, logic, concurrency, and formal verification.

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Final CFP, ICISS 2024
by Madhavan Mukund 26 Jul '24

26 Jul '24

----- Forwarded message from Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> ----- From: Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:13:02 +0530 ======================== Final Call: ICISS-2024 (Security Conference), Firm Deadline July 31 CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024) December 16 - 20, 2024 LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA https://iciss.isrdc.in ----------------------------------------------------------------- ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks. Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024. KEY HIGHLIGHTS: -------------- - submission deadline has been extended to July 31, 2024 - double-blind review, best paper award, proceedings as LNCS - exceptionally good papers will be invited to Sadhana journal + pre-conference winter school (Security Challenges with GenAI) + hands-on tutorial: Malware Hunt by KASPERSKY Labs + KEYNOTES by: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome Anoop Singhal, NIST Kari Konstiainen, ETH Zurich Aanchal Malhotra, Ripple Vincenzo Piuri, Univ of Milan Pierangela Samarati, Univ of Milan ABOUT ICISS 2024: ---------------- The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. 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. ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. 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 HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation attacks BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Prompt injection, RLHF strategies Model stealing, poisoning 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: --------------------- Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices. 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 exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the detailed submission guidelines provided on the website. Detailed Guidelines: https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field. A hands-on tutorial on Malware Hunt will be be delivered by the KASPERSKY Labs GReAT Team. GENERAL CHAIR: ------------- RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay PROGRAM CHAIRS: -------------- Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai 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 IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE): ------------------------ Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 (firm deadline, AoE) Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024 LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS: ------------------------------- PhD Forum Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/ -------------------------- END OF CALL ---------------------------

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ICLA 2025: Second Call for Papers
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 24 Jul '24

24 Jul '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ Easychair CFP link: https://easychair.org/cfp/icla2025/ ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and will take place at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata during February 3 -- 5, 2025. —------------------------- ICLA 2025 features —------------------------- * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings that will be published in the FoLLI-LNCS series of Springer [3]. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. [3] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… ===================================== Events: Main conference and co-located workshops ===================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata [4] - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Co-located workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata [5] - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ [4] https://www.isical.ac.in/ [5] https://jadavpuruniversity.in/ ================= Important dates ================= All dates below are AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Deadline for abstract of submission: Aug 11, 2024 - Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2024 - Rebuttal period: Sep 23 -- Sep 28, 2024 - Notification to authors: 18 Oct, 2024 ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 —-------------------------------------------- Common guidelines for all submissions —-------------------------------------------- 1) A submission must either be an extended abstract or a short abstract. 2) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 3) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 4) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 5) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. 6) For an accepted submission, one of the authors must commit to presenting it at the conference either in person or online. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL and ECCC. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in the FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information [FoL], a sub-series of Springer LNCS. [FoL] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/societies-and-lncs/folli-… —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They will however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, first order modal logic, formal epistemology, imperative logics, logic and artificial intelligence, logic in decision and game theory, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, modal logic – algebraic, algorithmic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, multi-agent systems, normative reasoning, provability logics + Automata theory and logic, category theory in computer science, logic and algebraic methods, logic and concurrency, logic and games, logic and quantum computing, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, transductions, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Automated reasoning, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic in industrial applications, logic in security and privacy, programming language semantics, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic + Algorithmic meta theorems, comonads in finite model theory, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, logic and computational complexity, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and graph structure theory, logic and machine learning, many valued logics in finite model theory, proof complexity, stability theory over finite structures + History of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, many valued logics and their applications, non-monotonic logics, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic + General tools and frameworks for logical systems, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic in education, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic in law, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Kaiserslautern, Germany) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) More members are expected to join. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ========= Contact ========= For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com. More information and updates about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/.

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9th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Second call for participation and poster presentation
by Kumar Madhukar 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

Dear all, The 9th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 18-19 August 2024, at TCS Research premises in Pune, co-located with SAT 2024. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/index.html) for details on invited tutorials, registration, programme, etc. Early bird registration for the school closes on July 26th (AoE). SAT+SMT school 2024 will also host a Poster Session ( https://sat-smt.in/posters.html) -- a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and experts in the field. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeouKQCAuAwPAuu68KiHQqkflcArF2Sk-6…>. The submission deadline is July 26th. Accepted entries will be notified by July 29th. The final selection will be made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and relevance to the school. In case you have submitted an entry already, and your decision to register for the school depends on the acceptance of the poster, please let us know immediately by writing to Priyanka (pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and Madhukar ( madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write to us at indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com <indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>. Best regards, Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi

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Postdoctoral fellowship: monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities
by Étienne André 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

Dear all, A 12-month postdoctoral fellowship funded by CNRS on **monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities** is available in the LoVe (logics and verification) team at LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, starting anytime (and in any case October 2024 latest). Full subject online: https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~andre/sujets/postdoc-CNRS-monitoring.pdf A key challenge in monitoring is to formalize complex requests involving quantities such as "the vehicle always remains at a minimum distance from other vehicles, with energy consumption maintained below a predefined threshold (where this threshold is not necessarily known a priori with full precision), except in the event of exceptional danger at most one minute per hour"; and then to detect possible violations of these requests on huge quantities of data. This implies being able to define expressive quantitative formalisms, as well as efficient verification algorithms. This post-doctoral fellowship fits within this framework, with both theoretical and algorithmic/implementation aspects. The goal of the postdoctoral fellowship may include: - propose expressive formalisms (logics, automata) capturing quantitative values in multiple dimensions (time, cost, energy, etc.); - propose efficient monitoring algorithms; - implement these algorithms and evaluate them against benchmarks. Application: informal contact by email first at andre.etienne (at) lipn13 (dot) fr -- Étienne André Université Sorbonne Paris Nord https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~andre/

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SAT 2024: Early bird registration closes in 7 days
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 20 Jul '24

20 Jul '24

================================================= SAT 2024 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2024 August 21 - 24, 2024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Organizers: TCS Research and IIT Bombay Early bird registration deadline: July 26, 2024, 23:59 AoE Register now!: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php ================================================= Important dates - SAT 2024 conference: August 21 - 24, 2024 - Workshops: August 20, 2024 - Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18 - 19, 2024 Place: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/ About the conference SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024 includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. SAT 2024 is the first time that SAT will take place in India. There will be co-located schools and workshops prior to the conference. The events are being organized by TCS Research and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Keynote Speakers - Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Awards - A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be announced during the conference. - The "Fahiem Bacchus PhD Award in Satisfiability" will also be announced. This new award established by the SAT Association distinguishes one outstanding PhD thesis from the past two years in the field of Satisfiability, broadly construed. The award is named after Fahiem Bacchus who made significant contributions to the theory and practice of SAT as well as to the SAT community and the SAT Association. About the venue The venue of SAT 2024 is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune. Surrounded by the rolling hills of the Sahyadri ranges on three sides, this campus is a scenic and well-equipped setting for hosting SAT 2024. The campus has shared conference rooms, breakout areas, training rooms and a 500-seater multi-purpose auditorium. Pune is the second largest city after Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is well-known for its salubrious climate, rich culture, a vibrant theatre and classical music scene, and its automotive and information technology industries. The city of Mumbai, with its associated tourist attractions, is a 3-hour pleasant drive from Pune. Registration The registrations for the conference, and the co-located schools and workshops, are open. - Early bird registration deadline: July 26, 2024, 23:59 AoE - Registration link: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Grants & Travel Support Grants and travel support are available for student participants. The details can be found on the conference website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php. Co-located Schools and Workshops - Indian SAT+SMT school + Website: https://sat-smt.in/ + Dates: Aug 18 - 19, 2024 - Pragmatics of SAT + Website: http://www.pragmaticsofssat.org/2024/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond + Website: https://qbf24.pages.sai.jku.at/qbf/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis + Website: https://mccompetition.org + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 Competitions Results of the 2024 editions of SAT competition, Pseudo-Boolean Solver competition and Model Counting competition will be announced at the conference. Sponsors - Diamond sponsors: TCS Research - Platinum sponsors: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Amazon Web Services - Gold sponsors: Cadence, Synopsis - Bronze sponsors: Google, Microsoft Partners - ACM India Council - Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) - Association for Logic in India (ALI) For more information, please visit https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/. We look forward to seeing you in Pune! Best regards, SAT 2024 Organizing Committee

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VSTTE 2024: Final call for papers
by Supratik Chakraborty 17 Jul '24

17 Jul '24

VSTTE 2024: International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments URL:https://www.soundandcomplete.org/vstte2024.html Call For Papers Overview ========= The goal of the VSTTE conference series is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. The Verified Software Initiative (VSI), spearheaded by Tony Hoare and Jayadev Misra, is an ambitious research program for making large-scale verified software a practical reality. The International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) is the main forum for advancing the initiative. VSTTE brings together experts spanning the spectrum of software verification in order to foster international collaboration on the critical research challenges. The theoretical work includes semantic foundations and logics for specification and verification, and verification algorithms and methodologies. The tools cover specification and annotation languages, program analyzers, model checkers, interactive verifiers and proof checkers, automated theorem provers and SAT/SMT solvers, and integrated verification environments. The experimental work drives the research agenda for theory and tools by taking on significant specification/verification exercises covering hardware, operating systems, compilers, computer security, parallel computing, and cyber-physical systems. The 2024 edition of VSTTE will be the 16th international conference in the series, and will be co-located with FMCAD 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. Paper Submissions ================= We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e. software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. We encourage submissions on in-progress verified software projects. Presenters will have the option to not include their papers in the post-proceedings, leaving them free to submit their work to other venues later. Topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to, requirements modelling, specification languages, specification/verification/certification case studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments. VSTTE 2024 will accept both long (limited to 16 pages, excluding references) and short (limited to 10 pages, excluding references) paper submissions. Short submissions also cover Verification Pearls describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. Papers will be submitted via HotCRP at the VSTTE 2024 conference page (https://vstte2024.hotcrp.com/) Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. Thepost-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2024 will be published as a LNCS volume by Springer-Verlag. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files is strongly encouraged. Deadlines: ========== Paper submission: July 27 AoE Notification of decisions: Aug 19 AoE Early registraton deadline: Aug 20 AoE Pre-conference final version due: Oct 3 AoE VSTTE conference: Oct 14-15 ================= Program Chairs * Azalea Raad (Imperial College London, UK) * Jonathan Protzenko (Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA) General Chair * Supratik Chakraborty (IIT Bombay, India) Publicity Chair * Serdar Tasiran (Amazon Web Services, USA) Program Committee * Andreas Loow (Imperial College London) * Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo) * Burcu Kulahcioglu (TU Delft) * Claire Dross (AdaCore) * Emanuele D'Osualdo (University of Konstanz) * Greg Malecha (Bedrock Systems) * Guillaume Ambal (Imperial College London) * John Wickerson (Imperial College London) * Juneyoung Lee (Seoul National University) * Karine Even Mendoza (King's College London) * Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras) * Ken McMillan (University of Texas at Austin) * Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) * Léo Stefanesco (MPI-SWS) * Marc Pouzet (École Normale Supérieure) * Martin Bodin (Inria, Grenoble|) * Michael Sammler (ETH Zürich) * Michalis Kokologiannakis (MPI-SWS) * Paulo de Vilhena(Imperial College London) * Roland Meyer (TU Braunschweig) * Rupak Majumdar (MPI-SWS) * Soham Chakraborty (TU Delft) * Umang Mathur (National University of Singapore) * Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica)

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Deadline Extended [CFP] 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024), December 16-20, 2024, Jaipur, India.
by Madhavan Mukund 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

----- Forwarded message from Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> ----- From: Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:18:34 +0530 Subject: Deadline Extended [CFP] 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024), December 16-20, 2024, Jaipur, India. Dear Researcher/Academician/Practitioner, The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security solicits previously unpublished research works. Please feel free to forward this call to your research group and others who are working in the field of information security. The submission deadline is July 24, 2024. -- with best regards, The Publicity Chairs of ICISS 2024. https://iciss.isrdc.in CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024) December 16 - 20, 2024 LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA https://iciss.isrdc.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks. Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024. KEY HIGHLIGHTS: -------------- - submission deadline has been extended to July 24, 2024 - double-blind review, best paper award, proceedings as LNCS - exceptionally good papers will be invited to Sadhana journal - pre-conference winter school (Security Challenges with GenAI) - Hands-on Malware Design and Analysis Tutorial by Kaspersky + KEYNOTES by: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Anoop Singhal, NIST, USA Kari Konstiainen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Aanchal Malhotra, Ripple, USA ABOUT ICISS 2024: ---------------- The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. 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. ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. 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 HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation attacks BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Prompt injection, RLHF strategies Model stealing, poisoning 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: --------------------- Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices. 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 exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the detailed submission guidelines provided on the website. Detailed Guidelines: https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field. A hands-on tutorial on Malware Design and Analysis will be be delivered by the Kaspersky GReAT Team. GENERAL CHAIR: ------------- RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay PROGRAM CHAIRS: -------------- Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai 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 IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE): ------------------------ Submission deadline: July 24, 2024 (extended) Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024 LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS: ------------------------------- PhD Forum Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/ -------------------------- END OF CALL --------------------------- On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 5:28 PM Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> wrote: > > Thanks a lot! > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM Madhavan Mukund <madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in> wrote: > > > > Done (enclosed). > > > > On 21 June 2024 at 09:57 +0530, Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> wrote: > > >Dear Sir, > > > > > >I am Preetam Mukherjee, Assistant Professor at Digital University > > >Kerala. This year, I am serving as one of the publicity chairs for the > > >ICISS 2024 conference. > > > > > >I seek your help publishing the Call for Papers (CFP) for the ICISS > > >conference on the "Formal Methods in India" mailing list. > > > > > >Please find the CFP notice below. > > > > > >Thank you for your support. > > > > > >Regards, > > >Preetam Mukherjee > > > > > >================================================= > > > > > > > > > > > >Subject: Deadline Approaching [CFP] 20th International Conference on > > >Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024), December 16-20, 2024, > > >Jaipur, India. > > > > > > > > > > > >Dear Researcher/Academician/Practitioner, > > > > > >The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security > > >solicits previously unpublished research works. Please feel free to > > >forward this call to your research group and others who are working in > > >the field of information security. The submission deadline is July 10, > > >2024. > > > > > >-- > > >with best regards, > > >The Publicity Chairs of ICISS 2024. > > >https://iciss.isrdc.in > > > > > > > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > > -------------------------- > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security > > > (ICISS-2024) > > > December 16 - 20, 2024 > > > LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA > > > https://iciss.isrdc.in > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > >ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks. > > >Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024. > > > > > > > > >KEY HIGHLIGHTS: > > >-------------- > > > - submission deadline for regular papers track: July 10, 2024 > > > - double-blind review > > > - best paper award > > > - proceedings published by SpringerNature LNCS > > > - possibility of an invitation to exceptionally good papers to be > > > submitted to the Sadhana journal > > > - pre-conference winter school (emerging topics like Security > > > Challenges with Generative AI) > > > - Two keynotes speakers confirmed: > > > Rakesh Agrawal, Data Insights Laboratories, USA. > > > Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. > > > > > > > > > > > >ABOUT ICISS 2024: > > >---------------- > > >The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information > > >Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. 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. > > > > > >ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating > > >implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate > > >track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning > > >talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend > > >pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. > > > > > >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 > > > > > >HARDWARE SECURITY > > > Remote attestation, PUFs > > > Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA > > > TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets > > > > > >PRIVACY > > > PETs, anonymization tech > > > Deidentification attacks > > > Surveillance & Censorship > > > Inference, correlation attacks > > > > > >BLOCKCHAIN > > > Cryptocurrency, stablecoins > > > Interoperability, scalability > > > Smart contracts, concurrency > > > DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML > > > > > >SECURITY IN AI/ML > > > Adversarial learning/inputs > > > Prompt injection, RLHF strategies > > > Model stealing, poisoning > > > > > >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 > > > > > > > > >SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: > > >--------------------- > > >Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages > > >using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices. > > >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 exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the > > >Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. > > > > > >Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be > > >explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the > > >detailed submission guidelines provided on the website. > > > > > >Detailed Guidelines: https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ > > > > > >Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss > > > https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss > > > > > >THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary > > >component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. > > > > > >The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of > > >state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field. > > > > > > > > >GENERAL CHAIR: > > >------------- > > > RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay > > > > > > > > >PROGRAM CHAIRS: > > >-------------- > > > Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio > > > Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai > > > > > > > > >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 > > > > > > > > >IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE): > > >------------------------ > > > Submission deadline: July 10, 2024 > > > Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024 > > > Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024 > > > > > > > > >LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS: > > >------------------------------- > > >PhD Forum Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ > > >Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ > > >Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/ > > > > > >-------------------------- END OF CALL --------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Madhavan Mukund <madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in> > > To: fmindia(a)cmi.ac.in > > Cc: > > Bcc: > > Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 10:19:22 +0530 > > Subject: [FM-India]CFP for ICISS 2024 > > ----- Forwarded message from Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> ----- > > > > From: Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> > > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:57:18 +0530 > > Subject: Deadline Approaching [CFP] 20th International Conference on > > Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024), December 16-20, 2024, > > Jaipur, India. > > > > > > Dear Researcher/Academician/Practitioner, > > > > The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security > > solicits previously unpublished research works. Please feel free to > > forward this call to your research group and others who are working in > > the field of information security. The submission deadline is July 10, > > 2024. > > > > -- > > with best regards, > > The Publicity Chairs of ICISS 2024. > > https://iciss.isrdc.in > > > > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > -------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security > > (ICISS-2024) > > December 16 - 20, 2024 > > LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA > > https://iciss.isrdc.in > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks. > > Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024. > > > > > > KEY HIGHLIGHTS: > > -------------- > > - submission deadline for regular papers track: July 10, 2024 > > - double-blind review > > - best paper award > > - proceedings published by SpringerNature LNCS > > - possibility of an invitation to exceptionally good papers to be > > submitted to the Sadhana journal > > - pre-conference winter school (emerging topics like Security > > Challenges with Generative AI) > > - Two keynotes speakers confirmed: > > Rakesh Agrawal, Data Insights Laboratories, USA. > > Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. > > > > > > > > ABOUT ICISS 2024: > > ---------------- > > The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information > > Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. 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. > > > > ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating > > implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate > > track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning > > talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend > > pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. > > > > 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 > > > > HARDWARE SECURITY > > Remote attestation, PUFs > > Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA > > TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets > > > > PRIVACY > > PETs, anonymization tech > > Deidentification attacks > > Surveillance & Censorship > > Inference, correlation attacks > > > > BLOCKCHAIN > > Cryptocurrency, stablecoins > > Interoperability, scalability > > Smart contracts, concurrency > > DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML > > > > SECURITY IN AI/ML > > Adversarial learning/inputs > > Prompt injection, RLHF strategies > > Model stealing, poisoning > > > > 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 > > > > > > SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: > > --------------------- > > Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages > > using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices. > > 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 exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the > > Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. > > > > Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be > > explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the > > detailed submission guidelines provided on the website. > > > > Detailed Guidelines: https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ > > > > Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss > > https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss > > > > THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary > > component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. > > > > The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of > > state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field. > > > > > > GENERAL CHAIR: > > ------------- > > RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay > > > > > > PROGRAM CHAIRS: > > -------------- > > Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio > > Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE): > > ------------------------ > > Submission deadline: July 10, 2024 > > Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024 > > Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024 > > > > > > LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS: > > ------------------------------- > > PhD Forum Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ > > Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ > > Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/ > > > > -------------------------- END OF CALL --------------------------- > > > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > > FMIndia mailing list -- fmindia(a)cmi.ac.in > > To unsubscribe send an email to fmindia-leave(a)cmi.ac.in > > > > https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/ > > _______________________________________________ > > > > -- > Dr. Preetam Mukherjee > Assistant Professor > School of Computer Science & Engineering > Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology > Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India > https://duk.ac.in/personnel/dr-preetam-mukherjee/ -- Dr. Preetam Mukherjee Assistant Professor School of Computer Science & Engineering Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India https://duk.ac.in/personnel/dr-preetam-mukherjee/ ----- End forwarded message -----

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SAT 2024: Early bird registration deadline extended to July 26 AoE
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 13 Jul '24

13 Jul '24

=================================================== SAT 2024 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2024 August 21 - 24, 2024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Organizers: TCS Research and IIT Bombay Early bird registration deadline: July 26, 2024, 23:59 AoE Register now!: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php =================================================== Important dates - SAT 2024 conference: August 21 - 24, 2024 - Workshops: August 20, 2024 - Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18 - 19, 2024 Place: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/ About the conference SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024 includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. SAT 2024 is the first time that SAT will take place in India. There will be co-located schools and workshops prior to the conference. The events are being organized by TCS Research and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Keynote Speakers - Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Awards - A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be announced during the conference. - The "Fahiem Bacchus PhD Award in Satisfiability" will also be announced. This new award established by the SAT Association distinguishes one outstanding PhD thesis from the past two years in the field of Satisfiability, broadly construed. The award is named after Fahiem Bacchus who made significant contributions to the theory and practice of SAT as well as to the SAT community and the SAT Association. About the venue The venue of SAT 2024 is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune. Surrounded by the rolling hills of the Sahyadri ranges on three sides, this campus is a scenic and well-equipped setting for hosting SAT 2024. The campus has shared conference rooms, breakout areas, training rooms and a 500-seater multi-purpose auditorium. Pune is the second largest city after Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is well-known for its salubrious climate, rich culture, a vibrant theatre and classical music scene, and its automotive and information technology industries. The city of Mumbai, with its associated tourist attractions, is a 3-hour pleasant drive from Pune. Registration The registrations for the conference, and the co-located schools and workshops, are open. - Early registration deadline: July 15, 2024, 23:59 AoE - Registration link: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Grants & Travel Support Grants and travel support are available for student participants. The details can be found on the conference website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php. Co-located Schools and Workshops - Indian SAT+SMT school + Website: https://sat-smt.in/ + Dates: Aug 18 - 19, 2024 - Pragmatics of SAT + Website: http://www.pragmaticsofssat.org/2024/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond + Website: https://qbf24.pages.sai.jku.at/qbf/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis + Website: https://mccompetition.org + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 Competitions Results of the 2024 editions of SAT competition, Pseudo-Boolean Solver competition and Model Counting competition will be announced at the conference. Sponsors - Diamond sponsors: TCS Research - Platinum sponsors: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Amazon Web Services - Gold sponsors: Cadence, Synopsis - Bronze sponsors: Google, Microsoft Partners - ACM India Council - Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) - Association for Logic in India (ALI) For more information, please visit https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/. We look forward to seeing you in Pune! Best regards, SAT 2024 Organizing Committee

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9th Indian SAT+SMT School (co-located with SAT 2024) -- Call for posters
by Kumar Madhukar 11 Jul '24

11 Jul '24

Dear all, The 9th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 18-19 August 2024, at TCS Research premises in Pune, co-located with SAT 2024. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/index.html) for details on invited tutorials, registration, programme, etc. Early bird registration for the school closes on July 15th. SAT+SMT school 2024 will also host a Poster Session ( https://sat-smt.in/posters.html) -- a forum for students, faculty and industry practitioners working in the broad area of SAT/SMT solving to present their research work to the school attendees. Early-stage ideas are more than welcome. We anticipate it to be an excellent opportunity to get feedback, and network with peers and experts in the field. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please submit an entry (just a title and a short abstract) using this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeouKQCAuAwPAuu68KiHQqkflcArF2Sk-6…>. The submission deadline is July 26th. Accepted entries will be notified by July 29th. The final selection will be made by the organizing committee based on the availability of slots and relevance to the school. In case you have submitted an entry already, and your decision to register for the school depends on the acceptance of the poster, please let us know immediately by writing to Priyanka ( pgolia(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) and Madhukar (madhukar(a)cse.iitd.ac.in) We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write to us at indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com <indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>. Best regards, Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi

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CONFEST 2024 - Call for Participation + Registration
by Patrick Totzke 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

CONFEST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --------------------------------------------------------- CONFEST Joint Conference featuring CONCUR, QEST+FORMATS, and co-located workshops. 9-13 September 2024 Visit the conference website here: https://confest2024.github.io Registration is now open here: https://eur.cvent.me/8qol5 (Register until AUGUST 14, 2024 for the early bird fee) For any questions, feel free to contact the program chairs Jane Hillston (Jane.Hillston(a)ed.ac.uk) and Sadegh Soudjani (sadegh(a)mpi-sws.org)

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SAT 2024: Early bird registration ends in 10 days
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

=================================================== SAT 2024 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2024 Second Call for Participation Early bird registration deadline: July 15, 2024, 23:59 AoE Register now!: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php =================================================== Important dates: - SAT 2024 conference: August 21 - 24, 2024 - Workshops: August 20, 2024 - Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18 - 19, 2024 Place: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/ About the conference SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024 includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. SAT 2024 is the first time that SAT will take place in India. There will be co-located schools and workshops prior to the conference. The events are being organized by TCS Research and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Keynote Speakers - Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Awards - A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be announced during the conference. - The "Fahiem Bacchus PhD Award in Satisfiability" will also be announced. This new award established by the SAT Association distinguishes one outstanding PhD thesis from the past two years in the field of Satisfiability, broadly construed. The award is named after Fahiem Bacchus who made significant contributions to the theory and practice of SAT as well as to the SAT community and the SAT Association. About the venue The venue of SAT 2024 is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune. Surrounded by the rolling hills of the Sahyadri ranges on three sides, this campus is a scenic and well-equipped setting for hosting SAT 2024. The campus has shared conference rooms, breakout areas, training rooms and a 500-seater multi-purpose auditorium. Pune is the second largest city after Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is well-known for its salubrious climate, rich culture, a vibrant theatre and classical music scene, and its automotive and information technology industries. The city of Mumbai, with its associated tourist attractions, is a 3-hour pleasant drive from Pune. Registration The registrations for the conference, and the co-located schools and workshops, are now open. - Early registration deadline: July 15, 2024, 23:59 AoE - Registration link: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Grants & Travel Support Grants and travel support are available for student participants. The details can be found on the conference website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php. Co-located Schools and Workshops - Indian SAT+SMT school + Website: https://sat-smt.in/ + Dates: Aug 18 - 19, 2024 - Pragmatics of SAT + Website: http://www.pragmaticsofssat.org/2024/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond + Website: https://qbf24.pages.sai.jku.at/qbf/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis + Website: https://mccompetition.org + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 Competitions Results of the 2024 editions of SAT competition, Pseudo-Boolean Solver competition and Model Counting competition will be announced at the conference. Sponsors - Diamond sponsors: TCS Research - Platinum sponsors: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Amazon Web Services - Gold sponsors: Cadence, Synopsis - Bronze sponsors: Google, Microsoft Partners - ACM India Council - Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) - Association for Logic in India (ALI) For more information, please visit https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/. We look forward to seeing you in Pune! Best regards, SAT 2024 Organizing Committee

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9th Indian SAT+SMT School (co-located with SAT 2024) -- Call for participation
by Kumar Madhukar 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

Dear all, The 9th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 18-19 August 2024, at TCS Research premises in Pune, co-located with SAT 2024. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/index.html) for registration and other details. Early bird registration for the school closes on July 15th. Registration for the SAT+SMT School this year is being done through the SAT 2024 registration portal. You may find the following direct link useful: SAT+SMT School Tentative Programme: https://sat-smt.in/programme.html Other workshops co-located with SAT 2024: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/workshops.php Registration Info: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Registration Portal: https://www.eventavenue.com/bookingengine/EVT9469 We look forward to your participation. Needless to say, we'd be very happy to clarify any questions you might have in this regard. Feel free to write to us at indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com <mailto:indian.satsmt.school@gmail.com <indian.satsmt.school(a)gmail.com>>. Best regards, Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Priyanka Golia, IIT Delhi Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi

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QEST-FORMATS 2024 - Call for Work-in-Progress Presentations
by Patrick Totzke 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

QEST-FORMATS 2024 - Call for Work-in-Progress Presentations Calgary, Canada Submission deadline: 16 July 2024 AoE Notification: 18 July 2024 AoE QEST-FORMATS Joint Conference: 9-13 September 2024 Website: https://www.qest-formats.org/ Submission: Send the title and abstract to the program chairs. ------------------------------------------------ SCOPE Work-in-Progress (WiP) presentations at the joint QEST-FORMATS conference are intended to provide an opportunity for authors to briefly present new ideas in the areas related to quantitative evaluation and verification of systems, fundamental and practical aspects of systems with quantitative nature (such as probability, timing, and cost), and modelling, design and analysis of computational systems. Authors of accepted WiP presentations will present their work at the dedicated sessions and receive feedback from the community. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please send the title and abstract of your WiP presentation to the program chairs, Jane Hillston and Sadegh Soudjani, at the email addresses below by putting [QEST-FORMATS’24 WiP] in the subject of your email. Accepted WiP presentations will be made accessible on the QEST-FORMATS website. SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION The submitted WiP presentations will not be formally refereed but rather lightly screened by the program chairs to evaluate relevance and interest to the community and the capacity to stimulate an interesting discussion. Notification date is on 18 July 2024 AoE For any questions, feel free to contact the program chairs Jane Hillston (Jane.Hillston(a)ed.ac.uk) and Sadegh Soudjani (sadegh(a)mpi-sws.org)

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline Extended to 15 July
by Qin Liu 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of IEEE DASC 2024 Preliminary CFPs. =====================CALL FOR PAPERS============================= The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing IEEE DASC 2024 http://cyber-science.org/2024/dasc/ joint conference IEEE DASC/PICom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2024 5-8 November 2024 - Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines =====================INTRODUCTION============================= As computer and communication systems, as well as other systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), and Autonomous Robotic Systems, become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability and Security play critical roles in supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. It remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security of a large-scale computing environment. Trusted and autonomic computing/autonomous systems need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, from natural sciences to social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a variety of fields, as well as new software, architectures, and communication technology that support the integration of the constituent technologies. IEEE DASC 2024 will be held during November 5-8, 2024, in Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2024, IEEE PICom 2024, and IEEE CBDCom 2024. It aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange theoretical and implementation results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust, and/or autonomic computing, and autonomous systems. =====================TRACKS AND TOPICS============================= - Track 1: Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing - Track 2: Network and System Security and Privacy - Track 3: Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems - Track 4: Industrial Applications and Emerging Techniques - Track 5: Autonomic and Secure Computing with AI/ML Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Self-Organization and Organic Computing - Cognitive Computing and Self-Aware Computing - Energy Management in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems - Dependable & Fault-tolerant Computing in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time System - Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing - Security and Privacy in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data, CPS and IoT systems - Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Network and System Security and Privacy - Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data, CPS and IoT systems - Software/Apps/Tools Development for Dependable and Secure Applications - IoT and Sensor Network, Big Data, Smart Grid, Aerospace, Transportation Applications =====================IMPORTANT DATES========================== Paper Submission Due: 15 Jul 2024 (*EXTENDED) Authors Notification: 15 Aug 2024 Camera-ready Submission: 15 Sep 2024 =====================SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION=================== Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop, and special session papers need to be submitted in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting info: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All the accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal Special Issues. Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. Regular Tracks: 6-8 pages - WiP/Workshop/Special Session Tracks: 4-6 pages =====================ORGANIZING COMMITTEE============================= -Honorary Chairs- - Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA -General Chairs- - Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA - Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan -General Executive Chairs- - Moayad Aloqaily, Mohamad Bin Zayed Univ., UAE - Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo Univ., Japan -Program Chairs- - Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA - Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy -Program Co-chairs- - Mohamed Rahouti, Fordham University, USA - Wei Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China - Adnan Anwar, Deakin University, Australia - Shan Jiang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA - Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, USA -Workshop & Special Session Chairs- - Preeti Mishra, Doon University, India - Arafatur Rahman, University of Wolverhampton, UK -WiP & LBI Chairs- - Saqib Ali, Univ. of Agri. Faisalabad, Pakistan - Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik, Tripura University, India -Publicity Chairs- - Mubashir Rehmani, Cork Inst. of Tech., Ireland - Junjun Zheng, Hiroshima University, Japan - Qin Liu, Hunan University, China - Senthil Kumar, Mepco Schlenk Eng. College, India - Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University, USA -Steering Committee- - Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada - Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China - Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan - Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Program Committee: Please check the "Program Committee" web page on the conference website for details: http://cyber-science.org/2024/dasc/tpc/ Contact: Please email inquiries concerning DASC 2024 to Prof. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan: zakirulalam AT gmail DOT com.

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UbiSec 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 July 2024
by Qin Liu 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of UbiSec 2024 Call for Papers with Deadline (July 15, 2024). ============================== UbiSec 2024 ============================== Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizers: Central South University, China Guangzhou University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ====================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 5+ Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Keynote 1: Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/robertdeng/ (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Zonghua Gu, Ume University, Sweden https://www.umu.se/en/staff/zonghua-gu/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA https://dependsys.com/dr-alam/ ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section TBD. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 Author Notification: August 15, 2024 Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024 Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ ***********************************************************************

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ICLA 2025: First Call for Papers
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

============ Call for Papers ============ ================================================= ICLA 2025: Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications Dates: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 Venue: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ ================================================= =================== About the conference =================== The Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA) is the primary conference of the Association for Logic in India (ALI [1]). It is a forum for bringing together researchers from a variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant and often foundational role: Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics and Cognitive Science. A special feature of ICLA is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, as well as historical research on logic. Details of the previous ICLA 2023 can be found at [2], and those of the earlier editions of the conference at the ALI website. [1] https://logicindia.org/ [2] https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/ The upcoming ICLA 2025 is the 11th edition of the conference and features the following: * Best paper and best student paper awards; * Two kinds of contributed papers: - Extended abstracts for inclusion in the conference proceedings. The review process for these abstracts will involve a rebuttal phase; - Short abstracts only for presentation in the conference; * Invitation to selected accepted papers of the conference for submission to a special issue of a journal (to be announced in due course); * The conference will take place in offline in-person mode; * ALI will co-organize with Jadavpur University, the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) which will take place for the first time in India in Kolkata following ICLA 2025. ================================== Events: Main conference and workshops ================================== + Main conference: ICLA 2025: - Date: Feb 3 -- 5, 2025 - Venue: ISI Kolkata - Website: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/ + Workshop: AWPL 2025: - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ============================ Important dates and information ============================ Submission dates: All dates below are AOE (Anywhere on Earth). - Deadline for abstract of submission: Aug 11, 2024 - Submission deadline: Aug 15, 2024 - Rebuttal period: Sep 23 -- Sep 28, 2024 - Notification to authors: 18 Oct, 2024 - Camera-ready version: TBA - Registration: TBA Easychair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025 ==================== Submission guidelines ==================== Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and its applications. Please see below for a detailed list of topics. The publisher and publication series will be announced soon. Listed below are common guidelines for all submissions. A submission is either an extended abstract or a short abstract. 1) Submissions must be in electronic form, and must be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icla2025. 2) Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their merits. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 3) Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. 4) Submissions authored or co-authored by PC members are allowed. PC member submissions will however be subject to a higher level of scrutiny than other submissions. 5) For an accepted submission, one of the authors must commit to presenting it in person at the conference. —------------------------------------------------------ Additional guidelines for extended abstracts —------------------------------------------------------ 1) The submission should not exceed 12 pages excluding references, and should adhere to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style [SV]. Detailed proofs of technical results or other supplementary material, if necessary, can be included in a clearly marked appendix or made available via pointers to technical reports which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no restriction on the length of the appendix. [SV] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… 2) Submissions of previously published works, or concurrent submissions to journals or to other conferences with proceedings, are not allowed. The authors can however make full versions of their submissions available at online repositories such as ArXiv, HAL, ECCC and the like. 3) During the reviewing, there will be a rebuttal phase for extended abstracts which would give the authors an opportunity to respond to the initial reviews. Instructions related to the rebuttal will be communicated to the authors before the rebuttal period. 4) Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. —------------------------------------------------- Additional guidelines for short abstracts —------------------------------------------------- 1) The submission should be about a page in length describing the main results of the work. Pointers to technical reports detailing the results can be provided. 2) There will be no rebuttal phase for short abstracts. 3) Accepted short abstracts will not be published in the conference proceedings. They might however be made available on the conference website. ================== Submission Topics ================== The list of topics include, but are not limited to, the following. Submissions of interdisciplinary nature are especially encouraged. + Logic in Mathematics: algorithmic randomness, category theory, descriptive set theory, foundations of mathematics, homotopy type theory, logical aspects of topology, model theory, recursion theory, reverse mathematics, universal algebra + Logic in Computer Science: algorithmic meta theorems, automated reasoning, category theory in computer science, decision procedures for logics, definable functions on relational structures, first order modal logic, formal analysis of programs, formal verification and synthesis, hyperproperties, logic and algebraic methods, logic and automata theory, logic and computational complexity, logic and concurrency, logic and constraint satisfaction problems, logic and databases, logic and games, logic and graph structure theory, logic in industrial applications, logic in machine learning and artificial intelligence, logic and quantum computing, logic in security and privacy, many valued logics in finite model theory, modal logic – algebraic, category theoretic and model theoretic aspects, probabilistic logics and stochastic processes, programming language semantics, proof complexity, real time logics, temporal logics, theory and applications of SAT and SMT solvers and theorem provers, software/app development for logic, stability theory over finite structures, two-variable logics, well quasi orders + Logic in Philosophy: belief change and revision, deontic logics, description logics, dynamic epistemic logic, formal epistemology, general tools and frameworks for logical systems, history of logic – Indian, Chinese and Western and comparative studies, imperative logics, Indian philosophical systems: Buddhism, Jainism, Mīmāṃsa and Nyāya, interaction of classical logic with other logics, Large Language Models (LLMs) – cognitive aspects and impact on society, logic and cognitive science, logic and ethics in artificial intelligence, logic and linguistics, logic and metaphysics, logic and philosophy of mathematics, logic and philosophy of science, logic and social choice theory, logic and social cognition, logic and social software, logic for information, logic for probability and uncertainty, logic in decision and game theory, logic in education, logic in law, many valued logics and their applications, paraconsistency, particular systems of logic, philosophical issues of logical systems, philosophy of language, multi-agent systems, non-monotonic logics, normative reasoning, provability logics ======= Awards ======= The following awards will be given to selected contributed papers during the conference: - Best paper award - Best student paper award All the authors in any paper considered for the best student paper award must be students at the time of submission of the paper. Please note that it is possible for neither of these awards to be given in the event that none of the submitted papers meet the requisite standards. ==================== Programme Committee ==================== Chairs: C Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Prabal Kumar Sen (University of Calcutta, India) Shashi Mohan Srivastava (IACS Kolkata and RKMVERI Belur, India) Members: Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Sanjukta Basu (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Kuntala Bhattacharya (Rabindra Bharati University Kolkata, India) Amita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Madhumita Chatterjee (Jadavpur University Kolkata, India) Tran Chieu-Minh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Deepak D’Souza (IISc Bangalore, India) Anupam Das (University of Birmingham, UK) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Toulouse, CNRS, IRIT, France) Su Gao (Nankai University, China) Shibashis Guha (TIFR Mumbai, India) Petr Hliněný (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) Moritz Lichter (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Khushraj Madnani (MPI-SWS Saarbrücken, Germany) Gayatri Panicker (Vellore Institute of Technology, India) Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA) R Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, India) Nicholas Ramsey (University of Notre Dame, USA) Krishna S (IIT Bombay, India) Abhisekh Sankaran (TCS Research, India) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta, India) Sylvain Schmitz (IRIF Paris, France) Stephen G Simpson (Vanderbilt University, USA) Slawomir Solecki (Cornell University, USA) Shichang Song (Beijing Jiaotong University) Bama Srinivasan (Anna University, India) Vaishnavi Sundararajan (IIT Delhi, India) Sergei Starchenko (University of Notre Dame, USA) Ramanathan S Thinniyam (Uppsala University, Sweden) Jouko Väänänen (University of Helsinki, Finland) More members are expected to join. ========================== Organizing Committee Chairs ========================== Sourav Chakraborty (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute Chennai) ===================== Co-located Workshops ===================== Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL) - Date: Feb 6 -- 8, 2025 - Venue: Jadavpur University Kolkata - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ More information about the conference can be found at: https://logicindia.org/icla/icla2025/. For any queries or suggestions, feel free to write to: icla2025(a)gmail.com.

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DPM 2024 - [June 30 - FIRM] - CFP - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2024, Sep 19
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2024) 19th International Workshop September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland (co-located with ESORICS 2024) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/ ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 30, 2024 (extended) Notification: -- July 15, 2024 Camera Ready: -- August 19, 2024 ====== 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=dpm2024 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. GENERAL CHAIR =============== Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro ((Institut Polytechnique de Paris) PROGRAM CHAIRS =============== Ken Barker (University of Calgary) Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Esma Aïmeur (University of Montreal) Abderrahim Ait Wakrime (Mohammed V University) Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Jordi Castellà-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Depeng Chen (Anhui University) Mauro Conti (University of Padua) Mathieu Cunche (University of Lyon / Inria) Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (Polytechnique Montreal) Mila Dalla Preda (University of Verona) Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Jose M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Sebastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal) Lorena González Manzano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) M. Emre Gursoy (Koç 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) Romain Laborde (University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III) Patrick Lacharme (Ensicaen) Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan) Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology) David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London) Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano) Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Utonoma de Barcelona) Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt) Isabel Praça (GECAD / ISEP) Ruben Rios (Universidad de Malaga) Pierangela Samarati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Vicenç Torra (Umeå University) Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Isabel Wagner (University of Basel) Jens Weber (University of Victoria) Lena Wiese (University of Göttingen) Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology) ================== VENUE/FORMAT ================== The workshop will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in conjunction with the 29th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS. More information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2024 website at https://esorics2024.org/ This call for papers and additional information about DPM 2024 can be found at https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/ Kinldy contact dpm2024(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or questions.

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AWPL 2025: First Call for Papers
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 23 Jun '24

23 Jun '24

===================================================== 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic 6-8 February, 2025 Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India https://sites.google.com/view/awpl2025/ ===================================================== [CALL FOR PAPERS] The 7th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic will be held on 6-8 February 2025 at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. The Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL[1]) is a series of events initiated by a group of Asian logicians. Its first instalment took place at JAIST in Japan in 2012. The workshop's primary goal is to promote awareness, understanding, and collaboration among researchers in philosophical logic and related fields. It emphasises the interaction between philosophical ideas and formal theories. *Topics of interest include* (but are not restricted to): Algebraic logic; Chinese logic; Constructive logic; Decision Theory; Formal epistemology; Game Theory; Greek logic; Indian logic; Inductive logic; Logics of belief change; Logics of conditionals; Modal, temporal, epistemic and deontic logics; Nonmonotonic logics; Relevance and other non-classical logics; Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of Science; Proof Systems, Quantum logic; Vagueness; *as well as their applications in:* Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science; Computer Science; Law; Linguistics; Mathematics; Social Sciences. [1] http://awpl.org/Workshops.html [IMPORTANT DATES] Submission deadline: 15 August 2024 Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2024 Workshop dates: 6-8 February, 2025 [SUBMISSION] All submissions should present original works that have not been previously published. Submissions should be written in English and follow the LNCS template[2]. Please prepare your submission as a PDF file with a maximum of 12 pages, including the reference list, appendixes, acknowledgements, etc. Submissions should be sent electronically via EasyChair[3] by the corresponding author within the specified deadline. It is expected that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop and present the accepted work. After the workshop, selected submissions will be invited to revise and resubmit for the post-conference proceedings, which will be published in the "Logic in Asia"[4] series. [2] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [3] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awpl2025 [4] http://www.springer.com/series/13080?detailsPage=titles [STEERING COMMITTEE] Phan Minh Dung (Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok) Hu Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou) Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa) R. Ramanujam (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) Hsing-chien Tsai (National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi) [PROGRAM COMMITTEE] Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Mihir Chakraborty (Jadavpur University) Madhumita Chattopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Sujata Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute) (Co-Chair) Purbita Jana (Madras School of Economics) Kohei Kishida (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Dazhu Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Yanjun Li (Nankai University) Fei Liang (Shandong University) Abhishek Anant Nowbagh (Jadavpur University) (Co-Chair) Hitoshi Omori (Tohoku University) R.Ramanujam (Azim Premji University) Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research) Manidipa Sanyal (University of Calcutta) Chenwei Shi (Tsinghua University) Sourav Tarafder (St. Xavier's College) Yanjing Wang (Peking University) Yì Nicholas Wáng (Sun Yat-sen University) Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) We are expecting more members to join. [LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE] Gopinath Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Samar Kumar Mondal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Tamoghna Sarkar (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Mainak Pal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Sunirmal Das (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) [CONTACT] awpl2025ju(a)gmail.com

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CFP for ICISS 2024
by Madhavan Mukund 22 Jun '24

22 Jun '24

----- Forwarded message from Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> ----- From: Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:57:18 +0530 Subject: Deadline Approaching [CFP] 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024), December 16-20, 2024, Jaipur, India. Dear Researcher/Academician/Practitioner, The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security solicits previously unpublished research works. Please feel free to forward this call to your research group and others who are working in the field of information security. The submission deadline is July 10, 2024. -- with best regards, The Publicity Chairs of ICISS 2024. https://iciss.isrdc.in CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024) December 16 - 20, 2024 LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA https://iciss.isrdc.in ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks. Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024. KEY HIGHLIGHTS: -------------- - submission deadline for regular papers track: July 10, 2024 - double-blind review - best paper award - proceedings published by SpringerNature LNCS - possibility of an invitation to exceptionally good papers to be submitted to the Sadhana journal - pre-conference winter school (emerging topics like Security Challenges with Generative AI) - Two keynotes speakers confirmed: Rakesh Agrawal, Data Insights Laboratories, USA. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. ABOUT ICISS 2024: ---------------- The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. 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. ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. 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 HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation attacks BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Prompt injection, RLHF strategies Model stealing, poisoning 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: --------------------- Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices. 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 exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the detailed submission guidelines provided on the website. Detailed Guidelines: https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field. GENERAL CHAIR: ------------- RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay PROGRAM CHAIRS: -------------- Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai 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 IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE): ------------------------ Submission deadline: July 10, 2024 Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024 LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS: ------------------------------- PhD Forum Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/ -------------------------- END OF CALL --------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----

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SAT 2024 - Call for Participation
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

===================================================== SAT 2024 International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 2024 Call for Participation ===================================================== Important dates: - SAT 2024 conference: August 21 - 24, 2024 - Workshops: August 20, 2024 - Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18 - 19, 2024 Place: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune, India Website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/ About the conference SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024 includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. SAT 2024 is the first time that SAT will take place in India. There will be co-located schools and workshops prior to the conference. The events are being organized by TCS Research and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Keynote Speakers - Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University, Austria - Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA - Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA Awards - A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be announced during the conference. - The "Fahiem Bacchus PhD Award in Satisfiability" will also be announced. This new award established by the SAT Association distinguishes one outstanding PhD thesis from the past two years in the field of Satisfiability, broadly construed. The award is named after Fahiem Bacchus who made significant contributions to the theory and practice of SAT as well as to the SAT community and the SAT Association. About the venue The venue of SAT 2024 is Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sahyadri Park - 2, Hinjewadi, Pune. Surrounded by the rolling hills of the Sahyadri ranges on three sides, this campus is a scenic and well-equipped setting for hosting SAT 2024. The campus has shared conference rooms, breakout areas, training rooms and a 500-seater multi-purpose auditorium. Pune is the second largest city after Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is well-known for its salubrious climate, rich culture, a vibrant theatre and classical music scene, and its automotive and information technology industries. The city of Mumbai, with its associated tourist attractions, is a 3-hour pleasant drive from Pune. Registration The registrations for the conference, and the co-located schools and workshops are now open. - Early registration deadline: July 15, 2024, 23:59 AoE - Registration link: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php Grants & Travel Support Grants and travel support are available for student participants. The details can be found on the conference website: https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/registration.php. Co-located Schools and Workshops - Indian SAT+SMT school + Website: https://sat-smt.in/ + Dates: Aug 18 - 19, 2024 - Pragmatics of SAT + Website: http://www.pragmaticsofssat.org/2024/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - International Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond + Website: https://qbf24.pages.sai.jku.at/qbf/ + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 - Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis + Website: https://mccompetition.org + Dates: Aug 20, 2024 Competitions Results of the 2024 editions of SAT competition, Pseudo-Boolean Solver competition and Model Counting competition will be announced at the conference. Sponsors - Diamond sponsors: TCS Research - Platinum sponsors: Artificial Intelligence Journal, Amazon Web Services - Gold sponsors: Cadence, Synopsis - Bronze sponsors: Google, Microsoft Partners - ACM India Council - Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) For more information, please visit https://satisfiability.org/SAT24/. We look forward to seeing you in Pune! Best regards, SAT 2024 Organizing Committee

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UbiSec 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 July 2024
by Qin Liu 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of UbiSec 2024 Preliminary CFPs with Deadline (July 15, 2024). ============================== UbiSec 2024 ============================== Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizer: Central South University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ====================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section TBD. ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section TBD. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 Author Notification: August 15, 2024 Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024 Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield United, Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- 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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